Brayden is at such a cute age right now. (Aren't they always?) He loves to pretend that he's different animals, like dogs and frogs and sometimes even an alligator. He's also very talkative and likes to tell you everything that's going on. "He's drinking, Dad!" Or "He's swimming, Mom!" He's so excited about life and I love the enthusiasm he has for it.
We think that he's especially cute when he mispronounces words. Don't be surprised if you here us using some of these words. They have become a part of our everyday vocabulary! Here are some of our favorites:
Bernairn = Balloon
Ephalant = Elephant
Chalocolate = Chocolate
Rrrrelcome = you're welcome
Blop-Blops = Flip-Flops
Puhcakes = Cupcakes
Iraq-aroni = Macaroni
Dot Dogs = Hot Dogs
Here are some of our favorite conversations we've had with him lately:
"Dad - You guys are fiends!!
Brayden - I not fiend, daddy!"
While having lunch of quesadillas, Brayden points to his tortilla and says "Get off my cheese!"
Dad walks into the room. Brayden waves and says "Hi, trouble!"
"Mom - Brayden, are you cold?
Brayden - No. I'm cute."
We sure love our sweet boy, who happened to turn 2 today! Happy Birthday, Brayden!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Brayden's Words
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Things Tyler is Good at!
For some reason unknown to us, Tyler tends to get down on himself. He's says he's not good at stuff, or he's not big enough or old enough to do things. To help him feel better about himself, we sat down for Family Home Evening and had him help us make a list of things that HE thinks that he's good at. I thought I'd share the list with you! (His extra cute thoughts are in parentheses.)
1. Balance Beam
2. Carrying Brayden to the couch
3. Building roads
4. Jumping
5. Running around (I'm fast!)
6. Cooking (but not by myself!)
7. Remembering things
8. Imagining
9. Telling stories
10. Reading/sounding out words
11. Swimming (in little pools)
12. Cleaning up
13. Playing with Brayden
14. Turning on lights
15. Doing voices, ie, pirate, old grandpa, etc.
16. Being reverent
17. Playing games, ie, candyland, candyland castle, hi-ho cherry-o, etc.
18. Conducting
19. Cracking eggs
20. Jumping on Dad
21. Roaring
22. Starting his own movies
23. Picking out books and movies at the library
24. Being funny
25. Getting in & out of the crawlspace
26. Helping people
27. Counting
28. Watering the garden
29. Getting dressed
30. Doing buttons
31. Opening and closing the toy box
32. Riding his scooter.
This list that he made doesn't even touch all the things that I think he's good at. What would YOU add to the list?
Posted by Steph at 10:56 AM 4 comments
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Friend At First Sight & Twilightmoms.com

I'm excited to announce that my dear friend Ashley and I are being featured as vendor of the month on TwilightMoms!!! Ash recently took me on a as a business partner for her wonderful domino pendant necklace designs after I suggested she make a Twilight line of necklaces. Our new collaborative business, Friends at First Sight (because that's what we were!!), was born. Now we're hoping to make a big splash by having our designs featured on such a wonderful (And wonderfully well know) site!
Check us out! We'll be designing some new lines very soon, like a tween line and a high school/graduation year line. (I'm even thinking about an ITLAPD line!!)
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Thank You!!
I just wanted to give a big THANKS! to my wonderful friend Melissa, who has fabulous giveaways on her blog. I was lucky to be the winner of her latest prize, and she dropped off the goodies today!
The candle smells incredible, and I've already eaten (and shared) most of the Cadburry eggs!! We definitely needed more spring/easter decorations, so this prize was perfect for us. Thanks again, Melissa! You're awesome!
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Brayden's best friend

We spent last weekend in Vegas with Brian's family. All weekend long, Brayden followed his Grandma's dog around the house saying "Buh-he!" (The dog's name is Buffy." If ever Brayden was unhappy, we just asked him to find Buffy, and like a miracle, he was happy again as he searched for her! He was even looking for her in the bathroom of a gas station on our drive home! Buffy is a great dog and was very patient with all of Brayden's attention. Don't separate a boy from his (grandma's) dog!
