Bryson Carter turns 7!!!!!

My first baby turned 7 today... how is that possible? It seems like we just brought him home and we are still adjusting to parenthood. Bryson is a joy to have in our life and I couldn't have asked for a better son. I am going to bore you all with a little timeline, this is more for me and my journal so bear with me :)

Bryson coming home from the hospital, he looks like someone beat the crap out of him. Poor little guy got some bruising on my bones in delivery, had a huge ole cone head. But he was still beautiful and we were so excited to be parents of our sweet son.

Bryons at his 4 week pictures, as you can see delivery tramma is gone and he looks like a baby. He was so crankie for these pictures that he would suck on his binkie and then we would take it out and get a picture so his lips in all of these are still sucking... funny memories.

Turning 1... we had a race car themed party, Bryson loved matchbox cars. His cake had so much blue food coloring in it that his tummy was blue for 2 days. But he made his 1 year old mess just as he should have.

Bryson 2 years old at the Sand Dunes

Bryson 3 years old at Bryce Canyon

Bryson 4 years old at the Hot Air Balloon Festival

Bryson 5 years old at the Zoo on his Birthday

Bryson 6 years old last fall

Bryson is now 7, I could go on and give a time line of all his pictures. He has grown up so much!

Balloon fairy arrive right on time to decorate Bryson's room for his Birthday while he was sleeping.

She left balloons, streamers and Happy Birhtday signs all over the room

More balloons

Bryson blowing out the candles with Preston

His new Bike! and it is RED... Preston was even more excited cus this ment he got Bryson's old bike.

Here are 10 things that I love about Bry... Happy 7th Birthday buddy!
1. He is very sensitve
2. He wants to help with anything that he can!
3. Loves to watch and study Wheels move.
4. Loves his brothers and loves being a big brother
5. Whats to be a chef when he grows up, so he likes to help me cook.
6. Already knows the meaning of Compassionate.
7. Loves to go FAST!
8. Is very smart and loves school
9. He likes to read, which I am not certain where he got that from
10. Is a happy, laughing handsome boy.

Forth of July

Forth of July was a family day for us! My parents and siblings were in Lake Powell, and it was way too hot for me to even think about Powell in July... no way baby! So we spent the day with the boys which way nice and relaxing. Got a few things done and then had a great BBQ with our awesome friends and neighbors. The boys went swimming in their pool and then we did our home fireworks... Darren and I hate the crowds, there is a part of me that feels guilty we didn't take them anywhere but they liked the ones we had. It was a great night!

Bryson with his cheesey grin

The boys enjoying the fireworks

Weston really liked them and had a bunch to say about them, none of which we understood of course but it was still cute to listen to.

Bryson and the sparklers

Preston and the sparklers, he is still a bit hesitant but still liked to play with them. For as outgoing as he is, there are times that I see caution and that gives me great comfort.

Weston's First Hair Cut

Weither I was happy about it or not, Weston needed a hair cut! So I got up the nerve and cut of his long soft hair today. It is always a bitter sweet day for me, happy that he is growing up and healthy, but sad that he is growing up! I will say that I love being able to cut my boys hair, especially that first hair cut.

At first he was a bit unsure about the whole thing...
Then he got ok with it, I guess he has seen it so many times that he didn't worry. He sat there quite and still (well as still as a 17 month old can be) and allowed me to cut his hair. He is such a sweet boy.

This is a common expression, if you look through my baby pictures I have the exact same one!

Our finished product, no more pony tails..

Enjoying a nice popcycle after his Hair cut, he looks so innocent here!

Alex's Boondock Birthday

We went to Cousin Alex's birthday party over at Boondocks. The boys had a really fun time, thanks Alex and Kari for the party! Happy Birthday Alex, your now 8!!

Bryson and Alex at the Party! Alex is showing off his Mission 4 Agents from Lego

Darn that Darren, he will never give me a good smile.

Preston and Travis, you can never have too much pizza!

Grandma and Weston... getting cake!

Bryson driving his bumper boat and loving getting wet!

Preston was too little to drive his own so I got to go!

Then we went Miniature Golfing

The boys had a fun time doing the golf

Bryson was big enough to drive the Rookie Carts... He was beaming from ear to ear!

About 10 minutes before we left Darren hit the jack pot on one of those light games where you have to stop the moving light on the jackpot... he did and got like 250 tickets!

Thunderbirds Air Show

Darren took us up to the tunderbirds show at Hill AFB on Saturday, it was really fun! Luckily we got up there at the start around 10:30, I say that because when we left around 1:30 there were thousands of people trying to get into the show and inside the show already where 10's of thousands of people.
We thought the the Tunderbirds performed during the day so we made it up there early. Apparently they perform at 4:30 and the event is over at 5:00... once we found that out we decided to leave, otherwise I think it would ahve taken us 3 hours to get off the AFB and on the freeway back home. I don't do well with being stuck in traffic, so when I can avoid it I do. Hopefully my boys don't miss out on much because of that. After being up there for a couple hours we could also tell that the boys were more interested in the Snowie's and the 'jets' on the ground instead of the ones in the sky, they did watch a bit of the shows though.

Bryson, Preston and Weston in front of an F-15

Bryson and Preston in front of AWACS Plane

Me, Bryson, Preston and Weston in front of a C-130

Pics of some of the planes showing off!

Bryson entering the HUGE C-130

This plane, a C-130 , is absolutly HUGE in person. I was amazed at it

More of the air show...

Little Westie enjoying the day in the sun! He did really good for being in the stroller the whole time.

Preston inside a Blackhawk Helicopter

More of the arial show...

Bryson in the Blackhawk Helicopter

Bryson and Preston sitting on AH-64 Apache

Happy Weston again!

More Arial show

This is the only pic of Darren, he had the camera the entire day. Thanks for the idea to go up, it was really fun! I think as the boys get older this will get even funner to go to!

Why aren't the cloths Drying???

About 2 weeks ago I was doing laundry and I could of sworn that I heard a bird in the laundry room. The window was open so I looked outside and there was a finch sitting on our porch swing chirping so I didn't think much more about it. Today when Darren went out to feed the dogs, and say a bird fly out of our dryer vent... or did he see one? We went about our day and then when we came home Darren pulled out the dryer to see...

The entire vent was full of nest, grass, branches, lint...

AND it was filled all the way up the dryer, Darren had his arm all the way up to his shoulder and was still pulling out part of the nest.

All the stuff that was in my dryer... holy cow!

And at the end of the line was these 2 eggs, I felt bad that they had spent all this effort and we had to tear it all apart and loose their family. But it couldn't stay in the dryer. So Darren went to Lowes and Sears to get new dryer parts... oh and he bought his Watch while he was at Sears!