This was our annual girls trip. We went to St. George and had lots of fun eating and shopping. Thanks girls for such a fun trip!

So the other day Braxton was out riding his bike and he ran into
the back of a parked truck. He says there was a dog chasing him
so he was paying attention to the dog chasing him and not where
he was going. He hit the truck with his front tire and then his face.
Miraculously he did not break his nose or get a concussion but his
face sure took a beating. We called him the avatar boy for a couple
of days until the swelling went down. He was pretty tough and did
well once the bleeding stopped. ( He hates blood and freaks out
whenever he bleeds and there was A LOT of blood.) Luckily the
swelling has gone down and his black eyes are mostly gone. We still
get some looks. We had a social worker come to our house.
They had the wrong house and were looking for a neighbor in the
next neighborhood over. Braxton answered the door and the lady had
this shocked look on her face. I pointed her to the right house and she
asked my neighbor how things were at our house and if there was anything
she needed to be concerned about. Hopefully we won't be getting any visits
from the state.



A couple of hours after it happened.



This was the next morning. He has a little bit
of bed head!



Day number three. This was the worst.



Day Four.



Fifth day.

The boys turned on the sprinkler and left it on
all day so the backyard got a little flooded but
they had a great time running and playing in the
water. (sorry can't figure out how to turn the
underlining off.)

Braxton turned 5 on June 30th. We decided that this would
be the first year he could have a friend party and he invited
11 kids. It was quite chaotic but really fun.
He wanted a pirate birthday so this is what I came up with.




These are the invitations we sent out. We rolled them
up and tied them with twine and put them in empty
water bottles with a little sand in the bottom.



Every one eating cake and ice cream.



I am pretty proud of this cake. I make all my kids birthday
cakes and this was the best one yet. Don't worry, it wasn't
hard!



The pinata.



Eating pizza.



Opening presents.



The balloons. We were supposed to have the party
outside but it was so windy. We ended up having to move
most of the party inside. I had twice the balloons
but they all popped. I was so mad!



We were able to play all the games outside before the
storm hit which was good because all I had planned
were water games. We walked the plank, dug for burried
treasure, threw cannon balls at a pirate ship and tried to
sink it, and we had a pirate war where I drew pirate ships on
the driveway and divided the kids into teams. The first team to
"sink" or wash all the chalk away with water balloons won.
It was lots of fun but I don't think we will have that many
kids next year.

I made these ties for my boys for their Easter outfits. They turned out so CUTE and the boys love wearing them because they wear ties now like Daddy does.

My mother-in-law and sister-in-law came down from Logan yesterday to make Easter chocolates. We had a blast gorging ourselves on chocolates and goofing off. We couldn't keep our hands off the caramel. It was so yummy! Here is our finished product.



She really could eat that whole thing!


Trying to look busy.


Yummy!


Being silly.

The boys are super obsessed with pirates right now. Braxton wants to be one when he grows up so on Saturday we took the boys to Pirate Island. The boys had a blast! The food isn't that great(Its really not good, at least our pizza wasn't.) but the atmosphere is really fun. I felt really bad for our server, they are supposed to talk like a pirate the whole time and he was really struggling with it as he was explaining the menu. It was pretty funny to hear him go in and out of "pirate speak". But all in all it was a really fun night.

GIVEAWAY!!!!!

Our business Polka-dots and Paisley is having a GIVEAWAY. Go to our blog pdandpaisley.blogspot.com to find out the details! We are giving away a really cute prize so head on over there to find out how to enter.

Hayden had surgery on his eye to get the tear duct unclogged. We had to be at the hospital at seven in the morning which meant we had to leave our house at 6:15. He didn't like being awake so early in the morning and he didn't like that he couldn't have anything to eat but other then that he did really well. He didn't cry once, even when they took him away from us and when they brought him back in his hospital bed he was totally calm and just looking around. He was really goofy from the anesthesia. He just wanted to have his mouth open against my face. It was so cute! We are glad that his eye is all better. Its weird to look at him and see him without a red, swollen and goopy eye.


Waiting to be taken to his room.



He loved having the little thing that goes on the finger to test the oxygen level.


Getting his blood pressure checked.


Hayden wasn't too happy in this picture because he wanted some one to hold him and I wanted a good picture.



He was so cute in his hospital gown!



He did really well. He wasn't able to eat before the surgery and I thought he was going to be much worse then he was.




This is the teddy bear that they gave Hayden. He loved it!

Family pictures

Here are our family pictures for 2009. My friend Whitney took the pictures and I thought she did an amazing job. I was so worried that we weren't going to get any good pictures because the boys were kind of crazy and wouldn't cooperate. But I was so surprised! They turned out awesome and we got so many pictures. Thanks Whit, I love them.