Catching Up...

Saturday March 13th Joe and Brian helped Bill and Caroline move so Tasha and I took the boys to the Saint Patty's celebration. The boys had a great time riding all kinds of rides together.

Saturday March 20th Joe and I took Brady to Farmville at EdVenture. They had all types of farm equipment and activities set up in the parking lot. The weather was beautiful and this was a lot of fun.

Brady loved "driving" this little tractor.

The wheel barrow races were serious business!!

Brady really liked these little goats.

Of course sitting on all of the tractors was a big hit!

A Great Dad...

Today is Joe's birthday so I want to share a little story about him.

For those of you who know Joe you probably know he finds great pride in being able to fix things himself. He pretty much refuses to pay someone to (and I quote), "fix something I can fix myself." There is one small exception to this rule which applies to Brian and our computer...Joe gladly accepts defeat in that area. : )

AND he did let me pay someone to paint our kitchen and playroom before we moved into our house BUT he painted the laundry room.

You get the point...

So, my garage door opener has been broken for a few weeks. Joe took it apart and figured out what was wrong and ordered replacement parts online.

(New door = $200 Replacement parts =$25)

He worked for several hours a few Friday's ago and it still wouldn't work. He finally had to stop working and walk away from it Friday night. Saturday morning he was in the garage before 8 am trying to figure out what he was missing. Brady and I could hear the door go up a little then stop and go back down. I knew Joe was about to scream!! Brady went to the garage door and knocked and yelled for Joe to let him come out there. As frustrated as Joe was he let Brady come out and "help" him. Brady was really serious about this. He put on his work vest (over his PJ's) and got his tools and climbed up the ladder.

I'm sure Joe was thinking, "Well you sure can't hurt it, it doesn't work anyway."

This is Brady basically stunned because, "If Dad can't fix it who will?"

Then Brady touched a sensor with his screwdriver and a lightbulb went off in Joe's head!!!

Then I got this picture!! VICTORY!!!

Thanks Joe for everything you do for our family! Thanks for always including Brady!

He loves you and so do I! Happy Birthday!!

Up Close...

I love these pictures G captured of Brady!

Apparently no Klenex at the farm!?!

The Farm...

Saturday G took Brady to Mr. Sease's farm in Newberry. When I say farm I really mean it. This is not a large garden. Mr. Sease takes care of his family's farm. Brady loves going here and he had a great time Saturday. Last time he went he got to help "Sease" feed a calf with a bottle so he was very excited to see how big the calf was going to be this time.

Brady said riding on the 4-wheeler was his favorite thing!

Brady was perfectly happy sitting on hay watching the cows.

Hey what's in there?

At home Brady lined up the tractors from his bucket and pointed to each one saying, "Sease has this tractor. Sease doesn't have this tractor." He was really paying attention.

I know Brady and G had a great time. I'm so glad Brady got to have this experience.

Thanks G!!!

Birthday Party...

Sunday was Brady's birthday. We had his party Saturday at Marionette Theatre. His party was in the Dino Park room and the show was A Dinosaur's Tale.

The kids enjoyed coloring dinosaur pictures, playing Twister, getting dinosaur tattoos and eating cake before the show.

Brady was first in line to let Joe put on his tattoo.

Brady enjoyed opening a few gifts at the party. He opened the rest of his gifts at home Saturday afternoon. He was so excited about everything he got.

Brady's dinosaur cakes. One was vanilla and one was chocolate.

A few of Brady's friends waiting for the show to start...being silly! : )

The puppet show was fun. The T-Rex was the big hit!!

Rock it...

Last night Brady asked us (actually begged is more like it) if he could open his birthday gift from us. He knew what was in the box. I asked him several weeks ago what he wanted us to get him for his birthday and he asked for a new guitar. His "old" one is broken because apparently an $8 guitar from Walgreens can't survive being slammed on the floor (thank you Alvin and the Chipmunks). So, Tasha and I found this one at Toys R Us Wednesday night.

I'm so glad we let him open it! Joe and I had front row seats to this little concert! : )

The Hot Sign...

So after all of the fun in the Snow on Saturday we headed to Krispy Kreme. We picked up Mamaw around 5 and we set off to spend our free doughnut Valentine's we recieved on Friday.

(Thanks to Coleman and Lauren!)

Mimi and G were on their way back from South America on Saturday so we took this picture for them. G loves Krispy Kreme!! We didn't leave them out...we left a dozen on the kitchen counter at their house as a welcome home/valentine gift. :)

This was the first time we had taken Brady here so he was excited to pick out his own doughnut and he loved watching them make the doughnuts.

Sugar = Silliness!!


All of the doughnuts on the belt were heart shaped.

Gotta love the hat!

This picture sums up our whole weekend. We had a great time being crazy together.