Swim Lessons

Yea – Hunter started in a new class of swim lessons this year. He was the in the guppy group which is the beginner group class where they swim by themselves with a safety belt on and the teacher next to them. But the parents are outside of the glass watching in. Well he was very excited to go but when he realized that we would not be in the pool with him, well it didn’t go over very well. Through the 30 minutes class, he cried for 20 minutes stating that he “wanted his Mommy!” – ut-oh –
Through the next classes he started to get better and enjoy it more. Then he realized that if he told the teacher that he was scared that she would carry him through the water and believe me he took full advantage of it. After every class he would tell me that he really liked his teacher! Stinker!!!!

The Easter Bunny stopped…

YEA – the Easter Bunny hopped by our house last night!!! Hunter was SO excited that he had hid some eggs in the house and of course left awesome Easter baskets for the boys!

We were able to go to the church to have an Easter egg hunt and color some eggs – which Hunt & Brayz both loved!!!!

Happy Birthday Mommy!

My boys surprised me with Cavalier tickets to the game on my birthday. Josh had informed me that I needed to take the day off work but wouldn’t tell me why. So the boys and I had pancakes for breakfast and played in the morning to wait for Daddy to get home. When I FINALLY got my present, it was one of my Cavs shirts in the box and I thought “Geez thanks for wrapping up my own shirt!” – But inside my shirt were the tickets. Josh had thought it would be best if we didn’t take Brayden since he is so young and the noise factor, so we dropped him off with Grandma & Grandpa and headed to Cleveland to catch dinner before the game! Unfortunately Shaq was out with his fractured thumb that he did the week before – but overall it was a GREAT game!

Baptism

Brayden was baptized tonight at Grace Lutheran! After the ceremony we had everyone back over to the house and had a little dinner together! It was great – he did wonderful and never even screamed when Pastor Paul poured the water over his head. Josh even commented how cold the water was when it was hitting his hand – what a trooper!

Happy Holidays...

More to come...

Christmas Card Pictures....

It is always interesting to try to get Christmas pictures done ~ especially since it seems like you do them SO early in order to get them done so that you can get your Christmas cards out in a timely fashion - well that was NOT what happened this year! Somehow I must have thought that I still had an extra week before Christmas would be here ~ so we had to do some really QUICK Christmas pictures ~ with a little boy that really didn't want to do pictures - so this is what we got...

Meeting Santa...

Hunter was SO excited to get and go see Santa Claus and tell him what he wanted for Christmas – a lunchbox! Not just any lunchbox – a blue one JUST like Daddy’s! (how innocent – a Coleman lunchbox – what an EASY gift!) We were excited that Hunter got right up on his lap and we got a GREAT picture of the boys for their scrapbooks!

After the picture ~ Hunter was able to “chat” with Santa about what he wanted ~ and Hunter was very excited when Santa told him that he could have a candy cane before he left! The most expensive Candy Cane that we have ever bought – LOL!
The funniest part is when we got back to the stroller ~ Hunter informed us that Santa’s breathe was stinky! Thank goodness that he didn’t feel the need to inform Santa of that! I think that I would have died of embarrassment!

Waiting for Santa!!!

The month of November...

So the month of November has brought some "WOW" moments to us!

Brayden has turned 3 months!

Mommy had to go back to work!

We went to the Circus!

Brayden's 1st Thanksgiving!

There are just SO many things that happen in a day / week /month ~ that I'm amazed how fast time just FLIES by for us! Especially with going back to work ~ to try to juggle everything within only a few hours in the evening is just in lighting speed!

Brayden's 1st Thanksgiving

It was a very nice Thanksgiving! We went to Josh's parents house first and ate dinner with them - then visited for a while ~ then headed off to my folks to have some dessert and visit!Yes - he had to do his hair like Daddy!

Michigan / Ohio State Game

Whelp ~ once again Ohio State pulled it off again this year. I’m really starting to think that Josh had something up his sleeve when he asked me to marry him 6 years ago in the Big House ~ that was the LAST time that Michigan won! A little ironic I think! We were both surprised that Hunter did not want to wear any “gear” – he only wanted to wear his official clothes! We couldn’t have asked for a nicer day out at the end November for the game! We watched the game outside and the kids enjoyed the great weather while playing out in the yard!
Maybe next year Michigan!!!!

Hunter even enjoyed yelling at the TV - JUST like Daddy! LOL

Who says that Ohio State fans don't have love for Michigan fans...

Circus Time

Hunter, Brayden and Mommy got to go to their FIRST Circus! First we went to Pizza Papapolis to eat downtown – OH soo yummy pizza! Of course we had to get the Deep Dish Meatlovers ~ we knew that it would take 45 minutes for the pizza to be made ~ so we planned it that way ~ and through random information ~ knew to go and get our tickets soon for the Will Call @ the Arena!
Hunter was SO excited to go to the Circus ~ here he is with his ticket to get in!

Then he got his first experience with the escalators (which he thought that was pretty cool!)
Our seats were great! And Hunter stayed awake for the entire Circus! It was TOO cool!!!!

More fall pictures

Here are some of the additional fall pictures that I did of the boys!