Bryson Turns 2!!!

On May 11th we celebrated Brysons 2 birthday.  I cant believe he is 2!! Time really does go fast.  We had a low key birthday for him this year which is perfect because he can be a bit shy.  He is so dang cute and I love him so so so much! Here are some pictures of his night.

The neighbor kids came over while I was setting up the decor and frosting the cake. They all got frosting taste tests and balloons. And yes I couldn't get a picture of my children looking at the camera!

Tristan and his new friend Aspen

The Bouncy Ball cake

The party!!

I wanted to post a video, but it took forever. I couldn't get one to upload. How long does it take for a video to upload?

Tragedy

Friday night I found out about a tragedy that has the Fort Collins community in shock.  Drew Evans was stabbed twice in the chest by his brother Bryce late Thursday night.  I did not know Drew at all, just who he is and I didnt know Bryce very well, but we did have Suday School class together when we were kids.  I knew their dad better. Gary has been my dentist for as long as I can remember.  They are a very nice family.  I have been in such shock and have been distracted by this event all weekend.  I have been having a hard time comprehending this, it doesnt seem real.  This doesnt happen to people I know and not to people like the Evans!  I can't imagine the pain they feel.  For the parents I can't imagine the sorrow they feel for losing two sons and the way they lost them.  I feel sorrow for Bryce.  When the police and paramedics showed up they found Bryce cradling his brother.  What pain he must feel realizing what he has done.  I have been praying for Bryce and his family and will still for some time.  In times like this we wish we could understand why these things happen.  We wish we could take away the pain from those who are suffering.  I am so grateful for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who can take away this pain.  It will not be easy and it will not be immediate, but he knows our sorrows and pain.  Christ is the only one who can heal us.  I pray that the Evans family find comfort in Christ, even if it is a teeny bit.  I pray that they will look to Christ, it is easy to hate in times like these.  I know through Christ they can feel peace in their lives again.  I hope that you all will pray for this family.  I cannot think of anyone in as much need as them.

My Sisters Wedding

This is my sister Erika.  In December we attended her wedding ceremony.  Isn't she so pretty! It is crazy to think my sister is married.  We are all growing up... Here are some pictures, these were taken by my mom.

Her dress was so pretty

My Parents

It was fun Uncle Phil and Grandma Maffett were able to fly from Ohio to spend Christmas with us and attend the wedding.

My little helper

So here is an article that I really enjoyed reading.  If you havent read it yet you should. Don't Carpe Diem.
So I will be using some termonology I learned from this article. So here is My little Bryson, just as cute as can be.  So I think that too much of the time I live in Chronos.  Recently whenever I vacuum Bryson decides to join me.   Bryson will run to his room to get his little popper toy and come to the room I am vacuuming in.  Now the first few times this occured I was very chronos.  I found myself getting frustrated and annoyed with Bryson in my way while I am trying to clean.  He would run his popper into the vacuum or just get in my path.  So this was chronos.  Then one day I had an epiphany.  I had a kairos moment and I do everytime I vaccuum now.  It finally dawned on me that Bryson just wants to help me vacuum, and it is actually the cutest thing in the world!! The popper is his vacuum.  I felt so bad for getting annoyed with him before.  He is such a sweetheart and I find him often "cleaning".

Tristan is so smart we have been doing preschool at home this year and he really knows his alphabet and numbers. So this week we were doing the letter T.  We had a fun little activity where we made tracks with his trucks.

Boys really are so fun! They are so sweet and loving.  I love my kairos moments, they really do make it so worth it. I love these boys so dang much!

Jazz Game

Last night me and Russ attended the Jazz game in Salt Lake City.  It was sooo much fun.  So heres the story.  Russ and a few other guys from work got tickets to go with their wives to the game, they got them for good performance at work.  Now these werent just any tickets these were Jazz 100 club tickets.  Yes we got to live like the wealthy for a night.  We got their and had dinner, buffett style.  The food was really good and you could look out over the stadium.  Then for the first half of the game we got to sit on the front row right next to the coaches and players.  We were so close that I thought i could almost fel their sweat fly on us.  I resisted the urge to slap the players butts.  It was AWESOME!!  Can I say we had the best seats in the house? Yes we did.  For the second half we switched with other members of our party, but these seats werent bad either.  We were on the other sde of the court second row from the floor.  Still amazing seats. it was a great game too.  oh and by the way during half time there was a special room we could go to and have all the snacks we want?  Like everything; popcorn, candy, nachos, ice cream bars of different varieties, cookies, etc...  It was amazing I tried to eat as much as I possibly could. I don't mean to brag, but this was a once in a lifetime experience.  So thank you Melaleuca!! and Lynette for watching our kids till 1am! Here are some pictures and then at the end I will tell you about another amazing thing that happened.

Ok, if you look behind Russ you can see the coaches and one of the players butts.

Our friends Rory and Chelsey

So you see the coach in the suit?  Well behind him is the rest of our party, that is where we sat the first half. Amazing?! I think so.

We thought this was funny.  Extended suburban. and count the pictures on the back 11 and a bird.

Look how much these tickets are! The first ones we had were $950 each! No way we would ever be able to afford these. You know you have fancy seats when your tickets are plastic not paper.

So this being my first Jazz game ever I think it turned out fantastic.  We were spoiled, thanks to Russ' hard work.  So as if our evening hadn't been amazing already we saw someone special.  As we were leaving President Monson passed us on a little golf cart.  He was waving to everyone.  So this was so exciting! The prophet!! I was literally two feet away from him.  I just stood there with my mouth open thinking is that really him?  So how cool was that to see him, wish we could have stopped the golf cart and met him, but it was still really cool.  We had an amazing night.  It was so much fun.  I am still so excited about it.

Tristan is 4!!

So Tristan turned 4 last weekend.  It was such a fun day.  We had a Batman themed birthday party; Tristan loves anything Batman.  We were so grateful to have family and friends come and celebrate this special day with us.  Here are some pictures of the party.  We had three games for the kids to play, I think they really had fun with them especially the shooting the villains game. They also had masks that I made for them so that they could all be batmans and batgirls.

Batman Birthday!!

These were difficult to make, don't think I ever want to do them again

Here are the villains waiting to be shot (riddler, poison ivy, the joker and two face)

Game objective shoot villains with nerf guns

Pin the batman symbol

So these were balloons with candy inside and I taped pictures of villains on the outside, objective pop the villains.

Here is the birthday gang

Birthday Boy!!

Tristan got spoiled with many presents, but this was his special gift. His first Bike!!!

Best Buds

I can't believe Tristan is 4!! It is really hard to believe, time really does fly.  He was just my baby.  He has grown so much and he is so smart.  He is full of energy and lots of love.  He is so sweet and nice to everyone.  He will just say hi to random people everywhere which I love.  I am so grateful to have him in my life, I love him so much!

Christmas

We went to Colorado this year for Christmas. Yay!! love Colorado. anyways we had a really good time.  My Grandma Maffett and Uncle Phil were able to fly in from Ohio and join us for Christmas.  It was so special having evryone there for Christmas.  Here are a few pictures from Christmas.

Christmas Eve the boys opened up their pajamas. 

I wanted to get a picture of the boys in their pajamas and they both turned and jumped on Uncle Vincent

Bryson woke up christmas morning and ate all the candy out of the candy cane. Here he is wining for more candy, haha

Christmas Morning!! and yes the boys were spoiled!!

Tristan and Uncle Vincent went outside and played in the snow.