What’s 2 into 6?

Three!  The reason for this simple math equation is today is mine and Brad’s 6 year Anniversary!  Six years married and it started with just two hearts and now we have three more hearts! Not too shabby for six years of marriage. In fact, it is an amazing blessing to have these numbers in our life!  When we count our blessings we count 1, 2, 3 little boys that fill our hearts and are a result of the two hearts that committed their lives to each other just 6 short years ago on this day, February 12th. 

This week we celebrated early since our Anniversary is on Valentines weekend we wanted to beat the crowds of lovey dovey people! Brad snuck and planned a date night for me and Liz and Kristen showed up at my door to watch the kids! It was actually great that he did that instead of a sitter since Easton is only 7 weeks old, I would be nervous to have a sitter juggle our 3 kids.  We went to a lovely intimate dinner and then a movie.  Which unless there is an event that is about all you can do in this town.  It was great for both of us to get the night off from putting the boys to bed.  So today since we already had our date we are just going to get take out dinner and snuggle up and watch our wedding video! He’s thrilled, haha! He will probably just fast forward to the good parts! We have had so many more good parts of our lives and I look forward to another 6 years and more!

 

The two hearts that started our family posing on date night!

 

Then there are the next 3 hearts of this beautiful equation….

I made them do a little photo shoot to document our three sweethearts!  The pictures do the talking.  It was a riot!

I realized after that Bradley was holding Easton’s ear in half of them.  He has a weird ear obsession.  He holds his own and I think its a comfort thing for him so he was trying it out on Easton too! oh my!

 

Gavin flung his heart back!

 

Bradley was protecting Easton’s heart from Gavin breaking it.  Gavin is like…”what did I do?”

 

Roses are Red

Violets are Blue

These three Hearts

Started from two, me and you!

The past three days….

Once again not very riveting material but this is definitely a season of being chill and not going, going, going all the time.  At least I still have some cute boys to hang out with and that will always be exciting to me!   So on Saturday we had some friends over and Brad pretty much recruited Derek into the Air Force!  While the adults talked about all the pros and cons of being an Airman and an Airman’s wife the kids did what they do best. Get into things!!

Bradley and Jordan left me no Band-Aids but the stuffed animals will always be stuffed! They are all bandaged up!

it was a great evening and we look forward to keeping in touch with Laura, Derek and Jordan on their journey into the big blue!

On Sunday, Chase Salvog, was dedicated to the Lord by his parents, Mike & Liz. We had the privilege of celebrating with them afterwards at their home.  Chase had a very special day and I am happy to know this family and be able to see how Chase grows in his faith from this moment on. 

Easton’s smile was captured! He has smiled even bigger but he stops when he sees the big black camera in his face.

I love this picture that his eyes are green like his mommy’s.   Maybe all three of them wont have blue eyes like daddy. 

Outside Bradley got to digging….

and seeking Sophia….

  and running.

That was as busy as our weekend got.  On Sunday night Brad and I curled up on the couch together to watch the Super Bowl and I liked that because for dinner I just made munchies.   The Game Day food was a good excuse not to cook. 

Now onto our typical Monday’s.  Bradley had school and I just run errands and take care of the two little ones!

Gavin eating winner winner chicken dinner!

 

He is so sweet.  He gives us kisses more and more now and goes “mmmmm” and they are always wet and slobbery! Funny!

He loves this water bottle of Bradley’s and tries to take it all the time.  Of course, they fight over it!

He settles for his own eventually though. 

Easton watching me clean the kitchen.  On Monday I brought in all this stuff from the car.  I admit sometimes I have my hands full and don't take everything in that they send home from school. 

Hand horse.  I was joking with Liz saying “If I get one more big hand I am going to scream!” Since, he is not a baby anymore it honestly looks kind of funny that it takes up all the paper!

This I am very proud of.  They trace their name everyday and send home all the results.  He still has a ways to go to be able to write it independently but I think he is off to a good start. 

