May

What our mornings look like ♥

Fun at daddy's softball game

We love olives in our house!

Branson even put them on his own fingers ☺

I love these boys of mine! ♥ 

Touching hands in the car and giggling at each other ♥

We learned by sad experience that you have to check the toaster for toys before putting the bread in #lifewithtoddlers #ohbranbran

Playing at the park by Gm and Gp Bailey's house 

Nolan was, of course, pretending to fall down a generator shaft.

Great Gm and Gp Corbrige came in town for a few days. It was sure fun to see them! They came to our softball game and we went to dinner twice while they were here.

Making dinner and reading Star Wars books.

We LOVE having our cousins so close ♥

I've been so impressed lately with Nolan's climbing (and that he'd getting more brave!)

Sweetness. He's holding a finger on both of daddy's hands ♥

Every once in a while Branson will all of the sudden appear to have a hurt foot or leg. He'll start to walk and when he goes to put weight on one foot he'll stumble or collapse. It's the saddest thing! It happened for the third time in about 6 months recently so we took him to the pediatrician. We took him in the first time it happened and the doc couldn't find anything broken or twisted (he didn't even flinch when he was examined, weird). We took him in again this time and, nothing. Again. We decided to just be safe and do some blood work to rule out any serious problems.

It.was.horrible. It took me and two nurses. I held him on my lap and one nurse held his arm down while the other nurse did the poking. Poor guy! He was flailing and crying and screaming the whole time. I'm not usually one to reward with treats, but I felt so bad I told him he could have whatever he wanted haha. So he got a sucker and we went to get some ice cream ♥

When you asked him where his owwie was he'd point to or look at his arm. Sweet boy.

New Star Wars book and B loves it!

Las Vegas Trip

Last weekend we made our annual May pilgrimage to Las Vegas to see my family!

It's always a good time ♥ 

Uncle BJ got a special little Lego kit to do with the boys. I was actually pretty surprised at their attention span! They are still a bit little for it, but they loved it!

Oh my sweetness! Russ went right up to Granky and gave him a long hug ♥

And Branson brought Granky books to read. 

And Rhett was just playing right next to him. I just love how much these boys love Granky!!

Maybe Granky won their hearts because he was always right there to give them a bite of food ☺

Gp Mathews with Preston's boys

We finally spent the Fuddruckers gift card we got years ago. Yummm!

Then there was these two crazies playing in the corner.

Rhett was a good sport when Branson tackled him haha.

Star Wars family!! 

Swimming at Uncle BJ and Aunt Kirsten's house.

I LOVE this picture of all the cousins! They are so lucky to have each other!

I was SO proud of Nolan! Nolan played in the shallow, kiddie area for awhile...

...then 'walked' along the wall, then...

...went out in the deep end! He was such a little fish and swam out there for probably an hour!

He and Beck were having lots of fun chasing BJ. Nolan kept shouting, "Come on Beck! Let's get him!!" And they were chasing each other trying to "get the Death Star plans" (Star Wars: Rogue One reference haha).

Playing with cousin Logan's toys.

We stayed way too late, but couldn't leave (Nolan wouldn't let us leave) without fulfilling our promise to let him play Star Wars with Uncle BJ. This is his super excited face ☺

Fishing!

Bran and Russ hiding in Grandma's drapes.

A light saber duel not involving Nolan??

My mom told asked us to look through our old stuff take whatever we wanted home. We had fun looking through the toys especially, and the boys liked all the 'vintage' Ninja Turtles, Transformers, 

This shirt haha. I thought my mom made him throw this shirt away years ago! In fact, it actually was my mom's shirt first. She gave it to him when he was a kid and he wore.that.thing.out! Seriously, it's practically see-through. He was pretty excited to find it among his things and reminded us of all the reason's why it's "the perfect shirt." ☺

We found a Death Star at a garage sale down the street for $4 and of course, had to pick it up.

More SW playing between Uncle BJ and Nolan ensued.

He loved it! In fact, he loves it so much that earlier in the day Beck grabbed something off of it and, Nolan thought he was breaking it...so...he slammed it hard on the table (breaking it himself!). Does that make sense to you? Me neither haha. #threeyearoldlogic

My dad saw the tantrum unfolding and leapt into action to save the Death Star. We had to laugh because we never thought we'd see him move so fast to save anything Star Wars haha.

I found this newspaper with a fun photo of my Grandma Mathews square dancing ♥

Silly boys

"Raise your hand if you're having fun at Grandma's house!"

Usual stop at the Cedar McDonald's on the way home.

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The day after we got back Preston and Devin had tickets to see Solo so their boys came over to play!

Feeding cookies to an eager crowd ☺

Eating popcorn and watching a movie ♥