BYU vs OU

Its here the start of the College football season. My favorite time of year is here. With the Football season here so is the Beynon annual trip to a non-conference BYU game. This year is one of the most anticipated games. BYU vs Oklahoma.
We flew to Dallas where the game was being played. In one of the biggest, newest, staduim in the country. The new Dallas Cowboy Stadium. I couldn't wait. The different thing this year was how we had to get to Dallas. We fly Standby so we have to check flights all the time to see how full it the flights are. I checked the flights and they didn't look good directly there. We had to go with plan B. Which was Salt Lake City to Atlanta to Dallas. Kinda scary. Atlanta is the busiest airport in the world with a plane leaving once every 60 seconds. I wanted to make sure we got there ok so I decided to put us on the 12:50 AM flight to ATL. The problem was 2 hours before the flight some stupid people decided to go to ATL and book up the flight. So Mel, Brayden and I didn't get on. We were the next people to get on if people didn't make the flight. The next flight was at 7:00 AM. I didn't want to drive home and come back in 3 hours and have to be back to get check in. I told Mel that we should go sleep in the truck in the Employee lot. We went out there and slept in the truck for the next 3 hours and check in at 6 am to get on the flight. We made this flight. So did my father and mother. Cort and Jaren not so lucky. They had to fly to Phoenix to Atlanta then sleep overnight there and then on to Dallas. Isn't Standby great!!
Any way we got there Friday night and got to the Hotel. We booked the room through Holiday Inn. Now Melanie new favorite place to stay.(Holiday Inn is a very nice hotel, just so you know). Then went to Dinner at the Outback. Then we went back to the Hotel and Slept and Slept and Slept some more.
Saturday Morning we went to the JFK museum.



Dallas is where he got Assassinated. Me being a history buff, loved every minute!! We went to the 6th floor of the building next to the road where JFK got shot and went through an hour long exhibit on his life and death.






Man it was awesome!! If you guys go to Dallas this is the place to go. Well to be really honest. This is the only thing to do in Dallas besides sports venues and Six Flags. In all seriousness the museum was amazing. I learn a lot.



After this we went straight to the Stadium and hung out there until they opened the doors at 4 pm. This place is huge!!








I can't believe it. You can see this thing from miles away its so big. We get up there and Im in awe. Just so you get this. This Stadium cost 1.3 Billion dollars to build. There are beams in the stadium that are 1/4 mile long. Trust me this thing is BIG!! Our seats were awesome. The Scoreboard was awesome, the GAME was awesome. BYU won 14-13.



I'm still smiling over it. Its still the first game so will see how the rest of the season goes but BYU look really good. Im really sorry about how long this blog was but as you can tell this is our favorite trip so far.

First day of 3rd Grade!

August 24th, 2009 - Brayden's first day of school. He was so excited he woke up at 7:15. He never wakes up by himself, not even on Christmas day!! He then went in and woke up Dad by saying "First day of school, first day of school!" (Like on Nemo). He picked out his outfit, and was excited to see his friends again.
They had a back to school night last week, after we met his teacher Mrs. Stevenson I said to Brayden, "Your teacher seems like a really nice Grandma or Mom! I am excited for you!" He replied and said, "Na ha Mom, she seem nicer!" We all had a good laugh.
He is excited about learning to write in cursive, and to master his times tables.




































Brayden, Kayden and Bryson - ready to scooter to school!

New Skill

For the past 2 years we have been trying to teach Brayden how to tie his shoes. One night my sister Cortnie came over to work on her Iphone and she was talking to Brayden about stuff and found out that he couldn't tie his shoes. For the next two minutes she taught Brayden how to tie his shoes. He got it on like to second time she showed him. I couldn't believe it. How one day he can't do it and the next it just clicks. Thanks Cort!!!! You will be the best teacher ever.

Summer Hair Cut

Mel and I were talking the other night and we had a thought that Brayden might like and we asked him if he would like a Mowhawk hair cut for a week and a Half. He was so excited. While I was on my way home from work that night, Melanie went a head and gave him a mowhawk. As I pulled into the drive way there was Brayden to greet me with the sweet look. When its all spiked up it looks pretty tight!! Here are some pictures

Class Field Trip

Brayden and I went on a field trip yesterday to the Zoo. It was a blast!! You know when you the are chaperon on a field trip you are set into groups. In our group it was just Brayden and I and his little friend Kylee. We got to the Zoo and started off from the back gate and first saw the giraffe and went from there. We saw everything in the zoo on this field trip. We asked Brayden what his favorite part was and he said the monkeys. One thing we found out that he learned was how Peacocks attract their mates. With there feathers with the Eyes on them. The funny thing was he he learn that from Kylee not from the Zoo. It was so funny!! Brayden learns so fast and he remembers everything. The Zoo has change alot sense I was there last. If you havent gone there you should it is pretty nice.

