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summer 2010

summer 2011

Our cute cousins picture grew by one this year. Next summer we'll have another plus one when our nephew Connor joins the party!

first steps!!!!!!

Braden took his first steps today walking to his Uncle Ron for a puzzle piece! We tried for hours to get him to do it again while the cameras were rolling and by the end of the night I caught it!!!

I was super excited at first but now a little sad thinking this is the next step to him becoming a big boy not my little baby anymore.

Great job Braden, Mommy and Daddy are in for a whole new adventure with you!

San Jose Giants

We took the boys to San Jose Giants game tonight, this is the third year we have went on my company sponsored night and has been really fun every time. This year Darren was old enough to play at all the cool kids booths they have and he loved it! A very good night with the boys despite a loss by the San Jose Giants and the San Francisco Giants too =(

walking to the park

Darren and his friend Justin walked to the park yesterday hand in hand. It was so cute! They also had a blast at the park, but walking there was so sweet!

wagon fun

The boys in the wagon together for the first time walking around the block with G-ma.
I could not get these boys to look at the camera at the same time to save my life! So here is one of each!

the quiet before the storm

I thought this was so cute at first so I took a quick picture with my phone and then promptly told him to get down. Well when i left the room I of course heard him jumping on the bed (duh) told him to get down again and then left the room to change Braden. I should have known that it was too quiet for him to simply being sitting on the floor playing with toys. He had climbed on the other side of the bed, found markers that I had placed up on the windowsill and colored all over himself which he called his "tat oooos", all over his puzzles and toy story sheets. i didn't think to take an after picture though, something tells me this wont be the last time something like this happens.....

stayin' alive!!!!!

Darren adores the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies and likes to quote some of his favorite parts. Probably his favorite part in both movies is when Alvin sings staying alive, so cute!!

sorry the camera angle is funny =)

cute boys

Just some cute pictures taken yesterday of the boys =)

Giants vs. Phillies

Today we went to the Giants Phillies game. We went a little early so Dare could get the give away for kids, it was a really neat Brian Wilson jersey. The jersey is pretty big but I'm sure he'll get plenty of use out of it. They also had a big van shaped like one of the cartoon characters Darren really likes outside the ballpark with giveaways (the cartoon was Phineas and Ferb if anyone was interested and the van was in the shape of a giant platypus which on the show is the boys pet).

Tim's parents offered to keep Braden for us (thanks guys!) so we got some really good quality time with just Darren, that hasn't really happened since we had Braden and I think Darren really enjoyed it. Although when we saw a baby in line behind us he did ask for Braden which kind of surprised me, in a good way. He also picked out a really cute mini Lou Seal plush to take home to Braden.

Darren did great at the game, we went to the build a bear factory and got food but sat in our seats most of the time. He had a blast and was a very happy guy being there with Mommy and Daddy.
We beat the Phillies 3-1

ten months old

Braden is ten months old!! He is the busiest little guy ever right now. He is at such a fun age, old enough to entertain himself and still need his mommy but not old enough to get into much trouble, at least not on purpose. Love him so much!

two teeth!

Braden has two teeth! They came in at the same time about two weeks ago and have not been the easiest thing to photograph. I get tons of great pictures of his big smile but his little teeth don't show when he smiles. The best picture I have of them is the third one down and he has a super messy face but beggars can't be choosers and that pic will have to do.
The other pictures of the boys I just thought were cute!

=(

This is the look I got when I said no more Monster's Inc. and time for bed, arms crossed and everything! No verbal attitude cause he said "ok Mama" ( mama now instead of mommy because that's what Braden calls me) but the body language said it all!

hahaha

I often get my phone back with tons and tons of pictures that Darren has taken of himself or nothing at all like the back of the car seat, much to my surprise these are the pictures I saw recently! I usually try to discourage the taking seventy pictures in a row of nothing, but Tim joins right in on the fun, gotta love him!

superfranks

A little bit of a late post, but we went to Superfranks again with some of our friends last week. I forgot my camera so cell phone pics will have to do this time =)
Braden had a blast!! Since he is very very mobile now he loves to get into things, so having giant rooms with nothing but stuff for him to touch was the greatest think in the world for him. The boys pretty much stuck together too, Darren would check on Braden and Braden would try to follow Darren around.
Darren of course had fun and the sweetest thing happened, as we were leaving, we stopped to trade in all of our tickets for prizes and he picked out a frog for Braden (with out being asked to ) and gave it to him saying " here baby you like frogs". What a good brother!

Asleep on the ride room clutching his prizes.