Catching UP!

I am so bad at blogging. I am behind in pictures, stories and everything. These pictures are from the weekend of the dedication. I love watching Brody interact with friends and family. He loves his cousins. We have also discovered that he loves football. Don keeps telling him that he can love to watch it but he can't play it. I have a feeling that when the time comes Brody will tell us if he wants to play it or not! :) We will see. While the boys were here they brought a little football with and it has replaced the big football for now because it's easier to carry and he carries it around everywhere. He is such a boy! 

This weekend was busy but a lot of fun. Saturday I shot a wedding on a boat in Afton. It was so fun. They were an adorable couple with such a fun and close family. I hope to be posting the pictures on my business blog later this week. After the wedding we headed to my parents for the weekend. It's been awhile since we have traveled home or any kind of long distance with Brody!! I was shoved back into the reality of why we don't travel long distances anymore. It's amazing how a 3 hour trip can get drawn out. We left our house at 4pm on Saturday and got to my parents house just before 10pm. Now I will say that we had to run to Home Depot and get gas just after we left. Then we took the wrong road by accident while we were leaving town and had to turn around. Then of course we stopped and got dinner, then later had to stop again for a bathroom break. Every time we stop we have to let the dog out to go to the bathroom so it's never a quick stop. Needless to say by the time we got there we were tired and a little crabby. Then Brodes decides he doesn't like Grandma and Grandpa's house and screamed bloody murder for about an hour. The first night was a bit tough. However we got through it. :) Sunday we stayed home from church. Don got up with Brody and let me sleep until about 9:30. Honestly I was so tired I went back to sleep and slept for another hour while Grandma took Brody to the park. When she got back we gave him lunch and he took over a 3 hour nap. :) Grandma napped too and I worked on pictures. My Grandma and my aunt Suzie stopped by while everyone was napping and I had a fun visit with them. Then in the evening my parents took me out for dinner for my birthday (early birthday dinner.)! It was nice. Then we went to see my sister and my nephews. It was really fun. Brody was so happy and excited to see them. He was making us all laugh. He kept putting a blanket over his head and running around with it. He is in this stage right now where he thinks it's really funny but then he runs into things. It is funny! He cracks me up. We left my parents at 10am Monday morning to come home and again we stopped quite a bit. We went and saw my other sister and nephews. That was really fun. Her boys are very close to Brody's age and they all just seemed to love each other. It's so fun to see Brody interact with other kids and get excited to see them and play with them. They had a big stuffed alligator and it completely freaked him out. He was crying hysterically. I am such a bad mom. I was laughing at him and I didn't mean to but it was sorta of funny! I guess you would have had to been there. :) Anyway it was a good weekend. I ended it by going to a movie with my youngest sister and it was really fun. I love spending time with her. We saw "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2". We laughed and cried together.  All in all it was a good weekend. Hope you all had great weekends as well!!