Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Another horsey
Aunt Ami can be a pretty good horsey too. We had to borrow Papa's hat to get it right.
Just an idea
This is a small taste of how fast the cougars played all year. Imagine a whole game of this and you can imagine how fun they were to watch.
state basketball
Brayden says "go cougars" in this video, he might even say "defense". The Cougars are wearing white.
what a cute smile
The first is Valentines Day at breakfast, the second is just playing outside last week. He was trying to climb the light pole, and was being my personal cultivator too.
End of Basketball
Its been a long time since I have posted here. Sorry about that delay. We have been enjoying our high school basketball season with a really great team. Last weekend was our state tournament, our team went in with a 27-0 record and left with 29-1 record and third place. Wonder how many other times in history there has been a team with only one loss that had to settle for third place. All water under the bridge now, they are a great bunch of kids and didn't let it get them down.
Brayden has come to be quite the little basketball fan and player too. I will put some video footage on here that shows our team and you can hear Brayden cheer for them. Its really cute.
We spent the weekend in Casper with Aunt Ami and basketball, and pool time. Brayden had a blast with the games, pool and eating out. We had some behavior issues in public and told him that if he couldn't behave we would quit eating in town. The next meal he was so very well behaved!! He loves to eat in town.
On Thurs while mama and daddy we packing the car, Brayden got in the car and was looking through his game bag. He found our dvd player that he has NEVER seen before, got it out of the bag, found my cd case and opened it, found his Curious George learning video that he plays on the computer, put it in the dvd player, turned it on and was watching his video the next time daddy put stuff in the car. We call him our little "techi". A little playing on the computer and the child knows a lot about electronics. Perhaps this will show up in his choice of career someday. :-)
Thurs night we went to Gillette to see Aunt Dar, Uncle Joel and Brittany, we had a great time with them for the evening. It took Brayden just a bit to warm up, but once that was done, he and Britt had a good time for sure. We spent fri morning shopping around town, found a store that carried Wisconson cheese, what a find!! Also went into a teacher store, found some things for convention there on a sidewalk sale. After shopping we met for lunch and then headed back to Casper. We got in around 3 p.m. and went to check into our hotel, they messed up a ton of reservations so we ended up with a smoking room, went to Walmart and bought vanilla air freshners. Our room smelled like vanilla cigarettes all night. The hot tub wasn't hot, sauna didn't work, over all, not a good hotel experience. The next morning we checked with another hotel and they had an available room, so we moved!! A much better experience there, good hot tubs, excellent pool, breakfast was great. I had bought Brayden a blow up turtle for the pool, he really enjoyed floating around with that.
Now a bit more up to date...we got home sunday evening. Yest Brayden went next door for a birthday party and they played outside some. It was windy so a bit chilly. Today he is out in the shop with daddy shooting hoops and doing other stuff I sure. He had another episode with his leg hurting last night in the night. It seemed to go away with a bit of rubbing. This morning it is "all better". We hope it stays that way.
Will get some pics posted now and video too. Its snowing here, hope it keeps it up all day!!
Brayden has come to be quite the little basketball fan and player too. I will put some video footage on here that shows our team and you can hear Brayden cheer for them. Its really cute.
We spent the weekend in Casper with Aunt Ami and basketball, and pool time. Brayden had a blast with the games, pool and eating out. We had some behavior issues in public and told him that if he couldn't behave we would quit eating in town. The next meal he was so very well behaved!! He loves to eat in town.
On Thurs while mama and daddy we packing the car, Brayden got in the car and was looking through his game bag. He found our dvd player that he has NEVER seen before, got it out of the bag, found my cd case and opened it, found his Curious George learning video that he plays on the computer, put it in the dvd player, turned it on and was watching his video the next time daddy put stuff in the car. We call him our little "techi". A little playing on the computer and the child knows a lot about electronics. Perhaps this will show up in his choice of career someday. :-)
Thurs night we went to Gillette to see Aunt Dar, Uncle Joel and Brittany, we had a great time with them for the evening. It took Brayden just a bit to warm up, but once that was done, he and Britt had a good time for sure. We spent fri morning shopping around town, found a store that carried Wisconson cheese, what a find!! Also went into a teacher store, found some things for convention there on a sidewalk sale. After shopping we met for lunch and then headed back to Casper. We got in around 3 p.m. and went to check into our hotel, they messed up a ton of reservations so we ended up with a smoking room, went to Walmart and bought vanilla air freshners. Our room smelled like vanilla cigarettes all night. The hot tub wasn't hot, sauna didn't work, over all, not a good hotel experience. The next morning we checked with another hotel and they had an available room, so we moved!! A much better experience there, good hot tubs, excellent pool, breakfast was great. I had bought Brayden a blow up turtle for the pool, he really enjoyed floating around with that.
