Thursday, December 17, 2009

New Moon

Last Monday (Dec 7) Brady and I went with the Foys to go see New Moon. I had already seen it with my sister but was really excited to see it again as well as for everyone else to see it! Brady's parents watched both Kolton and Kade while we went to go see the movie. We sat in the balcony and ate dessert while we watched. It was great! I'm so glad we were able to go and that we had awesome friends to go with!
(And yes, I just did 2 blog posts in the middle of the night!)

Dad & Son time

Well, I'm up in the middle of the night so I figured I'd update the blog! Roxy went in to labor Tuesday night and has had 8 puppies so far. They are a little weak, but with a lot of work on our part, should be able to make it. Brady only got 45 minutes of sleep Tuesday night before Roxy came in to our room with a puppy in her mouth! Its sweet knowing she felt she needed one of us to be with her! We checked her temperature before we went to bed and it hadn't dropped yet, so we didn't think she'd go in to labor--but she did! Anyway, I'm taking turns with Brady tonight watching Roxy, so that he can get some sleep. She should be done sometime tomorrow delivering puppies, so both of us should be able to sleep Thursday night!
Kolton and Brady have been able to spend a lot of time together the past few days or so. One of Kolton's favorite things to do now is sit on Brady's lap and watch either basketball or football. He will cuddle up to Brady and just watch sports and tell Brady all about it--whether the guy made it or missed it (this includes catching a football).

Brady loves the extra time with him too! I've been blessed with such cuties!

Friday, December 11, 2009

'Tis the Season

I absolutely love this time of year! Especially now that we have Kolton it makes it even more fun!
On Monday, the 7th, we set up the Christmas tree. The tree we have is pretty big so this year we decided to go and buy a small and cheap tree and use that so it wouldn't over-power our little living room. I'm glad we did that! It is big enough to serve its purpose and I still enjoy looking at it!
Kolton was excited to set it up. He had helped a little bit with my parent's tree while we were in Utah and so several times during the process he would mention that he did this with Grandma.
He set up probably 5 or 6 ornaments all on the same 2 branches. Kids are good at that! Brady went to go video tape Kolton putting an ornament on the tree but after over 2 minutes of trying, Kolton couldn't get an ornament on. I don't know what the deal was! He had just done several...maybe he has stage fright! :) He tells me in the morning when we walk out to the living room that I need to turn the lights on on the tree. I'm glad he enjoys it as much as I do!

You see those two icicle ornaments right next to each other? Yeah, he did that! ;)

Last night we went to go see Santa. We went to Bass Pro Shop again. I really like it there! They have it decorated all cute and Santa looks real and they give you a picture for free AND they let you take as many pictures you want with your own camera. Its great! I prepped Kolton for our visit with Santa all day, but when push came to shove, he wouldn't sit on his lap. We decided not to force him to do it so I held him while he talked to Santa. It made it very enjoyable for him. He told Santa hi and gave him a hi-five and took the candy from him. Santa was really nice and very understanding! (Kade sat on Santa's lap this year without crying!)

After visiting with Santa we walked around and played with the different things they had set up. Kolton had a blast! He absolutely loved the train and car track. He asked to go back to those two things several times!


We also stopped by the fish tank and watched the fish for a while. Kolton just wanted to go back to the cars and train. :)
Afterwards we went to go get some frozen yogurt at Orange Tree. It was a fun night! I'm glad we were able to go and Kolton had a fun time! Can you believe that Christmas is 2 weeks away? Crazy!

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Big Boy

Kolton has been sleeping in a "big boy bed." Really, I just took the side railing off his crib. He's done really well! He falls asleep in there EASY for both naps and at night. Its great! The hard part is keeping him in there! :) He'll just come in to my room at night and get on the bed. Last night he even brought his pillow and blankie with him. My vow is to work on that so that hopefully soon he'll sleep in there all night. I couldn't and can't believe, though, how well he's adjusted! I've heard stories of having to lock kids in the room but we haven't had any problems. He just stays on his bed until he falls asleep!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Sarah's Wedding::Trip to Utah

Well, this actually starts with a few catch-up randomness...
Most of the time when Kolton gets his diaper changed, and EVERY time he gets a poopy diaper changed, he asks for powder on his pee-pee. He'll say "powder pee-pee" several times and very loudly! I don't know why but he loves that stuff. Sometimes he'll hold it while you are changing the diaper ready to give it to you when you are done. Well, this time it opened and he got a little messy. :)
Oh these two are just the best of friends! They hug and kiss on each other all the time and love to play with one another. It will be a big change for them when they no longer live 5 minutes away from each other! In fact the Foys babysat for us tonight so we could go to a Primary meeting. These two boys are with each other probably every other day!

