In a week...

Here's some of what we've been up to this past week. The pictures are not all that that great, but it's about all I can get from my kids lately. Our week started off early last Wednesday with Braiden's last day of soccer camp. It was the only time I took my camera and was hoping to get some good shots of him playing soccer, but instead they had a water fight.


I missed the good action before this next one because a little boy walked in between us, but if you click on it you can see the water dripping of off Braiden. He got half of the garbage can of water dumped on him.


That afternoon I took the kids up to the aquarium. We haven't been for a very long time and Brooklynn hadn't ever been.






Braiden had had enough of my picture taking so he's pulling the major fake smile(if you can even call it a smile, probably not), but I had to include this picture, because I thought it looked awesome. The background is just the painting on the wall.


Smiles are just way to much to ask for...


I really haven't been able to capture any great pictures of Braiden's T-Ball games yet, but I think these are somewhat ok. I would've love to be a little fly on his shoulder and hear what these guys were talking about. Braiden's a little talker, takes after his Grandpa I guess.


Looking over at us knowing he shouldn't be climbing on the fence.




Braiden does everything with his tongue out...


I think this was the last hit of the game. Braiden ran out and got the ball. After getting it they just sat there talking about who knows what. Braiden was probably bragging about getting the ball. It probably wasn't that long, but it seem like a good minute or so that they just sat there talking.


Grandpa and Grandma came down to the game and came over to the house. We decided it was a good time to try and get Braiden over his fear of riding his bike anywhere but the grass. We got him riding in the backyard over Memorial Day weekend, but has freaked out anytime we talk about him riding it on the sidewalk or the street. It took some work and some battle wounds on Grandpa, but after about 15 minutes, he was riding like a pro.








Grandpa's battle wounds...


Here is a video of Braiden riding. Don't mind Brooklynn throwing a fit. She was mad at me because I wouldn't let her have the camera to take pictures.


Here's Brooklynn on the porch pouting. I do not normally reward my kids when they are acting like this, but I wanted to see her response when I asked her if she wanted a cookie. Do you think she let me get away without giving it to her?


A picture of Brooklynn with her cookie after her fit.

(Thanks for the pictures Grandma.)

Monday we went with some friends to the pool. I really didn't pull out my camera until we were about ready to leave. Not long after I pulled it out, they had to kick everyone out of the pool to clean up after someone. Hello crypto. The reason I didn't buy a season pass to the pool this year. You have to love Brooklynn's sunscreen hair in this one.




Don't know what my child is doing...




The boys waiting to get back in the pool, although we decided just to get in the other pool and then leave. I'm not sure I want to take my chances with the pool this year after the major outbreak last year.

Baby Rachel

It's been a little while. I've been a little lazy and didn't even take any pictures of my own kids for at least a week.
We have some friends in from Texas and we were able to attend this cute little one's baby blessing today. I also took some pictures of her last week that will be coming soon, maybe even a personal post.

The Cake

I already posted Kendall's One Year pictures, but we didn't have time to do a cake that day. We finally did it at about 13 months. Now a few weeks later, here they are. I wasn't too sure about doing them on the grass, but I really like how they turned out. He really didn't eat that much, but really made a mess of the cake in the end.

Dinner on the Lake

I have been listening to other mom's talking about how excited they are for summer and have been planning fun things for their kids to do. Since Braiden only went to school two days a week and for a few hours, it doesn't seem like summer is a big of a break for us. The weather hasn't been super hot so it doesn't feel much like summer either.
On Tuesday we decided last minute to take the boat out for a test drive and make sure it was ready to go for the year. We took off about 6pm, grabbed some Subways and headed up to Deer Creek. I will admit that after taking the boat out for the first time, I am now really looking forward to summer. I just hope it warms up a little more.





Gotta love the sweatshirt over the jacket. He looks ready for football.


Braiden has a hard time holding still enough to take a picture, so this one turned out pretty good for him.





We let the kids have their cookies while we were drying off the boat. Braiden wouldn't smile without the cookie in his mouth, although that's not much of a smile.




They were both a little hesitant the first time out, but I'm sure it won't be long before they are back in the swing of things. Braiden didn't want to put his feet in the water off the back of the boat, but decided when we were about ready to leave that he wanted to go down and feel the water. Brooklynn was really hesitant about putting her feet in. I think because of the waves coming in. They probably seemed pretty big to her.

Harrison

I do a little mini photo shoot of Harrison every month. These were taken on Mother's day so he's probably due for some more. I normally don't have much luck getting him to smile, but he was all smiles this time. I don't think I spent more than 15 minutes taking his picture this time.





Kris, this next one is my favorite. Let me know if you would rather have another one.






Ok, I hope I don't offend anyone with this next picture, but I had to post it because I think it's a little funny I even got it. I didn't even know I got it until after I went through the pictures on my camera. I took a bunch of pictures super fast and while I did he put his hand up and grabbed his collar and this happened to be one of the pictures in the bunch. (No photoshop involved!)


I had to do a double take when I first saw it. Still makes me laugh that I got it.

Kendall - One Year

I did this photo shoot 3 weeks ago and finished them up today. I'm pretty happy with them even though I was dealing with the sun right around noon. This kid is so smiley, but wasn't that day and he really wanted to play with all the rocks. We didn't have time to do birthday cake pictures and finally did them this last Saturday, so they will be coming soon.















He was ready to be done, but we still got a few more after this one...