From the Mouth of Brycen

Dear Mom and Dad,

Thank you so much for letting me stay the weekend with Uncle Adam and Aunt Abbey!  It was so much fun!

The first thing we got to do was play outside in the sprinklers

Where is that water coming from?

It's starting to get even higher!

Oh boy now its really fun!   I can even catch a drink!

Aunt Abbey went swimming with me after the Sprinkler too - I mean really, sprinklers and swimming in the same night! WOW!   She couldn't take any pictures, well cause she was in the pool with me, but trust me we had fun!

The next morning I woke up bright and early at 5:45 and they asked me if I wanted to go ride a train!  Of Course I did!!!  So we hopped in the car and drove to Enchanted Island - what a great name for a park!

First we checked out my height.. I'm getting pretty tall Mom!

Then Aunt Abbey rode with me on the Carousel!   The horse was awesome it went in circles AND up and down!

Here we are ready for the train!  So exciting, well until....

  Hey what is that noise!   

Seriously, guys that is disturbing.   

Uncle Adam tried to tell me it was just the train whistle, well if thats what it is I think they should get rid of it!   Not fun!

Next I climbed into this brightly colored car with a steering wheel!

Aunt Abbey was worried I would be scared, but it was the most fun!  It spun around in cirlces and I got to spin the wheel too!  I laughed and smiled the whole time.

Then Uncle Adam took me on the Carousel! 

Up and Down we went!  This time I was sporting my Suns hat that Uncle Adam gave me... It was a little big, but I wore it anyway because I knew how excited he was for me to have it.

On our way back home we had to stop for some groceries.  I got so excited when I saw we were going to this place!

Did you know that they have one of these by Aunt Abbey and Uncle Adam?  I think its my favorite store and you know why?  Because they have TWO walk in refrigerated sections!   And Uncle Adam took me in both of them!

After Costco we went back to the house and took a nap and then we got to swim again!   Yeah!

After a busy Saturday, we all managed to sleep in until about 6:30 on Sunday.  Then it was time for church!  Aunt Abbey got me all dressed and even helped me put my backpack on!

Aunt Abbey really wanted to get a picture of me in my Sunday clothes (thanks for packing my boots Mom!) but I kept tricking her and pretended to take her picture with this sweet watch I found!

I had her laughing so hard she couldn't keep the camera still so all the pictures came out fuzzy!

But somehow she tricked me and managed to get one good grin in!

We had a great time at church, they have a Nursery at their Church too!  And we played games, colored and best of all we blew bubbles!

When we got home I was all tuckered out and took a nice nap.  I stayed in my room for a good 2 hours, I think Aunt Abbey and Uncle Adam may have taken a nap too because it was awfully quite in the house!

When I woke up we had snacks, played games, watched a movie and guess what else she let me do?!

Clean the floors!  You know thats my job!  Apparently Aunt Abbey didn't know that was my job, but I let her know and took over the cleaning.

She says I did a great job!

Well, that's about it!  You can send me to stay with them anytime you need to because they are the best and really know how to treat a kid! 

(p.s... I hope you had fun on your vacation too, though I am sure mine was WAY better!)

Off to Africa!

OK, I am not off to Africa, but these are!What are these you might ask? Well if you are male, you may want to stop reading now.... OK, don't say I didn't warn you!
They are called moon pads, and are basically reusable, feminine hygiene products. Last fall when Kena was living in a place where she was able to accept mail, I asked if there was some sort of project our YW could work on for the girls over in the school she was teaching at. I was fairly shocked by her reply. Apparently the girls there don't have any feminine products and because of that generally stay home from school when they are on their periods. She asked if we could make 100 of these reusable pads, 2 for each girl. Sounds like a great project to me!

The YW were highly involved in the beginning and basically traced the pattern and cut every single piece out in one night! It was amazing! We not only had the basic pad, but also had to make removable liners so there was a lot of cutting! A couple of the girls were really good on the serger and were able to get started on some of the easier serging that night as well.

Since the actual serging was a little difficult due to all the curves, I took over the rest of the project (using if for a personal progress activity!) and finished them up and now they are on their way to Africa, where I hope they get lots of use!

A well played Family Home Evening (out)

Monday night Adam got a call at 5:45 from a certain friend. we pretty much knew what that meant immediately - free tickets to the Diamondbacks! So we hurried our way thru dinner and made a few calls to find another couple to go with and scooted out to the door to pick up the tickets and head to the game. Look how great these seats are! Yep, can't pass those up. Plus the D Backs had been playing pretty good the last few games. And lucky for us, they put on a great show and won that night too!

Here we are enjoying the game! Don't mind my flat hair! I had just gotten a hair cut and did not have time to fix it if we were going to make it to the game on time!

Thanks friend for the tickets!

Homemade Pitas!

While my good friend Mary was in town recently, we had to of course try a new recipe. So we went with homemade, whole wheat pitas!

They were actually pretty easy and we had them all figured out after a couple of batches. Here they are on the pan wiaiting to go in the over.

Darn it! I forgot to take a picture of them while they were in the oven and puffed up! But here is the evidence that they actual do make a pocket!

They were really yummy with hummus. The next day we had the leftovers for breakfast, filling them with eggs, bacon, peppers, onions and cheese! Yummy!

More Birthdays!

This month we also celebrated my adorable nephew Brycen's birthday!

And who wouldn't want a pinata at their party?

Especially when its filled with tons of candy...

And especially when no ones stops you from eating all you want!

I don't think he moved from this spot nor made a sound for minutes! He only looked up long enough to hand someone a piece of candy to take the wrapper off for him.

Love you Brycen!