BYU vs Washington Huskies

Last weekend my whole family went to Seattle to watch BYU play Washington. Its my family's annual trip to go see a BYU game away. We have been to Stanford (2004), Noter Dame (2005), Boston College (2006), UCLA (2007), now Washington 2008. Its been so much fun to go to these games. This year was extra fun because this year they won. Every other year they have lost. It was a nice change!!! BYU didn't play there best game by no means but they did come out with a win, by blocking the Tying Field goal. Brayden had a blast!! Mel a Ute fan put on a good face and actully had fun. As you can see on her face in the Picture!!! GO COUGARS!!!!!

RISE AND SHOUT

On Saturday Mel and I went to the BYU game against Northern Iowa. It was a blast!!! It started with me working at Delta Airlines. After work I went to the Train station to pick up Mel and Jaren (My little sisters husband). When we got down there we went to the BYUBookstore. I love that place. If I had a Million dollars I would spend a lot of money in there. After that we went to Subway had lunch and then went to the game with Five minutes to kickoff. The game was really fun cause they won. A little scary in the 3rd quarter cause the game got close. I wasn't to scared cause there is no way they would lose to Northern Iowa. Anyway GO COUGARS.

Brayden's 7th Birthday Party!

Brayden wanted a swimming party, so thanks to Dan & Cindy (Jaren's parents) we had a swimmin party over at their house. Brayden's bithday was on August 1st. Seven years old! Brayden invited his friends over for a party in the afternoon, and we did a family party in the evening. It was so relaxing and way fun! We swam in the pool, ate dinner and celebrated! It was a blast. Here are some pictures. Brayden is becoming a great swimmer. He loved watching Michael Phelps swim. Brayden watched Phelps do the butterfly, and the next day he was doing the butterfly stroke. He loves to swim! Brayden is already talking about his next birthday party. Thanks again Dan & Cindy for being so gracious with you pool.

First day of 2nd Grade! Yup - 2nd!

Here is Brayden on his first day of 2nd grade. He was very excited. Mostly for his Z-strap shoes and his over the shoulder strap backpack. I think he wore that backpack most of the afternoon on Sunday.
Here he is showing his favorite shirt, with the guitars.













What a cute boy! He made sure I understood that I only get kisses at home. I can hug him at school and say 'I love you,' but NO KISSES on the school ground.











Waving good bye!








Here we are in Mrs. Hager's classroom. Brayden came home from school on the first day and said, "Mom, Mrs. Hager is sooo nice."
On the second day of school I asked him what his favorite thing that day was, he said, "Recess causeI played 'Robot Monkeys,' with Janessa - and Mrs. Hager," I asked him "Why Mrs. Hager?" "Oh, mom she is so nice, she always talks in a nice voice, and I didn't bring anything for show and tell today, so I showed my new shoes, and she said they are fancy, and they look comfortable." He just thinks she is the nicest teacher.

I didn't notice that it made such a huge difference when they like their teacher!
So, needless to say, so far Brayden loves school this year!

Working with Grandpa

This last week Brayden and I flew down to Tucson to work with my fa Braden and I flew down to Tucson to work with my Father. My dad is building a Quiznos down there and so I thought I would fly Brayden down with me. He had a blast!!! As you can see in all the pictures he was hard at work. Grandpa always had something for him to do. If it was building shelving with me to vaccuming out the Freezer and Cooler. Grandpa rewarded him with a good time swimming, at his sisters house. We had to bribe him with a ice cream to swim in the deep end. All in all he had a good time and he'll want to do it again soon.

BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT

My wife wanted me to add somthing about our date on the 24th of July. Here it goes. Like she said we saw Mamma Mia. Which was pretty funny and good. My Dad also loves ABBA so I like the music too. I'm not going to talk about that movie. Im going to talk about the Darkest Movie I have seen in YEARS!!! Batman The Dark Knight. I thought it was awesome. Heath Ledger is probably the best Joker I have seen. Better then Jack Nicholas. If I had a vote who would get Best Actor he would get my vote. He was so real in his protral of the Joker. Just the way he played him as a Physco. I'll also get this DVD when it comes out. GO SEE IT!!!!

