Easter Egg Hunt!

We had a cul-de-sac egg hunt this weekend for the kids of the street. Brady loved it and got very into finding the eggs. The weather was wonderful and just being outside with everyone again made me realize how blessed we are to live on a street where everyone gets along and there are so many kids for Brady to play with and grow up around. On our cul-de-sac alone there are 17 kids not including Brady under the age of 8, with at least 2 more on the way (no not us). Anyways the kids had a great time hunting for the eggs and then everyone migrated to the front of the houses and the kids played, oh how I can't wait for it to be warm all the time! So here are a couple pics from the egg hunt. . .enjoy!The group for the egg hunt, what a cute and wonderful bunch of kids!

"Look at those silly kids playing! Do you want to go play man? Nah do you? Nah why should we play when we can eat our candy!"

Everyone was playing on the playset after the egg hunt, except Brady and Aidan, they were smart and just plopped down on the grass and started digging into their eggs!

Random picture from our picnic today. Brady wanted to eat in his lightning mcqueen chair so we made a table out of the bench and had a "picnic" in the living room!

Things

Check out the outfit. . . Brady picked out his outfit the other day. He wanted to wear his mixer shirt and his star jeans. When the jeans wouldn't stay up he decided that he should wear his suspenders (how smart is he) then to finish the outfit off he felt he needed to wear his Lightning McQueen boots. He was pretty cute!
He thought he needed to wear his suspenders the next day too, eventhough these pants stayed up. He also wanted to wear a hat like papa so he picked out his cute dinosaur hat that GG got him.
He wanted to eat breakfast in his Lightning McQueen chair so we decided to pull the bench out and make a table.

Aunt Sarah got me some wine for my birthday, I had a glass the other night and Brady thought he needed to have some too, so we compromised and he got to drink juice from a wine glass, he thought he was pretty cool!

Josh made me a Chocolate Drizzle cake for my birthday (recipe courtesy of Aunt Stie), the drizzle turned into more of a drop and then Brady thought it needed candles so he put the ones he wanted on the cake.

Ok so we have been busy since returning from Florida, we had Josh's birthday, Brady went to the circus and just been busy. We spent 4 hours outside on Saturday since the weather was wonderful 70 degrees and beautiful, makes us miss Florida and GG and GGpa. So here are a couple pics from our recent adventures.
We made cookies to take to Grammy's tonight, Brady dumped the flour in and missed the bowl.

I wore a hat the other day so Brady thought he needed to wear his hat, he is adorable with it on.

We made a cake for Papa for his birthday. Brady got mad because he wanted to lick the icing off the cake and mommy made him wait until papa got home. Josh got home and started licking the icing so Brady got excited and had to have his turn!

Ok so here is what we have been doing, check it out. . . we have been to get ice cream at the Royal Poop (scoop), gone to the playground, eaten powdered donuts & spaghetti, gone to brunch and the waterpark. . . am I leaving anything out? He has been busy, busy and to prove it he lost it and fell sound asleep at 7:30 tonight! Love you all!

So Brady is a fish at heart just like his mom. . . we had a great time swimming at the pool with Hailey and Aidan. Brady went under at least a hundred times or more! More to come. . .

The Beach!

Ok so here a just a couple pictures from the beach. . .

Playing the harmonica on his bed, he is very good!

Playing on the beach and wearing GG's funny glasses.

Having a picnic on the beach, it was windy but fun!

Worn out from a windy day at the beach, look for more tomorrow!

Happy Valentine's Day & More

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! Brady studded it up for his Valentine's Party at school today so I made him take a couple pictures of his cuteness before we left. Brady spent some time this past week and made Valentine's for everyone, however his stupid mom put them in the mailbox the night of 60 mph winds and most of them blew away. We managed to find a few and had some extras so to those who didn't receive a Valentine here is what you would of gotten. . . Happy Valentine's Day!

Can you stand the cuteness? Who wouldn't want to be his Valentine!

