Hawkes Family

Hey Everyone, We are doing well and enjoying our spring/summer so far. We miss all of ya there at home. Braxton and I spend most of our days down at the pool with the other wives whose husbands are selling this summer. We have to walk early in the morning to go play at the playground or when the sun goes down, or we melt before we get there. Every day is in the 100s and high 90s lately. Now are tans are getting darker and darker, Brandon has the worse farmers tan ever, braxton has a diaper tan, and im just trying to keep mine even by switching suits around.

Brandon is doing well his first week he had 8 sales and is continuing to excel. Currently his total is 27. He is doing awesome for his first year. The sales office here beat the overall average for sales this past week for the company last year, So next Saturday we are all going to dinner to the Cheesecake Factory I am so excited I haven't been there in so long and each individual gets $20 to spend on their dinner (wives too!) So we are way excited to actually get to go do something together other than eat at home and go to bed.

(Imported from Braxton's Blog)

SUMMER FUN

Braxton is 16 months old and growing up so fast, he is so funny and full of trouble!!! He loves to get into the dogs food, spill the water on the ground and lick it up. UGGHHH! So we constantly have to watch him. He has learned from the other kids here to throw rocks, wood chips from the playground, and all other little boy things! OOOoo can he throw a tantrum. just watch the video, they get worse.

We have been working on folding his arms for the prayer and he would never do it. Well only one day in the nursery at church and he came home folding his arms for prayers, meals, and whenever we ask him too!! It's awesome! He always reminds us to say the prayer at dinner, when we give him his food he folds his arms looks at us and smiles until we say the prayer.

He is talking very well, for his age and as long as your patient with him he will say the words you ask like more, eat, water, bye, please, thank you, no, yes, car, out, down, up, and Hi is his favorite word; we are working on many others. He is picking up on things so quickly now we have to watch everything we do around him. He learned how to open all the doors but the front door is too heavy for him thank heavens, so he comes and goes as he pleases around the apartment.