Week-in-Review

This week Bryell went to her first official practice with Jeffrey. He said that she did really good and when I got there to pick her up- Allie was holding her! Although usually Allie and Tiffany can hold her pretty easily, but no one else and others got to also! I was super excited!

Bryell also went to work with me for the first time. I was subbing for Jeff on Friday and our babysitter had a sick family. I didn't have enough time to call in anyone else or to cancel the sub job so she came with me. Luckily, our music teacher had planning so was more then willing to take her during the time I was there. It really helped a lot.

Last night, we played Mountain View. Jeff's JV won by one and the varsity lost by 7. The girls played SOOOO good! It was a really fun game to be at and of course then gym was PACKED! Gotta love the battle of the valley. Even though varsity lost, I know that the coaches were very proud of them!

Craig and Lennie came and visited this weekend. What a great weekend to visit- Jeffrey had two wins! They beat Mountain View by 1 and they beat Kemmerer by 2. They were wonderful games to come watch. Bryell tried being shy at first but immediately opened up and went to Craig and Lennie pretty well. She refused to crawl for them though! She took about two steps and then would fall on her belly and army crawl the rest of the way. Next time!!!

Bryell is getting more and more vocal. She loves to be the loudest one in the room and doesn't always give others the chance to talk :) It is pretty cute!!

9 Month Appointment

Bryell went in on Thursday for her nine month check. Here are her stats:

Height- 27.5 inches
Weight- 16lbs 13oz

They said that her weight is starting to drop but she is still as healthy as can be and developing wonderfully. Yay!

Woo Hoo!!

We can say that Bryell is officially crawling. It isn't the prettiest thing and it isn't many steps- but she is doing it! Her first official crawl steps were on Monday!

Also! She has discovered her toy basket and will now sit next to it and pull every toy out one at a time giving each toy a few minutes of attention. I absolutely love how active she is getting!

Happy 9 Months!

Can you believe it??!! Wow, the time sure has flown by so quickly! Bryell is 9 months today! We have enjoyed every minute of it! She is beginning to hold on to our hands and walk around the house (the kitchen is a bit hard for her since her feet slide all over). Its so cute to see the huge smile on her face as she walks around. She completely gets the crawling thing but can't seem to put it all together. She now moves her hands just fine but when she tries to move her legs, everything else doesn't cooperate and she ends up giving up and going to her belly. She can get everywhere she wants by doing her log roll combined with going from her bum to her hands and knees and reaching out as far as she needs to. She is beginning to roll to her belly and sleep on her belly at night. Its pretty cute.

Bryell is such an amazing little girl who brightens our life each and every day. We love you! Happy 9 months!

Birthday Weekend

This weekend was my birthday weekend and it was so nice to just lay low. On Friday Jeffrey was gone to a basketball game, on Saturday we went out to dinner as a family, on Sunday we went to Evanston and on Monday we stayed at home and watched movies! While at dinner we had Bryell in her carseat. We were looking at her in it and realized that...she was too big for it!! How sad, sad but true. She is growing way too quickly. So our trip to Evanston was actually supposed to be to Salt Lake to buy Bryell a new carseat but when we found what we wanted in Evanston, it made the trip lots shorter! She now officially has a bigger carseat!
Jeffrey bought me a stadium seat and a deep fat fryer for my birthday. I was super excited about the stadium seat! I did have to give him a hard time though since I made it a whole season very pregnant without one and now he decides to get me one :) Although I must admit, with how amazing our community is, when I was pregnant I did not have a game that I did not have a stadium seat because someone was always willing to loan me one. Anyway, I am very happy to have one of my own! The five hours on a hard bleacher really take a toll on my bum!

Unfortunately there is nothing else really new. During basketball season, that tends to be our life!

Christmas Again!

This past weekend my parents came to celebrate Christmas with us. That means that maybe this weekend we can finally get the Christmas tree down! We had an original plan to meet up with my parents in Cheyenne but the roads did not allow for that so they came up this weekend and we got to do Christmas and they got to see one of Jeffrey's basketball games. We hung out pretty much just at home with the exception of heading to the basketball games. Bryell got a little activity table which can entertain her literally for hours at a time! We had fun watching her play with that. he has now discovered that it is light enough and she can push it and pull it (still sitting of course). We took them to the house that we want to buy. (SO FAR we haven't had much action on our house so who knows). Having my parents here made me realize how homesick I am (can it be homesick if technically that isn't my 'home' anymore?). I have only been back about 3 times since June and none of those times was for longer then one night. :( I am glad they drive up here a lot so we still get to see them!

While my parents did not make it to Cheyenne over break, we still went and got to see my brother and Bryell got to meet Kyle and Donna. Kyle and Donna were on their way to the airport so stopped in Cheyenne to go out to breakfast with us. We got to see Kellan, Kip, and Cecil also. Bryell of course would not let anyone hold her for longer then about 30 seconds. It was fun to see Eric also. You would think with us both living in Wyoming now we would see each other a lot more, but our work schedules just don't allow it!

This is my last week for a little while of working Fridays. I am still coming in most Fridays to sub for Jeff, it just won't be for all day. We have asked if Lindsay would take Bryell again next year and are waiting to hear her answer.

Bryell still isn't crawling. She gets on her hands and knees and rocks and will pick up her hand and move it but can't quite get the coordination to crawl. She stands up holding onto things a lot better now. We still have to be around her when she is doing this because she will randomly decide to let go and go flying backwards.

I did not quite make my weekly post but am much closer then I have been!! We are still having IPhoto issues but pictures will come as soon as they are fixed!

Sandlian Christmas

We went to Saratoga to celebrate Christmas with PeeWee, Craig, Lennie, Joel, Annie, Kara, Josh, and all the nieces and nephews. While Jeffrey and I were very overly tired from no sleep (literally) the past few days we managed to still have a wonderful trip. Bryell was up to her new normal ways crying whenever anyone tried to hold her. It is the fakest cry in the world though!

It is always so fun to watch the cousins play. Bryell got in a little on the action. WHile getting attention from all the cousins, her main one was playing with Hailey and getting lots of hugs from her. Its really fun to watch those two play since they are so close in age. Brecken is still determined to teach her to crawl and does so well having patience with her and working with her. The cousins got a lot of smiling and giggling from Bryell. So did Ditka the cat.

On the drive home Bryell did really good- until the last half hour. It was spent crying. But I must admit last night was the best nights sleep we had gotten in a long time. She wasn't up all night in pain which was wonderful. And we even slept in.

Also, her bottom two teeth have officially broken through!

Tomorrow it is back to work. Breaks go by so fast! I am almost on my quarter of Fridays off but will go in and sub for a few hours on most Fridays for Jeffrey still.

We are working on getting our IPhoto working and as soon as we do, I will post pictures!