Brailey 4 MONTHS

Goodness we've been gone and I just realized I never posted Brailey's 4 month picture and she is almost 5 months!!! I'm such a bad blogger!! HA!

Back.....sorta!!!!

Well we've been gone for a whole month and it has flown by!!! I will have to post pictures of all our camps - but I might start backwards since that is fresh on my mind. The first 3 weeks were our district Church Camps - but the last week was a good ol'e fashion camp meeting in North Carolina. A friend of ours is the President of this camp and he asked Michael to work with the teens during the week. There aren't many camps like this anymore - it was wonderful! It truly reminded me of a camp the Mershimer's took us to when we were teenagers. Just a good holiness campground with good holiness preaching! It was wonderful to not have any responsibilites during the services so we could just relax and let God speak to us! Of course we had our children with us and that gives a whole new meaning to relax - but it was still good!!!

Anyway - here are some pictures of last week in Hendersonville, North Carolina!!


Braden doesn't usually climb on things like this...he's very cautious about everything - doesn't even like many slides...so I had to take this because he thought about it - mostly because his little girlfriend that he met there was all over it so he thought he could do - but only made it this far and climbed back down! I guess that's a start!!!



Braden spent a lot of time on this merry-go-round! Loved it! There was a little boy pushing him and was trying not to push too fast and Braden started yelling "faster!!!"...not so nicely!


This was a HUGE bug the kids found on the playground. They were flipping out so I had to go check it out and I must say - I'm glad it was on the playground and not in our dorms!!!


This is Braden in our rustic dorms! We had a "family wing" so we had a refrigerator, table, 4 showers, 3 bathrooms and 6 bunkbeds all to ourselves! Of course it was a dorm I think I mentioned!!! We pushed 3 bunkbeds together so we could all sleep together which made it cozy. Well despite the conditions we still found a way to bring technology to us...here's Braden watching a movie during afternoon free time while Brailey was still asleep!




Here's the little sunshine girl herself! She is usually smiling! She turned over on the 4th of July while we were at this camp!!!


Napping in our over-kingsized bed!!!


Having fun with Brailey rolling over!! Proud big brother!


Ok - we had just watched National Treasure 2 and the part where they are balancing themselves on the square reminded me of these squares. As we would walk on them it would rock back and forth so I said "this is like National Treasure" so Braden called them that all week. He would sometimes say "I don't want to walk on National Treasure!" It was funny!

Where am I???

Just to keep you all up to speed that check out my blog...we've been out of town most of the summer due to church camps. I've come home Friday mornings in time to unload the car and head to work Friday night and then get up Saturday morning to work, go to church on Sunday and leave for another camp Sunday night. It's been fun but crazy. Once I get done traveling I will add pictures of all we've done. Monday morning we leave for another camp in North Carolina! Some days I have to think about where I am.......right now...at my computer!!

I'll keep you posted!!

Tonya

Questionaire.....

Questionaire...



1. Where is your cell phone? table


2. Your significant other? Michael


3. Your hair? Dark Brown


4. Your mother? Pennyslvania


5. Your father? stubborn


6. Your favorite thing? family time


7. Your dream last night? forgotten


8. Your favorite drink? Virgin Strawberry Daquiri


9. Your dream/goal? debt-free


10. The room you’re in? office


11. Your church? so different than home church


12. Your fear? drowning


13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Closer to PA


14. Where were you last night? home


15. What you’re not? snob


16. Muffins? Blueberry


17. One of your wish list items? Four-wheeler!


18. Where you grew up? Pennsylvania


19. The last thing you did? Got my hair cut!


20. What are you wearing? pajamas


21. Your TV? small


22. Your pets? NONE!!!


23. Your computer? laptop


24. Your life? crazy


25. Your mood? refreshed


26. Missing someone?


27. Your car? mini-van


28. Something you’re not wearing? hat


29. Favorite store? Crafts


30. Your summer? CRAZY


31. Like (love) someone? husband


32. Your favorite color? hunter green


33. Last time you laughed? morning


34. Last time you cried? during a movie this week


35. Who will repost this? No clue...I felt pressure to re-post!! HA!!!

Braden's reinforcements

Braden has now brought daddy in on trying to get Brailey to play baseball....and I think they're getting closer!!!!

What are big brothers for?

To give their sisters a ride!!!

SUMMER FUN!!!

Today we washed the vans and Braden wanted to wash his Big Red Truck! Too cute!





