Another Big One...Photo Shoot, Storm, and Misc. Braxton

We got to experience the worst storm Arizona has had in a decade. ( Lucky us, we got to experience the hottest July on record too.) Braxton hated the rain, mostly because he had to stay in the house all day long.

When the storm was completely over, we drove around and this is just a little of what we saw.

In just the couple of streets around our house, we counted 9 trees down.

On Thursday we also had a tornado warning.

Keep in mind we do not have any lakes close by us, except our entry and we don't have any pics of that on here.

This is our Playground down the street that we play at all the time.

Here are a few of the Rainfall totals for the 4 days this storm lasted.

MESA

2.95"

PHOENIX

2.44"

QUEEN CREEK

3.27"

SKY HARBOR INTL AIRPORT

4.21"

ANTHEM

5.98"

I forgot I took these pictures of Braxton helping me bake his birthday cake, so here they are.

 And I also found him completely destroying some of the fondant decorations that I had made for his cake. He thought he was helping so he was pretty proud of himself.

This is priceless he is usually pretty darn good when he helps me grind up the wheat, but this particular moment he pulled this face.

this is a very normal place for me to find him

I knew Brax was playing with his cars in the front room. I went into check on him I found him lining a few of his cars up in line.

When he was all done, he just left them there and continued playing with some of his other toys.

Braxton loves loves loves to spin on the office chair, so i decided to spin with him and try to get a few pictures, needless to say I didn't get very many good ones.

Today I caught him playing in a bucket of rain water with the broom, sweeping the side of the house with a wet broom. He is so 100% BOY!

Well, we attempted another photo shoot to get some good ones so that we could order some valentines day cards for our parents. He really didn't want to co-operate.

He is so completely done by this time.

Exactly Two Years Later!

My Sweet Baby is Gone, I now have a 2 year old!

A quick overview of how much Braxton has changed in two years.

BRAXTON'S 2nd BIRTHDAY!

 His smoking Choo Choo Cake! It didn't smoke as much as I wanted it too but it was good enough for a little 2 year old

THE PINATA!!

It was so hard and most the kids didn't really understand what to do and when they did they got really embarassed when we cheered. Brandon even tried to brake it open and ended up bending my broom stick! He had to rip it open with his hands after stabbing it.

Brax grabbed a sucker and he was a content with that, I kept telling him to grab more but he would just look at all the candy occasionally picking one up then dropping it.

All he wanted to do was eat his sucker.

Braxton yelling NO NO NO! because Jared blew out his candles on the first time, ya know its a two year old thing.

We re-lite the candles so brax could blow them out again and again and again!

Everyone cheered for him after he blew out the candles and he started crying and came a running

opening the presents!

The big presents from mom and dad!

 The Birthday Decorations

 Playing with all his new toys!

He got a set of nerf sports balls from his summer friends Jared and Kinlee,

Three Disney books and a Tigger and Pooh coloring book with crayons from his new friends Jaden and Zoe,

From Grandma Merry and Grandpa he got all the Handy Manny Tools!!

(which he uses to fix everything, he is a little handy man himself.)

From Nana Heidi and Grandpa he got the Hot Wheels race track with launcher and car!!

( Everyone had fun with it)

And from Mom and Dad he got the Kitchen set, Teeter Totter, CARS Hat and light up shoes.

 Majority of his presents

Finally eating his birthday cake after everyone had left and he calmed down from all the excitment.

 He kept kissing the "train engineer" giraffe, it was funny.

 He loves his Choo Choo Train!

The tiredness finally set in around 10:30pm, he ended up chillin on the chair with his birthday cup.

The escaped monkey coming to deliver a birthday present

And this poor monkey didn't survive until Braxton's birthday, It was viciously attacked by the birthday boy before he had a chance to even be on the cake. So I put the monkey with a bite out of his head on anyway. I wasn't going to make another one.

And I couldn't forget to put his favorite "brother" on the cake. Presenting Lucky entirely made of sugar! When I was all finished with it I showed it to Braxton and he got so excited and was giggling as he was saying "Lucky! Lucky!"

He started eating the little decorations on the engine and I kept asking him to stop but he would just laugh at me and toss another in his mouth.

He loves his new kitchen he has been playing with it ever since I brought it in the house this morning.

Some funny things that happened while the camera was stopped:

While Braxton was blowing out his candles he got a little to close and his nose almost hit the fire, he jumped back really quick grabbed his nose and started yelling "HOT HOT! NOSE HOT!" It was hilarious! We kept telling him to back up but he wouldn't listen.

And this one isn't about brax but it was hilarious. Jaden and Brax were playing with the race track and some cars when Zoe (Jaden's 1 yr old sister) sat on the tracks. Jaden yelled "There's a moose on the tracks, Mom there's a Moose on the tracks!!" It was so funny, it got even funnier when his mom said that a moose is a step up and that he usually calls her a Cow!

 Happy Birthday to my Sweet Little Boy!