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
not much going on
Besides colds that never seem to go away, 2009 has been pretty uneventful for us. And for that I am grateful!! (Sometimes it's just nice not to have to do to much!) But, it also means that I haven't had a lot to post about this year. I'll just give you a quick run down of what we've been up to.Tyler has been in gymnastics since September and he's really having a good time! He's burning off energy, listening to his coaches and learning some really cool skills. He likes the balance beam and the bars. Tyler is such a smart kid! He's sounding out words like crazy and always asks how words are spelled. He's also doing some simple math problems. He likes to tell knock-knock jokes, only he doesn't understand how they work. He likes to play rock-paper-scissors, even though he cheats a lot of the time! He loves playing games in general; Hi-Ho Cherry-O, Chutes and Ladders, Candy Land, Candy Land Castle, etc. It's really fun to hang out with him!
Brayden is growing up so fast! He's talking a ton, even cute little sentences like "here ya go" and "over there". He's learning new words everyday; I haven't counted yet, but he's got to have at least 50 by now. He loves ducks and quacking, bunnies and hopping. Balls are his favorite toys to play with. He loves going on roller coaster rides, courtesy of mom's legs (it's how she gets her work out!!) and loves playing popcorn where he curls up into a ball on the floor and sizzles for a minute before standing up, jumping and saying "Pop!" He dances all the time and loves loves loves to read books! We love watching him be so compassionate with his brother and other kids. He's such a sweet one to have around!
As for Brian and I, we've been lucky to have a few dates lately! Thanks to a wonderful friend/cousin, we were able to go see a production of "Swing!" at the Candlelight Dinner Theatre. The theatre is sooooo beautiful, the show was fantastic and the food was amazing! I think it's the best dinner theatre there is! The next week, we went to the Stake Valentine Dance and had the best time we've had at a dance since we were youth! Other than that, we've been down to the Springs to visit Brian's family a couple times, seen my family quite a bit (Dave, Janna and Ethan have been here) and we even met one of Brian's high school friends and her two kids for a fabulous day at the zoo. We've kept busy, even if it isn't exciting to read about. We're hoping to get everyone healthy soon. If we can do that, we may just have some fun plans in the near future that will be more blog-worthy. :)
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
December
Since I've been sick for the last 2 1/2 weeks, I haven't gotten on here to actually update my blog. Sorry this is late, but at least I'm doing it!
December was, as always, a busy month. You read about it being our 5th anniversary and we spent a wonderful 5 days in Steamboat Springs. We had such a great time window shopping, swimming, relaxing in the hot springs and enjoying the mountains and snow. It was just the break we needed!
The rest of the month, before the festivities started, we spent working on painting and tiling our bathrooms. (Thank you so much to some generous family who gave us their left over tile!) They are looking great, but we still have to finish putting the trim back up and getting one toilet back into place, so I'll save a whole post for bathroom remodeling.
Christmas was a wonderful time this year. We were blessed to have family from both sides come to visit this year. We started off the week before Christmas hanging out with Dave, Janna, and Ethan.Here are the boys opening some of their presents from Grandma and Grandpa.
We did some shopping, hit up Casa Bonita and the Zoo Lights (Sorry, pics are on a different computer, currently) hung out and even had a visit from Santa!!
We all had a great time (except maybe Janna! She was so sick!) and I can't wait to get the boys together again (and me together with Janna!).
We had a great Christmas Morning at our house! Santa brought us a yummy Panettone, some fizzy drinks, a Candy Land Castle and other great goodies in our stockings.
We also had some very nice presents that we gave to each other. Brayden got some bath toys, Tyler got a cork board to put buttons on, Brian got some games and books and I got a new hair dryer! (Yay!)
After Christmas we headed down to Colorado Springs for even more Christmas!! Eric and Heather and the Kids came to be here for Maggie's baptism and to do the Christmas thing here in Colorado.
We had gift opening and food at each set of Grandparent's house, visited Brian's Grandma who had to be in the hospital over Christmas, and hung out with those cousins that Tyler and Brayden love so much!Tyler even got to try rolling skating for the first time! (He didn't last very long!)
We sure had a fabulous time with all of the celebrating! It's great that we were able to see so much of our family this year. We always have such a great time with those we love!
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