Fever Pitch

We just wanted to say that we couldn't be happier the Sox are in the World Series! It's still a little too big for her, but we couldn't resist putting Brighton in her Red Sox dress that Auntie Cyn got for her (Thanks Auntie Cyndi!) and showing it off for all to see! We go to our clubhouse that has a gym (and Cable TV) and watch the games. Kyle and I have been sporting as much Red Sox paraphernalia this week with many eye glares coming our way, but we don't mind because we have that Boston pride! Hopefully they'll take it all! GO Sox!

Mommy's Little Chef

I had to make some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies for my ward enrichment the other day and Brighton is at the age where it is impossible to do anything in the kitchen by myself, so I plopped her on the counter and she absolutely loved helping mommy mix the batter. She thought she was so cool being up so high and being able to be in on the action. She was quite the helper and would say "mi, mi, mi" when she got excited about mixing. It's crazy how much she's picking up on a daily basis! She's getting to be such a fun age! I just wish she'd stop growing so fast!

Sleepy Sunday and Harvest Monday

Well, as a little recap, we a great family weekend. On Sunday we went to church just like any other Sunday and Brighton normally takes her nap right after church ends, but she was super hungry so we thought we'd feed her a little bit before we put her down. Well not even 2 minutes after she was in her high chair while we were getting our lunch ready, we found a sleepy child. She zonked in the chair! She couldn't even keep her eyes open. We thought it was hilarious! Maybe you had to be there, but it was quite funny to us and I knew I had to document it.

Anyway, then on Monday since Kyle had it off because of a thing called Harvest Break (Which is actually just an excuse to get an extra day off for the first hunting weekend of the season here. Everyone in Southern Utah is obsessed with hunting! I daresay it's worse than Alaska!), we packed up and headed out to the pumpkin patch in Paragonah for Brighton's first Jack-o-lantern picking excursion! She loved walking in the pumpkin field and pointing at all the pumpkins, but I'm sad to say that the red dirt was a little more enticing to her. She was filthy by the time we got back in the car. It was still a fun a experience though and I love this time of season when orange pumpkins and yellow leaves are all around! It's a great time to make some great mems!

Night Time Rituals

Brighton has been loving her night time habits lately which makes life a lot nicer for us! Here is a run down of her evening....First Kyle gives her a bath which takes at least an hour as she loves to play. Then he lotions her up and puts her PJs on. But after that comes the exciting part. We get out the brushes and she squeals with delight saying "Buh! Buh" (which translated means brush). She gets one and Kyle gets one and she thinks it's so cool to brush her own hair, although she rarely touches a strand with the actuals bristles. She sometimes even tries to brush mommy and daddy's hair, always making sure to be gentle (She's a very sensitive girl). After our brushing fun is done, we say "Where are the scriptures?" and she runs for her special Book of Mormon board book and we read a story. Next we say " Say good night to Jesus." and she runs to this picture we have of him, squats down and lays a wet one on the portrait. It's probably the cutest thing I've ever seen. Lastly, we say our prayers and she can actually say Amen. Then it's to bed she goes. No tears. No screaming. And it's pure relaxation for mommy and daddy until morning time. What a great little girl we have!

Super Cute Claire

This post is a little late, but we just wanted to congratulate our good friends Kirsten and Aaron Henscheid on their new arrival! Kirsten was my roommate in college and we've been the best of friends ever since! Now we're both married and our husbands get along great so we're still close. They lived in AK for a summer while we were there so we had a blast together. Now they live in Montana and we miss seeing them! Anyway, Claire Jane Henscheid came into the world on Sept. 28th and we couldn't be happier for them! Isn't she one of the cutest babies you've ever seen?! We can't wait to see the little bundle of joy in person and hope that that time comes soon!

Lil' B in da' house

This morning Kyle thought it would be funny to put a bandana on Brighton so now we have a thug baby on our hands! My dad always talks like a gangster to Brighton and his favorite thing to say to her is "Lil' B in da' house!" Well this pic is for her G'pops. Doesn't she fit the part of a rapper thug now?!

The Domestic Hermit

Okay so to tell the truth, the reason I've been such a hermit and haven't even turned my computer on in days is because I have been working on a few projects and once I start something, I don't sleep or eat or basically do anything until I'm done. I realize this is probably a bad habit, but I just can't help it! So anyway, due to our lack of funds because we're still students, I've been trying my hand at sewing versus buying things such as curtains and couch covers. Last week I pumped out these curtains for Brighton's room after I found the material for a steal at Wal-Mart. They weren't too difficult so I thought I could figure out how to cover our polyester orange-made-in-the-70's chairs that we got for free. Well, to be honest it was a little tougher than I'd imagined but they turned out alright and now we can have guest over without being embarrassed that we live in a hippie house. So there you have it. By the end of the week I felt truly domestic. But I think I'll take a break from my domestic lifestyle for a little while. I've got way too many puncture wounds on my hands from all the pins I used! Oh and there's a little eye-candy of Brighton and her daddy up top to satisfy your lil B needs.!

