Precious little one

I had to share this sweet pic of my little neice Eve. She is the cutest thing ever. And I cant stop saying it she has the most perfect little lips!

Mothers Day 2011

We had a nice relaxing Mothers Day. On the Thursday before mothers day I had Macie for the afternoon so we went and got a stepping stone to make for Grandma Kay. The kids had so much fun doing this and putting the rocks in the stone for her. Sunday we got up and Braxton brought mommy a bowl of cereal and Diet Coke in bed (yes he knows what his mom likes) we got up and got ready and headed out to my Moms for a yummy brunch. We relaxed out there most of the day and visited and watched movies and enjoyed her new master bedroom. Then we left and headed to Brooks's sisters house for dinner. It was a fun day and my boys got me a cookbook I have been wanting and a cute bird house for my yard and my sweet mom gave me a beautiful hanging basket.

Baby Eve Arrives!!

On April 30th our little niece joined the family. My sister and Brother in law had their first girl after 4 boys and she is only the 2nd granddaughter for Brooks Parents. Brock called us at about 8:30 am and said can you come up here and be with the boys Michelle is in labor. So we threw on some clothes and headed up. Michelle had Eve around 11:30. She went natural and did awesome! Later that night I could not stand it any longer so we went to visit. She is so dang cute. Has the cutes little lips and long fingers! We are so excited for Brock and Michelle and the Boys! She will be one Loved Little Girl!

Catching up with Linds!

A couple of weeks ago Brax and I went to lunch with Lindsey and her Boyfriend Kyle. It was so fun to catch up with her and visit. Brax of course was shy but warmed up a little by the end of lunch. After hugs and loves goodbye I got in the car and was overwhelmed with gratitude at how lucky we are to have her as our birth mom. She is so mature and so sweet and never has or shows doubt of her decision. We talked about the whole adoption process we went through and our feelings and she just always says that she knew he belonged to us. As Brax gets older we have been teaching him a little more about adoption and where he came from. We are so blessed!

Catching up with Friends...

A few weeks ago our friends the Flowers were in town and they were able to set aside a few hours to spend with us. We went to dinner at Zupas and laughed and visited and got to meet their darling new baby girl Audree. We miss our little trio we used to have and hope that they will move back one day soon.

Eve Michelle Beattie

For those of you Beattie Family members that would like to see pics of the new Baby girl Beattie go to:
www.bellababyphotography.com/login
and the pass word is
0430babygirlbeattie

these will only be up until May 15. She did just have her first Professional Photo shoot yesterday so I will post some pics when Michelle gets them back. Michelle is not savy on the blogging or facebook posting so I told her I would put this up for her. (not to mention she is a little busy as a Mom of 5!)

What Braxton is saying....

Here are a few more funny things our little guy has been saying as of late.
Instead of Holy Smokes he says Holy Snakes!
Any time he sees something little or a baby something he will say "Oooh Cuuute"
He often tells me that I look Beautiful which makes my day he will say "beautiful Mamma"
and my favorite of the week....
Yesterday we were driving home and we passed by a house that has some little people that live there (aka Midgets) one of them was taking out their garbage yesterday and Braxton says to me: "Mom look Ooompa Loompa" I had to bite my tounge from laughing but thought it was pretty funny. Where do kids come up with this stuff!

Easter Weekend!

Easter Weekend was full of fun activities. Friday night we headed out to my Moms and colored Easter Eggs with the two Rugrats. They had a lot of fun throwing the eggs in the colored water and decorating them with stickers!



Then Saturday Morning we got up and headed up to the Woods Cross Easter egg hunt. Brax got his pic taken with the easter bummy amd also made a cute easter egg magnet. Macie walked into where the Easter Bunny was and freaked out and ran out. Guess she is still afraid of Holiday Characters...









Saturday afternoon we headed to my families easter egg hunt. We had yummy food and a fun hunt. My Aunt always has such fun prizes for the kids and adults. This year there was a Golden Egg that the adults could find. We all spent a good 20minutes looking all over for the golden egg. My cousin found it finally under the burner of the BBQ!





After my family Party we headed over to Brooks's parents for dinner and an Easter Egg hunt. The kids had fun hunting for eggs. And as you can see Brax had more fun teasing the horses with his treats then finding eggs!





Sunday morning we woke Brax up and he headed down to his Easter Basket. The Easter bunny left a trail of eggs to his basket. One colored egg then one football egg how ever the way the candy was put in the foot ball eggs you could not see the lines so if you asked Brax about the Easter Bunny he says that he pooped. (typical boy)
He loved his new power tools, books, pjs and bubble bath the easter bunny left. After playing for a while we hurried and got ready for church. Grandma and Grandpa and Macie came out and went to church with us then we came home and had a late lunch, and relaxed the rest of the day. It was a busy weekend but lots and lots of fun!

Easter Cookies

The week before Easter I got a little ambitous and made sugar cookies with Brax. He helped me cut them out and frost and sprinkle them. We packaged them up and took some to our neighbors and family.

Swimming Swimming!

A few weeks ago we decided to take Brax over to the Rec center and go swimming. He is just as big of a fish as he was last year. He loved jumping in the water and had no fear when going under (which makes me a little nervous!) We spent a couple hours in the pool and will be going back very soon.