The Fab Four

New New New

2010-02-14T13:05:00.000-08:00

If you are looking on this blog I started a new one and I decided that too many friends and family would like to look at it so here is our new website!

www.callusfun.blogspot.com

A new look!

2009-10-25T15:52:00.000-07:00

Ok so I have decided to change our blog and give it a new look and give it a new address!
AND we are going to go Private as well! So please comment on here and tell me what your email address is so I can send you an invite to our new blog!!

People's addresses I would love to have that I don't have yet!:
Christy (that's you hoffa!) i have no idea what your married last name is!! I feel so dumb!
Erica McKnighton
Angela Walker
Laura Sorensen
Shea Thurman
Heather Dalton
and all the rest of you!!

Or if you haven't looked at my blog in a super long time email me and I will add you!

briannecall@gmail.com

Witches Galore!

2009-10-12T18:55:00.000-07:00

I probably would've taken more pics at Gardener village but then my camera died!! Super cute witches were all over the place. These were some of the cute pics we took while we hung out there a couple weeks ago! Hunter reaching for grandpa to get him off that Bail of Hay!! yeah so much for keeping the mickey mouse costume. He is getting way too big for it now!! It's my favorite costume I have ever bought!!

Grandma lynda and Mayley hanging out by a really cool antique Sleigh.

I couldn't resist! I thought this was the funniest witch display out of all of them!!

Bryan thought this picture is hurting their bums!! So cute!! It was a fun time enjoying the day with Bryan's Parents. They are Wonderful Grandparents!! A special thanks to Grandpa Call for coming with us! We were glad you came to be with us this day!

Messes a WHOLE lot of 'em!

2009-10-12T18:45:00.000-07:00

Hunter and Mayley decided they wanted to paint each other's faces the other day with some paints. I was near by them but I was focused on doing something on the computer. Hunter came running down to me and said "Look at me Mommy!" I was laughing so hard. So were they!! It was all over both of them! He was trying to hide from me so he snuck underneath the table!! I love I got this pic of him!!

Then another day I tried to do a fun craft with them!! WHAT A MESS!! LITERALLY! You get wax paper, glue, and food coloring, and a popsisicle stick. You let your kids draw and go to town being creative with their little minds. Mine just made a HUGE mess!!!

This was the beginning of what became a gigantic mess. Don't worry (mom and mother in law) I was watching them the whole time and helped them make some cute things!

Tuesdays=Gymnastics

2009-09-30T13:08:00.000-07:00

The kids love tuesdays because we get to go to Gymnastics! After they swing on the bar they have to say "TA DA" and stick their hands up in the air. It's so cute! It's so much fun to watch my kids have someone teaching them besides their mom or dad. Sorry the pics are kinda fuzzy!! I will have take more a different day! Their teacher is darling too! She thinks of the funnest stuff for them to do at each class. I'm glad I have tuesday's to look forward for something for us to do!!! WE LOVE IT!

California Here We Come!

2009-09-27T21:32:00.000-07:00

Hunter just passing some of the 1,693 miles that we traveled over the past five days. Hunter and Mayley were excellent passengers. It could not have gone any smoother!The trip started by staying in Primm, NV. The highlight was definately the monorail. We would just ride it back and forth between the casinos. As we crossed the Nevada/California border, we never saw a sign that said "Welcome to California" but once we saw this get-up we felt more than welcomed. Nothing like a purple motorcyle in the back of your car.

Hunter ate his first "In and Out" although the stickers were more of a hit than the hamburger itself. He will learn what is important in life as he gets older. Bryan could have eaten there every meal. We all loved going to coronado beach. The kids had a blast playing in the sand and in the water. The water was cold so we just got in up to our knees.

Sea World is awesome. The kids loved looking at all the animals, petting the dolphins, feeding the sea lions, looking at the manatee's and seeing a fish that looked like nemo and dory was also a highlight, and who could forget Shamu.

The San Diego Zoo was awesome. The animals are so close and you can see so many cool things. Our favorites were the gorillas, and the polar bears. The polar bears had just jumped into the water and were swimming around as we got to that exhibit. It was so cool to be just on the other side of the glass and have them swim past. They are huge.

Hunter and May Blowing out Candles!

2009-09-20T20:42:00.000-07:00

Hunter's invention with the kleenex box!

2009-09-18T13:06:00.000-07:00

I was laughing so hard!! What a creative little man...he made the kleenex box look like "MACK" from Cars. We definently need to just get him a mack. Sad that he has to make it out of a funny box!! he did this all by himself! I feel like such a proud mom!! what a stud!

A fun website!

2009-09-18T13:04:00.000-07:00

I found this website today with fun jumprope games to play with your kids!!!

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002150/jumprope/jumpindex.html

My kids love to play jumprope and I'm always trying to sing the little chants like "Cinderella dressed in yellow" That's the only one I remember!

I'm READING!!

2009-09-15T08:36:00.000-07:00

My sweet friend Rachel has been telling me about this book and how great it is. We seem to go through a lot of the same things as moms. So I kept telling her I WANT TO READ IT!! She brought the book over so I could borrow and read it. yes I know I'm not much of a reader but its like reading scriptures. It's so UPLIFTING and wonderful. I feel like such a better person for being a mom and raising my children. I'm already on the third chapter which is pretty good for me since I have a hard time reading. I feel the spirit as I read it and I'm making myself make time for it everyday! I just want all of you wonderful moms to go get this book and read it. It costs about 14-15 dollars. It will make you feel so awesome!!! Thanks Rachel you are the greatest!!

Here is a quote from the book: President Kimball Taught "A Woman will find no greater satisfaction and joy and peace and make no greater contribution to mankind than in being a wise and worthy woman and raising good children. We must further exemplify in our own homes what it means to be a 'joyful mother of children'.....we must lead in our duty to glorify motherhood!!!

how awesome is that?!?! I love the prophets!

Hiking with the Fam!

2009-09-13T21:21:00.000-07:00

Labor Day we got to go on a super pretty hike with the Call Fam. We went up to Albion Basin up by Alta Ski resort and went on a mile hike up to Secret Lake. We were waiting for the shuttle to come and take us to the trailhead cause there were lots of people waiting to hike up there. I ran into some dude from Murray that had a Lacrosse shirt on. of course he was a lot younger than us but it was fun to make conversation while he was waiting. I feel old when people say that they graduated like 2 or 3 years ago. WHOA! When we got to the top it was a pretty lake!! We actually took mayley here when she was only a couple months old!! I wish I could show the pic of me and her sitting on a little rock. She was so little and so cute! holy cow how time flys!!

One of the funniest things while we were up there playing at the lake was Bry's mom busted out this yummy chocolate cake. She wanted to make sure and celebrate and sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY outloud to bry just in case we wouldn't be together during his birthday. Hunter is already digging in OF COURSE! It was a super yummy cake!

Me and Bubs just chillin at the lake!

Bry found this cool rock and climbed up to the top with Hunter. Me and May went up afterwards. It was a pretty view from the top!

Sorry about all the random pics!! I still need to figure out how to blog my pics! it's confusing to me!

Bee's game with the Eggetts!

2009-09-08T15:16:00.000-07:00

This is my favorite pic I got of Hunter during the night!! He loves playing the on grass! ohhhhhhh love this pic! Yeah gotta teach him to stay 5 feet back but its just so cute how he holds onto the fence!

The favorite part of the kids' night is going on the free little choo choo train with dad!!

Hanging out with Breanne and Madison!! Their favorite little friends!

Puppies for fun!!

2009-09-08T15:00:00.000-07:00

Our cute neighbors showed us their 6 week old puppies last week. I think I mentioned it in my last blog! holy cow! They were so darling. ON saturday Bryan and his dad were working on the basement so the kids took Grandma Lynda over to Brooke and Ty's house again to show her the puppies! They are soooo stinking cute!

This little guy just sat up on Lynda's lap! He looked like a bunny because he was almost ALL white!

Mayley was in heaven with all the puppies surrounding her!

She loved holding and picking them up too!!

Highlights of the week!

2009-09-04T10:17:00.000-07:00

Highlights of the week!

Sunday: We went to see our good friend's the Caspers bless their baby in Murray. Fun times!! The kids had fun playing with Easton and the Doggies (penny and Maisy).

Tuesday: Me and Mayley got our haircuts!! Mayley was an angel!! 1st haircut ever where she didn't scream flinging her arms and trying to get out of the chair! PHEW!! Plus I only had to pay 5 bucks for her haircut!! I love the girl brooke who cuts my hair! I highly recommend her. Mayley sat on my lap so calmly and we had her look at the cape and she was wonderful!! She got a little bob!! So cute!

Thursday: We went to the park with our friends and got to go see 6 week old puppies and play with them at the neighbors house!! I wanted one soooo bad. They were a brittney/cockerspaniel mix!! DARLING! I wish I had my camera. Mayley would pick them up and carry them around. They were so small and their faces were sweet and cute!!

Two Buck Tuesdays!

2009-08-30T21:32:00.000-07:00

This last week was a super slow week for me and kids. So I thought "Hey everyone will be back in school this week. Let's go down to thanksgiving point and get in for only two bucks at the dinosaur muesum." I was pretty much CRAZY for even going. There was a HUGE Line out the door and like A MILE long to get into the place. But I thought "What the heck I just drove an hour to get here just be patient!" I called Lynda to come with us for some extra help with the kids since Mayley and Hunter pretty much dominate me 2 to 1. So it's nice to have extra company to help me with the kids when going to a huge museum. Did I say how INSANE the line was. It wasn't bad but we waited about 45 minutes to get IN the doors. I love this museum!! It's fun to see all the amazing things inside!! Playing with some toy Dinosaurs.

They even have huge fossils of fish that lived in the ages of when dinosaurs were on the earth! how cool is that!??!

it's BRUCE from Nemo!! That's what Mayley and Hunter said when they saw the Shark!!

Playing in the sand and looking for bones and feeling exhausted from touring the museum with a million people around!!!

Just for fun pictures of fun things!!

2009-08-24T08:36:00.000-07:00

Every year we make it a tradition to go down to Alpine for Alpine days! The kids went slippin sliding and down a bounce house slippin slide and played in the water. Mayley had a blast!! Hunter was a little scared of the water slide but mayley took him one time before they put it away. she kept butting in line....Yeah like she knows there is a line. It was kinda funny!

It was SOOOO fun to go to the Alpine Days Parade Saturday morning because my whole family was there (well almost) Parker, Ali, and my Aunt and Uncle and Cousins were there from Vegas too because they were in town. My uncle always has some funny thing he does. This time he was wearing the Huge STAR glasses he got for a quarter at the senior center. The parade is the coolest ever. The kids got lots of candy, popsicles and fun toys!

A pic of me and my cute little mayley girl before church on sunday.

A cute pic of the kids going for a walk on sunday up by the little lake in tooele by Settlement Canyon.

Mayley and Hunter playing games at Hailey's birthday party! They loved it.

Hunter being super funny and putting his shorts on his head. He did it all by himself. There isn't a day that he doesn't make us laugh!

BURRITO WRESTLING

2009-08-21T13:52:00.000-07:00

When Bryan and I were dating one of our favorite things to do was Burrito wrestling. Wrapping yourself up in a blanket without any arms is fun and cheap entertainment!! We are teaching our kids at an early age!! we laughed so hard the other night watching the kids burrito wrestle for the first time!

August is such a fun month!

2009-08-15T11:39:00.000-07:00

I got the kids' pictures taken at a studio a couple weeks ago. It was fun and they looked so darn cute.

YAY!! My computer is officallly fixed!! I was without blogging for a couple weeks and it wasn't fun cause I have so much that I have been wanting to blog.

