So another quick post...

Well... Many things have changed... I graduated from Nursing School May 2008 and passed the NCLEX in 75 ?s!!! I thought I would have more time - SILLY ME!! I'm working my hinny off as a school nurse and I love EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!! We've moved, twice and now own a home in Placerville which we LOVE and keeps us VERY busy!! Grayson will be 3 at the end of the year - SCARY thought. We are thinking it might be time to give him a brother or sister... In the meantime, we have taken up Letterboxing... PLEASE hit the TRAILKNIGHTS link to see more of what we have been up too. Hope this finds you well!!!

WHERE have we BEEN?!?!

We have been up to new things... Check out the link to our new blog - K??? Meanwhile, will try to get new pix up pretty soon for family stuff! Love to all!

MORE MORE MORE XMAS!!!

On the FIRST day of Christmas my true love gave to me!!! A MILLION PICTURES OF MY LITTLE BABY!!! We have soooo many pictures, it was really hard to tell which ones we should post. One thing I did note is that it is REALLY hard to get some of kiddos unwrapping ANYTHING! They are so fast and mostly you just get backside! Will have to work on that in upcoming events for birthdays and next Christmas too! GEEZ! Anyhow, these are from Christmas Day dinner and presents! See our next post for more of Grayson in his ELFKIN OUTFIT! Oh JOY!!! So cute! Anyhow, here's the Braun Residence with the Kleinknight Family and the Radtke Bunch too!! Hope you all enjoy!!
Uh let's get started with mashed taters, mashed peas, mashed yams, mashed meat??
Carousin' with the cousins!!
Oh my head HURTS!!! Too much mashed mashed mashed yum-yums!!
I'm not sneakin' anything into my gob! HONEST! I think this is about the time that Great Nanny Joyce slipped a piece of PUMPKIN PIE onto the tray... Gotta watch out for that Great Nanny! She is soooo wiley!!!

Uh, you guys have got a LOT of energy!!!
Again my HEAD!!!
Another classic, Grayson is digging doing his TARZAN imitation!! Mama TK started this one night, not sure really why, probably to get the peas to go down the gob instead of going down on the floor!! So, I started doing Tarzan and its stuck, Gray can do it too! HOORAY!
Papa CK and niece Taryn Lee Radtke! Cutest kiddos on the block those Radtke kids!!
Here's another one! They're EVERYWHERE! Go Spidey-Garrett!!!

With a little assistance from Papa CK we can get this done!! VERY exciting!!
Oooooooooooooooooh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Apparently there was almost a bidding war for this little goody for the Kleinknight tree! Auntie Megan got this Paul Frank JULIUS Monkey ornament for their household and its a winning smash!!
Cousin Kylee, I think this is the best pic we have of her solo unfortunately! She's a busy little girl!! My little tough cookie niece!! Hooray!! Toys and build your own fort too!
Garrett??!?! Are you sleeping?!?!?
Ah hah!!! TURKEY!!! The deep fried evil yum yum turkey!! YIPPEEEE

Curtis should be cheatin' in no time!! Somehow that just doesn't sound right?!?!
YOU!!! No YOU!!!! Grayson really has this point thing DOWN!!!
Do a little dance, disco baby, jungle boogie!!!
And we have lift off ladies and gentlemen!!

AND.................. I'm out!!

ALL DONE!

Yippee!! Grayson't FIRST X-MAS!!!

YOU GUESSED IT!!! It's Grayson's FIRST Christmas!! Officially!! It was kind of funny because originally we thought this would be his second, since we tried to induce on the 23rd of December last year. Confused a lot of folks, including us when he didn't show as directed, marching to the beat of his own drum already this kid!! So here's the real first X-mas without further adieu, many many pix of Gray to wade through, so hopefully you will enjoy a few favorites!!
The COY Christmas Elf!!
These with Grayson in the chair just reminded me of a flower or something artistic you might see in a baby's picture book so I had to include all the ones where he was posing in the elf hat!
The GRUMPY Elf!! Scrooge McElf!!
See - sort of like a blooming flower elf? I'm not sure why I like this one so much! Maybe it just WAY too early in the AM for me to be up working on this!! HAR HAR!
The Traditional Elf! Complete with Kris Kringle, Mr. Claus or Father Santa should you prefer!
First Christmas!!!
I'm not peeking!!!
Nope not going to look at the camera!!!
In the chair and ready for the Christmas morning breakfast please!!

Still a little shell shocked?? We drove A LOT and through a lot of fog this Christmas holiday. It was quite the adventure. Most of it in the wee hours of the morning. I think we spent about five hours on the road getting to and fro to various grandparent houses to spread the Xmas cheer!
More flower elf like pictures!
Grayson's biggest thing right now that he is into (other than "BALL!!!") is to point! A LOT!!
Crouching Elf, Hidden Presents...
Getting ready at Grandma Gale's house and kicking it in the spare guest bed!

More of the same!!
Ditto!!
More breakhast shots??
Grandma Gale and Grayson!!
We hope you enjoyed some of the Christmas pictures of Grayson in some of his first Christmas pictures! There is a WHOLE lot more... Going to do a seperate post in a minute of more Braun household pictures from Christmas Day. Need to get pictures from our cousins who helped photo Grayson with Santa on Christmas Eve too! Somehow Mommy TK & Daddy CK dropped the ball on that one... And the camera didn't make it to the Christmas Eve at the Kleinknight household. Mama is feeling pretty lame about that! But on the whole it was such a fun, merry event at both family places and we'd like to thank you all for sharing!! Love - Tristan, Curtis and of course GRAYSON!!!

HALLOWEEN PIX!!

Hey here they are!! HALLOWEEN BUDDIES on the town!

It's a little late for posting it, just two months behind the times, we sure have a busy family. As those of you may have heard from our Christmas ramblings, even that was a half letter! Curt was asked to show the president of his company around boo-tiful Fresno (yikes!) and I've been accepted to accelerate my schooling and graduate early! HOORAY! Grayson is officially ONE!! But not in these pix - he's at ten months! ENJOY! And now that I'm on winter break hope to post his B-day pix soon and Christmas ones too! LOVE TO ALL!

Here is Grayson and his bestest buddy Mason they are a few months apart and make for perfect monkeys on Halloween!! It cracked us parents up with the queries - "are they twins??" - nope, but they sure look cute together dressed the same huh??
Grayson peeking out of monkeydom purty curious about the world at the time... I was amazed that neither of the boys cried and basically had a good time running about in the dark, with other scary kids doing the same and what not. They're tough kiddos!
Grayson is the one minus a sock, we COULD NOT keep those on!!! And he ALMOST got into the KitKat, but - it was mostly avoided. Mason on the other hand scored with his Nerds and promptly shared like a good friend should right?? Enjoy the sugar rush!
YES!!! I'll take that pleassssssssseeeeeeee!!!
Final pic kinda SPOOKY huh?? I didn't think digital cameras could double expose, but yet - here it tis!! Maybe we had someone "with" us on our tour of the town in our quest for chocolates and sweets?!?! Who knows??

The WIG!!

It was halloween night and all the creatures of the house were restless... and amped on incredible amounts of sugar and chocolate... and someone whipped out - - - THE WIG!!!

Baby Grayson - in THE WIG!!
Mama Tristan in - THE WIG!!
Best Friend Mason in - THE WIG!
Mama Tristan's Bestest Bud Robyn in - THE WIG!!
Uncle Eric in - THE WIG!!

Gonna do a few more posts right after this one to get folks caught up! Sorry it took so long, finals this semester were REALLY REALLY tough!! Love to all!