FEH - College Style

Brody Loves College FHE!!

Monday

March 8th, 2010

Saturday Brody and I headed off to Rexburg to visit Anya. What was I thinking right!!! Way too long of a drive with a 17 month old, But we survived and once we got there we had the time of our lives! I am so glad that we got to be there for a Monday. Anya has always talked about FHE and how her group is so much fun, but now we know they really are a blast. We had a scavenger hunt. We split up into groups and had an hour and a half to do as many things as we could. We got in Anya group totally by coincidence, they numbered us off. It was so much fun, Brody had a blast!

One of the things was to take a picture of your group having a snowball fight. I didn't realize until we got there that Rexburg still has snow!! Notice the huge snowball Anya has in the background. Another one was to do a strangers dishes. While we were at the park across the street I saw a guy doing dishes in the window, so we headed over. Once we were in I was kind of sorry I had said anything. It was so dirt and nasty inside, and it smelled too. Of course guys lived there.
We had to take a picture in a strangers living room. This was the same house we did dishes in.
Also the same house (we used them to get quiet a few done) we had to sing to them. They choose the Barny song for us to sing. I didn't even remember the words until they started singing and then it came back.
In front of a fast food chain. I cant remember the name of it, they made sandwiches though.
Help strangers across the street, this was the other girl in our group. There's a funny story with this one, the girlfriend got very mad a jealous that there was another girl on her mans arm! We could hear then still arguing about it when we left.
Not sure why this one didn't flip, but Anya had to huge a librarian. He didn't seem to mind too much.
a picture with a reptile of some sort.
Someone taller then everyone in our group. The other girl in our group was 6 foot so we had to search a little. I was surprised at how many short guys are at BYU-I!!

A member of our group purposing to a stranger. It cracks me up how serious he looks!
A human pyramid. Brody being in our group defiantly came in handy for this one.

At least half of our group had to do a hand stand, I was perfectly fine just being the camera man for this one. The first time I was a little late.

All three of them. When they were coming down the girl hit Stevens head like pretty hard!

A picture of a VHS.

A picture of a member shoving crackers in their mouth.

Lets just say that FHE is way funner at college!!

Another Photo Shoot

Another Photo Shoot

Wednesday

February 17th, 2010

My friend Tawnya has been wanting my Mom to take some pictures of her little girl for a long time, but it keep either raining or was just plain freezing out. So the first nice day we went. Another friend Dinah's son is turning one soon so my mom took some pictures of him too. I dressed Brody up even though I figured we wouldn't get too many of him, he hasn't been in a very good picture taking mood lately.

Us Moms with the babies.

Brody throwing one of his many many MANY fits. I think we're hitting the terrible 2's a little early.

Tawnya, Miss Supermom! She was holding Micah and Brody keep going over and holding onto her leg. We thought it would be funny to throw all the kids on her. Lets just say I don't think she'll be wanting 3 kids anytime soon!

The boys checking stuff out. Brody loves "fixing things".

Always trying to get away!
We finally got him to hold still for 2 seconds.

Brody's Favorite Things

Brody's Favorite Things

Wednesday

January 13th, 2010

A few weeks ago I was going through Brody's baby book and first year calendar I have. after seeing empty page after empty page I realized I have been SOO bad about writing things down. Especially just the fun little things. So I started making a list of his favorite things and here is what I came up with. They aren't really in any specific order, he loves them all!

