'BOS'S and the Gang

Cookies!!

2009-02-09T15:42:00.002-06:00

Breton and I decided to make some cookies a couple of weeks ago. Breton ran the mixer and I put the ingredients in. We were hoping to get some pictures of flour all over us and Breton trying to eat cookie dough. He wanted to stay clean though it was pretty funny. Every time he got some thing on him he would get down wash his hands and then come back over to help again. When they were done it was a different story. He wanted to eat every single one of them and had chocolate all over his face.

Trip to grandma Gigi's for the night!!

2009-02-09T15:25:00.003-06:00

This was a great day for Leslie and me. Breton wanted to talk to Gigi on the phone (my mom).
When she came on he said, "I want to spend the night with Gigi!!!!" So Gigi couldnt help but say yes. So we packed him up and sent him on his way for the night. It was really the first night he had spent without us in months. But he sure looks cute heading out for the night.

Raquetball yeah!!!!!

2009-02-09T15:03:00.003-06:00

Breton and I have decided to take up raquetball. In doing this we want to make sure we fit in with all the guys that play at our gym. So I decided to have Breton dress the part and see how he looks to make sure that I would look good as well. Raquetball is what gets me to the gym every morning literally. This little monster will come into my room about 7:30 to 8:00 every morning and peel my eyes open and the give the raquetball battle cry. If you could only hear it. It is the most bone chilling (most effective way to wake "daddy up" every morning) warrior yell one could imagine. Sometimes we have up to 8 spectators cheering Breton on.

Breton recently recieved a sock monkey from his Grandma Ann. He has decided that one should think twice before trying to put him to bed without it. In this particular picture Breton is trying to figure out how to stay up with mommy and daddy. He went into his room got his sock monkey and positioned the pillows on the couch and laid down while we were not paying attention so we decided to take the picture before we put him to bed.

One would think this picture was taken around christmas because of the tree in the background. The truth is we were a little slow in taking down the tree this year and this was taken about the 14th or 15th of January. The funny thing is that has nothing really to do with the picture. The picture is all about the t-shirt that Breton is wearing. This is Leslie's t-shirt from kindergarten. We found it and she decided Breton should get some good use out of the shirt. I am not sure if Leslie was really small or Breton as a two year old was as big as his mom as a 5 year old.

2008-12-14T20:35:00.002-06:00

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.

2008-12-14T20:23:00.003-06:00

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

2008-12-14T20:21:00.000-06:00

Halloween 2008

2008-12-14T20:15:00.003-06:00

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!!!!

2008-08-03T15:33:00.001-05:00

Carriage Ride through Young Ward

2008-06-26T22:44:00.001-05:00

Bear Lake 1/2 Marathon

2008-06-26T22:32:00.004-05:00

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-24T21:11:00.003-05:00

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

2008-06-24T21:03:00.001-05:00

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

Doritos and Hot Dogs

2008-06-23T23:34:00.002-05:00

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

2008-06-23T23:20:00.003-05:00

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 . . .

2008-06-23T23:01:00.002-05:00

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!

2008-06-23T22:50:00.007-05:00

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

Spring Break

2008-06-07T16:07:00.002-05:00

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!!

2008-03-03T02:40:00.002-06:00

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!!

2008-03-03T02:32:00.002-06:00

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

2008-03-01T19:31:00.001-06:00

Hard Work

2008-03-01T18:46:00.003-06:00

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.

Spaghetti Boy!!

2008-03-01T18:02:00.003-06:00

We let Breton eat spaghetti on his own for the first time. He had a blast as you can tell. He had it everywhere his face, his hair and all over his chair it was fun. Then as you can see in the third picture he decided to drink the rest. They say babies mimic everything they see. So I guess he must have seen Leslie licking her plate or something. ha ha ha.

2008-03-01T17:27:00.002-06:00

Leslie wanted Breton to show that he is very secure with his manlyness. So as you can tell he is wearing his pink and blue shirt. In the second picture his is doing some dancing and we couldn't get the camera switched over to the video mode fast enough but we did get a picture of it.

2008-03-01T17:11:00.002-06:00

These two pictures were taken on the 15th of December at my mom's Law School graduation. The first is a picture of grandpa Ed and Breton hanging out. Grandpa took Breton on a couple of walks and hung out while we were at the graduation reception. The next picture is of my mom with Will Rogers and Soap Suds. It is always nice to see Soap Studs with his butt still pointed toward college station.

2008-02-03T16:25:00.000-06:00

Sorry it has been so long since we have posted anything. We were all sick for almost a month. Breton got the tummy flu a week before Christmas, then leslie got sick Christmas eve night with the tummy bug. I got to skip that but on New Years day I fell victim to strep throat and a bad case at that. It took me two doctors appointments two shots and two rounds of antibiotics to get over it. Leslie also had strep and it lasted for a long time as well. Half way through that process we went to visit my dad in Kansas and he had some new carpet put in his house so we thought Breton was allergic to the glue or something to do with that but it wasn't. He got an ear infection that was so bad his eyes would matter shut because of the infection. He also had 103 degree temp for a couple of days. We were in a pretty sad state of affairs for about a month there. So here is a picture of Breton in the midst of the baggy eyes and all the sickness. The bad thing is that no matter how sick the little turd is he is always smiling.

