This is one of my favorites of him.

The Preventive Pest Control Wives of the summer
From the Left:
Kelsie Hawkes (cousin-in-law), Kallee Cook and her kids Kinlee and Jared, Me and Brax, Sara Lee and her daughter Clara, Erin Hawkes (sister-in-law)
Kallee and Sara are also pregnant

The Kids had so much fun bouncing and running around

Two very impatient children


This picture has such a funny story, braxton would stand on one side of the circle then run as fast as he could and ram his whole body into the other side and fly backwards. He did it over and over.

I know this picture is fuzzy but with them moving so much it was hard to get a clear picture with my camera. But I thought this picture was funny, he was actually stuck.

(Imported from Braxton's Blog)

Swimming, Broccoli and a Very Messy Boy...aka COOKIE MONSTER!

This boy LOVES broccoli!

Racing Mom to the Pool!

Waiting at the gate..."hurry up mom!"

Chilling down by the pool with some snacks before jumping in.

His first time wearing arm floaties and floating by himself...he was pretty scared but started to get the hang of it after a few minutes.

He loves to look at his scrapbooks, if I tell him to get a book to read he usually grabs one of these.

Cookie Monster!!!!!!

He had so much fun eating his oreo's and he got to learn how to dip them in milk. As you can see he thought it was pretty darn yummy!

I Love this smirk on his face...it's like "ya, I'm a mess and I'm too darn adorable for you to get a tiny bit mad."

He did wash himself up afterwards though, haha.

Fathers Day and Birthday's

Well first off Happy Fathers Day!! to all who qualify.

Fathers Day went quite well, Braxton and I woke up at 9am and made Brandon peanut butter pancakes, eggs sunny side up, orange juice, and home made maple syrup. At breakfast we gave him our gifts, he has been hinting for a new belt so I got him one, along with the card below. Braxton even colored a picture for him and was so excited to give it to him it was so cute. Well after that, Brandon took a nap (whats new?) and a few hours later started to get ready for church. We went to church and brandon let brax take his own bread during sacrament well that didn't work out to well he was still holding brax's hand back and brax still accomplished to grap 4 peices. I guess it could of been worse. Our Ward even gave out Large Snickers Bars to all of the fathers in priesthood.

That evening we gathered together with our family and friends down here and had a BBQ. I splurged a little and got some lean New York Strip Steaks! Then I marinated them in a little olive oil, vinegar, water, and montreal steak seasoning pack. They were so tender and yummy! There were three steaks in the pack so Erin and I Split one and Brandon and Tyler each got a whole one.

This is Brandon's fathers day card that I got him.

This is the picture Braxton colored for Daddy

Well since my birthday is today and all the guys work till 9pm or later we have celebrated differently this year. Saturday, Brandon and I got to go to the Temple and then grabbed a few pizza's on the way home. And on Sunday is when we cut the cake up it was just too much cake to keep at our house so I took it to the BBQ and shared it with everyone. All the other wives want to get together tomorrow and do something for me, so that should be fun. They're all so sweet and I love hanging out with all of them.

Our little family

Of Course I made my own cake, it was so RICH!

It is a Triple Fudge Brownie Ice Cream Cake!

This is my present from Brandon's Mom, Thanks Heidi!

This was Brandons present to me, I've have always wanted one! And I didn't even tell him about it. It even turns upside down into a punch bowl. So Pretty!

Flowers from my mom and sisters, they smell so good. Thanks Guys!

Not much to say! just an update

Okay, Brandon is feeling a ton better thank heavens and is back to work and making at least two sales a day he is slowing working back up to his three to four. We don't know for sure if we will being staying a little longer or not I'm for it and it's kinda exciting but then again I'm starting to miss my house, yard and camping. Okay little of my family too.

Braxton has got a attitude from he**! I don't know what is going on his little head but he is almost 18 mos. and he is a boy. But still if he doesn't get exactly what he wants exactly when he wants it, it is a ginormous crying, running, tantrum until I grab him and make him calm down and use his words to get what he wants. Seriously I don't know how long the tantrum will go on, the longest I've let it go is 30 mins. It's driving me absolutely crazy. But the majority of the time he is still his sweet crazy little goofy self, what can I do. I love the little fart.

A couple days ago he was walking around the house punching his arms in the air saying HY YA! So I taught him how to kick one leg up and say it along with his arms. It's so funny, he walks around the house doing it all the time.

Well I got back on my metformin and lost eight pounds immediately. I need to go get a new rx, the pills im taking are some that I found in one of my suit case and I'm almost out.
But at least that gives me some glimmer of hope.

Feeling Better

Well Brandon had his molar pulled out yesterday and the doc said that the root was so big and almost completely decayed and that it would eventualy have to be pulled anyway so it was good we got it out before it got anymore painful. He is feeling much better and his headaches are gone, but we won't know for sure until he is off the codeine and back to work.

Little Update

Braxton splashing in the fountain on the edge of the pool.

Okay, so its been pretty nice weather here and has been below average, lucky us. There is a new update post on Brax on his blog for those of you who keep track of the little monster.

Last week Brandon did amazing in his sales he made 18 in just 6 days!!! On Friday he made 7 sales in one day, that put him in this special club the company has and he gets a scorpion belt buckle. I've been told its ugly but cool. Brandon has a tooth that is killing him with headaches and nausea. It has prevented him from working the past two days. So in about an hour he has an appt to get it pulled out. OUCH!

I've been hating myself phyically, I can't loose the weight that i've gained since braxton and it just spirals me down into depression mode. So I have an appt to go get my insulin resistance checked to see if it has progressed into diabetes, lets hope not. But if it has, at least I'll know the reason why my dieting and exercising aren't doing anything.

(Imported from Braxton's Blog)

OUR LITTLE TRICKSTER

What a cutie pie!

Silly Face! hehe

 Stylin' in mama's flip flops

YAY!

 Messy Messy

 Goofy Grin

This braxtons interpretation of peek-a-boo

Last Sunday, It was reported that in nursery braxton was going up behind the other kids and right as they went to sit down he would pull their chair out from under them and then giggle and walk away! Where does he get this from? (well his dad, duh)

Braxton also said "I Love You" perfectly! for the first time, it was so cute and I even got it on video.