Happy Birthday Brandon

Today we celebrated baby Brandon's 1st birthday. It was great, and we are enjoying him so much. I have never seen a baby smile at people as much as Brandon does. I love it. He is such a joy in my life.

As far as the Birthday goes, we kind of ignored it this morning, and just did festivities after our Sunday nap. I made an easy dinner that he seemed to enjoy and then we went and opened presents. My Mom suggested that I get this ball toy for him, and it was a hit. He was loving playing with it, as long as we could keep the other boys from stealing all of his fun.

Can you see the fancy work that Steve did on the wrapping paper?


After present opening we went and had some cake. I took the easy road for his birthday since my life has been a little crazy and I bought cakes at Walmart. I bought him a little personal sized one, and for the rest of us, I wanted to get a specific kind of cake that tells a little about Brandon's birth. Can you guess what kind it is?
A little confused by the fire.
His first taste of the cake

This is .52 adorable seconds of video showing Brandon enjoying his cake. Steve and I haven't figured out how to get sound on our video from our camera yet, but it is cute anyway. By the way, when Steven was 1 I bought him a costco sized muffin with pink frosting on it, and it was perfect for his birthday. Anyone who has a baby turning one soon, I would not recommend these heavily frosted, very messy walmart cakes. I was feeling very guilty about the sugar high that Brandon was getting. You would think I would know which is best by the time I am on my 4th, but oh well.


Brandon is completely done nursing, and seems to be happy enough with the whole milk we have given him. I am excited to put him in his forward facing carseat tomorrow, I'm sure he is going to love it.

We just set up the bedrooms in the house, and I wanted to put the school boys in one room, and the home boys (get it, haha) in another room. So, Brandon has been taught to sleep with a roommate this week and accepted it pretty easily. I am thrilled. Now if he would just stop waking up for a bottle at 4:00am I would be even more thrilled.


In other news, I am failing in the blogging world again. I have missed at least three big events that I should have blogged about. But anyways....... the movers came this past Monday and brought all of our household stuff. It is very nice to have it again, although it has made quite a mess. And, I have decided that this house will fit our stuff perfectly fine. I don't know what I was thinking when I was afraid this house would be too small for our furniture. I would like to have an attic or a basement for the extra junk, but as far as the furniture fitting, it is all turning out quite nicely. I have been going through stuff slowly just because that is what I felt like doing, but I better pick up the pace now. Steve and I are leaving for a romantic getaway to Hawaii next Sunday. My Mom and sister Tawna are coming to take care of the kiddos for 10 days!!! Can you believe that. Don't I have such a wonderful family. So I need to get things straightened out a little so they don't walk in to craziness. Steve has been on business trips every week of August. He comes home on the weekends to mow the lawn and change the lightbulbs and then leaves again Sunday night. I guess in a way that is OK with me, because now I unpack the boxes at my pace and make sure the stuff goes where I want it too. It will be nice to have the time to spend with him in Hawaii though, since we have been apart this summer more than we have been together.
Here is the house after the movers left. I think we only have like 55 boxes, so it shouldn't be too much work.