Summertime!!

We are officially in summer and I love it! Summer is such a fun time with kids! We spent this morning running through the water in our front yard and it was awesome! Braysen cheered from the sidelines while Brylin raced back and forth through the water squeeling the whole time.
I am trying to get this post done today because in about 5 days we leave for my parent's house and are basically gone until July 17th...literally. It is going to be a fun time of lots of friends and family. Another reason why I love summer. So, let me try to update what's been going on with our family.
As I type this, there is a man in my basement doing our tape and texture on the recently hung dry wall. It is exciting to see the progress being made and it finally is starting to feel like our basement is actually going to be a real, living space at some point! My hope is to have Braysen's first birthday party in the basement so that gives us a little over 3 months to get everything done. We'll see if my dream comes true...
Braysen is just becoming a little boy. He is wearing 18 month clothes now and they are none too baggy on him! He loves to clap and laugh. He started dancing this week which is so hilarious. He does this kind of body roll thing while he sits on the floor. It is adorable. He thinks Brylin is a stand up comedian I believe. Anything she does is so funny to him. He especially loves when she says "Ouch!" really loud right in his face. 

No crawling yet. He needs to crawl. He gets so angry when he is left alone in a room and it would be so much easier if he could just follow us when he wants to. Instead he just sits and yells in the other room until Brylin or myself go back to keep him company! Crazy boy! I do have a prediction that he will crawl in the next month though. He is trying. He just ends up going backwards and he has now found he can roll to his intended destination if it isn't too far. I'm not too worried though. Brylin crawled at 10.5 months and she turned out fairly coordinated!

Speaking of Brylin...our little girl is about to be 3 years old! Unbelievable! What a little munchkin she is! The thing I have really been noticing about her lately is her fearlessness. She always tells me how brave she is and I agree with her 100%! I love that about her. She is pretty much up for anything as long as someone tells her it is okay to do. When we were at the Royal Gorge this weekend with Brad's family we road this gondala that spans the Royal Gorge. Her Grandpa Bill was holding her as she leaned out the window. I honestly thought I was going to faint from my fear of heights and not being able to tell if Bill was really holding on as tight as I would like. Brylin just looked around with a smile on her face. At one point Bill turned and said her little heart was beating a mile a minute and I realized she probably was a little scared but not scared enough to miss the awesome view! Needless to say, Bill did not drop her out the window and Brylin loved the trip!

We had a great Father's Day weekend with Brad's family at a vacation home just outside of Canon City (nice drive for us!!). It was a fun weekend of hanging out with family and a seriously awesome game of Catch Phrase. Plus, us ladies tye-dyed t-shirts for all the dads and wrote super cheesy sayings on them and then made them all wear them (at the same time) to the Royal Gorge. One of my favorite parts though was watching Brylin and Braysen with all their cousins. There are 8 cousins 3 and under right now and it was so much fun to see Brylin play with the "older" cousins and Braysen play with the babies. I am looking forward to  years ahead as they all grow up together. And, now we are heading to my parent's house where there are 7 more cousins with one more coming in August so it will be more time for family fun!