Tuesday Tidbits

Bryce and Joe are a dangerous two-some as they are drilling holes in the walls to install Bryce's surround sound speakers in the family room. These kind of processes are not good for me to witness so I am here in the office trying to catch up on my virtual "to do" list that I seemed to have created for myself. I just keep telling myself that blogging is like keeping a journal and the church is always telling us to write in our journals!!! :) Anyway- I am sure that Bryce will get everything to work out nicely. He seems to care about this stuff and I think that the volume that comes from the massive tv is just fine.

I don't have anything dramatic or new to add so I will just tell you a few things that I have loved about this week!

Landen came up to me and gave me such a big tight hug around my neck this week! He hasn't really given good tight hugs before (besides the ones that he does to not be put down or given to the babysitter... but those aren't the same.)

Braxton's Sunbeam teacher always comments on how he is the MOST reverent kid in their class! I am impressed cause he is even one of the youngest sunbeams! He did a great job on his part for the Sacrament Meeting Primary Program on Sunday!

Abbey is such a great singer! She is always singing some sort of song in the morning. She doesn't enjoy getting up for choir but seems to really like learning the songs. I think that we know the words to the Grinch song pretty well now! It is her facial expressions that make everything else come alive too. We were just laughing with Bryce and I about how our kids are sucked into the infommercials on tv. They are completely sold and give us the sales pitch with exactness. They still can't figure out why we don't own a "pancake puff pan," a pasta bowl that you can microwave, some sort of storage bag that vacuums out the air to conserve space, etc... They keep working on us each Saturday morning.

Bryce will be heading out to "5 Miles of Hell" on Friday morning. It will just be me and the kids this weekend! Not exactly sure what we are going to do besides the usual chores. We will have to come up with something special for being ditched!!! :)

I survived another orthodontist appointment. I got some new rubberbands to wear and they are not fun. I can barely open my mouth to to fit a ritz cracker sized piece if I am lucky. I guess this takes care of me sneaking the kid's halloween candy during the day! How do people survive this? I guess more milkshakes will have to replace my healthy eating of fruits and veggies that are hard to chew! :)

Some Halloween FUN!

Halloween was a BLAST! The day started out early trying to help Bryce get dressed up for work! It took a few tries to get his chest of balloons at just the right size. He has some sexy legs in my heels too! We then got the other kids ready and headed off to Abbey's school to see the Halloween parade. Abbey dressed up as an elegant princess and was almost late for school since the kids just wanted to watch their dad transform into a woman! (Landen wasn't too sure about the idea and kept running away when he would see Bryce. Braxton kept telling me all day that he didn't like dad's new hair-- the blonde wig.) Braxton had several costumes for the day..l He started out in the batman costume and was all set to go to Abbey's parade until about 3 minutes before we were to leave and he decided that he wanted to be "Blackbeard the pirate!" We quickly changed and painted on facial hair and rushed out the door. That costume didn't last long and he was on to the next one when we got home. I dressed Landen up in one of Abbey's old dresses and did his hair to look like a girl and he was sooooooo CUTE!!!! We took him to the school and to the grocery store like that. We did finally change him into his lion costume to go trick or treating. He was adorable all day! Braxton finally settled on being "Indiana Jones" about 2 minutes before we were supposed to leave to do Abbey's little class party. Since we had no official costume for this one we had to make a mad dash around the house. I am not sure why I didn't just tell him to get one of his other costumes on... probably cause he has asked me 20 times to be Indiana Jones and I told him "no" cause we already had 3 other costumes for him to wear! He was a happy camper though with his make shift outfit and was more than thrilled to have a whip!!! (and he was really good to be careful with it the entire time!) The kids had a blast trick or treating. It only took 2 houses for Landen to catch on to the idea that you just have to go to the door and they give you candy! He wanted to hold each piece in his hand and finally gave in to putting the treats in his bucket-- which NOBODY was allowed to touch to help him up and down the stairs. Somebody was a little posessive of their candy! A few houses into trick or treating he realized that he could eat a sucker with the wrapper still on and was a sticky mess! We all had a great time. Bryce was a good sport to go around our street in his costume and then manned the door all night. I bet some trick or treaters got quite the surprise as by the time we came back home most of his costume had been ditched and he just looked like a man in women's clothing with eye makeup! Definately not somebody you would want your kids around!

Today I made a HUGE breakthrough! I went to an all day "crop" with a neighbor and organized my 2 rubbermaid bins full of pictures into each seperate year! WOW for me!!! Now they are hounding me to scrapbook it all and that is a bit of an overload! As for now... I can at least have a better idea of where to find a photo when I need it! I do want to get more photo albums to put my favorites in so that we can see them often. While I was gone Bryce went on a ride with his friend Brook Monroe down in Spanish Fork and Brook's wife watched our 3 kids! WOW! Bryce really owes her big! (It was actually Brook her volunteered her... he might be in deep trouble.) Then Bryce brought the kids home and made them "camper's special" for dinner and did the dishes!!! WAY TO GO BRYCE! I am impressed... so much so that he is gone again for a "night ride" with Brook and Rich. Let's hope that Bryce doesn't come back with another huge scrape on his body again like last time! I can't handle any more scabs showing up on my pillow case! GROSS! Anyway- I must not get out much cause Bryce just kept telling me how glad he was that I went and had fun today. Maybe it doesn't make him feel so guilty for going riding! :) Who knows.

