Paul & Emily get Baptized

 

 

 

 

We had an exciting weekend here in Reno! Mom & Dad came from UT to see Paul & Emily get baptized! I know Paul and Emily were excited to see them here it was a great present for them! :) First thing Saturday morning we went to Dayton and walked around our new house. We don't have the keys yet but we should have them in about two weeks! The Baptism was great both Paul and Emily were very excited to get baptized. What was really cute was that Paul was wearing a tux instead of just a church shirt, he didn't have the coat on but he was wearing his blue Scout belt! I guess since he has been in Scouts he wears his Scout shirt every day after school! The first time he went to Scouts he got home from school took a bath, clipped his nails, did his hair, and put cologne on! He loves Scouts and I was pretty sure he would! I am very greatful that Aaron is worthy to baptize and confirm his kids as member of the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, this Gospel is the True Gospel on the Earth and that is a blessing to know that. I was very happy that Mom and Dad could make the drive to Reno to support Paul and Emily, maybe next time they can stay longer! We had a good time with the time they were here and that's all that matters!

Congrats Braydon

I need to get on and brag about my Braydon. He came home from baseball tonight so stinkin' excited! He is the pitcher for his baseball team, the Raptors. He has a pretty good arm. I've seen him pitch and he has a knack for it. He hasn't ever played on an organized team before. With just a little work, he'll be tough to beat.

This will be his first year playing baseball and he is so into the whole baseball thing. It's fun to see excitement in my kids. I'm not saying they don't have excitement any other time. Braydon has been on cloud 9 all night. He wanted to email everyone as soon as he came in the door. Talk about adrenaline! He couldn't stop saying all that had happened during practice tonight. It will be fun to see him in his games. The team he is on hasn't ever played together. This is the first year for most of the boys and this is the first year for the coach too. He is a good coach and works well with the boys. We'll keep you posted on how the games go.

Congratulations Braydon!! We love you!

A little fun

I just wanted to post a few pics from this week. Justin was complaining about the picture I had on my blog. He said I needed to update it. I really wanted to get a new camera before I took more family pics but since money seems to be scarce lately, I decided to just take some. Spring Break was this week and I figured we could make it outside to get some good shots. Well, wouldn't you know it. It's been so stinkin' cold this week. It's rained almost everyday this week. Outdoor pictures were out. I resorted to the front room. I got the girls ready the other morning and started taking pictures. The girls haven't been feeling very good lately and this particular morning, Mayci was beyond tired. Let's just say that I didn't pick the ideal day to get some good pictures!
This was the cutest one of all of them. I got pretty upset with Austin. He kept moving his head and not looking at me. As soon as I'd stop to get upset, Mayci would look the other way or try and get down! 5 kids+one grown up with a camera+ spending too many days together inside=silly pictures!

This would be one of our last pictures. I even had tears in Austin's eyes! I just laugh when I look at Madison's smile and Braydon's isn't much better! At this point, I decided we'd have to try again another day. Maybe one when the sun is shining and the kids act like they love each other like a normal family should!

This was a cute one of the girls!

Too bad I cut off some of Madison's head on this one!

So this is kind of funny! Mayci and Madison were playing with the laundry baskets the other night and Mayci thought it was funny to have it over her. She was growling at Madison like she was an animal. Where she gets this growl from, I don't know. She loves to growl though. Maybe she thinks it works to ward off her siblings. They just think it's funny and try and get her to growl again. Madison thought that she would stick her finger in one of the holes and Mayci decided to bite it! What entertainment 5 kids have been. Let's just say that I am SOOOOOOO behind in so many things. I spend my time laughing at my kids and how silly they are!

Hand, Foot & Mouth

Before we get to the really fun pictures, I wanted to share how much fun Mayci is. She is so good to catch on to what everyone else does. She loves to put things around her neck and this was too cute to not put on here.
I can't seem to get a good picture of Mayci lately. She's such a busy body! I love that she walks as good as she does. I should cry though. She's growing up too fast on me!

So. This is not the best picture but you get the idea. Look really close and you can see all the sores around her teeth. It was so hard for her to eat just about everything. She lived on yogurt and applesauce for the week. We found out on Tuesday the 17th that she had hand, foot and mouth disease. The Dr. told us it was viral and we just had to wait it out. He also said it was a good idea to not have her go to school until she wasn't contagious. (That was about 7-10 days). She ended up not going to school all of last week. She hated not being able to go and play with friends. I made her carry her own hand sanitizer around with her. Every time she touched her face, I made her sanitize! She hated hearing me say that! This week was Spring Break and so she didn't have to go to school this week either. Lucky her! She is now doing really good. We just have to cross our fingers and hope that no one else in the family gets it!

Her tongue hurt pretty bad. After 4 or 5 days of this, she got a sore on her bottom and top lip. The sore on the side of her lip is just now healing. I don't think she'll forget this one. Oh, the top picture didn't show the same sores down her throat and on her tonsils! I don't wish this on anyone. Madison couldn't even brush her teeth without crying as her teeth just bled!

This is the one time that all of you family members should be glad that we don't live close to you!

Outdoor kinda girl

We went to Braydon's baseball practice the other night. I had Mayci in the stroller for the first 10 minutes while I tried to get sharing time stuff put together. It was like torture for my little Mayci. She wanted to go play with all of the other kids. So, I let her down. She had a big smile on her face the entire time. She walked and walked. She hardly fell down.

OK. Forget the ground being too dirty. She needed to get up close and personal with the ground. Examine what was all down there under her feet. Mayci enjoyed her freedom of being outside. She has a lot of determination though. I'd try and get her steered another direction and she'd try and push right around me. She made her way around most of the playground. After a bit of walking around, she realized that there might be some fun stuff on the ground. She reached down and tried to pick the rocks up out of the asphalt. She just couldn't get it up though.