Now a bit more up to date...we got home sunday evening. Yest Brayden went next door for a birthday party and they played outside some. It was windy so a bit chilly. Today he is out in the shop with daddy shooting hoops and doing other stuff I sure. He had another episode with his leg hurting last night in the night. It seemed to go away with a bit of rubbing. This morning it is "all better". We hope it stays that way.
Will get some pics posted now and video too. Its snowing here, hope it keeps it up all day!!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Mr. Gump's 3 hump Whump
Ever read Dr Suess about Mr Gumps seven hump whump?? That is what Brayden is talking about in this video. Nice to know the imagination isn't idle. The tractor is quite inventive too.
Black eye
Somehow on sunday night while playing basketball he got a bruise under his left eye. It was just a bump, but it has bruised all under the eye now. More of a red bruise than a black one, but its a black eye all the same...don't remember if this is the first or second one. Guess he is really all boy. He didn't even come tell me he was hurt, he just kept right on playing and I didn't notice anything till we were putting on coats to come home. So he is tough too apparently.
A While Ago
Would anyone believe its been 13 yrs since Roger and I got engaged? Well it was 13 yrs ago last night, of course we didn't tell everyone until March, but we had it planned. And we looked soooo young. I am sure that happens to all of us and as more time goes by it only gets worse. :-)
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Result of New shoes
New shoes cause quite a stir in our household, in fact one has to wear them right away and all day. These being running shoes, cause a whole new reaction, hence all the running.
New Shoes
Here are the new shoes, he has to wear them all day now. Thats what you do when you LOVE new shoes.
Indoor games
In some closet around here, Brayden found this indoor soccor/hockey set. Use a hockey stick to put a soccor ball in the net. He found it fun to play with for a day or two, now its found the same place as all the other toys, boring stuff anyway...they say toys are a waste of money, I am beginning to see that as true.
Getting dressed
Brayden decided it was far more fun to play than get dressed the other morning. Being behind the door was exceptionally fun.
Long time coming...
It has been another long span of time since I last posted. A lot has gone on in our little world too. I flew out to help Aunt Amity drive home with a load of stuff. The driving wasn't so eventful but the flying certainly was. This country girl sure got a real experience in airports and planes. Thought I learned it all when we were getting Brayden, but the domestic side of experience was yet to be learned I guess.
I arrived at our small airport at 5:30 a.m. to fly out at 6:05, right away the lady told me we had a situation, not a good way to start the day. Our plane didn't come in from Denver the night before so they were sending the plane from Gillette down to pick up the 12 of us leaving from here. That plane didn't leave Riverton till 7:30 a.m.. There went my layover in Denver, out the window. We landed in Denver, my bag was NOT brought to the bottom of the steps so I stepped to the back of the plane to request it, I was escorted back to the steps...can't go back there. I turned around to watch the guy with the luggage and he had listened to me so had just put my bag down on the cart for the other guy to bring to me. This other guy was busy explaining to me that I couldn't have my bag because it was a "checked" bag. I told him it was NOT checked, it had the pink tag on it see its right there, so he went and got it for me. I took off RUNNING across the tarmack to the gate entrance, this was quite a ways actually, continued jogging down the hallway, stopped to double check my gate. Continued on my way, up the escalator, down A concorse, down the escalator, to the tram, on to concorse B, up the escalator, down the concorse to the gate, arrived with still 20 people to board, made it with a few minutes to spare. Lungs burning from the cold air I enhaled, but that does go away all be it not for a couple of hours. Called Am and told her I made it and got on the plane. We pulled away from the gate and out to the parking lot, I kid you not, we sat in the parking lot for 30 min eating up my layover in Chicago. By the time we landed at O'Hare, I was down to 20 min. I ran in found the monitors