As the family tradition goes, we spent Christmas Eve with Kevin's side of the family. We went over to Travis and Julie's house and had a great time. The kids had fun playing together, I was trying to take knitting lessons from Julie, and of course we had to watch Christmas Vacation :)
He did GREAT at blowing out his candles too, and knew just what to do since he watched Daddy go first :)
It's safe to say everyone knows just what Bradley likes - anything to do with balls!
He got some great presents, including bowling and softball toys and he LOVES them.
Thank you to everyone that came and made that day so special for him - it was a good day!
Kevin and Bradley's birthday was pretty low key this year. I wanted to do something really special for Kevin since it was the big 3-0 and we were going to go down to Denver and go to Dave and Buster's for a night, but we couldn't get people together since December was so hectic - so that was put on hold. Hopefully we will still get there, but it looks like it's going to be months late. So on the actual day we just hung out together (which is always fun), Bradley got a new truck, 
we went bowling,
and Tammy and Craig were nice enough to take us to dinner. 
And we had Bradley's birthday party the next day. I can't believe my baby boy is 2 already! He is such a big boy. Lately I wish I could have a video camera on him 24/7 - he is learning so many new words and putting sentences together, and surprising me every day with his knowledge and skills. 
Such an amazing little boy, and such an amazing husband. It's good to be me :)
I've been debating if I should post stuff that happened months ago (because I'm so behind) or if I should jump to the present - but there are just so many cute pictures that I don't want to skip over, and I kind of use this as an online diary, so I want to document as much as possible... So bear with me while I publish posts about Christmas in March :) Thanks!
This is Baby Aubrie still in Katie's belly 2 days before she was born. 
We went over to visit Katie, Dustin and Connor to see them all one more time before baby was born. It was nice to get to talk and hang out and of course Connor and Bradley had a great time together as always - they really do play so well together, it's so cute :)
Then after a planned c-section that went great, here is brand-spankin' new Baby Aubrie :) 
She is just adorable and really resembles her older brother (who by the way is the biggest sweetheart and loves his baby sister to death). We're so happy she's here and everyone's healthy and I can't wait to see if we have a little baby boy or girl for her to play with soon :) 
Our friends Grady, JK, and Saunder told us about this opportunity to go see a couple of raindeer and Santa and we were there! The raindeer were really cute and the people were so nice.
This was Mr B's second time seeing a Santa this year. Last year he was perfectly fine, not bothered at all. We went to my work appreciation night and saw Santa there and Bradley was very weary of him. He did not want to get close to him, especially not sit on his lap! We finally ended up getting a photo of him standing next to him - with Kevin in the picture, very close behind.
This Santa was no different - he was NOT happy. He did not understand why we would just go up to a stranger and hand him off :) We figured we'd let him see Saunder sit with Santa first so that maybe he would see that Santa was a good guy - but that did not work. 
Santa and Mrs Claus were very patient with us, we gave up pretty quickly but they kept trying to figure out ways to get a picture, we tried lots of high fives to warm Bradley up to him
- didn't work. 
So finally we ended up just taking a picture with him in my arms and Santa just popped up behind us and Bradley never knew he was so close :)
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