Breton's Birthday

2007-12-05T23:23:00.000-06:00

I can't believe how lame of a dad and mom we are. We forgot to post some pics of Breton's birthday. Here are three good ones. The first two are of Breton tearing into his birthday cake that or friend Julie made. It was a little gorilla. Breton has a stuffed gorilla that I got him and he likes it so we ran with the whole gorilla thing. The little boy in the first picture is Breton's babysitting buddy. His name is Owen. Breton goes over to Owen's house while I am in class on tuesday wednesday and thursday. We think owen taught him how to walk. The third pictures was at my dad's house. On the swing set that I kinda grew up with. He liked it. Once again sorry we were so lame.

Christmas Time

2007-12-04T02:13:00.000-06:00

This is the three of us putting up the christmas tree. Breton was a huge help kinda. He was great at taking off all of the ornaments that were within his reach. Then he would try and put them back on the tree. He couldn't quite figure out the hole put the limb through the string that would hold it. So then he kinda just started throwing ornaments at the tree which kinda worked. Then he stole our gold beads and tried to take off down the hall with them. He didn't know that as he walked the beads were coming of the spool. I almost forgot Breton had the honor of puttin the angel up on the tree.

Breton and his Girls

2007-12-04T02:07:00.000-06:00

This a picture of both of Breton's girlfriends he likes the older ones. Just kidding this is a picture of Kallie and Addie with Breton. They are from Missouri.

Walking Breton is

2007-12-04T01:36:00.000-06:00

This is for all of you that haven't been able to see Breton trolling for Momma Bears. He is still a little clumsy but he is crazy persistent (stubborn) I am not sure where he gets that from (Leslie). He is growing like a weed. I have to wait for this video to upload so while I am waiting I will tell a story. Breton is straight up the biggest flirt I have every seen. We were eating at Rosa’s last Monday or (celebrating Gma Gina's very last class of law school). There were about 5 high school girls sitting behind us. Breton saw them and went to work. He started staring to get their attention. Once he got it they were eating out of his palm. He was playing peek a boo. Then he would stick his tongue out and smile really big. Those girls were giggling like giddy high schoolers. It was hilarious he continued to do this for about 10 minutes. I wonder where he learned that from. ha ha

Feed Me

2007-10-24T17:01:00.000-05:00

Breton loves trying to feed himself. As you can see he doesn't always hit his mouth. On the second one we were trying to get a picture of his teeth. His first four were the two bottom teeth and the outside ones on the top. His nickname was little vamp. He would smile big and give a hug and it looked like he was going in for the bit. The third, he just started smiling and we could see his teeth so we took the picture. If you click on it you can see his teeth really well.

Am i going to be Paul, Ringo, George or John

2007-10-24T16:52:00.000-05:00

On this one Breton just wanted to show off his cool Beatles t-shirt.

Dad's wrong this is MY chair

2007-10-24T16:44:00.000-05:00

Breton has become a little monkey. He climbs everywhere. This chair just happens to be where Leslie and I always sit. When he got into it he was really proud of himself. He was twisting and turning and really excited. Then I pointed the camera at him and he stopped moving and just started smiling. Now he has decided that this chair is his chair. We are going to have to get him his own chair.

2007-10-24T16:34:00.000-05:00

The first picture of Breton is him is his chile pepper costume. The is a major problem it has no legs and he hated that. So we had to buy him a little elephant costume. He hates the hood on both of them. Whenever we put the hood on him he starts squealing and trying to pull it off. But as usual he really looks cute.

2007-10-24T11:27:00.000-05:00

These pictures were taken in Logan Utah where Leslie ran the marathon. As you can see Breton is just hamming it up in the first picture. That next one is Jacob and Breton playing in Toni's (Leslie's sister) jogging stroller while Payton was hooking a tow rope to it so he could pull them around. We had some pictures from a family we new really well that leslie was imitating in the third photo. The boys weren't very into it. This was one of 5 or 6 the first few were of jacob giving Leslie the evil eye and Breton crying, Payton is like what ever Aunt leslie has the camera out agian.

2007-10-24T11:10:00.000-05:00

This is Leslie and Breton right after Leslie finished running her marathon. She ran it in Logan Utah. It was called the Top of Utah Marathon. It has a 1% grade. Railroad grade is 2%. So if you have a train that has to go over a mountain it goes up and down at around 2%. Basically what I am trying to say is that the downhill isn't really that much of a down hill. Oh but the last 13 miles is up hill. Leslie really enjoyed and will probably run several more marathons.

2007-09-19T16:55:00.000-05:00

This was a vote the the maker of Ecko clothing had to see what to do with Barry Bonds 756 homerun ball. The choice that won the vote was to brand the ball with an astrick and send it to the hall of fame. Proud to say that was the one I voted for.