and my flight was still "on time" but the 4:30 flight to Buffalo was cancelled. I went on down to my gate, there were people waiting in the chairs but no personnel at the gate and we should have been boarding. I guessed it was delayed, so sat and waited for 5 min at which point another young man came running down the concorse and asked if this was still the gate for the Buffalo flight, (a lady had come to the gate as he got there) she said that this flight was cancelled too. Off we went to customer service, a line of 150 to 200 people I am sure. After a few minutes a lady came to about the middle of the line and had all the Buffalo people come to the computers. Turned out to be a wonderful thing as she showed me how to use these computers, I used them a lot that day. I got tickets for two flights to Washington Dulles then would get a flight from there to Buffalo. The earlier flight I was on standby and got on that plane, after a few minutes they came on to say the pilot was diverted to another airport and wouldn't arrive in O'Hare till 7:30 p.m. I ran to the second flight, it kept getting delayed, finally till 7:2o which meant I missed my connection in Washinton to Buffalo. Back to the drawing board, the guy at the gate put me on the 8:30 flight direct to Buffalo. Boarded that plane, and was told one of the crew members was out of hours they would find another one. After a few more minutes, we were told to gather our belongings the flight was cancelled, back to the computers, spoke on the phone to a really nice guy that got me a flight to Rochester no time to print tickets just run down the escalator, across the underground tunnel to the other concorse, get to the gate to get my ticket from the agent, no one there, waited three min and the sign changed to San Diego, flight cancelled just like that. Back to the computers, got the same man a spoke with 15 min before, he said nothing else was moving, best was a ticket on the 7:30 a.m. flight to Buffalo. Time to accept the fact that I was spending the night in the airport or I could spend $399 for a bed at the attached Hilton. I went to the gate for the morning flight and found a bench 4 seats long with no arm rests, I could stretch out, covered up with my coat, plugged the cell phone in and slept for about45 min of every hour. Not bad actually. Amity called me at 5 and said the storm hit there check my flight, yup cancelled, she said to just get to Cleveland, so I went back to the computers and picked up the phone, got a flight to Cleveland leaving at 10:30. Got on the standby list for the flight leaving at 7:45 and actually boarded that flight. Sitting on the plane for 5 min and the pilot said they over fueled this plane for landing in Cleveland, pump truck coming, little later, no pump truck is frozen will be 1 1/2 hrs before it can come, so a different plane, please take you belongings and leave this plane, got to next gate and board again. Finally at 9 something that plane began leaving the gate, I called Am and said "we are MOVING at last". Finally off the ground and I was never so relieved to land in Cleveland and know that I could follow the exit signs and leave the airports for GOOD!!. I waited for Amity for 45 min or so and she picked me up at the door, had to find room for my suitcase, but that was accomplished. Off to find food that wasn't airport food. Seemed everytime I bought something it was $7 no matter what. After lunch I drove for 2 hrs and then it was all up to sis to get us to Davenport. We made it and had a good supper, spent some time in the hottub that was 5 steps from our door and then showers and bed. What a feeling to crawl into a real bed. Next day was more of the same driving except I did a little more my share. We got to Cheyenne that night and then on into Laramie Friday morning to unload and see the new apt. After we unloaded we had to find an open road out of Laramie, turned out we could cut across to Wheatland. On that 54 mile stretch we met 11 highway patrol cars. Thats a lot of cops!! Ate lunch in Wheatland and then on to Casper. A bit of shopping that couldn't be avoided and headed home. Roger agreed to cook supper for us. We made it home in one piece.
Brayden was jumping up and down inside the door when I came in. He was glad to see me, altho he didn't cry or anything when I left. He was a good little boy while I was gone. I did talk to him on the phone each day, so it wasn't as though I was completely gone. I was pretty certain he had grown an inch ha ha.
