Playin in the Rain

It was raining morning so Kolton decided to sneak out and play in the rain. Ever since that day he asks to play in the rain every time it rains--and its been raining a lot lately so you can guess how many times I've been asked! :)





He got SOAKING wet!! Look at him!!

I brought him in and took off his shirt and wrapped him in a towel. Then I left to go take care of the dogs in the garage and when I came back in he had let himself back out and was naked!! I couldn't help but take a couple pictures of him playing in the rain naked and then made sure he came inside! ;)

4th of JULY

Well, once again we had a rainy 4th of July. :( All the firework shows around here were canceled-some were rescheduled for the next day or later that week, but Norman rescheduled theirs for November 6th. NOVEMBER! Crazy! Anyway, so we just did some fun fireworks at our house. This was the first time in my life that I've ever gone to a firework stand and bought fireworks. Growing up sometimes my dad would go buy things but I never went with him. I couldn't believe how many things there are that you can buy! And there were a ton of people in there on Thursday! Anyway, we came to our house to have some fun with the boys. :)
We had tried out some of the things we bought for Kolton the night we bought them and I totally scared him! He dropped the sparkler and it landed right by his foot so I screamed and picked him up real fast to make sure it didn't burn him and then he was terrified of them and wanted nothing to do with them. Luckily, though, with a little coaxing on the 4th I was able to get him to do it! And then after that he just kept wanting to do one after another!


I like the way he's standing in the picture holding his hands like that. :) He does that A LOT! Even when he's just sitting down watching TV he'll put his hands like that.



I think Brady did like 20 roman candles. :)



Watching some big ones go off.

Kolton and Kade about to watch the "Frog" go. That was pretty cool!

Brady and I doing "B" and "J." It took us a few times to get it right because I kept making what looked like a "U" instead of a "J" but we finally got one that worked.



Then Brady, myself, and Sterling tried to write "Sooner." This one took us SEVERAL times! One of us would mess up or our sparkler would die so we'd have to get another one etc. etc. BUT, we finally got one that looks decent. :)
We got to eat YUMMY food on the 4th and had fun spending it with our friends, the Foys. It was a good time!

A little of this and a little of that...

Kolton got this puppy for his first birthday from his Uncle Shawn (who is serving a mission in Florida right now) and Kolton still loves to play with it! Any time we go outside he wants to take the puppy outside to go on a walk. He'll take it around the house through the kitchen then back in the living room then down the hall then in the office and then head back to the kitchen. He's had many bonding experiences with that puppy. :)
Kolton's basketball has "KB" written on it so we know which one is his (Kade has the same ball). He came up to me today and asked if the "K" was for Kolton. I said yes (we've worked on that). He then pointed to the "B" and asked if that was for Brammer. I couldn't believe he thought of that on his own--I've never told him that the "B" stands for Brammer. I love how every day he amazes me with something he's learned. Toddlers just soak up so much information every day--no wonder they sleep so much! ;)

My bestest friend from high school was driving through town on Monday and asked if she could stop by to see us. It was great to see her and her husband and brother, Andy and his girlfriend, and her dad. We got to catch up a little bit and hang out for a while! I'm so glad they were able to stop by!


I can't remember what Kolton was eating this time :) but he came out of his room looking like this. Whatever it was sure did make a lot of blue juice. :)


On Tuesday we went to the dollar theater in Norman to go see "How to Train Your Dragon" with Vanessa and London and Pierson. Kolton had fun watching the movie!


We have had a TON of rain lately!! The ground can't keep up and just won't dry out! Its so annoying--especially when you have dogs! It also makes mowing the lawn difficult. If you're lucky enough to have a day where it doesn't rain so you can mow the lawn its still all wet and muddy outside because the sky has dumped 10 inches in the past week! :)

Kolton thought he looked like a "cool dude" so I had to snap a picture of him. (His sheets were being washed-that's why his bed isn't made. :) He has sheets, I promise!)

Apparently I take a ton of pictures because when I gave him the beater of cookie dough, the first thing Kolton said wasn't "thank you" or anything, but "take a picture!"

Kade got to come and play while his parents went on a date. They had fun making messes. :)



Dylen left for his mission in Paraguay on Monday morning. On Sunday after church we headed down to the Norman Stake Center for Dylen to be set apart as a missionary. We went home and ate dinner and then went to the Brammer's to say good-bye to Dylen. We are excited for him to serve a mission! It will be weird, though, to go over there and there only be Madison! Its weird how families grow up!

Here's Dylen with the boys (Kolton, 2 years and 6 months, Pierson, 2 years and 9 months, London, 4 years and 11 months). They'll be SO different when he gets home! And there will probably be a couple more of them too!

