Pictures...It's All I've Got

I haven't really had much to blog about lately. But I do have a lot of cute pictures so I figured I would put them up. Enjoy! I was watching Kiersten and we had to pick up Bradley from school. She was really into The Wiggles and didn't want to look at me. But she did stop watching long enough to see what Landon was doing. Landon was SO excited to have his cousin with him. Can't you tell by that HUGE smile??

Landon likes to "help" Bradley with his homework. This particular night he was doing his math and Landon kept telling him, "Free (three), four." or "Four, fife (five)". What a helper!

Landon is obsessed with "gapes" (grapes). Anytime he sees them in the fridge he starts yelling for them as if he was going to die if he didn't get them.

My boys sharing some of my bomb guacamole.

We went to my dad's Fall Festival last Friday and had a blast! There was a DJ spinnin' some sweet jams and the kids were loving it! Scotty and Landon have some serious moves!!!

Bradley had to get in on the action too. Here he is doing the robot. What can I say, my boys were blessed with rhythm??

There was a "time out" booth where you can use tickets to get a sticker and whoever you tag with it has to go to "time out" for 2 minutes. You can tell my dad was THRILLED to be in "time out" for the 100th time that night. So Landon joined him. Seriously, my dad is a great sport. I think next year there should only be a half hour window to send Principal Darrington to time out so he doesn't spend the whole evening there!

Landon still gettin' down.

Angelina, Landon, and Scotty. I love the look on Landon's face. He did NOT want to be in his stroller.

Another reason my dad is a great principal (there are MANY reasons): the students got to throw pies at him! Bradley even got him twice, I think, but I didn't get a picture of it. You should've seen the line for this one! Notice his body language saying, "Bring it on!"

And they did! hahahahaha!

This is what he looked like when it was almost over.

After the festival we went over to my in laws. I came downstairs to this. I guess Frankie put Angelina's shirt on Landon and then she wanted to wear his shirt. I think it's hilarious! The headband is just an extra touch of fabulous-ness!

Bradley and I went to Creative Pottery (I think that's what it's called) and painted some ceramic pieces. We LOVE doing this, and hadn't done it in a long time. We had lots of fun spending time with each other.

Landon likes to be a big boy and use a fork by himself. And I enjoy watching. Sometimes it takes him awhile. It amazes me that he's always so patient. (I'm so not a patient person.)

Ta-da! He did it!

I told him to make a funny face and this is what I got.

So Bradley had to make a funny face too.

I'm sure that was super boring for some of you, but it's all I've got so....deal with it!

Random List

I haven't posted in a long time due to nothing being blogworthy, so I'll just make a list of what's going on with me right now.

- Tomorrow is Bradley's picture day and I was already worried because he has 2 scratches on his face from Landon. They get wrestling and next thing you know Landon is squeezing Brad's face so hard he gets scratched up. We call him Scarface because seriously he always is scratched up from Landon. So I told him to be careful and don't give him the opportunity to scratch him. Instead of a scratch Landon smacked Bradley in the head with a go-go bike (motorcycle) and now he has a huge bruise/bump. Aargh! Of course this has to happen the night before picture day.

- Neither of my children ate their dinner tonight. That does not make me happy.

- I still don't have my Halloween decorations up. I love to decorate for Halloween with lights and webs and black lights, I just feel like it's snuck up on me this year.

- I am still undecided as far as who I am voting for. I'm actually so sick of all the political crap out there. I've done lots of research and I still don't like either candidate. But here's the funny thing. Bradley is a McCain supporter. I don't know how, or why but he's always talking about McCain and how he better win. I find this funny because I am not a supporter of either candidate so the fact that he is so into him is very funny to me. Yesterday on the way home I asked how school was. He said it was fine and then confessed that he got in trouble. I asked what for. He said they were waiting in line outside the bathroom and he started reading a pamphlet about McCain and Obama (I'm guessing aloud). And he got in trouble for it. He said, "What the heck?! I didn't even do anything wrong, I was just reading about McCain and Obama!"