Since being home, he has continued to spend a lot of time in the shop with Daddy, they had such a good bonding experience. And he is growing, we had to go up a size in shoes today. He was complaining of the other ones being "tight". There was a little room in the toe on them, but apparently not enough side to side. So up to the size 7 tennis shoes we go. I have shoes up to 9 in the closet so he is set for a while, it doesn't require a trip to town to change shoe sizes. :-)
Brayden is thrilled to have Aunt Ami closer to home. He asked for her the other night after she had gone back to Laramie so I called her so he could say "goodnight". Made both their nights I think!! He has been asking when she is coming back, so I would guess he is looking forward to it.
Now thats a long post, shouldn't wait so long to write I guess. Here are some pics too. I mostly wanted this all down for future reference, memory is going out the window ya know. Happens as we get older I hear. :-)
I arrived at our small airport at 5:30 a.m. to fly out at 6:05, right away the lady told me we had a situation, not a good way to start the day. Our plane didn't come in from Denver the night before so they were sending the plane from Gillette down to pick up the 12 of us leaving from here. That plane didn't leave Riverton till 7:30 a.m.. There went my layover in Denver, out the window. We landed in Denver, my bag was NOT brought to the bottom of the steps so I stepped to the back of the plane to request it, I was escorted back to the steps...can't go back there. I turned around to watch the guy with the luggage and he had listened to me so had just put my bag down on the cart for the other guy to bring to me. This other guy was busy explaining to me that I couldn't have my bag because it was a "checked" bag. I told him it was NOT checked, it had the pink tag on it see its right there, so he went and got it for me. I took off RUNNING across the tarmack to the gate entrance, this was quite a ways actually, continued jogging down the hallway, stopped to double check my gate. Continued on my way, up the escalator, down A concorse, down the escalator, to the tram, on to concorse B, up the escalator, down the concorse to the gate, arrived with still 20 people to board, made it with a few minutes to spare. Lungs burning from the cold air I enhaled, but that does go away all be it not for a couple of hours. Called Am and told her I made it and got on the plane. We pulled away from the gate and out to the parking lot, I kid you not, we sat in the parking lot for 30 min eating up my layover in Chicago. By the time we landed at O'Hare, I was down to 20 min. I ran in found the monitors and my flight was still "on time" but the 4:30 flight to Buffalo was cancelled. I went on down to my gate, there were people waiting in the chairs but no personnel at the gate and we should have been boarding. I guessed it was delayed, so sat and waited for 5 min at which point another young man came running down the concorse and asked if this was still the gate for the Buffalo flight, (a lady had come to the gate as he got there) she said that this flight was cancelled too. Off we went to customer service, a line of 150 to 200 people I am sure. After a few minutes a lady came to about the middle of the line and had all the Buffalo people come to the computers. Turned out to be a wonderful thing as she showed me how to use these computers, I used them a lot that day. I got tickets for two flights to Washington Dulles then would get a flight from there to Buffalo. The earlier flight I was on standby and got on that plane, after a few minutes they came on to say the pilot was diverted to another airport and wouldn't arrive in O'Hare till 7:30 p.m. I ran to the second flight, it kept getting delayed, finally till 7:2o which meant I missed my connection in Washinton to Buffalo. Back to the drawing board, the guy at the gate put me on the 8:30 flight direct to Buffalo. Boarded that plane, and was told one of the crew members was out of hours they would find another one. After a few more minutes, we were told to gather our belongings the flight was cancelled, back to the computers, spoke on the phone to a really nice guy that got me a flight to Rochester no time to print tickets just run down the escalator, across the underground tunnel to the other concorse, get to the gate to get my ticket from the agent, no one there, waited three min and the sign changed to San Diego, flight cancelled just like that. Back to the computers, got the same man a spoke with 15 min before, he said nothing else was moving, best was a ticket on the 7:30 a.m. flight to Buffalo. Time to accept the fact that I was spending the night in the airport or I could spend $399 for a bed at the attached Hilton. I went to the gate for the morning flight and found a bench 4 seats long with no arm rests, I could stretch out, covered up with my coat, plugged the cell phone in and slept for about45 min of every hour. Not bad actually. Amity called me at 5 and said the storm hit there check my flight, yup cancelled, she said to just get to Cleveland, so I went back to the computers and picked up the phone, got a flight to Cleveland leaving at 10:30. Got on the standby list for the flight