Happy Valentine's Day!

See the "behind the scenes" photos here.

Opening my beautiful heart charm for the bracelet I got on Mother's Day.

Braden wanted this so badly in the store earlier this week. We saw it at the movies and he couldn't wait to watch it again. He also won a "free movie rental" at Blockbuster for doing so good on his Reading folder at school, so Blake took him yesterday. He wanted to "rent" this movie and just couldn't understand why Blake encouraged him to choose something else. All Blake could say is "trust me."


This is a canister of "chips" that when you open it, this snake pops out. Our friends Mattie and Gracie have one of these and this was actually supposed to be a stocking stuffer, but I just found it in my closest.




Mason got his very own "shake-n-go" car. He loves Braden's and racing them on the track. We played with it this morning and he got very angry when he set it down and it took off away from him. It made me laugh!

Saturday Night

Mason dipping into his goodie bag from school.

Mason's loot from his Valentine's Day party.

"Wall"

Paint the Town Red 2009

This picture was taken Friday night at the outdoor movie "Up" poor Mason had tummy troubles so Blake stayed home with him while Braden and I got to enjoy the movie with lots of our friends.


After I got a quick shot of Blake and the boys and he got a quick shot of me and the boys, Braden wanted to take a picture. This is his handy work of us!
This was his first attempt! He loved that he "chopped our heads off"


By this point, Mason was about out of smiles! His shoes were on, which means he is getting to "go" somewhere and he was ready to be gone!


Ok, if this picture didn't crack you up the first time you saw it a year ago, now it should bring the same tears for you it brought me this morning! I'm still laughing! Amazing the difference a year makes. Mason was 3 months in this picture!


Our bundles of joy, today! Braden is Mr. Big Shot Kindergartner, and our big 14 month old Mason.

Happy Birthday, Blake!

Below is the rest of our celebration for Blake. Braden and I picked up his cake, (thank you Heather! To quote Blake, "Heather outdid herself on this one!") and quickly got his candles inserted while Mason took a cat nap. We only had a number 3 then 4 tall candles so we made our own 34! Blake and I had a quiet dinner at one of our favorites, Chatters.

The babysitter was able to snap a family picture before we put Mason to bed. Actually she had just put Mason to bed when we got home from dinner, but we couldn't celebrate without him, so we brought him back down for a few pictures!




Mason was so proud of himself standing in the middle of the table.



Then he found the cherry tomatoes from our garden, and of course thought they were balls and wanted to play with them.




We put Mason back to bed while we cut the cake and opened presents.






Blake just found a typo on the gift certificate we gave him. Amazingly it had Pittsburg spelled as Pittsburgh.


Happy Birthday, to you! I took a little trip down memory lane today and it's hard for me to believe you were just about to celebrate your 22 birthday the first time we met at Sav-On. Little did I know that within 3 short years I would fall madly in love with you, marry you, and then become the mother of these adorable boys! I'm so happy to have helped celebrate your last 12 birthdays, and I hope to celebrate at least 40 or 50 more!


Our morning was a little hectic today, which really isn't anything new, but I took Mason a little early while Blake and Braden finished getting ready. When Braden remembered it was Daddy's birthday he wasn't going to be happy until we have him his card (of course singing) that sang MC Hammer "Can't touch this" I also got an email from our neighbor, Sabrina, with Birthday wishes for Blake, because Braden had already told them that he was 34 today. I'm just glad he got the age right!