Fun with Friends

This past week Bethany (one of my friends from high school) came back to Arizona with me from Idaho just for a fun visit. So with her kids and mine we had 3 boys ages 5, 3, and 2. They did amazingly well for a 16 hour drive. We made two 1 hour stops for the boys, the first was in Nephi at Wendy's. Braxton ate a whole Double Stack, 1/2 his fries and his water. I couldn't believe it. Then I let him choose a snack for the car at the gas station and he chose cheetos, and this was the cheesy messy child in the middle of him eating them. This is also his "cheesy" smile.

Our second stop was in Page, AZ. We always stop at this wal-mart in Page. They have a game/ride room so we let the boys ride the carousel, they were so happy it was so cute.

Then we went to the McDonalds next to Wal-mart.

They have the cutest play area...

Kaden and Braxton checking out the turtles face

Ethan, Kaden, and Braxton in a log.

The first Day we went to a few Parks around the neighborhood and let the kids play in the water in the backyard, cause it was the cooler of the 2 days that they would be here.

I have two bikes so the 2 younger kids rode them to the park and Kaden ran there.

Then they started riding the bikes down the hills at the park, I knew there would be some wrecks and there were.

I saw this one coming but I let him do it anyway, he's got to learn right.

He cried for a few seconds on this one.

But he went right back up the hill and did it again and again.

So on Wednesday we went to a little water park. It was awesome and even better CHEAP! We were there for about 2 1/2 hours until it closed for the afternoon. Sadly my camera broke and I couldn't find my video camera so all these pics were taken with my phone.

Jumping off the side

I knew he was extremely over the top happy, why do you ask, well besides the huge smile on his face he would grab my face about every 5 minutes and give me a big kiss then a big hug and say "thank you."

Then he would go right back to playing and splashing.

Every time the bucket on the top would tip over Braxton would jump and try to run even though he was no where near it.

These boys were dead tired! They all had so much fun.

After Swimming and a brief short nap for a few of the kiddos we went to Schnepf Farms. I had never been there before only heard about it. So we went, They had a free petting zoo, Play Yard and a few rides which were sadly closed. Little did I know they are only open Thurs.-Sun.

But we still had fun with the animals and toys!

Braxton was such a brave kid he went down this Big Slide all by himself and did it over and over again.

Braxton was in LOVE with this wooden toy train

Once I showed him how to ring the bell, that was all he wanted to do.

They had some beautiful peacocks.

Jumping into a carriage.

He Loves animals so this was really fun for him!

My Boys, Prince Braxton and lizards!

We will start off with our Lizard that lives in the back yard. We have a few of them but I think this is the same little guy that I keep seeing, because it's the same size every time I see it and he is completely used to the dogs.

You can just barely see him in this picture on top of the fence, in this pic he's a little dot.

This is the closest with the zoom on the camera that I have gotten to one of these little guys.

and I got to close and he was gone

Playing at the Park, he loves to ride his bike everywhere and he is awesome at it!

Flying with dad!

Racing down the hill...

If I let this kid, he would run until his legs fall off. Even his 3 year old friend Jaden can't keep up with him. He just runs and runs and runs up and down these hills.

It was funny a few weeks ago while at the park with Jaden they were running crazy and Jaden got tired and had to stop and say "what am I going to do with my crazy friend" HAHA! It cracks me up what little kids will say.

I love this picture, I got these off of my video camera.

I have had such overwhelming feelings this past week about my family and how much I love them I LOVE watching Brandon and Brax Play together and to secretly watch them.

Prince Braxton

I took my sweet little Prince and spoiled him a little and for the first time in months we went out to eat and I got him a Happy Meal at Burger king.

He was on cloud 9.

He was the happiest little boy ever! and he was so darn good, he sat there the whole time and ate all his food.

He loves the crown and still has it after a week and he still puts it on sometimes. :)

I LOVE THIS KID!!!

Before you ask or think it...YES, he is asleep. I find him like this almost every day during his naps and when he wakes up in the morning he will lay like this and slowly wake up. It must be really comfortable.

I also absolutely LOVE watching brax watch TV and all the silly little faces he makes as he takes in and responds to what he is watching.

So here are his "Watching TV Faces"

And I had to have a tooth pulled this past Thursday...

Sunday night while I was flossing of all things a huge chunk of my tooth broke off!

(so much for taking such good care of my teeth)

So this is my after Pic, I look like a retarded lopsided chipmunk.

the whole left side of my face was completely numb, like seriously I had to concentrate just to blink my left eye. haha! They gave me a little extra anesthetic because the normal amount doesn't work on my very well and I still had a little pain in the middle of it.

and I felt really pretty last Sunday, before the whole tooth thing. So I programed the camera and took a picture of myself just for fun.

I feel great lately I have lost 12.5lbs and I am still going strong.

The only thing I don't like right now is my hair color, but oh well, it will change back slowly.

FREE! FREE! FREE!

EVERYTHING IN THIS POST WAS FREE!

Okay So I hit the Jackpot big time this past week, I responded to a Craigslist add for some FREE toys, kids clothes, and a nice end table. They said they were moving and had some stuff that they weren't able to take. Well when I got there she opened the garage and showed me the stuff and it was a take all or nothing type of thing and there was so much nice stuff that I just took it all...IT FILLED MY CAR! I threw away a bunch of it ex: open puzzles, tarot cards, weird games, stained torn clothes.

So but here is all the nice and awesome stuff I got out of it.

I forgot to take a picture of a few items like the nice baby clothes and abercrombie sweaters I got along with a Lion King puzzle that brax and I put together and taped up and is now on his wall.

I have put away some of his toys for the time and hopefully when we bring them back out he will think they are new. Hopefully. :)

Electric Drums Toy! He loves it! I put the video on FB if anyone wants to check it out.

Bike Helmet!

He requires to wear this almost every time he wants to ride his bike.

Brand New unused Inner Tube

Picture Frame

Sony MD Walkman

Brand New Interactive Planetarium Game/Quiz

(I really like this it's pretty interesting)

XM Satellite Radio System

Candle holders and candles + 4 taper candles brand new

all the orange ones went into my halloween stuff

set of coasters

these are really nice and heavy they are some kind of stone.

A bunch of games:

connect 4

Rummy Royal

(not in pic:)

Trivial Pursuit

handheld pinball

dead mans chest(pirates of the carribean)

Little People Camping set

Toy Story Bed Tent

A Ton of toy food and picnic basket

nice sleeping bag

Gold antique end table ( will sell, it's pretty but not me and I don't need it)

Black and Decker Toy Tool Box and Tools

Large Farm House

Interactive "Go Deigo" Computer Pad

toy car

Skipper Disc or water frisbee

2 easter baskets

remote control car

Baby animals old mcdonald toy

water baseball bat and plush ball(not in pic)

Lumiere Lamp (I don't like it but Brax did so it is in his room for the time being)

2 Lg Pitchers

3 full rolls of xmas wrapping paper

a lot of food storage, all still sealed and not expired

The next few Items I got a few weeks ago all at one house, I just responded to the FREE PERFECT BASSINET! So now I just need to have a baby to put in it.

and also got the following:

Shoes, Shoes, Shoes! A few of them are a little small so I will give them to people who can wear them.

2 small dining room chairs

we will use these for when we have people over.