Things Bryten Learns at School

"Hey is for horsies!! And if you want to be a horse then you've gotta have hay!!"

Wednesday Tunes

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow

An American Songbook

I have some tickets to "An American Songbook" with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Symphony. The tickets are for Saturday, Sept. 20, 7:30pm but you have to be in your seat by 7pm. They are balcony seats. I also know someone who has tickets for Friday night.



Let me know if you would like some tickets.

Regional Stake Conference

We had our Stake Conference this past weekend. It was a regional conference that involved 72 stakes. President Monson spoke along with Elder Ballard and Elder Hinckley. I attended the Saturday Leadership training, I was late so I only heard Elder Ballard and Pres. Monson talk. I almost didn't go, who wants to spend two hours of their Saturday morning in a church meeting? I'm glad that I went, it was both inspirational and motivational. So if you were downtown Saturday morning and saw loads of men dressed up, you now know why. On Sunday we decided that the kids would not sit very still for two hours of watching them talk on a big screen in our chapel so we decided to go late and catch Pres. Monson. It's hard to pay attention with kids, I think between the two of us we probably heard the whole talk. It was better once Cody fell asleep.

President Monson shared this with us,

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and found that life was duty.
I acted and beheld duty was joy.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Jonas

We had Jonas's blessing this past week. If you didn't get an invitation, it's because we didn't send any out so don't feel bad. We spent our spare hours last weekend cleaning the house and getting ready to have everyone over. Our house was the cleanest it's been for some time. Then everyone came over and it's a mess again. With kids the house is a mess before you finish cleaning, they just go right behind undoing everything we do. It's a never ending vicious cycle.

Jonas was good all day. He took a nap in the middle of his party but he was awake and happy for all his guest.

Thanks to everyone who did come!

Wednesday Tunes

Utah Man


I am a Utah man, sir and I live across the green.
Our gang it is the jolliest that you have ever seen.
Our coeds are the fairest and each one's a shining star.
Our yell, you hear it ringing through the mountains near and far.

Chorus:
Who am I, sir, a Utah man am I:
A Utah man, sir, and will be till I die: Ki! Ki!
We're up to snuff: we never bluff.
We're game for any fuss.
No other gang of college men dare meet us in the muss.
So fill your lungs and sing it out shout it to the sky.
We'll fight for dear old crimson for.....

Chorus:

And when we prom the avenue, all lined up in a row.
And arm in arm and step in time as down the street we go.
No matter if a freshman green, or in a senior's gown,
The people all admit we are the warmest gang in town.

Chorus:

We may not live forever on this jolly good old sphere,
But while we do we'll live a life of merriment and cheer.
And when our college days are o'er and night is drawing nigh,
With parting breath we'll sing that song:

A Utah Man am I!

Mini Drill

My sista is the drill coach at Brighton High School and they put on a mini drill clinic that little b and her cousin's danced in. Bryten thought it was the greatest thing ever she was dancing at Brighton. All the girls were so excited, the two nights before, on the way to and back from practice they were so HYPER!! I think they drove T and marcee crazy, laughing and singing silly made up songs, yelling and screaming. They were all so excited to dance on a "football field".



Cody and Gaven love to watch football on tv and we tackle all the time. They were pretty involved with the game for the first ten or so minutes then they were done. That was until the bengal walked by. Cody couldn't keep his eyes of the bengal and just about feel off the bench a few times.

He kinda looks scared in the picture but when we were there he looked more like he was sizing up the bengal and was thinking, "I'm tuff and I just might take you out, don't mess with ME bengal!"

Penny Pinching Parent

I know that most of you are young parents that read my blog. I found this site and thought that I would share it with you all! The Penny Pinching Parent. I haven't really checked into to much but it looks like they find some pretty good deals. We need all the deals we can get.

I have lots of things I need to blog, just need some time and I need to start taking more pictures!

Hope you all are having a great weekend! The weather is really nice.

T's Tumbling

T started a tumbling class today. She is using a local business, Centro Unico to hold the class. If anyone is interested it is every Wednesday from 3 to 6. T's Tumbling in Rose Park is really cost friendly, so if you live close by and you have children who would like to learn basic gymnastics, it would definitely be worth your time to try it out.

Centro Unico
910 West 1000 North
Salt Lake City, Utah

At Home

You know there's not much on tv during the day. Left work early yesterday because of stomach issues that have continued today. Spent most of the morning watching the history channel, not sure why they did show on "Life After People"? Like it matters! We're not here! Most of their graphics are pretty cool, but some of them, it's like they didn't know what to do. They are showing things, bridges, cars, roads, dams and such breaking and deteriorating. They start of all cool, then they just don't know where to go from there and so they ruin the whole thing.

Summer might be over but we are still busy. This upcoming weekend is going to be crazy. Seems like we should have shared some of this weekends activities with last weekend. We didn't do much for Labor day weekend, mostly just hung out around the house. I watched our kids and Haeli's on Saturday morning, Gavin and Cody are no longer allowed to play together, or at least they shouldn't be. They destroyed our house, dumped food everywhere, went room to room causing havoc, pestered their sisters who were playing really good and leaving me alone. Finally I had to send them to Jeremy's where they continued on their destruction spree. Jeremy finally put them down for a nap where they continued there damage, they dumped baby powder and baby lotion all over the floor. I hope this is just a stage that they grow out of SOON!

As for this weekend, the big thing is we are having Jonas's blessing. Meaning that we have to super clean the house, the yard and everything else that goes along with that. I'm going to the U game Saturday night, my dad needs my help fixing his fence, the Greek Festival is this weekend along with the
Greater Avenues Street Fair and the Utah State Fair starts.

There's not a shortage of events to keep you busy this weekend.

Wednesday Tunes

Bens Fold - Rockin' the Suburbs

All alone in my white boy pain!

Photography in the Parks

Canon is sponsoring a photo contest. The pictures have to be taken of a National Park. The contest started in April, I'm a little slow in finding out about it and it ends at the end of this month. So hopefully you were planning on visiting a park in the next couple of weeks or maybe you have a picture on hand that you previously have taken. First, second and third place win some sweet digital cameras. They also have photo tips on how to take better pictures, so if you don't think you are good enough to enter check out the site to learn some tips on how to take better pictures.