Might As Well Get Some Cleaning Out Of The Playing

6/22/11

Braxton LOVES playing with brooms and mops

on both the wood floor and the carpet!

When ever I have a mop bucket out he likes to try and get which ever one he is playing with, broom or mop, into the water!

I'm usually able to catch him before it goes into the water,

usually!

One of these days I'll learn to take advantage of his playing with the broom and mop and let him get a little bit of cleaning done while he's playing~

Beating the Summer Heat with........

6/22/11

.....POPSICLES.....

.....AND WHAT A MESS IT WAS.....

Because it was SO HOT and the popsicles were melting SO QUICKLY

we ended up throwing them away before they were all eaten.

Braxton hasn't had any popsicles other than Otter Pops before so I think he was a little overwhelmed. I think between that and the extreme temperature difference of the HOT weather and the COLD popsicle threw him off a little bit. He sure did enjoy walking around with it - just holding it in his hand though.

Summer 2011

Where has the summer gone? It seems like only a few weeks ago that Nate and I were taking finals and getting ready for summer to get here. Now were only a week away from school starting up again! The summer has gone to fast, like always, and has been filled with lots fun times. Many of which were firsts for Braxton.

Our Summer consisted of.......

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  Popsicles


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  Cleaning


• 
  
  Father's Day


• 
  
  Visit to the Zoo


• 
  
  Swimming


• 
  
  Ward Summer Social


• 
  
  Chloee time


• 
  
  Lots of Learning


• 
  
  Family Sunday Dinner Picnic


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  Lawn Care


• 
  
  Gym Time


• 
  
  Rock Band


• 
  
  New Snacks


• 
  
  24th Weekend


• 
  
  Puddle Jumping


• 
  
  Helping Hand


• 
  
  Salt Lake County Fair

The next few posts will go into more detail about our many summer adventures! With all the fun we have had we are sad to see it over but excited to get this next phase of our life going~

y-o-U

6/5/11

Braxton and I sent this Beautiful Thursday afternoon at Red Butte Gardens helping Grandma Hollie set up one of her weddings. It of course turned out BEAUTIFUL and Braxton was so good!

We got done setting up right before their ring ceremony started and a few hours before their reception started. Because Red Butte is so far away from our house I didn't really want to drive all the way home only to have to head all the way back up in a few hours for the reception.

It was about 5:00pm and Nate had a class at the U that started at 6:00. I gave him a call and he was actually headed up to school. I decided to take advantage of our time while we were up there and have dinner with him.

Brax and I ran to Del Taco and got some.....

Yep, you guessed it.... TACOS!

We then headed up to the U to meet with Nate.

It was really fun to be up there with him and to eat dinner with him on a night we normally don't get to.

Nate's class usually gets out early so I decided to just hang out on campus with Braxton while he went into class. That way when he was done we could go up to the reception together! I even brought clothes for all of us to change into after he got out of class.

Lets just say Nate's class went a little longer than he was thinking, he still got out a little early though. Thanks goodness it was nice outside and I had the camera in the car.

I again took advantage of the time we had and did a little photo shoot with Braxton.

Because it's a summer class in the evening the campus was very quiet which was good for Braxton. He LOVED being able to run around and check out the cool stuff.

One of the things I LOVE about these pictures are the colors he's wearing!~

-We spent most of our time at the bike racks-

-He LOVED finding things to step on-

-the stairs were nice to take a little break on-

-And then we found a Pine Cone-
He spent a good little bit throwing it and then running after it! He was in Heaven

Brax and I got to know the building as well as the area around it very well!

When we weren't going up and down stairs we were climbing through bike racks,walking across the grass, roaming up and down the halls inside the building (very quietly of course) and unfortunately toward the end I was doing most of the walking for both of us.

It ended up being a pretty random day but was so much fun.

~Great memories, Great company for dinner, Great exercise, Great Pictures~

Jump, Jump, Jump

6/5/11

While Braxton is at

Grandma Donna's and Grandpa Jeff's

he LOVES to go

"ousi" and "pppp"

(outside and jump)

-And dad will occasionally show off his soft side-

( I can't believe how big little Zoie is getting)