My baby turned 7

On Feb. 28th Madi turned 7. Since that was on a Sunday I let her have her first friend party on Sat. She wanted a jammie party so everyone came in the P.J's. This is them having a pillow fight. They tried getting me, it was fun til older brother Jake came at them with stronger hits and they were done with that.

Madi wanted brownies and vanilla ice cream, what a simple girl. My sister made these cute cupcakes too.

Everyone singing to her and giving her birthday spankings.

What a fun and crazy night. The kids had a good time, it got loud a few times and lots of giggling, dancing, & singing. Madi was so pleased with the night. Thanks to my sister Kaycee and my niece Kaysee cuz they came and painted finger nails and put on tattoos and just helped me entertain 10 kids.

Valentines Day

VAlentine's day fell on a Sunday this year so Curt came home with these beautiful roses on Sat night. Thanks hon! After church on sun I came home and set the dinner table and made it look pretty cute for our Valentine's dinner. It was fun to have the kids join us for a VAlentine dinner, we usually get a tender and go out. We also had my little sister and her boyfriend join us for dinner.

Cute cards and stuffed animals that the kids picked out for me.

Cute little Madison

Another cast

Ok so Brayden kept his cast off for a total of 12 days. He was messing around during a sleepover with a friend and decided it would be fun to wrestle and screw around when he punched his friend in the hip( for stealing his blanket) and broke his finger, knuckle area. What a smart kid. So he had this new cast on for 3 weeks. He had it taken off just about 6 days ago so lets pray he doesn't break anything ever again. He did beg me to let him go snowboading yesterday though, i told him he is not allowed to leave the house. lol

Cast is off and pins are out

This picture was taken off Brayden's cell phone so not to great but he had his cast off on Feb 3rd It was creepy to watch the Dr. pull out these pins but the wrist is doing great.

This is the full view of how big his cast is. It has soccer balls on it, it couldn't be a cooler cast for him. People at school have asked him if he drew those soccer balls onto the cast. Nope, it really came like that. 4weeks down and 2 more weeks left. I think his arm is going to look so skinny and dry when that comes off.

Broken arm

On Jan 6th we went into the Dr. to have a smaller cast put on Brayden. He had the longer cast on for 2 weeks so he was able to get a smaller one put on so.... This is his smaller blue cast that he had on for 12 hrs. Once they had put this on they did a X -ray to make sure everthing was growing together ok but once they looked at the x- ray they could tell it was not growing together the way it should have been.

They scheduled us an appt. for the next morning at 6 a.m. to come to Mckay Dee for surgery. They re -broke his bone and drilled 2 pins into the wrist bone so it would grow back like it should. He was loving these socks!

He was a little worried to be put asleep, he was afraid of not waking up after but he did awesome and was so tough during the whole thing. We were there at the hospital for about 5 hrs total. I have went this long without ever having a child get hurt so this was a very scary thing for me too.I didn't like seeing my boy in pain.

When we had arrived home from the hospital there was this card left in the door. One of his teachers had the class make it and everyone signed it for him. He has some really nice friends and so many family members came by and brought him balloons, gatorade, fruit, chocolate and get well cards. The top picture is him holding a gift card to Blockbuster and some popcorn that a friend(neighbor) brought over. She said to Brayden " I just poped on over to wish you a speedy recovery" Very cute! Thanks to everyone that was so nice to him.

Happy 14th Birthday Brayden!

Brayden woke up and got ready for school then opened a few presents before he left. A couple friends stopped by to give Brayden a birthday gift.

We then let Brayden pick where he would like to eat dinner and he picked Chilis. It's always a favorite of the kids.

Brayden had a hard time cutting his steak because of his cast so Curt cut his steak up for him. We have not had to do that since he was 4. HAha.

This is the yummy dessert that he got at dinner. Brayden had a combined birthday party with my dad on Sunday which was nice of the family to come over, then today my friend Sheila took him balloons to his school, Jake and Madi decorated his bedroom and he had lots of phone calls made to him. Overall I think he had a wonderful day. I can not believe I am a mom to a 14 year old. wOW time flies by. I love you very much Brayden and am so proud of what a handsome young man you have become.