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What a DAY!!! Three years old is a great age! I really like three year old's. I'm always apprehensive that as they turn four they are slipping away and growing up TOOOOOO fast.

This is Brayden the night before his birthday.


It was his last picture as a three year old. See how cute!!


This is one of the things that we did after he went to sleep. So when he woke up in the morning he would be surprised!


He was. He thought it was great!!


Grandma and Grandpa Dance send birthday clothes. Knowing this I had him open that present before he got dressed so he could wear his new outfit. Great video. Brayden is always so pleased with what someone gives him that it is fun to watch.






Here he is playing with the balloons in his new birthday clothes.




During the day he watched a movie I had rented for him. We waited for Evan to get home, then went and picked up Josh and went to the mall's bounce house play area. He's always wanted to go and this was a good day to do it. He and Evan played for an hour and there are no pictures because half way to the mall I remembered I had forgotten my camera. Just picture Brayden running and jumping and laughing and that should cover it!!

Once we got home he finally got to open his presents.

This is from Grandma and Grandpa Dance. They send a toy too. BTW, he liked the wrapping paper.






This present was "from" Evan. He got to wrap it up at least!! It has a really great and classic Brayden reaction. Especially since the package contained something he had been asking for - flying frogs.






This is a turtle that projects stars on the ceiling. Lately he's really been into having some source of light in his room while he goes to sleep. This was a big hit as you will see in the last couple of pictures.


A game we haven't played yet but he's sure to love.


This card is from Grandpa and Grandma Cobb. He had just opened another card with four one dollar bills in it from my parents (video operator malfunction on that video), and this one was next. (p.s. Thanks for remembering his birthday with all the other things you guys have going on. We are praying for you guys.)






This is the picture of the card he got from Grandma and Grandpa Dance. He liked the Dinosaur.


Especially since this was his big present for this year. A remote control T-Rex. It's pretty cool. Slow (so they say), but cool. He loves it.


This is what he requested for dinner. He LOVES chicken legs. He can eat and eat and eat them. He really loves just eating chicken off the bone. So funny.


This is the cake he requested. A frog cake. He also got a John Deere party hat and cake plates. Pretty happy boy.


Closer picture of the cake. Another thing I finished when he was in bed the night before.


Last but not least (video's anyway), his cake reveal and blowing out of candles. He chose to eat a leg - is there a theme here?? :)







Some friends came over to have cake and ice cream with us and they brought Brayden this present. Thanks Elmer's.


This picture was actually taken in the dark. Way impressive flash!! That's his turtle.


This is what it looked like with the flash off. Cool turtle. He was happy to be going to bed.


Now my Brayden is four. . . he still gives really good hugs and still is a pretty good helper. We'll see what the next year brings!! Happy Birthday Brayden. We love you!!!

Evan had the lesson last night. I asked him what he wanted to teach on and he couldn't think of anything so I had him think of something he heard in Conference. He remembered they talked about service, so he wanted to do something for service. We had just finished, about two weeks ago, a game called "the biggest looser" which involves service, pennies and prizes. So he was worried that we had already done service. So we talked about it and came up with this service race. We picked four tasks, one for each member participating, and each person would work on that task for two minutes then we would yell "SWITCH" and the family would rotate tasks. It was pretty fun and we learned a couple of valuable lessons: 1. Service doesn't have to take a long time, and 2. when we work together as a family we are AWESOME!! We got the dishes done, the floor swept and mopped, the laundry put away, and pictures of it all!! It only took us 8 minutes!!
Here are some pictures of the "race".


Josh on dishes


Brayden's first time mopping - ever!


Evan putting away baby laundry,


Evan mopping - he's an old pro now!


Brayden on dishes


Andrew "helping". Addison was upstairs "helping".


Brayden taking care of kids clothes.


Me on dishes.


Josh sweeping.


It was fun and so nice to have all those chores done!!!

WARNING!!!! IMAGES MAY BE TO GROSS FOR SOME OF YOU! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!





So, Sunday our internet wasn't working. Did I want to get upset that I was missing part of conference, or did I just want to re-arrange my living room and hope it was back up by the time I was done? So, I picked the later. This led to a new way to get in and out of our living room. We have to move our little couch in order to enter or leave unless you are tall enough to step over. We have babies we need to keep trapped in, so this is what we did. Anyway, there came a point later in the day when Evan was not happy with a decision that was made so he shared his opinion in an inappropriate way which led to his being sent to time out. He never made it. Next thing I hear is a crying boy. As he got up he was bleeding bad and I had to figure out where it was coming from. I found a gaping cut in the bottom of his chin and we walked straight out the door to the car and proceeded to drive the twenty-five minutes it takes to the hospital where he walked away with three stitches inside the wound, and seven outside to close it up. We were only in the ER for an hour and a half, impressive really, but he was a really good boy and was very brave. Hopefully this trend doesn't continue. . . He had stitches in his eyebrow just before he turned three, now again at age six. Will it be the end? Hopefully, but probably not.

So Brayden is always coming up with the funniest things. We laugh at them for days between Josh and myself but some are just too funny not to share. So before I forget here is one we just loved.

Brayden was running circles in the living room the other day. Josh walked in and Brayden declared, "It sure is hard to run with one leg and walk with the other". He still hasn't got it mastered!! :)