HaPpY 10th BiRtHdAy BrAyDoN!!!

Wow, I cannot believe my little boy is 10! Time really has flown by. He's like a little man now, and he definitly thinks he is bigger and older than he is. He's so excited to be in double digits now. It freaks me out a little, lol!

Well, this year he decided he wanted a Star Wars birthday party, so that's what he got. We decided to forgo the friend party and go to Sea World instead, so we had a little get together with Aunt Katie and Uncle Clint and our good friends Jon and Mandy (who the kiddos just love). We had pizza, ate cake and opened presents.

 Katie and I decorated the house for him while he was at school, so when he came home he walked into this. He was so excited to see his decorations he almost teared up a little. Best Moment Ever!! :)

 I made him a fun star wars cake. He loved it. These cakes are so fun! They are a pain in the butt, but fun. It took two and a half days to make this and about two and a half seconds to destroy it. But it's worth it to me. My kids will always remember their fun birthday cakes.

 We made some star wars cupcakes too.

Happy Birthday my awesome boy! We love you so much and are so proud of you!!

Star Searching

This is not a great picture cause it was dark, but if we're being honest, I'm just not a great picture taker, but oh well. Braydon got a telescope from grandpa for Christmas and it was finally a clear enough night to try it out. He loved this! I got to see the moon and was so amazed.

Braydon, Braydon, & Braydon

Braydon is growing so much these days. He's not really a little kid anymore. He's ALMOST as tall as me and he has pretty much passed me up in shoe size. Yeah, you heard me right. His new shoes are LOOSE on me! Braydon and I can share shoes. In fact, I have worn his flip flops before, SSSHHHH don't tell him! haha! He is a great big brother and is such a good help around the house. We sure love our "little" boy. No matter how much bigger than me he gets, he will always be our little boy. He's has been a very good big cousin too. He is so cute with Morgan and Jackson. Morgan calls him "little buddy", hahhaa. Anyways, I just wanted to put up some recent photos of the Bodabon. Below is at Halloween.......

 No matter how old he gets, riding in the cart NEVER gets old!!! It's so hard to push the cart with him in it though, it's like having an adult riding in there!!

 The new Chick Fil A in Killeen opened up, Ambria was too afraid to go see the cow, but not this kid!

SoMe CuTe KiDs!

I just love these picutres of the two littles! So I thought I would share.

Happy Halloween

Here are the cute kiddos on Halloween. Ambria, of course, was tinkerbell. She definitly played the role too. I even had to give her pixie dust so she could fly. It was so much fun!

 Here are the two of them. Braydon made an AWESOME Mario! My mother made his costume and it looked great. He got a lot of compliments on it. And he played the role well also. He even sported the Italian accent!

The hubby and me. We haven't had a new pic in a while cause I HATE the way I look in pictures.  Jason, however looks great!






At The PoOl, BeInG SiLlY!

A few random shots of the kiddos having fun and being silly. It has been so stinkin hot here lately, that we have to keep the pool filled up out of sheer necessity!   I think this photo is so funny! Ambria was jumping off the slide on the pool into the water. She is such a daredevil!

I had just fixed Ambria's hair for the day and she said "Mommy, take a picture!" So here are the pictures she wanted.

Last Minute Solar System

So Braydon came home from school on Thursday and said "By the way, I keep forgetting to tell you, but I have to make a solar system by TOMORROW!" Yeah, that just happened! So we had one night to put a soalr system together. We just used whatever we had around the house, cause we had no time to go to the store and plan this really nice awesome project. So 11:00 at night, it's finished. It wasn't too bad. Braydon really liked it and was excited to take it to school.

Braydon's Randomness

Here are few random recent events for the boy. We have been doing some really fun activites with his Cubscout pack, they got to do some archery a few weeks ago, here is Braydon and his arrow! Braydon and daddy painting the birdhouse he made at scouts, which now resides in the woods behind the house.

I just LOVE these pictures! These are Braydon's friends. He's so lucky to have such good friends! From left to right, is Bryson Frederick, Kaden Ellis, Ethan Ricks, and Braydon Call

My Little Boy Turned 9!!

Braydon turned nine this year! Holy cow! I can't even believe it. I know this post is WAY late, but here are a few pics of his par-tay. Below, he is opening gifts from his friends....

