SundayBaby is born

I have officially started a small business.
I made these tie embroidered onesies for Brayden so he would have something to wear to church. I would get compliments on them every Sunday. Finally, Arielle suggested I try selling at the Farmington Festival Days. I have been working like crazy since February to get enough inventory to be ready for it. The fair was yesterday and we all spent the day hanging out in our booth. Arielle, Ryan, and my Dad were all nice enough to help us sell and take care of Brayden. It poured rain on and off all day but we still had a pretty good turn out and we did very well for my first time out. The lady at the next booth over even offered to sell my onesies in her boutique in Farmington! I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet but maybe some day. We learned a lot about what we should do next time and how to move forward from here. The main thing I'll do differently is make bigger sizes. Everyone wanted to know if I made toddler sizes. I think I could have sold twice as much if I had. It was a really fun day and a great experience. It felt really good to have all of my hard work validated as everyone who walked by pointed and commented on my booth.
My business is called SundayBaby. Roy will be working in the next few weeks to get a website going for me. In the meantime, I am taking orders through my email: sundaybabyclothes@gmail.com.

 I also made these really cute girl's tuxedo top onesies. The long sleeved ones have a button and ruffle on the sleeves as well.

 We had a lot of different colors and sizes to choose from.

 We were selling these vest and tie onesies as well. I have only made the one for Brayden so he was our live model. I sold two of these by special order. Both of them are for baby blessings which I had never thought to use them for.

 I made several sets of soft blocks as well. These actually sold just as well as the onesies. Two of them crinkle and one has bells, but they are quiet enough that the baby can play with them at church or other public areas.

 This was our cute booth. It was a great size until it started pouring rain and we had to pull the tables in...then it shrunk a lot.

 Thanks for the clothesline idea Chelsee! It was the key to our success!

 Thank you also for the logo design. It looks great and everyone loved it!

 (and yes, I cut my hair this week...I love it!!)

 Isn't he the cutest little gentleman you've ever seen? He found the chairs we were hiding under the tables.

In other news........

Brayden is now pulling up on everything and sitting back down again. He moves along the couch and tables...I'm sure he'll be walking in no time.
We spent some time playing outside with the chickens tonight. Brayden was more fascinated with their food than them. It was cute watching him. He was pretty brave at one point and tried grabbing at one of the chicken's faces. She was pretty patient with him though and just turned her head. None of them pecked at him no matter how close he got. That was good.

We really have been blessed with an adorable little boy. He makes our life a great adventure. When he is around, we spend half the time giggling. I love him like crazy and I love him more every day.

Family Reunion and Mobility!

So we took a trip up to Idaho for the Solomon Family Reunion. It was so much fun to see family and hang out. It was the first time camping with Brayden and he did really well.
It was so HOT on the way up there and the air conditioner doesn't work in the truck so we stopped at Devil Creek Reservoir. We've driven by it a million times and never stopped. It was actually really nice. The temperature dropped 10 degrees down by the water and the water was nice and cool but not freezing. We let the dogs swim around for a bit and even Brayden dipped his toes in.

Our numbers at family reunion keep improving...last year we had 3 out 6 of Jeanette's kids there. This year we had 4 out of 6 families there. It was a lot of fun watching all of the cousins play together.

 Roy found this flannel shirt on sale and how could we resist. :)

 Ben was so good with the babies. He was happy to just sit with them all day...until they got a messy diaper of course.

 Uncle Doug clipped his fingernails and Brayden was fascinated.

The kids we messing around with my camera and actually got a couple of good ones. I think Alexis took this one of Peter.

And Peter took this one of Evan. Evan took one of me but I won't torture you with that.

Our coup isn't quite big enough for 7 chickens so the newer ones are getting picked on by the older hens. Since the older hens wouldn't let them roost in the coup, they found another option...

They jumped over the fence and roosted in the neighbor's tree...silly birds. It doesn't happen as long as we let them wander the yard. They roost in the barn instead. I don't know what we'll do when the tomatoes are ripe...

 He loves books...to chew on at this point but hopefully someday he will enjoy reading them too.

 There have been a lot of fires throughout Utah. We had one really close to us on the mountain. This is maybe a ten min drive from our house. It looks like a volcano.

 The 4th of July was fun. We had a BBQ at my Dad's and then did small fireworks at his house. We decided to forgo the Davis High fireworks show because they tend to favor the really loud and bright ones. I didn't want to risk Brayden's eyes and ears. Roy and Ryan were in charge of lighting them.

 Brayden was pretty grumpy by this point.

 She was being the Statue of Liberty.

 We had root beer floats downstairs afterwards and Arielle and Brayden crashed on the beanbag.

 3 July 2012 - Brayden is officially mobile. He has started crawling everywhere and getting into everything! And just 2 days later, he started pulling himself up to standing; in his crib, on my leg, on this gate. It doesn't matter that he can't get down but gets super tired and flops backwards only to hit his head on something. Nope, that's what they make skulls for, right? Crazy kid...

 He even decided to help Dad build the new entertainment center.

 Everyone loves a new church outfit. :)

I love my boys. :)