Scratch & Sniff

Don't ya just love the smell of fresh baked bread!?! That's what our home smelled like on Tuesday :) It was yummy!!!

Speaking of smell...I know most of you have not had the pleasure of smelling (played in) hockey equipment. Well, let me just give you an idea...We were washing Daniel's equipment a couple nights ago & while we were putting it into the washer (as I was holding my breath), my eyes started burning! No lie! I just had to turn around & walk out of the laundry room. It's awful. I'm sure it doesn't help that they don't wash the jersey's after every game, which I may start doing. On Sunday night at Bubba's game, Brenden & I sat a couple rows back from the bench-big mistake!!! I have been around hockey all my life & have actually gotten used to the smell, but sometimes it just slaps you in the face! Well, it did at Bubba's game. I asked Brenden "do you smell that?" He sniffed & said "what?" I said "that nasty hockey smell." He sniffed again & said "yea, it smells good!" what!?! Guess he's made to play hockey!

Anyway...just continue thinking about wonderful fresh baked bread ;)

Quick Weekend Getaway

We decided to take a spur of the moment little getaway this past weekend. The three of us went to Frisco (which is only about 45min away), played a little, went shopping, spent the night at a hotel and ate! :) We went skating at the Stars Center on Sat. morning, since Brenden has not had a chance to use his new hockey skates yet (which I need a pair of, cause those rentals are uuugly). It was fun! We just need to take him more often, so he can continue learning.

As he says..."when I get bigger & bigger & taller & taller, I can go as fast as Daddy" :)
We had lunch at this 3rd Base place (which we won't be going to again), & they serve these fries that they call 'happy fries'-aren't they cute!?! This one kinda looked like an alien or something, but the others were cute & yummy!
Then we went to the mall, of course, & also rode the carousel. It went for quite a while-which Brenden enjoyed!
All shopped out!!
Little Man found a book at Family Christian...

Where's Doodle??? We had to go to Ikea too!!!

He found his spot in the bed real quick!

Fountains outside hotel, where we took a nice walk after breakfast.On the way home...I thought this was so cute, but he said "no more pictures!!" (that is his foot on the right side, trying to keep me from taking the picture) haha

We also had to stop at Wooley's for ice cream!!! ;)Then we finished off the weekend at another one of Bubba's games...at which, we were told, most of the goals were scored for Brenden & I! lolBubba (#71) & DoodleWe really enjoyed the little time we had away for the weekend! We love that we are able to do things like this!!

under construction...update!

it's fixed :)

pardon my messed up blog-i know it's tacky lookin'! i have changed templates, but need to fix something, & my hubby's gonna help. i'm not into all the techy stuff :)

Find the Chocolate

Brenden & I made oatmeal choc chip cookies the other night, that were yummy! He helped with cleaning the dishes afterwards too, by licking the spoon :) Poor little man...he's going to be a lot like me! Which I guess it's nice that he will have some traits from me-by looking at him, you would have no idea he was my kid! He's his daddy's little twin. Anyway, he is picking his cookie apart, just looking for the chocolate pieces, which is exactly what I do! We go for the good stuff. I torture my cookies, & leave the scraps for Daniel. I do the same with donuts. I tear off all the bottom part & eat only the top that has the chocolate!! Now, if they can just make a donut that has chocolate all the way around :)

Awesome Weekend

We had such a good weekend!! Daniel's Dad & Step mom came over Saturday morning & visited for a bit, which was nice! That night Daniel, Brenden & I went to the Circus. It was Brenden's first time! We had planned on getting a bite to eat downtown, before the circus, so we didn't have to eat a nasty hot dog, or cold nachos. Well, that's exactly what we ate for dinner! When we got downtown, we went to the water gardens. We had so much fun! It was a beautiful afternoon, not 150 degrees like it has been! So, we spent all our extra time there, & had to eat at the circus.

Daniel & Bren
Brenden givin' me some love! He is such a sweetheart-look out ladies, he's gonna be like his daddy :)
Daniel & Brenden down in the main water garden. This place is so pretty & peaceful!
This is how far I got! I went down maybe 4 steps & about had a heart attack. It seemed like the steps were moving under me! So, I stayed up on top & freaked out about Brenden being down there. He loved it though.
We were able to go to the animal open house they have before the show starts. It was really neat-you are able to get almost right up to the animals. Here is one of the white tigers, sleeping. They are so pretty! Wish I could have one.