The 1st we went to the nascar races at MillerMotor Sportspark. We went with my aunt, uncle, and cousins. It was fun to hang out with them and see the races. The cars were super loud but Hunter LOVED the cars. Mayley was more excited about riding the shuttle around the park. She said that was her best part of the day. We got to go to dinner at Bajio, then we went to a birthday party for a little boy in our ward. They had a pinata and super yummy food at the party. It is a Phillipino family so they had amazing phillipino food. I used to visit teach this family so I felt super excited that we were invited to come. Then we were watching our neighbors dog so we went and fed and played with him in their backyard. what a fun day! We also watched their bird at hour house named PELLY. (pele named after the brazilian soccer player)!

Mayley got to go meet dora at the Tooele County Fair. We waited for like 2 hours to see her. It's a pretty lame looking Dora and mayley was actually kind of scared to see her but it was fun cause they had lots of stuff for the kids to do! The kids got to pretend to be on a farm and a clown made mayley a pretty flower balloon and hunter an airplane balloon.

More pics to come of our other adventures throughout the month! Like Alpine Days, and the kids dancing and burrito wrestling! A pasttime of bry and I's.

Which mow lawn do you like!?

2009-07-31T15:51:00.000-07:00

Hunter found the sears ad in the newspaper the other day and found a WHOLE page of MOW LAWNS. He showed it to Bryan and they would make sounds together and then the next day (monday) he carried it around the whole entire day looking at his mow lawns!! I laughed so hard. It was so stinking cute! One of the funniest things I think Hunter has done!!

Better than Christmas!!

2009-07-21T19:30:00.000-07:00

The anticipated day as arrived!! Hunter gets his present that he has been waiting for FOR a LONG TIME!!!

Birthday Fun!!

2009-07-21T19:23:00.000-07:00

Hunter's birthday cake turned out SUPER CUTE!

He got a GIGANTIC fun Thomas the train book!!

Bry has always wanted hunter to have cowboy boots. So he got some and mayley couldn't go without some either so they both got a pair! SO CUTE!!

Hunter was way too busy checking out his cake and playing with the car toppers that grandma brought!!

A beautiful message by Elder Holland

2009-07-19T10:19:00.000-07:00

The music that is playing in the background I'm pretty sure was played in the video they showed at the sao paulo temple open house when I was on my mission. I love this music. Brings back memories!

A real tooth puller!

2009-07-18T09:58:00.000-07:00

Thursday afternoon my back molar started bothering me really bad. I had cankers in the back of my mouth too which made it worse. I have always had this molar in the back of my mouth that never grew in all the way. When I had braces back in jr. high my orthodontist tried to pull it up with a special chain but it never decided to come up. The past couple of months my dentist has been encouraging me to go get it taken out but I never worried about trying to take it out because it has never bothered me.

I was in so much pain thursday afternoon that I called my dentist and he said the only thing to do was call an oral surgeon to get it out. So I called, Dr. Christensen, who took out my wisdom teeth also. The receptionist was so worried about me she said come in tomorrow at noon and we will take out your tooth!! I couldn't believe it!! After all of these years I was getting that dumb tooth OUT!

My mom came and stayed with me the whole time and Bry took care of the kids for me. We waited forEVER to finally to see the Dr. We read lots of fun magazines together. When it was my time to go back they hooked me up to machines and numbed me and so that a needle could go inside me and put anetestics in me. The last thing I remember the Dr. saying to me is that I was going to fall alseep really fast. I woke up on a bed in the middle of a hallway with my mom talking to me and a nurse making sure everything was ok. On the way home I slept but I kept trying to talk to Bry. I asked him if I could get a pizza for dinner!! HAHA! Those anetestics sure to wacky things to ya.

Talk about a lot pain though. It was like getting another wisdom tooth out. CRAZY! I'm glad its out and I'm slowly but surely recuperating.

Bryan is the best hubby and dad I could ever ask for. He is sure an amazing man who is taking good care of me and the kids. I love him so much!! I sure am a lucky woman!

This little piggy

2009-07-12T15:52:00.000-07:00

Hunter decided to make piggy noises last night...SNORTING!! I was pretty much rolling on the ground! What a hilarious kid. He is good at picking other people's noses too!!

Fun at Tracy Aviary

2009-07-07T12:48:00.000-07:00

We went to Tracy Aviary with Bryan at Liberty Park for some fun this week!!

We got to see the very end of a bird show. This is a pretty Macaw bird flying through the air. They are beautiful and Bright!! Bry and I got to hold these on our trip to Mexico this last Jan.
There was a little exhibit of birds that lived in Argentina. They had this little fence the size of the kids. So fun!

My favorite birds were the Flamigos!! They are seriously awesome birds!

Bry took a picture of this funky bird. It was flying around in its cage. I love its hair!

An eagle is bigger than Mayley HOLY COW!!

I love 4th of July!!!

2009-07-07T12:35:00.000-07:00

We went to the Tooele Parade in the morning. Grandma Lynda came with us too. Later that night we went to our friends house for a fun BBQ and Swim party. It was a blast. Everytime Mayley would go down this little slide she would run over to me and say "I DID IT" and high five me!!

Hunter showing off his black man high jumping skills!

Hunter probably ate the most popsicles out of all of the kids. Logan and Destiny probably helped him open them up!!!

Hunter found this princess hat at the party and wore it everywhere!!! He loves hats.

Through the Spooky Forest...

2009-07-07T12:20:00.000-07:00

I absolutley love being in the mountains so last night at the last minute we decided to go up and have S'mores, make a fire, and have a lesson for FHE. These aren't the best pictures because the kids were having too much fun. Bry made us an awesome fire, while the kids were wandering and discovering. Mayley decided that she was in the SPOOKY FOREST like DORA. We have a book we read about how Dora has to go through the Spooky Forest. So we made up a game...we had to go through the spooky forest, up the rocky ridge (climbing over the rocks), up the big hill and to the BIG FIRE. The kids thought it was so awesome to be EXPLORING like DORA. We read the story of Ammon with our new Gospel Art picture book that we got for Bryan's father's day present from our ward.

Mayley is even wearing Dora Sunglasses!!

an orange creamy eaten by hunter!

2009-06-29T14:37:00.000-07:00

I thought these pics were so cute of Hunter eating his creamy on a hot summer day!! Can a kid get any messier!? He was in heaven eating that creamy too!! He was so cute cause I taught him the word ORANGE and he says it so cute now. "ORCHA"

Oqurrih Mtn Temple Open House!

2009-06-29T14:17:00.000-07:00

My kids were angels this time!! I know exactly how my sister felt because she had the same problem that happened to me during the draper temple open house. We got to go with my Grandparents, and my sis who is here from CALI for the week. I love being with my family. The kids loved the fountains in the front!

My photography skills. Did you know that the Angel Moroni got struck by lightening!??! You can see his arm is all black. SAD :(
Hunter is hilarious when he smells flowers. He sniffs out instead of in. It's so awesome. It always makes me laugh!

Saying cheese after much success with my children at the end of the tOur!! WAHOO!!

I love the temples. I know they are the Lord's house and that we can truly feel close to Heavenly Father when we are in his house. I think Bryan and I are going this friday on date to temple. It's been awhile!!

Glimpse of some fun family pics!!

2009-06-24T16:10:00.000-07:00

So this week is pretty awesome!! We had a bday party for my mom last night. Family pics with immediate fam at an awesome park across from the MT. Timpanogos Temple and playing with our fun waterslide!!

All of my parents grandkids!! Mayley, Hunter, Alexandra, Avery, Caden, and Miles

Mayley and Hunter could not get enough of this bench!

My sisters cute fam!!

Mayley was having so much fun running wild when it wasn't her turn getting a pictures taken!!
Caden is about the cutest cousin ever. He loves Mayley and Hunter. He had to ride in the car with us so he could hang out with them on the way home. Mayley and Caden played hide and seek for a long time last night!

Rusty The Horse!

2009-06-24T15:40:00.000-07:00

I am a slow blogger I have decided!! Last Thursday Bry was up in the Uintahs with the Preists camping. so Me, Mayley, and Hunter got to go play with their cousins Abbie, Anna, and Megan and ride horses. Bryan's older cousin is horse trainer and let us go up to where keeps her horses up in Sandy. Mayley has her shy moments and didn't care to ride the horse. But She did get the courage up to pull Rusty the pony around. Mayley and Hunter had fun playing the in the sandbox and looking at all the horses though. I'm glad for the fun times my kids can experience. Maybe in the near future they will have the desire to say "GIDDY UP" and ride a real pony or horse!! Megan, Hunter, and, Mayley sitting on some HAY while looking at the horses in their stables!

Youth Conference SNOW COLLEGE!!

2009-06-15T09:45:00.000-07:00

I was invited to go to Youth Conference by the Young Women's President in our ward this year. None of the leaders could go except 2 so I was the 3rd leader for the Young Women. I absolutley love doing things with the Youth and I loved getting to know the Young Women in our ward. I have been in primary the whole time we have lived in tooele so It was so fun to get to know the Young Women more!! I have been to Snow College maybe once so it was fun to go down to Ephraim and Manti. Snow has a youth conference staff and they had tons of fun things to do. When we first got there they had fun games for the stake and other wards to play like volleyball and these fun elastic bounce things. I did it and fell on my butt and I was laughing pretty hard!!
I got the kids to play on the big twister mat. It was homemade! what a creative idea. All of the kids were standing around so I said. COME EVERYONE LETS PLAY!!

I was trying to stay up. The kids were better at it than I was!!
The young men and young women are a small group but they are pretty fun and crazy kids!!

Snow has a youth conference staff and they had tons of fun things to do. We played water games for 3 or 4 hours. There were tons of fun things they had planned. One of the Young Women got Bry to go down the Bounce water slide. Since Bry was already wet he decided to have fun and do the slippin slide too!!

They played crab soccer. They would get the ball wet but it started to get cold and rain so they stopped the hose. Bry was good at this. I was the picutre taker for everyone. I just watched everyone playing games.

They had water balloon launchers too. Bry and Bro Dave Greco had fun being the launcher holders. Dave Greco is quite the funny man. It was fun getting to know him better too!

We listened to a fireside given by Travis Osmond (Merrill Osmond's son) He gave me a guitar pick that was played by donny osmond. I gave it to my mom because my mom LOVES Donny. We had a dance that night and it was fun to dance with my hubby. I was sad cause Hunter had an ear infection but it was a blessing in disguise because my parents were able to take him to their friend who is a doctor and was able to get him some amoxillian fast.

On saturday we went up to a ropes course in the moutains. It was super fun to watch the youth. Then we went by the Manti Temple and had a super yummy lunch while it poured rain and then it cleared up and the stake had a testimony mtg. I loved being with the youth!! What a fun time to learn so many new things and new lessons about life. I love serving in the church!! Its just amazing and awesome!!

New SANDBOX!!

2009-06-15T09:04:00.000-07:00

A bunch of friends have huge sandboxes and we had this little turtle one and we thought it was time for a BIG ONE the kids could enjoy themselves in. So Bry went and made an awesome sandbox for the kids last monday!! They love it! Hunter is such a good little helper and loves to help his dad with the tools. He is such a little boy!! I took a before pic of the sandbox but it looks awesome and the kids love it!

Gone Fishin'

2009-06-03T19:37:00.000-07:00

We went Fishing on Memorial Day. It was pretty awesome. The kids loved holding the fishing poles and Mayley was good at saying "here fishy fishy" Ali and Parker showed us their little fishing spot. You have to walk through tons of weeds and mud to get there but thats what made it fun. The fish were CATFISH so we would catch them and throw them back into the water.

Hunter checkin out the fishy!!

Then we went back to my parents house and had an awesome BBQ. It was super yummy.

We went and saw my great grandparents graves with my aunts, uncles, and cousins with the Redding family! We went and saw my Great Grandpa Bert and Adaline, and Great Grandma and Grandpa Dimmick's graves. My mom had the kids wear fun BACKYARDIGANS GLOVES to help clean out all the weeds and grass to make the graves look nice.

My cute cousin ALI playing with May.

How I love my family and friends!

