Who needs a Diaper?

A couple weeks ago, Bryce put Kyra down for a nap. He's not as consistent as I am about making sure her bottoms are put back on after he changes her. Anyways, it was nap time and Bryce put her to bed with just a diaper on. Later we came in her room to get her after napping Kyra was standing in her bed completely naked. Apparently she went poop, decided that she was not going to wait for us to change her, removed her diaper, and for good measure threw the diaper out of the crib on the floor. We know this has happened to many before, but it was our first experience and caught us off guard. Luckily her poop was solid and well rounded so there was not much to clean up. : )

Bryce's 30th Birthday!!!

We celebrated Bryce's 30th birthday December 12th, and what a day it was. We had a wonderful breakfast, gave Bryce his b-day presents, and went to church. After church I was preparing Bryce's favorite for dinner, peppered steak. Around 6:00 it was time to eat. We were just getting ready to sit down and eat when Kyra puked all over the living room carpet. I picked her up heading my way to the bathroom when she proceeded to puke everywhere. I handed Kyra over to Bryce who bathed her while I cleaned up the fun mess. Afterward everything was cleaned up and Kyra was acting normal again so we made an attempt to sit down and eat dinner. Kyra continued to puke again, this time Bryce was able to get her to the sink. So dinner was again set aside to clean up another fun mess. Afterward we decided to try and eat dinner again, but this time we took turns eating while the other watched over Kyra. Needless to say Kyra continued to puke the rest of the night. In addition to the fun I decided to join Kyra and puke too. Happy Birthday Bryce, we love you so much!!!


Bryce and Kyra trying to relax, Kyra puked in her bowl about 3 minutes after this picture was taken.

Hawaii vs. BSU game...

We have some friends in our ward, Amber and Brady Sibbett who have season tickets for BSU football games. They have another friend who is also a season ticket holder who was unable to go to the Hawaii vs. BSU game, so he was trying to sell his ticket. We got a phone call from Amber wondering if Bryce wanted the ticket for $20. There was one stipulation for Bryce going with them, he had to wear BSU attire. With Bryce being a die hard Ducks fan he had to think about it, but soon decided it would be a lot of fun. Bryce told Amber he had NO BSU clothes, so that's when Brady piped in and offered Bryce to borrow some of his. Later that day when Bryce was picked up, Brady had everything for Bryce to wear including a BSU shirt, sweatshirt, and hat. Lets just say when Bryce came downstairs all changed for the game it was weird to see him dressed in blue and orange. We both are so used to wearing green and yellow in support of the Ducks! Bryce had a great time at the game. Thanks Amber and Brady!




I have a feeling the reason why Amber and Brady made Bryce wear blue and orange to the game was to get us back for what we did to their little boy, Bradyn. We babysat him a couple weeks back and when he fell asleep we thought it would be funny to take a picture of him wrapped in our green and yellow Ducks blanket. For an extra we got Kyra's stuffed animal, a duckie to pose with him too.

Will post pictures later but wanted to let everyone

know that Kyra

is going to have a little brother.

Murder Mystery party!!!

Some friends of ours in the ward, Jake and Chelsea D'Addabbo invited Bryce and I over to participate in a murder mystery party. A couple weeks ago everyone was assigned a specific character along with a detailed description. The theme was "Desperate Neighborhood" along the lines of Desperate Housewives. For the party each person was advised to dress up as their character. My character was a single southern belle girl who was very flirtatious with "ALL" the men in the neighborhood whether they were single or married. Bryce's character was an Irishman who owned many local car washing companies. The night of the party we arrived to meet and mingle with everyone who was going to participate in the murder mystery. The investigation started right before dinner where everyone introduced themselves in character. Everyone was to stay in character for the whole game. Before sitting down to eat dinner everyone was brought outside to the site where the "murder" took place. Dinner was split up into four different courses, at the beginning of each course everyone was handed envelopes with new information involving their character that was supposed to be discussed at some point during that course of the meal. No one knew who the murderer was until the very end. It was a lot of fun trying to stay in character and solve the mystery. The whole night was an absolute blast. The food was delicious and the company was even better. Thanks Jake and Chelsea for a fun night.

Linder Farms for Family Home Evening!!!

Yesterday for Family Home Evening Bryce, Kyra, and I went to Linder Farms pumpkin patch. We invited Ben and Lexie with their kiddos, and my mom and Brent to join us. When we first arrived we took a hayride out to the pumpkin patch to pick our own pumpkins. It took awhile to find a decent one because they had all been picked over the last couple of weeks. Kyra loved strolling around helping mom and dad find her own pumpkin. As far as the bigger pumpkins go, we decided to wait and go to Walmart later this week. Afterwards we took a hayride back to the main area to play and fun together. There was so much to do. The kids played in a huge corn box, we all sat by the humongous fire to keep warm, ate yummy treats, went on a train ride, went through kid friendly mazes, and looked at a variety of animals that included a camel. We had an absolute blast. We'll definitely go back next year.

Columbus Day

On Monday Bryce had the day off so we decided to go for a hike. We were trying to find something close and picked a trail called Hull's Gulch up in the Boise foothills. We initially thought that we were just going to do a simple 3 mile loop but once we got started it became apparent that we had misread the map. After a total of 7.2 miles we made it back to our car. We were surprised how good Kyra was. She loved all 7.2 miles of it and was happy all the way. We were well below the tree line so it was mostly just sage brush but we must have seen thousands upon thousands of Grasshoppers.

We would come across random outcroppings of rocks

All seven miles of the trail were covered in Grass hoppers...

If you turn the volume up you can hear all the noise they would make as you walked through them. Kyra enjoyed it.

Brent's Home!

Brent, Lindy's younger brother, returned home from his mission Wednesday, September 29th!!! He flew in at 11:30 at night so we had to wake Kyra up to take her to the airport. She started out pretty confused but got excited when we handed her some Maracas, a poncho, and a sombrero (we thought we would make her look festive since he was returning home from Mexico). She loved it. She has never met Brent before, but she was not shy at all. Lindy loved getting to see and hug him. She has been so proud of him and everything he has done.

Lindy's first 5k

Lindy and her sister Bethany ran a 5k on Saturday, September 25th 2010 at the Boise Womens Fitness Run. It was Lindy's first 5k and she did great, she may have even set a course record for females age 28 and 3 months pregnant.

Kyra and Abby (the dog) meet up with Lindy and Bethany at the finish line.

Kyra loved the fountain,

and liked the music even more! She just kept moving to the beat.

Kyra's Morning Bath

This morning we rushed out the door without giving Kyra a bath after breakfast. She had bananas, and by the time she was done eating she had one stuck to her forehead and plenty smushed in her hair. So we decided to give her a bath at Mimi's. She loved bathing in the sink...

April 1st 2011!

Look who's coming! We are so excited for Kyra to be an older sister, yeah!!!

New sailboat!!!

Bryce bought a new boat on Saturday. We are all very excited, especially Kyra.

Western Idaho Fair!!!

Mary visits from Australia!!!

I have posted a few times before how I have a group of girls from high school I still hang out with on a regular basis today. There are five of us total, and four of us live here in Boise, but one married an Aussie and has lived in Australia for awhile now. Anyways she came to visit us girls before flying to Indiana to see her family. We all had a great time together going down memory lane and of course making new memories. So happy you came to Boise to see us girls Mary, we all miss you everyday!