This was Braden's valentines card to me, and yes, those are my arms, my legs, and my gigantic belly. Chad immediately made the disclaimer to me that he had nothing to do with it and that braden drew the picture all on his own.
You know your in Santa Maria when...... these are the valentines cards that braden had to choose from. 
last sunday was super bowl sunday and so we went to my parents house for a party, and an amazing amount of food. even though arizona didn't win we were happy because chad won $200 from a pool at work, yes, were bad mormon's and gambled. 
this last weekend was fun, we went to shell beach, a favorite surf spot for us and chad got to go out while the kids played on the rocks finding crabs.
this is them throwing the crabs into the water, its better then smashing them which is what they were doing and i convinced them that if they couldnt control themselves and leave them alone than at least this was better.
this is my surfing buddy, except this time i had to sit on the sidelines and eat bananas and pretzels while chad had all the fun.
So this was new years eve and we all went to the beach, it was around 70 degrees and beautiful! we flew kites and played in the water and just chilled.
This is a pic with all my brothers, I remember being a lot taller then the rest of them though....interesting.
So my brother got my mom these pjs because pjs are her favorite thing but my dad hates them with a passion because i guess she wears them to bed and im sure he prefers something else. He thinks my brother gave them to her to get him back for the younger years of his life. she loves them though.
one of the family gifts was guitar hero band, everyone played, its a blast, braden and myself had to learn to take turns though.
ever since i got pregnant and the boys come with me to my apointments they have been playing doctor so we got them a kit and they spend all day fixing me, chad, me, stuffed animals, me, and anything or anyone that will let them.
we always do the nativity story with narration and us as actors. braden was the shepherd and cade was the angel.
This is braden in his kindergarten class dressed as an Indian and singing songs in a little performance for thanksgiving... i'm going crazy because i totally got teary eyed watching him, freaking pregnancy.
This is our tradition on sunday night, chad starts a fire and i make hot chocolate and he tells them semi-scary stories by the fire. The kids love it and it totally reminds me of my childhood.
This is every morning in our house, the baby moves a ton in the morning and the boys love to feel it. Cade lays on my belly and then as soon as she kicks he laughs and then lays back down to feel it again. Its so cute, cade, not the belly.
Braden was optimus prime the transformer and cade was obviously a skeleton. They had tons of fun and literally ran from house to house for candy.