One of the reasons why I knew he was the one was because I always knew what an amazing daddy he would be someday.

And boy, was I right.

Kosty studied his stuffed cow for a while, and stopped when he looked at the horns. "I know, I'll name him HORNY."

Brayden, the missionary.

Today, we were loading up for church and Brayden's friend Riley, who lives across the street, came over and asked where he was going.

Brayden: "To church."
Riley: "I've never gone to church before."
Brayden: "WHAT!!!??? NO FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


Me: Riley, you are welcome to come with us anytime, I think you'd like it.
Riley: "Um, no thanks."

Kosty took a huge stack of paper & a marker & then this is what I found. I guess he is pretty fond of his little person.

halloween and trunk or treat

Remember the stubborn ice climber? Well, he had a soccer game that day and it ended late, so he decided (lazily) that he would just be a soccer player so he wouldn't have to change. Plus, it was pretty warm out that night and he would've been pretty toasty in that ice climbing gear. Jer's mom came and we did the bonfire, ate chili, and roasted marshmallows. Another fun Halloween. Then the next day, dun dun dun....I was struck with the swine flu and was incoherent for the next 7 days. It wasn't pretty.

brayden's birthday

On Brayden's actual birthday, I did the whole bring treats to school thing, and then took him straight to the bowling alley. We bowled two games with Zach and Grandpa and then played in the arcade for a while. Then he chose Subway for his birthday dinner and then we went back to our house for cake and presents. I thought I did a good job trying to cram everything in after school...

Zach won this huge, obnoxious pig from one of those claw grabbers! After all these years of me telling my boys NO to those machines because they're a waste of money and NEVER work, Zach had to go and prove me wrong. In a big way. :)

The next morning, it hit Brayden hard that his birthday was over when he woke up to the leftover mess and suddenly meaningless decor. He started balling his eyes out, he was so hysterical that he couldn't even talk for quite some time. Then he finally told us how upset he was that his birthday was over and that his party was so much shorter than Kosty's and that not as many people came. Oh, it broke my heart! Its so hard trying to coordinate these two birthdays within weeks of each other. But I did my best, next year we will do things differently, just not sure how!