Brayden's Soccer Season '08-'09

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Beynon Family Pictures

Back in January the Beynon Family had their pictures taken by GalleryPhotography.
It was fun, we went up to Muller Park Canyon - and with the snow they turned out just beautiful!


Beynon Family



Beynon Originals



Beynon Kids



Mom & Dad



Dan & Ashly



Alex & Kelli



Jeff, Leslie & Guy



Josh, Mel & Brayden



Jaren & Cortnie

Melanie Needs!

Thanks Jamie and Terryn for the tag...this was interesting.
You go to google and type in your first name needs (melanie needs).
Here are the first 10:

1. Melanie needs to accept that no one is self-sufficient all the time.
2. Melanie need to find a happy medium between being a strong female and being oversealous.
3. Melanie needs to be watched.
4. Melanie needs to add some sparkle and colour back to her wardrobe.
5. Melanie needs for 1st year of baby.
6. Melanie needs Real Estate in North Texas.
7. Melanie needs to hire someone to fis this mess.
8. Melanie needs emotional solitude and privacy.
9. Melanie needs to find a "happy medium between being a strong female and being oversealous in her opinions. (Wow that came up twice!)
10. Melanie needs a BF!

Go check you what google says you need!

Recipe (tagged by Cortnie)

We love this recipe at our house! Great for sunday mornings!

Oven French Toast
¾ loaf of bread cut in 1” slices
8 eggs
1 cup Milk
1 cup ½ & ½
2 teaspoon Vanilla
½ teaspoon Nutmeg
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon malt

Topping:
¾ butter softened
1 1/3 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons corn syrup
1 1/3 cup walnuts – optional

Make topping spread over the top in the morning.
Butter 9x13 baking dish. Fill pan with bread. Blend: eggs, mil, ½ & ½ , vanilla and spices. Pour over bread. Refrigerate over night. Bake 350 for 30 minutes, add topping.
Bake additional 20 minutes.

Birthdays!

Josh and I are another year older. Josh is now 27, and I am 26. We feel like we are tipping the scales now...inching closer to old (30)! My birthday was almost a month ago and it has taken that long to post about it! We had fun, I almost celebrated all week long. Both Josh and my birthdays fell on Sunday this year....kind of a boring day for a birthday. Josh has a crazy work schedule, so my parents took pity on me and invited me over to dinner that night. Thanks Mom and Dad! Later that week for my birthday Josh took me to my favorite resturaunt up in Ogden, Prarie Scooner. I love the atmosphere there! We ate in covered wagons with stuffed aninals outside our wagon. If you can't tell, there is a picture of Josh boxing a bear. Then later that week, my girl friends from Junior High got together at my house. We ate dinner and talked until after midnight... it is fun to catch up with everyone. Here are some picks of my day.





Josh was lucky enough to have his birthday fall on Superbowl Sunday! Brayden wanted to make something for Dad. So there is picture of what he made - it is a BYU treasure box, with pictures on the outsie. He was so excited to give it to Josh, he hid it so Dad had to go on a hunt to find his gift. We had a birthday party and a superbowl party -- lots of food. Every year I fall asleep during the superbowl, it never fails. This year was no exception, but I did wake up for the exciting second half. We weren't rooting for any particular team, we just wanted to be entertained. We thought it was a good game! Josh's family is having a party for him on Tuesday night, so the party continues until then here are some pics from yesterday.

34 and counting

I'm sitting here at my job at IHG and I was thinking. HOLY COW, my parents have been married for thirty four years! That's a long, long time. They got married on Jan 2nd 1974 in the Salt Lake temple for time and all eternity. They started there family only 11 months later with the birth of Kelli. Danny came a year and a half later. Jeff two years after that. Then came the coolest one of them all. Myself. Then they took a break. 5 years later came Cortnie. They have been really good parents to us all. They were always around to help us with any thing. One of the things I have learned from my dad is that you need to have a really good work ethics. No one I have seen works harder then him. Just look at his hands. Tough as nails! My mom has always been home at night to cook for us after she got off a long day at work. Some weird sounding food too. "stuff over toast", "walking tacos". She would do anything for me. Once a teacher at FJH hung up on her cause she was defending me a little and Mrs Hutchetson didn't like that. My parents were really good to me growing up and I can't tell you how much they mean to me. I love you guys!!!