Well- that's about it for our update. We are keeping our fingers crossed that Kristie's little baby, Whitney, will get to come home from the hospital soon! Keep Kristie, Travis and Whitney in your prayers! She is such a little doll and we can't wait for her to get off oxygen so we can hold her!

Life As We Know It

Well- I finally posted a few pictures. I wanted to add tons more but couldn't figure out how to do lots at a time yet. I am hoping to keep working on that tonight. I have let Bryce do so much for me over the years that I have become computer hadicapped. I am determined to change that so I can function in society! :) He was teasing me that I was chatting with the neighbor across the street on facebook a little while ago instead of just walking over there to talk to her. Sometimes the computer is nice cause I can sit and have a conversation without even having to brush my teeth and nobody notices! (I will still continue to brush my teeth though.)

Anyway- October has been a CRAZY month and it isn't even over yet! We have had lots of fun parties and events to go to that I think I am going to crash on November 1st. Speaking of fun events... my sister, Kristie, is at the hospital in labor with little Whitney as I type! She has been there since 4 am and it looks like it will be at least a few more hours. Thank goodness for epidurals!!! (and insurance to pay for them)

Just this last Saturday we had a fun Bezzant Family Halloween Party at my sister, Karen's house. Abbey dressed up as a princess and was really mad that I didn't curl her hair up in ringlets. I don't know when she expected that to happen cause she had been to a community cooking class that morning, rushed home in enough time to eat lunch to run to a cousin's friend birthday party and then to that same cousin's family birthday party to rush home to get dressed for this family halloween party. I tried to tell her that princesses can wear their hair up and she didn't believe me and was sore about it all the way to the party.

Braxton had a hard time trying to decide what to be for this party. He just got a new batman and incredible hulk costume for his birthday and is constantly wearing them no matter what is going on. He finally decided on the Batman costume but that didn't last too long at the party. Soon he and his cousin, Porter had switched costumes in the basement. In the pumpkin carving pic, Braxton has the "Thing" costume on of Porter's and Porter is sitting in his underwear.

Landen was a cute lion. He got so darn sweaty though that we had to take the top part off for the entire party. Somebody mentioned that he looked like a character in the Chronicles of Narnia (not sure if I spelled that right). There is a guy in the movie that is half man and half horse (or something like that). Landen had a blast at the party. He ran around like a mad man during dinner to show off his freedom of not having a high chair. Then he ate as many candy pumpkins as he could get his little fingers on. (At least 10 or more!) He stomach was stained orange from all of his drool. He had a blast frosting cookies and I enjoyed eating it! I talked the kids out of their sugar cookies too after I told them that they could eat all of the candy that was on them... I just wanted the cookies with the frosting. They were sold and gave in.

Well- in other areas of my life... Bryce is trying to arrange two weekend motorbiking rides with his buddies. Actually- let me rephrase that. He has so many motorbiking buddies that want him to go on rides that there are two weekends in November, back to back, that they are trying to get him to go on. I asked him what he wanted for his birthday and he said, "To go on both of those rides." It sounds like it is out of the budget to me... even if it is free. I have a hard time being happy for him to go. I feel ditched with the kids. I am not sure where to find a good balance with things. We had agreed on one ride per week (I think that a weekend ride should count as multiple rides though) and he hasn't been on a ride for a few weeks. Bryce just needs to quit being such a likable guy so nobody wants to be with him!!! Since that only happens when it is time to do yard work... I am not sure what to do! .. jk.

Anyway- now that you are alseep from reading this or have found out WAY too much information about our lives... you can delete this blog from your list! I am going to go and try to figure out the slide show thing for pictures now. Wish me luck!

Finally I get to sit down and work on my blog!!!

I am going to attempt to add some pictures to my blog... we will see how it goes. Then if there is still enough time in the night, I will update things a little.

Braxton's 4th Birthday!

We just finished a really fun day today! Braxton couldn't believe that it was finally his birthday! He got a new spiderman bike and an Incredible Hulk costume from us. He LOVED his costume and wore it all day! He was also so excited that he could play with his two best friends today (his cousin Porter and the neighbor kid, Austin). We then had an extended family party that was a blast! He was loaded up with presents and enjoyed having everyone over to play. He is big into pirates so we made him a pirate birthday cake. You will probably see him riding his spiderman bike down the sidewalk wearing his new Batman costume and the cape flying in the wind. I love his enthusiasm and love of life. He cracks me up as he gets so excited for things that I barely even notice. One thing that is so sweet about Braxton is that he always wants to give us a hug and a kiss before we leave anywhere... it makes me feel good. Before we know it he will be too old for that stuff and we won't be able to even get a wave out of him!

Anyway- Happy Birthday Braxton! We took some pics that I will have to post but I didn't have a new video tape so we have no video footage of his big day. Hopefully he won't hold that against me later in life! :)

Let's get this started... tomorrow!

I have been wanting to set up a blog for quite a while now and actually have a minute to sit down and do it. Unfortunately I have spent the last hour catching up on my facebook account and Bryce has been patiently waiting for me to go to bed. I have told him about 5 times... "just a minute." It has been a long few weeks for us and we are worn out. I haven't seen anyone else's blogs so I have no idea what to do our what looks good. I guess I will learn as I go! Hopefully I can fill in more this week. We are jam packed with Braxton's birthday on Wednesday, Cub Scout Pack Meeting on Thursday, and a birthday and Halloween party on Saturday!!! Who has time for dishes will all of these other fun things to do????