breakfast anyone?

What Braydon has been up to

He can load the dishwasher all by himself



Hanging out with his dad and wrigley (good think Ryan can multi-task)





Wearing disguises








Hanging out with his Aunt Dani




Wiggling his ears with his dad.




Braydon likes to eat a bowl of cereal for dinner!





He likes to dunk the basketball




Hanging out in a tree




Practicing his basketball skills in the driveway





And of course, Laughing!

bad hair day?

Mother's Day

We had a great mother's day at the Murphy household. I woke up to some flowers on the table, a long cuddle with Braydon on he couch and some homemade chocolate chip pancakes! The boys also enjoyed the pancakes!


Then we had some visitors. Grandma Marcia, Aunt Dani, and Grandma and Grandpa Lundstrom all came to have lunch. Braydon got to blow bubbles with Grandma...


go for a ride in the wagon...



go down the slide at the park with Pappa watching close by...



Jump on the bridge at the park with help from Grandma...


Swing in the park with help from Grandma...




and finally play catch with Dad and Aunt Dani...


and no mother's day would be complete without listening to your kid laugh!

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was busy as usual. Lucky for us, this year Joel, Kristen, Tyson and Charlie were able to come back to Perry for the weekend. So Saturday morning, we headed to the Perry Easter Egg hunt. On the way to the hunt, Braydon and Ryan discussed their strategy.




While waiting for the hunt to get started, we got a few pictures with the Easter Bunny. Charlie was the most cooperative .




Then it was time for the hunt. We got each of the boys a basket. I thought they would be picking up eggs, so I got Braydon one with a few holes in it (small enough that eggs would not fall through). Once the hunt noticed, I realized it was candy and not eggs, so Braydon had a few problems getting the candy to stay in the basket. Tyson did great! Charlie found a sucker and quit and Braydon got 2 pieces of candy and a leaf!







After the hunt, it was time for us to go to Lake View to have Easter dinner with the Winkelmans. We picked up Aunt Dani and headed that way. We had a great afternoon and Braydon enjoyed playing with all the kids. Mary even brought him his own Easter basket complete with a pair of bunny ears.



Grandma Marcia also got him a few easter goodies. Dad got to show him how to swing his golf club.






Sunday morning we woke up to find the Easter Bunny had brought lots of goodies. The boys all got to participate in an Easter egg hunt in the backyard at Grandpa and Grandma's. Tyson ran around like crazy, so fast the eggs would fall out of basket. He didn't notice, so the Easter egg hunt lasted forever!



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Braydon was trying so hard to find eggs, he fell over in the grass exhausted.


Then when we got home, the Easter bunny had left him a few more goodies. He loves walking around the house putting eggs in his easter basket.



He also thinks his tricycle is pretty fun. He only pedals with his right leg, so hopefully his left one will catch up soon.

Why there has been no updates

I have no idea where the month of April and the beginning of May went. I went to New Orleans for the 2nd week in April and then to Europe at the end of April and got back last week. I had a great trip with a bunch of my college friends and am finally getting caught up on sleep. Here's a few pics from my trip. Thanks Ryan for taking such good care of Braydon why I was gone for so long.

Brugge, Belgium


The Netherlands




Tulip Fields that we biked through




Bellagio, Italy




Lake Como, Italy



Switzerland





View of Switzerland while I was paragliding!

Give me some of that burrito!