Impromptu FHE

Stupid me forgot my camera! Monday nights at our house are looked forward to by everyone in our family. It is really fun for Jason and I to watch Carter and Keaton's excitement over scripture stories and talking time with mom and dad. Today Jason had a student solo later in the afternoon. So me and the boys went up to the airport towards the end of the lesson and met Jason up there. After the student left we hopped in my Dad's plane. First Carter and Jason got in, and then it was Keaton's turn. He was waiting to get in and he was going crazy! He wanted to get in the airplane so much quicker than what was going on. Jason had given both boys "airplane flashlights" and we were loaded up ready to go! The boys were thrilled to take an airplane ride, even if it was just taxing up and down the airport. Since there is rarely any traffic we pretty much had the airport to ourselves and Carter was able to turn on the airport runway lights from the airplane. It looked really neat because it was so dark out there. Of course Carter wanted to take off, but I kept us on the ground due to my anxiety about having our whole family in a single plane. When taxied back to the hanger put the plane away and loaded up to go out to dinner. On the way out Carter started talking about his walky-talky he got today. Instead of saying "walky-talky" he said, "hockey-walky" and "walky-dockey!" It was so funny! We took the boys to dinner and Keaton ended up eating chocolate cake and all of Jason's steak, plus all of his pot roast. He is definitely a meat eater! He turned smurf blue from eating blue M&Ms for dessert. After we demolished the Golden Corral we headed home for bed. What a fun night!

The Better Butter

Well, the first attempt of making butter from our new cow did not go so well. I eventually ended up accidentally cooking it! My Vitamix blender is really powerful. So Jason got tired of waiting for me to get it right and googled how to make butter. This is our third attempt and it turned out so good! It is a solid, tasty, homemade butter straight from the cow! Jason stayed up until 10 p.m. with his little project and he did a great job. It may seem a little weird to get excited about making butter, but there is a certain satisfaction knowing that you can do things if you have the need to. You never know when that day may come that we may not have access to a grocery store and have to do things pioneer style. So a little at a time I guess. First we will master the milk cow thing and then it is on to chickens. We have one surviving chicken and a partially built chicken coop, but we'll get there and hopefully the Lord will bless us in our efforts of provident living.

The Party That Never Ends.

What a weekend! My Baby turned 2!

Keaton is 2!

Happy Halloween to my boys. They were a pilot and a co-pilot this year. Carter was really excited about his mustache, I must say it was a nice finishing touch!

My baby Keaton turned 2 this weekend! I can't believe how fast it flew by. It seems just like yesterday we were sneaking into the hospital to have him delivered. Planned C-sections aren't a surprise, so in our own way we tried to add the element of surprise and not tell anyone what day he was coming. Keaton has been a true blessing from the moment he was even a twinkle. He is very easy going and quiet, and likes to play by himself or just Carter most of the time. To start off the weekend Jason and I tested positive for either influenza A or Swine flu on Thursday. It hadn't hit full on yet but we had gotten the Tamiflu just in the nick of time. Friday was Keaton's birthday. Luckily I had gotten his birthday shopping done a weeks prior and my mom saved me with some Christmas wrapping paper. But Friday was also the worst day of the flu for me. Jason was still running a fever and sick too, so my Mom came and got the boys for the day so Jason and I could rest. My Mom was a life saver that day. Carter was not going to slow down for anybody who had the flu. Mom and Dad brought back the boys tuckered out and ready for bed, so we held onto Keaton's presents for later. So this morning Keaton opened up his first present which was a motorcycle he had picked out 2 weeks ago and that I hid from him when we were checking out and he forgot about it. I think I will do my presents for the boys from now on that way, let them pick it out and hide it so they forget about it until the birthday comes. Then there is no guessing on what they want. He play most of the morning with it and didn't want to bother with the other presents much to Carter's dismay. Eventually he did get around to the others and had a good time with those as well. Grandma Wendy even stopped by with a gift and kisses for the birthday boy. Today was also a better day for Jason and I health wise. I didn't think I was going to die today like I did yesterday. It being Halloween I didn't want a flu bug to stop my boys from having some fun. The home made costumes turned out better than I planned and was a big hit. Originally, the boys where all going as pilots and myself would be a flight attendant, I had a funny red wig and everything but I didn't have the same gusto about it as before when I felt good. So instead I tried to get Jason to dress up as "H1" and me go as "N1" and wear the hospital masks out trick-o-treating. Jason didn't go for it. So we stood out in the yards while my boys knocked on a few grandma's doors and went to the stake's trunk-o-treat and tried not to get to close to anyone while my boys got their fill of candy. I tried to look chipper and not like I was "draggin my wagon" so people wouldn't suspect we were germ bags. We only stayed for maybe 30 minutes at the trunk-o-treat and it was time to go home. I really tried this weekend to make it a good one for the boys trying not to let me being sick get in the way. Jason has been a better happy camper than I have, which I really had to pat him on the back for because it is "uber" hard to do when you are sick. Jason even cleaned part of the house and did some laundry while we were at home sick, that was resting to him he can't sit and do nothing, being inside cooped up all day is really difficult to him. I just really wanted a good book, but going on the hunt for one at a local library with the kind of germs I have got was not an option. Tomorrow will be even better because the birthday party will continue with a birthday cake and hopefully our health will improve tomorrow too!

Mountain Men

The whole Bryce family went up to Luna for Conference weekend. Which is an amazing feet in it's self, because a good portion of the Bryce's are self confessed borderline hermits. My husband included. All and all it was an enjoyable weekend, my boys left the trailer in the morning and played all day until they gave out at night and when we had to drag them to bed. Keaton was the funniest about it because he just couldn't be bothered to eat or sleep while he was up there in the mountains playing. Boys seemed to attract dirt like nothing else I have ever seen. By the end of the weekend my husband had full on elk fever (which started the minute we got there), and I was ready for some of my own quite space away from a million little kids. I guess I am slowly turning to the hermit way.

Just a few things.

Carter decided a couple of days ago he wanted to pull out his teeth to get a quarter. I told him they weren't loose and most of the time you need pliers to pull them out. So he went and found pliers! I had to take them away because he was seriously going to pull his teeth out! I told him when he is about 5 or 6 they'll start getting loose and he can work on them. He is so not patient! Keaton is in this new stage of play were he likes to just sit with trucks or animal figures and play, kinda nice. Still saying YA-YA for his multipurpose word. Love my boys.

Mine!

So Keaton definantly knows the word "mine" now. He grabbed a soda off the table and said, "Mine, mine, mine, mine!" and ran off with it. How do they learn that so quickly, it took him like a day to figure that one out! Bless his heart, he is switching to a big boy bed and no binki. I do believe that it is just as hard on mom as it is on him, so Jason has taken this area over because he is stronger and doesn't give in. So maybe, I'll give him a break and look over the whole being a stinker thing for a bit until he settles in.