Break

Well, my friends, I'm a bit blogged out. I am trying to focus more of my day on my responsibilities - keeping the house clean and mounds of laundry :) and less time on the most recent updates on your beautiful blogs... combine that with summer trips and one of my dearest friends coming to visit me for a week!!!!! I think I'm am going to be on a bit of a blogging break ... I'm needing to soak in the sun's rays not the computer's...

I'll give you all one last parting gift...

I love this picture, Kenzie is only 6 months old but she is already an outside girl (and pulling herself up to stand by the door!) I know my kids are the cutest Bradshaw's you've ever seen -- sorry, you'll just have to suffer or come visit us!

Seahurst and Gymstarz

Click on this one if it will let you - there are people, I was trying to give the full effect of Puget Sound and the beach, bit I was a bit too far away...


That's a little crab. When the tide is low there are tide pools all over and they are just full of wildlife, all these little creatures - that then get tortured by cute little fingers :) Once crabbing season starts Brandon and I are thinking of giving it a try. I've never had crab but I think I'll like it - I'm getting braver and less picky :) well I'm trying to at least...

We like exploring, it feels like this area has an endless number of attractions for us to visit. Gymstarz when it's rainy, parks when the weather permits - although people tell me it'll be summer from here on out now that it's July, I'll believe that when I see it, it's already rained.

4th of July

As far as fireworks go, that was the best ever!!! Our friends can light off any fireworks they want because they are outside city limits; combine that with the reservation in the next city over and you have the most freaking awesome, super fun, display a pyromaniac could dream up. I'm fairly certain every one they had was illegal - with the exception of the ones we brought for the kids... sparklers & pop its... Dillon's sparkler unfortunately went out just as the picture was taken - stupid delay!!! Still I love this picture of him :) such a mom...
There were 2 other couples there (who had both purchased 'fun' fireworks) the goal seemed to be to shoot as many things in the air at one time as possible - which caused much running and a few scares... poor Matt, sorry about the one up your pants leg - you'll have to ask him how that happened)

I spent pretty much the entire time plugging her ears, next year I'm buying earplugs! (Alexis, I didn't have a single picture of her before we put the sweater on, dang it. I'll take one and pretend it was on the 4th:) )

Wow!

Man, I am getting so behind! I keep grounding myself from the computer until I get everything done on my list, that keeps not happening so I haven't been on here in a while - sorry to all my followers that are missing my witty chatter :) I miss you all too! It's not easy you know, I'm an addict, I'll spend hours on here not even realizing time has totally passed me by; that's particularly irritating when I just burn through Kenzie's nap without getting a single thing done! Thus, grounded... pauvre petit Natalie...

So to catch up on everything from the last ummm, who knows how long - anytime I don't post a few times a week I'm behind... I take a lot of pictures, that happens when you have really cute people around you, you just can't help it...I was getting ready to go visiting teaching and told Dill to get ready, apparently putting this hat on meant he was ready to go, he wore it almost the whole time.The kids were being super heroes - I think it is safe to say Kenzie is the bad guy... please note the stethoscope around his waist - this is all part of being a superhero for those of you with no boys to educate them about such things. ( I love this picture, Kenz spends most of the day with that expression while looking at Dillon) I have described Kenzie to many people as "having fire in her veins rather than blood". This is only getting more and more true as she gets older - I'm hoping that's stops after a while or she will be sold to her grandparents. Please excuse her dirty face and the fact that those are my pjs (my friends here know those pj's well) tied around her neck, she is the most stubborn person I have ever known - and she's not even 2.Matching pedicures. She's so cute about girly stuff, she loves it! It's hard to see but she has a little matching flower too. Story. We were going to visit my parents in Texas, but for a number of reasons it turned out we couldn't go. I had, however, already told Dillon about going on a big airplane to see Bowzer, GG and Grandpa... my bad. One day I came out to find Dillon had emptied most of his drawers on the floor and was "folding" them to put in his suitcase (backpack) I asked him why he was doing this and he informed me "cause we have to go on a airplane to see Grampa and Gramma cause they miss me soooooooooooooo much!"