Our Busy Weekend!!!

This weekend has been very busy. Katie's mom and sister Lindsey came for the weekend. This was not a pleasure visit but rather a working weekend. Katie (and our entire family) are trying to raise money (more on this to come in the next few weeks so keep checking our blog for our BIG plans!!!) by making and selling crafts. Katie found out about a "Garage sale" at a school and recruited Nettie and Lindsey to come and help. Basically, the only time we left the house was to 1) shop for more "stuff" 2) eat 3) Braydon's baseball game (more on that at the end). Our house was a disaster the whole weekend (which drove Katie NUTS!!!) but that's all good. They had a pretty good turn out at the Craft sale. They were able to make some money and we all enjoyed the company. It's just to bad it was a short trip!!!

Another reason for the visit from Nettie was that is was her birthday. Katie made her a cake in which we all enjoyed. Probably not one of the funnest "birthday vacations" but she got to enjoy the sun, see Braydon, see Katie and of course ME!!!!

The Easter Bunny visited our house with lots of candy. Braydon got Bedtime Stories, church clothes and candy. We did color some eggs and had a very low key Easter.

Braydon is now 7 years old. He had a Friends Birthday party a week ago. The theme was Bakugan. He ended up with a lot of Bakugans and Legos. He choose to go to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants called Coyotes in Henderson. Our server brought out a thing of ice cream and whip cream. For those who don't know, Braydon is a VERY picky eater. Now back to the story. After a bunch of people sang "Happy Birthday" our server picked up a spoon got some whip cream and feed it to Braydon in which he quickly spit it out on to his clothes. After cleaning him up we realize he was trying to blow out the candle at the exact moment the whip cream was going into the mouth. Needless to say, Braydon did not want his ice cream after that!!!

Last but not least. Braydon got his 2nd base hit of the year. This time we got it on video so take a look:

2nd Base Hit (First time up to bat):


Running the Bases (if you call that running?):



Foul Ball (2nd time up to bat):



Here are the list of new photo albums you can look at: (oldest to newest)

04-09 Braydon's first hit with his game ball
04-09 Easter
04-09 Braydon's Birthday Party
05-09 Craft Sale

Streak Has Been Snapped!!!

Braydon has been 0 for the season on his baseball team (which has been 4 games). He has been hitting in practice (about 1 hit per practice) but gets a little nervous in games. Well, he snapped that streak today. He got his first base hit with a slow roller to the 3rd baseman. I think he was surprised that he hit the ball because he watched it for about a second before he started to run. He also was able to run the bases for the first time and score his first run. He was so excited and was smiling from ear to ear in the dugout.

He also received his first "Game Ball" from the coaches for is first hit of the year. He wants to put his game ball in his room on a stand like the movie "Sandlot" so it can remind him to continue to work hard and practice more.

We are so Proud of him!!!

Good Job Braydon!!!

P.S. The Reds won the game 17-2.

Sping = Baseball

Braydon has started coach pitch baseball this year. He plays for the Reds (hence the new background for the next few weeks!) He loves playing but his still very young in athletic years. He should be playing tee-ball but our neighbors kid is playing coach pitch and we wanted them on the same team to be easier to carpool. This makes Braydon the youngest on his team and he still doesn't "get" what his is suppose to do. For example, in is first game he played catcher for two innings. The coach showed him how to sit for the catchers position and he stayed in that position (without moving) for the entire inning, even with baseballs being thrown to him because runners were coming. It was funny to watch.

We did have a good time in Disneyland and Utah over our week vacation. Disneyland was a success and Braydon was able to go on all the rides except one and he loved California Screaming, Soaring over Cali, Indiana Jones, Space Mountain, Matterhorn and basically all the rides except Pirates and Splash Mountain because of the free fall!!! Kids pay full price after the age 9 so we will be going back in two years right before he turns 9 if any are interested to go with us!!!

We posted our Disneyland pictures and Baseball pictures in our photo album.

Vacation Time

We are off to Disneyland for a few days and then going to Utah for a Conference at University of Utah. The Utah trip will be fully covered (food, gas, miles, snacks, etc.) by my work so we'll take full advantage of it.

Pictures to come in a week or two.

Yes, I will tell Mickey Hi for you!!!!

Where Did February Go??

That was a quick month. I can believe I haven't posted for a month. That's pretty sad. We have been doing our usual stuff like school, work, play, church, etc.

Katie and I went to a new sushi place called Nagoya for Valentines day. Well, it was for lunch on a day that I had off. We liked it alright. We are new to the sushi thing and didn't know what was good or bad and didn't want to go "Hardcore" yet. I want to go to a sushi place with other people who know what they are doing so we can all try a bunch of stuff. We then took Braydon to In-n-out Burgers for Valentines itself and had most of our ward (3-5 families) doing the same thing.

Braydon had a President's Day Program that I was able to get off early to go and surprise him (in which I did). Here is some videos:





Now we are into March and lot's of stuff will be happening like Katie's Birthday, Disneyland, Trip to Utah, March Madness!!!

We have two new photo albums you can look at of Braydon's school field trip and his President's Day Program.