Thanksgiving 2009

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!  What a blessed and thankful family we are. We have a healthy, happy family that bring us so much love and joy.  We have friends that will be in our lives forever. And we are thankful for a job to go to each day, a roof over our head, and food for the nourishment of our bodies. We thank our Savior for all our blessings.

Here is what Beau is thankful for:
"Mommy, Daddy, Brenley, and myself"

Brenley is thankful for:
"Blankies, puppies, and her babies"

Daddy is thankful for:
"His healthy family, a great job, and his loving wife"

Mommy is thankful for:
"Kids that bring a smile to my face each day, a daughter that loves to put on make-up, a son that is aggressive under the basketball boards, and a husband that does laundry better than I do."

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Here are some pictures from a great Sunday spent at the Grant house in McPherson celebrating Thanksgiving together. Awesome meal, good company, sweet kids.

The Imiatator

Brenley loves to hang out with Mom, and one her favorite things is to put on make-up just like Mommy. Her favorite (and only) shade that draws her in is a purple shimmer - of course!  Here she is getting beautiful in the morning.

Here is another cute pic of our little beauty "talking" on the phone. Her other favorite imitating past time!

Beau - the Defender

Our guy is so awesome. He continues to amaze us.  Basketball started two weeks ago.  On Saturday at his second game, he did a really good job. He'll tell you he scored 8 or 10 points - depending on what mood he is in!  ha ha We hope he continues to improve each game and has fun!  He is quite the big boy!

And here he is going on a jog with Dad (his idea).  Are you kidding me?  How cute is that?

My Girl, Talking 'Bout My Girl - Brenley - 21 months

Here we are again. A month later. Our cheeseball is one year and three quarters.  And if ketchup counts as a fruit - then we can officially mark down that Brenley is finally eating FRUITS as she enjoys spoonfuls of the condiment at each meal. Breakfast, lunch, dinner......she doesn't discriminate.

New words: Baseball, Eyebrow, Milk, "Ah de do" which we intrepret as, "I go with you" and a new one today, Sponge Bob. Sure she did.  Shouldn't all 1 3/4 kids know who he is?  Good grief we are terrible parents. Thankfully, she does at least know who Elmo is, a more appropriate role model!!

Had her first parent teacher conference this week. She is doing well.  To recap, she isn't really fond of eating. She LOVES books.  She plays well with others or by herself. And the first time she sees something she just sits and stares. Then if she thinks she will like it, or doesn't think you are being completely crazy, she may decide to join in. She is independent and a thinker.  Mama likes both those traits.

Her favorite game to play with us is "night night."  She gets a dish towel, makes us lay down on our stomach (and I say "make" because she screams at us and pushes our head toward the ground - not kidding), then she puts the dish towel on our back, hits our back repeatedly and says "night night."  She could play that game for hours.  Fun, huh?

She is such an imitator too. I think I might have mentioned that she puts make-up on like her mother (she puckers her lips together when she sees me put on my blush -sure she does).  But she licks her finger when she is turning the page of a magazine. And she flips through magzines a lot - because her mom does that.  Ugh. I cannot even tell you how much I love my shadow.

See you  at 22 months......until then............here is our rockstar that just partied too hard.

Halloween 2009

What a great day we had celebrating Halloween on a Saturday.  We started with Beau's first basketball game. Much improved over last year, but a little more work to do. He had fun, and did a great job listening to coach, and that is all we asked of him.  Pictures to come in later posts.

Then we anxiously awaited dark so we could start running around the neighborhood. Beau took off with the neighbors ahead of us.  Then Kyle, Kate, Luke, Brian, Brenley and I left shortly afterwards.  Kyle's family hit a few houses with us, and then it was time for them to go home and get Lucas some supper!

We caught up with Beau and the neighbors a few houses down.  It was so much fun.

We were the perfect little OSU family. Football player, Beau. Cheerleader, Brenley. Super Fan, Mom, and Coach Dad.  If only I had thought to decorate the wagon up like Bullet the horse.......NEXT YEAR!

The weather was awesome. There were a lot of people out, and everyone was having a great time. We saw some scary houses, and fun houses. Some refused to give Beau candy because of the school uniform he was wearing (we went back and egged their house later that night  - just kidding). But everyone gave Brenley candy, followed by...........oh, she is so cute.  She did so great. Walked right up to the door. She didn't say anything, and several times tried to put candy in their bowl from her bucket (and a few times she tried to just walk into their house), but each time she left with a sweet little "good-bye!"  There were a few times I was reminded of that FRIENDS episode where Rachel was pregnant and she ended up dumping the bowl of candy in a cute little girl's bag because she was so cute.  I thought that might happen a few times last night.

And I cannot forget to tell the story of running into one of Beau's classmates. I guess we were at her house and Beau went up got candy, and we noticed he was visiting with them, but there were tons of kids, and tons of parents around, and we didn't think anything about it. We started down the sidewalk, kids in tow, and this cute little girl came running up to him, and said, "My Mom told me to tell you that she thinks you are cute!"  And we were like, "Beau, who was that?!"  And he shrugged his shoulders and very flatly replied, "Oh, that was Hannah from my class at school."  End of story for him. He could have cared less. Brian and I thought it was a kill.

It was such a great night!  We got some great pictures out of the deal. Too bad the game couldn't have ended on a better note. Ah well. Not all was lost. We came home to chow down on some pizza and candy!  We know how to end the night on a good note!

 

Halloween Parties at school

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Mom took the day off on Friday to celebrate with the kids at school during their Halloween parties. Brenley's was in the morning. Beau's was in the afternoon. Both paraded around their school and then had snacks afterward.

It was a fun filled day with lots of cute kids. Kids in costumes.........you can't beat it!

The Park

Where did he go? He's right behind you, Brenley May!!!



Couple of cute kids playing in the park last weekend.