Poppy and Grandma are in town!

Grandma Kelly and Poppy came to town the week of Almond Blossom to visit for a few days. It was a VERY busy week!

We went to Bass Pro...


I love this look Bradley has. Its like he is saying "WHA?! How do they fit all this awesomeness in one store?!?"



We ate out a lot..




And even fit in in John's Incredible Pizza where we played some games...



Strangest part of the trip? 70 degrees Weather in February! Proof its February? There's Almond Blossoms in the background! Bradley and Kiersten had a blast in the interactive water fountain.



Bradley and especially Kiersten's favorite part was the pony rides at the carnival. Kiersten asks almost everyday to see the video of her on the pony rides.

Look how happy Kiersten is!

Bradley enjoyed himself but he will definitely not be a cowboy someday! He was happy to get off.

Poppy's Princess!

Kiersten is in love with her Poppy!


He came to visit us from Maryland for a few days and she was very attached to him.

Turtle Bay!

Adam had to do an observation in Redding last Saturday. I heard there was an aquarium up in Redding at Turtle Bay so I got excited and wanted to take the kids there while Adam was at the High School. Oh and I found out too that it was half price week- awesooomme! Lets go!

Ok The "aquarium" was only SLIGHTLY better than Bass Pro. Not the Miniature Monterrey Bay Aquarium I was hoping for but we still enjoyed ourselves.

They had a Parrot Playhouse where you get cups of nectar and could feed the birds. Too cool! I had a great time. Kiersten was freaked out. Bradley loved the birds from afar definitely not close up though!

Kiersten ran in all excited and scared the birds. One of the birds pecked her hand so she had a huge meltdown! Bradley wanted to feed the birds so I gave him a cup. As soon as bird landed close he freaked out, screamed, and threw the cup.


I LOVE this picture! I want to frame this.

Our original plan was to get Adam and go back but when it was time to pick him up the three of us were sooo exhausted that we just headed home!

Constantly getting in trouble!

Little Miss Kiersty is a trouble maker! She climbed on the counter and got the nesquick down then came into the living room leaving a cloud of pink behind her saying "Momma I uh-oh Milk-er-juice!" That's what she calls Milk. I love this little girl- Just like her Mommy always getting in trouble as a kid.

Note to self...

I should not tear open a hole in the bag of Baking Coco while shopping with Mommy...



Its Icky!!

Bradley's MRI

In November Bradley had an MRI to tell how big and what is inside of his bump on his forehead. They had an emergency MRI that morning so our appt was pushed back an hour. I am so glad Bradley didn't care that he couldn't eat.

I packed a travel lunch pail full of toys and activities for Bradley to do while waiting. He mostly just wanted to run up and down the hall just outside the waiting room.



The MRI took twice as long as they thought because they had to redo the images to make sure they were perfect. I was a nervous wreck waiting! Here is in in recovery:

And leaving the hospital with a pop sickle.

He was really out of it but was back to his normal self within the hour.

So the final results are that it is a benign cyst that is not attached to brain tissue- Awesome news! He will still need surgery to have it removed and we scheduled our next appointment with a children's plastic surgeon of the eye area for January 26th.

Halloween!

I forgot to post about our Halloween!!

The four of us dressed up as the Skywalker family for our trunk or treat at church. I unfortunately left my camera at home that night so I didnt get a picture of all of us. The kids loved going around to all of the cars and after we made our loop the kids kept going back and forth to the cars on both sides of us. At one point, I caught Bradley stealing a handful of candy from a child next to us in line. I took a my size handful of candy from Bradley and gave it back to the kid.

On Monday the 31st the kids and I went to the Treat Street downtown. Everyone thought we were Luke and 2 Lieas. Haha I am Padme from the 2nd movie!

I love this picture!


The kids ate/ took a bite out of almost every candy they got. They were SO sticky by the time we were done!!

Here is Kiersten trying to rip open a sucker.

That night we went to our friends house and passed out candy. We definitely did not go trick or treating that night! They didn't need anymore candy!!