Happy 3rd Birthday Darren

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My gorgeous, flawless amazing son turns three years old day!! I love him so so much and could never imagine my life without him. He has changed our lives so much for the better and are unbelievably proud to be his parents.

His birthday started out a little rough last night when he fell and had to go to urgent care, 2 staples later we were on our way home talking about Chuck E Cheese for his birthday. In true Darren style he is always keeping us on our toes.

He is the roughest, toughest, most fearless little boy I know (Braden quickly catching up) and we love him so much for it. Happy Birthday my love!

fun at the park

The park is such a great place for the boys to get out and get some fresh air. So glad the weather is getting nicer and nicer by the minute and enables us to get out more!

painting

The boys love doing crafts still, there attention span always pleasantly surprises me. This past weekend it was a joint effort when they painted a bird house for our Grandpa in Fort Bragg.

We had seen them at Michaels and when I asked Dare who we should paint it for and who had a garden, he said Grandpa! Now the tricky part of trying to mail a delicate bird house to him :)

lunch time fun

Yesterday Tim met up with his Mom and took the boys to Lake Elizabeth to play at the park. Since I can see the lake from my window at work (super close) I met them on my lunch hour. It was great, totally refreshing to get out and play with them to break up the work day, hoping to make this a new Thursday tradition :)

Braden's first haircut

Last week we finally cut Braden's hair for the first time. Nobody wanted me to cut his cute little curls but his hair was getting pretty long and I think it was time. He looks adorable with his hair cut, looks so grown up and I think him and Dare look even more alike now too. Thank you Grammy for going with me to help keep the boys under control (trust me when I say they are less then thrilled getting their hair cut).

more phone fun

Darren has a Mickey app on my phone that he recently discovered has a section where you can take your picture with Mickey. He LOVES this option as you can clearly tell and every time I get my phone back from him there are more on there. Don't really know why he makes the little mad face a lot but it is super cute!

playing with Mommy's phone

Braden has now mastered the art of taking pictures of himself with our phones! He is not too fond of taking group pictures though :)

Darren also loves taking pics with our phones and sometimes even finds apps that do cool things with his pics......

fun at Auntie Kim's

Me, mom, Uncle Joe and the boys went to spend the day with Kim and Jaxson on Saturday. The boys had a ball playing in Auntie Kim's laundry baskets, makes me wonder why they have toys on top of toys at my house when they were content playing in the baskets forever! They even watched movies from in there. The boys also had there first real encounter with Diesel, my sisters great Dane, he is usually outside when we're over. They were not afraid of him at all; Darren barked at him and Braden just kept smiling at him very curious. So cute! Both boys very excited to see cousin Jaxson too!

Our new friend Maddyn

Our good friends Tabitha and Marlo had a beautiful baby girl yesterday, Maddyn Paige. She was six pounds five ounces and absolutely gorgeous! Congratulations guys, looking forward to lots of fun times with her!

Braden joins the big boy club

Darren enjoys painting and Braden has always sat and watched, today Braden got to paint for the first time too. He was very excited and ate only a little! I was having him use just his fingers and then Darren gave him one of his really big paint brushes that Braden loved and actually did really well with. When his painting was dry we hung it up on the wall where all of Darren's are, when I asked Tim to pick him up to take a picture with it, he went right to it pointing and smiling, I think he actually did know that was the one he did!