it's been far too long

Well, so much for me posting after I got my new computer.  I've been a serious slacker, seriously...

 We're gonna start with Brady's 2nd birthday.  I don't know why I felt the need to go big this year for him, but I kinda did.  I knew the theme I wanted to do, and as I googled it, I found the perfect and Cutest party ever, it was exactly what I was thinking I wanted to do as far as colors, and I just wanted to do everything this lady had done. Click here if you want to see it. 

I get so tired of having the boys' parties at pizza places, since 2 of the 3 are in December, you can't really do it outside. I knew I wanted it somewhere where there was alot of running around room, basically I wanted just a big room. where can I find one of those?! Then my MIL suggested the shop,
My husbands office has a huge 2 bay shop, and it's heated... So thats where we had it.

 Now I'll just post some pictures.... And they are in no particular order... I still have 100's of photos to go thru of the party so there is not alot of all the guests.

So filthy!!!

Tate making a monster

I was very happy with how it turned out and I think everyone had a good time. I know Brady did!

I'm not sure how I feel about Brady being 2. He is so fun, but has become a lot of work. He's sooo independent, and feels as tho he can do everything big brothers do.  He loves his big brothers soo much, and they him. He also loves anything that involves a ball, or has wheels.

He is soo good at riding this scooter. I'm actually positive that he rides it better than any other 2 year old.

I love my little Brader Man!

GREAT NEWS!!!

So I have some super news. After complaining to my husband for what seems like over a year. We are finally getting a new computer.  This old laptop, has kept me from keeping you updated on the pure craziness in our world over here. Plus you've been really missing out on some adorable photos of the root of that Craziness. Having these 3 wild boys does not give me time to sit and wait, and wait, and wait... on this extremely slow, tempermental thing. I mean something is gonna get destroyed. It also loves the number 1, so randomly it will just keep typing 111111111111111111111, and won't let you do anything else. (of course when you take it into someone it will stop). I guess since Eric doesn't use it, he hasn't relized what a PAIN it is... Anyway, so in the very near future you can start looking for some new, somewhat exciting, and probably definitely comical posts. Well comical for you...  I'm just wondering how I have not been admitted yet. 

Also, this is gonna be a real pain, but I think I'm gonna have to change the blog address, since for the past 19 months now, we are no longer a family of  four.

Schools back in...

Oh I'm such a bad blogger....

School is back in session... And I cannot tell you how ecstatic I am. I really love my kids and love hanging out with them, but after the things they did to me this summer, I definitely needed the break.

Kenden is now in kindergarten and thinks he is just HOTT stuff.  His whole attitude has changed. The first couple days it was ok for me to walk him in to school. Now he tells me to stay in the car, he can do it himself. ='( sad....

He's such a goof.

My little man Tate is now in his 2nd year of preschool. I was curious to see how well he would do without Kenden. They are still in the same school, but not together.  Last year he would cry and have to give me 50 hugs before I left him, and I always had to reassure him I would be back and that I would not do anything fun without him.  Well, on his first day he gave me one hug and a quick kiss and said bye mom. Then when I picked him up his teacher said he had been the best kid out of all the preschoolers he has, and there is alot. (I know what you people that know Tate are thinking... Yes it's true. he said "the best Kid", I couldn't believe it either.) lol!

I couldn't get a real good picture of Tate on his first day, and he wouldn't put down that yucky blanket.

Brady and I are enjoying our one on one time.  Did I mention, Kendens kindergarten class goes all day til 2:30, so the 3 days Tate goes, he stays til 2:30 too.

Now for a little update on my special lil man Brady.

Brady is by far the most well behaved, baby I have ever met. He is and excellant sleeper and has been sleeping the 10 to 12 hours at night and will take 3 to 4 naps a day, and not short ones either they usually are longer than an hour.  I took him in for his 9 month checkup and he weighed in at 19lbs 2oz and was 27.5 inches long so he is in the 25% for both height and weight. This is so strange to me since Kenden and Tate were both like in the 90%  Brady at 9 months weighs less than Tate did at 4 months.

eating spaghetti for the first time.

The little guy has no teeth yet, but has been teething for MONTHS. they come up, then go back down, come up, then go back down.  It's looking like the 2 bottom are going to finally make their appearance tho.  He says mama, dada, mum mum, ba ba, and Hi. He loves to scream, (happy scream), but it's so hard to actually get him to giggle, even tho it looks like he's going to.  He is so close to crawling, I think today could be the day. And he is starting to pull himself up on things. The past 9 months have gone way way too fast

Here are just a few random pictures...

taking a break while hiking. Tate was such a trooper he made it the whole 7 miles, when Eric and Kenden turned back after like 1 mile. and yeah I freakin pushed that stroller with Brady in it, uphill for like 3 miles. For some reason, SOMEONE didn't think it was necesary to have a backpack for him.

