354 Days Later

We're back in business! Obviously too much has happened over the course of the last 354 days to update; it would probably take half that long to get it done.

And here's yet another promise to be slightly more consistent with our updating :).

Here are just a couple of my favorites of Brynne since last Halloween. For some reason in random order...







This last one I really like. She's soooo into the Spartan at school, like won't take her eyes off of him into him. This was at the Easter egg hunt, and in the one we tried to get with her and the bunny she wasn't even looking at the camera because the Spartan was in the room!

Our Little Fish

We'd been trying to sign Brynne up for swim lessons since June, but could never get a session that worked with our schedules. Finally, we found one that worked and that had an opening. I figured she'd do well with the lessons since she's pretty fearless, but she's totally exceeded my expectations! On the second day she and I moved away from "toy time" to work on floating and kicking, and the next thing I know she's trying to work her arms with her feet. This is hopefully a fantastic sign of things to come....

At swim lessons we:

Warm up kicking our feet with the dumbbells


Float on our backs and kick


Try to swim freestyle


Jump in


Get water up our noses!

St. Louis Sports Scene 2

I thought Rams were supposed to be tough?

Watching with Dad from the suite

Gaining more yards than a few of the Rams did

This Sunday we took Brynne to her first NFL game when the Rams played the Vikings on breast cancer awareness day. We got tickets from my ad rep at paper for their suite. Can't turn down free tickets, parking, food and drink even if we could care less about the outcome of the game. It was pretty cool to see Brett Favre, though.

After the game, the Energizer bunny had a 20th birthday party on the field and let some kids down to help him/her celebrate. We never did see the bunny, but picked up some foam bunny ears, got to play on the field and even got on the stadium big screen!

St. Louis Sports Scene

During a typical summer, we'll go to about 8-10 Cardinal games, and having brynne with us this summer wasn't going to make us watch from the couch. Fortunately we had tickets for the indoor/outdoor Bank of America Club all-inclusive area for her first game, on a night that was 90+ degrees with humidity that was off the charts.

She was pretty crabby and hot outside, but when we moved into the AC she had a great time! We even got to visit Fredbird and Cardinal legend Jack Clark during the game. She wasn't too sure about Fredbird at first but then thought he was great!

Has It Been Two Months?

I realized that it had been awhile since the blog got updated, but I didn't realize exactly how long. Two months....that's pathetic!

As you can imagine, a lot has happened at our house over the course of two months. Brynne is now 9 months old, and is getting close to walking. She's been pulling herself up for about a month, shuffles from one end of the couch and/or table to another and is thinking about letting go to take a step on her own.

In the last pictures posted she was wearing 6-month clothes. She psent 2 weeks wearing 9-month before going all in to the 12-month...and those are getting small! We go to the Dr. tomorrow to see how it's all going...

She's also getting to be really fun, and have a funny personality. Some of the things that she thinks are fantastic, like trying to bounce on her mattress until she can vault out of the crib, are something frowned on by us, though!

I'll try to get more pictures from the last month or so posted this week...and try to be much better about updates!

Brynne @ Seven Months

Loves the Exersaucer

Two Teeth

Our 2 Girls

Another Baptism

We'd planned on trying to get Rog and Brynne baptised on the same day, but he had to go through a series of classes in order to get baptised as well as confirmed. He whined for a bit about having to go to 10 one-hour sessions, until I pointed out that the kids that get confirmed in 8th grade have to go for 2-3 years!

Sorry for the poor quality pics, the camera was left at home so these are courtesy of the BlackBerry.

Rog's confirmation class



After baptism