A Touch Of Tyrell

Put a little hair on Breckie's arms and they'd be twins!

Everett likes electronics but I'd like for him to play outside… his favorite thing to do in our backyard is play in the mud/dirt.  So one day I made him a sandbox. It's been nice :) He's been pretty mean to Breckie… see bottom right... I hate it. He's usually mean to her when she wants to play with him and his toys but he doesn't want her to. And, of course, there is the random push or trip or hit or squeeze when he thinks I'm not looking.  He loves legos.  He is being SO bad at eating food right now. Most nights I have to gear up (mentally) for a battle. So at this point I'm just trying my best to get anything in him besides cereal, tortillas and crackers. He's done this before and hopefully he gets sick of it soon and starts eating a wider variety again. The other day we made pumpkin roll and he really liked that! (It's one of my all time favorites).  Eating out with Everett and Breckie is like signing you...

Most of these pictures don't even require words or explanations… they're just Breckie.  She's wants to do EVERYTHING Everett does. If I tell Everett to go and put his shoes on for school she'll run to the closet and try and get her shoes on. When we ride scooters she wants to ride too.  She is sassy.  She tried on a little eye liner.  She REALLY wants to do everything we do... She's pretty much grown out of all of her clothes so she's naked or just diapered most of the time. She pooped in the kid potty once but the big potty is scary and dangerous. We're still far away from being potty trained. She likes to rub food all over herself and in her hair.  She is naughty.  She still has a mullet but it's growing… I tortured her and put her hair in pigtails once. They lasted 7 minutes.  She tells me NO all the time. Loves stuffed animals and blankets. Repeats everything we say. Is totally adorable...

A friend of mine thought it would be fun to get a group of her friends together and run a 5K for her birthday. It was the UV Splash.  It was the most gigantic-of-a-mess race I've ever run. We were laughing at how ridiculous it seemed all night.  First of all, every single runner had the exact same number… lame. It wasn't timed. The course was in a mall parking lot. I'm not even kidding. There were NO bathrooms of any sort. We ran two laps around and through the parking lot and it ended up only being 2.94 miles.  While you're running they spray you with some watery stuff (in a weed killer pump sprayer) that glows under a black light but just looks like pee in regular light. There were only 250 participants so it didn't seem very legit at all.  BUT… the face paint was fantastic, the friends were fun, I finished in the top ten, we ate at Applebee's after and didn't get home till 1:30 in the a.m.  Honestly, it was fun a...

The weekend after my birthday we took the youth to the Phoenix temple open house.  The coolest parts of this temple are the oval rooms and the fact that it's super close to my dad and Kelly. I'm glad we were able to go! After the open house we took the youth to see Meet The Mormons. SUCH a good movie/documentary. I absolutely loved it.  I'm so glad I'm a mormon and so happy to see so many temples being built. I'm especially glad that the Gilbert temple is so close to us because it's definitely my favorite… although the Mesa temple is pretty fantastic too.   I've been working on my family history a lot lately, too (which is always exciting for me) and so I've been able to do temple work for family names. It's actually so satisfying to find missing people on my family tree. How old am I, lol!!

Now that it's October and starting to cool off a little we have to get out and play before it gets too hot again. The next few months is like our Summer.  We went with some friends on a overnight, backpacking trip to Fossil Springs.  It was about a 3 hour drive and then we started hiking.  I was so excited to go backpacking. I'd never been until now. Luckily Jake had two backpacks and a small tent from his boy scout days.  After 5 miles we found a great camping spot. Right next to the cleanest, clearest river I've ever seen.  It was about 5 pm so we decided to go and check out the waterfall. I didn't necessarily plan on jumping that night but decided I couldn't resist! It was COLD. We could see some dark clouds rolling in and then the brightest rainbow so we decided we better make it back to camp.  As soon as we got back to camp is starting pouring down rain. Buckets! We all hung out in the...