What did Brailey do.......



typical girl....SUNBATHE!!!

Awesome!!!

Here are two awesome videos I've been sent in the last week!! May God bless you as He did me while watching these!!

Brailey.......

Braden and Brailey (part 2)

When we got home from church Braden wanted his Bible. We saw that he had put Brailey's Bible in her pack-n-play and was reading to her out of his! (Brailey responded by lifting her shirt!!!)



They're slightly related!!!???!!! There's my twins 3 yrs apart!



Braden is trying to get his 3 month old sister to put on a baseball glove!!!



With that look....not really sure she's keen on that idea!!! (that's my girl!!!)



So let's try the bat!!! Keep trying Braden!!!

Dollywood HERE WE COME!!!

This clip is from Dollywood last year! We couldn't believe that Braden was allowed to ride it - the rule was "walking age" and he was walking BUT WOW!!! The crazy thing is he LOVED IT!!! Anyway - it's camp time again starting next week and we are headed back to Dollywood!!

The BIG 3!!!!

The day started out with biscuits, gravy, eggs and bacon with orange juice for the birthday boy!!



Then on to putt-putt! Notice his shirt....I was going to embroider a 3 on a t-shirt for him and ran out of time so I picked another outfit out...well he didn't want my outfit...he picked this and I just happened to notice it had a 3 on it!!!!






Then Braden wanted to go to CiCi's for pizza....so we stuffed our faces full of pizza and cinnamon rolls!!!
It was a GREAT day! The only time when Brailey and Braden turned 3 in the same month!!!

Baseball

Michael has always joked that Braden is our retirement - well this week - he kind of opened my eyes. He asked me to throw the ball to him (in the house!!) and I did and he hit it!! I'm not so sure a 3 year old is "supposed" to be able to do that - they start out in T-ball - hitting off the T - but he is hitting w/o that! He's doing so good - we are so excited!!!

THREE MONTHS!!

TOO CUTE!!

Wow...I don't usually write on here - but some funny things have come out of Braden's mouth in the last few days - and I thought - well - these are the things to add to my blog!!!

First the background....

A couple of weeks ago I started teaching Braden "Holy, Holy, Holy". We would sing, "Holy, Holy, Holy, Merciful and Mighty, God in 3 Persons, Blessed Trinity". That is about all he has memorized (although it's worrying me at this point that he has no tune!) Anyway - I would sing "Holy, Holy, Holy, Merciful and....." hoping he would finish it - well once in a while he would!

Now.....
Everyone in the south likes to say "bless her heart!" - actually it drives me nuts - but I said it sarcastically one night in the car while Brailey was screaming! Braden started to repeat it and it was really cute coming from him! So the other night he asked to sing "Holy, Holy, Holy" - so we started and he was doing really well - we got to "Blessed........" and I waited for him to say "Trinity" and he said "Bless her little heart!" He was so serious it was hilarious! I started laughing at first and realized he didn't do it to be funny - that is what came to his mind!!!

And then last night while I was getting things ready to head out the door for church Braden got his Bible and started flipping through the pages. He said, "Mom - this page says, 'you got to go to Jesus'". I was like "wow - that's awesome"! A little preaching moment from an "almost 3 year old!" Then he kept flipping and acting like he was reading, "He got off the cross, and the tomb rolled away and He went to heaven!" It is so awesome to here him talk about what he has learned about Jesus! It sounds so sweet to me....but imagine how that sounds to our Father's ears! Children really are a blessing from the Lord!

Western Day...YEEHAW!!

We recently had western day at Braden's school (where I work). A friend took our picture for us!

BABY DAY 2008

Our church had our annual Baby Day - a day to celebrate all the babies in our church from ages 0 to 3. This is Braden's last baby day :-(.....but Brailey's first!!!



Braden had a lot of fun with the balloons!!

Brailey's new addition!!!

Brailey got her ears pierced today!!! I've always thought little babies with earrings were soooooo cute - so when we knew we were having a little girl that was my plan! So today we had it done! Brailey did really well! She cried for less than 10 seconds - probably because I had her bottle ready and waiting for her!!! That always helps! She looks beautiful!!

My sweet children!!!

I had been wanting to get this on video for a long time!!! Braden always says this but I never had the video!

Big Red Truck

Braden got this truck for Christmas. He is just learning how to drive it!!!



This is how NOT to drive!!!



AGAIN....how NOT to drive!!!



Now this is better!!