::Happy Halloween::

Well, I guess it's time to add another post!

So, since we finally have our very own house I was so excited for the holidays to come so that we (when I say we I mean I b/c Jeremy had nothing to do with this) could decorate our house so cute and decorate our front porch. Well October hit and Bryson and I headed out to the store and got lights, signs, ghosts, garland, etc, etc ... well turns out I am not much of a decorator and for the amount of time we spent it didn't look that great! Oh well what can ya do. Well I decided that it didn't look good b/c we didn't have our pumpkins out there.

With the no pumpkins I devised a plan and ....

Saturday morning we met my parents and Chull and Tyler at the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins. Bryson had a blast running around trying to find what he considered "The Biggest Bestest pumpkin" he finally settled on 3 very different but very HUGE pumpkins and off we went to my parents to carve them up. We had a blast doing this and Bryson loved cleaning them out and examining the seeds. I think they all turned out fabulous. We even bought 3 little pumpkins that he wrote faces on and took one home to his sister and kept 2 at our house. One little one he decided he would try to carve to see if little ones also have "guts" in them, turns out they do!

*These are our cute pumpkins*

It was such a fun afternoon! Thanks mom and dad and Chull and Ty!

Later that night we met Jeremy's family at Spaghetti Mama's for some dinner and we were supposed to head to another pumpkin patch to do the whole thing again but by the time we all got the to resturant and got fed it was dark out side and we figured we couldn't possibly find pumpkins in the dark so we just went to his mom's house and all hung out. We celebrated his neice Malone's birthday and ate cake and ice cream and just had a fun time running around.

Well, of course we had been telling Bryson all day Saturday that he gets to go to the pumpkin patch twice and carve or paint pumpkins twice and all that jazz so by the time we got in the car to go to Jeremy's mom's house he was a little upset so we stopped by Harmon's and told him he could pick out two more pumpkins and we would decorate them Sunday as long as he didn't tell anyone what we did! Well he kept the secret and Sunday morning he finished those last 2 pumpkins and now our front porch is complete!

Sorry this is such a boring post but to me the weekend was fun and nothing else has happened since the last time I posted so this is what you get!!!

::A Post About Everything::

Bryson cleaning up for the night after a day of hunting!!

Well, I have not posted anything in a while so thought I would get things updated.

My dad went hunting last Monday and he really wanted to take Bryson so on Thursday afternoon Jeremy, my mom, and I drove out to Wendover (I had never been and I have no desire to go back) to meet up with my dad. We had lunch at the fabulous Rainbow casino, what a place, and then Jeremy, my mom and I drove away and watched Bryson climb in the truck and head off with Grandpa Doug. It was kinda sad and I was really nervous b/c I wanted him to be so good the whole weekend. Well, my dad said he was awesome, loved every minute of it. He kept himself entertained by shooting his bb gun, riding his 4 wheeler, and catching lizards. He woke up early with the men every morning (like 5 am early) and put himself in bed every night when he was ready (why can't he do this at home?). I was so proud of him and my dad took tons of pics I just need to get them developed to a cd b/c they are on a disposable camera so once I have them I will post them for you! Well here are the pics I promised
He was so tried every night!!

With a free weekend Jeremy and I decided to just hang out and really do nothing. We went to Happy Sumo Friday night which was really good. I don't eat sushi but they have a Buffalo Roll made with chicken that was amazing and I felt really cool and part of the group eating my fake sushi with everyone. We headed to the Utah game on Saturday night with Dan and Julie, GO UTES!! Gotta love them. We then pretty much did nothing and laid around all day Sunday waiting for Bryson to get home and hear about his first Hunting trip.

**On our way home Sunday night I look in the back seat and Bryson was crying and we couldn't figure out why, we finally got it out of him and he said "I miss hunting and I miss Frank (the lizard he caught) and I want to be in my sleeping bag next to Doug!!!" Isn't that so cute!**

Well, this week has been kind of uneventful, I had a big test on Wednesday so I just spent the first 3 days of the week studying my brains out and then last night we headed to the Utah v. Oregon game which was great! We both have a test tomorrow morning so we are just staying home tonight to study somemore and tomorrow we will be going bowling with some friends so that should be exciting!

