You Gotta Make These

Ingredients:

6 Tablespoons Butter

1 Cup Sugar

1 Teaspoons Vanilla

2 Eggs

1 1/2 Cups Flour

1 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder

1/4 Teaspoon Salt

2 Cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

Whip butter and sugar together. Melt 1 cup chocolate chips in a sauce pan over stove. Combine with butter and sugar mixture. Add vanilla and eggs. Mix well.Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to wet ingredients. Mix well. Stir in remaining chocolate chips. Refrigerate for 20 minutes (*important, otherwise they will not turn out fudgy). Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes.

Celebrate FALL!

Fall is such a FUN time of year. I just love embracing every season and doing season-y things like apple orchards and pumpkin patches! We got to go with some friends to a beautiful apple orchard called Oak Glen. We had so much fun. We did more picture taking than apple picking, but it is hard to resist those perfect picture moments like these:

Ryan and I also went to the Heritage Park pumpkin patch with my parents. We just can't get enough!

It seems like Ryan is not afraid of animals at all! In fact, I think he likes them! My child... an animal lover!? What am I going to do?

Parts

We took this picture on our fun trip to Oak Glen. I was looking at it and thought, " Ryan does not even look like our child!" Whenever I am with my little sister, I feel like he looks way more like her baby than mine. But, upon further inspection, we have found that he does have some parts that come from us. Here is what we found:

The luscious lips...

Definitely Daddy! ( gotta love them!) The beautiful blue eyes... not from us. But the shape...
Moms?Where did he get these legs?

They are definitely not Daddy's. That only leaves one other option, but I am not going to show you a picture of mine!

Our Little Soccer Stud

*Thanks fot the CUTE suit Rach and Danny! We love it!

Hairy Grapes

We trimmed Ryan's hair last night. We didn't do the whole ceremonious first hair cute deal, because he has so much hair that we have trimmed it a few times already. However, we have never saved his hair and that is something that my dad really wanted us to do. It's a tradition thing, I guess. So, Brett put the hair that we cut in a Ziploc bag and we weren't quite sure what to do with it after that, so it was just left on the counter. This morning, we were hurrying to get out the door for church, so I threw some snacks into ziplocs. Conveniently, there was a bag on the counter, which I used. During sacrament meeting, I was shoving grapes into Ryan's mouth to keep him quiet. I noticed that the grapes were hairy! I had used the ziploc with Ryan's hair in it! So much for saving it. Sorry, Dad! We tried!

My Political Activist Hubby

Brett subscribes to a magazine called Diversity, Inc. There was an article about Proposition 8 a while back that he responded to. I was thumbing through this month's issue and on the last page was Brett's submission supporting traditional marriage. It was pretty cool to see it in print. Although, his comment is getting bashed by the editor, but at least his opinion is getting out there. To see the article click here. I don't really recommend the magazine. For boasting a name like " Diversity, Inc.", it sure doesn't support diverse opinions. Liberal only. And they think conservatives are closed minded.

Four WONDERFUL Years!

What a year! This fourth year of marriage was quite eventful. I just keeps getting better and better!

Aniversary Day Part One: Hanging out with the greatest product of out marriage.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other,but in looking together in the same direction.

Anniversary Day Part Two: Dessert and tell Brett how much I love him and am lucky to be married to a handsome, kind, good, loving man time!

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It was a great day!

First BIG Ouch!

I knew I should have moved those bowls! Sorry Ry!

He Walks!

OK, not very well, but he does take a few steps here and there. Make sure you don't blink during the video - you might miss it!

Fun Trip

Our great friends, the Devines were so nice and drove all the way from UT to meet us in Las Vegas! Our trips together are always too short - we could stay up all night talking, but now we both have kids and we can hardly keep our eyes open past 11:00 pm. We are so grateful they arranged the trip! We had so much fun!! Thanks, guys!

After seeing this picture, I decided that headbands don't work for me...

The best of about 10 shots of the kiddos!

Slurping up the water...

...refreshing (and gross: instead of stopping him, we took a picture. Such good parents.)!

One of Those Moments

Saturday night, while the boys were at the Priesthood Session, some friends and I went out to dinner. Ryan was pretty tired and very grumpy. I ordered some refried beans for him and tried to feed him with a spoon. He would NOT have that. He kept screaming until I realized that all he wanted to do was feed himself. So, I took off his shirt and let him have at it. It was one of those moments where if I was someone else watching me, I would have thought, " Oh my gosh, look at that baby making a huge mess! I can't believe that mother!" It is funny how we have a lot of those thoughts until we actually find ourselves with a screaming 10 month old who just wants to eat beans with his hands!

I thought that I might need the bib more than Ryan!

I am a Wrinkliy Shirt

And General Conference is my iron. How lucky are we that we have a living prophet and apostles who give us the guidance and encouragement we need to get all of our "wrinkles" out.

This is Real

Brett told me about one of his friends who has this unreal sleep-talking problem. He has and alter-ego in his sleep and if you talk to him while he is sleeping, he will talk back to you as this other person. I just thought it was hilarious. Then, today, we were sent some videos of this guy in action. I know many of you will think, " He has got to be faking.." he is not! How would you like to me married to him... lots of laughs at night! To see the video, click here.