Making the most use of toys

The boat is rather uneventful for a toy, until you put it IN the rocking bench, then its a ROCKING BOAT. Now who would have figured that out...

Water, Water...

Brayden has found the hose!!! He loves it if it has water running out of it!! He waters indiv flowers and even waters himself rather a lot!!

Farmers TAN!!

Here we are outside on the porch at Granny and Grandpa's, wearing only pj bottoms, but look at that tan!! Pale white everywhere else, but tan little arms and hands. Obviously he loves to point at things.

What a CUTIE!!

Ok, so we are just a bit over the top, but we think he is just the cutest!! Alan took this pic in March when we were doing a school, it just turned out great, I had to order another package of them!!

Can't you keep up even a little??

This is the view we had of Brayden at the zoo most of the time, he was up there looking back.

Petting the Goat with Daddy

Just Swingin

When two people hold Brayden's hands, its an automatic invitation to SWING!!

First Girlfriend

We met this young lady at the end of the zoo day, she just turned three. Brayden got to the horse first and she was really put out about that. There were three other animals there to ride just like this, but somehow the horsey was the ONLY one for her!! Roger put her on the back and she was ok with that, Brayden was soon bored with that whole thing and went to ride some of the others, but when he wanted to come back, she was two steps away from it and rushed right back to get on before he could get there!! Human nature at its finest!!

Zoo and Mother's Day

We survived the weekend, it was actually a lot of fun to take Brayden to the zoo and let him run around. He pretty much ran the whole time. Tons of energy, would be nice if we could all keep up 24/7, but it just isn't that easy. We stayed in a hotel with a pool so after dinner we took Brayden to the pool, was fun to hold him and let him kick his legs like he was swimming. He and daddy had a real blast. Mama thought the water was tooo cold!! :-)
Mother's Day was a nice relaxed day. I spent time remembering mother's day last year. We spent the day then showing videos of our son to some special friends. I thought that was fun and ok a year ago, how different this year though to really be a mom and have Brayden here at home. Daddy took Brayden to the card aisle and they picked out a card and he wrote (scribbled) in it some. I will let the pics tell the story of the weekend for me.

A Dozen down, a lifetime to go!!

Today its been 12 years since Roger and I were married in my parents home in Scottsbluff. In many ways its been a long time ago and still in some seems like yesterday. We were sooo much younger, and more energetic etc, now we TRY to keep up with our two year old. :-) Some days it takes more effort than other days, but all days we are thankful. We have learned that no matter how much you want something, sometimes God has other plans, and for us those other plans have been more rewarding than even our own might have been. Over these 12 years we have lost some family close to us, we are glad for our memories and sad that we didn't get to share our little boy with them. Things change that is certain, so today we celebrate the time gone by, the tears, triumph and laughter and love. Many blessings we have known, but we are sure there are more to come. Here's to more good times, days and years. We are off to celebrate for the weekend, will post pics when we get home.

Maybe this will help

I have redone the video posts as per instructions from others more experienced than I...so this should make them viewable by everyone. Hope it helped and if you are still having trouble please email me and let me know. It works for me everytime, but thats because I own both accounts, so I had no idea it wasn't working for everyone. :-) My apologies and hope it will now. Please let us know if it works for you via email or guestbook.
Thanks

Sliding with Daddy

Future Craftsman, Present Improvisor

Our little woodworker

For all the woodworkers in the family and beyond, we thought you all would get a kick out of this improvised router. Brayden really does have an eye for everything daddy does and he really likes to try to do the same stuff. Of course mama is never in the shop to see this, so daddy has to make a run to the house when something is going on and grab the camera and run back. Its great exercise and once in a while we get some good footage too. Be sure to sign into the guest book again or comment on the page here. We love to hear from you all too.

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I will only leave this music video on for a few days as it plays every time you load the page. It can get annoying after some time!! It is a good song though with lots of good thoughts. It has been posted on several blogs of adoptive parents and kids the last little bit. Enjoy it, I will remove it next week or so.

listen to the words here

Music Video:WHEN LOVE TAKES YOU IN (by Steven Curtis Chapman)

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Trip down memory lane for this week

Just a few neat memories of this week a year ago. Lots has changed in this little guy. Thought it might be fun for others to compare pics too, from then till now. Our lives are very blessed!!

Remember when...

This is what he looked like a year ago today...

Across the yard...

In Grandma's old yard, there is a daycare. Its great fun to play with other kids. Its hard to keep him in our yard when there are all these others to play with in the other yard. :-)

I will upload some more stuff tomorrow. We have all been under the weather today, spring cold I guess, so its time to hit the beds and hope for a better tomorrow.

SOOO BIG

Long ways up there~~

How does this work

We went to Lander to meet up with Aunt Dar and Lindsey for lunch a couple weeks ago, there is a caboose in a small park there. Had to get up there and see how things worked.