Moving and a shaking

Always moving and shaking. Here are some fun pictures from the last couple of weeks. I was camera happy.

I got my hairs cut. Do you like? I like every 3rd day. This was a day I liked.

Here is Leeny looking cute in the morning.


I went on a search for a table and chair that she could use for herself. She is getting too big for high chair...she's a big girl now!

Here she is sooooo cute with her piggy tails!!! She normally only let me get one tail in but this morning she just sat there playing with a toy so she got to look very cute.

These green things were from a presentation that I had to do at school that morning, so I put them on here when I got home. She left it on her head for awhile. She was adorable.

Daddy and O'lena reading a book, getting ready for bed.

So where got to church this morning and O'lena had fallen asleep in the car and Derick tried to get her out, this is what she did. Yes, she was fast asleep.

So I have been looking for toddler toys for her. She is getting older and bigger that she needs more things to do. I have been looking for a Cozy Coup, those are the Flenstone looking cars, but havent been able to find one on Craiglist. I did try my hand at garage sale shopping yesterday and found these! I felt proud.... all for under $20!

Derick harvested his garden and filled out box. Everything looks amazing. I cant wait to eat it. There is collards, lettuce, and carrots.


We went and ate dinner with our friends on Friday. It was past O'leeny's bed time so we broke out the big stroller and had her lay down in it. It took a few minutes, but she past out and sleep most of the time through dinner. It was great to see our friends too. It really hit me how much we all have changed. We are all married (or almost married) and got kids...man how do things change!
Well thats about it. She is doing well since being sick and we are doing good too. I decided to participate in lent this year, which is a Methodist thing. It is giving me a chance to force myself to live more Mormon. Is that an oxymoron? I have given up coffee, tea, alcohol, and TV (which has nothing to do with the word of wisdom, but i just wanted to.) Yes, I know the true purpose of the seasona nd I am trying to use my time that I was watching TV to spend time with my family and God. I was doing well with living the LDS lifestyle, but have been somewhat lacking recently, this is my push to get back on track. Hopefully I will keep it up after Easter, except for the TV part. Well I am allowing myself to watch TV on Sundays because there is a deaf guy on Amazing Race and Marlee Matlin is on Celebrity Apprentice. Derick says he is giving up being nice. I hope he is joking.

O'lena ear drama

Yes, I know with tubes you still can get ear infections, but come on!! It has only been three weeks!!! We took her to the Dr today becuase she has a pretty good cough and it is keeping her up at night...oh yeah thats not fun either, because she gets mad and doesn't want to go back to sleep so she throws a tantrum for a couple of hours...yeah...so the doc says she has some eye junk, some nose junk, some ear junk, and some lung junk. The poor girl is just junky! She is back to being crabby too. I was really enjoying the happy and fun O'lena but oh well. So ear infection in the right ear, but now because of the tube it drains out, it is like snot coming out of her ear. Pretty gross. Back on antibiotics, but refused to have the kind that tears up her butt so we are trying just ammoxisilian (sp) again. We will see what happens. We may have to get a bit radical and start trying the herbs and stuff.

So did you know that i have a couple of brothers? Just a few, Derick has more..no wait we have the same about, he has more sisters....anyways...the baby turned 16 and the oldest one turned 18 this past weekend!!!!! Can you believe it! I cant...i got two graduating from high school here in June too!!!! awwwwwwwww

Other exciting news too...we have a new Bryant! Wesley (Derick's brother) just had his first baby girl Ava. We are so excited for him. This is grandbaby 13 for grandma and grandpa Bryant. Very cool.

Fun pictures....

Oleeny and daddy taking a bath. This is their favorite trick!
Yay O'lena!

Jim helping with the painting! Thanks Jim. I didn't get a pic with Kevyn, but he helped out a lot too! Thanks Kevyn!

Daddy and O'lena at India Fest. We had a nice time with our friends Rob and Kristin and their new baby Beck.
Here is new mommy Kristin with cute baby Beck! Too stinking cute!

Florida home

Before
After

No matter which way you look at it, our house now looks like an official Florida home! One story, pastel colors. It wasn't intended to be that way, it just ended up that way. Derick was awesome and painted it in four days, with some help from me, our friend Jim, and brother Kevyn (i did all the red! and the mail box) It does make me happy to look at though. I have caught myself going a round the circle a couple of time just to look at it. It think it is a huge improvement too. We still have a lot of work left, including the yard, but maybe we will finish the bathroom first.... na yard first...na bathroom...na yard