Catching UP!!

What a crazy few weeks it has been! For starters, my sweet Brayden turned 6! I have more pictures that have somehow gotten lost on my computer and I cannot find them, but let me tell you- Brayden is such a sweetheart in our family. A big stinker, but a big sweetheart!

He loves to sing and we loved going to his school Kindergarden performance.

We had a very small last minute thrown together birthday party for him with only a few friends. It was fun though! What made it even better was my little sister deciding at the last minute to catch a ride with her sis-in-law to Utah. So she helped me with the party and it was awesome!
We had a family party for his b-day as well (those are the pictures that are missing), but it was last minute as well. In our household during a week and a half we had the following going around:
strep
mastitus (obviously me, worst case EVER)
the flu combined with a bad cold
pink eye (2 kids and me)
Bad colds (mine resulting in blisters in the back of my throat)
So that is why all the parties were last minute and why I haven't posted anything in forever and also why it was so great when my sister came and helped out sooooo much.
While she was here for a few days...Keaton got into a little trouble...

He had my mascara! Stinker! And I got to play with one of my cutie nephews!

And my sister and I got to hang out! It was awesome!

And my sister, who happens to be amazing at photography, took this amazing picture of Paxton.

And a few others to mention...

PS- can I just say how awesome it is to walk into the NICU and actually pick up my baby and hold him?! It is wonderful.

Paxton got moved into a big boy crib! He is doing realllllllllly well right now.

All in all, life has been crazy busy and will continue to get crazier and CRAZIER the closer it comes to Paxton coming home because I will need to be at the NICU all the time. But we are excited and looking forward to him joining our family at home.