Summer Synopsis and then some

Ah what to say about summer. Busy? Fun? Crazy? Went by to fast? Yes, Yes, Yes and YES! It was a good summer. Katie came during the month of July and part of August. We picked her up in OKC and headed to Tulsa to spend some time at Brancent's aunts house with his mom and family. A few weeks later Brancent and Katie headed to the New Mexico mountains for some camping with Brancent's dad's family. Jacob and I stayed home due to yet another ear infection (as of the end of August he has had 3 ear infections in 4 months). This infection was a little more memorable due to projectile vomit. Let me just say pay attention to the dosage you Dr tells you, don't count and the RX label to be right. Cursed Walgreens. Katie and I went to youth camp the first of August and she did great! It was her first year as a camper and she loved it. Combine that with youth and children programs, office work and house duties...craziness, but I loved every minute of it. Here are my favorite pictures from this summer. Cousin Morgan, Katie, Brancent and Jacob with Nana Beth Baby Einstein in the car on the way to Tulsa Swing powered by PawPaw Tres Ritos, NM mmmmm B-B-Q

Katie has been enjoying 6th grade and is playing the flute in band. She said "I love band! and the flute is easy!" We are super proud of her.

Jacob is a riot. Around the end of May he started saying his first word....juice. We know where his priorities are! He is now saying and signing Daddy when he sees Brancent and will sign mom when I ask. He says momma, but not actually to me. He is so unbelievably stubborn, but I can't blame Brancent for all of it. He is such a busy boy and wants to explore everything which makes for interesting outings. He loves his signing DVDs and squeals and laughs when we put one in then goes into the zone when it is on. The other night we put in a DVD for Brancent and I to watch and when Jacob realized it wasn't one of his he started bawling!

Jacob stories of the month: I got home from work last week and Jacob and Brancent were already eating supper without me. Brancent said Jacob came into the house got his plate off the cabinet, put it on the table, and climbed into his highchair all on his own. He then looked at Brancent like "well, feed me".
Since I work at the Deaf church and we worship there Jacob is at the church/office all the time. He recognizes it as soon as we pull into the parking lot. He has started clapping when he sees the building and when we go in he knows exactly where the animal crackers are kept! The other day when we went to the church to clean he started getting excited and I and said "Yeah we are at church" I turned around to show him the sign for church and saw him signing cracker! Church=Animal Crackers in his mind. We'll work in that later :)

Jacob's new trick

Jacob has turned into a climber. He wants to climb everything and can get onto the dinning room chairs by himself. Monday night I changed his clothes and we were about to leave to meet up with my parents and my second (?) cousin and his wife who were in town. While walking down the hall I heard a splash and found Jacob on top of the dinning table having just dumped my red fruit punch all over him. Apparently he was trying to get a drink and it came out a little fast.
This is the other talent he has developed....Sigh. He really likes the fast cook button.

I am not a theif! Well, technically...

This past weekend Brancent's best friend Jesse and his girlfriend Krystal came to visit for Brancent's birthday. The best part was that Brancent didn't have a clue they were coming. They arrived 1:00 am. Saturday morning so I had told all kinds of lies trying to keep Brancent from going to bed and to, uh, get him to put something on other than his pj/undies. The look on his face was priceless when they walked in! They brought their puppy Diesel with them and he and Jacob were quite pair.


Thanks so much Jesse and Krystal for coming to visit! Maybe next time I'll get some pictures of you too :)

Brancent got a little cardboard boat from his work (I know, random) and Jacob has been testing it out. Like father like son.
Now on to the title of the post. Some of you know our friends Eddie and Socorro Baggerman that live a few blocks from us. Several weeks ago Eddie had a wreck on his motorcycle while travelling on the highway. He has first and third degree burns on his arms and legs due to laying on the hot asphalt, but thanks be to God no broken bones. It could have been a lot worse. We stop by to see him one night last week on our way to the grocery store. Socorro was on her way home so I called and asked if she need anything. She told me of a few things she needed and then added "and some chocolate". Socorro hates chocolate, but will eat it when she is stressed and said that day was a chocolate day and she wanted a Milky Way. We got our groceries and made our way to the front. On the way to the front I began the check out routine: Get diaper bag and purse out to cart, find checkbook, look for a pen, find license, continue to look for pen, entertain Jacob/keep him positioned so he can't reach anything, find pen. I saw a display with a Milky Way close to the front of the store, grabbed it and got in line. We paid for the food, and headed to Socorro's house to drop off her groceries. She asked for her chocolate and at first I thought I hadn't gotten it. We looked through all the bags and it wasn't there. Puzzled we looked again, just for kicks I looked in the diaper bag and there it was. That's when I realize I had absentmindedly dropped it in my diaper bag, therefore-stole it. I found my receipt and checked sure enough I hadn't paid for it. So the next day I went back to pay for the stolen chocolate and here is the receipt to prove it.

I'm not a thief!....anymore :)

Happy Birthday Brancent!

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dearrrrr Brancent
Happy Birthday to you!

I can't believe it has been so long since I have blogged. It will take several post to catch up on all the summer going-ons. But for today just a post to say Happy Birthday to my sweet husband. You are amazing. You the best provider and protector that anyone could ask for. I love you!

Ummm this would be where I put a picture of Brancent and I in....but just realized I don't have one!

Father's Day Pics...Finally

Another quick blog since I should be working not blogging. :)
A quick note that Simon's team won the city championship for machine pitch. Way to go Rangers! We are proud of you Simon!
Without further ado pictures from father's day and Simon's Baseball game.

I turned 30...

Ok so I haven't posted anything yet about turning 30. Mainly because I was not excited about it. My friend Josh Bonjour can take any situation in life and relate it to a Sienfeld episode. I can't do that with Seinfeld, but I can with Friend's. So anytime I thought about turning 30 I felt like Joey in the clip below.

WARNING~this is a Friend's episode so there is a bubbie reference and mild language





However, it has not been "all that bad". So thanks to all of you who sent me birthday wishes!

Marriage Retreat

Not a lot of time to post today due to major wreckage in my office (part me, part Jacob being in the office Friday). I will post Fathers day pics and updates in a few days, but wanted to make a short post about the marriage retreat last weekend. AMAZING. I learned new principles for marriage that I had never heard before despite growing up in church. We used the Andy Stanley series imarriage. I strongly recommend it. The first session was about how we go into marriage with "dreams and desires" of our spouse or how we think things should work and those things get turned into "expectations or demands". When our spouse does not fulfill what has become an expectation we get dissapointed/pissy or when they do there is no gratitude because it what they are "suppose to do". Anywho good stuff. Darrell, Matt Mandy and I made a video to visual show some of the dreams turned into expectations that can happen.
*** Disclaimer-Matt and Mandy are NOT dating nor engaged nor married.
(Mandy looked so pretty in my wedding dress....sigh....insert girl moment.)

Marriage Retreat Video from Darrell Bonjour on Vimeo.