Brayden's First Swim Lessons

Brayden started swim lessons this last week! What fun! He is definitely my little water baby!

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Hippity Hop

We had a very eventful Easter weekend. I was sure beat by the time the weekend had ended. I know Brayden sure did enjoy it! We started the weekend off on Friday night over at Brayden's cousins house, coloring eggs! We had so much fun. Brayden understood a little bit better what he was doing this year. We had lots of eggs to color. I think we did over 5 dozen eggs. Saturday morning we headed over to Gary's step-moms. She made us some YUMMY sticky buns! And then had a little Easter egg hunt for Brayden. That afternoon we went to Gary's moms house for her annual Easter egg hunt and lunch. All the cousins came and we enjoyed some yummy ham and potatoes and the kids enjoyed finding the all the eggs and playing outside all afternoon.

That evening I wanted to try one last time to get Brayden to see the Easter bunny. We drove all the way down to Bass Pro Shops and we were an hour too late. The Easter bunny had left for the day! LAME!!! Although I highly doubt that Brayden would have actually sat on his lap.

Sunday Brayden and I went to church with my mom. It was beautiful. I haven't been for awhile again and I loved it. It was good to be there and I felt the spirit strongly. It was another reminder of how grateful I am for my Savior. The love He had and has for all of us. To die for us. To suffer for us. To bleed for us. I am eternally grateful for his resurrection, I know that He lives! I am so grateful for the Easter season for true meaning!

That afternoon we headed over to my moms for dinner. We BBQ'd and enjoyed the nice weather! Brayden got to do another Easter Egg hunt. I am pretty sure he has this down pat after this weekend!

We don't have much planned for this next weekend and I am kind of looking forward to it. Weather isn't looking to hot this weekend anyway!

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Happy Green Month

Green is my favorite color ... therefore I declare March my favorite month! I'm actually looking forward to St. Patrick's Day this year. More fun with my little family so I can color all of their food and serve it to them green... Muahhaha haha...

Another month passed and I didn't post a thing! I haven't been very good at keeping up with this lately! We had a very busy month!

Gary and I celebrated our 3 year Anniversary! YAY, for us! Thanks to Grammy and Grandma Cindy's help with Brayden, Gary and I were able to go away for a long weekend. We took off for Glenwood Springs. Gary had never been and I feel like I practically grew up there because my grandma and grandpa took my sister and I there at least once a summer. I love it! We went up the mountain on the Gondola and did the Glenwood Caverns. One day we drove to Aspen and walked around... little did we know that nearly everything is closed on Sundays. So we grabbed some hot chocolate and walked over to the bottom of the ski hill and did some fun people watching. And of course we went to the Hot Springs. It was soooo cold out and the pool felt sooo good. It was hard to walk on the cold hard cement in our wet suits when we got out. I could have stayed in the pool all night! We enjoyed our time very much but almost couldn't wait to get back to Brayden. I don't take for granted the time I have with Gary but once you have a family we just enjoy so much our vacations with our little guy. The whole time we kept thinking how he would be enjoying all the things we were doing. Funny how that all works.

I'm so grateful for my loving husband and for these last 3 years we have had. It's been a fun, fast, and crazy ride. I wouldn't have wanted any other way. We have learned so much from each other and about each other and I know we have so much more to learn. I can't wait for the years to come and the love that continues to grow between us!

I know I got a little mushy on everyone reading this... but when your in love that's just what happens sometimes! So I'm not apologizing! HA

Okay ... Okay... Moving on... Brayden...

He is getting so so big! He is talking up a storm these days! It's crazy how fast this has taken off. I had brought him to a speech therapist before Christmas because for turning two he wasn't even saying mama yet. And maybe had 5-10 words in his vocabulary. Which according to the doctors wasn't enough or should I say where he was supposed to be at for his age. I don't always pay much attention to what the doctors have to say in regards to percentages and all... but I talked to a friend who said I can get him free speech therapy. So I said, well it can't hurt. Well now he is talking up a storm. She comes weekly to our home for an hour. He loves sitting with her and playing with her and follows directions really well. He still has a hard time with his P's and B's. So she is concentrating on that right now. He has been doing well with it all though.