45th Infantry Museum

Vanessa heard of this museum from a friend so we all decided to check it out today. It was really cool! The kids really liked looking at all the different tanks and trucks and planes and guns and army guys they had set up. I'd really like to go back (without kids) and really get to look at all the stuff and read about it. It seemed really cool! The 45th Infantry Division was made up of men from four states--Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico and was organized in 1923. This museum just has a lot of artifacts from their division and a lot of cool war stuff! :)


We walked around outside the acres they have and looked at all sorts of war vehicles--tanks, helicopters, airplanes, artillery, personnel carriers...just a lot of stuff!


There was also a huge hill the boys had fun running up and down!




They also have an inside part that was really cool but they don't allow flash photography inside so I never took any pictures. There's tons of history in there that's the cool kind of history. Trust me--I am not a history buff by any means, but I actually really enjoyed looking at all that stuff!
I'm glad we were able to go! It was really cool! And free! So that's always fun! :)

Brady's 27th Birthday!

Friday night we went to the Foy's house for dinner. It was fun to be able to hang out with them because lately we haven't as much as we used to. Between Brady's job and Sterling's job and them having two kids it just seems harder to get together. Anyway, after dinner Brady and I went to il dolce to get some ice cream for his birthday and left Kolton with the Foys. We had a gift card that had $10 that we were going to use. After we paid we sat down and I thought it was weird that it now said that the remaining balance on our gift card was $17.90. I couldn't figure out why and thought that maybe there was more on it than I thought. We ate our ice cream and enjoyed ourselves and then all of a sudden Brady realized that the lady added our total to the gift card instead of redeeming our gift card for that amount. So he went up and told them and they fixed it. I'm glad we caught it and were able to fix the situation so that this poor girl wouldn't be $15 short when she counted her money.
Kolton learned this trick this last week. Brady will put him on the window seat and he'll jump free-falling style and land on his belly. This kid isn't scared of anything that involves being a daredevil.



Saturday was Brady's birthday so Friday night I stayed up late and laid out his presents on the couch so he could see them in the morning when he got up to get ready for work. He got some of his favorite foods and a case of Gatorade (which he hasn't had in forever!) and some special insoles that are just for your heels to help with his pain and an App Store gift card. Nothing too terribly exciting but things that he needed! :)

Kolton helped me make his cake that day. Brady likes this cake that Brittney makes so we thought I'd make it for him for his birthday--with a few changes. ;) I used double the amount of frosting Brittney does (because Brady likes the frosting) and put some in the middle and on top. I had a few issues with the frosting but it ended up tasting fine!


We sang Happy Birthday to him after he got home from work and ate some cake!

It is nothing to look at but it was a lemon cake and it was SO moist and SO good!!

Brady's bosses let him get off work an hour early that day as a surprise birthday present. :) He surprised me and so dinner wasn't ready when he got home unexpectedly an hour early so we went and got some fast food. He REALLY wanted Taco Bueno so we went and got him some of that and then also rented the movie Sherlock Holmes from redbox. That was a pretty good movie I must say. :) Despite having to work I think he had a good day! My parents sent him money and he knew exactly what he wanted to do with it--tint his windows on the Mustang. We took it in this week and it looks SO much better with the windows tinted. He loves it!!
Then Sunday we celebrated his birthday with his family after church. We had lots of Mexican food and Brady got some more presents. I also got a present so that was fun! ;)

On Wednesday afternoon Kolton had his 2 1/2 year check up at the doctor. He is growing like a champ! One year ago on the 29th of June 2009 he weighed 26 lbs (52nd percentile). Wednesday, the 30th of June 2010 he weight 32 lbs (74th percentile). So he's turning in to a little chunky monkey! ;) Not really--he's actually pretty skinny!! One year ago he was 33 inches (83rd percentile) and now he is 37.75 inches (86th percentile) so he's staying on the same track with his height. Just in the last 6 months he's grown 2.75 inches. He always wants to eat and apparently he actually needs it! ;)

We finally put Kolton's TV up high yesterday! Yay!! We've been meaning to do this for months and just never have gotten around to it. BUT, its up and I'm happy! Kolton also got two new movies. :) A Curious George movie (really just a bunch of episodes on DVD) and then Horton Hears a Who. They were on sale for pretty cheap at Best Buy so we thought we'd surprise him. He loves them!
Here's a couple of movies. One is while we were waiting for the doctor to come in and one is of him trying to copy the people doing zumba on the computer screen. :) I LOVE zumba!!