Tyler's Visit to OK

A few weeks ago my 16 year old brother, Tyler, came to Oklahoma for a little visit and to go to the OU game (already blogged about). He came on Thursday and left Monday. It was such a blast having him here with us! Kolton enjoyed playing with him and I think Tyler enjoyed a break from school! :)
Kolton warmed up to him pretty fast, especially after Tyler opened his suitcase and showed Kolton the present he brought him! Kolton loves the movie Cars and Lightning McQueen. He'll come up to me out of the blue and stick his tongue out and stand up real tall so that he's "flying" like Lightning McQueen does in the movie with his tongue sticking out. He'll tell me "Lightning McQueen" {stick his tongue out...}, "Lightning McQueen!" {stick his tongue out...}. Its interesting to know that he actually sees and understands some things about the movie he's watching.
Tyler and Kolton playing with the toy Tyler brought. They even set up a "track" of a bunch of movie cases for the car to go on. Kolton thought it was pretty fun!



Brady and Tyler went to go play football Saturday morning with some friends. Kolton and I came along to watch and have fun. It was pretty chilly, but Kolton didn't mind! He loves football and had a lot of fun running around and watching them play.




Look at how tall that pile of leaves is! There was a girl there playing on the tennis courts. Kolton slowly walked over and stood right next to her and just watched her. He was so fascinated by what she was doing. Already mackin' on the ladies! ;)

Kolton and Tyler being silly...

What a Beautiful Sight!

Kolton has only done this maybe 2 times his whole life--just fallen asleep randomly while doing something. I wasn't even home for this one! I was at a babyshower and I guess he wanted to watch TV so Brady turned it on, left the room, came back and he had fallen down on to the ottoman and fallen asleep...

He was sitting on the edge of the bed...

How precious is that?

OU game

The OU vs. Texas A&M game was this past weekend. My dad and brother were in town to go to the game. It was SO much fun! The game was exciting and we had pretty good seats!
I haven't taken pictures all season, so I brought my camera this time so we could get some pictures of the game. This is a picture before the game of OU's best offensive player--Broyles. I love #85!


Our Heisman Trophy Winner quarterback is out for the season (and not coming back). I'm sad I don't have a picture of him suited up, but here he is in his sling!


Our band. This is before the game, but both bands did pretty awesome half-time shows. I really should have video taped it! The A&M band did this crazy marching thing where they marched down into a tiny compact little square where they were constantly turning around and marching towards each other. It was pretty cool! Because of Veteran's Day this last week, OU's marching band and choir did an awesome tribute to the veterans. They sung and played great music and had fireworks and had pictures going on the jumbo tron. It was pretty powerful!


The Sooner Schooner! These guys came out on the field SEVERAL times! ;)

Here's our defense. They are so amazing! I love them! Sadly, we didn't get a single sack this game, though. Their quarterback was good at scrambling and then throwing the ball away before our guys could get to him. He felt the pressure though! :)

And our offense. They did pretty good too! If only we could play like this all the time! Our team definitely struggles when they aren't at home. Tennel, #80, I think caught ALL the catchable passes that were thrown to him (one was way over his head, so I won't count that one). It was AMAZING!! We actually got some running done this game too! Kevin Wilson (offensive coordinator) pulled out some new and interesting plays. It was nice! We did the wildcat several times and that really helped us with the running game. One play we even did a end around reverse play. The ball was hiked to Jones, he tossed it to Murray who then tossed it to Broyles who then ran it in for a TOUCHDOWN. While it was happening, it looked to me like Murray had lost the ball and Broyles happen to be running by him and caught it, but in the replay, you could tell that was the play called. It scared me there for a second, though! It was nice to see some fresh new plays and I think they really paid off! Wilson must have finally heard the fans outrage. :)

Kicking a field goal. If I remember correctly we only kicked one the whole game. We switched out our kickers a few times. We just can't find one that is actually good! :) Jimmy Stevens, Tress Way, and Patrick O'Hara all had turns kicking the point after/field goal attempt.

It got pretty chilly that night! I'm glad I brought my gloves and ear warmer! Tyler was lucky too, because my dad caught an OU long sleeved t-shirt at the game and so Tyler was able to wear that too!


