A Boys weekend.....

This past weekend Ben went to a football match with his friends in Birmingham, while Grayson and I played outside and caught a car show. Grayson said he was getting and bigger and when he got bigger he gets to drive the yellow car. The yellow car he fell in love with, was a new Corvette. He is such a boy and a boy that takes after his daddy.

Grayson showing off the cutest arms ever.

Grayson's new boosterseat

Ben with some of the gang at the game
(Ben, Ryne Haxton, John Baird)

Grayson taking pictures also

Grayson's favorite car!!!

Grayson is standing in this car when he sat down you couldn't even see his head.

Practicing his soccer moves

When mommy is gone.......

Grayson plays with the "big people". He gets lots of junk food and video game time. His favorite is playing the guitar, or picking out the songs the "big people" will play.

Not a mommy tonight!!

Ben took Grayson for the night and I got to go hang out and have a nice dinner and then close down some pubs for the first time ever with some close friends. Never mind that most of them well I think all of them work with Ben but I had a great time!! It will be fun to do that again some time.......probably not to soon though lol

March fun

So March has been fun hanging out with more friends seeing the sights and playing with Grayson!!

Zach, Jen, Sam

Grayson and Daddy

Grayson telling Unkie Don how to do a summer salt.

Non birthday dinner

Me and Unkie Don

Going to dinner at a friends house. My excuse to dress up Ben's excuse to dress down. lol

Grayson doing the wheelbarrow

That was fun

White Easter.......Really?

So we seriously woke up to snow covering the ground on Easter morning and it still snowing pretty hard. Grayson and I played outside from 8 to 9 them we got daddy up and he played to. Around noon Grayson's friend Chris came over and they traded in there cute Easter outfits for snowsuits and hunted eggs. Then we had a brunch and relaxed the rest of the day. Grayson had a blast this year coloring eggs and hunting for them to.

Who's got Strep Throat?

Yup this girl......Yeah so I am feeling some of Grayson's pain. I started feeling bad last night and went in this morning to the doc and found out I have strep throat. It blows bad. I got the shot in the butt and it has done nothing but make me really even more ill. I will need to go to bed.

Scotland and Scarlet Fever!!

My friend Jen and I went o Scotland for the weekend and had a great time saw a bunch of sites in a world wind tour. I got back Sunday night around 10 pm and wasn't home five minutes before we got in the car and headed to the ER. Turns out Grayson came down with Scarlet fever!! Very scary. I have never seen him in so much pain head to toe. I had to take him to an ENT appt. a few days later to find that that Doc realized he was on the wrong meds. Crazy stuff going on but
We think the second round of Antibiotics is working for Grayson. Yesterday morning he was still pretty rough and we went to the Doc for a check up the Doc said if it wasn't Scarlet fever than it was some Kawasaki disease Because he has three out of 5 major symptoms. Neither option sounded great to me but by yesterday afternoon he was happy and running around and playing again. We got him to eat a whole scrambled egg and that was like 20 bottles of coke for because we couldn't get him settled down to go to sleep last night but that is a fight I would rather have them him going to sleep so fast because he is so sick. So I think we are on the right path and that just makes me feel so good right now. He really wants to go to school. But Strep and chicken pox are going around there so I am going to wait until Monday before I take him back he still needs a few more days to get his energy back. He still can't eat a whole lot and everything is really sore in his mouth though but we are getting there.

Beginning of the first day in Edinburgh

Somewhere in Scotland by the Three sisters mountains

Just before the Edinburgh Castle

Loch Ness

My favorite Pic in Edinburgh

Monkey Bread!!!

So my little monkey and I made monkey bread yesterday. He got this little activity book from his Great grandma for his birthday and there was a recipe for Monkey bread and it has pictures for everything you need. So Grayson and Ben and I went to the store and Grayson took his book and read off everything we needed and we got all the ingredients. It was really cute. We came home and Grayson wanted his apron on and we got to cooking. I will put the recipe after the pictures. It is quick and easy and fun for the kids.

MONKEY BREAD

• 1 stick (1/2 cup) room temp butter
• 1-3/4 cup self rising flour
• 1/2 cup soft brown sugar
• 1 cup raisins
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp honey
• 3 bananas

preheat oven to 350,
mix butter and flour until they are like bread crumbs
then add sugar and raisins and stir
then beat in egg and honey
in a separate bowl mash bananas
then stir in bananas
Spray a loaf pan and spoon in batter
cook for one hour.

****if you want to make Monkey muffins just put batter in muffin pans. And cook for 15-20 min.