2009-06-03T19:11:00.000-07:00

Bryan's Dad's sunglasses from the 70's. The funny thing is...these are back in style. hahahahaha!!! Mayley loves to play puzzles on the LDS FRIEND MAGAZINE website. If someone could show me how to just link their website to this post that would be awesome. She can do the puzzles all
by herself. She is amazing. In this picture she is doing the animal picture that you find in the gospel art kit. It has music playing with it too. She loves to play the games on the website.

Playing in the swimming pool to cool off one day! I love that both of my kids love to wear their floaties to go swimming in the back yard!! AWESOME KIDS!

Last friday we went to Murray Park with my good High School Buddies Christina and Katie. We had a fun picnic in the park!! This is a cool playground I tell ya!

Christina, Jake, and Emma (kate's little baby) Jake loves babies!

Christina's little boy, Jake and Hunter playing together!!

Jentri (katie's little girl) sure loved the cookie we gave her. She cracked me up how she loved sitting in the stroller and was perfectly content chillin there.

They had these cool seats that you could spin around really fast!! What a fun idea for a playground.

We made homemade lion house rolls on sunday. I made half cinnamon rolls and half regular rolls!! I love these rolls.

Hunter got hold of the flour and made a perfect circle around his eye. So funny!!

These Boots were made for Walkin'

2009-06-01T15:47:00.000-07:00

My Sister in law Ali has these awesome boots that the kids wanted to wear one night while we were down at my parnets house. Mayley found these cute little boots down in the play closet. I love her facial expression in this pic.

I had to try on the sweet leather boots that Ali has. Thank goodness we have the same size of feet. I think she is the only one I know that has the same size of feet as me. Do you like Charles Barkley in the background?!?!
We about peed our pants watching hunter walk in the boots!! This is toooo hilarious!

CRAZINESS!!

2009-05-23T14:17:00.000-07:00

What in the world have we been up to!?!?! We have been without the internet for a week and a half now. We hooked up with a local company called Beehive wireless. It's been pretty awesome having the internet again. It was actually good without it too!! I had lots of time do get more things that I needed to do. It was a nice break. But I love the internet not to NOT have it.

So in a nutshell: We planted a garden!! Bry made planter boxes and here he is planting our first tomato plants!! We also planted corn, squash, and cucumbers. We will have to see how it comes out. I'm so excited about having our first little garden.

"Hola me llamo Mayley estoy aprendendo espanol ahora en la clase de Sr. Broderick. I'm like totally in jr. high now!!!" My friend Heidi's Husband is a Spanish Jr. High teacher and She took me out to lunch last week for my bday at the park and afterwards she invited me to go see his fun classroom. The kids thought it was so fun to sit in the desks and run around the classroom during this lunch hour. It made me have my own flashbacks of my Spanish Classes. That was fun!!

We got a fun slippin slide for the kids and last monday I had friends over because it was super hot outside and the kids had a blast playing on it. I also made the swingset slide go out over the kiddie pool so they could slide into the pool. They ate tons of fruit snacks and it was fun to hang out with the good friends :)

We had a BBQ last saturday and I made homemade strawberry lemonade. DELICIOUS!! I love this cute pic of May sitting in the lawn chair waiting for dad to finish bbqing for us.

Last but not least I turned 27 on May 11th. It was such a fun day!! I love bdays!! Bry bought be 2 dozen roses (I love his face for buying me flowers!!!), we ate at Chili's (one of my fav restaurants), He suprised me with a new bed comforter that is super cute. Brown, white and sage green colors!!, I went and got free icecream for signing up for the bday club at Cold Stone, me and the kids went to Bajio for lunch, We went and visited our friends that needed visiting :), and I got lots of sweet phone calls and facebook messages from awesome friends. I am so grateful for everyone that was so sweet to remember me on my bday!! I lOVE YOU ALL!

Ode to our mothers!

2009-05-10T19:37:00.000-07:00

Ode to my beautiful mother who taught me to love one another

She is the best example of service, she is so in tune with the spirit, she has led our family in righteousness, she gives of herself and I know she loves us.

She is super funny and is crazy with her family. She likes to pull pranks (like taking farting machines to family reunions) and loves to laugh, she is always so nice and lets me use her big bath!! "Barrrruuuuuump" I love her for being such a good grandma, she teaches Mayley and Hunter new things each time she is with them and she loves their PAPA.

Side note with being funny: She loves to play "where's waldo" in the mall, and was the campbells soup lady one year. We know how she love her soups and how dad thinks they scare the kids.

She teaches me how to sew, how to learn new things, when to love myself and how to be a good mom when I am LOW.

She teaches me how to bargain shop and go to yard sales. She teaches that's not worth it to get mad when driving, she is example is so many ways. She takes care of me and family and she is always smiling.

She has a positive attitude towards her MS and taking care of dad with his diabetes. She helps me to know that the Lord is there for us and that temple is a special place where we can build our testimonies.

(this is the end of my poem)
Mayley loves grandma snickerdoodle!! Hunter loves running and jumping into your arms. They love all the yummy treats that you get for them like they know they are going to drink POP when they are with Grandma!! Bryan likes that he can rip a big one and wont get in trouble and that you can always top it. LOL! Brianne is glad that she can laugh when you wear your eyepatch and say ARRRR matey and that pee your pants when you are jumping on the trampoline.
We are grateful for mom and so grateful she is one of my best friends. We love her so much and We so grateful for her sacrifices and love for us. She has always supported us in everything we have done. We have been so blessed throughout our lives. We are so grateful to Heavenly Father for giving us such an awesome mom!! You are da best Rhondizzle!!

Ode to the Lyndanator!

I am going to type as fast as possible as that is how you talk because you are always so excited to talk to everyone. We are thankful for always putting others first and making their lives better. We are grateful for all the things that you get for Mayley and Hunter and all the things you teach us. If anyone received an award for best host it would be you. Salesmen are invited in for dinner, you gladly let everyone and anyone stay in the basement, and you cook homemade rolls and scones for everyone.

You play the flute, piano, accordian, and kazoo. You can do swivel hips on the trampoline, and in your prime you ran track, danced, pep squad, and dove. (When you were young you thought diving was fun) You were almost Miss Swiss Days, but you were "miss Heber Water"

You are a fun grandma, we like how you give the kids each 1,000 dollars for their birthdays. They love coming to your house becuase they can pee on the seat and you dont get mad. You just wipe it up with dad's yellow towel. Mayley loves the dress-ups and Hunter loves the trucks and tractors, Brianne likes how you play old school games such as pass the pigs and hopes one day to play pigs while sharing a coke with you. We also like your immitations of American Idol contestants. Bryan likes that you pulled him around in the truck when doing the paper route, would be the catcher so he could practice pitching in the backyard for baseball, and let him drive when he was 14. (We were country)

Overall you are great and we are "glad your family" We love you lots and you make everyone "feel good, feel great, and feel wonderful."

Cinco De Mayo/ AI Party

2009-05-06T17:21:00.000-07:00

I love Mexican Food and American Idol so last night I invited my friends over and we had a Mexican Cinco De Mayo Food Fiesta and watched the 4 finaliest ROCK OUT to ROCK MUSIC. All 4 of these contestants are my favorite. I loved Matt Giruard too and Iwas so sad when he left because he was sooooo awesome. Our friends stayed until almost 9:45 at night and we sat talking and laughing!! I love throwing parties, eating food and enjoying good friends and their company! Thanks so much for coming Natasha and Mike and Heidi and Jared! I love you guys!

I haven't been so good at taking pics on my camera, so I just got pics off the computer so you could see all the yummy food we had at our party! I made a super delicious 7 layer bean dip!

I made beef and chicken tacos for a double decker taco experience. SOOO YuMMY!

My friend Heidi made this amazing Fajita pizza! It is DELICIOUS! I'm totally making it sometime. It was off the betty crocker website! I loved it!

Our little friend Dima who is 12 made the most amazing and yummy no bake cookies! I loved them so much that that I snuck 3 little ones!

Backyardigans Planter Box

2009-05-02T16:22:00.000-07:00

Wednesdays I always teach piano and Bry's mom is always willing to drive out to our house to watch the kids for me while I teach. I only have one lesson so I asked Bry's mom to help me make yummy Lion House homemade Rolls. They are so easy to make. The secret ingredient is REAL Butter and nonfat dry milk. They were amazingly delicious. After the rolls were done and the kids helped we decided to bust out this little backyardigans planter box that we bought for mayley's birthday. Bry's mom helped me figure it out cause the directions were a little weird. We were laughing pretty hard what came of this crazy mess with the kids!

Hunter loved digging in the dirt. It was like he was in heaven and I was trying to control him from not flinging it everywhere.

I got it on sale one day at Joann's Craft store and it didn't come with seeds so we just put some zinnia seeds in the planter box. I wonder if they will grow??? Anyway that was a fun day!!!!

Mayley going to the Dentist

2009-05-02T16:02:00.000-07:00

Last Monday me and Mayley got to go to the Dentist to get our teeth cleaned. I love my Dentist and Natalie that cleans our teeth is soooo cute. My mom helped me with the kids. I carry my camera everywhere with me so my mom started taking cute pics when it was mayley's turn to get her teeth done. They have the TV on the ceiling and mayley was so excited to watch Tigger and Pooh for a minute. Mayley watched me get teeth cleaned and Natalie explained everything she was doing so mayley wasn't scared. We got mayley to sit on my lap and all Natalie did was count Mayley's teeth.
Mayley has 20 teeth. Mayley did an amazing job just letting natalie check her teeth. She has the "call teeth" and has really thick gums in between her two top teeth so she will have to get a little laser thing and clip down her gums so that her teeth can grow together straight. The dentist says they do it all the time. I know that her cousins and her aunt hayley had it too. She was a little scared of the cleaning the teeth and didn't get it done, but it was successful just that natalie could count her teeth. mayley got a CARS toothbrush and spongebob toothpaste. Mayley loved it :) She has even been carrying around the floss they gave her too.

4th Anniversary!!

2009-04-20T08:57:00.000-07:00

April 23, 2005 was the day we got married!!! It will be our 4th anniversary on thursday! I'm so excited to finally have a date this week with my hubby! Our wedding was the day my dreams came true. I married THE MOST, handsome, most amazing man EVER. I was soooo happy to be married to him in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. I always wanted to get married in that temple. It is so beautiful there. The flowers were all in bloom on that spring day! I had all of the most important people in my life there by my side too.
I loved getting my bridals done. Kathrin Ledford was amazing and did my hair for free that day! I got my bridals done down at the Tahitan Noni Gardens! It was beautiful!

This is a fun pic of us at our wedding dinner the night before the big day!! It was so fun to have it at Archibald's at Gardner Village.

I loved this pic of Bry kissing my face!! He is THE BEST!

I could name a million reasons why I love Bryan and why I married him!! He is super smart, he is HILARIOUS (there isn't a day he doesn't make me laugh), he is always serving others, he is an awesome leader, he is an amazing dad and is so patient with the kids, he is a super hard worker, he is clean, he always dresses super nice, he understands me, he always thinks before he acts, he is good at listening, he is so awesome at every sport he playes, and he is amazingly good looking and handsome!! I love you Bry!!!

Being a Mom is Awesome

2009-04-20T08:07:00.000-07:00

Last Monday we went for a walk down to the USU extension and around our neighborhood and found lots of farm animals :) We saw Donkey's, pigs, sheep, goats, horses and cows. Mayley was brave enough to even pet the animals.

Thursday it decided to snow like 6 inches at our house so we went outside and played. I bought a spongebob tube at macey's a couple months ago and the kids love riding in it. It was really sunny outside so Hunter thought it was awesome to wear my sunglasses.
Friday we played with my fam! We went to lunch at Chick-fil-a. The kids loved playing in their fun play place. We went with my mom and bro while my sister was at to lunch with her best friend from college. We had dinner and watched "Bedtime Stories" at my parents house! Such a hilarious movie!! We loved playing with my niece Avery. She has the most beautiful blue eyes.

