2 Year Photos

Here are a few of the photos from Brayden's 2 year pictures session! He was having a great time until we changed him out of his Army clothes! But, overall, we love his pictures!!! Enjoy!

Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco

Another day while Grandpa was visiting, we went into the city (San Francisco) to go see Fisherman's Wharf. It was a cold, cloudy day (very normal for summer in San Francisco). We walked around the wharf, saw lots of boats, saw the famous sea lions at pier 39, ate lunch, and Brayden went on a carousel ride. After all that, we headed to Ghirardelli Square to get some of their delicious ice cream sundaes! Unfortunately, Brayden fell asleep on the walk there and missed the ice cream! After ice cream, we decided to head home....should have just stayed and did more sightseeing with Grandpa because it took us 2 1/2 hours to get home (only should have taken 45 minutes to an hour! But, oh well.....it was a great day anyway!!

You can barely see the Golden Gate Bridge with all the clouds!

Black Eye

Brayden got his first black eye 3 days after his birthday! He was outside playing ball with Blizzard, when they both went after the ball and neither were paying attention to where they were running and they bonked heads! Blizzard's both hit Brayden right on his cheekbone! Here are some pictures as it progressed! It was mostly gone when we had Brayden's 2 year old pictures taken this weekend!!

Muir Woods with Grandpa

Muir Woods is one of our favorite places to visit! It is located right along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. It is just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and is an amazing forest of redwood trees. We highly recommend you visit if you are ever in San Francisco! This was our third visit to Muir Woods and hopefully we will go again before we move! I mean sister has to see Muir Woods, right??

Brayden turns 2!!!!!

We celebrated Brayden's 2nd Birthday with a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, CA. We are fortunate to live only 1 1/2 hours away, so we took advantage of that and took Brayden to see the fish and sharks!! He really enjoyed touching the "fish".
Grandpa came to visit for Brayden's birthday and Brayden just loved going everywhere with "Pa". I think Brayden had a great birthday....his last in California! He will celebrate number 3 in Washington! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRAYDEN!!!

Brayden's 2nd Birthday Party

On August 2nd, Brayden turned 2! It was his golden birthday...2 on the 2nd!

He had a Cars themed party and had two friends come celebrate with him! They enjoyed playing and eating cake! All Brayden wanted to do was eat the cake. He was very patient waiting for that part!

Daddy's Home!!!!!!!!!

We've been busy since Brian got home from his summer away! So, I am just now posting those pictures! Brayden was so excited because daddy brought him home an Army truck. It is a Stryker vehicle, which is the type of vehicle Brian will be working with when we move up to Fort Lewis next year. Brayden wouldn't let Brian out of his sight once he got home. He even helped mow the lawn! One of Brayden's favorite things was going to work with Daddy one day. He got to ride the "Daddy Bus" which is Brayden's term for the 15 passenger van from Brian's work. Then he got to catch a bus and a train to come home from work! Too bad he can't go to Daddy's work everyday!!

We are glad Dad is home and are now getting ready for sister to arrive!!

Laying on Dad's bag so he can't leave without me!

Brayden's new Army truck