Family of 3...soon to be 5!

Family of 3...soon to be 5!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Hello Colorado!


This Christmas season, we began the many celebrations by heading to Fort Collins, Colorado to see Brad's dad. He is now better known as Grandpa John to Brycen. He loved seeing Grandpa John, Grandma Joni, Aunt Coreen and Aunt Victoria.



Brycen did a good job on the flight. Nothing kept his attention too long so we had lots of little things for him to do on the flight.



There was still plenty of snow on the ground in Colorado. The day after we left they got 6 inches!




We visited a Dairy Farm to watch the cows being milked. This is one of Brycen's memories he still talks about. While we were there a cow pooped and Brycen was sure to say "Shooo EEE." The man cleaned it up and then he started milking the cows. When we came home Brycen was telling people. "Cow- poop-clean-milk" Looks like he has the order of events down.




We also visited Aunt Maryjo's house for lunch. She has some sheep that Brycen loved to pet and feed. He tried to chase them. As you can see, one did not like him so he ran to the side of the house.




And this was just the beginning of ALL the gifts Brycen would receive. We are overjoyed with how generous everyone has been with giving him gifts. Next year we will cut back!!



The city park was very exciting to Brycen! He loves to feed ducks. We feed them a whole loaf of bread before we saw this:

. It was obvious the ducks are fed regularly though. They knew just what to do and pretty much begged for more. Now we have to tell him the ducks are "night night" or he wants to feed ducks everyday.

We enjoyed the sunny afternoon and Brycen went to the playground with his Aunts.






Thanks for the great Trip Colorado Family!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

ICE!

This weeekend we went to Dallas to ICE at the Gaylord Texan. It was ice scultpures from scenes of the Grinch who stole Christmas. All the cousins waited in line patiently to go in.

We all wore really really really large coats they gave us. Brycen looked like a penguin walking with straight legs and arms. You couldn't even see his hands.

He loved the ice slide! He scared me cause he kept turning to his stomach. But of course he just wanted "more" ice!


The last scene was one of my favorites!


Thanks to our Dallas family for a great weekend!!!!!!

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Deck the Halls!



Last weekend we decorated for Christmas! Brycen said, "help daddy lights" all day!


We happened to be at the mall and there was no line at Santa. We stopped for a visit. Brycen was not scared at all!








One of Brycen's favorite Christmas things is his train!

Friday, November 27, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!




We shared Thanksgiving with wonderful family!

We are so thankful this holiday season to have a healthy and happy family! Brycen likes to show off his skills with his car flag! (Yes, I did make the video vertical in the original software but when I put it into blogger it went back to original format. Not sure why)



Monday, November 23, 2009

Feeding the Ducks

On Friday night, Brycen went to bed in Springdale. On Saturday, he woke up in Conway. He sat right up and said, "Nonnie, Ducks!" So Nonnie and Grandpa took him to feed the ducks. He was so funny, "More, Quack" "Bread, Quack!"




We are so proud of our Super Fan. Brad was in the running forhe top ten Football Fan of the Century. He was the first name drawn but unfortunatley it was a reverse drawing. Check out his blog to see pictures of his Super Fan days!



Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Heart Update

Brycen had an awesome report from the Cardiologist today! We are so proud of our strong boy.
We know God put him here for something BIG!

B celebrated the good news by sweeping and riding his Razorback.

Monday, November 16, 2009

18 month Check Up

Brycen had his 18 month check up today. Report is all great!
Dr. Livingston believes he will be tall and skinny! I think that is great. He measured 75 % in height and 10 % in weight. Poor guy only gained two pounds the last six months. I guess all the walking he does has helped him get slender.

He says so many things now. He knows the names of most of his relatives we regularly see or he can see in pictures, the names of his friends at day care, what he eats, what he plays with, and so on. He tells everything bye, bye. Bye, bye water, bye, bye house, bye, bye outside, bye, bye paci, and on and on and on. He really has a funny personality. He always smiles at others.

On Wednesday we go to the cardiologist, so we are saying extra prayers this week that everything will be great! We do realize there is a chance he will have to have another procedure one day but hoping he won't. This week I saw a church sign that said "worry less, pray more." That is what I will do. God is good!


Here are a few pictures from the basketball game last week. Brycen just stared at everything! He loved the people and the action.
Brycen would clap when everyone else did!
Enjoying time with good pal Bishop!