• Chocolate!!! In any shape, form or flavor. He doesn't care he just wants chocolate.
• Bananas
• Crystal light. When we were younger I always remembered having crystal light when we went to see Grandma and Grandpa Strailey. My Moms Dad was obsessed with it! Us kids couldn't get enough of it either. I forgot about it for a while after he passed away, then I got hocked on the individual bottle size ones and Brody has become addicted too!
• Sour Patch kids, Sour patch watermelons, and Sour straws. I know weird, but he loves the sour Candy's.
• His raunchy, offensively stinky puppy. He loves that thing to death! And you can tell too.
• His Binky
• When he gets tired he is starting to love to carry around his blanket.
• Madagascar Escape 2 Africa. My parents got it for his for Christmas. He usually doesn't stay interested in movies for very long but he is mesmerized by this one. It gets to the point where we have watched it 4 times in one day. He even knows how to start it over by himself.
• Books
• Taking showers with Stuart. He doesn't like taking them with me for some reason.
• Playing tag with Mom and Dad. One of us will hold him while the other chases after saying I'm ganna get you. Brody just cracks up, he loves it!
• Talking, that boy is a chatter box. He only has a few words down but that doesn't stop him from chatting your ear off.
• His favorite words are "Uh Oh", He says it every time he does something he knows he is going to get in trouble for. Its really quiet funny actually. "Hot", a lot of things are hot to him but he defiantly knows that the oven and Mommy's straightener are hot. Even time I open the oven he points at it and says hot. And his newest word is "what". I don't think he really knows what it means though. Sometimes I will say "Hey Brody" to get his attention and he will respond with "What".
• Dogs, but even more then dogs I think he just loves saying wolf wolf. Almost every animal noise he hears makes him say wolf wolf.
• Toothbrush. No matters who's it is, if he sees it he wants it.
• Chap stick (defiantly his Mama's boy). But he not only likes to put it on his lips, he also loves to eat it.
• Destroying wherever he is. He loves getting into anything and everything possible. I swear he moves about a hundred miles an hour. He has more energy then anyone I know and a very big personalty to go along with it.
• Rolling his arms for Patty Cakes. My Mom and Dad taught him patty cakes when he was younger. earlier I was reading this list out loud to make sure I got everything and as soon as I said patty cakes he immediately started rolling his arms. Sometimes he just does it out of nowhere too.
• And last but not least, going to Grandma and Grandpa Jensen's house.

New Years Eve Sledding

New Years Eve Sledding

Thrusday

December 31st, 2009

On New Years Eve Evan and some of his friends were sledding at the stadium hill. We were still at my parents waiting for Stuart to get home so we decided to take Brody over to have some fun. He absolutely loved it!! He had the biggest smile on his face and would just giggle the whole way down. He is such a stinkin cutie! I told my mom I couldn't believe that I ever wanted to do this and that it was fun. It was so COLD! I guess I'm just turning into a big wimp but I hate being cold and especially wet. So thank goodness uncle Evan is around to do fun stuff with Brody since Stuart is usually gone. Next year we will have to buy some actual snow clothes. I felt so bad for him in his little jeans, he didn't seem to mind too much though.

Evan is a great uncle to Brody, but by the end he was getting a little tired of it and just wanted to go with his friends. He couldn't do all the crazy things boys do with little Brody on the sled.
We couldn't quit laughing at the way Evan would carry Brody and the sled up the hill. I guess its good for Brody so he isn't so babied all the time but Evan acts like hes a football sometimes by the way he carries him around!

Hes Perfect!!

He's Perfect!!

Tuesday

November 17th, 2009

Well ok, Brody's not always perfect. But lately around here as far as sleeping goes, he is! He has made a total and complete change and I'm lovin every second of it. He has now sleep 3 full nights in his room. he sleeps from 8:30 or 9 until usualy 7:30 or 8! The first two he woke up but I just let him cry it out and it only lasted maybe 5 minutes if that. I read an article that changes my thinking on this subject, it said that if you get them out of bed or run to them every time you are just encouraging that act and they will keep doing it. I'm a softy though and I still believe that unless that circumstances are crazy (like twins for example) there is a point at when they are just way to young to do this. I think Brody is at the perfect age because he actually knows whats going on and understands it, I could never actually do it to him sooner then now..Id feel WAY to mean! He has also takin 4 very successful naps in his room, each of them lasting 2 or more hours, I am very excited about this one. But the strangest part to me is each time he has woken up he just chills in his bed for 30 minutes! He switches between laying down, sitting up, playing with his puppy. But he is very mellow, and so not like him! I think about going and getting him out but then I figure maybe he just wants some down time before he starts his day again. Anyways he's PERFECT!!

Finally!!

Finally!!

Saturday

November 14th, 2009

I have to do a little explaining, Brody does not sleep in a crib he sleeps in his pak n play. He also does not sleep in his room, he sleeps in ours and most of the time he doesn't make it the whole night in his bed. Somehow he wakes up in ours. Well Stuart and I were just a little bit sick of this happening so today I cleaned Brody's room and moved his pack n play into it. I loved the sight of our room being just ours!! Also Brody does not take naps in his bed, he takes them in our bed. I decided this was going to stop and it was going to stop today! Now today Brody was being extremely clingy and a little bit difficult so after 3 attempts at taking a nap I really just didn't care anymore and stuck him in his bed (he was beyond exausted). He cried for about 2 minutes and was silent, not asleep but silent. He ended up taking an almost 3 hour nap!! I had to wake him up because It was getting too late and he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. I was soooo excited that he not only sleep for that long (the longest I can remember in a very very long time) but also in HIS OWN BED in HIS OWN ROOM!!!

