donuts with dad

brandon had a 'donuts with dad' day at his pre-school for father's day. this was the 1st time eddie's gone there. he asked if i would be going too but i said, 'hello.....it donuts for DAD'!! he asked what do i do? i told him you just go there to his classroom, eat some donuts, have brandon show you around his classroom and leave. he said he doesn't know anyone......i said like 90% of the dads that would be going to this doesn't know anybody either so ya'll will be in the same boat! geeze louise! so i went! and if i went, bryan went too!

his buddy nicholas.

showing daddy his cubby hole.

cutie bryan just had to squeeze into his picture!some of the things in his classroom.

brandon and his buds!

cute butterfly prints!

when they were sweet

a bit of a flashback. this is when brandon was 2yrs 4 months. bryan was just 2 weeks old. this is a sweet picture of them 2 just feeling each other out and getting to know each other. those were the days.............now all they do is wrestle & fight with one another.

cherry hello

i went to a 6 hour scrap buffet on sunday. eddie was nice to let me have "me" time. i ended up making all this. the above is my favorite from all i made. it was fun to have the time to myself......can't wait to have the opportunity again. thanks to hubs!

(click the photo for a larger view)

brandon's last day of school

remember this picture? this was brandon back in september 2008. he's come a loooong way since the day of pre-k orientation. i remembered he cried and didn't even want to go in the classroom. that all changed the minute he saw all the friends he could play with.

he had grown taller too. the 1st picture, he was even tip toeing. bryan just HAD to be in the picture too. bryan's SO ready to go to school. he can---he just needs to be potty trained. the stubborness in him is making it harder to train him compared to brandon.

he'll miss all his teachers. i'll miss 1 less child on tuesdays & wednesdays............... *sigh*

apple cards

i am LOVIN' how brandon is writing now! his print is getting better. depends on his mood.

these were cards i had brandon write in for his teachers. (i wrote the 'thanks' one below :-)

i made his 2 teachers each little sit-down-and-relax gift.

movie candy, a DVD, microwave popcorn, and threw in random things like refrigeratable (is that a word?) eye mask and magnetic wipeoff list.

brandon's writing is so cute! he will love looking back at his penmanship one day! will have to post pics of his final days from pre-k soon!

these very cute apple cards i got from here. great to have this in my file for years & years of future teacher cards! go check it out!

early bird

what do my kiddos think?? the early bird gets the worm?? they've been getting up waaaay too early! and now that brandon has no school, he gets up early. on school days, it was so hard to get him outta bed. go figure! we have had 2 playdates since school got out on the 17th. we don't have much planned or organized. i plan to let the boys make jello tomorrow in the morning so we can have it by lunch time. i don't like cooking myself so the simpler the better :-)

me please

just a picture of me & brandon from may when we went to disneyland--just him & me. he wanted to ride the "giant wheel". i was kinda scared........so was brandon but we held each other's hand!

a layout of bryan with his "me please" face. how can you say no to this face???? believe me, WE SAY NO! j/k

a card to kick off summer! what's eveybody's plan for the summer? brandon has playdates but not much else. we just went on one today. i got a lil' bit sunburned. more pics of that later and of his last days of pre-k!