Digital Mirror

It is an understatement to say that Andrew loves the camera and he is such a photogenic child! His new favorite thing is the video camera with the screen turned around so he can see himself being filmed. He was such a ham today!! My favorite word he says is "John" - it comes from the song "Are you sleeping, are you sleeping...brother John, brother John..." Love this kid!

FIGHT ON!

August 30th was USC's first game of the season and man was Bryan stoked! He had some training to do in the afternoon, but was ready to watch the game Tivo-ed at about 2:30. I am pleased to say they STOMPED the other team, which made for a very happy husband and a pleasant evening. I have come to embrace football season...I can't quite venture to say I am an avid fan quite yet, but I do enjoy watching the game here and there and joining in the festivities!

The boy's nap times were staggared so they each got to spend some one-on-one time with dad watching the game. Andrew was excited to see "ball ball" on the tv. It is so cute when he says "Go go, ball ball, kick it!!!"

Bryan has high hopes for this year's team - so all I can say at this point is, Fight On!

Handy Manny

I can't describe my jor when I see Bryan and Andrew together - they are the perfect pair. Andrew adores his daddy and loves to spend time with him. Daddy + outside + daddy's toys = a little boy's dream!

Saturday morning Bry was out getting some things done on his car and I came outside to see how things were going and I found this. Father and son working together. It was too cute to see Andrew with a wrench pretending to help daddy! What a great helper he is!!!!

Down Right Disgusting

This has to be the most foul smelling baby food ever made. Amazingly enough - Andrew ate the entire jar. Prety good fora child with a super sensitive nose and serious sensory issues. I had to keep myself from gagging the entire time I fed it to him. Wow - what a lunch. I know it is probably good for him, but I don't know if I can ever buy that one again. Gross!

Baby Genes!

Baby Bryan
(I believe Bryis a newborn , so about 3 months younger than Carter)

Baby Carter

Baby Megan

(Not sure how old I am, but older than Carter since I am sitting on my own)

Okay, I need a better picture of baby Bryan. I think he is a newborn in that shot...I will have to see if I can get a copy of one closer to Carter's age to put on here, but I do think Carter leans a little to the Osmun side of things right now, but I think he has his daddy's nose - I know he will continue to change day by day so I will have to do another comparison in a couple months. All I know is that he is so cute!!!

Our Treasure Books

As a family we have made a renewed commitment to journal writing. I know it is so important, but for some reason it is always on the list of things I want to make sure to get done, but gets bumped to the bottom. Well, today it was at the top. Bryan wrote in his, I wrote in mine, and I even started Andrew's and Carter's. Time is going by too quickly and the days are filled with so many sweet memories. I want to be able to record my feelings and such in my journal, as well as keep a record for Carter and Andrew of their cute things, milestones, and memories. Really, when I think about it - these books are full of treasures, hense our treasure books!

It has been so wonderful to get copies of some of the pages of Bryan's dad's journal. It is amazing how neat it is just to hear what went on in his everyday life. I know it sometimes it feels like nothing super great happened that day to write about, but I know as the years go by my children will like to know what our day to day life was about.

I have been so blessed to have a prime example of journal writing. My mother has been so diligent. I have my journals back to about the age of 5 where my mom would write down what I would tell her. As an adult now, when we would go and visit at her house I would go to her room in the morning or evening (can't remember which) and there she would be with her scriptures and journal.

What a treasure these journals are and will be even more so as the years pass by. Hopefully we can keep this as a priority in our family. We will soon see!

Doing my husbandly duties

So, it has been a while since I made a post on this blog. In fact I have only made one or two posts right as we made this blog. Since then Meg has done such a good job I never felt the need to post, but she tagged me and well I can't be "it" any longer.

3 joys, 3 fears, 3 obsessions/collections, 3 suprising facts and then tag five others... that is my task so here it is:

3 Joys:

1. My beautiful Wife/boys 2. Any combination of peanut butter and chocolate 3. Finally getting a job

3 Fears:

1. Losing my job and having to get into the horrid job market again 2. SC not beating OSU on sep 13 3. (political statement coming up so if you are heated by politics DON'T read it) Obama, I mean Osama, I mean Obama, I mean Osama.... you know who I mean... becoming the next President.

3 Obssesions/collections:

1. I have every Electric Light Orchestra and Pearl Jam albumn (yes I know they are polar opposites) 2. I love watching every episode of a show (one at a time of course) Everybody loves Raymond, King of Queens ... etc. 3. I hate stickiness, if I am watching Andrew and he wants a sucker... he has to go into the high chair... no exceptions!

3 Suprising facts:

1. Even though I am a biology nerd I LOVE technology, if I could make money at it I would just set up people's TV's, computers etc. for a living. 2. I am a Lakers fan too (yes there is another sport in my life other than football) 3. On the same note as the last one I love BYU football too.

Five people:

Shane Hatch, Chris Jones, Matt Masner, Jason McDaniel, Ryan Hambly

Motivation

Ahhhhh - naps! I find naps so motivating - not for the boys, but for me. Let me explain - I find myself staying up way too late too many nights with work and other things to get done. I always think to myself...I am going to stay up tonight and then I will take a nap tomorrow! I am so tired at night and it makes me feel better to think I am really going to get a nap the next day. I really truly have every intention of taking a nap...but I am sad to say it rarely happens. Somehow there are always more things on my To Do list that need to be done. Ah well - what do you do - at least it is motivating to think I will get a nap, and hey - maybe one of these days I will!

"My Words....Never Cease"

We had a wonderful talk on revelation in Relief Society today. Carter had fallen asleep during Sunday School so Bryan took him to Priesthood with him. It was quite nice being able to sit and fully enjoy the lesson today. Our teacher based her lesson on the talk by Elder Holland called "My Words...Never Cease" from last General Conference. We talked about a lot of aspects of revelation, but there was one comment made that really made sense and was a good way to think of revelation.

The woman sitting in the back row said every time she had taken her boys to the MTC for their mission it wasn't until they were walking away, after saying good bye that she thought of one more thing she needed to tell them; something important that they just needed to know. That must be how Heavenly Father feels about us. There are things He knows we need to know and He wants us to be successful and return to him so he speaks to us through modern day revelation.

I am so grateful for the guidance we receive through the scriptures and our living prophet President Monson. I am excited for this next General Conference and the direction I can get to continue to guide my life and my family.

Two CUTE kids!

I can't believe how fast my boys are growing up. Andrew is 2 years 8 months old and Carter is 3 1/2 months old!!! They have to be the cutest faces I have ever seen!!!

I couldn't let this day go by without getting a picture of Carter in this adorable outfit. Andrew took one look at Carter's hat and wanted his too - I just love these boys!

I have come to realize that hardly have any pictures of me with my kids. There are ton of the boys, a fair amount of Bryan with them and hardly any with me...I figure it is because I am always the one to grab the camera. I figure the only way to get pictures of me with them is to take them myself!