“Juh, Juh, J is for Jellyfish”  Bradley is very into saying all the sounds of letters and playing games with me and Brad on thinking of all the words that start with a certain letter.  On this day he came home from school and said “Mom, jellyfish can sting us so we shouldn't go to the beach!” I told him we could since we can’t let everything that could potentially hurt us hold us back from enjoying Gods creations like the beach!  Then he said “Ok, since God lives in my heart then we can go to the beach and he will protect me from the jellyfish and sharks!” Bless his little heart!

I think his grass is funny here, all 7 blades of it! Bradley is not into ART at all.  He will sit down and color or draw for like 1 minute at home and then be over it!

Another one of Bradley’s quotes is from after I got out of the shower and got dressed he says to me, “ You look beautiful mommy but you didn’t wash your hair again just like you didn’t last morning either!” Thank you very much Bradley for reminding me that I haven’t washed my hair for 2 days!

Well, there is our past 3 days!! Now there are 4 days until our 6 year Anniversary and 11 days until Bradley’s 4th Birthday and 10 days until Brad GETS OUT OF THE MILITARY!!! His 9 year career and a chapter of our lives will be over soon so there will be more on that later!

Friday Frenzy

I feel like my weeks are frantic and slow at the same time.  Since it is Finally Friday I thought I would share this frenzy of pictures since there is no rhyme or reason to them and frankly that is how I feel about the ins and outs of my days lately! So, here it goes, all three of my little red head button noses….

One of them cared about this picture! Bradley in what he calls his “team shirts” and Gavin in his “Daddy’s got my back” shirt.  Oh so true for all three of these boys.  They have Daddy wrapped around their finger since he doesn’t have a little girl to do that. 

 

Bradley’s wish granted when he requested to sleep on the floor.  he acted like it was the best thing since sliced bread!  He looks well prepared with all his favorite animals and a gun and Spiderman for protection!

Once he woke up he got busy! This is what I found after I woke up.  he still is a very early riser so he is quiet and gets into whatever he thinks he can when mommy isn’t looking.  He found his kid scissors in his crayon/coloring book box and cut up all the paper in TONS of pieces all over the house!

Gavin was so tired sleeping through me turning his light on and snapping pictures of him.  On this evening I had to wake him up from his nap at 6:30 since it was already dark and bedtime was at 7.  I think he must have been feeling under the weather and needed the extra hour. 

Easton taking his big boy bath, rubber ducky and all! He definitely has that breastfed milk belly!

Gavin and Bradley hop in the tub afterwards for some giggles.  I think Bradley was pretend spitting and it was cracking Gavin up with that and the washcloth on his head. 

 

Bradley cracking himself up!

Easton is almost 7 weeks which pretty much means he is almost 2 months old! Where has the time gone?  I feel like I should be getting into a stride with this mommy of 3 thing but I still feel like I am flapping in the wind.  Big Sigh!

Lastly, since I am sure I will have many Valentine’s pictures to share I will show this now.  This is the Valentine’s card Bradley and I created on the computer and had developed for his 20 preschool classmates.  He helped me with the colors and LOVES it.  He only wanted the blue and lime green hearts.  No red and definitely not PINK he said.  It says…You’re a Hero, so have a SUPER Valentine’s Day! From your friend, Bradley Batman!

Park Weekend

This weekend the weather was amazing here.  Up to 65 degrees I think.  I forgot my camera both days to the park so these are from my phone.  Bradley is climbing and hanging around like a bat! Speaking of bats, the invitations are out for his Batman Birthday Bash! I am trying to make it less complicated and simple for me but we shall see where my mind takes this party.  Party’s can be so expensive but I just want this one, his 4th, to be special for him!  The party is on Saturday the 19th which is his actual birthday so he is so excited and keeps asking when his birthday is going to get here?  We have started the countdown! As if he really knows what 19 days away actually feels like! We love you Batman Bradley!