After my trip to College Station, we finally got our Christmas tree up. It kindof leans a little- time for a new one. Breton is much more involved this year with decorating. I think 3 glass ornaments have been broken so far. And sometimes, we find a random baseball thrown into the tree.

Breton was the ring bearer a few weeks ago. We had to do some adjusting to the legs (thanks Grandma Janice). Breton absolutely loved it so much, he couldn't stop kissing himself in the mirrow. . . More pics and comments to come.

He Will Hate Me For This

Halloween 2008

Breton loves watching Texas Tech football so he was Michael Crabtree, the best wide receiver in the nation, for Halloween. Of course, there were a few minor little differences between him and Crabtree.

College Football AWESOME!!!!

Carriage Ride through Young Ward

Bear Lake 1/2 Marathon

My sister, Toni, and I ran the first ever Bear Lake 1/2 Marathon in northern Utah last week. It was absolutely beautiful up in the mountains and around the lake. The first part of the run was pretty also since we ran through farmland. However, it would have been nice to run more around the lake, or in the lake. The best part was running with my sister!!! More races to come!!

Me with all the other "excited" racers.


We needed some comic relief. That last mile was killer since we had to double back through the town to get to the finish line.


Finally, the end of the race!! Thanks Mom and Dad for taking care of Breton!

BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As most of you who know me know that I am a big baseball fan. So I was at WalMart the other day and was looking in the kids toys and found one of the greatest things ever invented for my son. I bought him a bat some baseballs and a tee. Now my dad wouldn't let me play Tee Ball cause he said it makes you soft. ha ha ha ha ha. I agree with him. ha ha ha. But I decied that it makes 4 to 6 year olds soft not 1 1/2 year olds. So I bought it. This little guy is a sports nut at this point. Which doesn't bother me at all. My mom has been babysitting him during the day for a few months during school and all that good stuff and he has a basketball goal over there and he will shoot on it for hours. Now when he is home he hits the balls goes and gets them and does it over and over again. I almost cried I was so overjoyed!!

This top one is the background on my computer.






This is just before Breton hit me with the ball!!

Breton being Breton

All I can say is the kid loves the camera!!

Doritos and Hot Dogs

I have these really great memories when I was little of fishing at the Animas River near our house. We would roast hot dogs and eat doritos. At least that was all I could remember, I think I was like four. I still can eat a whole pack of hot dogs and bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos, by myself.

So, being that we were in camping heaven, that was one of my requests when visiting my family. After the 1/2 marathon race, we headed up to through Logan Canyon and I got my wish- all the hot dogs, doritos, mountains and camp fires I could ever want.

My Dad


Payton and Tim fishing for fish . . .


. . . and catching trees


My Baby Boy and Me


Grandma is up for anything with her grandsons


Ahhh, I love doritos!!!

Wahteee

After the boys had been told not to mess with the sprinkler watering the garden, Breton thought he would see what kind of damage he could do with a sprinkler. All I heard was Tim saying "Do you mind if Breton gets wet?" and "Mommy, wahtee, mommy." Hey, Payton, you are quite the pro . . .

Beware!!! Leslies First Post Ever- Last week, Breton and I (Leslie) traveled to Logan, Utah to see my family in beautiful Cache Valley. Sometimes, it makes me wonder why I live in dry, windy, flat West Texas. Well, Breton had lots of fun with his Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Toni, Uncle Tim, Payton, Jacob and Owen. The three boys had lots fun and mischievious times. While wresting with the boys in the play pen, Breton surfaced with a mysterious brown ball. Ewwwww!!! Jacob is still the sweet, cuddling angelic little boy. Payton is so grown up and has his own flock of baby chicks. We also got to spend lots of time with baby Owen. He is the best little redhead. More pics to follow!!!

Hats must be a genetic thing!

Breton loves hats that was probably his first word after ball and bite and dog and mommy and daddy and
supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.

Spring Break

I am so sorry it has been so long since I have worked on this. School was extremely busy for the last couple of months. These pictures are of us going on spring break. We went to Caprock Canyon State Park and then we went to the Fort Worth Zoo. We had a lot of fun. The picture of Leslie and Breton with the blue tube is a camel back (water canteen type thing only the water is in a bag in the backpack). Breton loves drinking out of it so when Leslie had it on he almost wouldn't drink water from anywhere else. Then the picture of Leslie and Breton in the rocking chairs is in the Fort Worth Zoo. Breton loved seeing all the animals. I think the most entertaining was when we were looking at the animals of the southern united states. There was an ocelot (wild cat a little bigger than a house cat) and he said mmmeeeooowwww in his soft little voice, then we saw a bobcat and Breton perked up a little and said MMMMMMEEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW, next we saw a jaguar and Breton looked really happy and said MMMMMMEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!! he was so excited to see a kitty cat that big. Then as you can tell he found a little bronze elephant friend at the zoo to give a hug to. The picture of Breton is Leslie's boots was right after we got home from the trip and one of those you just have to take and share with everybody.

Leslie is Looking Hot!!

As most of you can probably tell I am not one to post my own picture. In my personal opinion Breton and Leslie are much easier on the eyes than I am. But with all three of in the picture and Leslie looking so hot and Breton so excited he sticking his tongue out, so I couldn't resist putting my mug on here as well.

Mama's Shoes!!

Leslie and I have had to dress up a couple times more recently than usual. Breton has also noticed that Leslie has been wearing jewelry. So Leslie had come home one evening and not put her shoes up (ha ha). When Breton saw them he decided to put them on and walk around then he saw his beads that he plays with and the next thing we knew Breton was walking around with a necklace and Leslie's shoes on. He was also very excited to have mama's shoes and a necklace on.

Basketball

Hard Work

These next pictures are of our projects that we have done over the past couple of months. To go back a little bit. When we bought the house the kitchen was a pretty cool color of red and Breton's room was a purple color that was not very good. The whole rest of the house was a horrible yellow color. The ceiling in the bathroom was even yellow it was horrible. We painted the living room and our bedroom before we moved in. Then about 18 months ago we painted Breton's room and my man cave office room thing. Leslie's Mom, Dad, Sister and our 3 nephews came to Lubbock for christmas and I was chasing Payton and Jacob through the house. Payton reached up and grabbed our bedroom doorknob to stop himself. When he did this the whole door came down. The piece of wood that was screwed to the hinges was the only part of our door still standing. So we decided to put new interrior doors in. That was a small thing but it really makes our house look a lot nicer. Then because we were in the mood to do some more things so we painted the bathroom. While we were at lowes we saw some cool countertops and decided that we would replace them as well. Our countertops looked like the were from the late 60's. The bathroom had panelling half way up and then like i said was yellow. As you can see in the pictures we painted the panelling blue and the walls and the ceiling white it looks so much nicer. We also pulled out the old vanity because it sucked and put a new euro space saver vanity back in. It is a lot nicer and makes our tiny bathroom look bigger. Next we are going to put a backsplash up and put in a new back door. Just FYI the picture that has a bouquet of flowers is the new countertop. Then the picture with stuff all over the counter is right after we fit the sink in and glued it down. That is right you glue countertops down these days. So we put a whole bunch of stuff on it to weight it down a little.