This was too adoraable. I was wishing I had my video camera with me. She saw this other little girl swinging around one of the Tether poles and decided to try it herself. She caught on quickly and spent a good 10-15 minutes walking around this pole. She'd stop once in awhile to see if the girl was doing anything else. What a copy cat she was. She was so dang cute spinning around the pole.

Mayci discovered a whole new world that night. We made it to the end of the pavement and she stopped quickly when her feet got wobbly on the gravel. It was the funniest thing to see her experience. She looked at me like, "What the heck was that under my feet?" It didn't take her long to realize that it was a fun place to play.

Madison and McKenzie taught her how to pile rocks on herself. She started to hoard all the rocks for herself and got mad when the other 2 girls tried grabbing rocks from her. The girls got very silly and laughed. Mayci didn't think it was all funny though. She couldn't get all of the rocks in her hands at one time and it made her mad. She started to grunt at everything the girls did. Yes, I just laughed!

Madison wanted to put rocks in her shoes. Mayci already had them in her shoes but insisted that more get put in. Mayci just got more mad. When she got up to walk, I tried to get all of the rocks out without taking her shoes off. That was a mistake. Mayci tried walking and just stopped and cried. I thought she was mad because I took her out of the rocks. Nope!! She had a whole bunch of sharp rocks in her shoes that were hurting her feet. Sorry Mayci.

What little kid goes to a park and leaves everything out of their mouth? Mayci did good for the entire time. Until the end anyway. She had had it with just picking the rocks up and throwing them down. She decided to try out their taste. It's a good thing we had to go. She was loving every minute of playtime that day and she came home very dirty. We definetely didn't get an indoor girl with this one!

A Madrigal Feast!

Saturday, March 21st, Chris played the KING in the annual Madrigal Dinner at Bear River HS. Marisa, Brittany, and Matt have all taken their turn in performing with the Madrigals for the annual event. Marisa's was held at the HS little gym, directed by Mr. Ashby, Brittany and Matt's were held at the Alice C Harris Int. School, under the direction of Mr. Peterson. Chris also had Mr. Peterson for his director, but the Madrigal Dinner was held at North Park Elementary (Mom's old school where she taught for MANY years!).
Chris did a fantastic job. He never ceases to amaze us with his endless talent. What ever he is invloved in, he excels. He just isn't on a basketball team, but a champion team, which he starts. He isn't just in a choir that puts on a dinner, he is the KING of the dinner. He just isn't a kid who likes to run, he is the schools BEST runner, and has been a competitor at state since he was a freshman. Again, we are amazed!! But not surprised!

Not only did he have the Madrigal Dinner that night, but he also managed to take a girl from Box Elder to their Prom. Again, he is an amazing kid.

Of course, since he was the King, he made sure that Nick took his turn in the stalks...for a salt violation. It was pretty entertaining....the funniest part about that, was how Carson cried and was so scared when they took his daddy....his face was priceless, and everyone in the audience felt so bad for him...even Chris...I mean the King, felt a little bad. But I was able to calm Carson down and let him know Dad would be okay.
Chris was an awesome King, and did a good job keeping the show going.

This is the KING and Nick sword fighting...Nick loved every minute of it, can't you tell? He thought it was a riot!

My favorite part was of course, the "Men in Tights" routine, which is a tradition started by the one and only, Matthew Brower. It made everyone laugh!

Carson was very entertained, and so was Kaylee. They both sat very well through the dinner. So it made it very enjoyable.
Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for taking us to Chris' Madrigal Dinner. You are the best!
Oh, and thanks Grandma....Carson thought this was pretty neat!

Until next time...oh, wait. No more Browers will be in the Madrigal Dinner again...wow...the end of an era!

Chris' Big Weekend

The last weekend in February the Brower Family all got together to attend a few events that Chris was invloved in. The first, his State Championship HS Basketball Games. And they WON!!! We were so proud of him and his team. They played amazing!! It was so fun to have all of us there cheering him on!

The Final score was 59 to 49. Chris (#14) scored 11 points, of which, 6 points came from 3 pointers. He is such a good little player! I am sure there was most of Bear River Valley there to cheer them on as well. Then we all attended his Eagle Court of Honor on Sunday. It was a good program, and the best part was the all the little grandkids that were there, sang "Proud to be an American". It was cute!Then the sisters sang "You're an Eagle". Seeing how we only had like 1 runthrough before we got there, it went okay! It made Grandma Edstrom cry...so it musn't have been too bad!

Then Austin & Braydon read a poem. Good job guys...you are both getting so big. And I know how much they look up to their Uncle Chris.
The Eagles Nest:

It was so wonderful to have Vernon and Grandma there over the weekend. I know they enjoyed the basketball games just as much as the rest of us did!

The Original 5: (I think Chris is the tallest)

I just like this picture.....yes we are dorks! But Cute ones!

Hopefully it won't be long before we can all get together again! Love you all!!

Daily life...

This will be fun to post on a blog for the Brower family and help journal what is going on in our families lives on a daily basis! Life is always going going going at our house. Kaylee just turned 1, and is always into everything...and really likes to find my purse or church bag!
This is her BIG personality......she has the funnest expressions...and the prettiest eyes!

I just turned 28, on March 8th. We had a nice dinner at Matt & Natalies, followed by yummy ice cream and cake! Thanks for the fun you guys! Mom and Dad came as well to celebrate. This was after church that day....Me and Carson.

My two beautiful children...Carson who is 3 1/2 and Kaylee, 1. I love them to pieces, and always keep me busy! Our favorite thing to do, is go walking/jogging in our double jogger stroller.