Christmas Decor

Today while we were putting our Christmas decorations out, Tanner came across his bag of ornaments that he has made in that past couple of years. Next thing I know he yells....

"Mom!! I found a yummy gingerbread cookie in with the ornaments!!" And next thing I knew he was eating the two year old gingerbread man. Sick...Sick...Sick....the best part?...he LOVED it and wanted to eat the whole thing!!

So now he has one less ornament to put on their little tree. We still have one gingerbread man ornament....we will see if it makes it through the Christmas season!!

Time Out For Women

Last Christmas my Mom presented all the girls in my family with a ticket for a girls weekend to attend Time Out For Women!! She put so much time and effort into coordinating schedules, flights, places to stay, etc.! She even made an individual call to each husband to make sure they were available to watch the kiddos while we all went to St. George and enjoyed a very uplifting, spiritual, fun-fulled weekend! Just what every woman needs...right? We had a blast! We all met up in Las Vegas on Thursday night. Emily, Erin, Melis, and I all jumped in Erin's van and drove up to meet the crew! Melis and I were so excited for our weekend!!!(as if you couldn't tell!!) You should have seen the face that little Brynlee was giving us...she looked like"Oh great, I am going to have to drive 6 hours with these crazies!!!???" Ha! Love it and love her!:)

Cheers to starting our weekend off right!:)

Here we are waiting to get into the kick-off session on Friday night. There were 11 of us total! From the top left: Sanette(SIL), Erin, Melis, MOM, Kelsey, Melinda(SIL)

From the bottom left: Emily, Lindsey(SIL), Rebekah, Me, and Rachel

I am so lucky that all three of my brothers married such amazing and fun girls!! They are the best and the perfect addition to the immediate 7 Brems girls! We love you!!

And we can't forget our other 2 sweet additions...Baby Brynlee and the newest addition...sweet Baby Lydia. She is so tiny and cute! And we were lucky that they were girls too...so it didn't throw off the theme of the weekend:)!

Friday night and Saturday were full of amazing speakers and we were lucky to hear from Hilary Weeks(loved her and want her new Christmas CD bad!), Chieko Okasaki, Kenneth Cope, Emily Watts, Caroline Rasmus, Mary Ellen Edmunds, and many more! It was all so uplifting! Doug did great with the boys....he is such a good Dad! We kind of played tag team because he was out of town all week until Thursday morning, so he came home that morning and I left around noon that same day. Craziness, but it all worked out just fine! Here we are having our lunch break on Saturday afternoon!

I love that there is a Brick Oven in St. George. I haven't had it in years and it was delicious!

After St. George we headed back to Vegas because Mom had tickets for some of us to go to a magic show and some of us to go to Broadway's Lion King! We stopped off at Hard Rock before our shows to celebrate Lindsey's and Melinda's birthday!

And then it was off to our shows! Lion King was AMAZING and I highly recommend it to anyone! My boys would LOVE it too! Here's Kels acting like Scar! Scar was my favorite performer...he sounded just like the movie Scar! So good!!

The next day it was time to head home. It took all day because we got stuck in traffic caused by an accident right outside of Vegas...but we finally made it late Sunday night! I am sure Brynlee was so happy to have her bed and be out of that car, although she was a pretty happy camper the whole way home! What a trooper!

Thanks again Mom for an amazing weekend! I loved every minute of it(minus the no hot dog buns...if you know what I mean:)). LOVE YOU!!

"A spoonful of sugar.....

...helps the OATMEAL go down!!"(of course it is not medicine...they actually all love medicine and always want more!) Yes, that is right...my boys eat oatmeal for breakfast almost every morning(this is not forced, they love it:)) and the instant the brown sugar is pulled out to prepare the oatmeal, they immediately ask for a spoonful. It seriously feels like it is almost as important as their daily vitamins! This all started when my mom watched Tanner and Jake while Doug and I went on a trip a little more than two years ago. Apparently she would give Tanner a little spoonful of sugar in his mouth before his oatmeal and now its like death if they can't get that spoonful in their mouth before actually even consuming their breakfast!!! Of course Jake picked up this habit from Tanner and I am pretty sure Mikey has a close eye on what is going on during the oatmeal making routine. It is just a matter of time before he figures it all out!:) So thank you Mother for starting a breakfast tradition without actually ever knowing it! :) I definitely have three little sweet tooths!!!

Veteran's Day!

We celebrated Veteran's Day by heading to downtown Mesa where we watched the Veteran's Day Parade! It was very patriotic and it was a nice reminder to honor our troops and those that serve our country every day and that have served our country in the past!

The boys are always up for a parade....no matter what the event!!

Tanner booking it to get some candy!!

This is Mikey's preferred spot....on Doug's shoulders. He is soooo happy up there! He just lays on his head and acts like it is so cozy. I guess he just thinks Doug's hair is the perfect pillow!(makes sense because he has a lot of it right now!:))

HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY!

Michael Jon-10 months

This little guy has become quite the little fireball!! He definitely makes sure that no one forgets he is in a room! He is very headstrong and likes to be in the middle of all the action at ALL times! When he is tired all he wants is his bed and he lets you know it!

He loves wrestling with his brothers and still cries when they get to go outside and he can't. He will just bang at the door until he decides it's useless and I distract him. If he even gets an inkling that a door is open he crawls as fast as lightning!

He loves to pretend to talk on the phone. He pretends books are phones, the remote is a phone, and of course loves my cell phone! He likes to say "ELLO?" Too cute!

He is into EVERYTHING all the time! He pulls whatever he can out of the cupboards and likes to sit inside them. He rarely sits still. Let's just say church is pretty useless for Doug or I depending on who's week it is. Sitting in someone's lap is way out of he league! He is starting to take some steps but nothing more than like 5 at a time right now. He is one BUSY BODY!

We sure do love our Mikey boy!

Miss you mom!! See you tomorrow