3 of 7...Pumpkins and Halloween Fun

A few blogs ago you may have read about our "Great Pumpkin" hunt...well on this night, we rolled up our sleeves (or in Joshua and William's case- shirts off) and carved us some jack-o-lanterns.

Here the boys are hard at work. Our neighbor, Mike joined in on the carving carnage.

William showing Dad how to connect the dots. Jared found the, "Advanced" carving design in which he found to be more than just a challenge. The next tree Jared decides to carve will be a real one using a chain saw... :)


William and his "pumpkin." It was actually very hard to carve seeing as how this guy was as solid as an Easter bunny chocolate.

Joshua did an awesome job carving his own pumpkin. It was quite a challenge for him as well, but as the pictures show below...his Alien and UFO design came out excellent.

The final products...from left to right...Jared's intricate tree design, Michael's 3d grumpy pumpking and Joshua's "Beam me up Scotty" design.


We all had a great time and the best present of all was watching the boys find their inner "hunter and gather'er" while carving and wielding knives (kinda scary if you really think about it).

2 of 7... A day at the Salt Lake City Zoo

Here are my animals with the animals of the Salt Lake City Zoo.



We think William was more upset with the sign instead of hanging from the fence pole?

1 of 7...Babies!!!

Hello family and friends...I have many updates to...well...update you all on. So these will be short, sweet and to the point.

The first update is brought to you by the letter "B," for Bradshaw Babies. As you can see, the twins are growing up fast and each day brings along something new. During one of the weeks Jared was gone and Joshua was at school, I got to enjoy three happy campers.

Seriously, the boys have been great help with the twins. They love to be involved and I'm always catching them kissing the twins on the head and saying "I love you."

On the other hand, if I could only get the twins to be so cooperative. Here is Gabe giving his sister Gracey a left jab.

Gracey didn't quite like the love tap from her brother, so she was waiting for round two...

Here are some extra pictures for your enjoyment.

The Great Pumpkin

What a fantastic find today from my lovely friend Cyndi...while reasearching the internet for pumpkin patches, she came across this family owned farm that offers an outstanding deal. For 5 dollars a person, you can enjoy an awesome hayride along with picking a pumpkin of your choosing. Our neighbors, Mike and Dani came along for the ride, and for an easy 25 dollars, we all enjoyed a hay ride and picked out eight pumpkins. Yup...if you're counting at home...three adults and two children garnered EIGHT pumpkins... You may be asking yourself, how is this math possible? Well... one of the pumpkins was actually is a wanna-be watermelon and of course, that is the one William wanted. So...now we have seven pumkins for 5 people. Where did these extra two pumpkins come from? The great pumpkin (Peanuts...Charlie Brown...anyone?) said the twins had to carve their own pumpkins right? So there you have it...two pumpkins for the twins...two pumpkins for the boys plus a fake watermelon and one pumpkin for each adult. Better than paying $.29 per pound at Wal-Mart for almost 64 pounds of pumpkin right?

Happy pre-Halloween...look forward to our next blog of the kids in their costumes.

The Best Neighbors in the whole WOLRD

So...I just wanted to let everyone know how wonderful our neighbors are...

I don't want to brag...but..I will..

Aren't they just good look'n people?

P.S. (Britny...this is Mike...I hacked your account...)

Love You...GOODBYE!

Somehow in changing my template I managed to erase all my friends and family links so if you could please leave a comment with your blog or email me at britnyrae@email.com so I can follow your blogs again I'd be grateful!!!

1st portraits

40 fingers and 40 toes!

Us with a six year old, a three year old, two babies, two dogs and a partridge in a pear tree!!

My precious Gracey

Our Family of six!!!!!

I think the babies are still a little small for this set up-I tried it once and won't try it again for a little while. Bathing one baby at a time is manageable - two is a little nerve racking. I'd be washing Gracey while Gabe would scoot lower and lower-there are no straps to these seats

Grandpa Dil

I have been trying for a couple of weeks trying to post pictures, but my computer has been stubborn!

This is my grandpa Dil (my dad's dad) he came to visit and it was so wonderful to see him with the babies. His face just lit up so I couldn't help taking lots of pics. These are just a couple I had to share