STRAIGHT TO THE TUB!

As I was watching the final results of American Idol the other day, I had to keep Brystal busy so we could finish it. So I gave her a little teething bisket and fed her some peas, and let her eat some graham crackers to keep her happy. She loves crackers! And she makes a huge mess doing it. She seems to not really care though.

Sophie patiently waits on the sidelines for a dropped crumb.

She was getting pretty sleepy at the end, it was past her bedtime. She was falling asleep in a pile of cracker crumbs. Here is a little video clip of her eating. She has been doing this new "smacking" thing. She not only does this when she is eating, but just for no reason. She'll just start smacking her lips out of the blue. And if you do it back to her she thinks it's funny and does it again.

TIME FOR THE GREEN STUFF.

I almost forgot. Brystal is now eating her vegetables. This is her first time eating green peas. I was hoping we'd get a good reaction from her, but nope, she just ate it like it was nothing. Just like her dad. So sorry if it's a boring video, but of course, it is an exciting time of life for little Brystal. She has also been eating crackers and those baby biskets. Note to self, don't give your baby one of those biskets unless you are headed strait to the bath afterward. I'll get pictures of that another time.

ANNIVERSARY DATE

Well since Nate was gone on our actual anniversary we spent the weekend together. First we went out to Breakfast to the Cracker Barrel. Thanks to Brystal it wasn't the best time I've ever had out to eat. So then we went down to the Museum industry in Houston and I decided I wanted to go to the Health Museum. Well, it was a little disappointing since there wasn't too much there to look at. But we looked around inside the human body, and got to see a cow's eyeball dissected. So here is Nate and Brystal standing at the entrance into the Human body.

Here is Brystal and I inside of the mouth. If you can't tell we are sitting on teeth.

After a long day at the museum we walked around the beautiful park across the street with pretty lakes and trails, and took a little resting break and watched the people walk by. Brystal took a little snooze. Then we had dinner at a wedding reception. Pretty glamorous huh? Ya we're cheap ok. Don't judge us.

FUNNY SLEEPER

I always go into Brystal's room and check her before I go to bed and I always find her in funny positions. Here is one that I caught on camera.

MAY 1ST 2003

5 years ago today we were married in the Bountiful Utah Temple. I can't even believe it has been this long. We have been through so much together. I feel like I am more in love with Nathan now than I was 5 years ago. Now if someone would have told me that back then I would have thought they were lying, but it is true. My love grows more and more everyday. We have had quite a journey together, and I wouldn't have wanted to do it with anyone else but him. I have the song Come What May, on here it was sung at our reception by my cousins, and I love it. And the song At the beginning was on our wedding video. They are special songs to me.

Let's just get a recap on how we met... We met at Utah State University in our singles ward. We actually met at our first Family Home Evening, where we played the typical Elbow Tag. I asked Nate what brought him from Texas to here, and his response? "To meet girls named Kacie". Now of course this is totally cheesy now, but at the time, I was a giddy little freshman girl who didn't know any better because for all I cared, a returned missionary was actually flirting with me, a huge step from my high school peers. From then on, we just kept running into eachother, and I had a huge crush on him. Then he finally told me he liked me and we were never separated (except for Christmas break when he went back home to Texas). And it has been bliss ever since. This is just a short version of how we met by the way, I don't have time for the long version.

The Blushing Bride.































Doesn't get much hotter than this, does it? Hubba hubba!

























So young and naive. We didn't know anything back then. Only that we were in love.















Here I was getting the cake ready to shove in his face when he strangely asked for a bigger piece and opened up his mouth really wide...ok then, I said....

That's what you get!

My Hero.

WE'VE BEEN IN UTAH AGAIN

Sorry about the blog lately, I know, this isn't like me. Well first of all nothing was really happening, and then we went to Utah for Nate's brother's wedding. I went up a week early to play with my family. We had so much fun, and we already miss everyone. Brystal got to play with her Gramma Wood a lot, and had so much fun.

She also learned to suck her toes while we were there. Congratulations Brystal, you are moving up in the world.

THE WEDDING

We got to go to Nate's brother's wedding while we were in Utah, they were married in the Jordan River Temple. Nathan's parents were able to come home from their mission for the wedding, so it was a very special occasion. The best part of all was that ALL of the Bennett's, 8 kids and their spouses plus their parents, were all able to be in the temple together to complete the family. It was a pretty amazing experience to be able to see that all of our family was all worthy and able to come and be in the temple together. What a special day.

It was a chilly day, and we did our best to stay warm, and still be cute. But how could Brystal NOT be cute?

It is always fun to go to weddings and remember the day we got married. Our anniversary is coming up, so it was especially fun to remember our day. We were the last of the Bennett's to get married before Michael.

Do we have a future Sister Bennett in the making here?

THE RECEPTION

The reception was great, it was really a party! Brystal had loads of fun!

She danced with her daddy...

Played with her cousins....(this is Caroline)

Danced with Daddy some more....

Tuckered out. It was a long day.

DANKE SCHOEN!

Well it was good to see everyone, and thank you to Oma and Opa for coming out to see us. We had such a great time with you. Now they are back in Germany to finish their mission. We miss you guys, and are glad we got to see you. But we will see you soon in a few more months!

