Lights out!

Yesterday and today Brandon's school didn't have power, a huge storm took out power for over 4500 homes in the memphis area... (luckily our power was only out for 2 hours.) But because Brandon didn't have school that meant he was at home with us all day, AWESOME!! We have had so much fun having him home with us. We have been having a great time being able to spend some quality time as a family. Yesterday we went to the park and Brandon played disc golf with a friend while we walked with them. It was nice to get out and get some exercise. And then today we went bowling, this was Krew's first time bowling and he did a GREAT job. Every time we would try to help him he would say "No I don't need any help I can do it by myself." a few times he wanted to try with out using the ball ramp to help it roll, and he actually did fairly well. Gray even took a few turns and he actually got a strike. Gray is much better than me and he is only a year old. After Gray would roll the ball he would try to run after it. it was really cute he wanted to do everything by himself too. Here are a few pictures of these last couple of days.

When we were leaving the bowling alley the manager turned to Krew and said "would you like to take home one of the pins that you busted?" Krew was really excited and loves it except it's really heavy so he can only hold it for a few seconds.

Interview with Krew

Today we decided to have a little interview with Krew, he was being so funny and cute so we decided to record it. It reminds me of when I was little and my parents would record us having interviews with my dad after church. Here is the interview that we had with him.

Also lately Krew has been getting his play phone and saying "Super Why is calling" Then having a full conversation "with Super Why" I was able to catch a little of the conversation that he usually has. P.S. Super Why is a show on PBS.

"Bear"ton Graham Turns 1

A year ago Barton Graham Sloan was born. Here he is then:

And here he is now!

I can't believe how fast this year went by... It seems like just yesterday that we brought Gray home from the hospital, 6 lbs 15 oz, 18 1/2 inches. And now he is 22 lbs and 29 inches long and running all over the place, kicking balls, throwing balls, clapping, he says Mama and Dada he likes to tease me with this one every time I say "say Mama" he'll look at me and say "Dada" and then laugh. He has a big appetite he pretty much eats more than Krew at every meal. He loves to play with Krew and tackle him, he sure does love his big brother he follows him around EVERYWHERE!!

The following pictures are all from the birthday bash that we threw for him yesterday. It was so much fun to put together. As you can probably tell we centered it on a panda bear theme and trust me the cupcakes are way more work than they seem.

In this picture you can't really tell, but it is one photo from each month of Gray's first year...

The party hats are suppose to be little "chinaman" hats with panda ears...

Close up of the cupcakes...

Such excitement from the birthday boy with "mama" and "dada"...

Gray wasn't able to blow out the candle all by himself but he sure wanted to give it a kiss...

Then he wanted to be all gentlemanly with the eating...

Dada wanted to get things a little more exciting...

Wait is that Gray or a Mafia member?

I want more CAKE!!!!

Finger licking good...

Sugar overload, body shutting down!!!!

With an older brother and a few friends, Gray didn't even need to open up his own presents...

The Birthday Band...

Just Me and My Dada...

Just Me and My Mama...

11 Months and Lowering the Ears

I don't know where the month of march went but it is almost over which means my baby is almost a year old!! I can't believe how fast he is growing up. These are a few pictures that I have taken of Gray this month and a few of Krew and Gray together.

Gray Loves basketball lately he has been running to the basketball and I will hold down the hoop and he will make it in the basket and clap for himself it's really cute!

I love these pictures of my boys together! They are the best of friends and it makes me so happy!! I'm so glad they get along, well except for when Krew is playing with something and Gray wants to play too so he pulls an Krew and tries to play but Krew just thinks he's hurting him. Other than that they get along really well.

I cut my hair pretty drastically, this before picture is from November, so my hair was even a little longer than this. But it's pretty much the only recent picture I have of my long hair.

Here is my hair, I'm pretty happy with it. You can't really see the full effect but I think you can get the gist of it, this is just the only picture I have of me with my haircut and I'm too lazy to take another one.

Gray got his hair cut too. His very first haircut. It was very sad for me, it makes me realize my baby is almost not a baby anymore. He did such a good job, just sat there and let daddy cut his hair.

and the after he's such a stud!!

Spring Break

Brandon had his spring break this past week and we had so much fun! It was really nice to be able to stay home during a break and spend some quality family time together! We went to the Zoo, to the Park, Bought a kite and flew the kite multiple days ( Krew REALLY liked the kite) Went out to lunch with a few friends at Lamberts cafe in Missouri (about 2 hours away), "home of the flying rolls", they literally throw rolls to you it was a blast. and we did some fun projects that I'm REALLY excited to share.

Here are a few pictures of our fun adventures:

Krew flying his Kite!!

Every time we go to the zoo the first thing that Krew wants to do is see the pandas. and every time we have gone they have been in their rooms so you can only see them through glass, but this time one was outside and we watched her eat it was really cool, for some reason I felt like I was mesmerized by her eating if you ever get the chance you should watch a panda eat it's interesting, we were also able to get some info from one of the keepers. Pandas are so interesting, did you know that a panda only has a 72 hour window per year to get pregnant? I know it's mind boggling.

I turned around after being mesmerized by the panda eating and I saw my boys playing and hugging it was so cute I tried to get a good picture of them playing, I'm pretty sure that Gray is pushing Krew away though.

Here we are at the "home of the flying rolls"

This picture needs some explaining. When we first moved here we bought a new quilt for our bed. Well when we got it home and opened up the shams, they looked like they had been sun bleached. They were the only shams that they had that matched the quilt so we just kept them, but they kept bugging Brandon and I, every time we would go to bed we both would kind of shudder at how they looked. Finally Brandon was fed up with it and said we should take them back, I thought there is no way they are going to take them back it's been 6 months, But we thought we should at least give it a shot so we brought them to the store (Kohl's), we explained to them the situation and they took them back (did I mention we didn't have the receipt either they had to look it up on our credit card). I thought that they would have the same quilt and we would just get new shams but they didn't so they took back the quilt too. We picked out a new quilt it was a little more expensive than what we paid for our other quilt but the exact same brand so we asked if we could get the same pricing and they gave it to us. I'm so happy, I think I like this quilt better than I liked our other one and I really liked our other one. (wow that was a long story I apologize)

Here is our big spring break project, we redecorated the boys room, the boys now share a room which has been... well ... lets just say gray is a light sleeper. I hope he gets use to having Krew in there with him soon. I'm really happy with how everything turned out. I have been envisioning this for a LONG time, and we have been working on things for their room for a few months now and it's perfect, better than I had envisioned I'm very happy with it!

One project that we finished was painting dressers, this was fun but hard. These dressers were my grandparents, and I have been wanting to keep them so I have something of theirs, but they are old and look it. So we revamped them here is a before picture ( we didn't think about doing a before until we had done most of the prep)

And after... I love them so much!! I think they turned out pretty perfect!

This is the vinyl wall art that Brandon and I designed and Brandon's sister made it for us. It's so awesome!! Thank you so much Sami for doing this for us!

Now the main event Krews hanging bed. I LOVE this so much!! It's so cool and Krew loves it too which is nice. We got the idea from Ana-white.com. It's been really fun to do these projects with Brandon. He is so handy to have around!

Oh and I made the quilt, It's the first quilt I have ever made and it is definitely not perfect but I still love it!! I'm glad that I made it. I'm making a matching one for Gray and he will also have a hanging bed but he's not quite ready to have a big boy bed yet, We have everything ready for him when he is ready though.