Saturday we played with my Oakcrest friends!! I haven't seen them in FOREVER!! We learned a new fun game called KOOB. We are totally going to make it so we can play it with all our fam and friends now too! Bry was a pro and won the game for the guys! It was sooooo fun to see Warrior, Duzz and Tachi. I love my oakcrest friends they mean so much to me :)

Easter Activities!

2009-04-14T08:12:00.000-07:00

Saturday The Easter Bunny came while the Kids were taking their naps! Mayley was so excited when she woke up! I decided to make a scavenger hunt for the kids that had little clues to where the easter eggs were hiding! Mayley was acutally very smart and knew where to find all the eggs from the clues!! The kids were still pretty sick on saturday so we just hung out all day to get them feeling better.

Hunter got mad because mayley took the PURPLE EGG (her favorite color) so we traded him for a different egg. I already had two easter baskets and didn't even think that both of them were pink. so Hunter just had to use a pink easter basket this year. I will definently have to get him a more manly one next year when he actually can tell that PINK is too girly!

Bry was reading the clues to all the kids. I printed off a cute little easter bunny pic off the computer so they could find the clues easy!

May just woke up from her nap so she looked super sleep still! She was so proud of finding all of her eggs.

Bryan made them a suprise present in the garage for their last clue! A HOMEMADE PICNIC TABLE. I helped him out for awhile. It turned out so awesome. It only cost 10 bucks to make. Bry did an amazing job making it. He is soooo crafty in a manly way!! Way to go Hubbie!

Sunday we had easter dinner with Bry's Parents. We took the eggs that we had dyed and hid them in the backyard since we didn't have time to do it at our own house sunday morning. Bry had meetings all morning long at the church. The 1st thing Mayley said when she woke up Sunday morning was "Did the Easter Bunny Come?" We had to tell her that he came to Grandma and Grandpas house.

I SAW GOD TODAY

2009-04-10T21:28:00.000-07:00

This week has been a rough one. Mayley and Hunter have been hacking a lung and I hear LITERALLY every 5 seconds "Mommy, you wipe my nose." My kids are so cute. I feel so bad that they have been so sick. We have been doing a lot of just hanging out by ourselves. I was so grateful it was warm enough to go in the backyard today and swing for a while and discover little things like ladybugs. There were 2 little lady bugs just crawling around on the top of the sand box lid. Mayley and Hunter croutched down to see them up close. We counted their little "polka dots" too. I asked Mayley if she wanted to hold it. I showed her how first of all and that it just tickled. After watching me just thought it would be fun too. It was so cute listening to her giggle and laugh that the ladybug was tickiling her! We played and watched the lady bug go up our jackets and our fingers and hands.

I had this thought come to me while we were watching the ladybug. Thought: On the ONE Edge of our weedy, rocky backyard (that soon will be our beautiful garden!) were beautiful little bugs that Heavenly Father placed here for us to enjoy that this very moment. I had a friend tell me a couple weeks ago not to forget "daily" that the Lord has his hand in our lives. For some reason I felt the Lord sharing his love for us by playing with a small little bug. How grateful I am that I had this moment today to feel Heavenly Father with me today.

This SONG IS THE BEST. It is by George Straight. The video is pretty awesome. The words are amazing!! some of the pics are a little wierd but I thought it was worth sharing.

GET FREE STUFF FROM THIS BLOG

2009-04-08T11:58:00.000-07:00

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This lady does a blog that works for the Salt Lake Tribune and she tells about all the free stuff that you can get around Utah. It's so awesome. She has little giveaways too. I thought this would be fun to share with all of you that have kid. They are doing fun easter Carnival at Wheeler Farm on Saturday for only 2 bucks and it sounds super awesome. Anyone want to join in and come with us to play?!?! I always like to hang out with friends. On tax day she found all these places that are giving away free food and icecream! April 15th. I will probably be taking advantage of that for sure!! FREE FOOD who doesn't want FREE FOOD??!? I found this site through KSL actually. kind of ironic! Hope you get some good stuff out of this fun blog!

I WATCHED IT!!

2009-04-05T11:12:00.000-07:00

This post is to my dear friends that have been talking about Twilight since the book came out. Even my mom has read the book. Reading is not one of my hobbies. I don't have the attention span to read for long amounts of time. I have to say that I do read my scriptures or an article from the ensign and I do feel satsified with my reading skills. I can't even remember the last time I actually read a novel or book. All of my friends have read the Twilight book. When we have playgroups, or last summer when we would go walking there was always some conversation about the book TWILIGHT. I just never had any desire to read it. I thought "Yeah maybe it would be good to know what my friends were talking about." I guess I never really had any desire to read the book. SINCE I LOVE TO READ. Anyway, Last night I was hanging out with my Sister in law ALI and she brought over the movie Twilight to my parents house and I was like "Ok I'll watch it!" I was totally into and actually liked it. It was a cute little love story in a really weird but cool way. I thought that Edward was very good looking too!! Maybe that is why I liked the movie!! Now I know all of the characters and the story behind the book. I guess I don't know all the details because that would make me READ the book. So now I can have a converstation about Twilight and feel like I'm a little bit more like I can be part of what you girlies are talking about!! I'm glad Ali brought it over so we could watch it!!

watch out dad has markers

2009-04-01T15:58:00.000-07:00

The other night I heard Bryan laughing really hard and making Hunter laugh too. A couple minutes later I looked over and Bry had gotten a red marker and drew Horns, red chops, and handlebar mustache on hunter. holy cow I couldn't stop laughing. Mayley took these pics of Hunter. The horns were too funny!!

Saturday full of fun...and a lot of miles!

2009-04-01T14:46:00.000-07:00

This past saturday we were supposed to be working on our garden but that didn't happen becuase it was FREEZING cold. Bry got up and did the scouting for food drive in the morning. Some lady gave them 2 huge boxes of Pepsi. The expiration date said "Nov 2003" on the box. One of the boys was so funny and checked it out and said "Hey it still must be good, it's STILL COLD". Now that was too funny. Another popped one open just to try it and said they were still good. I hear such funny stories now that Bry is always with the Young Men.

My cousins Brandi and Shauntel were throwing a party for their kids. Kai (shauntels little boy), Brett, Kyzleigh and Kyra. Mayley and Shauntel and Uncle Bill have their bdays in March too. So we cleaned up the house we got into Bry's car and drove out to Riverton for some fun party time. They had tons of fun things to do. A bounce house, cupcakes, snowcones, hot dogs, face painting ect ect ect. The best part was Mayley's favorite friends, Hailey and Hannah were there. So Hailey and Hannah are cousins with Brett, Kyzleigh and Kyra. So that was fun to all hang out.

Hailey and Mayley eating their yummy snowcones!

Hunter and Bry scarffin down a snowcone. I think they ate like 3 altogether!

Hunter found a buddy in the bounce house. this little girl addison followed Hunter everywhere.

Bry had fun helping hunter dunk the basketball in the hoop.
after the party we drove down to Spanish Fork to see Nancy and Steve's New Baby Boy. They named him Kyle. He was the born the day before so he was only like 24 hours old. It was so fun to hold a brand new born baby again. He was so cute and had tons of hair. Mayley wasn't so sure about holding him because she was too busy playing with Abbie and Anna and Grandma Lynda.

Right before we were going to leave. Mayley thought that she might want to see her new cousin. Hunter looked at him for a minute too.
Then she thought "Ok let's hold this brand new baby"

Then she was pretty HAPPY about holding her brand new baby cousin after awhile.

Then after our visit we went and had dinner with my family. My mom had surgery on her foot and the kids had fun playing at Grandma and Papa's house. They had fun playing with Uncle Parker too. I'm so grateful for all of my family. What a fun day to hang out with so many awesome family members. i love having fun filled saturday's!! It makes life fun for us.

3 years today!

2009-03-22T14:22:00.000-07:00

These are some of my FAVORITE pictures of the day when Mayley was born. She was born at 9:55 AM. I started having contractions at 4 in the morning and I finally went to the hosptial by 6:30 and I was dialted to an 8. I was so grateful to have a beautiful baby girl. Mayley we like to call her my MINI ME. She looks like me, She hates loud noises (like I did), She loves to sing and dance and she loves music, she is very social (sometimes, we are still working on it). She loves to play with her friends. And she hates to get her hair done (I was the same way when I was little). I was so excited to hold her after she was born and I couldn't believe I was a mom. I loved watching mayley suck on her little hand when she was 1st born.

Here she is again sucking on her hand.

and again....

Bry gave the 1st bath to Mayley. Bry said she loved it. The nurse helping Bryan told him that him that in Chinese her name means "beautiful". I'm so glad it meant something good instead of something dumb like the "howling wind" or something cheesy like that. LOL! jk!

My all time favorite picture of Bry and Mayley after he gave her her bath.

I'm the luckiest girl in the world to have such a handsome good looking husband and a beautiful baby girl by my side. I was so happy to make our family the 3 of us that day!!!
My mom is so cute and always makes beanies for her grandkids on the day they are born. Mayley was my mom's very 1st granddaughter. She did such a cute job at making the beanie for her. She looked so cute in it.

Mayley's was 5 days old. I love how wide her eyes are and how alert she was.

Mayley's Backyardigans Birthday Party

2009-03-21T18:35:00.000-07:00

Today was Mayley's Birthday Party. It was so much fun to plan and get ready!! I have never done a huge birthday party before so I thought it was going to be fun but I knew it would be a lot of work. Mayley had a Backyardigans Party. We had carnival games, cupcakes, candy and prizes for each game the kids played. I bought carnival tickets that had their names on the tickets for each game. I thought the tickets were a fun idea.

Mayley's friends getting ready for the party!

Mayley and Hailey those two are good buddies!

The Pablo bean bag toss. Thanks to Grandma Lynda for her artistic skills. The kids loved this game.

Maddie Maez had fun playing in our sandbox with Hunter. Maddie's hair looked so cute! LeAdelle does such a cute job with her hair.

We played the game "fishing" we used a stick with yarn and the kids would recieve a prize behind the blanket. My favorite part was our friend Logan came back after fishing out a little toy CAR and he saw all the girls getting a magic wand and he asked Bryan, "I didn't get a princess wand, I want one too!" What a cute little guy!

Mayley being cute on the trampoline. I think she stole tons of candy out of bowl without us knowing.

Another game we played was fishing the rubber duckies out of the swimming pool. The kids had 10 seconds to get as many ducks out with a little play shovel. I was super impressed with the kids' skills.

We also played a fortune telling game for a minute. The kids liked it for about 5 minutes and then were done. It was fun to see their faces while I played with them.

Grandma Lynda was so happy to come and hang out with Mayley. She painted all the kid's faces today!! It was so fun and she did a way cute job.

Mayley with her Grandma Redding. Grandma Redding brought the CD player so that we could listen to a backyardigans CD during the party!! That was super fun. Grandma took all these fun pics for us!

Mayley's friends that came to the party: Logan, Eliza, Hannah, Destiny, Hailey, Hunter, Maddie, and Breanne.

I made fun cupcakes with cute little backyardigans finger puppets that are made to fit on top of the cupcakes. They looked so cute!!

Mayley is sooooo excited to open her presents! I love Hunters face in this pic too!! Wow messy faces from eating the cupcakes!!

I love my little man in this pic!

Mayley loved the gloves and purse she got from her friend Eliza!! So cute!

She got so many fun awesome presents. Mayley has so many fun friends. I'm so glad it was a fun day!