Brady and I usually go to bed together, turn on the t.v. and I quickly fall asleep while he stays up to finish whatever sporting event he's watching. Before he goes to sleep he'll go and crack Kolton's bedroom door and check on him. This night he thought Kolton looked so sweet he grabbed the camera and decided to take a picture of him so I could see it--even if it meant waking him up with the flash! :) Well, it didn't wake him up and Brady got to run in to our room and wake me up to show me how cute our son is! I have such sweet boys! ;)



NOW for the Utah trip...
What a crazy Friday we all had! Brady had to take Kolton and I to the airport at 5:00 in the morning. Our first flight to Denver went well. Kolton slept for most of it which was very nice (especially since he needed it--I needed it!). We had a 30 minute layover and came in at gate A62 and had to get to gate A32, which if you know the Denver airport, gate A62 is in like the basement. So Kolton and I walked very fast to gate A32. When we got there the guy was announcing that we had been moved to gate A66--BACK where I came from. Now, I only had a little less than 15 minutes before my plane was supposed to take off. I was freaking out! Got back and there was a huge line in front of the gate and they were announcing that we had been bumped to a very small plane and more than half of us would not make it on the flight we were supposed to, which was even going to be delayed by over an hour anyway. I was nervous because Sarah's wedding was at 1:00 at the Draper temple. Anyway, after a long time of waiting, we finally left and got to Salt Lake at 11:30, I changed clothes in a gas station restroom and made it to the temple at 12:55 after getting lost on the way. I was afraid I was going to miss it but luckily they let us in despite our tardiness. It was great to be able to be there and see her marry her sweetheart!
My brothers and sister graciously offered to watch Kolton outside the temple during the wedding and for an hour or so after as well for us to take pictures. It was pretty cold up there--the wind was pretty strong!

Here's Sarah and Jacob coming out of the temple. She's so pretty! And I loved her dress!

I had to run up and say hi to her when she came out! We've had so many fun times together! She was the funnest friend I had in high school and definitely my best! She helped me a lot when Lillian past away with comforting words and talks and quotes from general authorities about life after death and eternal families. She's been a great example to me and I'm so glad we are friends!

Here's the group that was at the temple. Her dad, standing next to her, is the sweetest guy! Their whole family is just so nice!



After the picture taking there was a dinner at 4:30. My family had to leave at about 6:15 to go to see Savior of the World in Salt Lake at 7:30 that night. My aunt Sonja and two of her children, Sam and Elise, were in it and they had tickets for that night to see them. (I heard they did GREAT!)

My friend, Mallory, from high school (well really college--we didn't get along in high school :)) was there with her husband Casey and son Beck. It was nice to be able to catch up with her and meet Beck. He's almost one year younger than Kolton. Although, it was a little embarrassing to be seeing her for the first time in several years and Kolton and I be looking the way we were! :) Kolton was filthy from running around and laying on the floor and tired from being up since 4-something in the morning and I was tired too! We had fun though!

Every time we go visit my family, Kolton plays in the dog beds. He especially likes Lexi's. I have to take a picture every time! Hopefully we won't have a picture of him when he's 10 laying in her bed! ;)

Kolton got to play with Grandma a lot! While we were there he learned how to actually say "grandma" instead of "mawmaw."

On Saturday Cam and I went to go see New Moon. Neither of us had seen it so we went together. We loved it and I am so glad I was able to go with her! She's such a funny girl and it was great to spend some time together just us sisters! Kolton stayed with my parents and brothers and got to have a lot of fun himself! Grandma even bought him a big truck!

Yes, we are a goofy family! :) Shawn (on the left) gets his mission call tomorrow! I'm so excited to find out where he'll be going! I'll be sure to post about it tomorrow when I find out! He filled Cam and myself in on all his BYU girl drama! :)

Kolton had so much fun playing with the train set there! Everyone I think had a turn playing with him with it. Kolton and I stayed home from church on Sunday because I had a bad sore throat (which I unfortunately gave to Cam). That night Derek and Lizzie were able to come over for dinner and hang out with us. We also drew names for Christmas this year. I got Cambrea, Brady got Lizzie, and Kolton got Tyler.

Grandpa made cookies a few times while we were there. Kolton didn't complain about that! He loved sitting in his seat at the island and eating and playing.

On Tuesday we went to Derek's apartment to hang out with him for a little bit! Kolton had fun playing in the laundry basket, with their blinds, looking at their fish, playing with a Jazz teddy bear and basketball, and looking at their dog, Cookie. Derek is such a crack-up and really is a very thoughtful guy!

