For Fun

3-31-08 So we got out all the baby stuff and Braden is loving it!! He wasnt too interested the first time around but now he thinks its really cool!

3-31-08 Mom and Braden getting ready to cook!! Braden LOVES to cook, he loves to stir the ingredients and to crack the eggs and best of all he LOVES to taste the batter! Thats my boy!!
3-31-08 Braden the Chef!

4-1-08 My friend Shea and I took a trip to La Plata, there is a train station there and we were hoping our boys would be able to at least see a train go by.........but no, no train is sight. This was the closest we got.
4-1-08 The boys doing their best to fill this puddle with rocks. 4-3-08 This is Bradens friend Kaden, he moved here for a few months and they had lots of fun together. Their birthdays are only 8 days apart so it was really great for them because they were so close in age. This is Braden saying goodbye before he left. sad :(
4-4-08 Well some wonderful ladies threw me a Baby shower and I brought my camera to take pictures and I didn't get it out until almost everyone left. I was so so sad. But here are some who attended, some of the best ladies I have ever met!! Thanks for everything, the food was delish, and it was also beautiful!! I am so greatful to have friends like them!!
4-5-08 My cool little Braden at the park inbetween conferences on Sat. We went out to Thousand Hills Lake, it was great to get out and so beautiful.

4-5-08 Here is a picture of our Family at Thousand Hills State Park, I am so ready to have this baby it is killing me, literally I am so so uncomfortable, I never was like this with Braden. I cannot wait until she is here!4-6-08 Here I am on my 25th Birthday struting my stuff!! I will be having this baby any day now. I went to the doc and I am dialated to a 4 and could go any time so we will see how much longer I make it.

Nauvoo March 15, 2008

Braden LOVES animals!! The entire drive to Nauvoo we kept telling him that we were going on a horse ride. Once we got there that was the first thing we did. Braden sat in the very front and loved every minute of it.
Here we are feeding the OX, I am about 35 weeks along. Braden really loves animals and then when he sees them in real life he gets really scared, we haave to keep remimding him not to be scared.
Brian and the OX.
We went to Nauvoo with our friends the Laters. We shared a nice big hotel room, it even had a kitchen. Braden and Sara loved spending the weekend together playing. Braden barely slept the whole trip because he couldnt wait to get up and play. He is so much fun!

Braden and Sara Jumpin' on the bed.
Brian and Braden swimming at the hotel, I decided to sit this one out.
This is where Joseph, Hyram and Emma Smith are buried.

Easter 2008

Covered in Dye, this will take a long time to come out!!

Brian Creating his masterpiece
We had to talk Braden into picking up his eggs. Each one he picked up he opened it and ate what was inside.

We went to the community Easter Egg Hunt, it was so so cold! I think Brian loved it as much as Braden!! It was lots of fun.

This is the Easter Egg Hunt Brians school hosted. It was Bradens first Easter Egg Hunt, he loved it. Brian had to help him out it was lots of fun!!

Pictures

I have been wanting to start a blog for a long time but didnt know how. A friend of mine helped me start this one, I am no professional. I attempted to get a lot of pictures up so you can see our family and what we have been up to. Hopefully as time goes on I will get better. But I am warning you I am no professional!!

3-13-08 Braden and mom. I am 34 weeks along now, and getting more and more ready to have this baby. I cannot believe in a few weeks we will have a new baby girl, we are so excited!!!
3-13-08 We have been trying to spend as much time outside as possible, although today was much colder than yesterday.

2-12-08 Today we went fishing with the Later Family here at a local pond. Steve was teaching Brian how to fly fish while Kasey and I played with the kids. It was so great to get outside and it was such great weather. Maybe we are done with the freezing temperatures. What a Studd!!! Braden fishing in his new cowboy hat just like dad. Hat and boots
Eating pretzels and peanut butter, by the handful.........literally by the handful!!

Braden and his friend Sarah Fishing








Brian fly fishing for the first time

3-11-08 We took Braden to the True Value store here to see some baby chicks, he loves them! He will pick them up all by himself! Hopefully he didnt hurt any of them.

2-29-08 Braden has gone to the bathroom on the "big toilet" 3 times, we figured he needed his own. So we got him one and he hasnt gone since. But he loves to sit on his and fill it with toilet paper. When he is "done" he will say "flush" and he will go flush the big toilet. He is so great!

2-14-08 Braden sleeping with his gloves on.

2-8-08 Braden always wants the towel wrapped around his hair, Just like mom.

2-7-08 Brian will kill me for telling this but Braden loves playing with make-up and putting it on, Here he is getting ready for the day.

2-6-08 Braden favorite game to play with Brian is "Hide" he jumps in the bed and hides in the blankets. Then mom comes in and finds them, Braden can play this for hours especially at bedtime!

2-3-08 Braden freezing and eating the snow. He refused to go inside, we have a little snow suit for him but no boots. I know his feet were soaking wet and he was cold but he cried and cried when we took him in the house. He loves to be outside, I cannot wait until warmer weather is here.

The snowman our neighbors the Wilsons built.

2-1-08 Braden loves trains, he has been talking about them for the last month. We wanted to wait to get him one until his birthday, but I caved in. I would go get him out of bed in the morning and after naps and the first thing he would say was "Train" He loves it.

1-24-08 Brian and Braden

1-24-08 Braden Painting all over himself

1-21-08 Braden Loves spending time with his daddy!1-20-08 Braden got this baby for Christmas, he loves it!!

1-19-08 Braden asleep in his high chair. This is very rare, he always fights so hard to stay awake!

1-16-08 Brian was so happy to have us back home, He made signs and put them all over the house. Its great to be back!

11-28-07 I was making muffins and Braden LOVES to help me cook, I turned around and there he was mixing the batter with his hands.

This kid loves chocolate!