It has been a long time since I've done anything with this blog. I just got out of the habit. The kids are growing up so fast and busy doing everything. Brandon is busy with work, his church calling, coaching Jackson's HC storm soccer team and being a dad. And I've been busy raising a family. I was put in as the young women's secretary last week. They reorganized the whole presidency. Sara Anderson is the new president, Annie Barker-1st councilor, PJ Maughan-2nd councilor. For the lesson I went in with the beehives and the lesson was on journal keeping. After the lesson I felt that this is something that I need to be better about so here it goes. We had a silly thing happen in our family the other week and it's something that I never want to forget. Braden and Maggie had been playing upstairs all afternoon with our neighbor Ava Nielson. I could hear them upstairs playing house. It was time for Ava to leave and so Maggie and Braden headed outside to find some other friends to play with. I was putting a few things away in the garage when Maggie came up to me and said "mom I need to tell you something about Braden. But you have to promise you wont get mad at him." I looked up and I could see Braden hiding in front of our tahoe scared to death. I promised Maggie that I wouldn't get upset and that she could tell me. So Maggie whispered in my ear "Braden kissed Ava today on the lips". We have had a few problems in our neighborhood with the kids making each other kiss and so I asked Maggie if someone made Braden kiss her. The answer was no. I walked over to Braden who looked up at me with his huge brown eyes. I could tell he was really nervous and I asked him if it was true. If he did kiss Ava. He looked at me and said "yes". Then I asked him why he kissed her. And if Maggie made them kiss. The answer was no. So then I asked if Ava made him kiss her. The answer was still no. Then he said "my head just made me do it". I tried so hard not to laugh at his response. It was so honest!! I love this little boy to death and I love being a mom. I explained to Braden that kissing girls is a good thing but that he needed to save his kisses for when he gets older. And for now he should just give his mommy lots and lots of kisses!! When I told Kaci (Ava's mom) the story she asked Ava if Braden had kissed her and her response was just as cute. She said "yeah mom but don't worry I wiped it off".