Quote of the Day

I have this little flip day calendar that I have been neglecting to keep up to date (actually it was still on January 25), so I thought today would be a good day to catch up. There must have been a reason for that because it was a quote that I sure needed to read!!

One of the greatest sources of inner peace that I'm aware of is expressed in the motto, "It is as it is." This prescription for peace is a reminder that there are times in life when acceptance is a far wiser option than struggle.

Cousins

I realized that I didn't have any pictures of Bradyn with his cousin Alex on here, so here is one I took on Monday night. Alex is my sister's youngest and is 11 days older than Bradyn. We've noticed a few differences: Bradyn is obviously chunkier than Alex, Alex has longer legs, and Bradyn is taller from the waist up. Alex is about ready to crawl and Bradyn is not to far behind!! Neither one have any teeth yet and their favorite thing to do is steal each others toys and spit (which leaves drool everywhere)!!! And once again I have to make note that NO - Bradyn's hair is not red, it just looks that way in the picture!

Sleeping Positions

As you can see Bradyn has some new sleeping positions! His most common one is now becoming the "on my knees with my butt up in the air"














This one was the funniest of them all. I walked in his room just to check in on him and all I saw were feet!

Sitting Up

Bradyn has been sitting up on his own over the past couple of weeks which is so nice. I can just sit the basket of toys next to him and he takes them out himself. I'm able to get more things done around the house now since I don't have to keep him occupied by dangling toys in front of his face! Every now and then he'll lose his balance and tip over - which happened the other night and he landed right in the basket and all the toys fell on him, it was quite funny and he didn't seem to mind either!

Surprise Party!

On Saturday we had to go to a surprise birthday party for Brandon's Uncle Mark. As you can see by the cake, he turned 50 - Happy Birthday Uncle Mark!!! It was a fun time to see family and meet Amber's new boyfriend Tim - FINALLY........

Prayers Please

I have a prayer request for everyone out there that reads my blog. I am not personal friends with the Busscher's but know of them through Brandon's cousin Kelly Meeuwsen. Their names are Brian & Kathy Busscher and their precious 18 month daughter Grace was involved in a drowning accident this weekend. She was an absolutley beautiful blond haired little girl and now she has been called home to her new life in heaven. Being a parent now myself I just can't imagine the grief and loss they are suffering. So please pray for Brian & Kathy and the rest of their family as they have many hard days and weeks ahead of them!

Craig's Cruisers

Today was Brandon's work party at Craig's Cruisers. We had lunch and then headed off for fun and games. The first stop was the go carts and let me tell you, it's never a good thing when they have a "plan" before they even get into the cars. Luckily no one was kicked off and there wasn't a whole lot of bumping! Our next adventure was mini golf. At first we wondered about bringing the strollers in but Brandon assured us it would be ok.....yeah....let's just say we ended up carrying the strollers up steps and over rocks and across the greens which was more work than golfing!! After our never ending golf game the bumper boats were calling our names. Brandon and Mark went first and they got soaked (Mark lost his eye glasses in the water too...oops!). For the second ride Brandon and Mark went yet again with some other friends and got even wetter (not sure if that is really a word)! Me and Sarah decided it was best if we didn't venture out because we'd for sure be targets and we weren't about to walk around in wet clothes. We had an absolute blast and the weather was awesome....except for the sunburn we all are suffering from now :)

Abby & Bradyn had lots of fun watching their daddies go racin!!

Let's go racin!!

I don't think that lifejacket would do Brandon any good if he were to fall in, if you notice it doesn't even buckle.. ha ha!!