The Mustachioed

When Kyle wears his bandana, he loves to put one on Brighton too! Here they are twinners which Brighton seems to be tickled by. Also, I have to apologize for the nasty hair growing on the upper lip of my husband. Every year around Halloween, he seems to think that it's cool to grow a mustache. Who does that?! He tries to come up with a costume that will incorporate the said hair, but never ends up dressed as anything. So I told him that if it wasn't gone the day after Halloween, then I can't make any promises that it won't be gone when he wakes up in the morning (I've threatened shaving before but never had to resort to it.). Anyway, to my joy I awoke to a freshly shaven husband on Nov. 1st and things couldn't be better!

Hall of Fame Halloween

It's a little late I know, but I still wanted to show some of the pictures we took of the Halloween festivities we partook of. First off, Brighton was a little ladybug which suited her well and I was a butterfly, so we were a family of insects. I must have forgotten how fun it is to go trick-or-treating and get into the occasion because we had a blast dressing up and walking door to door. Maybe I can blame the past begrudging feelings on the holiday due to the fact that in Alaska we had to think of any costume that would fit over our snow suits. By 6:30, we'd be numb and go home with very little candy. Not so much of a fun holiday.

Anyway, here in Cedar it was a gorgeous day out and we could sport the costumes to our hearts content. We started the day off by going to our weekly storytime where everyone wore their costumes and Halloween stories were read. It was so fun to see all of our friends in their costumes! Brighton was loving seeing all the different outfits! Fun fun! Later on that evening we went out on the streets to hit up the neighborhood for the sweet stuff! It was so fun watching Brighton walk up with her little bucket (that was about as big as her!), knock on the door, and get excited when they put a treat in her pail! We loved it! She's at the age where she's just starting to understand things like this so it was a blast. Maybe it's the whole having a kid thing and doing the whole shebang for her, but Halloween has never been this fun before!

Brighton and me walking to the door. She just started getting the hang of trick-or-treating here.
She definitely caught on quick! She grabbed a huge handful of candy and went back for more before I could catch her!
Brighton the ladybug and her friend Kayson the pirate showing off their costumes together!

Brighton stealing a bite of pumpkin. P.S. Pumpkin is her new favorite word to say.

Also, the Monday before Halloween we decided to carve our pumpkins which I'm honestly not a fan of due to all the nasty insides that it seems like gets everywhere in your house no matter how many newspapers you put down. Well, we carved and Brighton really wanted to be a part of the action so Kyle put a piece of pumpkin on her highchair so she could play with it and the next thing we know, half of it was gone! She ate it! Luckily there were no sick tummies or nasty diapers, so she's alright! It ended up being pretty fun though and we were glad to see daddy because he's been SUPER busy with school. It was actually a great family night. Anyway, Halloween is starting to grow on me and this has been the most fun one we've had since...ever.

Happy Halloween!!

What more can we say?!

Monumental Weekend

Okay so a few big events happened in our lives this weekend. First off the Red Sox won the Series so Wahoo!!!!! I'm sure my dad is walking on cloud 9 (We are pretty pleased ourselves.).

Secondly, we went to our very first sheep parade! There was a parade on Main Street in Cedar and it was basically all cowboys, farmers, and their animals. They even had 'Ms. Rodeo Queen 2007' and the Rodeo princesses on horseback there (which is basically a horse riding beauty pageant!)! It was the epitamy of Southern Utah! Brighton was loving it! The grand finale was about 1000 sheep barrelling down the road! It was really funny to watch. We love the fact that Cedar is Festival City USA! One reason being there is always a crazy parade like this one going on about every other weekend! There's never a dull moment here!

Lastly but definitely not leastely (not a word I'm sure), Brighton went to her first day of Nursery at church all by herself! It was hard to see her go, but it was definitely time. Before we were out the door, she was playing with someone and didn't even turn around to say goodbye! Am I the only one having serious issues with my child growing up?! It makes me so sad to see her grow so fast, but at the same time it gets me excited for the stages she's going through. Life is crazy. Crazy but good.

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!