The Trampoline

It started back in May....Brayden's first grade teacher did the card pulling discipline system. Everyday Brayden would come home with at least 1 card pulled (which is a warning - no big deal) but I didn't want him to be the ONLY one each day with his card pulled. You see Brayden loves to talk with his friends, and sometimes forgets about the listening part! So, we made a deal back around May 5th, that if Brayden could go thru the rest of the school year without any cards pulled we would get him a trampoline for the summer. (I know about 20 school days was definately pushing it). We talked it up, about how much fun it would be, all summer he could do the sprinkler under it and we could have sleepovers out there, etc...(Can you tell that me and Josh really wanted one too?) Well, Brayden made it 12 days -- with not even a warning! Yahoo! But then of course the next day he got a warning :( He came home and didn't want to tell us, he felt bad.

So for a few days we played it like he wasn't going to get one, and that was too bad for him kinda thing... then we decided to work out a deal. I absolutely dispise weeding our strawberry patch, there really are more weeds than strawberries it seems. So, after school got out we let Brayden know that if he was willing to do his chores that we give him, and in addition he would be incharge of the weeds in he strawberry patch -- we would get him a trampoline. (This is also in trade for his allowance). He was all for it and so were we!

We started looking for trampoline's during the first week of summer, and everywhere we went - sold out for 2-4 weeks. We could go online...and pay enormous amounts on shipping. So we were mentioning this to all our family members, and sweet Aunt Cortnie mentioned that she had a trampoline from when she was in junior high that was in storage that she would give to Brayden. Sweet!! So we attempted to dig it out of storage, and Josh brought it home. Then Josh went out of town, and Brayden and I started setting it up. Brayden was extatic! We couldn't finish, because we didn't find the springs...anyway long story short, Josh came home and finished setting it up. Here are pictures of cute Brayden, first scrubbing and getting it clean, then the boy enjoying his tramp the first night in his jammies. Thanks again Cortnie - we owe you!