Obsessions

Lately I can't stop thinking about......
the beach, retro sunglasses, feathered headbands flower headbands all kinds of headbands, scooter rides, old fashioned polaroids, wedge sandals, summer nights, my hubby, my baby, sun protection, straw fedoras, core4 the buckle, picnics at our park, kinos sandals designing

Braxon stories

Braxon has been getting smarter, sillier, moodier, funnier etc. within the past few months. His personality is really starting to show and he's really fun to be around. Well, he's always been fun to be around but now he can communicate better and every day he does something new. I always have an interesting story to tell Chris when he gets home. Anway, here's the latest of the Braxon stories.... Braxon is finally in nursery now! Well, he has been for a couple months (halleluiah) and he's been learning to fold his arms and close his eyes for prayers. We've been teaching him this at home too and he's getting good at it but he just does it for a few seconds. The other day I sat down with him to eat lunch and just started eating. Then I hear Braxon say "Momma!" and he made a big exagerated move where he folded his arms and bowed his head! It was so sweet that he knew that we say a prayer before every meal and that he reminded me! I know Braxon was sent here to make us stronger. Every day has some sort of challenge, in a good way! That brings me to my next story...

Braxon was taking a nap and I was using this time to read up on my classes since this was the first day I started them. They are all online and I think they will be pretty tough. I'll have to prioritize really well. So I spent about 3 hours on them and was tired of doing that so I wanted to just relax for a bit. I started watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians when I heard Braxon talking in his crib. The show had about 20 min left and I figured Braxon was just playing in his crib, cause he was just babbling to himself so I decided to just watch the rest of the show. When it was over I went into his room and was immediately overcome with a wretched stench. Smelled like poop actually. "Dang" I thought, "He must've leaked through his diaper". Checked the diaper and sure enough he'd pooped. But it was something more than that.... I moved his blankets and to my horror found a poopy diaper all strung out through the crib, on his face, hands, clothes, hair, his big stuffed dog, and all his blankets. Poor thing, I felt so bad and was seriously puzzled about how that diaper got in there. The only thing I could think of was that he somehow pulled one out of the diaper genie thats on the side of his crib. The diaper must not have been pushed down all the way. So friends.... If any of you have a diaper genie push down the diapers all the way and don't put it where they can reach it! Lesson learned.

Easter and The Balanced Man Triathlon

So, I know I'm way late on posting about Easter but I have had no free time because of design. But now it is over! I'm so happy and relieved and am looking forward to a few weeks of rest before summer semester starts up. I'm taking an online summer semester so I can graduate by next May. Hopefully it won't be too hard to do 5 semesters in a row. But anyway, Easter was fun. We started off the weekend by having an egg hunt at my grandparents house. We do this every year and my grandparents hide candy, money and eggs around their beautiful garden. This year I helped my grandpa hide them though because my grandma had knee surgery. It was rainy and of course as soon as the hunt was over, the sun came out! It always happens like that though. Braxon loved finding the eggs though. He calls them balls. On Sunday we went to Chris's mom's and had other family come over and had a hunt there. It was nice weather and Braxon was able to look for eggs longer.

Chris was the director of a triathlon for Sig Ep, the fraternity he's in. He did a lot of hard work for it like getting the right permits, getting sponsers, designing shirts, getting volunteers, planning the route and many other things. It was a lot of work but it turned out great! He increased the participants from 90 last year to 150 this year. The triathlon raised over $2500 for Youth Aids, the Sig Ep philanthropy. I'm way proud of him and all his hard work!