He had a Bakugan themed party, so I made him some cakes shaped like Bakugans. I'm a rookie, I know, but it's really fun to try!

Carving Pumpkins and Such....

Here is the fam in our Halooween "get up" this year. Jason (breifly) dressed as a ninja, and when I say breifly I mean just long enough to take the picture. I was cupid, Braydon was SWAT, and Ambria was an angel. Pulling the guts out of the pumpkin. I love the look on Braydon's face. He thought it was SO gross, he got totally grossed out and couldn't even finish so Jason ended up doing the rest, but with a spoon, haha. And here is the finished product. Braydon designed it on paper and then they carved it. He was so proud of his JAck o lantern.

Random Extras

I love these pictures. Just thought I'd share. Ambria loves hats, shoes purses, any and everything girlie. We went to Target and she found these helmets and put it on her head. After a bath she demands that we wrap her up like this, she likes to just walk around for a while all wrapped up like a burrito.

This was too cute! She is holding her little purse and pushing her stroller around. It was funny cause at one point she had the purse hanging on the handles of the stroller like I do with her diaper bag when I push her in her stroller. And lately she thinks it's hilarious to chase the poor dog around the house with the stroller..........what a little stinker!

Braydon wasn't feeling very good this weekend and Ambria just climbed up onto the couch to snuggle with "Bway-dawn".

This is a daily occurance here. She is ALWAYS pulling shoes out of my closet and walking around the house in them. I'm actually pretty amazed that she can walk around in the heels with no problems!!

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Braydon's Tooth

Poor Braydon had to have a tooth pulled at the dentist last week. His adult tooth was growing in behind his baby tooth and the baby tooth wasn't budgin'. So he had to make the trip to the dentist and have it pulled. He was such a trooper though. They gave him the laughing gas to relax him and numbed him up real good. This photo makes my tooth hurt! It just looks painful.

The poor kid had no idea either. We went to pick him up at school that day to go to the dentist and he had apparently forgotten where we were going and so he was so happy and excited thinking we were going somewhere fun (Jason was telling him it was a surprise). It brought back memories of when my parents told my brother and me that we were going to get ice cream and they really took us to get shots! We were so mad. So because I felt bad after remembering that we stopped and got Braydon some ice cream afterwards.

oDDs & eNDs

A few random pics.....Last saturday we went to Callaway Beach with our friends. It was a blast. The kids loved digging in the sand. Not the best of pics, but whatever.

I love this one though!

Braydon building a sand fort with his best bud!

This was just too funny not to throw in here. Braydon has his adult teeth in in the front, so they are a little bigger than his baby teeth.

And just to clarify, Braydon's teeth don't really look like that. He put corn on them.....I realized after I posted this that you might not be able to tell from the picture. Hahaha!!!

What? 3rd Grade?? Already?!?!?!

Today, my little boy started THIRD grade!! Wasn't he JUST in Kindergarten??? I was able to get a few pictures of the event, however, VERY few because I was specifically told what was and wasn't allowed so as not to embarrass him this year. He has never let me forget about the first day of 2nd grade so I had very specific guidelines that I was required to stay within. First, any hugging in the car (before we enter the school) was acceptable, granted, there were no other kids looking. Second, I was to get all my "I love you's" and "I'll miss you's " out before entering the school where his friends would, in fact, be. Third, If I MUST say goodbye while he is in his classroom, there is no hugging or TOUCHING, just a goodbye and then LEAVE. And above all, do a quick check around the room to make sure no other kids were looking before attempting anything!! So here is the "on the way to school" picture...... Here he is waiting to go to the classroom. The other kids were all talking and destracted so I was allowed to take this photo.

When we got to the classroom, he went and found a seat right next to his best bud, Kaden. And proceeded to empty his backpack. Now, he WAS with me when we bought all his school supplies, but apparently paid absolutley NO attention to what I was putting in the cart, because he opened up his backpack full of the supplies and it was like Christmas morning. He was so excited and surprised at everything he pulled out of there, you'de think he'd never before seen a pencil case, or index cards.........silly kid!

I asked them to both look at me and smile for the picture and they, of course, were too cool for school so this is what I got. But, hey I guess I should just be happy with I did get, because this was, in fact, an unauthorized photo outside the designated "picture time" window. My, how kids change right before our eyes!!!!