Hunter is 20 Months

2009-03-20T20:40:00.000-07:00

Oh Yummy Yum Yum!! My favorite place to get icecream is cold stone. I think it is a rip off sometimes BUT today it tasted HEAVENLY!! We went and celebrated Mayley's birthday with a free icecream coupon when you sign up for their birthday club. I got one for me and hunter to share too because Hunter turned 20 months today. That is so crazy to me. He is seriously almost 2 years old. What the heck?!?! Mayley is so cute. This is what she picked: PINK icecream (strawberry) and Sprinkles. Hunter and I had BANANA Icecream with Reese's. It tastes like PB and Bananas! So yummy! I think Hunter ate more of the icecream than I did. The kids loved it and they were so polite sitting at their chairs. I thought it was so fun taking them out for a special day for icecream. I hope there is good icecream like this in Heaven. :)

The Day in the life of Brianne

2009-03-13T20:15:00.000-07:00

I don't think I have ever just blogged about my day. So Here I sit while Bryan is at the church playing basketball and both of my kids are sound asleep. I think it is a good day to write about!!

First thing this morning we got into the bathroom to go potty and Mayley turns on the light and says: "It's Bright and Shiny in here." She always comes up with things I never know what she is going to say. It was a slow first half the day. The kids always have fun chasing each other around the house. I made them pancakes with chocolate chips in them. Somehow one of the pancakes got smooshed into the couch!!

For lunch all they wanted to eat was little oranges called "Clemintines". I think we peeled about 6 and ate them all up. While I was trying to cook some grilled cheese sandwiches on the stove I accidently turned on the wrong burner and smoke started coming out of it and it let the fire alarm off. So we ran outside and I didn't realize what a half decent WARM and Beautiful day it was today. So I had an idea to take the kids outside and have a picnic on our deck. The kids loved it. (by the way the fire alarm eventually went off) I was so excited to go and sit in the sun! YAY! I was so proud of Hunter for climbing up to get on the slide to our swingset all by him little self. First time EVER!

I taught Mayley how to play Tag and we chased each other around and giggled a lot. Hunter chased too cause he likes to run around. We kicked the balls in the backyard and into the snow. The kids of course with snow STILL in the backyard wanted to wear their snow boots. So they looked so funny.

Oh and I also made RAMAN NOODLES which I still think taste nasty when I think I'm going to try them and think i'm going to like them. YUCK!! BUT Hunter was so funny watching him eat the noodles. I couldn't find the camera today so I was bummed I don't have any pics of my day but I just put the noodles in a big bowl and let the kids have at it. They weren't too fond of them either cause none of it really got eaten.

We went and read books and tried to take a nap which only lasted for about 20 minutes until Hunter started screaming in his crib and I knew that because I had given him MIRALAX this morning. I knew he was going to need a diaper change. SO much for NAP TIME!!

I made the kids watch Mulan. I decided that is kind of a scary show to let your 1 and 2 year old to watch. Mushu is the only funny guy on there. Mayley copied the part where Mushu says "DOWN BESSIE" to the horse. That was funny too!!

I started on my new adventure of SEWING BEAN BAGS for Mayley's Bday Party. Of course the kids wanted to help and watch. Hunter had fun pushing down the pedal and making the needle go all crazy up and down. Don't Worry! I put an end to that fast! Mayley did help me put beans into the bean bags and was a good girl at doing that. I was glad to say that it was a successful atempt with making my bean bags. I can't say they were perfect but good enough that they look good.

4:15 came around and I got the kids ready and we hopped into the car. I was super tired today for some reason and just wanted to sleep. I was about to turn right onto the street and not even going to stop at the end of my street because I have a habit of doing that and almost hit my dear friend Charlene driving past me. WOW!! I followed her to her house and totally cried for almost hitting her. I love this lady to death. She comforted me with a hug and I told her I had to run to do my visiting teaching appts.

I got a new companion who is a girl that just got barely baptized a month ago. It was her first time going visiting teaching. When I dropped her off after our visits she asked..."When can we go again?" What a cute thing to say!! We visited the bishops wife and her kids love mayley and hunter so they stayed down in the basement the whole time which was wonderful!! We got to read the Proclamation of the Family because Amber, my comp, had never seen it before, I learned a new insight of how inspiried the 1st presidency and apostles truly are. Then we ran to visit another lady in the ward too who I found out she is a big fan of Napolean Dynamite.

I ran home and Bry had went and got the kids from the Bishops house and he was running out the door to go play basketball at the church. Mayley was excited to get her birthday card in the Mail from Grandma and Papa Redding. I was so stoked to get my new Kraft Foods Magazine too!! I made myself a sandwich for dinner and Bry had made the kids a PB & J sandwich. I got the kids ready so we could go play at the church and so I could have time to chat with the moms. Bry won their game and had to go back at 8:30 for the championship game. I met a new girl in our ward and was glad to have a lot in common with her. She lived at BYU Hawaii and so did all of Bryan's Siblings. I got to go over there in Dec with Bryan's Family and so it was fun to talk about Hawaii with her.

The day has finally came to an end. My favorite part was while I laid by Mayley to get her to sleep, she held my hand so sweetly in her little hand. Nothing Beats being a mom!!!!! I love my children to death!!

PHEW that was a lot to say.

Happy Birthday Britt!!

2009-03-08T20:03:00.000-07:00

March 9, 1979 is when my older Sister Brittany was born. She is 30 years old today!! Wow! What a milestone sis. I can't believe that you have 4 kids now and have been married for 10 years. Holy cow. I love being remembered on my bday so I hope you feel loved and feel great on your 30th bday!! You are such a wonderful example to me and I have always looked up to you. You are a GREAT mom and I'm so glad we got to be sisters!!! I have so many fun memories with you. I love you for being who you are. One day we will all have to go to Disneyland together. I love you for all that you teach me. You are the best bargin shopper like mom is. You have always been good at working. And you never gotten fired!! hehe! You have lots of good friends and everyone loves you. You always are so faithful in your church callings. You always make yummy food and you are super crafty at whatever you make. Mom always tells me all the cool things you do and find to make. You have lots of talents that most people don't have. I love you Britt. Thanks for being awesome. Have a fun birthday!

Bob that Head Rascal Flatts Tour!

2009-03-07T13:06:00.000-08:00

My favorite band of all time yes! RASCAL FLATTS! I have all of their albums and know all of their songs!! It is amazing when you get to go to their concert! Me and Bry did a trade this year and I got to take my mom. My mom was so excited. My mom does have a crazy side to her believe it or not if you haven't seen her crazy side. We had a date night and mom took me to my favorite restaurant...Macaroni Grill!! Soooooooooo yummy!!

Here we are in front of one of the huge trucks they haul everything in. Outside of the Energy Soultions Arena. Getting excited to see Jessica Simpson open up the concert!! uhhh not really!! she does have an amazing voice though...even though she did forget some of the lyrics. She is very ditzy or just drunk!!!

Jessica Simpson on the big screen. She looks a lot like my sister in law Ali. Parker's wife. But Ali is much prettier!!

We got to see some of our friends at the concert. It takes forever for the band to set up after Jessica Simpson performed so we got to chat with them. They got to sit on the 7th row because it was Mandi's fav band too and her cute hubby matt bought her tickets up close since it was her fist concert ever! so cute. Matt and Mandi are actually some of parker's best friends but matt is like another brother to me. Mandi is soooo cute! We love her!

THE VIDEO I TOOK of the OPENING OF THE CONCERT!! AMAZING!! I actually didn't expect what was going to happen so I jumped and so the video kinda jumps for just a second. Hope it's cool to see!!! yeah I basically freak out because I love these guys so much!! I have a wild side too if you haven't ever HEARD me before. Bry says I'm a nerd but I don't care!!

Joe Don on the BIG Screen!! Whoa they are amazing musicians!!

Killer Boots Man!

2009-03-05T20:00:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of the kids. We are ready for spring and then summer so that we can spend all our time outside again.

We got some snow last night and then the sun came out today so we went out to play for a little bit. The kids would scoop up the snow and then throw it across the yard.
On Friday nights it is date night at the pool. The kids get in free and so we end up only paying $3 for all of us to go to the pool. Hunter was a wild man in his new swim floatee.

Mayley is going to be a photographer when she gets older. She is always getting a hold of the camera and taking pictures of her dora baby, the tv and mostly Hunter. She is pretty good at putting you right in the middle of the picture.

Dedicated to Minhas Amigas!

2009-02-26T13:03:00.001-08:00

Doctrine and Covenants Section 18: A missionary Scripture!

13 And how great is his joy in the soul that repenteth!

14 Wherefore, you are called to cry repentance unto this people.

15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!

16 And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me!

17 Behold, you have my gospel before you, and my rock, and my salvation.

Sis. Cropper, Santa, NANA, and Me. (Christmas time in Brazil)

Today this scripture became a true testimony of the promises of the Lord for me once again. What a blessing it was to serve a mission for the Lord. Not for me!! I truly was filled with PURE JOY when I got a message on my facebook from my friend NANA. I was able to have an amazing experience teaching the gospel to her and her friend Simone. They were good friends who worked at the super market around the corner from the house we were living in. They saw us pass by their store everyday. We saw Simone next to an area they call a praca (prasa) one day with a water fountain and benches surrounded by cars passing by on everyday direction. We started talking to her and she wanted to know what we did. She couldn't help but notice us everyday I remember her saying. We invited her to come to church with us that coming sunday and to our SUPRISE she showed up at 8:30 in the morning at the bus stop and she brought NANA with her. Before long we were teaching all of them the discussions/lessons and Nana got an answer to her prayers that the Book of Mormon was true through a really cool experience and she was baptized super fast. NANA was the 2nd to last baptism that I got to witness before my mission ended. She facebooked me today and told me the news that she is going to serve a mission. How the spirit touched me! I'm so excited for her and words can express enough gratitude to Heavenly Father for meeting this speical girl in my life!! Simone got baptized after I came home from my mission and she served a mission in RIO De Janerio as well and her whole family became members of the church as well. I know that missionary work is so powerful and the spirit truly converts those that are ready to hear the truth!! I know all of us can still be missionaries even if we aren't serving a full time mission! I know the Lord will bless us if we make an effort!

Ihave tons of pics with these girls except they are not digital pictures so I will have to get them scanned or something. yes back in 2004 digital cameras were very rare for us. Here is a pic of my friend Simone that I love so much! She is inside a church house! She's so funny.

Hunters laugh is the best!

2009-02-23T13:57:00.000-08:00

The Apostle Song

2009-02-21T17:40:00.001-08:00

I went to the distribution center the other day and we bought a picture of the 1st presidency and the 12 apostles. We keep them on our fridge and we have been learning all of the names and faces of our church leaders!! This is such a fun video and mayley has been learning all of them super quickly! She loves this! She watches it over and over!

MileStones of fun!!

2009-02-18T14:49:00.000-08:00

I have to make record of the things the kids did today and yesterday.

Mayley wore panties all through the night and didn't even pee the bed! yay I couldn't even believe. It was a miracle. We woke her up so that she would go potty for us! She did so good! What a great feeling :) To see her with her pants dry! What a fun Mile Stone!

I took the kids in the backyard today to play on our little swingset. Hunter wanted to swing just like mayley. Before I knew it I put him on the swing and had him grip on to the swing tight and today was the first day that he swung all by himself!! YAY!! What a fun step for the bubs! I love watching my kids grow! It is amazing to see how smart and fun they are!

Jaywalking Mormon Style!

2009-02-09T21:13:00.001-08:00

I couldn't resist and share this for everyone to get a good laugh but, I found this page on a byu cougar board thing because I was looking for a game to play for an activity in my ward this Friday! Bry and I were laughing pretty hard. Jaywalking is a funny segment they always do on The Tonight Show hosted by Jay Leno. Its hilarious!

“Jaywalking” Answers

These are actual responses from actual people. I’m not making them up.

A book from the Old Testament? Luke, Revelations, John

A Christmas Hymn? O Holy Night (3), Silver Bells, Onward Christian Soldiers, Battle Hymn of the Republic

A plague of Egypt? Malaria, Cairo

Not in the Word of Wisdom? hippie lettuce, Coca cola

A current apostle? M. Russell Nelson

A cuss word alternative? hail, scrud, frick, dag nabbit,none(they all work very well)

A Primary song with actions? itsy, bitsy spider,I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ

A temple in Utah? Washington D.C.

