Funny Fun Farm

Our sweet friends, Kolbi and Lexi, treated us to a fun day out at their family farm.

 They had an old friendly horse to ride and feed, 4 wheelers to cruise around in, cows, buffaloes, a trampoline, a garden, a dog... everything that little boys love!
  I was surprised how brave Bruin was with the horse.  He wanted to ride and lead that horse everywhere.  I think we have a cowboy on our hands.  Crew just wanted to keep feeding him.

Kolbi and Lexi were so sweet with the boys.  They picked them carrots from the garden, jumped with them on the trampoline, and gave them the time of their lives :)  We love them!  Lexi is Bruin's nursery leader and he couldn't be happier

I loved every bit of it too.  I so want to live in the country on a little farm someday!  Makes me sad that we won't be out of school for 9 years, BUT maybe we can find a little farm house to live in through school?

Under Arrest

Crafty, I am not. In fact when friends ask me if I want to come do crafts with them I slightly cringe inside, Why? I am not sure. Perhaps because I am SO NOT a perfectionist that when I'm working on a craft and kind of mess up, I just say oh well and keep going... Then when its all finished it looks nothing like I pictured in my head, and I'm disappointed and swear to never do a craft again.

WELL... I joined Pinterest. And if you are a Pinterest groupie, you understand that by merely pinning amazing craft ideas, you start to think you are a crafty and productive person... even if you sat on your butt pinning the whole naptime..
SO I got the creative bug. And decided to spray paint. Something I have never done before.

And here is my final product. Cosmetically flawed and all. I think its pretty cool. And so do my boys. Bruin catches all the bad guys in it. Woot Woot!




The pink/purple Little Tikes buggy was given to us by our last landlord who was bringing it to the Goodwill. I've never been too gender conscious with my boys stuff so I didn't care and it became the favorite little car (well until we bought Bruin a plasma scooter, but its still number 2).

Next victim: Our red and yellow Dora bike (also from the landlord)...

Pictures

I fixed my picture problem on the last two posts. Sorry!

Island Park and Yellowstone

My sister Kristen invited us to go with her to her husband's family cabin in Island Park. Kristen and Bryan were great hosts and us and the kids had lots of fun! My sister April and her family were able to come too so there were lots of little boys running around!


On Sunday we all decided to make a long trip through Yellowstone National Park, which was pretty, but we all kinda wondered if it was worth it at the end of the day! Lots of driving.




Bruin was VERY nervous about Old Faithful Erupting. He was convinced it was gonna be loud and hurt his ears. Infact, he was so nervous about it that he couldn't handle the anticipation and his stomach got sick and he NEEDED to go the bathroom RIGHT NOW. Luckily Old Faithful shot up right as we got to the bathrooms so I was still able to see it.



Below: This is the exact moment Bruin lost his shoe into the river. Blow up the pic. You'll see how distraught he was... Phil had to fetch it out down the river and sacrifice his pants in the process. He wished he would've stripped to the nude he said later.

As you can tell, Bruin is my sensitive child :)

BYU

Phil has been having fun going to BYU Cougar games. He flew out with all my brother-in-laws and dad to the game in Texas and caught the Utah State game in Provo Conference weekend. Since we don't have any tv in our house he has gotten a little creative in trying to watch the other ones. One weekend we ate out at a restaurant and made them turn the channel so he could watch. I even left him there when we were all done and took the boys to look at pumpkins across the street :) Another game he knocked on our neighbors door and asked to watch with them LOL. So even though the Cougars haven't had the greatest season, Phil is a true fan and bleeds blue.

In the Burg

Guess what? We got a new computer. Woot Woot! So now I supposed I will blog again. My pics will be emailed from my phone until I find my dinky camera though, so some poor quality photos to follow!

The past few weeks have been awesome. The weather, amazing. I get to see Phil. My kids live in a safe place, where we can accidentally leave our garage door open and come home 3 days later with nothing stolen from our house. (yikes!) Grandma Sycamore bread is plumping up my recently slimmed down figure though, and the cold weather is slowly coming upon us.

Bruin is in preschool and he LOVES it! He cried a lot the first few times going but now he looks forward to it and talks my ear off about everything he did when I pick him up.

Phil's sisters that live here have been fun. Brittney was certifying to do eyelash extensions so she did some for me and they are sweet! If you are near Idaho Falls call her up!

Jessica and Brianna are hard working at school but still take the time to go to a girls night out with me now and then :) and Jessica even took us hottubbing at her apartment complex last night. We also went to the zoo here with Phil's cousin Kasey, which was actually a pretty decent zoo for a small town.

Phil has been playing intramural football and discovering how old his body now is. Poor guy. Doesn't want to grow up and get an old man body. Too many aches and pains come after the fun times!

Me, I've just been scouting out the town, finding good parks and fun things to do. I've made a few friends but am still missing my girls in Clovis! Every Thursday night I sigh as I think of the Girls Night Outs I am missing!

Last weekend we went down to Utah and spent Conference weekend at my sister Kristen's house.

We also got to visit some of Phil's family near Lehi and went to a big Halloween fun place called Cornbellys with our friends the Barneys.

Utah has a lot of people we love there right now so we are happy to live so close!

Of course, we didn't catch all that much of Saturday Conference but I will enjoy reading the talks before bed every night to come.

Speaking of church, we still haven't made a final decision on which ward we are going to. We are allowed to decide between the family ward or the student ward, since Phil is a student. The family ward is huge and loud and older, with TONS of kids and all the programs that come with a family ward. The student ward is a lot of newly weds with some babies, its quiet, its active with lots of fun activities, and people living the same student life as us. The thing drawing me most to the student ward is the fact the Bruin and Crew will have a nice, tiny nursery where there are literally 4 kids in nursery. When Bruin starts Sunbeams in January they will be combining Primary with the other student ward so that they will have 3 Sunbeams, thats it for the entire Primary LOL! Bruin does WAY better in that kind of setting, rather than the chaos. Anyways, we have been going to both wards and can't seem to decide. Any input?

That's it for now!

Me and My Library

I decided to revamp my book blog that I hadn't posted on in about a year, and made it into a book suggestions blog. I love, love, love reading and while Phil was gone traveling for work the past 3 years, I did A LOT of it. I seriously cannot even remember all the books I have read and it will take some serious brain work to recall them.

However, I am dedicated to giving my fellow readers some book suggestions once a week on my blog. I loathe taking a shot in the dark trying to find a good book without anyone's suggestions in hand. Therefore, I will only be posting the ones I really liked! I have read many mediocre books and a few terrible books I just couldn't get myself to actually finish.. (ok maybe I would skip to the end just to see how the terrible plot worked out) and I will give you none of those.

Except perhaps a warning here or there on a hyped up book that ended up being awfully boring or offensive (such as Cutting for Stone).

I hope this can be a resource for you in your book search! Tell your friends and fellows and come on over to ME AND MY LIBRARY