Cousins and Parties

October is full of Birthdays and all sorts of fun things! Here are a few of the parties we went to with the Barretts!

First, it was Kasyn's 1st Birthday.


And that day, at Rylan's football game, Super G-ma Sue took on all the kiddos! Go G-ma!
Brylee and Ayva played on the trampoline and laughed and laughed!


Then it was Braden's Birthday! I made him a motorcycle cake dirt track ramp and all... and we lit it on fire! Just like Evil Kneval. Happy 25 Daddio!


Then, it was Ayva's 3rd birthday!
And Tarl was dressed like Spongebob... HILARIOUS!

Then, we went to a party with the Stoddard cousins!
Everyone was there! Brylee had loads of fun with Ashlyn and Penny!


We love you cousins!

Holiday Recap!

Ok all, so after a long and crazy vacation from Blogging, I've decided to get back into it. I'm sorry I've been a slacker, but one or two things has happened in the past 8 months... yes it's been 8 months since my last blog. My bad! So, here' the worlds least in depth 8 month recap. I will post videos very soon, but not today. Holidays are basially the only time I ever remember to take pictures, so here's a holiday recap:

In October, Braden turned 24. We went to Texas Roadhouse on his birthday and the restaurant people made him ride a saddle and the sang to him. Bry rode with him. She loves her Daddy!

Then, it was Haloween and as a family, we were all dressed up to match. We were quite the RockStars! Brylee loved seeing all the people and playing with friends. And of course, she LOVED all the chocolate! I guess we are related.

This year, we had TWO Christmases! We had one party with Braden's family. There was SO much yummy food and we had lots of fun playing games and giving gifts.

We even did a Secret Santa. We dropped all these presents off at a VERY deserving family's house, rang the door bell and RAN! Rylan and Korgan rand the bell since they were the fastest!

It was a super fun party! I think the best part was when we surprised Gramma Sue and Grampa Joe with the picture of all the kiddies. :) Merry Christmas!

We went sledding and played in the snow!

Brylee got to play with her twin cousin, Penny! All in all, it was a pretty amazing Christmas. We love you all!

Brylee's first Independence Day!

Oh boy, we've had a lot of fun the past few days! Deryk and Jojo had their baby! Seth Joel Barrett is so cute! We got to spend a little time with them.

I can't believe how tiny he is! I thought Brylee was small..... I WAS WRONG!

Braden's parents came down and we had lots of fun with them. Grandma Sue bought Brylee this ADORABLE outfit! She loves to snuggle with her Grandpa! Although, I'm not sure which one of them drank the bottle...

AND It was Brylee's first 4th of July and we hit all the highlights! We are so lucky to live in this amazing nation of ours and I am so proud to be an American!

On Friday morning, we decided to hike up to the wind caves with some friends... but we didn't get out of bed in time to meet them so we went by ourselves! :) It was actually fun... just the two of us out in that gorgeous canyon. Here we are at the top. She had so much fun on the way up. She was laughing and reaching for every tree, weed, flower or anything else the whole way. It was really fun, but man she's heavy to carry up a hill strapped to your belly! How did I carry her there for 9 months?!?!

Tiny baby in a BIG cave!

In the two seconds I took to take that last picture, she grabbed a big handful of dirt and shoved it in her mouth. So silly!

That's the cave up at the top. This picture was taken about halfway up the trail.

She was excited on the way up... and slept the whole way down!

Logan lights off the fireworks on the 2nd so we went to that! They light them from the football stadium so we parked ourselves right across the street. We rode our bikes so we could beat the traffic on the way home and let me tell you, we were right! We were flying by cars and it's all downhill home so we were cruisin!

Family photo!

We were twinners! Only opposite :)

She was so fascinated by the fireworks! I thought she's go crazy staying up late and hearing loud noises, but she watched like a hawk!

We watched them with some friends: Dallin and Patty and their little girls Zeeley and Emma Joe.

Then we went to the "parade" yesterday. It was... interesting. It's called "the cruise-in" and it's just a bunch of old classic cars that drive up and down main street. It was pretty cool, just very different than I'd seen (or even heard of) before.

Brylee had lots of fun...

Right up until she fell asleep... again.

Then we came home and had a little weinie roast on our patio. We made smores, sat around the fire and just had a great time together. It was really fun.

And Daddy helped Brylee roast her first marshmallow!

It was a wonderful week. Happy 4th everyone!

CRAWLING!!!

Yay! Baby crawled! She's been so close for like 3 weeks, and she's finally got it down! 7 and a 1/2 months old and growing fast! I'm so proud of my little Beba!

Baby's new room decor!

Brylee got new decor for her room thanks to Brooklyn's new vinyl business. It is so cute!

Thanks Brooklyn!

Brylee got shots yesterday and was so sleepy when we got home... She fell asleep with her face smashed into her bumpers.

Such a cute silly little girl. :)

St. George Memorial Day

So we went back to St. George for Memorial Day this year. It was so fun to be with all my sibs and their fams and my parents. Here are some pix of our fun trip!

Brylee was Queen of the pool realxing in her floaty toy with her sweet shades and bink. Just loungin back playin with her toes! Or is she asleep?

Now she's definitely asleep... And on dry land but still curled up in her floaty toy!

She didn't like Penny's floaty as much. But it was super cute!

Family photo up at the hike in Leeds.

Daddy and Brylee up on the top of the Dixie!

Touching her first turtle!

MMMMMMM. Sticking my tongue out at all of you!

Piano

Yay! So we bought our piano a few weeks ago, but the stops on the strings were off or something so it sounded like the pedal was on all the time and all the notes would jumble together. It was super annoying and I couldn't stand to play it so it's just been sitting here making se sad. BUT, today, Grandma and Grandpa Astle came over today and were looking into it and found a way to open the pedal box and Braden fixed it! Yay! Oh and we figured out it was made in 1895! Pretty cool. Anyway, it still needs a new finish or stain on it, but here is a pic of my beautiful piano! :)

It has the most beautiful carvings in the case. Oh I love it! Yay for cheap, old pianos!