Brayden has also started taking a dance class. We did a Hip Hop class for about 5 weeks. It was actually an older group that he wasn't age ready for but the teacher let him stay since his cousin Ravyn was in the same class. He did so good and would go in with out me every time. He learned the crab crawl, sit spin, and sumo dance. He still does them at home really well! We had to go back down to his age group for the next session of classes because Ravyn moved up and Brayden wouldn't go by himself. So now we do a Parent/Toddler class. We have so much fun dancing together. This makes me excited for when I can get him started in all his sports. He just seems to enjoy anything with other children and getting out of the house. Although he has been having his moments of being a little home body.

He is still totally into his trains right now. What's funny though is I can't get him to watch Thomas the Train but he loves his pajamas and trains that are from it. We took him to the Train Expo here in town and he loved it. He didn't want to leave and of course I was ready to go after being there for over an hour as it was. I'm thinking he really enjoyed it!

Brayden LOVES horses. Actually that's almost an understatement. He is addicted to horses. We have watched the movie "Spirit" at least 102 times (we've only owned it for maybe a month and a half). His cousins bought him the show "The Black Stallion". So he always asks to watch the "black horse". He has a stick horse and a cowboy hat that he insists on riding at least 5 times a day.

Other things that he loves:
Caillou
Polar Express (Choo Choo Spress... that's his name for it)
Wow, Wow, Wubbzy (Or Wubb-gee... if you heard him say it)
Dinosaurs ( he calls them ARR's and growls usually when he says it)

He has been having some Terrible Two Tantrums that I would rather do without but I still think I will keep him. :) I'm not gonna lie sometimes on those really bad days of tantrum after tantrum it's not like I'm dying to be around him. But all those cute adorable loving moments definitely do make up for it! I love my kid!!!

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I finally did Brayden's 2 year photo shoot! 2 months late but here they are!

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What January???

No, really, I don't even know what happened to this month. It went by so extremely fast. We had so much going on this month that here we are at the very end.

We rang in the new year with all 3 of us getting flu/head colds. I think for 3 weeks straight one or more of us were sick. And it couldn't have been just your normal head cold with a runny nose. It involved vomiting and soar throats and sinus infections. It was NO fun!

After we began to feel better we got a phone call in the middle of the night from Gary's sisters that his dad wasn't doing to well. Actually not very well at all. He had taken a turn for the worse and was put on Life Support. They wanted all the family to come because they were taking him off of support that next day. It was kind of a sudden thing. His dad had gotten sick right after Christmas and he had been in the hospital since then. But he was getting better. Then the one night he had a sudden change for the worse. We met all the family up at the hospital so everyone could say goodbye. It happened very fast. I think it was good for the family so they wouldn't have to see any suffering. Though I know it was still very hard and always is to lose a loved one!

Gary just recently reconnected with his dad after a long period of not talking. They have been working on their relationship for about 2 years now. I don't know all of the exact details of why they quit talking nor do I care that much. It was in the past and I was just glad that Gary was able to reconnect and working on getting to know his dad. I learned that it doesn't matter how close you are to a parent, it's still hard losing one. Although it didn't seem to have an affect until days later on Gary, you know, realizing he was really gone. Death affects people differently in so many ways. I was grateful to know Gary's dad and I am grateful to be a part of his wonderful family. The service was very nice and so many loved ones came and supported the family.


Gary Willard Mesch 1959 - 2012

This past weekend we spontaneously decided to go up to Breckenridge for the Ice Sculpture Fest. Gary's aunt generously allowed us to use her condo. We had so much fun. Our friends met us up there and we had a fun freezing time! Another tradition started for sure!

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No wonder why I don't know what happened to January. We had something going I think every single weekend.

YaY for February! Valentines day and Anniversary this month! Looking for to it!

"Mooo... , Naaaaaay"

Every year we try to go to the National Western Stock Show. We have so much fun and it's even more fun now that Brayden is totally into it! He is going to have to be since his mama is a total country girl at heart! Every time Brayden saw a cow or a horse he would say the sound. Which means he said it all day and a lot. Because they were EVERYWHERE!

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We also celebrated Brayden's Birthday party here at home last weekend. He had lots of fun!