Springtime Activities....

So April is halfway over and we have been very busy. First we have Easter. I had to work on Saturday so I had to miss the Hadlock family party. However, Andy was able to attend something for the first time in a long time and that made him happy. I sent him with the camera and he did a pretty good job. I on the other hand didn't do so well at my mom's party later that same day so there are not any pictures from her house. I had to help Tyler find his eggs and didn't have my camera handy. My dad's sister Pat joined us for the first time in a lot of years...I mean A LOT of years. Pretty crazy to see her there. Should have taken a picture of that at least so I could remember that she was there.

Tyler getting his hunt on at Grandma Hadlock's house

Brandon checking his "loot" with his cousins Adam and Tommy

Heck....the Easter Bunny even found us!
Next exciting thing we have going on is Brandon is playing baseball. I am not sure who is more excited, me or him. I am pretty sure he is more excited, but I am for sure proud! I have always been an emotional person but seeing him doing something he loves to do makes me cry for some stupid reason. I just can't stop it from coming. Just in case you need something to laugh at here is the story....

Brandon was playing left field, and he had one ball hit to him. He grabbed it and and threw it into second base just like he was supposed to. It made me so proud to see him play. I am sure I would have been proud even if he totally missed it. Just to see him having fun and loving it is enough for me.

Here he is at bat. It is (what he likes to call) real baseball. The kids pitch the ball. He did pretty well at his 2 at bats during the game. The first one he got hit by a pitch so he got to walk. The second one he struck out but did so swinging. I can hardly wait to see how the team and him improve throughout the season. The coach is excited about the year and so am I. Tyler is a little disappointed he isn't able to go on the field and play too. I hope I can keep him off :)

Baseball in Tooele is pretty big. They have an opening ceremony and everything. They have all the teams from T-Ball all the way up to 15 year old teams on the field and they sing the National Anthem and throw out a "first pitch" to start the season. Bumble the bee from the Salt Lake Bees was even there, that made all the kids happy. He took the time to take pictures with whoever wanted to.

Baby Update Again..

So I am about a week late with this but at least I am getting there, right? On the 19th of this month my mom and sisters joined me for the ultrasound of our little one. I was surprised that Andy suggested it at first but in the end I am sure my family was more excited about it then even I was. Of course I don't think they left as excited...we are having another boy. Everyone...and I a mean EVERYONE was trying to will him into a girl instead. I on the other hand was just a little nervous that things wouldn't look good. I am very small for being 20 weeks and I haven't gained any weight yet, which is very odd for me. I was glad to see that he is growing and is right on track. I am sure they were happy he is healthy as well, but I am also sure they were a little disappointed when the tech said boy. I get another Ultrasound on the 16th so it will be confirmed one way or the other. I hope we can get some 3D pictures next time. We tried this time but the little bugger was just like his brothers and buried in my back and didn't want to smile for the camera.
I waited to tell Andy until Brandon came home from school. I showed Brandon the photos and he got a disappointed look on his face and said, "Another one?" "I really wanted a girl this time." I kinda felt bad for him, but he quickly got over it went and grabbed the baby name book and started coming up with name ideas. Little does he know that his father is very difficult when it comes to names and this little one will be lucky to have even some ideas before he even gets here. We do know one thing...his middle name is Andrew. That is one step!

I thought this picture was pretty cool. A little side profile of the little guy.

He has got some big ole feet!

Let the games begin...well almost

So Brandon has been waiting a whole year for baseball season to roll around, so when he saw the banner out on the street stating that registration was a few weeks back he could hardly contain his excitement. So we signed him up and they informed us that there would be tryouts to be held coming up in a couple weeks. Well, we had snow on both of the days that they had originally been scheduled for so the make up was tonight. He was so excited! The moment he has been waiting for is finally here! We pull up and it literally looked like the scene from any baseball movie where there are people all over the field throwing the ball back and forth with people with clipboards watching their every move! Did I mention these kids are only 8! I was nervous for him! I knew it wasn't a real tryout so I wasn't too nervous but holy cow! You could tell he has switched from excited to nervous as well. That changed when a kid came up to him and asked if he wanted to play catch. Then he was just a kid who wanted to play baseball. His number was 28 (David Justice's number when he was a Yankee...not that I am proud to say he was a Yankee) they lined all the kids up in numerical order and one at a time they were given the chance to pitch, field a ground ball, and hit. He did okay...not the best but not the worst either. He just loves the game and wants to play, and that is all that matters to me. Now he just has to wait to see what team he ends up on and then he will be ready to go. The games start in a month so pretty soon we should find out.

Brandon's Big Day

Today we celebrated a big day in Brandon's life. He was baptized! He was so excited to have everyone come out and share his day with him. We started the day off at 9:00 going to the church. Baptisim started at 10:00 lots of family and friends came to help him celebrate. Afterwhich we went to the Tooele Army Depot to go bowling in celebration of his birthday. It was way fun! We are all so proud of him and his decision to get baptized. There are many other photos but I couldn't find a slideshow website and I didn't want to put a million pictures on here...so here a few of my favorites.

