Red bull air races-Detroit

We kind of last minute decided to go to the Red bull air races today! We had an absolute blast despite the end result. We thought maybe we could get a great view of the river front inside COBO(seeing as how we didn't get tickets) and happened upon the best seating ever at the vu restaurant. We sat outside on the veranda overlooking the river, prime seating for the planes to zoom by us, great food and many amenities! We had a great time with fabulous friends and the cutest girls ever, Kate, Grace and Gabi, and of course Jozalyn. Braxton was in heaven with all these cute girls to show off for!

What a mess!

Cutest mess I have ever seen as Jozalyn got her first taste of the sweet life of solids with sweet potatoes! Let me tell you that she was begging for more between bites. I could not feed her fast enough and she toasted off that jar like it was nothing! You go girl, someday you will have to watch that girlish figure, but not right now!

Happy Birthday babe!

After Brett came home early to open his presents of course he got a special present and that was Brax wrapping himself in Daddy's sweatshirt and popping out as if from a cake and saying, "daddy I your present!" How cute is that? I was frantic yesterday because I had planned a night full of surprises for him and my babysitter cancelled and to make it even worse my backup babysitter cancelled (same rescheduled soccer game). Thank goodness for great friends like the Megan and Jeremy who took our kids last minute, thanks again we love you guys! Brett did not know a thing so we eventually made it to The Chop House (after parking by the dental school), where he experienced Cobae(sp?) beef (these are the massaged cows meat ha, sounds funny, huh) better have been the best $80 piece of meat ever! Anywho, it was excellent food a la carte! Then onto the next event where I just punched in the address to the GPS and he drove on. Then we arrived at The Oasis, where we had a private tropical getaway room, complete with sparkling passion fruit cider! It was great!
I hope it was memorable for my old man. I love you so very much and couldn't be happier to have you as my husband (big thanks to Cathy and Barry too for having this one, he is a keeper.)

I sure did! My sweet husband not only got up early and got the kids ready for church, he also made me breakfast! I had to do sharing time today, and that was actually fun on such a special day. Then when we got home I started to make lunch just by habit and he wouldn't let me lift a finger! I was also served by a very certain dashing waiter! Then I got to take a nap, yippee! While I was sleeping my kitchen got cleaned! Tonight dinner was all ready and my only job was to just enjoy my kids and not have anything else to worry about, it was wonderful! It seems that we as Mom's have so many other things going that we never just get to relax and play, so that is what I did today. I just love being a Mom and I have the world's greatest kids and best husband ever! I am truly blessed and am so grateful for my family and for the oportunity I have to be a Mom in this life and raise special children who have been sent specifically to me, and to think that they said I want her for my Mommy at some point. Even more to think that there are still (hopefully) more sweet spirits watching me making sure they even want to come down and meet me!
Also, I have the world's greatest Mother. She is always there for me, teaching me, loving me even in all of my faults, answering my endless questions and listening to all that I have to say! I am the luckiest girl to have her as my Mom, so I guess that makes Jozalyn the second luckiest to have me, right? Thanks Mom for all that you do, I love you with all of my heart, and I hope you know how much I appreciate you!

Flowered with love

As I am blogging I am following by example something that I think is great and that is to give an update on your kids, so without to much bragging here you go!
Joz is doing wonderfully she is in one of the cutest stages I think where she really knows her family and gives a big smile and now even some giggles to Mom, Dad and even Brax. We started her on rice cereal and now she had her first taste of sweet potatoes and she couldn't get enough! You will have to forgive me because this chunky monkey big eater thing is new for me, as Brax was just the opposite! She got my, "much sleep required," gene which is great, but man I miss her she sleeps so much, but it is great for nightime! She is tracking very well and holding her head up and is getting interested in toys, like on her mobile and ones that hang from her carseat! She is a big kicker, which I do recall. She is starting to get her feet under her and scoot, so rolling over is not far away! She is still topping the charts I am sure (we will see this week) and that is the way we like them, nice and healthy, although if this continues I will have to change my wording when she is older, ha. She is the sweetest, most adorable, happy baby and she brings so much joy to me and to our family! She is my little pocket full of sunshine! Love you my sweet girl!

DAPPER

Just my little dapper dude after church on Mother's day. A quick update on him. I promise I won't brag...too much. Only that he is the smartest, greatest, handsomest, most wonderful little boy in the world, sorry that isn't too much, right? He continues to amaze me daily. He knows all of his alphabet, letters and sounds, has for awhile now and can count to twenty (missing some of course). We are now learning how to read i.e. sound out the letters to make the word! Of course he learned all of the colors and shapes and all of that stuff awhile ago.
He loves his little sister and is very protective of her, and is very helpful..almost to a fault! He is doing well on the pottie thing with a lot of bribes! He still loves cars and is recently discovered Toy Story, so he gets to watch that, and he says he is Buzz Lightyear a lot! Now that the weather has warmed up a bit he loves to be outside, especially when we play baseball, or football, those are his favorites! He is all boy, although he doesn't like to be dirty, which I am not complaining about! He is just the sweetest thing and I feel so lucky and incredibly blessed to have him in my life! Love you my bright eyed Brax!

Blessed