This is what happens when you tell them to dress themselves.

Dancing for our friends that went camping with us


Well Hopefully I will post again before another  4 months go by.

a lil update... but dang I forgot mothers day. Maybe i'll post that later. or maybe not....

Kenden is now playing Tee Ball and its one of the cutest things ever. He is starting to really get it and gets better and better everyday

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Brady~ is now 5 months and I can't believe it. He is still such a good baby and so sweet. He's cutting his first tooth, but still has that slobbery smile for me.  I mean how could you not love this face.

And look at those Lashes... I may not of had a baby girl, but I got a beautiful baby boy with long curly lashes.

And what about this face? It cracks me up!!!!!

And who doesn't love a sleeping baby?!

Kenden~ Recently we found out Kenden has horrible vision. Poor guy has been seeing blur for who knows how long. So he got some glasses. I figured he wouldn't like wearing them all the time, that it would take some time getting used too. Um... No, He only takes them off at night. He absolutely LOVES them. His first day wearing them too school, all his friends were asking him why he was wearing glasses and he told them "Cause I can see. Watch (pulling his glasses down then back on repeatedly saying) blurry, clear, blurry, clear."  He also thinks he looks really cool. The other morning driving to school. He starts crying saying "OH NO MOM, I forgot my glasses! Now I'm not gonna be able to see" He was so upset and it broke my heart... so I turned all the way back around and got them.

Look how cute he is...

Tate~ Lil Man Tate Turned 4 on the 14th. I can't believe he's 4. Eric was out of town on his birthday and I wanted it to be special. He had school, it just so happened that they were going on a field trip to a ranch to ride horses. I usually go to the field trips, but I didn't on this one, but it was my turn for snacks so I brought some snack along with cupcakes. So he had a great day at school. While he was at school I decorated our house and wrapped his presents. He was so excited when he saw it. (fyi his favorite color is pink, so i used pink streamers and balloons. You don't even have to say anything. I know....) My friend Kristen was a big help with blowing up all those balloons. It was such a beautiful day we decided to go to the park. We hung out at the park with Kristen and her cute boy Alexander who is 3 weeks older than Brady and our friend Amanda who just had a baby boy on the 19th. After the park, I took all 3 boys BY MYSELF to Red Robin for dinner, cause that's what Tate wanted. Then, we went and saw 'How To Train a Dragon" in 3D. They loved that movie and were so well behaved. It was a rare moment...that I'll cherish always. Brady didn't even make a peep in the theatre. After the movie we came home and had cake and ice cream... He told me that it was the best day ever, and Kenden agreed. I usually always have a big party for my boys, but Tate's birthday just kinda snuck up on me. So I hope it was special enough for him.

Big Thanks to Kristen for this photo. I just realized I didn't get a single picture of him on his birthday. I'm so grateful she did.

  

7 years~ On the 17th my hubby and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary. We didn't do anything big since we had taken our San Diego trip. And we weren't gonna buy each other anything, but my husband surprised me with flowers and a new pair of Nike's that I had been dying for. He drove all over town looking for them too. Then he took me out to eat at Olive Garden. I can't say enough how much I love him, and appreciate him. He is such a hardworking man, who takes the best care for his family, and would do just about anything for me, and us. Love you Eric.

Here are my lovely new shoes they are actually alot brighter than in this pic. The pink is like hot pink!

San Diego

At the end of April beginning of May, we went on a family vacation to San Diego. Well it wasn't the whole family. We left Brady at home with my mom. Which was soooo hard for me, breastfeeding and all. Not too mention he was only 4 months. He did awesome for my mom and picked back up breastfeeding, no problem. I have so many pictures I couldn't post them all, but I'll post a few cool ones.  I have most of them uploaded onto my facebook page so if you want to see them all then go here and here. 

I'll just quickly break down our trip.
~Day 1.  Flew in and got our rental car and settled into our hotel room then played in the water. We stayed at the Catamaran, which was right on Mission Bay and a block from Mission Beach. It was beautiful. I would recomend staying there if you ever go down there. The hotel grounds were covered with cool plants and trees, ponds with huge Coi, and exoctic birds. Inside the Lobby there was  huge rocks and a waterfall. We stayed in the Tower on the 12th floor so we had an awesome view of the Bay and the Beach.

