Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Lazy Days of Summer (at least as far as posting is concerned)

You may have noticed that our blog has not changed much in the past . . . uh . . . about 2 months!!! Yikes! That is awful I know, and I apologize for not keeping everyone posted on what we have been up to, which has been a lot!
So in the last two months since we posted we have done some awesome things -

We have traveled the globe (Particularly the Philadelphia, California, Utah, and Portugal areas of the globe).

We picked up my younger brother, John, from his full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints (see the last link on the sidebar) and traveled Portugal for a week (including an overnight stay in a castle!) It was awesome.


My younger brother had not seen Sarah in person yet, and it turns out that Sarah really loved John right from the first moment they met. (I think John might like her too . . . she is pretty likeable you know!)


I'm so proud of him and so glad he's home!





We also had a nearly full day layover in the City of Brotherly Love and saw some cool sights and ate some great Cheese steak!

This is the real deal. Yum!



We went to a really fun Brown Family Reunion in Utah (for the Foote side of the family ha ha I have to clarify because we have two different Brown Family reunions, one on my mom's side and one on Tyler's Grandma's side, but don't worry we aren't cousins - we won't have deformed kids :) the geneology has been done on this!)


This is Sarah on the Fourth of July at the ranch. For Sarah, crinkled nose=REALLY happy. :) She really loves the ranch.


My Cowboy :) ~Too bad he forgot his hat!

Sarah has decided to start eating food - not baby food, but anything WE are eating. (She thinks she's grown up.) She also started crawling, pulling herself up, cruising, and...drum roll please....she can say mama and dada!!! But she doesn't say it all the time, she's only said it a few times, but VERY clearly, but I am excited anyway!


Her smile says it all. She likes REAL food!


She LOVES watermelon!


She's "cruisin."


We have been to the lake a handful of times (always fun).


Here is Sarah enjoying some sun.


And here she is after a fun filled day of sun.

We also traveled to Southern California for my Grandpa Sandy's funeral. This was not a sad funeral but a beautiful celebration of an amazing life! He was an amazing man and grandpa, and I am grateful to know that I will see him again someday.


This is Grammie and Grandpa Sandy at our wedding with my parents and us. We miss you Grandpa Sandy! And we love you very much Grammie.

Sarah also went to the beach and to Disneyland for the first time. She loved both of them, of course, she has great taste like her mama! hehe


Sarah--excited to start the day at Disneyland.



Getting some rays.


Mr. Muscles


Me and my girl!


We celebrated my 24th birthday (since it was 08/08/08, Tyler had to work all day, so luckily my family was around to celebrate it with me). Thanks guys! We celebrated my sister, Stephanie's birthday, too, and enjoyed throwing her a baby shower. I am so excited to have another nephew soon!

Tyler and I also got to celebrate our 3 year anniversary! We had a pretty good time, but watched the least romantic movie on the planet for our date (Batman - The Dark Knight - It was dark and not romantic--Lame for an anniversary, but it was still nice to spend time with my hubby. We did go to PF Chang's for a really tasty dinner, and I loved spending time with Tyler! :) I want to give special thanks to my family for watching Sarah so we could go out.
We might try to go to Phantom of the Opera to do a make up Birthday/Anniversary celebration sometime soon too. I'm excited if we do.



I am so grateful I am married to this man for eternity! It's been a wonderful 3 years. I love you, Tyler!

I will try to do better about posting! ;)

And, for all the family reading this that I got to see this summer, I loved being with you. Thanks for helping make my summer awesome! Love you!

3 comments:

Aapree said...

Wow! It looks like you've had such a fun filled summer! Thats really fun that your brother is home. And what a neat experience to go and pick him up! And, Sarah is so freakin' adorable! Her smile is darling! I miss you! We need to see you guys soon. I can't believe you were in Utah and didn't call!. ;) Love you tons! Thanks for posting the update.

L said...

What fun adventures!!! It's so neat that you got to go pick your brother up! Happy Anniversary too! Sarah is gorgeous and getting so big! I can't believe it!

I definitely will find out if I'm having a boy or a girl, and I'll post it as soon as I find out (my doc doesn't do another ultrasound until week 20 so I have about 5 more weeks). I'm so excited to know!!! I haven't felt the baby move yet either... when could you feel sarah start to move?

Tyson and Marie said...

Wow! That is a great blog update! You guys have been doing a lot of fun stuff! I love the pictures of Sarah eating the watermelon....classic! We still need to get together! I know Tyler and Tys are trying to work something out:)