Goodbye Bike :(

After much discussion, we decided that it was finally time to sell Kevin's beloved motorcycle. Unfortunately, we really needed the money, and Kevin doesn't get many chances to ride the bike anymore, so we thought it would be a smart move right now financially. I cried :( I am pregnant you know. It was just really sad, Kevin has had that bike for 10 years, he proposed to me on that bike. I kept telling Kevin the whole way "Don't do it if you're going to regret it, it's not worth it, we'll figure something else out", but he just kept reassuring me that he'd be sad for a while, but he'd get over it. I hate to see him sad. We took lots of pictures and said goodbye. I think it was the right decision, lately there have been so many motorcycle accidents in town that I would have been nervous if he rode it around anyway. But it was sad to say goodbye... lots of good memories on that bike...

On a side note - I am pregnant :) I use that as an excuse as much as I can lately - to get foot rubs, back massages, not do dishes - you name it :) Except for some reason now it doesn't work anymore... anytime I say "I'm pregnant" Kevin comes right back with "I sold my bike"

I keep trying to tell him it's not the same thing, and that doesn't work, but he doesn't seem to understand :)

Just being silly Mr B...

Seriously I could just sit there and watch him for hours and hours, he is SO entertaining! He has the sweetest personality too. In the first video he was just sitting there, playing with his toys - a wolf, his bat, and - I know it looks bad - a medicine bottle! Don't worry, we only let him play with it under supervision, it's child proof, and it has skittles in it to make it rattle, which I know could be dangerous (hence the supervision) but he just loves it, and he seems to like to use it as a cup, pretending to drink out of it. It's so cute because he sits his wolf up really nice, gives it kisses, gives it a drink, then I think he realized I was watching, but doesn't want me to see him checking, so he looks over at me in the sneakiest way- it's just adorable :)


And then this video is just a very long story that he was trying to tell me, I'm sure it has to do with baseball - people throwing the ball, lots of swinging. He really tries to get his point across, he's so animated! :) (FYI - this was back in August - now we are able to understand a lot more of his stories :) )

Daddy's Shirt

Bradley was helping me fold laundry and we decided to put one of Daddy's shirts on him, which lead to quite a long time playing "where's my hand?" :)

Saunder's 1st Birthday!

One of Bradley's best friends turned 1 and we had a blast at his birthday party. Pony rides, tractor rides - it was so much fun!! Truthfully, no matter what we do with Grady, JK and Saunder we have fun! :)

Kerr State Park

Our friends Grady and JK wanting to go camping one weekend and we suggested a great place nearby - Kerr State Park :) In years past we had camped out in the backyard in tents but hadn't done it yet this year, so it was perfect timing. They brought over their (massive) tent and we camped out, smores and all :) I knew it would be interesting to see how Mr B would go to sleep - the tent was making so many crinkling noises when we moved around and tried to put him down and he just wasn't going for it, so he ended up sleeping in the comfort of his own crib inside, while all of us were outside, we just brought the monitor out with us - which Kevin was happy about because he has problems sleeping without his fan so that was the substitute noise that night :) It was a lot of fun!

Boats

Here are some pictures from our day out on the boats at City Park and playing in the playground afterwards (back in July - sure doesn't seem like it was that long ago, I still have a lot of catching up to do :) )

4th of July

The day Kevin counts down to every year :) and one of my favorites as well! We had a nice day, hanging out together and playing games - and watching the weather. I NEVER remember the fireworks being cancelled due to rain - never. But as the day went on, it was raining, and kept raining. But we stuck to our plan to go over to Mom's house and walk to the park like we do every year and we just kept hoping that the rain would stop in time. And - just like every other 4th of July - it was perfect. As soon as we pull up to Mom's house the rain stopped and 2 beautiful rainbows came out - just in time!! It was such a nice walk to the park, we got a great spot next to the lake and had a great time. No earmuffs for Bradley this year :) He loved them - and he managed to stay awake JUST long enough to see the finale and then he was out like a light! He slept the whole way home in his stroller even though there were people all around us, walking, screaming, yelling, and setting off fireworks - he was a sleepy boy!