A dish at a potluck? KFC

A flavor of Jello? Pink

Something you do on the Sabbath? Eat

http://www.cougarboard.com/nologin/message.html?id=1125298 (this is the website where I got all these funny answers from!)

Fancy Nancy Birthday Party

2009-02-09T13:04:00.000-08:00

Our friend Erin in our ward had a birthday party today at the church. Liz, Erin's mom, was wonderful at planning this party for a bunch of 2-4 year old little girls!! I was super impressed. The kids loved it. I even dressed up Hunter. Mayley loved dressing up in her PURPLE tutu and PURPLE leotard!

The girls got to make bows for their hair, paint little gems to make rings out of, color fancy nancy coloring pages and write their names with fun glitter pens.

Mayley loving eating at the party!

I can't believe how much Hunter scarfed down! I think he ate like half of the plate of jello that was out on the table!!

The darling tables that Liz set up for us to sit at. She even had cute little tea cups for the girls to eat off of. SOOOOOOOO stinking cute and super fun!

18 months old!

2009-01-31T14:22:00.000-08:00

The day we got home from our vacation the first thing Hunter did when he woke up was put on his beanie. He is such a funny dude. He loves to wear hats. Even Bryan's hats! He turned 18 months on Jan 20th. He is officially in nursery now and cried the whole time last week because he wanted to be with Daddy instead of me. He says a couple things with sign language that we have taught him. He can sign: Dad, Please, Thank you, More, food, & Milk. He is really good at understanding what we say to him. He knows when to get his shoes, when to take a bath, when to get his diaper changed and when it is stinky he squeezes his nose for PU!! He holds his hands out when something is all done or all gone. When something is missing he holds his hands out like "WHERE IS IT?" He gets mad anytime you take him away from doing anything he is not supposed to be doing. Which is 90 % of the time it seems like. He is best for making HUGE messes. He climbs up on everything that he can climb up on. even the computer desk to play with the printer. What a Nut Ball. He makes us laugh a ton! We love our little BUBS! Oh yeah another funny thing....We bought him this little play fisher price vacumm because he loves to play with our real vacumm. He takes after my dad. My dad is a vacumm freak. I bet my dad has more than 5 vacumms at their house. Anyway Hunter loves to take his play vacumm and let it roll down the stairs. He laughs and does it again and again.

This is our Mayley girl when she was 18 months old. She was hilarious! She could take the 2 lb weights and lift them up and over her head. Hunter was 2 months old when she turned 18 months. It is fun to see what both of our kids look like at the same age!!

A piano prodigy

2009-01-30T14:29:00.000-08:00

I got this sent to me by a lady that is in the Utah Music Teacher Assoc. with me.
I thought this was so funny because he is only 6 years old and can play these songs. I learned how to play these songs probably 6 years of taking lessons or even later. he is soooooo hilarious! You have to watch the whole thing! I guarantee you will laugh!

What not to do to a sand Castle!

2009-01-24T14:42:00.001-08:00

Shared Pictures

2009-01-24T13:18:00.001-08:00

Here are some of the pictures from our trip to Mexico. This picture is inside the Tulum ruins. You cant see any of the ruins but the site is located right on the beach. The water was so blue and pretty.

This is us at Chichen Itza, one of the new seven wonders of the world. This is the largest and most famous piramide.

We made a sandcastle (in the background) and then we made this cool alligator. We are kids at heart. We made them on behalf of Mayley and Hunter

Cover your eyes if your not married. j/k This was on the island of Cozumel. We were cruzing around on the scooter and then watched the sunset from this small beach. We went snorkling and saw Crush from "Finding Nemo" He was totally awesome "dude"

We had a great time. Thanks to both Grandma and Grandpa's for babysitting the kids. Thanks to Brad and Kerri for letting us borrow their sweet waterproof digital camera.

Brianne's New Church Calling

2009-01-23T13:16:00.000-08:00

After 2 years of living in my ward here in Tooele I was released as the 2nd counselor in the primary presidency. I have grown so much in serving the Lord in this calling. I know that it was a wonderful blessing to learn from each primary child. We have a HUGE primary. About 80 kids. I went through 2 1/2 presidency's! I have such a love for every single lady I got to work with. Donna taught me to love the children and pray for them, Marcy taught me it is ok to voice your own opinion and to take care of those that needed help, Jaimee taught me to have relationships with each of the children by visiting with them and that we are entitled to the revelation we need for our callings we are given (she is so insipred as the president), Rachel taught me how to always read my scriptures to be a better mother through her talks and sharing times, Marissa taught me that some people do silly things but we still love them no matter what!!!, Charlene has taught me to appreciate all that we have and never take your blessings for grantide, & Heather is one of the funniest girls ever. She made me laugh a ton in our meetings. She amazes me with her talents that she has shared with the primary through her art work! You girls amaze me and I will miss all the funny times we had in our meetings. Wendy Conklin will do a wonderful job with those scouts.

I was called to be Hunter's new Nursery Leader with a fun partner who I love dearly! I am excited to still be in Nursery and that Hunter will get to be with me. We have some darling little kids. I love my ward so much and I'm so grateful that I get to grow in new ways as a nursery leader. Its like the coveted calling in our ward. Bry wants to be in there with me sooooooooo bad! Maybe he will be someday!

My suprise christmas Present!!

2009-01-21T15:04:00.000-08:00

Bryan suprised me for Christmas and took me to Cancun. We were blessed to get some free airline tickets from one of his family members so that helped!! We just got back and stayed for 5 days! It was amazing!! it was the perfect getaway. The kids stayed with both of our parents and I feel so super lucky that the kids have amazing grandparents to take care of our kids. I MISSED THEM so much! I had a breakdown the first night we were there thinking about how much I already missed them. My kids mean the world to me! There were so many adventures and so many fun things that happened it would take me forever to tell about all the fun things that we did. I wanted to share some fun pics I found randomly on the internet of the places we went and stayed. The first 3 days we stayed about 45 minutes south in an all inclusive hotel called the BARCELO MAYA BEACH. It was soooooo beautiful. I was in awe the first night we got there. I felt like we were in a paradise. It had everything there you could think of. A spa, Jacuzzi, saunas, steam rooms, all you can eat buffetts (yummy amazing food), swimming pools, hammocks to lay back and relax in, water activities, volleyball courts, a shopping plaza, everything. It was super fun to stay there but I'm glad we got out and saw other places as well.

The Barcelo Beach All inclusive!

The 3rd day we were there we took a trip and rented a car out to see Chichen itza!! It was amazing to see. We got there late in the day so we got a guy to take us on a personal tour for half the price because we only had an hour to tell us everything. It was so much better with someone to tell us all about the ruins.

The next day driving back from chichen itza we stopped off at the Tulum Ruins. We found a guy that is LDS and he shared with us all about the importance of the Book of Mormon significance of these ruins. It was beautiful here because it is right next to the ocean!! WOW it was breathtaking!

We got to spend a night and half a day over in Cozumel. This is the hotel we stayed in right next to the beach from a overhead view. Cozumel was beautiful. we got to see the beautiful sunset, go shopping, go to pizzza hut for dinner (I was craving pizza for some reason!), and we rented a scooter to do all of this. the scooter was a blast! we just rented one and rode on it together. I kinda crashed it cause I got scared and yeah we didn't get hurt though. yikes. We had some amazing tacos the day we came home at a little public beach. WOW not even close to taco time or taco bell thats for sure. I loved cozumel! I wish we had more time to spend there. I love the ocean and the beach! Its amazing.

I will have to share the pics once we get them downloaded! We took about a million pictures. Mexico is soooooooooo much like brazil I couldn't even believe it. When we got downtown I felt like I was in brazil again. My heart felt like home for a moment! warm and cozy! yes I know in Mexico! wow it made me want to go to brazil so bad. Bry did wonderful speaking in spanish to all the mexicans! I could understand about 75 percent of everything they were saying!! It was fun to try and speak it a little bit. I actully learned more while I was there. I did things all by myself by speaking spanish! I suprised myself. anyway....what an amazing trip! I'm glad to be home to my kids. I missed them so much!! Bryan is the best hubby ever!! A vacation was much needed for me and bry! It was everything I could ever dream of. :) more pics will come soon.

Power of a testimony

2009-01-13T15:00:00.000-08:00

In the past couple of weeks I have answered the door twice to find Jehova Witnesses standing on my door preaching to me. Of course they are doing something good and trying to preach the word of God. They were very nice people.

So what would you do if this happens to you? Do you say "I'm LDS" and slam the door in their faces? NO of course not because we are not that kind of people to rub our religion into others faces and reject them. Do you try to preach the gospel to them, give them a book of mormon, and tell them they are wrong??? ummm yeah I don't know exactly. It is such an awkard situation. The first time it was 2 ladies and I had no idea who they were. I just told them that I would pass on taking it...because really I'm NOT going to read it and it is a waste to give to me. so they were nice and said they would come by another time. YIKES. then they came again today. I listened to them and was nice but my excuse was that I had to run mayley over to the little preschool that I take her to. REALLY WE WERE!! But it has made me think of the power of my testimony and the truths that come from being a LATTER DAY SAINT!

I just wanted to share my testimony of how TRUE and amazing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints TRULY IS TRUE!! whoa that is a lot of trues!! That is because it is!!!!
I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ visted Joseph Smith in the grove and answered his prayers. I know Joseph Smith was a true prophet and restored all the truths and Jesus Christ's Church to the earth. I know he recieved the preisthood through the John the Baptist and Peter, James and John. I know that we have divine revelation through our living prophet Pres. Monson. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior. I know he atoned for our sins. I know he loves us and he knows us personally. He answers our prayers when we are sincere and he has made it possible to return to our Heavenly Father. I know that the Book of Mormon testify's of Jesus Christ and his mission and his love for us. We can become better people when we read the Book of Mormon. It is true. I love the gospel so much and we can find true happiness when we live it. When we serve the Lord in callings and our neighbors and when we bear testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. I am grateful to know the true gospel and the happiness it brings. I'm grateful for temples and the plan of living with our families for eternity! what a blessing.

Thanks for reading everyone. I know its kinda long. I just wanted to share my feelings for the amazing gospel. I don't know what my life would be like without!

Christmas 2008

2009-01-09T09:13:00.000-08:00

I never got around to really sharing our christmas experiences. Plus I want to remember how this last year was with the kids and everything. Mayley is 2 1/2 and Hunter was 17 months. Christmas day was spent with my family. It was such a fun year to see the kids open up their presents. Once they opened them they wanted to stick to that same toy. Christmas is such a peaceful and exiting holiday. Definently one of my favorites. I love all the decorations, the food, the smells, the lights, the parties, & the family time you get to spend with one another too. Christmas was a blizzard outside all day so we played the WII and ate lots of yummy food. We watched movies inside and played with the kids.

Ali is such a cute aunt to mayley and hunter. Mayley was soooo thrilled to get a princess calendar!

Santa brought the kids power wheels bikes. The kids rode around on them all day long. They are a blast to have!!

Christmas Eve we spent with the Call family. We dress up and listen to Luke 2 and 3 Nephi in the book of mormon of Jesus' Birth. Bry's mom found these cool painted sheep and horses to use as a nativity background. The kids loved it. We also eat pizza by candlelight and we opened lots of fun presents.

All the girls in their new jammies that grandma and grandpa bought for them.

We all dress up in funny clothes to pretend like we are part of the natvity scene as well.

Mayley and Hunter had fun playing in the snow on Christmas eve!!

Ode to my Dad

2008-12-21T19:23:00.000-08:00

My dad is the best. Tomorrow is his birthday and I wanted him to know how much I love him and all he means to me. He makes me laugh, he always calls me to see how my days are going, he likes to take me out to lunch or dinner, he is such a fun grandpa to Mayley and Hunter. He is a spiritual GIANT in my eyes and I love him for helping me to realize how important it was to serve a full-time mission. I love him for loving my mom so much and they fun things they do in their marriage. They take good care of each other. He has always been there for me to talk, and he helps to realize the importance of the gospel and following the spirit in my life. I love you dad! I hope you have a fun birthday :)

I love this picture of us on my wedding day.