That night we also went to Shawn's dorm at BYU to give him a new charger for his computer. He had SEVERAL papers due that week and his charger wasn't working for his laptop so we had to bring him a new one--which come to find out it wasn't the charger but really the computer but we jerry-rigged it to work! ;) In his apartment/dorm thing one of his roommates has a "life-size" barbie. It was just a little taller than Kolton. He loved dancing with her and hugging her and giving her kisses. I couldn't tell if he knew she was fake or not. It was pretty funny!

After hanging out with Shawn for an hour or so we met Sarah at Cafe Rio for some dinner so we could talk and catch up. Kolton was NOT interested in sitting at the restaurant so I pretty much just let him run around. Great parenting-huh? ;) There were other kids doing it too, I mean, it was Provo...
After dinner we went to her apartment so I could see where she lives! It was so great to be able to talk and hang out!

I don't know what night this is, but one night Kolton and my dad played with the train for probably over an hour! Kolton just kept saying "papa watch, papa watch" every time he'd move the train or do anything. It was pretty funny actually to listen to him in his little voice say that constantly!

Tyler asked for a back rub and my mom volunteered and then Kolton decided he'd help to. It got a little complicated with my mom rubbing and Kolton walking, but it worked out pretty well I think! ;)

On Friday night we went to Olive Garden for dinner. They sat us at the same table we sat at the last time I came to Olive Garden with them! We had a lot of fun and the food was really good! Kolton was actually really good for having to sit there for an hour and a half.

Here are just some pictures of Kolton playing with two of his uncles, Shawn and Tyler, and his aunt Cambrea. He would sit there and eat sun chips with Shawn and after each bite they'd look at each other and say "mumumumumumum" and then take another bite. It was cute! Both Shawn and Tyler played basketball with him too. He asked to do that every day! Tyler also walked him to the park and played with him there. Kolton thought that was pretty awesome! He saw a "bi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-g truck" on the walk back too! :) He would be so wild when Cam would read him a book. He'd get all goofy and embarrassed or something! He loved it though!
We had a great time and I'm so glad I went! Oh, and our flights on the way back were much less dramatic then on the way there!

Stolen Post

I stole ALL of these pictures from Vanessa's blog (I hope you don't mind Vanessa!). I didn't take ANY pictures over Thanksgiving break while Jeff and Vanessa were in town of them or Kolton's cousins. How lame is that? Especially since the boys played together like every day! But, I had to blog about them coming and our Thanksgiving and I HAD to have pictures and since Vanessa was obviously better at documenting the week, I thought I'd steal her pictures. :)
Vanessa took pictures of our family while she was here. I was supposed to take pictures of her family and so she said she'd take some of us and Kolton. However, that morning she and I went running and after doing that she felt a cold coming on and didn't feel up to having pictures taken of her. So, it ended up that she just took pictures of us. Anyway, after she took some pictures of us, the cousins decided to give each other some love.




We also went to Orange Tree with them while they were here. We've only been there a couple of times but we really like it! It is a self-serve frozen yogurt place. They have about 15 different flavors. My favorite is the Peach something or other and Brady's is the cheesecake. You can add whatever toppings you want to it too. They have all sorts of fruit and candy and nuts. You then pay $0.33 an ounce. Ours usually end up costing about $3 or so each. Really not that bad! They have pretty cool chairs there too!
While they were here, one day Grandma and Grandpa Brammer took all three boys out for a couple of hours while Jeff and Vanessa and Brady and I went out to lunch. They took the boys to Andy Alligators and the mall. They had a blast (both the boys and the grandparents). We had fun at lunch too!
On Wednesday Liz had a biopsy done so I made dinner for everyone. Vanessa helped me stuff the manicotti which was nice because we made over 30 of them! That night we also went to the OU Volleyball game. Kolton actually enjoyed watching it. However, about every 4 minutes he needed a drink of water. You can't bring any in so I'd have to get up and take him to the drinking fountain every time. What a silly kid! You know he didn't really need those drinks--he just wanted to get up and walk around! :) We had a good Thanksgiving dinner. I made deviled eggs, apple pie, and this pumpkin pudding stuff for Brady's dad. I love apple pie! Brady helped me do the lattice on top this year which was nice! I left the day after Thanksgiving very early in the morning to go out to Utah for my friend's wedding. Brady and Jeff went to the OU/OSU game that Saturday afternoon. They had a lot of fun! Especially since OU won 27-0! We had a good week and were glad Jeff and Vanessa and their kids were able to come out and spend it with all of us!

Monday, December 7, 2009

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...
Lilypie Third Birthday tickers