2007-07-13T18:27:00.000-05:00

This first picture is leslie at the summit of the west spanish peak. It is about 13,500 feet tall or some thing like that. The second picture is the of the west spanish peak were our cabin is at. This third picture is cool though. Leslie, Stuart, Matt and I found this tree as we were having a good hike. If you look close you can see that a bear is what scarred this tree. At the top you can see for individual claw marks which was pretty cool looking, however we were out in the middle of now where so is it was a little nerving to see it.

2007-07-09T22:34:00.000-05:00

We recently went to our cabin. These are some of the fun pictures that we took. The first picture is breton at our tree swing. The second picture is our favorite this was Breton first time to play with and eat spaghetti. He had so much fun. Uncle Stu put all the spaghetti on his head and then Breton started crying and then I pointed the camera at him and he started smiling. He is a total poser for the camera. The third picture is of Uncle Matt and the poser. They have a lot of fun together. They are on the deck of our cabin. The fourth picture is our wonderful cabin. this place is awesome. It is our little slice of heaven.

2007-06-16T17:25:00.000-05:00

Happy father's day to all of our Father's and Grandfathers!!!!!!

I am King!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-06-16T17:05:00.000-05:00

Breton likes to wear hats and these shorts just happen to fit. I tried to take them off of his head and he threw a little tantrum. So I decided that they were his crown. I know you can't really tell but in the second picture he was on top of a whole bunch of clean laundry and we were playing king of the hill. Lately this kid has been cracking us up. When he gets mad at either of us he starts yelling MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA or DADADADADADADADA. For instance i was working on some homework I and I swear under his breath and quickly he said, "pick me up or I am going to tell MAMAMAMAMAMA!!!!!!!" Also I walked in his room one morning to get him and he was holding on the the edge of the crib standing there smiling. Oh and his favorite food is cheerios. If we have to do something for a minute we throw him in his excersaucer and put some cheerios in the little food holder, and goes at them double fisted and starts jamming them into his mouth. It is quite fun to watch.

My Favorite Toy

2007-06-10T03:02:00.000-05:00

I love how kids find so many uses for their toys. He loves to sit in his excersaucer and eat cheerios. But the second you get him out he crawls underneath it. The funny thing he can't get out from underneath of it. So he gets under it plays for a little while and then throws a little fit until you get him out.

Man My Life is Hard

2007-06-10T02:41:00.000-05:00

This kid lives a hard life. We were helping my grandpa screen in his porch and when someone went to get something out of his shed we found this swing. So when he got fussy we put him in it and in about 2 seconds he was out.

2007-05-29T16:15:00.000-05:00

GO STU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Breton wanted to take a picture with his favorite graduating uncle Stu. As you can tell Breton is giving subliminal messages to Stu about going to TECH. Congrats to The Stu!!!!!!!!!

2007-05-22T18:01:00.000-05:00

2007-05-22T17:36:00.000-05:00

Leslie has been getting on to me for the last week and a half to get these pictures up. We wanted to post these for mother's day. And if you are a grandmother to Breton and your Picture is not up here that just means we are working on getting one of you and him and yours will be posted as soon as the picture is taken. So happy belated Mother's Day!!!!

2007-05-09T23:55:00.000-05:00

This is one of my favorite pics. This picture was taken a couple of days after Breton turned six months old. As you can tell Breton loves his mommy as well. I didn't realize a blog could be so fun. We took Breton to the doctor on the 8th of May for his six month check up. He is healthy as a horse but he is not growing as fast as he did in the beginning. At this check up he was 2' 2 1/2" and weighed 16lbs 8oz. He is scooting all over the house now too. I set Breton on the rug in our front room and went back into our bedroom to put up a couple articles of clothing. When I came out he was half way back to the bedroom. He is a persistent little bugger. He just scoots himself all over the place. Oh ya and the most important thing that he has done in the last six months is say "DADA". Yep that is right he loves his dad.

2007-05-09T23:44:00.000-05:00

These are leslie's favorite Pictures. I promised her we only practice this over the bed or the couch. She still doesn't like it though. Breton was actually showing off for a friend and asked me to do this for him and as he was showing off mom showed up and said "let me take a picture." Breton didn't get into to much trouble. This also proves that you shouldn't let your infants watch TV cause Breton got this idea from an episode of scrubs.

2007-05-09T23:30:00.000-05:00

Auntie Olivia went to florida during the last weekend in april. While there she was there she had to buy Breton his first mickey mouse ears. He likes them a lot and they even have his name embroidered on the back.

Studying with Dad

2007-04-25T01:36:00.000-05:00

After this study session with dad Breton can could do taxes better than the guys you can pay!!

2007-04-25T01:30:00.001-05:00

Breton and the Ball

2007-04-25T01:14:00.000-05:00

This picture is very special because the basketball that Breton is next to is the same basketball that I took pictures with when I was six months old. The basketball belongs to Gpa Scott