Monday, May 23, 2011

Everything else from this spring...





Caught in the act!
One day Brynn brought the camera to me and said, "Look, Mom! I took some pictures of Bryce!" I looked and thought, "what is he doing?"

That kind of looks like my....

Wait, I think it is....

My credit card, you little thief!!! Thanks Brynn. Moment of disaster avoided in the grocery store check-out line!



Construction has begun on the Gilbert, AZ Temple!

We thought it might be fun to come to the site from time to time to take pictures with the kids as it progresses. This will be MUCH closer to our house!


Yep, another four-going-on-clueless-preteen pose.

It's been a gorgeous May!

We spent a lot of time outside. This is definitely the most beautiful and cool May we have had since we've moved here. Usually it is depressingly already stifling in May, but this year there weren't many days that were to hot to spend outside. So here we are at Freestone Park.









This is so random, but this is how Bryce sits in his carseat and how he sleeps. I just love how he looks with those little arms behind his head like he is so cool.



Father/son camp-out, Girl's Day - Fablious!
That's what Brynn calls our girl's days (she means fabulous). I am not ashamed to admit that I have been looking forward to this since last year (it's ok, Marty knows I love him and miss him when he's gone). We spent a lot of time at the library because lately it's just impossible to take Bryce there and it used to be our absolute favorite place. We also went to Kohl's and picked out an Easter dress and present for Bryce. But I was feeling a little under the weather that night so we just stopped at a grocery store and I let her pick out a Kid Cuisine and I picked out a yummy steamy veggie dinner. The next morning we snuggled/read like crazy and just enjoyed each other's company.


Daddy and Bryce had lots of fun, too! Sorry I don't have many details about it. Marty informed me, "Well, I'm a guy! I think it's great that I even came back with two pictures!"





Hair.
Yes, a topic only a mommy cares about, but hey, it's my blog. Brynn's been doing her own hair lately, and I'm been amazed at how often we can walk out the door the way she does it. It's definitely losing some of it's curl. It's at the point now where I have to scrunch it with gel because the ringlets are pretty much gone.
Yesterday she found some sponge curlers and asked me what they were. I told her they were for curling hair and every since then she has been dying to try them. So today after I washed her hair I put them in. Wasn't a big deal, didn't take long. But when she saw them, she was TICKED. Apparently she didn't realize we couldn't curl it and take them right out. She said, "Mommy, I wanted princess hair, not silly hair!" As you can see, she is NOT happy about this picture ("I do NOT want a SILLY picture!").

Finally it was dry and time to take them out. But first! She must put on her ballerina costume! And the results? Still not happy. "NO, mommy! It's still silly! It's like grandma hair!" Well, we put some of it up and she danced around all day and it loosened up and looked beautiful, actually.

I don't see us ever using them again now that the novelty has worn off and there is really no other reason to. That's a relief. I'm surprised a four year old even cares what her hair looks like, actually. But I'm told by my friends that's normal.
This is another angelic picture I got today. Lately Brynn has been really into "putting Bryce down." She wraps him up, holds him on the chair (even though he weighs almost as much as she does) and sings to him. What a beautiful thing to come back in the room to see Bryce sound asleep on Sister's lap while she is still softly singing to him. Sigh.


The end of this post is called:

He is going to KILL me for this later.

Our bishop issued a challenge on Sunday. He descibed a scenario where a natural disaster had occured in Queen Creek and told us we couldn't get to the stores and had to survive off of our food storage this week. I was totally up for it and getting excited (our food storage can definitely hold out a week), then I realized we were almost completely out of diapers. We were planning to go to the store the night before but decided we should go rescue our baby-sitter and just hold out until Monday. Now I see that was a mistake. The bishop encouraged us to live the law of consecration and barter with your neighbors. So I started asking around and have already gotten a donation and several offers. But before that happened, THIS was what we resorted to:

Brynn's old pull-ups I dug out of the guest room closet. Don't tell Marty, but Bryce was actually excited to wear them. You don't grow up with Brynn as a sister and not know who Cinderella is. Now that it's gotten hot I've been letting him just run around in his diaper, but after so many times of "Look...Mom! Cillella...Mom!" I decided I'd better hurry and get some shorts on him and put a stop to that. So we'll see how this food storage week goes. I don't like rationing my fresh fruit....


Ahhhhhhh. Spring 2011 is officially blogged.

1 comment:

Jana said...

Brynn's new pose: BAHAHAHA!
Brycer's new diapers: BAHAHAHA!
Brynn's grandma hair: BAHAHAHA!
Brycer's life of crime: BAHAHAHA!!