This is Toby. He kept getting in trouble, because he would lift up the pole in front of him, with his trunk & make it fall back down. It was really cute!! He just wanted to play ;)

All the tigers...this was probably one of the best parts of the show. The circus lasts for 2 hours, which is longer than I had remembered, but we thought we would stay the whole time-even though it would be a bit after Brenden's bed time. Well, about half way through, after the tigers were done, he looked at me & said "can we get out of this place?" haha!!!! It was so funny. We went ahead & left, since we had already had a busy day.

This was how our Sunday morning began...with drums! While we were getting ready for church, Brenden got his drum out, then Daniel went & got two pans out, & the beat began! He keeps beats really well, I can't wait to see if he will do something with music. I'm sure we'll be getting a drum set for Christmas ;)

Oh, and the tongue always helps! :)

Sunday night we went to my parent's house for dinner & had a good time there too! Not too many things planned for this next weekend, but I'm sure something will come up. We have so much fun doing things together & going places, we can't just sit around the house! :)

"Target"

Brenden's first single. He wrote (made) it all on his own :)

Target

Target

Swingin' from a rubber band

Swingin' from a rubber band

Target

Target

repeat (over & over & over again)!!

We went to Target a couple nights ago & he made this song up. He has been singing it ever since! It is so cute, I just had to write it down, so we would remember it.

What will he say next??

I guess it should be 'what will they say next'. Although Brenden has learned so many amazing things at school, he has also learned a few not so amazing things from the lovely kids there.

Two weeks ago he was eating a pop tart & started making boom-boom noises while he was holding it in his hand. I said, what are you doing? He kinda smirked at me & said "I'm shooting people"! What!?! I then had a little talk with him about guns. We don't talk about guns & he surely doesn't see them on our tv. I asked him who does that & he started naming a couple boys at school. He said, "only bad people, only shoot bad people". Yea, well, I told him we don't shoot anyone & we don't talk about or play with guns! He has attempted to shoot things since then, but we just continue to talk about it with him & he seems to be getting the point. His teacher has already previously talked to the two main boys' parents, so hopefully it will all stop soon. If the parent's do their job!!

Tuesday after we got home, he said poopy-butt. I asked him if he was calling someone that, or if somebody had a poopy-butt today. lol He kinda just blew it off. Then later he tried to call me a poopy-butt! Excuse me...then we had another little talk about that not being a nice thing to call people. Have not heard it since ;)

This is not a bad thing, it's just really cute. On Monday we were driving to the store & he said "wha ka heck" (what the heck)! It was so funny. He didn't just say it once, he said it over & over! wha ka heck, wha ka heck, wha ka heck Daniel & I couldn't hold ourselves together-we busted up! Brenden giggled too & then continued with it! It's so cute hearing him say it.

Anyway, just a few of the things he says that I want to remember!

Shoo Fly!!

Another Monday morning! We had a pretty low-key weekend, which was nice. Friday the three of us went to Babe's for dinner. For those of you who don't know about Babe's...I'm sorry. It was very yummy!! Brenden was not feeling too well, because of his allergies, so all he wanted to eat was a biscuit & honey. Saturday he said he wanted to go to the 'Christmas store' (Hobby Lobby), so we walked around there for a while.

Yesterday, after church, we went to lunch at Cheddars. The service at this place blows!!! But we go there ALL the time, because it's yummy. Well, this time, the service was ok other than getting a couple things wrong on our order. But...for some reason there were quite a few (too many) flies in there. We were waving our hands all over the place so they wouldn't land on our food or drinks. I felt like we were at a dang picnic! Brenden would look around & giggle, then say "look, there's two flies on that lady's back." haha!! Needless to say, we ate & ran!

Had a couple hockey games yesterday too. Daniel's (which Brenden & I did not go to this time) and Bubba's (we went to his). It was good to see him play! Because of the times his are usually at, we have not been able to go to one of his games in a while. I'm his biggest fan ;) They both lost their games, but they both had a goal!! Anyway...I know most of you aren't hockey fans, sorry to bore you :) I guess you also won't care to hear that Star's preseason begins Sept. 23rd!?!? lol

I just have to add this in...Brenden can count to 10 in Spanish!!! He also counts to 27 in English! I am so proud of him :)

Isn't he beautiful?

We went to my Aunt's (great aunt) house last weekend for a cookout & to swim for a bit. Look what comes into her yard! He is one of her neighbor's pets & he just goes wherever he pleases! She said he comes over all the time & likes to have cereal! Brenden had never seen a peacock before, so he loved it! I would love to be in an area where all kinds of animals come to visit! Maybe I will someday :)