The day I left to go on my mission to brazil!!

Dad being a fun grandpa with mayley. Mayley calls him Papa.

Dad taking Mayley on the zoo train when she was about 6 months old. I forgot to bring something for her to block her from the sun that day and so we found the cute orange hat for her at the gift shop that day.

Cute pic of my parents :)

Week in Review

2008-12-14T17:56:00.000-08:00

We went to Temple Square and saw the Christmas lights. Hunter like his new hat, scarf and finally got to wear his blue boots. Mayley was excited to see all the "sprinkle" lights.

Hunter got his first haircut. He now has a little buzz and it makes him look older. We think it gave him more energy because he has been a crazy man the last two days. Bry taught him to do "rocks" or "props" (whichever you call it, where you make a fist and hit it into the other persons)

Bry has this ornament where Homer Simpson is stepping on a cat. There is a button you push and the cat screams and Homer says Doh. We pushed the button and right after Homer said "Doh" Hunter said "Doh" (sorry Grandma Lynda)

Mayley likes to wear her boots and no pants. She almost snuck outside to go help shovel the snow yesterday. Some funny things she said this week: She took Bry's wallet opened it up and said "I want 50 bucks." Bry replied, "so do I" We asked her what her best part of the day was and she randomly replied "Hunter found a popsicle under the trampoline." (There was an icicle growing under the trampoline that Hunter found earlier that day.) She loves her babies and likes to take pictures with all of her dolls.

Gingerbread houses!

2008-12-11T09:12:00.000-08:00

Call Family Gingerbread house making 2008

Our little Mayley decorating her very own gingerbread house!! She did sooo good for her first time. We were so excited that she could do it all by herself this year!

Hunter helped Bryan with his house too!!

Just look at Hunter's face!! He ate way too much CANDY!

We got to take them home!! This is what they looked like afterwards!

I couldn't resist!! I had to put a picture of Hunter's Sunday outfit this past week!! He looked like a stud!! It's so fun dressing him up!

Favorite Part of the Day!

2008-12-06T14:55:00.000-08:00

Before we go to bed at nights we always ask Mayley what her best part of the day was. Yesterday she said it was going to the store for this reason.........She got to decorate a christmas tree sugar cookie, and get her face painted. She ate the cookie home in the car but she only ate the GREEN Frosting. I hurried and grabbed the camera when we got home so I could have a funny moment on camera of the huge mess she made!! It was fun to go to Macey's yesterday!
OOPS! Hunter SNUCK a bite of the cookie!! I love this pic of him in the background!

The funny SANTA on Mayley's face!! She sat perfectly still while the girl painted her face!! She was soooo good! I was super impressed!

Good Friends, Good Times!

2008-12-06T12:36:00.000-08:00

Last Tuesday I got together with my 4 favorite girls that I had super fun memories with throughout my high school life. We were the Murray High School Senior cheerleaders back in 2000. 8 years later we finally got together with a bunch of kiddies and had fun chatting and made a mess in Nikki's basement. Thanks so much Nik! I love and admire these girls a ton!! You all have taught me so much and I will never forget all the fun times we had back in the day!

Nikki Chesire Tait (pink shirt), Shea K. Thurman (ummm yeah let me try to remember how to spell your maiden last name!! hehe), Holly Mangum Lang, Heather Anderson Dalton, and me.

And all of our children!! Nikki's boys are in the front Gavin and Owen!! They are the cutest little boys!! Heather's little boy, Aiden, is sitting next to them on the far left. Hailey is Heather's little girl tucked in between the two boys!! Shea has a whopping 4 boys!! They are darling!! Jaxon, Jayden, Jettson, and Jordan! Shea is such a cute mom!! Holly just had another baby, Katie, in september so she left the baby at her mom's and just brought her little Emri who is sitting next to mayley. Emri is so stinkin cute too!! Yeah Hunter is screaming in the back and mayley is ready to pick her nose probably!! Hunter wasn't feeling very good that day!! poor guy! We took all the kids to Chick-fil-a and filled their tummies up with nuggets and let them play in the playplace!!

Bryan is a master at Kung Foo

2008-11-29T12:58:00.000-08:00

THE OFFICE JOKE!

2008-11-18T19:32:00.000-08:00

So we have a DVR and we love to watch the office. So we record EVERY episode and watch them after the kids go to bed. It's on TBS every tuesday and wednesday and then NBC on Thursday. But I just watched a funny one and there was a funny joke that Jim tells to Michael when he walks into the office in this episode....he says "It smells like up dog in here" and Michael asks "What's up dog??!" hahahah get it?!?! That's funny!! I get a kick out of this show like none other!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!! It's the best!! We've only been watching it for the past year. Does anyone know how Jim and Pam get together?!? We saw the an old episode of Pam getting engaged to Roy on a boat. Jim is totally digging pam in this episode and he is totally crushed that Pam is engaged to Roy. So how do they break it off and how does it all work out that Jim and Pam finally get together? I missed how that all happened! Please someone tell me!

Roscoe the Dog

2008-11-17T10:17:00.000-08:00

Last night we went to our friends house Charlene and Nate's House. We love to eat dinner together. Charlene is an amazing cook. Wow! They got this new little miniature pinscher dog. Charlene named him Roscoe. He is so small and dainty. The kids loved chasing him around and mayley thought of a new name for him. "RASTA-DOG" instead of Roscoe. It was pretty funny to hear her running around the house trying to catch the dog and yelling Rasta-dog!! We love our little Mayley and funny things she says!! Hunter loves Dogs I think even more! Except he tries to hit them instead of pet them. He is instense with everything he does!!

My quriks!!

2008-11-17T09:12:00.000-08:00

My cute friend Rachel tagged me and I have thought about this for awhile of different things about me that maybe that you don't know. It made me think a lot and it was fun to do! Thanks Rach!!

Rules; 1 Link the person who tagged you. 2 Mention the rules on your blog. 3 Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours. 4 Tag 6 other bloggers by linking them.

These are in no paticular order:

1) I actually enjoy going to the Dentist. It is relaxing to me to sit in the chair and watch TV. My Dentist is super nice and the ladies that work for him are super fun to talk to. It also gives me a chance to have time for myself. I actually think its fun to get numbed in your mouth because its funny to eat afterwards!! last week I had to get my first crown (I don't like so much the drilling and the smoke that comes out of my mouth) but I love being relaxed. When I was younger and I went to my family dentist I ALWAYS got the Gas and it was my favorite thing EVER! Now I have to sacrifice and not get it because its a little too much moola.

2) I love to eat bananas but I don't like to eat banana flavored candies. I love banana bread and things that have REAL bananas in them but not candy stuff. Weird I know.

3) I admitted to my friend last night Charlene that I don't like to really read. Its not fun for me. I think that is WEIRD because EVERYONE is always telling me about books they are reading. And it seems like everyone has read all of the twilight books. Bry got offered tickets to a special premiere to the movie Twlight at Jordan Commons next week and I said, "Well i have never read the books so it wouldn't be fun for me." I know like a million ladies in my ward that would love to have them. Don't hate me girls! ahhh. I do like to read my scriptures and the ensign and the friend though! I do have to admit that I LOVE reading picture books to my kids though!! They love it.

4) I love to go inside craft stores like Roberts or Joann's and look around and get fun ideas but I never seem to buy anything. I just love the fun things they have in there.

5) I never iron my clothes. I just always throw them in the dryer and get them warm and hurry and put them on. I don't even know how to iron bryan's work shirts he does it himself. I have tried but I'm not very good. yikes.

6) I always have to wear pajamas to bed. I have all kinds of different shirts that I wear with fun jammy bottoms. I am wearing my BYU-Idaho shirt and my jammy bottoms right now. I can't wear just my "G's" to bed.

This is super fun to do: I tag minha Familia e amigas: Britt, Lynda, Kerri, Nancy, Christianna, Kate, & Marissa :)

Mayley Multi-tasking!!

2008-11-15T21:47:00.000-08:00

A joke while Bryan and I were dating was that we could multitask while talking on the phone with each other since I lived at my parents house before the mission and he lived in Rexburg at BYU-Idaho so we talked A LOT on the phone. Well I guess Mayley started multi- tasking last night. She has recently been saying her own prayers at meal time and before she goes to bed. So last night at dinner time we asked her who was going to say the prayer. She replied, "ME" So she started praying..."Heavenly Father, thank you this day, thank you for food," Then there is a pause in the prayer and we hear her fork hitting in the plate and we squint our eyes open to see her sneaking a bite of food in between the prayer...then she went on with the prayer "Bless Hunter, bless mommy, bless daddy, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

It was classic!! One of those moments that you have to laugh at! I'm sure Heavenly Father had a smile on his face as well. I love the innocence of my children!! It was so stinkin funny. I giggle everytime I think of her sneaking that bite in!!!

A fun suprise!

2008-11-15T15:09:00.000-08:00

Last Wednesday Bryan called and said that he got us tickets to Disney on Ice at the Energy Solutions arena!! I kept dreaming how fun it would be to go and my little dream came true. We told Mayley all day that we were going to a princess show and she jumped around the house because she was so estatic!! It was super cute show. Mayley's favorite was Nemo and Dory. The characters were amazing at their skating skills. Professionals obviously! Hunter danced in his chair for a while and we got popcorn to entertain the kids after awhile too. What a fun night of disneyness!!!

This picture cracks me of their faces!!!Beauty and the beast!! So CUTE!! Mayley would say!

Our favorite disney pixar movie in our house is Nemo...so of course if you know it you would know " It's BRUCIE!!"

Soccer Monster's

2008-11-09T17:44:00.002-08:00

For Sunday night activity we watched the Backyardigans. Soccer Monster is Mayley and Hunter's favorite episode. They dance throughout the entire show and want to watch it again and again.

I got through it!!

2008-11-02T19:06:00.000-08:00

So I finally did it! My first offical piano recital. Its quite a scary thing being the piano teacher and watching my students get up there and watch them perform with everything I have taught them. Most of my students are first timers too. Meaning it was their first time ever to play at a recital. I was only 6 or 7 years old I think at my first piano recital. I remember it was in this ladies home and it was really messy inside and my dad kept telling us how dirty it was after we left. good thing for the piano store that let us do it at their recital hall. I have lots of scary and funny memories from piano recitals when I was growing up. My favorite one that I will never forget was when I was about 9 or 10 and me and my best friend Jessica were playing at Julie Goodro's back yard during the spring or summer time and I got up and looked straight at Jessica and said "Hi my name is Jessica Walton and I will be playing blah blah blah" I really can't remember the song but we were laughing super hard. What a funny memory! I have lots of sad memories from my recitals since my mind would always go blank in the middle of the memorized piece and I would have to have my teacher come and put the music up on the piano for me to finish the piece. My hands would shake so bad that I could not control where they went on the keyboard. I was a nervous wreck when it came to recitals. of course I would bawl for the rest of the night. ahhhhhh. I kept playing after all of those years though and love being a teacher now. I only have 6 students right because of all of what life is giving me to take care of right now. Being a mom, a homemaker, and being in the primary, and doing my best to be a good wife to my wonderful amazing husband who I adore to pieces. I wanted to perform the night of the recital so I practiced super hard the song "Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Greig. Uhhh lets just say it was a little embarrassing...not as bad I was expected but I know I didn't play it perfect...I had very little time to practice and when I did I found out the night of the recital that I had been practicing it wrong. which added more stress to the actual performance. I guess I did my best with the little bit of anxiety I had in me. Wow! What an experience!! My students left to right: Manda (the black cat) shelbie (the clown), Todd (a jedi knight), Karl (some kind of cape on witht he brown shirt) Mitch (the pumpkin) and Nikki is next to me. My friend let me borrow her Midevil sorcerer princess costume. I though it was pretty awesome!!

