Rise & Shout...

Last weekend our family headed up to Orem to visit Brady's family and go to "THE GAME." On Friday, Brady got up early and went 4 wheelin with his Dad up the canyon. Ellie and I headed up to the Gateway for a little shopping trip with Jessica. After helping the economy out with some serious spending we headed back down to pick up Brady and head into Provo. Brady's boss had wanted some Quest t-shirts and we needed to pick up our tickets for "the game" so we headed to the BYU bookstore. When we got their I could not believe how enormous it was, you could probably find anything you wanted and then get lost trying to find your way out! After buying new shirts for the game (yes, I bought a BYU shirt, hey, anytime Brady offers new clothes I take him up on it) we headed to the Admin building to visit Brady's Aunt Javan. She works for the philanthropy office and got us the BEST tickets. After a quick visit and a few more gifts (Ellie got a little BYU cheerleader bear that she LOVES) we headed home. That night we meet up with our friends the Tuttles for dinner and shopping. We had so much fun!

Saturday morning we got up early and went golfing with the whole family. The last 4 holes were way fun, once the sun came up and the wind died down. The first 5 were so freezing I thought I was back in Cedar during the winter!! Then it was time to head to head into Cougar Town. We got to the game early and were lucky enough to go to the Donor Luncheon. IT was so fun, we met the President of BYU and his wife, along with the founder of Costco, and, of course, Cosmo.Thanks again Javan, it was so nice of you to invite us and for the awesome tickets.After listening to the band and cheerleaders we headed over to the game. On our way we saw our friends, the Laws. It was so unexpected, but nice to see them for a minute. Then we headed to our seats. We had chair seats of the 45 yd. line 30 rows up. The view was fantastic and so was the crowd. We sat next to #21, Scott Johnson's family. The game was so exciting and we had a great time watching and singing the fight song over and over and over. I had never been to a game that exciting since Rebel basketball in the 90's!! For those of you that know I love UNLV basketball, Brady and I made a deal, I would cheer for BYU football, if he cheered for UNLV basketball!! So far its worked out pretty well.
After the game we went down to pick up Ellie at her Aunt Holly's. She also had a great afternoon filled with Toys R Us, the park, horses, Baby Einstein, and playing with Moab the cat.

The rest of our trip was spent hanging out with family and having a late birthday for me and an early one for Brady. Thanks for all the babysitting this weekend we sure appreciated everything.

Case of the Missing Bracelet

Ellie got the cutest new bracelet from her Aunt Toni for her bithday, well, it was a little big so I didn't put it on until a couple of weeks ago. On Sunday, I was getting Ellie ready and noticed that the bracelet was GONE! I couldn't remember the last time that I had seen it, except last weekend at the cabin. Well, I have been looking for it in all the usual hiding spots. The toy box, the closets, kitchen drawers, under the bathroom sink, in her bed!!
Well today I went to get Ellie from her nap and what is she hanging from her hand!! THE BRACELET!!! Yea! We were so excited to find it, I guess I will have to wait a few more weeks for her wrists to get a little chunkier before it goes back on! THanks Toni for all the cute bracelets we LOVE them. If you want one check out her website!

Look what she can do

So yesterday morning as I was sitting on the couch watching the Today Show and eating Frosted Flakes I looked over to find Ellie trying to get her leg over the toy chest. Well, it didn't take to long to get that leg in and then hoist the rest of herself in too! She sat and played in there for the next 30 minutes or so, throwing out all the toys that were inside with her to the ground. Then she stood up and climbed back out.
She is now down to 1 bottle at night. I will fill it up and then she takes it over to her Daddy to feed and snuggle her. Well this is what happened after the bottle was gone. TOO CUTE!!

The Fruits of our Labor!

Last Spring Brady planted a garden in our backyard we planted 4 different things watermelon, peas, cucumber, and carrots. After a few chipmunk incidents and the sweltering sun only one plant survived. We hadn't seen any fruit on the plant until Monday. We went out to check out the garden and here is what we found!

Brady was so excited, the WATERMELON plants are all that survived this year. We don't really know when to pick them, so any advice would be great. Brady thinks we should wait til they look like this!J/K Here are a few pics of Ellie playing outside, she LOVES roaming the backyard.

We're Back

Ellie and I decided to head up to our cabin last Wednesday with my Mom. After stopping to have lunch with my Aunt Char in cedar at the pizza factory, running a few errands, and doing some shopping we finally made it up the mountain. That night Ellie enjoyed some Corn on the Cob for dinner!
The next day we met Kellie and Stephen for lunch in Cedar and bought a new backdoor for the cabin. Ryker and Ellie loved roaming Home Depot and driving the cart around the store. I took some pics on my phone, but can't get them uploaded to the blog.The rest of the weekend was filled with....

Ryker giving the best looks, I wish I could have captured his looking at you from the corner of his eye look
Ryker and Ellie watching Baby Einstein (ryker would get bored pretty quickly and then ellie would get mad that he wanted to play with her and not just watch the movie)Ellie tried out a few new hair styles, the pigtails were cute til she pulled them out...Birthday cake, yes I know, that is a lot of smoke coming off the cake!!And my new camera!! We got a bigger camera for Christmas last year, but it is just to big to carry around all the time, so Brady got me the smallest camera possible to leave in my purse! YEA! I was so excited and can't wait to try it out.

Apparently 30 didn't treat my body well, I went for a 5 mile run Sunday morning at the cabin and I am just starting to feel better. The reason why I am just posting. I some how managed to catch a cold that turned into the flu. Not exactly the way I planned it, but I guess thats what happens when you get OLD!

HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY BROOKIE!!!!!!!!!!!! August 31, 2008

I Love my Wife !!!!!!!!!!
I Love my Mom !!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Love, Brady and Ellie :)

Flashback Friday - Olympic Moments

With the winding down of yet another Olympics and watching all of the magnificent moments I started to think about my memories of the Olympics.During the Spring of 1996 the torch was on its way to Atlanta and it made a stop through Las Vegas, being in High School and thinking this is a once in a lifetime opportunity my friends and I decided to check it out. A kid from our HS was running with the torch down part of the strip so that is where we went. We got there right as they were closing the road so we parked our car at Spring Mt. and the Strip and got out to watch. It was pretty cool and we wanted to see more, so we hopped in the minivan and headed for downtown. Well, on the way I got a HUGE traffic ticket and it kind of ruined the excitement. A guess a grumpy cop and a van full of obnoxious teens don't mix.Then during the SLC Winter Olympic in 2002, I was living in Draper with my good friend Carrie working on my student teaching. It was amazing to see the excitement surround the city as the rings seemed to appear everywhere. I was teaching Kindergarten during this time and one of our students asked if he could bring in something special. Well, turns out his Grandfather got to run with the torch, when this happens you get to keep that torch, and he was able to bring it into the classroom for the students to see. I remember how beautiful it was and seeing the black left around the glass where the torch had burned. It was a pretty cool experience and I didn't think it would get better than that.
A few days later my sister and a bunch of friends came up so we headed downtown to walk around and check out the scene. We had wandered around and looked at about everything we had wanted to see and on our way back to the car we saw a group of girls sitting on a planter box. Turns out it was the Canadian Girls Hockey team wearing their GOLD medals. They were very friendly and let us look and touch their medals. I remember being surprised at how heavy they were. I couldn't believe that no one in our group had a camera, because we had all forgotten them in the car and cell phones didn't have them, yet.