Provo Showers

I again apologize for the posts that are so few and far between but it feels like my days go by in rapid speed and by the time I even turn the computer on, I'm too pooped to do anything but check my email and plop into bed! Okay, so updates. We went to Provo this last weekend to visit all of Kyle's family and watch Will's (Kyle's little brother) football game (which they won an Will did great!). His sister Sarah was in town and she is very pregnant and no one threw her a baby shower, so all the sisters decided to throw one! We had a great time and since a lot of Kyle's cousins are at BYU, we decided to have a coed cousin party/ baby shower. The guys were a little apprehensive at first, but it ended up being a big get together and everyone enjoyed it. I met some of Kyle's cousins for the first time too and they were great! It was a blast! Oh and I made a diaper cake as a decoration which was fun but a little harder than it needed to be! Oh well, I guess I'll learn for next time!

We ended up staying at Kyle's sister Annie's house with her husband Joe and their boy Landon who is almost a year and it was so fun because Brighton loved playing with Landon all the time. She felt so cool trying to feed him his bink and show him how to walk (He's almost there!)! It was so fun to see them interact! I can't wait until they can actually talk to each other! That'll be interesting!

Also, one last thing that was awesome was that all the sisters (Casey, Keri, Annie, Annie's friend, and I) all got to go to General Relief Society Broadcast at the Conference Center. Annie miracuously got 5 tickets to go to it and it was AMAZING! Oddly enough it started raining and snowing on the way to Salt Lake, but we were determined to get there. Just to be there in the center and to see the prophet and to feel the spirit there was out of this world! I think we decided to make it a tradition to go together because it was quite the experience! Well, there you have it. You're updated! I'll try and be better, but who knows when busy life will die down?!

Homecoming Drama

Sorry about the hiatus, but we've had a rough few days! First off, on Friday our adopted family in Cedar, the Montoyas (Pat Meegan's mom) let us know that Bubs (or Julie) was on Homecoming royalty at Canyon View High school! Well we couldn't miss out on seeing Bubs in an evening gown (which she looked gorgeous in by the way!) so we went to the football game and cheered her on while she drove around the track in the back of a truck (They were going to have a helicopter land on the field and drop them off, but it didn't work out. Can you believe that?!). Bubs had the whole Miss America wave down, although I think she was being a little mocking, which sounds more like Bubs than a beauty queen. Anyway, she's the beaming beauty to the left of the pirate in the pic above. My camera was acting up so that was the best shot I got. It was also Brighton's first football game so we had to document that with her daddy as you'll notice above.
Then, after the game we brought Brighton home and to bed, but she woke up at 11:00pm which was out of character and she was burning up. We gave her medicine and she slept throught thenight, but the next morning she had a temp of 104 so we started doing everything we could think of bring it down, but to no avail. She was miserable all day and just wanted to be held, wanted her blanket, or wanted to sleep all day long. Sunday wasn't much better. By the evening time her temp peaked at 105. We were frantic. So we called Kyle's brother who has been through medical school and he diagnosed it to be Rosiola. He said that we just needed to get the fever down in any way and that she should be getting a rash all over her body. We finally got the fever down and sure enough, she got a rash. She's doing much better now and the only sign of the sickness is the rash (which is not contagious anymore! whew!). She seems to be our bright little Brighton again which is a relief for us! So anyway, this weekend we had a little homecoming and a little drama, but thankfully they weren't in the same category!

PB - J

Brighton's new obsession is Peanut Butter and jelly sandwiches. About a week ago she figured out how to peel apart the bread (which you'll notice her doing in a pic) and eating the side she likes the best. Well I personally thought that any toddler would die over the sweet jelly half and toss the PB. Brighton is a rare case, so when I found her other half of the sandwich that she had so conviniently tossed on the floor, it was the jelly side! What baby chooses Peanut Butter over jelly?! Anyway, we've altered her diet to PB sandwiches minus the J. I figure it's healthier for her anyway! But should I worry about her diet when she has 3 in one day? Oh well. I should be happy she's eating at all! So I should revise my first sentence by saying Brighton is obsessed with PB sandwiches. She has even started saying it! One of the few words (She can now say 'keys' and 'amen' on command) and it turns out to be PB! My kid is random!