WALKING WITH SOPHIE

Well not much is going on these days, which is why I haven't posted for awhile, so I thought I would just put up this funny video of us on a walk with Sophie. This isn't even a good representation of what really happens, but whenever we go for a walk, we like to go along the creek so there is no where really for Sophie to get run over by a car and rarely any people to run into, so we let her off her leash and let her go, and boy does she go. She just LOVES it and she runs and runs as fast as she can through all the weeds and when they get really tall, all you can see is a rustling in the tall grass and then out pops Sophie just running as fast as she can. By the time I got out the camera, she was already a little worn out, but still going strong. Maybe next time we go, I'll get a better one when we first let her loose.

SLEEPY LITTLE BRYSTAL

Must...Keep.....Playing.....

5 MONTHS OLD!

Well, Brystal is 5 months old now, I can't even believe it. Luckily no shots this time, but she is learning new tricks every day. She can now blow rasberries. She is so close to rolling over from her back to her stomach, I have a feeling it will be mastered this weekend. She is quite the chatter box, always babbling and singing. She can sit up by herself for almost a minute without tipping over. She eats rice cereal like a champ, and has learned to hold her own bottle. Not to mention now she is finally sleeping up to 10-11 hours a night now. Heaven. She just gets better and better every day.

Here is her new Jumparoo toy. She hasn't learned how to bounce herself in it yet, but enjoys her time just looking at the toys and lights and music playing and uses her little fingers to spin the little wheel around.

Do you see those little stick legs poking out? You can often find Brystal doing this when she is in her swing or even when she is just playing on the floor, and she does it when I am trying to change her diaper. She has done this since the day she was born. She just sticks her legs straight out and leaves them like that. I don't get it, but I think it is pretty funny. This isn't a very good picture of it.

PURSE TAG

I don't usually end up doing all these tags that people send me. I'm not creative enough to think about things that are about myself. I know pathetic, but this one was easy. All I had to do was dump out my purse and see what was inside. Lucky for me this was my purse on a good day.


The Contents of my purse.

Mini Lotion, and Antibacterial gel.
2 packs of gum
lip balm.
Blanket
Onesie with matching hat that is 3 months too small,
3, count that, 3 socks
Texture blanket someone made for Brystal.
A book
A teething blanket
Thank you card from a baby shower
3 finger puppets
Wallet

3 pacifiers, (which we all know she doesn't use because she sucks her thumb)
a congrats card from Brystal's blessing
Lip gloss
2 mini baby lotions and 1 mini baby shampoo, just in case I need to give Brystal a bath on the side of the road
5 diapers,
Wet Wipes for her,
Wet ones for me,
Little air freshener tucked in a pocket to keep my purse "fresh"
Changing pad,
rattle
Toy phone, Toy car keys that always make a clinging noise whenever I set my bag down ( I was glad to get those out of there) A couple of those little ring thingys, and another little teething toy.
A changing pad,
a little handout from Young Women's
Brystal's immunization book.
And a handful of lifesavers and One cough drop.

Phewf! Glad to get that one updated. And now I will tag... Hilary, Bethany, Tracy, Ashley Pace, Andi, Jordan, and anyone else who wants to do it. I tag everyone.

HAPPY EASTER!

Brystal would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter. Not much happened at our house, we just spent the day together going on walks and taking naps. And it was good to go to church and learn about the real meaning of easter. But I think next year the Easter Bunny will come.



I took my little chubby bunny to church today. Here she is just before we were heading home. She is very tired if you can't tell. But she was adorable and everyone loved her bunny ears. This was about as festive as I could get for Easter this year

BRYSTAL'S FIRST CAMPOUT

This weekend we went camping with a group of friends in our ward. We were so excited because we love to camp and it was time to introduce Brystal to the camping experience. Here we are when we first arrived. Dear Missy Wegener, here is the outfit you got for her, it is huge on her, but this was her only chance to wear it since it came with the cute jacket and all. She looked adorable in it. I hope to get her to wear it again before summer comes.


Here is Brystal sitting by the fire with her daddy. She seemed to really like being outdoors.














Here we are enjoying s'mores and yummy banana boats with everyone around the campfire.


And then of course the dreaded sleep of a camping trip. It wasn't so good. Brystal got up a couple times screaming like a banchee for no apparent reason. I was up most of the night worried she was cold and everytime she would move, I'd adjust her blankets. Finally I just brought her into my sleeping bag with me and we both slept the rest of the night in peace (sort of)

And here is Brystal in the morning while we are all fixing up breakfast. She was such a good baby. And dear Andi Hyldahl, here is the cute pajamas you got for her which were also very humongous on her, but they were so warm and cozy for her it didn't matter how big they were. She obviously didn't care. Thanks for the warm jammas. They came in handy.






And here is Brystal, she is drinking a little bottle of apple juice as a breakfast appetizer. That's right, she is holding that bottle and feeding herself! One day last week, I just handed her a bottle, and she just took it and knew what to do with it. And now when I feed her with a bottle, she does it herself. (with a little help of course when she drops it or misses her target, but she is getting better)




Stay tuned for camping trip number 2 which will be this next weekend, since it is our ward camping trip. I forgot I might add that Nate has been called to be the Ward Clerk in our ward so he is practically in the bishopric and we have to go camping again to help with the breakfast. Nate is pretty excited for this calling. He gets to be the guy who gets up and counts people during church, and has everyone counting out random numbers at him as he walks by to mess him up. But we all know Nate is good with numbers so it doesn't even affect him. Oh and while I'm announcing new callings here, I might add that I am the Beehives advisor in our ward as well. I'm very excited. I love Young Womens! We are very busy busy people in our ward.