This was the score at half-time. 42-10. Pretty nice, huh? We all got a little nervous when the score was 14-10 at one point, but then we pulled away...Thank goodness! Our first touchdown was scored by the defense, though! Brian Jackson,#2 on the defense, recovered a fumble and ran it back about 60 yards for a touchdown! It was a great way to start the game!
I don't have a picture of the score at the end of the game because we left with like 9 minutes left in the 4th quarter, right after OU scored their last touchdown. The final score was 65-10. A&M pretty much did nothing in the second half. It was great! :) The stadium was pretty full, too, with a little over 85,000 people! We had a lot of fun and I'm really glad my dad and brother Tyler were able to come out to a game, especially since we won!

Friends

A couple of weeks ago we babysat Kashton who is a month older than Kolton. They had SO much fun together! They would just look at each other and start laughing. It was so cute! We had a lot of fun!
We took them out to jump on the trampoline and let some energy out. They loved it! Kolton enjoyed showing Kashton his trampoline. :)


Isn't this just the sweetest picture?? I was doing dishes in the kitchen and they played with this for a while. Brady pushed them around in it for several minutes but even after he was done, they just hung out in it. I always turn the radio on when I'm working in the kitchen (it just makes it more fun for me) and these two boys totally rocked it out! They were dancing and dancing! Both of them are good booty shakers! :)

Check out their jumping skills! :)

We enjoyed playing with Kasthon and are excited to go to his birthday party this weekend. Kolton and I went shopping on Tuesday to buy his gift and since then Kolton keeps telling me, "Kashton's present" over and over. It was new for him to go shopping to buy toys and not get to keep any of them so I had to keep reminding him that the toys were for Kashton's present and that he couldn't play with them. I think he finally understands! :)

Golf

Last weekend we went to Andy Alligators with Kolton. They were having this tiny community fair thing and we thought Kolton might enjoy it.
They had one free ride you could go on. Kolton just laughed and laughed while on it. He thought it was a lot of fun!

We decided to go miniature golfing. Kolton is too young to really be able to do it correctly, but he went through all the holes and did it his own way!
He would use the club as a bat essentially, and just hit the ball.

So, Brady helped him a couple of time hit it the correct way so that his ball would actually go in the direction of the hole. :)


He soon learned that you "won" if you put the ball in the hole, so he liked doing that. He was so funny...He would walk over to the hole, say "ready, set, go" and then put the ball in the hole and yell "I made it!"

Him saying "I made it!"

This was the first hole we did. He had no idea what was going on or what he was supposed to do. :)

Movie?

"So, you want to watch a movie? Ok. On me? Uhh...ok. I don't see how this really benefits me, but..."Actually, I never agreed to this. He brought the movie, I put it on my stomach and he just climbed on. This is NOT going to be a reoccurring event! :)

Week of Grandma and Halloween

We have had such a BUSY week!! It has been so much fun though! After playgroup on Tuesday, and a nap, we went to the airport to go pick my mom up who came to visit from Utah. We were so excited! She got to come here and see Kolton trick-or-treat for the first time!

Her flight got delayed a little because they had to de-ice the play in Utah before they could take off (which makes me laugh because it was like 60 here!) so Kolton got to play around a little in the airport. Then, when we found her (we missed her coming out and going down to the baggage claim) he was so excited! It was so cute! Look at them!
And yes, I went completely collage happy with this post because I had SOOO many pictures I wanted/needed (yes needed :)) to post that it would have taken forever and this post would have been ridiculously long!


Kolton got a new toy from Grandma while she was here. It was a perfect fit! Kolton and cars. These pictures make me laugh because it totally looks like Christmas morning to me!

Then, on Wednesday we went to go find a pumpkin. I was a little disappointed because there wasn't much to pick from. No pumpkin was actually decent, but this one would do. Kolton loved the pumpkin before and after we carved it, but not while we were carving it! He was very grossed out by the insides. It was funny, though, because after we were done and put the pumpkin out on the porch he told us over and over what we did with the pumpkin. His story would include talk of the table, of yucky stuff on our hands, Daddy cutting it, repeated three times! ;)



Wednesday night Brady and I had to drive out to Harrah to get a lady's signature. When we registered Jewel, one of our great danes, we wrote the wrong date on the papers. So, when we went to register the litter, according to AKC, we didn't have here when she would have conceived so they wouldn't let us register the litter. So, we had to find the lady who had her before us and ask her to sign a paper that had the correct date. Anyway, we didn't get ahold of her until 7:30 or so that night so my mom said she would stay and watch Kolton while we went out to Harrah. Kolton had so much fun with her while we were gone! It was great to be able to leave him with her! We ended up getting a little confused/lost and then was at this lady's house for like 40 minutes or some crazy amount like that! Kolton would NOT have had fun!

