A busy week

Brant and I had a busy week when Riley came to stay with us during the day. Brant liked having Riley there and did a pretty good job sharing his toys with him. He kept asking to hold him and wanted to help play with him. He was jealous of the time I spent with Riley and could often be found climbing all over me while I'm trying to do something with Riley so that he can get attention too. Here are some pictures I took on the first day that Riley came to play at our house for the day.

So Excited!

I am thrilled to say that one of the designers and the owner of my favorite scrapbooking store Scrap Matters, Andrea (Andilyn Designs), has invited me to join her creative team and so now I get to help promote her designs get them before other people and get all her designs for free. I am so excited to have this amazing opportunity to do this with my digital scrapbooking and I am thrilled that she wants me to help represent her. I am just amazed because usually you have to submit an application and throw your hat in with a bunch of other people and hope for a spot, but Andrea personally sent me a message on the site asking me to join her team so that is such an honor and blessing. She is an amazing scrapper and she praised my scrapbooking and I was over the moon, and eagerly awaiting what to do next. I have been on her team this week and she has a new release coming out Friday an alpha that is cute and very versitile. I have started a new scrappin' blog to put up my scrapbook pages using Andilynn's awesome designs as well as others that I create. I have put the link on the side of my page for you to access easily. Please check out my new site to see the pages I create for my scrapbooks and help me share my love of scrapbooking with you all. If you want to check out Andilynn's store you can just click on the link here.

Silly Clown

We went to McDonald's today to get lunch with Aunt Tina and the girls (Emily and Claire), and the kids all got to meet Ronald McDonald get his autograph and get a picture taken with him. Brant kept calling him the silly clown. The restaurant was really crowded and we ended up eating at a folding table since there wasn't enough room for us at either of the two other available tables. The kids enjoyed meeting him and then they got down to the real business of playing in the playground. I didn't take any pictures of them playing but here are some pictures of them with Ronald.

Batter Up!

Brant got a t-ball set from his Great-Grandpa and Great-Grandma Allen for his birthday. We broke it out of the box today and set it up to play. He had so much fun. He would hit the ball, then I had him run around the tree (to represent bases of course), but he kept the bat as he ran then he would pick up the ball and start over. I'm sure we will be playing with this a lot over the summer and it is a nice easy thing to set-up and put away so that helps me out. Here are some pictures of my little ball player.

Movie Time!

After swim lessons we rushed off to meet Angela and Thatcher and some of their playgroup up at the movie theater for a free movie. It wasn't really free after the drink and popcorn I ended up spending about $11, but at least we didn't have to pay for tickets too. Thatcher didn't end up staying the whole time, because he got a little bored and was asking to go. Brant did great and sat still and was mostly quiet the whole time thanks to the bag of popcorn and juice he kept himself busy with while watching the movie. I took a few pictures one at the counter while we were ordering our snacks and some of him in the seats with his popcorn. Here are the pictures.

Swim Lessons

Brant had his first swim lesson on Friday night, and it went great! He loved that they gave him flippers to wear on his feet and goggles to wear. He had fun pretending one of the flotation devices was a weight and lifting it up over his head. He did really well even though he had the typical listening issues. I can't wait to see how he will progress as the time goes by and watch him turn into a good little swimmer. Thankfully they let me come inside and sit in a chair to get some pictures so here are some pictures that I took that night.

Zoo Field Trip

Last Friday was our team's field trip to the Fort Worth Zoo. My teammate's wife Victoria generously offered to take Brant up to the zoo so that he could come along on the field trip with us along with her and their little boy Nolan who is six. Brant had so much fun at the zoo as we walked around with Victoria and Nolan. Nolan was a big help since Brant kept getting excited and would run off ahead of us. Nolan would run out in front of him spread his arms out wide and tell Brant "Red light!" They were so cute together. We saw a lot of animals at the zoo, but the boys really wanted to see the tigers, and I know Brant wanted to see the gorillas since he has been watching Tarzan the movie over and over again at home. He was convinced that one of the gorillas was Kirchack from the Tarzan movie and was trying to talk to him. We wanted to ride on the train, but the train was out for repairs so we had no luck there and both Victoria and I thought it was strange that at each depot they had two workers just sitting in the booth with a closed sign. I really liked seeing the young lion cubs that were a few months old and I wish I hd known when they were born so that we could have seen them when they were even smaller. After the zoo Brant got to go over to Nolan's house to play and he watched Madagascar and jumped on their trampoline and had a blast. I'm sure we'll have to go and visit them some over the summer since the boys got a long so well.