A Weekend without my hubby:(

This is the first time we have been apart since Braxton was born.  And the only time before that, was when I was pregnant with Braxton during Thanksgiving.  I was able to come up a week earlier to spend some time with my family.  But this, it was different.  I didn't realize I would miss having my best friend around SO much!  Especially since Braxton LOVES seeing his daddy when he gets home from work.  This new job ricky has started has been quite the change up for our family.  A good change nonetheless, but difficult at times.  We don't get to see dad as much, and when he does come home, he is SO tired from work.  But Ricky does a GREAT job sacrificing some sleep time, to spend with family.  We have really been trying hard to do a few things differently as a family.  One, is that we have been eating dinner at the table, without any distractions!!!  This has been SOOO nice!  We also have been getting Braxton into a bedtime routine.  This has involved, Daddy reading to him in his bed.  Nothing melts my heart more than to see dad and Braxton reading together.

But as for my lonely weekend, what does a girl like me do?!?!  I spent the weekend at my parents.  Braxton and I had so much fun and had to keep busy(to not think about dad:)  SOOOOO, several photos later, we have our weekend.  ENJOY!

Genesee DAYS!

This last weekend, we had the opportunity to spend the day with friends and family at Genesee Idaho's Community Days.  Ricky was able to participate in a 3 on 3 basketball tourney with two of his good friends, Rob Bingham and Matt Owens.  They ended up placing third, and it was a blast to watch them!  The kids did pretty well for the most part, Braxton got a little stroller crazy and wanted to get out and play in the sandbox.  His friends Cash and Kaytlin were there to play along as well.  I love that Braxton has not only great family and cousins close, but good friends.  We had fun snapping photos, playing games, eating, and overall just spending some good quality time together.  My aunt and uncle were kind enough to have all of us over to their place for lunch/dinner and a few great games of frisbee golf.  The kids were in the "Jumphouse" most of the day, and so it was hard to snap some photos of them, but they were all VERY cute and dressed in plaid.  We love Genesee Days and look forward to it, every year!

A day in CANOLA!

Today, my good friend cierra and I took our boys out to a RANDOM(but beautiful) canola field behind winco.  Do you ever wonder what that neon yellow stuff in the field is???  Well, its CANOLA!  And it made for a fun day of taking photos!  We drove around to a few other spots in the palouse and captured some really beautiful photos!  Cierra and I both had our camera's out, so what I didn't snag, she did(and much better:) 

Enjoy!