- I have to get a wisdom tooth pulled tomorrow. Yuck. I hate the dentist, well not personally, he's really nice. I just hate having dental work done, and being numb. Wish me luck.

- The Project Runway finale is on tonight. Woop woop!

- My best friend Amanda just had her 2nd baby, Cash Austin, on Sept. 29th. He is SO STINKIN' CUTE!!! I got to see him in the hospital but a couple days later caught a cold and haven't been able to see him since. I'm DYING to go snuggle him!

- Frankie's off the next two days, yay! Maybe I'll get some decorating done??

- I'm totally obsessed with Cafe Rio. I have to go once a week or I think I might die!

- Landon is becoming such a big boy. One of his new thing's that he does lately is say, "Watch dis!" and does something funny. Watch dis, watch dis, that's what I hear all day. It's pretty dang cute.

- Landon peed on the potty! I'm sure it was just a lucky moment, but I made a big deal about it. Now he's always running to the bathroom yelling "Go potty, go potty!"

- Bradley is signed up for basketball. He's never played before, so this is new to us. He's really excited and hoping he'll be on his friend's team. He did really good at try outs. Frankie said he sunk his first free throw. We'll see how it goes.

- I helped out in Brad's class last week and loved it! I always wanted to be a elementary teacher so I love going and working with the kids. They are so cute!

So those are the random things going on around here. Hopefully I'll have something better to post about soon!

Mini Mohawk

We went over to Tyler's tonight so we could use his clippers and shave the boys' hair. I gave Bradley the "Chuck Liddell" aka the mini mohawk. It's actually hard to see in this picture. It's very subtle, but I think the ladies are going to love it. After I had used a 2 on his whole head we decided we'd do the mohawk. Otherwise it would've been a bit longer.

Check out this tough guy. I wouldn't want to be caught in a dark alley with this guy! His Uncle Dustin should be very happy. He's wanted to give him a mohawk since he was born.

Extra's:

Bradley being a big dork. I definitely would NOT be scared to run into this guy in a dark alley. I'd kick shorty's butt!

Didn't you know pirates ride scooters?!? Aargh!

Best buddies! (Disclaimer: In case anyone thinks it's weird they tub together, fear not, Brad covers up his family jewels.)

I caught this cute little guy reading in his chair this morning.

Missing Frankie

Frankie is in Napa again and I'm all alone. Well, the kids are here of course. This is Frankie's 3rd year going on the trip. At his work the top three wine sellers get to go on an all expense paid trip to Napa. The past two years he was 1st place, and this year he came in 2nd. He looks so forward to this, and by now has it in his head that he is going from early on in the year. They get to stay in a very exclusive place, I think on a vineyard, in a cottage. You can't even make reservations, you have to be invited. They are treated with lots of wine tasting, tours of different vineyards, and gourmet meals. I love that he gets to experience this. But I hate that I have to be alone at night! There's something about sleeping in bed alone that just doesn't feel right. Maybe I'll have Brad sleep in my bed.

Frankie left really early this morning and last night Bradley made him the cutest card and told me to sneak it into his suitcase (which was really hard because Frankie wouldn't leave the room for one second! I tried everything!). I did eventually get it in there though. And then Frankie wanted me to sneak a note into Brad's lunchbox. It was so funny! They both had the same idea! Then I found a note in my diaper bag from Frankie. I guess we're just cheesy like that!

I can't wait until he's home.

New Park!!!

I was so excited when I got the flyer in the mail saying the 3rd phase of Centennial Hills Park was opening. Sometimes I wonder if I get more excited over parks than my kids. You have to admit they make some rad parks for kids now. So we had to go check it out. It is such a cool park! We showed up wanting to go in the water, but the sign said they were doing maintenance on it, so we explored the new playground. (It was working a couple of days before, but I guess they have to work out some kinks??) Landon just kissed the turtle, but I missed it by a second.

