"How I met your mother" FLASHBACK

I realized that having a blog is great. It keeps a great journal of everything going on now, but isn't so great for the 4 1/2 years from now back until I met Matt. I have nothing written down from how we met, dating, engaged, and early marriage (pre-kids). And that just stinks, so I have decided to make it a goal to try to once a week write about one thing and document it that way. I am starting today because, really, how often can you post on February 29th. Oh and some pictures may be seen more than others. We were having to much fun together dating that we only have a few pictures of us.


Matt and I met at our University of Utah singles ward (I think it was the 15th ward) at the end of the 2003 summer. I was sitting in the back of church with my roommates and our friend Levi doing what me and my girls did best. We were checking out the guys in the ward and Levi was giving us the scoop. I had a guy that I was already interested in and so decided to sit this round out and actually listen to the meeting. While they were pointing out guys I was glancing around to see who was new in the ward and trying to come up with my own way to pass the time (short attention span). I glanced over and saw this guy sitting with a few other girls and had no clue who he was. So I decided to ask Levi. He was stumped, said he didn't know and asked if I liked him. In a sarcastic response I said, "Of course Levi, I'm going to marry that guy." (Who knew I could tell the future) That made Levi even more interested to find out who that guy was.

Later that I night I saw Matt at ward prayer and introduced myself, he talked to me for a while and then I decided to leave so I could play a little hard to get. Over the course of a couple weeks I would invite Matt to go to a bunch of things in a group and I always was told, "I can't, I have school, maybe some other time." I'm sorry, but a girl can only take so much rejection. I figured that I had my other guy option still available and didn't need to waste my time on Matt. The day after I came to that resolution was Sunday, when I walked into Sacrament meeting Matt waved for me to come over and sit by him. I was shocked. This guy never seemed interested, and now when I decide to forget him he shows a little interest back? So weird. I sat down by him and after a lot of playful bantering, I asked him what he would be making me for dinner that night. I basically just invited myself over for dinner with no hint on his part. He said that I would have to find out but showing up at 5. Once again shocked. Who knew you could invite yourself over and a guy would say okay. I should have used that idea in college. Matt made me steak and potatoes and we went to a fireside. From there we just started hanging out almost every night for some reason or another (it was never planned.)

Matt and Brynn saga to be continued . . . . . next week.

BABY Fever

I learned something new about Eston yesterday. I have known for a while that he thinks babies are fun, because he will rock them in their car seats, but I did not know that
Eston is a baby hog.

We went to visit my friend Sarah and her kids today. Sarah had her baby about 6 weeks ago, but due to my children being sick and then passing the illness on to Matt and I, we have stayed away from visiting. Yesterday was our day to finally go and see Sarah, Sammie's friend Holden, and their new baby Claire. When we got there Sammie went straight to Holden and picked up playing where they left off about 2 months ago. Eston started to follow, UNTIL, he spotted Claire laying on the couch. I have never seen that boy so excited. This even beats the time when he got to wear Sammie's dress and got his new costume. He just about jumped out of his skin he could hardly stand it. I went over to hold her and he just kept eyeing her and mumbling stuff to me about her. Eventually I asked him if he wanted to hold her and he sat right next to me. The baby was barely in his arms before he started hugging her, cuddling with her, and talking to her (all gently and soft). My friend was laughing at how intensely Eston was watching her. After a while I took her from him and told him to go play. Then I asked Sammie if she wanted to hold her and before Sammie could even get near the couch, Eston had pushed her and taken her place next to me for another turn. He probably held Claire about 5 times and every time he acted like it was the first.

Sammie was finally ableto hold Claire (that is with the help of Sarah holding Eston at bay).

Now I just have to break it to Eston that he won't be getting his own for quite sometime. I figure that my friends and neighbors can just keep him in supply of his baby fix.

It was a zoo at the ZOO!!!

On Wednesday I decided, along with a few friends, to take the my kids and Salote (a cute girl I get to watch) to the Zoo. I usually take my kids once a week to the zoo when it starts to warm up. So this was our first time since last fall. It was free Zoo day and there were a lot of people there. It was quite the trip.

Eston loved the animals and would make all the sounds for me whenever he saw the correlating animal. His eyes just lit up. It was so fun to see his reaction this time, since he is old enough to start taking it all in. I have discovered that a 3 year old, a 2 year old, and a 1 year old make for an interesting combination. Salote (3) wanted to be with all her friends and constantly was running back and forth between me and the rest of the group that was strung out. She is a good girl and would have been fine if I wasn't trying to keep my eye also on our little tour guide, Sammie (2), who kept straggling and trying to direct everyone. According to Sammie there are GORILLA's all over the zoo and they come right after the animal we are currently looking at. Eston (1) was pretty good until he decided that he wanted to be like all the other kids and walk. That was were my own personal zoo came into play. I even got my first official sunburn of the year. (It's not that hard for me to get sunburned.)

Needless to say that we made it through the event and now I know what to do next time.