Here and Now

Well now that I'm all caught up on introducing our life, I can start my daily or weekly blogs. I'm so excited! I have found this is a much better idea than facebook or myspace when it comes to really staying in touch with people. So I hope you all enjoy reading this blog. As you can see, our summer has been very full of boat rides and camping. My Dad gave us his pop-up camper and we have used it almost every weekend! It has been fun to get away and enjoy the weather and water, but it's exhausting packing the camper on Friday and unpacking on Sunday. This last weekend we took a break and hosted a UFC fight party at our house. It was sooo much fun making appetizers and getting together with all of our friends. It doesn't happen near enough these day with all of our busy lives. Here is a picture of us...of course Bj is being crazy:) I'm also excited for further posts because Bj got a video camera for father's day! It has been awesome to use so far. We have such a nice camera for great pics but when we found out it didn't do video we were bummed. I thought that it would be a great gift for Bj so we can look back on all our fun times and literally watch Braxton grow up. Here is him opening his presies!

So this is Braxton's first time camping. It was a little strange for him to see this 'thing' pop up and then have to sleep in it! He did really well until he heard us starting a fire at about midnight and woke up. What do you do?? you let hime get up and sit on Dad's lap! We grabbed his blankies and hat and sat by the fire until he got sleepy again. He learned the words spark and flames and of course didn't want to go to bed! I love waking up in this camper after a good camp fire and smelling like smoke:)

On Father's Day, we went to Yellowtail River to go boating with our friends. On our car ride there Bj was trying out the new video camera when Braxton was trying to song 'twinkle twinkle little star'. When he usually sings this song, like the whole way there, it is mixed with counting and the ABC's. Which of course will sound nothing like that to you!