Lucas' Birthday

Saturday was Lucas' birthday. We had so much fun. It was a Star Wars themed party--the kids were invited to come to Jedi Training. Bryan was in charge of the games and he did a great job. He taught them how to fight with lightsabers--he even made a Darth Vador as you can see in this picture.


They threw water balloons out a window on the second story and tried to hit one of the tie fighters, or Death Star, or General Grevious' face that was drawn below on our driveway.


Then they watched an episode of "The Clone Wars", a new cartoon that is on T.V. once a week. I think everyone had a great time.



We had pizza for lunch, then cupcakes and ice cream. Lucas got some fun new toys to play with from all his friends. Later that night Bryan and I gave him our gift--a razor scooter. What a fun day!

BYU Basketball

At the last home football game they handed out $1 vouchers for the first home basketball game. We thought it would be fun to go and it would be cheap as well! So we went down to Provo last Friday night and had some pizza at the Brick Oven. Well, Bryan and I had pizza, Lucas had garlic bread (he loves the their garlic bread) and root beer because sometimes he still doesn't want to eat pizza with cheese, and Ty had applesauce. We were all happy and full when we went to the game.



As you can see Ty started off being fairly content. Once the band started playing he got a little nervous but was doing great. I told Bryan, "See he is a cougar and not a yewt, my friend in Brazil was wrong!"



Alas, as soon as the game really started Ty couldn't take it. Every time we scored and the crowed cheered he would cry. Sometimes he would try to be brave. He would stick his lips out in a pout and try really hard not to cry but then he would dissolve into tears. Poor Tyger. I still say he's a cougar. He's just a sensitive one. We ended up leaving at the half. We had lots of fun though and Lucas even got to eat his favorite treat, a cougar tail. (For those of you who don't know it's a really long maple bar doughnut, they are so yummy.) By the way, do you like how I'm smiling at my baby crying? It was just so funny how much he hated the crowd.

Halloween

Halloween night was a lot of fun. We went trick or treating with some great friends who have since moved to Wisconsin. Lucas is the Spiderman. It was wonderful to have one more night with LeShel. I miss her already!
Lucas had so much fun being Spiderman. He loves super heroes.
Ty was baby Superman. He didn't go out with us but looked great. We dressed him up for the Ward trunk or treat and everybody thought he was adorable.

Every year Bryan carves as many pumpkins as he can. This year our garden didn't produce as many but I think this might be one of his best carvings ever. It looked even better then this picture shows.

Ty Loves Lucas

I have gotten behind on posting the things that we have done this fall. As I was going through pictures I found this one of Ty looking up at Lucas when we went to the pumpkin patch in October. This made me smile because Ty really does adore Lucas. He gets so excited when he comes home from school. Lucas walks into the room and Ty just smiles. Ty is only six months so I can't wait to see how their relationship grows in the years to come.

My Cute Boys

A few weeks ago we went to the river to take some family picture. These are just a few of Lucas and Ty. One thing I love to say now when I talk about Lucas and Ty is, "The boys". I think it's just because we waited so long to have Ty and it makes me feel so good when I can say "boys" in the plural. I always smile or laugh a little. I know it sounds silly but it's the truth.
Ty is doing great. He is a good baby. He was even fairly good at Disneyland--I think he just learned that he had to sleep while being held because we weren't going back to the hotel for his naps! He is starting to hold things and suck on toys a little bit more. He also started eating rice cereal this week. He's learning and growing so fast. One of my favorite things is when he gives me a hug or kiss. He cuddles up and when I kiss him he kisses me back getting my cheek all wet. It's great!

Lucas is doing well also. He enjoys school and loves to get home and play with Ty and his friends. He is off track right now (year round school) and so he tends to get bored easily. He is such a sociable kid and I always seem to be busy!! I try to take some time out of my day to play with him. He loves to race Mario Kart against me or Bryan and he hates to lose. He is smart and lovable and a wonderful big kid.

Disneyland

We left for California on Sunday the 12th. Lucas had no idea where we were going and so it was fun to get there and surprise him! The first day started out rough though as you can tell from this picture. Lucas was not very happy which I didn't think would be possible at Disneyland. Ty also had a rough day. He cried a lot--I think he wanted his own bed.
But we did have lots of fun on the rides. Here is Bryan on one of the rides in California Adventure. Lucas is sitting by him but is hidden.
We got to go because Bryan was invited to speak at a conference. All we had to pay for was food and Disney passes. It was a great opportunity. Lucas loved to meet Mickey Mouse. His favorite rides were Soarin Over California and Splash Mountain. Bryan and I loved the roller coaster in California Adventure.
At Disney they have something called Jedi Training. There is a platform they have made just for this and they do shows four or five times a day. We had seen it and KNEW that Lucas would never get picked. You show up and hope they choose your child to go up (out of a ton of kids). Bryan was at the conference this day giving his speech and I decided to go by one more time since they were just starting it over again. I started to say a prayer that he would get picked and then knew I couldn't because every parent wanted their child to get picked. Instead I prayed that I would know how to comfort him when he didn't get picked--right then I hear "Kid with the striped shirt and khaki shorts come up.
He got to go through the Jedi Training which is a fun little time where they teach them to use their lightsabers, then Darth Vader and Darth Maul came out. Each of the kids gets to fight one of them and Lucas got to fight Darth Vader. It was so cool. I only wish that Bryan could have been there to see it! This was such a great opportunity for us to go and have a little family vacation. Thanks to Bryan and his great speaking abilities!! He does three or four of these every year and this year we really lucked out on where he was invited. Thanks Bryan!

Garden Corn

Ever since Bryan and I got married he has tried to grow corn in our garden. The corn has grown but we've never been able to eat it. This year, finally, it worked. We got lots of corn and it was so great to have it at dinner. Next year Bryan will plant more and hopefully he's figured out what he did right this year!