Summertime water fun!

Rexburg has a pretty cool Splash Park at Porter Park really close to our apartments and Braylie loves playing there! She has always loved water, bathing, playing and drinking it! Here she is basically doing all three! haha

The Friday of 4th of July weekend, we wanted to go to Bear Lake with Payden's brother's family really bad but just couldn't get ready to go on such late notice and with Payden being in school. So Payden took Braylie and I out to the Sand Dunes in Saint Anthony instead where they have a little lake thing. It was fun and Bray loved the sand.. :) Mom and Dad had fun Playing in it to! :) Here are the pics:


I seriously love this picture of the two of them!^



She was helping Daddy dig for a second and then decided to just crawl through it haha :)

So Behind!

I have been awful lately at updating and putting new posts up. I don't even want to get into how behind I am on pictures. Yuck. So I promise here in the next couple days I will have a huge post that will be annoyingly long but very needed. In the meantime,
Braylie started walking!!! I know I've posted about this briefly but she has really gotten pretty good! Being around her older cousins really helps I think. She also turned 1 YEARS OLD last Friday!!!! I can hardly believe it but it must be true! Now her milestones will be saying different words and being able to communicate better :) She is so stinkin cute and I swear I love her that much more every day! She is pretty busy though and sometimes that can be a lot to handle but I love it. I seriously don't even understand why I go to church anymore. That is probably the worst place for her at this age because she needs to sit still and be quiet and the only time that happens is when she is sleeping which she will only do at home in her bed. NOT in Mom's arms. ugh Oh well, it's a stage and another 6 months and she will be in nursery :) or at least she'll be allowed into nursery... haha

This last weekend we went to Montan and went camping and Payden had his football game and then my parents and sister and her family are coming this weekend for Braylie's birthday party and to visit. :) I can't wait! I'll try and get up to date before they come so after they leave I can post birthday photos and pics of the weekend! See ya soon.... hopefully!

We've got a WALKER!!!!

Today Payden and I were just talking in the living room and Bray was playing on the floor and just stands up and is playing with her toy completely unsupported. She sits down and repeats two more times. Payden and I are both like... "Braylie you could so walk! What's your problem? Let's practice!" So we get on opposite ends and start calling to her and see if she will do it and all of a sudden she just TAKES OFF! And of course we get SUPER UPER EXCITED and start getting all motivating to her and praising her and continue to have her practice. Soon it wasn't practice at all and she just started doing!!! :) She is such a sweet little girl and is so much fun! We were SO proud of her at that moment and were so filled with love and joy! Payden and I both are pretty smitten with that cute little thing. Here's the best part though... THE VIDEOS! :)
Bear with us in the background... it's just a moment of proud parents! ;)

Summer Nights!

Payden is such a man and is always hot in bed at night so in the summer he thinks it is ideal to sleep outside! We've done it once in our apartment and it was actually the night before I had Braylie. So last night we did it again. It worked out really nice actually cause Braylie has been sleeping through the night and we just took our monitor out there in case she did wake up. Sure enough last night she slept 10 hours straight and then back to bed after a bottle for another 3 hours. :)

Anyway, Payden was in Heaven and I have to say, it was much better this year not being 9 months pregnant and already kinda being in labor but not really knowing it haha :) Here are some pics and a pic of Payden playing our favorite game together!


P.S. This is out on our back patio :)

More & More & MORE Football!

Payden had a football game in Ogden Utah on Saturday and WON! :) It kinda seems like football is running on and on and on... BUT... they are now in the Championship game in two weeks and then it will be over. Except the All-Star game which his two brothers made it to and are not attending. haha we are all kinda done with football. But at the last game there was a sand box for the kids to play in that was also in the only shade out there! It was perfect. It took me a min but I did finally realize that it wasn't really a sand box put there just for us in that hot hot day so the kids would have something to do but it was actually the pit for the Long Jump in track. Nonetheless though we really appreciated it and the kids loved it. I have to say I didn't let Braylie play very long in it, I drew the line when she started eating it and grabbing handfuls of sand and rubbing her eyes cause she was tired. But she liked it so here are some pics of her and her cousins!