This kid cracks me up!! He loves music and loves to dance!!

This was on the way to pick up dads new truck. Lucky Rodney! He bought a 2008 Chev Silverado, 4 door extended cab. It is pretty much all decked out and is black in color. It looks really sharp and drives really nice. Now to make the payment................



I finally got teeth

Not sure what the scowl is all about...

We had a fun Halloween. I like it more when it falls on a weekend and we dont have to rush. So our first stop was at grandmas. She gave the boys some treats and even some tricks. Next stop was grandpas where Owen loved his dancing/singing skelton. Of coure they all 3 loaded up there with candy and even a can of pop! Next we headed home to eat alittle dinner before heading out and before Bailey's friend arrived. We all went to neighbor Bobs and to Jason then they dropped Owen and I off at home where we sat patiently for trick or treaters..... only we didn't have any!!! I was very disapointed.

Owen and played for a bit then he went off to bed. Finally around 8:30 the 2 neighbor boys came over!!!!!! They pretty much made my whole night!! I think Halloween and the world of dress-up is such a wonderful thing! Kids get to use their imagination and pretend they are someone else for the day, how wonderful! So couple hours later, they boys finally show up with TONS of candy!! Seriously what will we do with it all!! I am not eating it! It was a fun night for the boys!

Owen with grandma

Bailey loves his grandma

Cute Bailey

At grandpas

Grandpa and the trio

Bailey with his friend Dylon before trick or treating

Our pumpkins all lit up

Halloween fun

This was Friday before and during the school party that Randolph puts on. Bailey's last year that he can attend! LOL

Bailey as a hobo

Brady as Darth Vader

All 3 monkeys

Brady playing a game

Owen fasinated by ALL of the balloons

Not sure if I ever posted these....... shame on me!!
These are Owen's 1 year old pictures, I just LOVE THEM!!!! It was hard to decide what to order, I just got them back yesterday and am excited to get frames for them and start putting them up!

anyway click on the site (and yes that is Owen on the front) click online viewing and then click on Braatz Family and the password is bailey

http://www.heidizimmermanphotography.com/

Randoms and update

Look how happy he is!!

Brady wearing his hat that he paid $1 to wear to school for 1 day... Nice

Brotherly love

I guess not much on my end. Owen is doing good yes even after his 14 step fall! He sure has developed into a little monkey, he wants to climb on everything and anything! He is happy, healthy and that is all that matters! We did recently wean him from the bottle, now that was really hard for me, piece of cake for Owen!! He was only down to 1 bottle at night and doesn't even miss it! Seriously what is next... off to college! First it is the growing like a weed, smiling, cooing, rolling, crawling, walking, turning 1.... I can't take it anymore!!!! Well he will always be my baby so that I can atleast hold onto that!

Brady is concentrating on school a bit more, we have been really working with him so he doesn't fall behind, he has been doing really well! We wrapped up playing soccer for the fall, he had a blast playing and it did him some good to burn off some of his energy! He says he is going to try wrestling again this year, so we shall see in a few weeks at sign up!

Bailey is Bailey, he is a girl crazy maniac!! It is all about the girls, his friends and how cool they all are, dances and this is one is having a party, can I call so and so.....I will be honest, I didn't think this would start this early, he is only in 4th grade for crying out loud and I am really not ready for it! Well after his first mid quarter grades, his main focus now is on school work, that put a small cramp in his style!!! He has another week to get his grades up, pretty confident he can do it, he just needed alittle push from the behind! But he is now doing really well and adjusting to being "responsible" and not a little kid anymore! Oh gosh did I just say that? Where did my little Bailey go? Thank goodness he doesn't read these!

Rodney and I celebrated our anniversary last weekend, even though our anniversary was on the 8th of September. It was hard for him to drag me away, but I went and we did have fun! We got a hotel in Rochester and did some Christmas shopping, had a nice dinner at Red Lobster and just did alot of talking and of course had a few cocktails! I think that our relationship needed that, but because the boys have me so wrapped around their fingers, we don't get the opportunity to do it! It was nice, but I was very happy to be home in the mad chios of our wonderful world!!

Pumpkin fun at the Braatz House

Carving pumpkins in our house is always so much fun! I was hoping Owen would really get into more and get more messy, but he didn't! He was so confused on why we could cut the pumpkins top off and stick out hand in there to fish out the guts.... he sat for the longest time watching us, then he finally stuck his hand in his pumpkin and grabbed some goop and that was really about all! He does love pumpkins though, he gets really excited when he sees one and points to it and babbles! For the first time we used those stencil patterns, of course Brady had to have the same one as Bailey, and of course Bailey was mad about it. But it ended up working out!

So here is proof that we had a blast carving pumpkins on Sunday!

Our 5 pumpkins

Brady getting started

Sticking his hand in it

The boys- yes Brady is sitting on our kitchen table


Checking it out


So confused

Cutting his pattern out


Not so sure


Take a picture of me mom


Rodney showing him it was cool to feel




Hard at work

Going for it

Rodney helping Brady trace his

Not sure...

Bailey is so my kid

Cutting a small one before we started the big ones

checking it out more

Helping me carve his

Owens finished pumpkin

Mine... I think mine is the coolest!

The finished products

Baileys

Bailey and his pumpkin

Mom take another picture ofme, that other one was a bad one.... seriously.

At last a family picture with our pumpkins

Happy Halloween!!!

Owens new toy

I didn't get to alot of garage sales this past summer, so there were a few in the paper for last Saturday, I decided to go by myself!! I scored some things for Brady and this new toy for Owen! He loves it and was so excited from the time we brought it into the house. He was mad when we took it apart and cleaned it up a bit. We brought it downstairs and I bet he played for close to an hour on it!!!! Best $5 I ever spent! The other 2 never had anything like this, so I thought what the heck, and in the spring we can bring it outside! Owen is out little moneky, the kid likes to climb on anything, that is why I knew he would love this!




Of course Brady had to check it out too!