~Day 2.  We went to the Zoo on this day.  We were there most the day and didn't see everything it was so huge. They had moving sidewalks like they do in Airports, but they were up and down more like escalators. My boys love animals. It was so fun seeing how excited they would get over a bird or a monkey. They had a 8 month old Panda. which was my favorite. It was so cute. And apparantly it had slept all day and came out to play right before we got to its exhibit. so we got pretty lucky.

~Day 3.  Sea world day. I was so excited to go to Sea world, I may have been more excited to see Shamu, then my boys.  We went to a seal show, then the Shamu show, and a sesame street show in 4d. Sesame Street was actually really cool! We didn't ride too many of the rides cause some of them you had to be completely dry and well...we were drenched, pretty much the whole day. Kenden made us sit in the 5th row of the shamu show, and the soak zone goes up to row 16. So we got wet... and then of course Kenden was crying cause he didn't want to be wet. (which is weird cause that boy lives in our backyard playing in the kiddy pool all day long soaking his clothes) Anyway, we also got to pet and feed these Bat Rays. They were funny cause they liked  being touched they would swim right by your hand. There was also a shark in there, I can't remember what kind, but Tate got too feed it. Its mouth was like a giant suction cup, It was really weird.

~Day 4.  We went to the Wild Animal Park and played in the Bay. The animal park was even bigger than the zoo. We weren't expecting that so we probably didn't even see a 1/4 of it. We took a train ride out to see a bunch of the animals, I got some really awesome pictures. We walked so much on the previous days we were pretty tired so we went back to our hotel and played in the bay. It was so relaxing! And on that evening we took a boat ride on the Bahia Belle, it was cool cause it was right around sunset. Would have been quite romantic if it was just me and the hubby, but...it wasn't.

~Day 5.  We went home! We had such a good time, but the minute we flew into the Portland Airport I was ready to see my Brady Boy. We had to drive all the way back to Eugene, then I had to wait for my parents to bring him up. 

                                            Kenden and Tate ready for some sun and water

Lioness just kept walking up to the glass!

Shamu show and Petting the Bat Rays

View from our hotel room

Our room was 2nd to top right in the middle

Upon the Bahia Belle

I just thought this picture was awesome. I think at this point Kenden was pretending he was a Cheetah, and Tate was a Parrot.

Thank you everyone that helped out with Brady so we could go on this trip. We greatly Appreciate you.

Tate

My boys know that if they get something on their clothes like  dirt, food, whatever it is, they have to put it ontop of the washing machine instead of the laundry basket.  I like to know what i need to put stain remover on without having to examine every item of clothing before putting it in the machine. So Tate put his jacket on top the machine cause it had dirt all over it. (I think he may have actually been rolling around in the dirt on the playground) Anyways I picked it up, It was so heavy. I'm like what in the world is in this kids pockets? Well here were the contents of his pockets, along with a whole lot of dirt... 

Tates also really into coloring and drawing. Hes pretty good too. Heres a lovely picture he drew for me on my counter. They are turkey's out of his hand... in case you couldn't tell...

People keep telling me that the middle child seems to be forgotten more and can later act out. Now that Tates the middle child...I really don't know what in the heck they're talking about.  I could never forget my Tater. He wouldn't let me if I tried.

I love this little man, Even when he's being his crazy self.  He really is one of the sweetest little boys ever.

He is a mamas boy and loves his mama, and tells me constantly. I'm not complaining tho. I love it...

  He loves EVERYBODY, and when he meets you, your his instant bestfriend.  

If you try to leave, he WILL come running after you screaming that he needs a hug and kiss. 

We ordered some food the other night, the delivery boy was probably 21ish, as soon as i opened the door Tate ran and hugged his legs.

He loves his brothers so much. Kenden and Tate are so so close. I hope they stay that way always. 

The batteries in Bradys swing went dead. I was doing some hair so I was having Tate push him whenever it stopped. It was so cute.  Even tho Tate was busy coloring, whenever i would ask him to push brady, he'd jump right up and say shore.  Well I guess he got tired of getting up and down cause he started pulling the swing towards the couch where he was sitting. When I asked him what he was doing, he told me he needed to have Brady close so that he could take better care of him.

Hes always willing to stop whatever he's doing, to put Brady's "pinky" in. 

We went on a walk awhile ago and Kenden found this baby inch worm. (aka caterpillar) and gave it to Tate. 

It then became Tates bestfriend. He carried it the whole walk. We kept telling him that he had to put it down before we got back into the truck. He kept saying that the baby inch worm would miss him so much if he left him out here.

He screamed and cried when I finally made him put him down. I felt really bad...

mean mommy!