9 weeks-ish

A re you suprised! Me too :)

Brynne's First Christmas!!!

This is Taylor... I am sure that Dione will post more pictures later, but I wanted to show off how my first major sewing project turned out... yes, I did sew that giant teddy bear and more importantly, Brynne loves it!!!! I think the picture says it all. Merry Christmas everybody!

Feliz Navidad!

Brynne is 10 1/2 months and she is changing so much everyday that I feel like I need to write down all of her achievements!
- says mama non stop, it means mom, more, dad, pick me up, I'm hungry, etc.
- says dada, means dada and I just want to babble.
- says uh oh, if she drops something.
- says ama at the end of a prayer. This is especially enjoyed by the family sitting behind us in sacrament meeting
- Pulls herself up on the couch, coffee table, the Christmas tree, adults legs, etc
- crawls like crazy
- pushes her little cart toy walking for a few steps
- has 8 soon to be 10 teeth
- loves to brush her teeth
- is not interested in baby food unless its fruit
- eats whatever we are having usually
- somehow can always find a jar of Vaseline to get into
- loves to turn the T.V. on and off
- smiles and makes eye contact with strangers until they stop to tell her how cute she is
- can wear a pony tail
- read her books and tells us all about them
- loves accessorize and wont stop till she pulls your necklace, earings, buttons, scarf
- is not happy until she gets a hold of a cell phone if she sees one
- has the cutest sense of humor, she will see something next to her or in the distance that she thinks is funny and will just start laughing about it.
- has a fake laugh she uses when others are laughing and she doesnt get the joke.
- has the cutest smile full of little teeth!
- loves to drink water
- sticks her tongue out all the time
- pushes her bum in the air and balances on her head and feet
- likes to sing and play the piano with her dad
- Loves to swing

Who has a home phone anymore??

WE DO

Thanksgiving trip

Thanksgiving was such a fun day! One thing that we are grateful for is that both our families live within a hour of each other so we get to spend time with both sides out the family each trip out! Taylor and his brother made this cool swing to entertain Brynne and our nieces!
California Thanksgiving, Maddi digging in the dirt!
Grandma Broughton pushing Brynne...Brynne did not want to get out of that swing we tried a few times to go, but she wouldn't have it!
Taylor and his mom swinging...
Lots and lots of Turkey!!
Our brand new nephew Jack! (6th grandchild and first boy, yay!)
Dan, Kalie, and Jack

Grammy and Papa McAffee's house in Benecia

Oh you know, just feeding the chickens! Brynne was a fan of these guys..well I guess they are girls. Taylor also had fun harassing the poor things.
Can you believe Todd doesn't have a girlfriend! Brynne and handsome uncle Todd!
Chad drooling right after he had his wisdom teeth out.....cool shoes man.
Life is good!
We went to Muir woods beach, it was a perfect day! Brynne loved the water and wanted in it, even though it was fridgid, yet again just like her dad:)
Hoods!
Love that laugh!

25th birthday party

Taylor had a great birthday party while we were in Ca! He got tons of presents including a keyboard, Jacket, camelback, piano music, gift cards, and more. It pays to be 25 apparently! We wish we lived closer to all our California friends, it was such a fun night!

Taylors birthday pie he had yesterday on his real birthday.
Piano cake for his party in Lodi
Taylor wearing the jacket his aunt gave him
A group picture of some of our friends at the party, I wish I would have taken a group pic sooner so I could have got everyone in the pic, we had a great turn out and it was so fun to get to show off our baby, and get to see everyones cute babies!
Gangster keyboard playin, nerf gun shootin, birthday boy!
Should I be worried...she is already into cute boys!
Joe, Jana, and Lily
Ashley and Joe
Annie, Christian, Noah, and Harper
Maddi patiently wating for cakeThe entertainment for the night...holding babies :)

Scary Clause

Tonight was our ward Christmas party, Brynne was passed all around the ward and let anyone hold her.......except for santa!




She was grateful for the candy cane!

Primary Pizza Party!

A few weeks ago we had our primary class over for pizza, they have been looking forward to the party for months! (we kinda used it to bribe them to be good for months also, it was great!) It really turned out so well, they are hilarious as always! We had 7, 6 year olds running around our house for about two hours. They had pizza, decorated cookies, played the balloon game (you tie a balloon to everyones leg and they try to pop everyone elses without getting there's popped...only ended in one girl crying) Jumped on the love sack and were really really loud. It was nice to just let them play instead of trying to keep them reverent. The best thing about our ward is these kids most of them live in our court, the girls always come over..many times a day to check on Brynne, the boys come over trying to sell us there wares (Halloween candy they dont like and pictures they have drawn, and a cardboard and duck tape shelve they made.)