Movie Date

Last night Josh and I spent the night at the movies. It was fun! Since Brayden is with Jason for the weekend we went out instead of celebrating the 24th with fireworks. We went and saw 2 movies...Batman The Dark Knight, and MAMA MIA!
I thought Batman was awesome,Heath Ledger is amazing in it. Then about 30 minutes from the end...I was wishing it was over. This film definitely should have been rated R (just my opinion of course). Then we went to MAMA MIA!




I bet you can guess how I felt about it. It was so hard to control myself and not just jump up and start dancing with Meryl Streep. Such a cute show! It reminded me of my childhood :) My parents had all the ABBA music on 8 tracks (I think that is what they were called). And when I was little I had a best friend who lived across the street from us, her name was Blythe. We would spend hours each week dancing in the living room to ABBA. It would also be a blast to go to with the girls (you know who you are)...I just wish we could rent out a theatre so we could sing along and dance! I can't wait for it to come out on DVD...and don't worry, when it does I am sponsoring a MAMA MIA night over at my house!

The Trampoline

It started back in May....Brayden's first grade teacher did the card pulling discipline system. Everyday Brayden would come home with at least 1 card pulled (which is a warning - no big deal) but I didn't want him to be the ONLY one each day with his card pulled. You see Brayden loves to talk with his friends, and sometimes forgets about the listening part! So, we made a deal back around May 5th, that if Brayden could go thru the rest of the school year without any cards pulled we would get him a trampoline for the summer. (I know about 20 school days was definately pushing it). We talked it up, about how much fun it would be, all summer he could do the sprinkler under it and we could have sleepovers out there, etc...(Can you tell that me and Josh really wanted one too?) Well, Brayden made it 12 days -- with not even a warning! Yahoo! But then of course the next day he got a warning :( He came home and didn't want to tell us, he felt bad.

So for a few days we played it like he wasn't going to get one, and that was too bad for him kinda thing... then we decided to work out a deal. I absolutely dispise weeding our strawberry patch, there really are more weeds than strawberries it seems. So, after school got out we let Brayden know that if he was willing to do his chores that we give him, and in addition he would be incharge of the weeds in he strawberry patch -- we would get him a trampoline. (This is also in trade for his allowance). He was all for it and so were we!

We started looking for trampoline's during the first week of summer, and everywhere we went - sold out for 2-4 weeks. We could go online...and pay enormous amounts on shipping. So we were mentioning this to all our family members, and sweet Aunt Cortnie mentioned that she had a trampoline from when she was in junior high that was in storage that she would give to Brayden. Sweet!! So we attempted to dig it out of storage, and Josh brought it home. Then Josh went out of town, and Brayden and I started setting it up. Brayden was extatic! We couldn't finish, because we didn't find the springs...anyway long story short, Josh came home and finished setting it up. Here are pictures of cute Brayden, first scrubbing and getting it clean, then the boy enjoying his tramp the first night in his jammies. Thanks again Cortnie - we owe you!

Playing Catch Up!

Has it really been over a month since I last posted something!?! WOW! This summer has flown by...so over the next week I will attempt to catch all of you up. I would like to say I will post each day, but I won't cause that is impossible for my busy life. I will try hard though! The first part of the summer all we have done is play, play, play! (Good thing that is what summer is for huh?) We have had lots of fun! Now the second part should slow down and I can breathe. So, to start here are a few of my favorite pictures so far.



Family picture at Cortnie's Wedding - 6/12/08



Brayden having a blast in the backyard -- what a cute face!? :)



Hanging at Lagoon, part of the Brant family reunion this year.



My cute neice Sadie and I.



Josh & I celebrating 3 years of marriage!
This picture was taken at Snowbird.

Cortnie's Wedding

June 12th 2008!
Congratulations!
We love you!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

My sweet husband had time to post pictures of our - oh, so cute house - but the pictures were taken in the dead of winter! Love you babe - but did you have to choose that one?
So here are some cute colorful pictures of our house!

