Last Week

Daddy sent us some pictures from the NY.  Here is one of him with Woody.  He thought that was fitting and the boys liked it.
  
Meanwhile back at home we just had our normal days.  Bradley is off for a fall break from school so it was all of us except for taking Gavin to school twice a week which felt funny having B home and not G for a bit. Here is Easton above at a Thursday morning Bible Study I work.  He just hopped in the baby bouncer and said “ I go ni nite!”

Liz and the kids came over one day.  What day was that again? haha! We also went to the park with them on Friday and it was gorgeous weather but of course I have no pictures.
 

The boys must be feeling this fall weather and getting into the season. They have been on an apple eating kick together.
 
On Saturday we went to Joshua’s bowling Birthday party.  He is all the way at the end of the table. He had a lot of friends show up! Here is Bradley and Alex obviously loving the cupcakes.
 
Saturday Night I went to dinner with Tabitha.  After picking up the boys from Drop Zone she helped get their pajamas on and read them a few books before bed.

Superman flying fun!




Bradley came up to me and said “Mom, I moved the bench and its perfect for us to take a photo on.  Come on!” He is so funny how he is thinking “photo op” scenarios in his head.  Love him!

My three handsome boys! They of course are a handful but are such a joy and Brad and I are so still in love with our bright personality boys!
 
Now we are gearing up for Brad’s half Ironman on Saturday in Georgia and then we are on our way to Destin, FL.  I am so excited to have a beach vaca! We actually have not all been to the ocean together yet.  The five of us.  Sunshine, Surf and Sand, here we come!

Daddy’s Birthday. He’s 30!

Brad was out of town on a work trip and got home at 1 am to start off his Birthday, September 15th!

Here the boys are that night before bed.  Getting all cleaned up for Daddy coming home, his Birthday and another TRIP!

Bradley likes to take baths on his own mostly now so these two are hilarious together!
 
A banner I was making at 10 at night before he got home!
 
I absolutely did not stress the fact that he was 30 and I am still in my twenties ;)
Boy am I not looking forward to payback!

The boys were so excited to give them the cards they made him right when they woke up. 

While unpacking and repacking the boys climbed inside!
 
For Brad’s Birthday we left that afternoon and headed to our friend the Blankenship’s home.  Jen had a cake picked up for me since there was no way I could have pulled that off with getting there at 6.  We were there to hang out but also Brad was entertaining some Vietnam PJ’s that were stopping there as a meeting point for the longer trip to NY for the annual PJ reunion.  This year was the first year Brad has gone to it.  They drove there on Monday and Brad flew out on Wednesday and just got back again last night ( I know, it is hard to keep up.  I barely can either!).

Back to that cake that is being set on fire!

Do I even have to say the kids loved it!

Brad was absolutely surprised! Awesome that I pulled that off since the boys were wanting to blab.

 
30 Candles! Happy 30th to my man!

The start to his 30’s with one big happy family!

Other than that the boys played! You put 6 boys together and so much fun and madness was going on.
Brad entertained the old guy PJ’s and Jen and I even got to slip away for getting our eyebrows waxed and acting like giggly teenagers.  We went to Rite Aid and bought make up and candy! Now, doesn’t that sound like fun?!


This is at their Lake House down the street where we cooked dinner for the PJ vets!

We drove home Monday after lunch.  By the look of these feet they had a bit of fun on Monday too before we left.
We will be going to the beach with this wonderful family the first week of October so we are excited about that!
Brad had a great 30th and said turning 30 did not bother him at all! We love him and loved celebrating his life. Even if it was the “little things” that was all I managed to pull off, it meant a lot to him!

Seriously, I don’t even know when this happened?!

Ok, I am so behind in updating and I don’t even know exactly when most of these pictures are from.  A few weeks ago I guess. Not to mention I have just been so busy lately.  I can’t keep track of the simplest things these days. It may not look like it from our pictures but there is a lot involved with getting the kids to and from school and all that needs to be done in between.

Bradley read his first book on his own! I am super proud of him and how enthusiastic he is about reading and learning to spell and write words on his own. They have been working since day three in school with the class. He gets a book home every night that he has to read and we sign off on it. I quickly caught on that someone (his teacher) had read the book to him before and after I volunteered put another piece of the puzzle together.  He practices reading the book in school.  The same book he brings home to read to us.  I could tell that he had it memorized, to the T.  This book Big and Little though was our book from home that he had never seen before picking it up to read it. I found it and decided to put his reading to the test. Well, Hooray Bradley Bear!  You definitely are so big, not little!

 

Easton ready to learn to read too!

We played a new game (to them) but a classic for us! Operation!

 

Got one! Gavin just can never sit still!

Last week was no different than any other time Daddy is home.  Snuggle time is always going on! I caught Daddy and Easty having a moment and sharing laughs together after dinner.

 

 

 

Tisses! MUAH!

And then when he got with Mommy all his excitement was gone.  He is such a little Da Da’s boy!

 

We went bowling one night.  I thought it was funny to see that Brad wrote “Dad” for himself!

Easton standing up while strapped into his stroller.  You know his butt must have been getting numb.  He was sitting there for an hour like a little angel just sucking his thumb and watching.

All I can say is SOCKS! Gavin cracks me up!

 

 

We did some cleaning.  It was quiet in the house one day with Easton sleeping and Bradley at school and on his own he decided to clean.  I walked out to find him like this.  “I cleaning mommy, with chemcals!” Really just a baby wipe.  He was pretending they were my Clorox wipes that he would love to get his hands on.

A MOPS pool party that as seen above just looked like a toddler fest!

 

He had his first day of preschool last Thursday.

We tried a new hairdo for his first day.

 

Cake POPS to celebrate doing so good.  No tears and no potty accidents!

On Saturday I got to have a day with some girlfriends at a local Vineyard.

 

We got our faces painted!

The girls and I danced! Megan and I even competed in a Wine Stomp but I haven’t gotten the pictures yet from Candace.  I actually tied another girl but wasn't there to claim my title/compete again so they gave her the medal! I was so bummed.  Ha-ha! I really worked it stomping those grapes into wine!

 

We had our usual Sunday at church and out to eat Mexican food as a family and then on Monday Brad went out of town again for work this week.  It has been a long week and I am glad he will be home late tonight :) Just in time for his Big 30th Birthday tomorrow!