Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Stokes' Visit

We had visitors at the house this past weekend: Beth, Jim, and Gavin joined the Allee's at our house Friday night and we started off with a dinner at Zio's...the dinner was good, the service was HORRIBLE...but all in all it was an uneventful evening. Well, uneventful that is until we got back home. Braden had decided that he wanted to show Beth and I this dance he knows, so he ran to his room got his little CD player and started up his song of choice. When "Cha Cha Slide" came out of the speakers Beth and I got a chuckle right away...then the dancing started and OH MY GOSH, it was so cute (and hilarious!). I did not have my video camera out for the first performance, which was by far the best one, but I was able to capture it on video a little later in the evening. I have not laughed that long in a LONG time. His "cha cha" is so funny, as are the "hands on your knees" and him takin' it down to the floor! The clip is long, and there is a little bit Gavin bouncing his booty as well, but mostly it is Braden dancing his heart out for us.

Saturday morning we got up and I made fried potatoes and biscuits and gravy for breakfast. While Beth and I were still sitting at the table Braden comes up to me and says "Mom, don't worry, I will clean it up, all of it, all by myslef!" and he is just as serious as he can be when he tells me this, using hand gestures and all to convince me that he will clean his room spic and span all by himself and not to stress over it when I see it. I just blow it off thinking "how bad can it be", I mean my kiddo knows the rules and doesn't trash his room, so I am thinking he has a few toys strung here and there and didn't make his bed for the day. WRONG, take a look at this photo, I about had a heart attack when I went past his door to my room after cleaning up the dishes. After I was able to get over the shock, Beth and I got a good laugh out of that one too. Take a look for yourself, it is something to see!

Beth and I had decided to go to Babies-R-Us and do a bit of shopping and the guys decided to go to the Bass Pro Shoppes. Braden has finally gotten to the age where hanging out with mom and her friends is nowhere near as cool as hanging out with dad and his friends, needless to say he joined Jim and Josh at Bass Pro. Before walking out the door I came down the stairs and saw this sight...all four of our boys sitting on the couch with their heads in the tv. I just had to snap a picture of it. Just before snapping the shot Gavin turned to look at me, but the picture is still cute.

Here are a couple of pictures of the kids playing, I thought they were cute :)
And here is my favorite picutre of Gavin that I took during their visit :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Gavin is a cute little boy. I bet his daddy turns alot of heads.