Brock turns 9!!!

Brock had a nerf gun war party this year, it has been about the only thing he has played with except his IPOD of course:)  We had a bunch of boys over to first draw their pictures for target practice, then we built forts to do our war.  While we let the paint dry on the forts we moved on to target practice, they had water balloons to throw at the set up they got a point for hitting someones can and two points for hitting the star.  The kids LOVED this (even Chad was talking about it later) we will be doing this in some form again!  Then they had cake and homemade rootbeer and then they went to war.  It was a really great party and I think everyone had a lot of fun.  
His cake was made to look like a battle field, I had a lot of fun with it.  The leaves are painted onto basil leaves and then the chocolate is peeled off when dry, the grass was a new tip I got and I love it made it really easy to do.
I cannot believe that my baby boy is already 9, it just cannot be!!  He makes me feel old almost everyday, we are hitting the tweener years and you can really tell lately.  He has an attitude about everything and mom is NOT that smartest person in the world or even smart anymore.  He can still be such a sweetheart when he wants to be though and really loves to help Kaylee with doing things (sometimes when she does not want the help).  He is as always a great student with straight As, he is SO much like his daddy it is not funny.  If he doesn't get it right right away it is stupid and he hates it, so it is good that he gets things most of the time!  

He loves to draw, he always has a sketch pad out trying to draw something.  He has been making little comic strips this year and it is a lot of fun to watch how he is growing in it and how the story keep evolving into more and more.  His biggest strength is math again but it has finally started to move to a level where he actually has to learn something at school which has been nice this year.  I do not have to hear how bored he is everyday now:) I can't wait to see what he grows up to be and I know whatever it is he will be great!!

Brayden growing so fast!!! (and his hair cut)

Wow has Brayden grown so much this last year, it is weird once they hit school it seems like everything goes so much faster.  I guess since you miss out on a lot of things while they are gone all day.  He is such a smart boy and LOVES science, anything he can do that is science related he is there!!  We make lots of projects at home and lots of arts and crafts.  He is in first grade this year and really loves it, he is really great at math and not too fond of reading.  He has been improving a lot lately on his reading so hopefully as it gets easier he will like it more and more.
He is playing soccer again this year and daddy is his coach which he loves.  Their last game is this week and then the big party/short games the next weekend.  He is a lot like my brother Kevin, very loving and VERY sensitive.  He is a great big brother and loves to help, really wants to have a little brother and is so excited that Aunt Charlene is going to have a little boy (hopefully that will hold him over for a while!)

He has been letting his hair grow out for about a year and it was finally to a normal looking skater boy hair cut and he decided he wanted it gone last week.  School pictures were this week and we wanted him to wait and take it like that since we had not gotten a picture with his long hair yet.  So he took school pictures on Wed and we cut it Wed after school.  It is funny he looks younger I think with the short hair, but he is just adorable I love it!!!!

There is so much more that I could say but this will have to do for right now, hopefully one of these days I will get on top of things and do this more often.