Southern Spirit

We have a neighbor who is super nice and sweet and her name is Ashley. She would always wear SUU soccer apparel and we finally deduced that she was on the SUU soccer team. It is pretty cool to have a collegiate athlete in our midst here in Cedar! And Brighton loves her and her husband because they have a puppy! Anyway, on Thursday, the soccer team had their first home game and we decided to show our school spirit by attending. We all sported our school colors (Red and white) and Brighton even had a headband to match! Needless to say we had a great time and the girls played great! We forgot to bring the camera to the game, but here are a couple shots of us getting reasy to supprt our T-Birds!

Pigs

If you look carefully, you can see the monumental achievement in Brighton's world to date: She can wear pigtails! Of course you can't see the pigs from the front because they only encompass her mullet, but it definitely made her look like a little girl on Sunday! She's growing so quick that we want it to slow down (except for maybe her hair. She can totally speed up that process and I'd be elated!)!

A & B Kisses

Just a quick post before bed! Two weekends ago when the Meegs were visiting, Little B was loving giving little A kisses! She thought it was hilarious when Alli's hair would tickle her face! I guess she's not used to having that much hair so she thought it was great! Anyway, I couldn't resist posting these pics even if they didn't do the moment justice!

What a Croc!

The other day we found this pair of Crocs at Payless and we couldn't resist! They are the tiniest one I've ever seen and Brighton looked super cute in them! So we splurged and now Brighton is loving her life every time she wears them. She can be running around buck naked but insist that she wears the crocs! She thinks she is so cool with them on! It's pretty hilarious! Other than our new purchase, our lives are settling down and not much is going on. Thank goodness for that!

A very long update

Okay so I'm going to back track by a few weeks and give the deets of our recent trip/move to UT. Brace yourself for a long blog. First off we got to Utah on August 7th and hung out with Kyle's fam which included Kyle's sisters Annie and Keri (along with their husbands Joe and Dan)and Brighton's cousins Landon and Olivia. All 3 of the cousins were born within 6 months so it's always so fun to have them together and see them interact! It's always so great to be with Kyle's sisters as well because they are some of my closest friends and I love spending time with them. So it was a great few days (mingled with some car troubles but that's over with so no worries). And p.s. Olivia doesn't walk but she scoots so one day she scooted right up to Landon and gave him a big hug! It was so cute we had to document it, even though it wasn't the greatest of pics (seen above).

Then we headed up to Ogden for a few days to visit our friends the Meegans (who we've seen since then, but I thought I'd give the play-by-play basically for my benefit). We had an awesome time because we hadn't seen them for over a year and desperately missed them. So Kyle and Pat did some climbing while Clarissa and I hung out with the kids and talked and talked for hours. It never fails when we get together, we never run out of things to say and I love it! So we had a blast there and Clarissa even took us to the Children's museum in their town which was amazing as you can see. Anyway we had a ton of fun with them and love the fact that we live closer to them!

Oh and we even got to see our friends Paul and Michelle Ottley and meet their little girl Abby who's 3 months younger than Brighton but much bigger! It was fun to see them because we haven't seen them in forever either!

Okay so after that, we finally moved down to Cedar City where we currently reside! A few days after we arrived we had a little family get-together with some of Kyle's siblings so it was a lot of fun to have Casey, Tyler, Annie, Joe, and Landon at our house! We went hiking and saw the sights of Cedar (which we weren't familiar with yet!).

All-in-all it was a really fun and busy few weeks and now we are settling in to school and life again and wanted to thank everyone who made our transition here so easy and say thanks to everyone who visited us or who we visited because we had a blast! whew! Long blog! Sorry!

What a weekend!

Okay so we finally have the internet at our house and we're able to post pics and get back to life being a little more calm so I'm fully back! Hooray! I was going a little crazy there without the world wide web at my finger tips! (cheesy I know!) Anyway, a TON has gone on since the last post and I've taken about a thousand and one pics so I'll update everyone on the dealings of the Comin clan when I have time, but I just wanted to let you all know about the greatest weekend I had really quick! Our best friends in the world came and visited us and we had a blast! Clarissa, Pat, Gracie, and Alli Meegan all came to see us (along with their family who conviniently lives here too!) and it was such a fun time! First, as you can see from the smiles above, Clariss and I went to see a Shakespearean play entitled "Twelfth Night" at the Utah Shakespeare Festival which was great and so fun to have a girls day out (we both didn't know what to do with ourselves without having a child on the hip!). The next day we had Sunday dinner over at the Montoyas (Pat's mom) and it was really great getting to know their fam. Then today we all went bouldering up at this place called "The Wash". Everyone came along including the babies so it was quite an event (And hopefully with pics forthcoming)! We always reminisce about the good old times we had staying up late and hanging out with the Meegans in Rexburg and it honestly felt like those times again this weekend. We could just sit around the table and talk for hours and love our lives when we're with them so it was one of the better weekends we've had in a while. We just wanted to say thanks so much Meegs for driving all this way to see us because we loved it and we couldn't ask for better friends!