Boys v. Girls (about cleaning)

Kaden, my oftentimes great little helper,asked if he could vacuum this morning....of course!!!! Well him and Kohl turned it in to a suction battle, which I have to admit, had me busting up! Even Brady, who does NOT like the vacuum right now and usually runs, was watching and laughing!
(Can you tell Brady got his first REAL haircut!)

For our Christmas pictures this year I plan on taking the boys pics at Grape Day park, so I took them all their this morning to check it out and take a few shots. I am still learning, but feel like I am getting the hang of how to take decent pictures on manual settings. We'll be going back next week in the evening so the lighting will be different, but I found some cool backgrounds, I can't wait! Kaden likes to have his picture taken but usually makes very over-cheesy smiles lol, Brady doesn't have a clue so I can just snap away at him, and Kohl hates it...should make for an interesting time to try and get all three looking together and looking good lol!
Here are some of my favorites from today.

The santa ana and the slide were making his hair freak out!

At least pretend to be having fun...please! All Kohl wanted to do was go back to the playground!

I found my tile!

I have this teeth whitening option on my software, but I think it's a bit too much though! :)

Love this background!

Keep it on, 10 seconds, give me 10 seconds! lol

The guy on the riding mower was behind me, it scared and distracted him enough to forget about the beanie.

OH and on a side note, Mr. Brady has a hair appt. tonight....AAAaaaa, I hope they don't hack it! I still am keeping it long, just cleaning it up a bit.

Just had to say....

One of my MOST favorite things about fall....PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES! Non-fat, WITH whip of course!

LegoLand fun

Kaden had a great birthday, he celebrated his actual birthday night with some friends and family for cake and ice cream, then the next day we went over to grandpa and grandma's and hung out with most all our families for swimming and pizza, a cool dragon cupcake cake and s'mores by the fire-pit. Then today we took the boys to Legoland. We had such a blast! Jay and I each took a turn going on the rides with them (one of us would stay with Brady). The park was perfect for their age and the rides were not to over the top so they never got freaked out. It ended up being pretty warm so towards the end of the day we made our way over to the Pirate's Cove where it was my turn to go on a ride...yay for me, I got the ride where you get SOAKED! It was so much fun though! Then we let them run around in the water before we headed to driving school where they drove a course to get their D.L. How stoked were they!!! Here are some pics of the trip (there ended up being a lot more of Brady because when it wasn't my turn to go on the rides, I was just snapping away at him).

Kohl tought is was hilarious to sit on the water spouts...

Brady got mad at the water when it would stop or he couldn't get to it fast enough

what can I say???

This was a huge wall of water that would dump out of a gigantic bucket, we wouldn't let Kohl stand under cause we were afraid it would knock him over!

Birthday Boy...6 Years Old!!!

9.26.2002 Our first precious little Boy came and started our family. He has brought us so much happiness, taught us so much life, makes us laugh and is constantly amazing us with his talents and desire to want to learn about everything!
We LOVE you KADEN! Happy 6th Birthday!!!
Here are some of our favorites of Kaden growing up...where did the time go?

Our 1st meeting as a family

1 week old

9 months old

16 months old

2 1/2 years old

Ahhhh, shoot...(haha, I made a pun )

I think I am finally getting the hang of this camera. My kids are probably going to get sick of me taking their pics, but I have to learn on someone right! Plus, (I know I am bias) but they are so friggin cute!

Hotdogs & Chocolate Pudding Anyone?

Isn't it crazy how when you're little you have no concept of what you shouldn't eat together, or maybe it's that as adults we are too scared to try? Hotdogs and pudding.....um, no thank-you, but Brady sure enjoyed it!

Our Kindergartener!!!!

Yesterday was Kaden's very first day of Kindergarten. He couldn't have been more ready or excited to start this new adventure. He was ready last year, but we decided to wait another year just to make sure emotionally and socially he was fully there. He is above and beyond that, and ready to take on elementary school! We put him in afternoon session, it just worked out better with our schedules so we got to sleep in, make breakfast, even run to the store before we headed out for school. Since we live right up the hill we get to walk and avoid all the yucky traffic. I kept it in, a little watery eyes, hid under my big sunglasses. I didn't get real tears until Kohl gave Kaden and he started crying. He misses Kaden so much and preschool. Kaden was so proud, never looking back, just so excited to finally be in "real" school.