1st Birthday

Brayden turned 1 last week, it is so hard to believe that he is now a toddler.  We feel so blessed to be able to call him ours.  He has such a sweet  personality and is so much fun.

We started the celebration on his actual birthday the 12th.  The immediate family headed to Joe's Farm Grill.  Out families went there after I had him last year when they left the hospital. I thought since we "weren't invited" last time, we would all go this year.  It was a beautiful night and as always, great food.  We even had some cake.  We practiced blowing out the candle and he did it the first time, he said more and wanted to do it again so we lit it, however, he leaned to close put it out with his head and cried. :-(  You can see the hot wax and red spot on his head in the picture.

 I have included lots of picture for all to enjoy.

Then on Saturday we had a safari family and friends party at our house.  It was a way to celebrate and thank all those important people in our lives during this first year of his life.  Such a great day.

I should mention that Jason, my dad, and my FIL spent the Saturday before, when it was in the 40's and raining, laying pavers for our new patio.  They worked 13 hours and it turned out beautiful.

Botanical Gardens

We headed out to the botanical gardens the last week of March and the weather was perfect.  We wanted to go before it was to hot and while we could see the butterflies.  It was a great day to spend the morning with some of the fam.  I have to say I am not a fan of flying things, I know they are butterflies, but I do not like things flying or landing on me.  Good thing they stayed away, but they loved Papa.  

San Diego Weekend

We packed up the swagger wagon on Friday afternoon and headed for San Diego. We had big plans of fun, friends and relaxation. We even brought babysitters (Mom & Dad). It was a great weekend but we had some hiccups that we hadn't planned on.

Brayden seemed a little sick Saturday morning, but we all were. He seemed to have a mild fever but overall himself. I left at noon dressed and ready for the wedding festivities thinking he was going to be fine. Well, when I saw him after the wedding he was very hot and not his happy self. We were going to drop him and my parents at the hotel and head to the reception, but we never made it. We ended up spending quite a few hours and the Children's Hospital were he had a 103.8 fever and croup. They gave him some steroids and we took him home. He was a little out of sorts the rest of the weekend and he still is a little under the weather, but getting better every day. We did get to Sea Port Village and the San Diego Zoo. Even with our hiccup it was a great weekend and the weather was AMAZING!!!! I love San Diego and I love family vacations, and I love my family!!!

Our little dutch boy

This is from a few weeks ago, he loved his daddy's old wooden shoes

SEAPORT VILLAGE

LOVING THE PUPPY AT THE NEXT TABLE

BIG HELPER

PAPA SHOWING B THE BIRDS

TRAIN THROUGH THE ZOO

LUNCH IN THE BIG BOY CHAIR

LOOKING AT THE BEARS

ON THE ESCALATOR IN THE ZOO

SNACK BREAK

FAMILY PHOTO

CUTE BOY

The end of a rocky but wonderful weekend!

Happenings....

Not a lot has been happening in the Voss family. We are living life and loving each other. I feel like the days and weeks just disappeared. We go to work, play, eat, and nap. It is hard to believe that Brayden is going to by 1 in 6 weeks. I feel like he should be a newborn still, but he is quickly turning into a toddler. He has such a personality and is quite chatty. (I have no idea who he gets that from) His vocabulary keeps growing and his walking is getting so much better and faster. He is so well tempered and fun, it is amazing how much you can love such a little person. I love it when he wakes up. He lays in bed talking to him self, laughing, rolling around and just patiently waits for someone to come in, best alarm clock noise EVER!!! I know I am bias, but it is my blog!!! :-)

Enjoy our month in pictures!

Going down the slide with Uncle Davis

Going for a ride

First Valentines Day: heart shaped pizza, red velvet whoopie pies, presents, and each other, PERFECT!!

His new car ramp, he even "read" his card

Our heart pizza

First Haircut

Not so sure

Not liking it.

Good thing Carol works fast and can do it while he squirms! :-)

Love that face!

10 months old

Having a snack

"Really Mom"

Loves his bike

A Beautiful Weekend!

It was a perfect weekend and the weather was amazing.   I'm a little sad that it is January and this warm, but we did enjoy it.  Hopefully it will cool down again soon.  

We had out first family outing to the zoo on Saturday.  I haven't been in 10 years and Jason doesn't remember.  It was a lot of fun, that place is soooo much bigger than I remember, we must have skipped a lot.  Brayden just sat in the stroller and took it all in, we even had a picnic lunch while we were there.  However we started with the smaller animals and Brayden had no idea what to look at; by the time we got to the big animals he had fallen alseep.  We know for next time.  It was a fun few hours with just the three of us.

Sunday Jason and I drove to Tucson to see Wicked.  It was my Christmas present and it was amazing as always.  I think Jason got it for me because a) he know I love it and b) he has never seen it and used my Christmas present as an excuse to buy tickets.  It was fun getting to go on a little day trip.  We were gone for about 8 hours and it was nice just being the two of us.  

Monday we went for a late breakfast with the Hache's and then geocaching.  We got 15 in 3.5 hours.  It was great and we got to spend the day outside again with B in his stroller.  He really is a good sport and goes with the flow.

Brayden turned 9 months last Wednesday and I took him in for his check up.  He is overall in the 89%, 23 pounds 3 ounces and 29 inches long.  He is more and more and MORE active everyday.  It is crazy how much he changes in a month.  During the last month he learned to walk and is getting so steady and will be running soon I'm sure.  He has also started talking.  He says "hi" to everybody and anybody, mama and dada to the correct person, "ow" as he hits Zach and sometimes just because, aw dune (all done) when he wants out of his high chair, and tries to copy other words to.  It's super fun and cute.