We got to play at the Children's Museum the other day with Grammy and Breeze. He loved the house of mirrors and found it hilarious to run through the streamers that were hanging down.

Brady built his first snowman when we had all the snow. He thought it would be great to build the snowman, give him all his features then knock his head off:) Boys will be boys!

Sorry. . . we've been busy!

Ok so there really isn't any excuse as to why I haven't posted in a couple weeks but sorry none the less. I have taken up walking on the tread mill while he is napping so that cuts into my web surfing time but well worth the sacrifice. Anyways I didn't get to walk today (note the last picture) so I thought I would update you on what we have been doing. We have been getting pretty stir crazy with the cold weather and not being able to go outside. So we have been doing numerous crafts, playing with Grammy and Grandma & Papaw whenever we can. We even stole a couple minutes outside when the weather got warm (ha 40 is not warm). So read up and see what has been going on. . .

We have been doing crafts alot, Brady loves to get messy and the pictures he makes are wonderful and now hanging in his playroom. Yes is gets pretty messy but when he needs to have something to do constantly you deal with the mess.

I came downstairs the other day and couldn't find him, he had been playing in his playroom, I walked into the office and found him sitting at the computer. He told me " I just push the buttons mommy"

Grammy got him a green "snake" cookie the other day, he thought it was great to eat all the green icing and make his tongue green. He made everyone take a bite so that all of our tongues were green.

Outside Yea! We got to play outside the other day for about 30 minutes and it was wonderful. Our front yard doesn't get sun, hardly ever so the snow had not melted. So when it was 40 out I convinced our neighbor to bring out the kids and play in the snow. Brady was skeptical at first but warmed up quickly!



Brady and Grammy thought it would be fun to erase his chalk and marker board with their fingers then rub them on their noses, the end result a wonderfully black nose! Good thing it was bath night because we tried to just wipe it off and it only smeared and got worse!

We had some of our friends over on Friday, it is really neat to see all the kids together since there is exactly a year between each group. Brady is the oldest, then our friends John and Olivia had Madison and Raegan a year later, then our friends Hank and Erin had Julianne another year later. Brady loves playing with all of them but this time he wanted to share his jungle with Julianne, he was so super sweet with her, hopefully he will have a brother or sister of his own soon- no we aren't pregnant yet!

Happy Birthday Aunt Sarah and Grammy! We went up to Lafayette yesterday to celebrate Aunt Sarah and Grammy's birthday, Brady being from an IU family had to support his team up in Purdue (yuck) country! Below is the video in which Aunt Sarah and Grammy taught him how to blow bubbles in his drink at dinner-he is so stinkin cute how can you get mad?

And this is why I couldn't walk today. . . his room is directly across from the guest room where the treadmill is. Typically I shut his door and the door to the other room and all is good. Well I laid him down today and heard him up playing but didn't think much of it (he usually gets back in bed for his nap). I went up to walk only to find that he didn't make it to his bed today but thought that the floor would be a much better option! At least he is sleeping!

Stie Mania!

Brady got to spend almost the entire week before Christmas and some of the week after Christmas with his Aunt Stie (Kristie). We were very busy going to get Dots for her birthday, eating sticks from Hot Box, going to the Children's Museum and just hanging out. We are very lucky that Brady has such wonderful Aunts that think he is the best thing in the world, we love you Aunt Stie and YaYa (Sarah)! I promise we will have YaYa mania soon!
The Children's Museum was so crowded that it was making Brady cranky so we didn't stay for very long but he did get to go down the big slide all by himself-he thought he was pretty cool!

He thinks it gets too bright in the house so he feels that he should wear his sunglasses. Brady was having a great time having Stie push him around in circles on his truck!Once again Brady wanted to put on my boots and as soon as he had them on he told me "take a picture mommy". So of course I had to take a picture.

Feeling sad, about 3 days after Stie Mania, now he just had dumb old mom to play with:)