Thanksgiving 2011

This year for Thanksgiving we went to Missouri to spend the week with Isaac's sister, Meredith, her family, his parents, and his sister, Rachel. We had so much fun hanging out, eating lots of good food, shopping, playing, etc! We really had a wonderful time. Meredith was really good about helping me get some runs in as well so I didn't fall behind with my race coming up this Saturday. I actually woke up at 5 am to run in the bitter cold on my vacation...now that's dedication! The boys had a blast playing with their cousins all week and seeing their grandma and grandpa and aunts and uncle.


Bryson with his cousin Bailey. We laughed so hard at them in this picture because it looks like a prom pose or something!


Bryson with his cousin Parker


Bryson with Grandpa Byers


Boys with Grandma Byers


Jaiton with cousin Bailey and Aunt Rachel





Isaac and me with his sister Rachel and Meredith and her husbnad Andrew


Isaac with his sisters


Me and two great sister-in-laws! we had a blast together :)

Coming back from Missouri, we actually stopped and fit in a couple of days in Childress for even more family fun since my brother, Nephi, and his family surprised everyone and showed up for Thanksgiving so my entire family was there! Here are some pics of the boys with their cousins just having fun like always.












My niece, Kawyen, just recently turned 10 and is becoming quite the fashionista! Her mom told me she gets dressed and asks if she looks like me. I was super flattered by this because she's such an amazing girl. Of course we had to get a picture together! I think we do look alike :)

Halloween & Random

We didn't get to go to Childress this year for Halloween (and Bryson reminded me multiple times how sad he was about that) but we still had a lot of fun spending it here with friends. I thought i was going to be ambitious this year and actually have the whole family dress up in a matching theme..ya, that didn't happen! I couldn't convince Bryson to go along with anything so we ended up with a ninja turtle, a little monster, and Isaac and I didn't dress up at all..I know, lame.




We went to the trunk-or-treat at our church Saturday night and the boys enjoyed seeing all their friends, getting candy, and giving it out too.







Some of our good friends invited us over Halloween night to eat, hang out, trick-or-treat, and pass out candy. It was a blast!




Before halloween we watched some of our friends' kids while they went out on dates and the kids decided to put on a concert on the fireplace. It was hilarious! Notice Bryson's intensity and concentration playing that guitar...

Trips and Crazy Boys!

Last month we had the amazing opportunity to go to St. George, UT to see my little brother, Nephi, be sealed to his wife, Lindsy, and their two adorable boys, Owen and Kyron in the St. George temple and to also be there for Kyron's baby blessing. The sealing, reception, and baby blessing were all amazing and we just enjoyed every minute of the trip spending time with family, eating way too much good food, and just having fun! Uncle Talo, Aunt Donna, and three of their kids were also able to join us as well as our cousin, Owen, who had just moved to Utah, from Samoa, about 3 weeks before. He did some Samoan cultural dances for everyone and taught the little boys the "haka" which they all loved! I was actually really horrible at taking pictures this trip so here are just random ones I got.


Cousin Time! These boys were inseparable the whole time!



We rented a beautiful vacation home there and one of the favorite things for the kids was the big backyard and all the fun outside toys to play with. These boys stayed outside forever!



That is what we spent most of our time doing-just lounging, visiting, and stuffing our faces with delicious food! Our family is good at that! :)



My cousin, Owen, giving a Samoan congratulatory speech to my brother and his family and then him and my nephews doing the haka. They were awesome!

We really enjoyed our trip to St. George and were so glad we could be there for Nephi and Lindsy and their family. After St. George, we took a weekend trip to Childress for Labor Day and had a blast there as well! The kids just played like crazy and really enjoyed getting to go play and ride horses out at Mandi's parents' place.







We were in Childress for BYU's first game of the season and enjoyed the victory! Go Cougars!

Unfortunately, the following 2 games were not so good! Isaac and I went to the BYU vs UT game in Austin with friends. It was awesome except for losing and all the college kids flipping us the bird, yelling FU, and mormons suck! Super impressed with the high-class of those UT students...wow. I have to say, I had to suppress my urge to punch some faces and snap some necks! Yes, I'm a nice person..just have little tolerance for annoyingly rude people especially when I'm angry over sports! Sorry for scaring you Jen! I went with my friend, Jen, and I think I scared her a little because she's never experienced that mean side of me. Those of you who know me well understand what losing in sports competitions does to me!:) That being said...we won't even talk about the Utah game. Moving on.

Some random pics of my boys lately-









The pic of the boys with blankets tied around their necks is them playing superheroes. Yes, I'm too cheap to buy them real costumes but who needs them when you have baby blankets!:)