Touch a truck

I know that in my last post I said that I would be better about posting on here, but I am a super slacker. I have been so busy with work and Braeden that I haven't had time to sit down and gather my thoughts. Who would have thought having a baby means that you have like NO time for yourself? Now that I have a minute I will let you in on what has been going on.
Last weekend was Touch a Truck Day at the park so Tara, Mom and I took the kids down to check it out. There was a variety of vehicles down there to climb around on and all the kids had a good time. I would have had more fun if it had been a little bit cooler outside. Here are a couple of pictures of the kids touching the trucks.

James, Mackenzie, Braeden and Bethannie chillin' on the front of a fire engine.

That's my boy on a Harley.

Check Braeden out on the John Deere tractor.

Does anyone need my help mowing the grass?

Braeden and Mackenzie look so small standing in the bucket of the front end loader.

Braeden now wants to join the SWAT team so he can drive this thing everyday.

Sorry

I am soooo sorry it has been so long since I have posted last but I have been super busy lately. SO here is what has been happening the last month or so.... First Braeden and I went to Kentucky over Labor Day weekend for a family reunion in the mountains. We had a pretty good time while we were down there. Braeden loved playing in the creek although due to a lack of rain it wasn't much of a creek. He did find the one little spot where there was enough water to make a mud puddle and had a great time getting dirty. Here are a couple of the pictures from that trip.

Splashing in the mud.


That's right he sat in it.

Other than that I have been working all week and Braeden goes to daycare for most of the day. Last Monday Braeden had a fever of 101 while at daycare and had to go to see the doctor before he could go back. That evening Pappy took him to see our pediatrician who told him to give Braeden an antibiotic that I had thrown away a week ago. So the next morning before I went to work I called the doctor's office. I spoke with the nurse and let her know what had happened the night before. She spoke with the doctor and they decided to have us bring Braeden back in for a strep test. Travis didn't have to work that day so he took Braeden up there for the testing which came back neg. After they finished at the doc. office they went to Charleston Falls to walk around. It seems like they had a pretty good time out there even though the falls are more of a drip right now since we have had NO rain. Here are some of the pictures from their day out.

Braeden chillin' on a bench.


Braeden and Travis cheesin' at the falls.


And that is what I call a waterfall.

Now that just about does it for us. Braeden and I have little colds but nothing serious. I am sure as soon as the weather decides what the heck it is doing we will be ok. I will write more later and I promise it won't take me a month to do it.

Cutie

Here is a video of Braeden and I singing "If you're happy and you know it..." He is so cute.

New Job

For all those who may be wondering how the job search is going I wanted to let you know that starting Sept. 4 I will start at GE Money. I will be working in a call center as a customer service representative for credit cards. The interview process took like three weeks....the first week was a phone interview, then a skills assessment, and finally a one on one interview with management. After all that they finally gave me a job. While in the final interview they told me which card company I would be working for and you will never guess which one it is. Wait for it.....Wal-Mart/ Sam's Club! Just when I thought I had escaped the evil grasp of Wal-Mart Inc they pull me right back in. Geez! I am excited about starting because I will be making a lot more money there, the benefits are awesome and they start on day one! How sweet is that? Other than that not a lot has been happening here. Braeden has had a little cold and so we have been just chillin in the house. I also got his big boy bed set up and we are working on getting him used to sleeping in it. It took me an hour to get him to lay down and sleep in it the first night. I think he may have fallen out of the bed at some point during the night because he started crying and when I went in there he was laying on the floor. He was ok and it wasn't like it was a long fall to the floor. Oh well, we will keep working at it and hopefully by the time I start working it won't be such an issue.

Big boy

Oh the wonderful world of potty training! We have just begun this great journey and let me tell ya we are having fun! Braeden is doing well with sitting on the potty he just won't go while he is sitting there. This weekend we went ahead and put his big boy underwear on for a test drive. I would take him to the bathroom about every 20 minutes or so to see if he would go but nothing ever happened. He wasn't going in the underwear or on the toilet so I figured that sooner or later he had to go. Finally he went but not on the potty, in his underwear. He really didn't like having wet underwear on and told me he wanted to put on his diaper. I explained that he was a big boy now and he got to wear big boy underpants. We put another pair of underwear on and didn't have another accident until later that evening. It seems that he has figured out that he could hold it until I took him off the potty and about five minutes later he would just let loose. We went through the three pair of underpants that I had with no pee pee in the potty but we will keep on trying until he gets it.


Here is a little video of Braeden playing in the kitchen in just his big boy underwear.


That is not all folks...this week we got Braeden's first school pictures. I couldn't believe that they do school pictures at daycare! They turned out kinda cute so here they are...




Oh one more thing...Braeden got a new haircut. Check it out!

Hate

I HATE NFL football. I have been dying to watch Big Brother 8 all night and this stupid football game is causing me to wait until 11 to see who gets evicted. Why couldn't they show this stupid football game on a channel that no one cares about? Geez!

To the Farm...

Braeden and I took another trip out to Carriage Hill Farm last week. As you may remember my friend Rachel and I took our boys out there about a month ago but the actual farm was closed so we didn't get to see many of the animals. This time I made sure that we got there before the farm closed so Braeden could do a little exploring. First we went to check out the horses which Braeden loved. He was even brave enough to touch them.

After we went to visit the horses we went over to the barn where the pigs and cow were. Braeden kept wanting to walk through the barn. He kept saying "GO to the farm." I told him that was the barn but he insisted it is called the farm. He of course could not pass up the opportunity to climb on the fence for the cows. He is such a little monkey.

When I was finally able to peel him off the fence we walked to the back part of the farm. I remembered that there was a pond back there but I did not remember that to get to it you have to climb a huge hill. Not only was the hill huge, it was hot outside, I was pushing Braeden in a stroller and there is no path to get there. You have to go through the grass. Talk about a workout. After all that climbing I discovered that the pond was GROSS. No ducks or geese just slime on the water.


We sat up there for just a minute so that I could cool off then headed back to the car. Although it was suer hot outside Braeden had a GREAT time playing on the farm. He told me that he does want a horse after our visit to the farm. Unfortunately a horse wouldn't fit in our backyard so I had to break the news to him gently.

Just to let you know if anyone would like to give to my "Get Kristy a Nikon d40 Fund" please let me know. I REALLY want this camera but it is like $600.00 and since I know you all would want me to have it I have started a little fund to allow me to save for it. So just let me know if you would like to give 100.00 or so to my cause. j/k