Our lovely window

Our Lovely Window

Friday

November 13th, 2009

I keep trying to tell myself that this is one of those things that we will look back on years from now and laugh about. One of those things about the first house that you live in together, one of those things that EVERYONE goes through. I also try and keep in mind that this is only a rental and hopefully next year we wont be living in it and wont have to deal with its many problems anymore. Here is a picture of our oh so lovely window...(don't mind the ugly wallpaper)

So it looks pretty ghetto at first, but not too bad. Its just a ancient air conditioner complete with board and falling off tap that doesn't seem to be doing much. Oh and that tap had its fair share of dead bugs stuck on it, half of them I'm not even quiet sure what they are.

And here's our lovely cracks up close and personal.

And here's our board again. I'm not quiet sure what its purpose is. If it is meant to block the air out don't you think it would block all of the COLD air.

I try not to complain about this, I really do but come on its the middle of November and its cold out! I really can laugh about it at times though, along with the constantly flooded and outrageously stinky laundry room, the very sensitive and leaky drain in the kitchen, the touch toilet that has already overflowed once turning our hall into a poopy wading pool, the stupid one eyes cat and neighbors dog that think they always need to come and poop in our yard, there's more but Ill try to think positively. Despite how it sounds I really am grateful for somewhere to live with the two people I love more then anything.

I wonder who he learned that from

Just Like Daddy

Thursday

November 12th, 2009

We all know that Stuart loves his 4runners, and he also loves working on them. While he must be rubbing off on Brody or something because this is what I found him doing to his lion walker...

First he tipped it back so he could see underneath it. If you look really closely in his right hand he has a leaf, or should I say a screwdriver/wrench. That's what he did all of his work with.

Mom, no pictures please..cant you see I'm trying to fix this tire!

Tightening that screw up

And the finishing touches. Daddy will be so proud!

Play Time

Wednesday

November 11th, 2009

My Mom Brody and I went to Sister To Sisters Christmas opening, there was lots of fun stuff there but Brody just was not cooperating. All he wanted was down, so as you can imagine we didn't stay too long. Stuart stayed late after work to work on his 4Runner so we went out to eat with Grandma at McDonald's. Brody had a great time playing there at Austins birthday party so we figured we'd reward him for just having 6 shots (ouch!).

He wasn't hesitant at all, he just jumped right on!

Makin the climb

He loved looking at us threw the net, he thought it was pretty funny.

I told Annie that we will have to take the boys to McDonald's a lot this winter to keep them entertained since its going to be too cold to play outside! I dought Austin and Brody will have any complaints about that.

One Year Check Up

One Year Check Up

Wednesday

November 11th, 2009

Yes, Brody is over 13 months old now and I am just getting him into the doctor for his one year shots, but hey at least I'm only a month late right? Well, this was not a fun visit for the little Bro. He had a great time exploring the room up until the nurse came in though. Brody now weighs 28.4 pounds which is 94.67% and is 32 inches long 89.40%. No wonder he always seems to heavy!! When we brought him to the hospital a while ago the nurse weighed him at 38 pounds, my Mom and I knew something was up with that. So either he lost a ton of weight while being sick with the swine flu or she just misweighed. I'm ganna go with misweighed. The Doctor said he is looking great and very healthy. He also said he is very calm, haha I really had to laugh at that one, obviously he is just shy around people he doesn't know. He got a total of 6 shots!! The nurse wanted to give him the H1N1 shot but I said no, I'm not too sure about that one. She had to have me help hold him down because in her words he is as strong as an ox. And boy he did not like those shots, he screamed and tryed to lift his body up and away from her with all his might! He was walking a little funny after for a while but in the end he seemed to forget about them pretty fast.

He had to explore everything, and I mean everything. He is my curious little boy!

Trying to entertain himself. He loves this book because it makes noise.

He soon found the Doctors chair, and soon after that he realized it rolled! lets just say he loudly bumped into quiet a few things before I could get it away from him.

I tried to get a picture of his 6 band aids but it didn't really work, all he wanted to do was get them off.