My First Post

So my wife has had this blog for sometime now and I have never added anything. Crazy I know. I just decided at 12:30 in the morning to add one. So here it goes. As you probably know I work at Delta Airlines and been doing that for 3 years now and I still think its one of the best jobs I have had. Plus the Flying benifets are awesome!!!! Our last trip Mel and I went to Phenoix Az and just decided to go two days before we left, to go to Pheonix. Thats one of the reasons why I like it.
In January we bought a truck. 2007 Chevy Colorado and its the bomb. I can't belive my wife let me get a new truck. She the BEST!!!! So if you see a maroon truck with the Licence plate BYUFREK. Thats me. HONK!!!
Thats all that I have I hope you like our blog. My wife loves doing it. Oh and here are a few pictures of my truck and me at work underneath a 757 loading some bags to JFK , not my best stack job either so get off my back. oh and I read in a comment that someone has never see our house and I'll put one on for ya.

Miracles Never Cease!

This year as a family we decided to get Lagoon passes. Going has been lots of fun, and for Josh and I it has brought back lots of memories of the good ol' days when we worked there - Josh is known for his Games Employee of the YEAR award! I was a merchandise supervisor ... I know suprising that we didn't hook up after hours. Okay - so Saturday night we ventured to Lagoon. I was feeling extra brave and adventurous so I decided to follow my husband onto the white rollercoaster - and convinced Brayden it was a fun ride that he should try. (Keep in mind, I have never been on the rickedy old thing...25 years old and still trying new rides- New to ME!) Aunt Kelli came with, as Brayden's ride partner. Here is a picture of myself and Brayden in line to go.
I think we absolutely terrified Brayden going down that first hill I could here him doing the cry scream...and I couldn't scream because my stomach was in my throat, but by the time we got to the smaller hills I put my hands up! I thought it was fun, and will ride again...but as we were walking out of the ride Brayden said, "I like going up the hills, but I hate the going down part."

Heather's Shower!

Kerstin threw a baby shower for Heather on Monday, here are some pictures. Heather, as always looked so cute! It was fun to get together and catch up. I am so grateful for such amazing friends!

Cute Pics!

You can't tell but Keesha has just enjoyed a bowl of milk. Here she is with her cute milk beard!

Brayden on his last day of first grade!
They could wear hats and he was super excited!

So, school is over and at the Beynon house we are so excited!

Funny how having a child in school can bring back sooo many, many memories!

Brayden just finished the soccer season, and now we are on to t-ball.

Here are some pictures of our sports boy!

I am having a Lia Sophia Jewelry party at my house on Saturday 4/19! I am excited....you probably all got invites in the mail, or through email. So, if you are coming YEA! We will be having lots of fun and yummy food for us to snack on. Melissa (my Lia Sopia consultant) is super nice and fun to be around, but if you can't make it, you can click the link below and still get the jewelry you want. Hope to see you Saturday - if you need driving directions, just call! Otherwise, see below:

1) Simply visit my website at:http://www.liasophia.com/melissaeckstein

2) Click on the "Hostess Connection" link.

3) Enter your exclusive Hostess password in the space provided and click ENTER.YOUR HOSTESS PASSWORD is: L5XUMPlease complete your Wish List and Guest List as soon as possible.Have fun and I'll talk to you soon!Sincerely, MELISSA ECKSTEIN Your lia sophia Advisor BUZZIN4JEWELRY@YAHOO.COM (801) 544-5076 (801) 682-9223 http://www.liasophia.com/melissaeckstein

Bathroom Remodel!

We decided it was time for us to tackle doing our bathroom.
I had in my mind we could knock it out over a weekend...when I told Josh that he looked at me like I was crazy. So we worked like dogs trying to get it done! It took 3 days of work, and then 1 day of shopping. It was fun, but towards the end we just wanted it done! And the closer we got to being done, the more things weren't going our way. On the last day we went to Home Depot 9 times with in 10 hours! That is a record for us! We ended up re-tiling the shower area and the floor, remounting the toilet, painting the walls, Framed the mirror, then new towels, rugs, and shower curtain. Here are some pics:

Before...

After....