A little of this and that!

 Well just to recap a few things that have happened over the past little while, Jed and I were able to go out on a quite the date. On Thursday February 26th Jed called me from work and asked me why we weren't going to the Rascal Flatts concert that was that night. I said I don't know! Maybe because we didn't plan to and we don't have tickets! Minor details right? Anyway to make a long story short we were able to get pretty good tickets last minute and then to my surprise Jed took me to dinner to a very nice steakhouse called Spencers. It was amazing!!! If you know me I love and would most likely never turn down a good steak! Then to top off the night Rascal Flatts was amazing! I love all of their songs and so when a band doesn't have many, if any bad songs it makes for a great concert! Thanks love, it was a great night and I was so grateful to spend it with you!





I love that my baby (even though he is a year old now) still loves to cuddle with me and will fall asleep on me! It just doesn't get much better than that! So I take advantage of this whenever I get the chance.
It was a tradition in my family to have balloons outside of the house for everyone to see that it was your birthday. My  mom always did this for me and my brothers and so I thought it would be something fun to do for my kids and even though it is a small thing, they think it is so fun and they have a good time picking out their balloons!
So... all good things must come to an end and so a week or so went by and that hight float was some serious high float because they were still floating and so we decided to let the balloons go. This was the first time that I  let the kids do this because usually they get mad at me when I let them go that I have to do it secretly just to get them out of the house! ( That sounds so mean when you put it into words.) 
Halie and Gavin thought that it would be fun to have a race with their balloons to see what balloon would go fastest up past the trees! As you can tell by the looks on their faces they enjoyed this new found game!
Grady was very entertained and just laughed when Halie and Gavin would laugh and get all excited!!!
Here is my Mom and Dad with my nephew Kaysen! Just hangin' out!
Little Kaysen is growing so fast is getting some chunky cheeks and ya gotta love em!
Halie loves to hold Kaysen and love on him as much as we will let her!
We had a very productive Saturday when the weather was nice. My Dad has been so good to us and has been working on a shed for us to put all of our, lets be honest, all of our CRAP in! He is getting close to having it done and I can't wait to utilize it! 
I have a feeling that Grady is going to love the warm weather and being outside! As you can tell by the expression on his face, he thoroughly enjoys the outdoors!

Boys will be boys, and lets just say that my boys are ALL BOY! Gavin loves anything outside and that has to do with a ball so when you put the two together his is in heaven! I think that he will pass that love on to Grady so that he has someone to play with! Grady loved rolling the ball to Gav on the driveway while we were doing our "outside chores."

Hangin at Grandma's and Grandpa's House

We love to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa on Sunday afternoons. My mom loves nothing more than to hold or feed a small baby! Thanks mom! We love to come and visit you whenever we can. Thank you for making your home such a welcoming place for us to come and spend time with family!

Here is my mom, Grandma Susan, and baby Kaysen!


Here is Grady just loving the attention that he gets
from everyone when we are together! 
For Christmas grandma was given a new kitchen table and it is  one that it the height of the counter top. Under the table is now the new fun place to play because there is so much room. Grady somehow maneuvered himself into one of the stools and was stuck, of course I had to get a picture before I helped him out!

Here is my handsome brother Matt and his baby Kaysen!
Here are the two babies of the family!
Grady at 11 months and Kaysen at 2 1/2 months!
We love our chunky babies!!!

First Birthday!!!

So it has been a little over a week now since my baby turned 1! I can't believe that Grady is one year old! It seriously seems like he was just a little guy, not anymore! At Grady's one year check up he weighed in at 27lbs and is in the 95th percentile for his height and his head as well as his weight! Grady is such a fun and happy kid. We discovered on his birthday, at his party that he loves to be the center of attention! He loved every min of that day! We started of the day with a little photo shoot with our cousin Abbey up at Temple Square. I can't wait to get the pictures back. All three of my kids were so good and smiled. This is an accomplishment! We then met up with Grandma Jackie, Grandpa Gordon, and Grandma Susan for lunch at Goodwood for some good BBQ! 


As you can tell, Very happy kid!
Loves to eat and then...
He got very sleepy!!!
After lunch we headed for some shopping. Grady and Grandpa Gordon slept in the car while us girls went and did the damage! We then headed home to get ready for the nights festivities! Grady was so excited for the balloons that we got for him. Little did he know what he was in for with the birthday cake! My good friend Leslie made the birthday cake for me, and oh my gosh she did an amazing job as you can tell from the pictures below! The cake was so cute that I didn't want to let him touch it, I knew that he would go for it and oh boy did he ever!!!

LOOK AT THIS CAKE!!!
It just doesn't get much cuter than this!!!
Thanks Leslie!
Leslie even made these cute little bear 
cupcakes to go with the cake!
I know, she is amazing!
So here is where the fun begins!
Grady already wants to just go for it but I
had to get a few pictures first.
Look at his face and the look of, 
wait til I get my hands on you!
Here is the video of what happened next...


At the beginning he was a little timid...
Then he took a bite...

Then another...
Then he was sold and there was no stopping him!


When we took the cake away he was very upset and so
to make him happy again all we had to do was hand 
him a balloon!


So I saw this on my friends blog and thought it was a great idea. We wrapped up a box of tissues for one of Grady's presents and it was hilarious! He loved it! Of course we know that babies love to play with paper and so this made the ideal present. The best part was that he couldn't figure out why when he would pull one out there was another one there waiting for him to pull, and then another, and another!

Then he got curious to see if they tasted any good!
This didn't last long because it wasn't as exciting as making 
a mess and tearing each tissue in half after pulling it out!

Happy Birthday Grady!
You are such a joy and a blessing to our family and it would never be complete without you in it! We are so grateful for you and love to see that smile of yours that is so contagious and can brighten anyones day! 
We love you so much!



The Virginia Reel

At Halie's school they had a Lincoln Pageant around President's Day. They learned all about Lincoln and about what they did back then for activities. The kindergartners learned the dance they did back then called the Virginia Reel. The school Lincoln Academy was even chosen to be the "Cool School" on chanel 13 news and so BIG BUDAH came to the school and the kids from each grade were able to show Live on Fox 13 News what they learned. Halie was soooooo cute! She loved every second of it! They had a partner and they would bow to honor their partner and then they would do se do and swing their partner and all of that fun stuff! Anyway it was darling and fun to see her get involved and come out of her shyness !




I love the smile on her face in this picture!
 It just shows how much fun she was having!

Itty Bitty Ball - Round Two

We we went another round of Itty Bitty Ball!
Gavin and Talmage had so much fun together. Here they learned baseball and they had a blast. Of course Gavin has a good time anytime that he is told he can throw a ball!!!
Here are the two buddies, they have a great time together, although they do have a love/hate relationship they truly love to be together and want to be together when they are apart!







Speechless

I am speechless on this one! 
All I have to say is it was bound to happen and every child has to do this at least once or twice, and as mad as I get in the moment I had to laugh and his face when I caught him in the act!