Nothing more to really add!!!

::WAHOO .... GO UTES ...::

We love the Utes and I am so happy they won last night, what a game. Of course I was into the game at first and then I got bored (as always) b/c they were totally sucking it up but they pulled it off and they are now 6-0. Gotta love the Utes.!!!

::Family Pictures ...By Valerie Hansen::

Check out her blog http://www.justaglancephotography.blogspot.com/. She took TONS AND TONS her are just a few we love. We love them all and we are going to have a hard time deciding.

::HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!::

Well, today is my Papa's birthday! He is the most amazing man ever and I could not survive with out him in my life. I am a huge daddy's girl and love every minute of it.

From all of us Dad to you ... Hope you have a great birthday!

::09/11/01::

Just wanted to write a small rememberance for this day! I was 18 years old and living in Logan, UT getting ready for class when I first heard about what had happened to the Twin Towers. I had never been to NY and at the time didn't really contemplate the significance of this day. I began to fully understand what had happened to our country and was very saddened by that fact.

Each year I more fully understand the huge significance of this day and just want to thank all those that are fighting, were fighting, and have fought for my freedom. To those who have lost brothers, sisters, daughters, sons, mother, fathers, mom's, dad's, aunts, uncles, friends, or any other family member's I am deeply sorry for your loss and want you to know we think about each of you everyday and are so grateful for you and your friends and family member's.

So Thank you and may we always remember this day!

::Go UTES::

Well, our weekend was very uneventful but fun. My dad had surgery on Friday morning and Bryson wanted to sleep over at my parents house and just relax and have a movie night with Doug and Lou. I got home from work and we headed to Blockbuster and Little Ceaser's and then off to Doug and Lou's. Since Bryson was being taken care of, and basically given anything he wanted, Jeremy and I decided to head to Olive Garden for a little date night and some never ending pasta bowl. It was delicious and we didn't even have to wait because they had two seats avaliable at the bar with no wait so that was nice. We were home and relaxing watching Juno by 8 pm. It was great.

On Saturday we met Bryson and my parents at their house for swimming and relaxing and of course the Utah vs. Michigan football game. Go UTES, they won in The Big House 25-23. It was a great game and such a fun and relaxing day. Also, my dad decided this is the year he wants to take Bryson out hunting so they went to Cabella's for all of Bryson's hunting gear and he loved that.

We headed up to Memory Grove again on Sunday and I have to say that every time I am up there I think of Leslie's and Tom's beautiful wedding, we loved it Les! Marley had a great time once again and so did Bryson. They played in the river together and got dirty and muddy and had a blast!

Well, on Labor day Monday we woke up the hail out side our window, crazy that September 1st brings the hail. Well, anyway we thought we wouldn't be doing anything but it turned out to be a really nice day to hit the Zoo. It was cool, not to busy, and the animals were out and about and very active. It was a great day at the Zoo. I have some pics that I am trying to get loaded on to my computer and once I do I will post them up. We had a great time and it was the first time we took Bryson that we didn't have to get him a wagon, he walked the whole time and loved running up to the animals cages and he tried to talk to them and waive to them, it was so cute. He was so good on Monday all day long that we just had to buy him a toy. Well, for Bryson toy shopping is something that causes so much anxiety. We told him his limit was $10 and he had 5 min. to pick something out. I think that most children would be able to handle this, not Bryson, when I told him he had 2 min. left he started to cry because he just didn't know if he wanted a stuffed animal or some small plastic animals that he could play with in the bath. I couldn't help but do two things, I got super frustrated that he was crying over a toy and almost didn't let him get one, but then I had to start laughing, I mean what kid CRIES over not being able to decide what toy to get. Well, he finally made his decision and he choose a 2 headed yellow and black striped snake. It is super ugly and I am sure it will find its way to the closet with the rest of the unused toys, but who am I to judge I have clothes and shoes and purses with tags on!

Well, our weekend was uneventful but still way fun and now we are back to working and school again. The Utes play their first home game on Saturday September 6 at 6 pm vs. UNLV so hopefully they win again and keep this high from Michigan going!

GO UTES!!!