A SWING SET!!!

We scored big this time! On craigslist of course, We got an large swing set in great condition for FREE! So here we go, Braxton was so excited to put it together this morning, he helped haul all the pieces over to the middle of the yard.

Brushing off his hands

Once all of the pieces were over to the spot where it was going to be put up Braxton went straight to work attempting to put it together as he thought it went together.

As you can see, he put one of the legs onto the leg of the slide. Silly little smarty.

Helping Daddy put together his swing set, I love this picture cause Braxton his copying Brandon

The Finished Product!

He is such a happy little boy! he was so excited to try everything, he even goes down the slide head first. He is such a dare devil.

Lucky is the funniest dog, he loves to go down slides at the park and started jumping up and down trying to go down the slide. So Brandon was trying to teach him how to climb the stars.

Daddy and Brax swinging together, I was scared that Brandon was going to break the little swing, but it held up.

Crazy kid and big change for me!

Braxton is completely crazy lately these are just some pics of it all.

Huge change for me!

Brandon doesn't like it at all, and said he wants it changed back.

More of my crazy little kid!

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.