Happy Birthday Brayden!

Today is Brayden's 5th Birthday! Wow - time flies! It seems like just yesterday I was driving Jenny to the hospital after she went into labor. Kind of funny story actually ... I had gotten a speeding ticket only weeks before and I was on deferred adjudication, which meant I could not get another speeding ticket within the next month or so or else it would stay on my record (or something like that). Anyway, given the circumstances, Jenny didn't really care much about my driving record. "Can't you drive faster??!" she hollered at me in between contractions. She felt sure that an officer would have made an exception for her since she was having a baby.

After we got her settled in her room at the hospital and Tom had arrived, I drove over to David's house to feed his dog. I thought surely I had a few hours before my nephew would arrive. Well, we Holmer women don't waste any time having babies ... as I was driving back towards the hospital, my phone rang .... "Hi Aunt Julie" .... what a wonderful thing to hear! My Brady-boo was born healthy and cute as could be!

We celebrated Brayden's birthday last weekend with a party at a local gymnasium. Everett had SOOO much fun. He had already had a blast playing at Aanika's 3rd birthday party at Pump it Up. In fact, he had already played so hard, we had to wake him up in the car to go into Brayden's party. We worried this would make for a cranky little boy, but as as soon as he walked into the huge facility and saw all the fun things to do, he was off and running again!