leaving at 7:45 and actually boarded that flight. Sitting on the plane for 5 min and the pilot said they over fueled this plane for landing in Cleveland, pump truck coming, little later, no pump truck is frozen will be 1 1/2 hrs before it can come, so a different plane, please take you belongings and leave this plane, got to next gate and board again. Finally at 9 something that plane began leaving the gate, I called Am and said "we are MOVING at last". Finally off the ground and I was never so relieved to land in Cleveland and know that I could follow the exit signs and leave the airports for GOOD!!. I waited for Amity for 45 min or so and she picked me up at the door, had to find room for my suitcase, but that was accomplished. Off to find food that wasn't airport food. Seemed everytime I bought something it was $7 no matter what. After lunch I drove for 2 hrs and then it was all up to sis to get us to Davenport. We made it and had a good supper, spent some time in the hottub that was 5 steps from our door and then showers and bed. What a feeling to crawl into a real bed. Next day was more of the same driving except I did a little more my share. We got to Cheyenne that night and then on into Laramie Friday morning to unload and see the new apt. After we unloaded we had to find an open road out of Laramie, turned out we could cut across to Wheatland. On that 54 mile stretch we met 11 highway patrol cars. Thats a lot of cops!! Ate lunch in Wheatland and then on to Casper. A bit of shopping that couldn't be avoided and headed home. Roger agreed to cook supper for us. We made it home in one piece.
Brayden was jumping up and down inside the door when I came in. He was glad to see me, altho he didn't cry or anything when I left. He was a good little boy while I was gone. I did talk to him on the phone each day, so it wasn't as though I was completely gone. I was pretty certain he had grown an inch ha ha.
Since being home, he has continued to spend a lot of time in the shop with Daddy, they had such a good bonding experience. And he is growing, we had to go up a size in shoes today. He was complaining of the other ones being "tight". There was a little room in the toe on them, but apparently not enough side to side. So up to the size 7 tennis shoes we go. I have shoes up to 9 in the closet so he is set for a while, it doesn't require a trip to town to change shoe sizes. :-)
Brayden is thrilled to have Aunt Ami closer to home. He asked for her the other night after she had gone back to Laramie so I called her so he could say "goodnight". Made both their nights I think!! He has been asking when she is coming back, so I would guess he is looking forward to it.
Now thats a long post, shouldn't wait so long to write I guess. Here are some pics too. I mostly wanted this all down for future reference, memory is going out the window ya know. Happens as we get older I hear. :-)
Friday, January 25, 2008
Two bright spots in my life...
These are for Aunt Amity, she provided the Sabers shirt for Brayden. Its a perfect fit right now, guess he will get the next three months use out of it and then we will put it away. Seems a shame, but thats how it goes with most of his clothes, just like any other kid. He is growing up on us, seems nothing stays the same for very long. In many ways that is good, but kind of sad too.
fun blow up thing...
Whenever we have company in the guest room, Brayden goes in to investigate the closet. I have had these two blow up play areas in a box in that closet and he always asks to get them out. Originally...I had planned to use this one as a baby playpen, well we never had a baby baby so its just stayed in the box. The other one is a lot bigger, but it really needs more than one kid to be fun and adults are NOT allowed. We thought we would blow up the smaller of the two and see how long it took for him to grow tired of it. It took about one hour for him to lose interest. Now if there was more than one kid in there jumping around, that would be different, but there is still just one kid in our household. We took it down and put it away again.
I have also recently gone through the toys and made lots of them "disappear". He "found" his car last night, but it "disappeared" again. I am waiting another couple of weeks to rotate the toys out and put some new ones in. Seems like he has soooo many but isn't interested in any of them very much. Perhaps there will be some "new" ones when we rotate. When all his attention and time are spent indoors it really shows how much time he spends with any set of toys. Of course in the spring and summer they will get largly ignored.
We "found" the little basketball hoop that I had bought at a yard sale a few years ago. Roger put it out in the shop and now the "boys" shoot hoops in their spare time!!
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
completely out
We went in to kiss our son goodnight the other night and this is what we saw...completely out of it. He rolled over after the flash went off to take the pic. Stayed crashed though.
cutting it up
note the Bar J's in the background, should have turned it off, but don't know how to edit it out now...
Saturday, January 05, 2008
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