On Thursday since it was all rainy and cold outside we thought it would be cool to let Kolton use his finger painting set that Jeff and Vanessa got him for Christmas last year. This was the first time I was getting it out just because I never wanted to have to deal with the mess by myself. However, it actually wasn't hardly messy at all. Kolton was sure to be neat with it. He didn't want to finger paint, but he really enjoyed painting with the brushes!

These videos make me laugh! I didn't get it on tape the first time, but when he first started painting, he immediately went to eat the paint off the paint brush. Where he got the idea you eat it, I don't know! :) Then later, when he got it on his fingers, he tried to eat it again! Then, when Brady was painting the paint on his hand, Kolton enjoyed it and even giggled a little, but once he was done putting his hand print on the page, he wanted it off!



We also went to lunch on Thursday with Brady's parents at Chilis. Kolton had a pretty big meltdown, after he bit his tongue (what I think happened). He was sitting there eating chips and queso and all of a sudden just shrieked out in pain and started pulling at his mouth. I thought at first the queso might have been too hot for him, but he had been eating it all along, so I'm guessing he had to have bit his tongue or cheek or something. He does something everytime we go out to eat with anyone. When it is just us, things seem to go very smoothly, but when anyone else is involved, he has some sort of issue! Why is it always that way??


Friday was the ward Halloween party. After dinner they did a costume parade on the stage. I asked Kolton if he wanted to go with the other kids and he said "YEAH!" and jumped off my laugh and went and got in line. I couldn't believe he actually did it! He walked across the stage and everything! He even was stopped and smiled and waved! As his mom, I thought it was darling!
He went trunk-or-treating with Brady, Madison, and my mom while I stayed at our car and passed out candy. He caught on pretty quick that if he said "trick or treat" and held up his bucket he would get candy. Brady said afterward he would yell "thank you" as they walked away.

He was so excited to show me his candy! Its so fun to be a mom to a little boy!!

On Halloween, Brady went to the OU game with Sterling, Brenon, and Austin. Brittney came over with Kade, at dinner with us, and then we went trick or treating. We took pictures of the boys before we left. They were so cute in their costumes and being so silly!! They are seriously being raised as cousins! Its so awesome!

Kolton and Kade give each other knuckles and high fives. We got them to do it during our little photo shoot and snapped a picture of them giving "knuckles." It makes me laugh because it totally looks like they are punching each other!

We went trick-or-treating in a neighborhood down the street. It took us a VERY long time to go down like a street and a half total! ;) We were out there for an hour. It was so funny to take them around. They needed so much guidance from house to house. They were confused why they were leaving one house with candy to go walk down the sidewalk to another house. It was a blast! By the time we were done, both of us were holding our kids and their buckets.

As we were walking, my mom looked around to see where Kolton was and he was a couple feet behind us playing with a fire hydrant. How funny! So, we had to take a picture to capture the moment! A fireman with his fire hydrant! At one house, one little boy said to Kolton, "Are you going to save us?" It was cute!


Isn't this just THE sweetest picture you've seen? I love it! I told him to fold his arm like he was a little punk, but he did this. It was cute! And then proceeded to say "chrrrriiiissst. amen."
Grandma left on Sunday to go back home. We were sad to see her go. Kolton screamed as we left the airport. He had so much fun with her! She watched movies with him, tickled his knee, came with him every time he said "mhere," was there every time he woke up from his nap, even went to bed with him one night. He loved playing with her and we look forward to seeing her again sometime soon!
We had a really fun week and enjoyed all the fun Halloween activities! Kolton loved trick or treating, knocking on peoples doors, saying tick or treat, picking a sucker every chance he had, and yelling thank you and bye as we walked away. Oh, and OU won on Saturday so the boys had fun too! :)