Baby Update

So I went to the dr yesterday and met my actual doctor not just the assistant. He was alright, I am having a hard time not comparing everything (including my OB) to Logan. He was really awesome! It also doesn't help that I haven't had very good experiences there so far. First they made me come back 2 days later for my first ultrasound visit to figure out my due date. Kind of a waste of time when I have to schedule it around my work schedule. Then I go in a couple weeks later and they asked me all the same questions they did the first appointment, like about previous pregnancies and stuff that should have been in my chart. Also, they didn't even know I came in for my ultrasound so it was a little frustrating them not knowing all the stuff they asked me twice. Then they had a mix up with my labs and I had to get re-tested leaving me way stressed out for about 3 days. I understand that the dr's office didn't really have much to do with the mess up in the lab, but they weren't that understanding when I asked for a re-test. I just keep hoping that things start to look up soon. The fact that I am pregnant is definetly a plus. I also was able to schedule my ultrasound to find out what we are having....March 19th is the big day. I hope we can all wait that long. Of course everyone has their opinion which are all the same...it HAS to be a girl. It probably is and I will be the one that will have to prepart the most for that. However, if it isn't then everyone else will have to just deal with the fact that we have darn cute boys and that is why we get them. :) Just wait everyone, soon enough we will know. One good thing about leap year is they moved my due date up a day so we are now due August 13th.

Valentine's Day

Today was Valentine's Day. Andy and I don't really do anything for this holiday, so I don't have much to say about that. He did buy me a Diet Mt. Dew this morning and him and the boys made some chocolate dipped raspberries last night, Yum! However, the neighbor across the street invited us over for a litte party that she likes to put on for her kiddos. Pretty much my kids are her kids, they are there a lot of the time since she watches them for me while I work 2 days a week. We started the night off playing a little game of BINGO. Next, heart shaped pizza. Followed by cookie decorating. It was pretty fun. I think I need to start doing more fun things for my kids. I forget sometimes that holidays are for the kids and not for me. I did manage to pick up these cute litte bug pouch things that I threw in a couple little toys in. They loved them.

Update....Finally

So I am not so good at this blogging stuff. It has been over 2 months since I have added anything. OOPS!
I am going to try to remember everything since my last post...wish me luck :) Well, we had Thanksgiving. Followed by late night/early morning shopping with my mom, I had to work that day so we didn't stay out as long as we normally would but we got a lot done anyway. Brandon even got involved, we went to Toys-R-Us at 9:00 on Thanksgiving night and stood outside waiting to get in.
Wait....the week before Thanksgiving Andy and I went with my mom and dad to Vegas. We met my sister from California there. My other sister and her husband came as well. It was nice to go somewhere for a couple days. Of course we missed our boys. While we were there we went to see the Blue Man Group. Andy was part of the show! One of the Men was in the corner eating a bowl of Captin Crunch and "got caught" he handed it to Andy to make it look like he was the one that was eating it. It was the funniest thing! For those of you who know Andy know that he isn't one to get involved in anything, yet alone a show in Vegas. He just sat there holding the bowl cause he didn't know whatelse to do with it.
On the 2nd of December my baby boy turned 3! We did a Toy Story cake (not as cool as Brandon's) poor kid gets jipped sometimes :) He didn't seem to mind though. It was filled with lots and lots of Monster Trucks since that is what he wanted.
Next we have the month of December...full of holiday parties and treats! Yum! I wasn't really in the Christmas mood this year so we didn't get a tree until around the 10th of the month. Then it took about a week for it to be decorated. We didn't even put up any of our decorations. We put lights in the windows but that was about it. I felt really bad for my kids, of course too late to fix it. Next year will rock!
As part of Andy's Christmas everyone pitched in and sent him to the Bears VS Broncos game with his brother Troy. He had tons of fun! Lucky for him he likes both teams so he wasn't really disappointed in the game at all. The Broncos came from behind to win, but overall the game was good.
On Christmas Eve we were able to take an adventure to the IMC emergency room. Ty decided that breaking his arm would be a good idea. He was dancing around and fell funny and that was all it took. Here I thought his broken bones would come from jumping off the couch, stairs, slides, or porch. But now he breaks it just walking around. :) Two weeks later we went in to get it casted and he wanted a Buzz cast. Disappointed to find out there is no such thing...he went with green instead (like Buzz). He only had the cast on for 2 weeks and it never slowed him down at all. Still jumping and running everywhere.
After Christmas comes Andy and I's anniversary....11 years! Hard to believe it has been that long. This year the weather was nice and sunny...complete contrast to the year we got married, foggy and cold.
Jan 9th leads us to Andy's birthday. Brandon picked out a Broncos cake for him. We were just glad they won the day before so the cake was still a good idea :) I invited his friend Dan and his wife Crystal over for dinner. It was a fun little party.
Another fun thing that happend in the first part of January...I was able to go get an ultrasound of our new addition! That is right folks...we have #3 coming in August. We found out the week before Christmas but waited until the 13th of January to tell the family. It was hard to keep in. I had my cousin Staci make some t-shirts to help us spread the word. They turned out awesome! We are all excited, especially the boys. They both keep rubbing my stomach and looking at the little ultrasound pics of the kidney bean with arms. :)
Well, I think that about sums up the last couple months. Hopefully I don't wait another 2 months to update again. I didn't put pictures on this post, but they are all on my FB profile so feel free to go there and check them out.