Here's the water park. It looks like fun! I hope they get it fixed so we can try it out before they shut it off until next summer.

There's a little trail that you can take and go up higher. Then the path leads to a gazebo where there's a 360 degree view of the whole park and then some. It's beautiful up there!

This is the view from the gazebo to the (a.k.a. the flower park) of Centennial Hills Park.

Here's the amphitheater. I can't wait to see what they'll have going on there.

Here's a view of the park from the gazebo. There's a walkway behind the equipment that branches off to each level of the park. I guess I forgot to get a picture of the park from the ground.

That's the water park again. I think I was enjoying the view too much and not really thinking of what I was taking pictures of.

Leah you're going to have to bring the kids. We'll hit up Cafe Rio and then head to the park! I'm trying to entice you, did it work?!?

So if you're a park lover like myself you'll have to check it out. We can't wait until the weather is nice so we can spend many hours there burning off all that little boy energy!

School's In Session!

Yesterday was Bradley's first day of 2nd grade. He would ask me during summer how much longer until school started, and then complain about not wanting to go back because "School's stupid." Then I'd try to explain how redundant that statement is. He really does like school, but after having fun all summer he didn't want to go back. As it got closer and closer to the first day he got more and more excited, thank goodness. And especially after last weeks Meet n Greet where he saw all his friends, he was definitely ready to go back. He laid out his outfit the night before. The next morning he woke me up and was all dressed and ready to go! It was so cute. I used to love the first day of school when I was a kid so I knew how excited he was.
Here he is all ready to go. I can't believe how big my Bradley is!

He has been SO excited to show off his new Yankee backpack! But he is not happy (and neither am I) that the Yankee lunchbox I ordered (in mid July- don't get me started) is on back order, so he had to use his lunchbox from last year. But no lunchbox on back order was going to ruin his 1st day!

He's growing up too fast!

Landon LOVES Bradley so much. He's going to be missing his best buddy!

Here he is about to walk in with his class.

He survived the first day of 2nd grade! He really likes his teacher and his class. He already has a crush on a girl! But ssshhhhh! Don't tell him I told you so or I'm in major trouble!

Flashback to...

Bradley's first day of 1st grade!

And his first day of kindergarten!!! It's crazy how time flies! He seems so grown up to me.

CREEPY!!!

Yesterday while Landon was napping I took advantage of it and polished my toes. While I was doing so, Bradley ran into my bathroom and said,"Mom you've got to get downstairs and kill this spider in the bathroom!" He went on and on about how big it was and I told him to chill out. We've never really had a bug problem. The occasional earwig or a dead cockroach (totally gross). That's pretty much it. I majorly hate bugs, but I really thought he was being dramatic and it was probably a daddy long leg or something. So I take my time. I finish polishing my toes, let them dry and go down to check it out. This is what I walked in to see. Holy freakin' mother!!! I wish I could've seen my own face! I told Brad to get dad FAST! There was no way I was getting close to that bad boy! Frankie wouldn't come. He thought we were exaggerating. Finally, I convinced him to come check it out. He was like,"What in the.....?!" We didn't want to squish it- imagine all the funk that would squish out of it!

So we grabbed a plastic cup and Frankie scooped it and flushed it. Then I thought, is it going to climb back out of the toilet, like some super spider?? So I flushed some more. Thinking back I should've caught it in the cup and killed it with some rubbing alcohol so I can show the bug guy when he comes. I guess I'll just show him the picture. You know I was on the phone with them ASAP.

So seriously click on that close up and tell me you're not creeped out! I'm driving myself crazy because every tickle, every little black toy on the ground, is creeping me out! I think everything is a spider now.

My brother Tyler was over tonight and said it might be a brown recluse which is not a good thing. So now I'm even more freaked out! I have to convince Bradley (who's still creeped out) that every thing's fine, don't worry about it, while I'm still worried about it!

Hopefully that's the first and last spider we'll find in our house!!!