Happy Halloween

2008-11-02T17:18:00.000-08:00

Mayley was Minnie Mouse, Hunter was Mickey Mouse and Bry and I were party poopers and did not dress up. Each year at Bry's work they have all the kids come and trick or treat at lunch. Hunter and Mayley went around to everyones office and gathered up a ton of candy. They went back to Bry's office and enjoyed it all.

The Deck!

2008-11-02T17:13:00.000-08:00

We finally finished the deck. Thanks to Grandpa Call and Bry. The goal was to have the yard, fence, and deck done for Hunters birthday. We are three months behind but it looks great.

halloween with old friends!

2008-10-25T19:30:00.000-07:00

My cutest friend in the whole world Christina had a fun halloween party last saturday for our good friends. Me, Bry, Katie, Lou (Lindsay) and Chris, Julie Johnson palmer, (Euge) Kent Page, & Allen Greenwell all got together with our hubbies,wives, and kids and had a yummy soup bowl dinner. We carved pumpkins, decorated sugar cookies, and chatted about fun times. It was fun to have high school friends that I can still see. I'm glad we all have the gospel in our lives. Remember the albertson scripture from Bro. Grossen?? Anyone?!?! Yeah gotta love it.

Zoo Fun!

2008-10-20T20:23:00.000-07:00

Bryan took the day off of work last friday and we went and played at the zoo with my parents!! It was super fun. Hunter loved looking and pointing at all the animals. It was a beautiful perfect day to go. Mayley loved going on the train ride. She said she loved the monkeys the best! We did too. It was UEA weekend so there was a ton of people there but it was fun to get out and do something fun. This large elephant likes to make funny noisees. Mayley was kinda scared of it.

Hunter sitting on the elephant's trunk. He never has any expression on his face. He is just chill!

The kids loved the giraffes! It is amazing to see how each giraffe's spots are all different! Just like us!!

Riding on the tigers!! way fun!

Mayley's Favorite Book

2008-10-16T14:36:00.000-07:00

I have tried to make a goal to read lots to mayley and hunter everyday. Last night we read books it seemed like forever and she just loves it! Little Pea is a book that is the cutest book in the world. It got award on amazon for the best book in 2005 or something. I love it. Every kid should have this book in his library. It about a little pea that has to eat candy everyday for dinner and he hates it. but if he eats all of his candy for dinner he can have his favorite dessert.....if you want to know what his favorite dessert is....well just ask me or go buy it because its the best!! Mayley can read the whole book to me by herself. This is one of those books that just brings a smile to my face!! It is wonderful!

Cheap Entertainment!!

2008-10-15T20:12:00.000-07:00

Ok talk about some funniness in our family!! We got a new fun tv and entertainment center in the house and talk about fun entertainment with the boxes that they were in. The entertainment center is now the kids' new little house. Bryan made little doors for them to go in and out of. I told him the other night that we needed more windows in the house. We made a circle window, a rectangle window, and a square window. The kids kept putting their head through the circle window and that's where I got the idea to draw a body on the box. It was so funny. Bry did the good muscle man drawing. He does a lot better with his drawings than I do. So here are the fun pictures we took of each other. Mayley even had to get DORA baby in the picture. My mom gave her this doll for her birthday last year and she takes it with her everywhere. it has the ugliest hair but she loves this baby to death!! It's so hilarious!!

This was for reals!

2008-10-15T20:09:00.000-07:00

I didn't even have to stage the kids to pose like this. Mayley just wanted to give Hunter Loves!! Hunter is too focused watching his Baby Einstein movie. He loves those movies!! They are the best!

Love of my life

2008-10-06T16:00:00.001-07:00

Make a Smilebox slideshow

I love this new smilebox and I wanted to put pictures of me and bry on here for you all to enjoy! Usually most of the pics are of the kids. I am so grateful for my hubby and how much I love him!! He is the best! It only let me put 20 pictures on so it just kinda ends when I'm pregnant. kinda random!! I love this new discovery I found today!

Middle Canyon

2008-10-05T17:06:00.000-07:00

In between conference on sunday we took a drive up to a canyon by our house and it was beautiful. We found this little spot that was perfect to take pictures at!! The kids had so much fun playing in the leaves. Bry tweeked some pics to look pretty cool with photoshop. I love being in the mtns. Especially during fall. It was a perfect day to do it. Bry took most of the pictures. He does such an awesome job with taking good pictures. I'm grateful he has a talent to take fun pictures and he loves to do it.

BLT Pasta its whats for dinner

2008-10-01T14:38:00.000-07:00

Last night I made this for dinner. It was super yummy! We loved it! I am always looking for something yummy and new to make for dinner. Bry loved it. But then again its not that hard to please him because he is the best hubby ever and eats anything I make him. Here is the recipe

3 cups (8 oz.) penne pasta, uncooked
4 oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, cut up
1 cup milk
1/4 cup KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese
4 slices OSCAR MAYER Bacon, crisply cooked, drained and crumbled
2 cups baby spinach leaves
1 cup grape or cherry tomatoes
1 tsp. Italian seasoning

Make It
COOK pasta in large saucepan as directed on package.
MEANWHILE, cook cream cheese, milk and Parmesan cheese in large skillet on medium-high heat 3 min. or until cream cheese is melted and mixture is well blended, stirring frequently. Add remaining ingredients; cook and stir 5 min. or until heated through.
DRAIN pasta; return to pan. Add sauce; toss to coat.

The way I made it was a little bit different. I cooked more bacon like 7-8 slices instead of just 4. I also did canned diced tomatoes instead of the grape or cherry tomatoes.

I also made some yummy Italian bread to go with it. I spread butter on the bread, with garlic salt, and italian seasoning and mozzarella cheese on top and broil it in the oven. We like to dip it in olive oil and basalmic vinegar.

Mac N' Cheese PLEASE

2008-10-01T11:26:00.000-07:00

Mac N Cheese is Mayley's new favorite thing to eat for lunch! They were so cute the other day eating their lunch I just had to get them eating their favorite meal. We use little bowls from IKEA so they don't waste so much either.
Mayley also likes to have fun feeding Hunter Yogurt. Wow, they sure do love to make messes. She would get spoonfuls and put it on Hunter's tray and then the fun started with spreading it all over the tray. I think its funny to watch kids having fun even though they do make messes.

fruit flies galore

2008-10-01T11:06:00.000-07:00

So if you any of you have had fruit flies in your house I have the solution for you! I have them it seems like a lot more in the fall time. last year they were all over in my house with all of the fruits and different things in my pantry. Anyway, I found an awesome way to get rid of them!! Apple Cider Vinegar and Dish soap mixed up!! That's it! The flies are attracted to it and they fall in and die!! it's awesome. I thought I would share with you something that works awesome.

Bry had a birthday!!

2008-09-29T12:16:00.000-07:00

We had a fun birthday for Bry this year!! He is now 27 years old. Wow we are getting old. Mayley likes to let everyone know how old they are. She can say how old Bry is, and everyone else in the fam. I went into Salt Lake with Bry on friday. I took him lunch and we celebrated in his office with the kids there. He got a yummy cake from some of the people that he works with and Hunter and Mayley had fun digging in with their hands. It was from a place called cakesdefleur it was amazing!! We went and got him a bouquet of balloons for fun too! We got to play at the calls house that day too. The kids love playing with their cousins, Abbie, Anna, & Megan.

Bryan's sisters offered to watch the kids for us so we could have a date night. It was sooo much fun. We went to this crazy place called Baxter American for dinner. It is a new place down at the gateway. It was quite the place to eat. We then went and watched the Movie "FOREVER STRONG" it was so awesome. Let's just say that me and bry haven't gotten to see a movie for almost a year now so we were excited to go to the theaters. We loved this movie. If you haven't heard of the director of the movie is LDS and made this movie about the Highland High school Rugby team. It totally worth the 8 bucks to go and see it. Its a good feel good movie! Bry made fun of me because I cried like 1/2 of the movie! I'm so glad we got to go see it. Happy birthday baby! I love Bryan so much and he is the perfect Hubby I could ever ask for! I'm glad I have him!

Sneaky little girl

2008-09-24T20:18:00.000-07:00

Mayley loves to get a hold of the camera and take pictures of us either looking or not looking. The redness around the picture is her finger blocking the lense and getting only a little bit. We have a good 2 dozen pictures of her taking pictures of random things. These are the good ones that I have found. Maybe she will want to be a photographer one day.
She got a hold of the camera while I was teaching piano lessons to Shelbie who lives in my ward. Wow I didn't even know she was taking pics of me.
We went shopping with Grandma Redding last friday and she got a couple good ones of my mom!
She was taking pictures of us in the car too.
She wanted to take a picture of Grandpa Call. Good Cheeser smile for Mayley! I'm glad she has these wonderful pictures of the family she has taken! What would we do without little Mayley!

Parabens for Hayley

2008-09-24T19:54:00.001-07:00

Semana pasada minha cuinhada recebeu sua chamado a servir a missao. Faz algum tempo que agora que nao tenho falado portugese!! Estava muito animada quando ela abriu sua chamado e foi (nao para Brazil) mas foi para Missao PORTUGAL, PORTO!! Ela vai falar portugese como eu! OTIMO!! LEGAL DE MAIS!! E maravilhoso que ela vai ser uma missionaria em Portugal! Ela e muito espiritual e Ela vai ser uma grandiosa SISTER! Estou muito feliz por Ela. Para voces que entendem o que estou escrevendo espero que possam entender tudo!! AHHHH. Sei que Ela vai amar sua missao como eu amei minha missao. Foi o melhor decisao que eu fiz em minha vida!! depois de fato que eu fiz a decisao a casar meu marido foi muito bom CLARO! ENTAO, desfrutem as fotos ok!!!

I want to practice my portugese and wanted my sister in law Hayley to figure out some of this stuff that I wrote about her. I'm super excited because she gets to speak portugese like me on her mission. She is going to be a wonderful missionary and she is full of the spirit. I am very happy for her and I know this will be an amazing experience for her to serve a mission like it was for me. I was so excited when she opened her call to serve in Portgual! What a fun mission! :) yay for being a missionary.

BYU VS. UCLA

2008-09-16T13:31:00.000-07:00

This was a fun game to go to. We are grateful to have such wonderful parents that will watch the kids for 5 hours so that we can go and have our dates!!! I know I have a very small knowledge of Football but I would rather go to the game and watch it LIVE instead of watching it on TV for that long. Its definently more instease. I'm glad Bry can teach me. Its fun to learn new things. The game was amazing and was super packed. I don't think there was an empty seat there. We had awesome seats and got to sit in the shade most of the second half. Phew because it was a hot sun last saturday. I went to Macey's grocery store and bought us matchy blue byu shirts for cheap to take to the game and made bry go on a treasure hunt to find them as a surprise the night before the game. Bascially if you aren't wearing a BYU shirt at the game you don't look cool. I'm glad I get to do fun things with my hubby and he chooses me over anyone else. I love him a lot :) Later that night we met up with my brother and Ali and my other 2nd brother I like to call him "Robbie" and his girlfriend/date Kaylee for pizza at "THE PIE" we got the largest pizza ever. It was the 23 inches. It was huge and we all split it with 8 people (hunter and mayley were there too) and still had extras to take home. It was sooooo yummy! I would want to go there again. It's a fun place. I love having fun days like this!! It was the best part of my weekend!

The funny things Mayley says,

2008-09-16T13:08:00.000-07:00

Last night while attempting to give the lesson for family night Mayley blurts out "oops my bum is sticking out!" She had her panties on backwards. You can only imagine that her panties are bulging in the front and tiny in the back by her bum. We got a good laugh out of it. It was one of the funnier things she has said latley. Then while we were scooping icecream to have for family night treat say says.. "I want a big chunk of icecream" It's very suprising the words or phrases she comes up with everyday. We sure get a kick out of her.