Coming Soon.....

I just uploaded over 100 photos to my computer. As soon as I go through them all I'll update you on our crazy Christmas celebration!

Don't cha wish...

Don't cha wish I would update my blog? I bet you don't really care. Well you would think that with no tv to watch that I would have a new post everyday. I don't. I have plenty to blog about but I'm too busy cyber shopping, reading other blogs, and just being lazy that I don't really want to take the time to write my thoughts out. It's exhausting to just think back at all I need to blog about and then I just talk myself out of it because it will take too much time.

Oh, trust me though, my cousin Ginger and I have thought of plenty of funny posts I could do. We laugh about them for days. But I worry that they would only be funny to us and then I would get looked at like I need to be locked up in the looney bin. Yes, all that tv watching has fried my brain and I probably deserve to be put away for a while, just for the safety of my family. But they let me roam free for now.

So if I don't get around to it, Happy Holidays everyone!

My Crazies..... New Post

A preview of my new crazy mind post.......







Let's be Honest Here........
I've heard of women getting depressed after blog stalking. I wondered to myself, what are they getting depressed about. Then someone informed me that women get depressed when they read about all the superwomen out there that can accomplish so much in so little time. They make most of us feel like inadequate mothers or wives.
What the crazy people. Let me give you an idea of what one may find on a blog to make them feel like they are a failure.



(These are just made up and although inspired by actual blog entries, they are fictional)





~To let my children all know how much I loved them, I whipped up these personalized story books for each of them. They are the main character in their own book and they go on an adventure that shows how they each use their own special talents to fight the evil villain and save the day. I hope to make a whole series for them as they grow into adulthood. It will help them look back and see all the good choices they have made in their lives.

(My crazy blog is set to private because some people may be offended by my personality. I would hope that if you ask to be invited to view it that you know me well enough to know that I mean no harm by my words and I just want to make people laugh because they are probably thinking the same thing.)

More Family Pictures

Amanda Laing (Look at her website for more pics) took some more pictures of our family. This time is was my whole family. They turned out so cute. Thanks for putting up with my crazy kids again!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday to the best mom ever!

I love you so much.

Thanks for all you do for our family.

Family Pictures

Amanda Laing did our family pictures for us the other day. I made our favorites into my header but I'll post some more favs.

Tray was so difficult this day but his pictures turned out so cute. Thanks for putting up with all the hard work Amanda.

I Just Died a Little Inside

I know that most everyone is feeling that financial crunch. I've been using the approach of ignorance when it comes to our finances. Today I actually sat down and wrote out what we need to make each month to pay the bills that we currently have. We were a few dollars short for our monthly expenses so we are working out a budget. Well one thing we decided we could cut back on was our tv package.
I cried as I was clicking on the button to downsize our programing package. Being dead serious I had tears running down my cheeks and I still get a little choked up when I think about it. I am pathetic. I have centered my life around my tv. I have a tv schedule for everyday of the week and I never miss a show. So I'm holding a brief memorial for the shows that have died today.

Goodbye.......
Project Runway
Top Chef
Jon and Kate + 8
Say Yes to the Dress
What Not to Wear
Property Ladder
Moving Up
Mystery Diagnosis
Bridezilla
Secret Lives of Women
Amazing Wedding Cakes
Intervention
I survived
Dirty Jobs
Deadliest Catch
The Soup
True Hollywood Story
MTV in general
VH1 in general
The Biggest Looser on Fine Living (That way I didn't have to miss House to watch it)
TBS - King of Queens, Raymond, Friends
USA - L&O Criminal Intent, Monk, Movie weekends

Who knows, with all this free time I'll have maybe my house will get cleaned, my kids will get some attention, I'll bake more sweets, and maybe I'll even pick up running on the treadmill. But most likely you'll find my glued to the computer screen watching You Tube to catch up on all my favorite shows.

Am I Naive?

I just watched the KSL report on blogging. Is it bad that it didn't scare me enough to go private?
I really don't think that there are that many people that read my blog in the first place. Actually there are only 26 subscribers in google reader for my blog. Sometimes I think I want to just post that I am going to go private just to see who fesses up to reading my blog.
But for now I'm still in the wide open public eye.

Temple Trip

Saturday Kelton took out his endowments at the Logan Temple. What a wonderful night we had. It was such a blessing to be surrounded by family and friends on such a wonderful occasion. I'm also certain that we had some special angels there with us as our family was reunited again in the temple. I just love the sacred feeling I get when I go there with my wonderful husband and the feeling of love I get from the Savior.

I can't believe Kelton will be leaving in 2 weeks. He is going to be an awesome missionary I just know it!

After we did our session we went out to eat at Cafe Sabor. It was Grandma Bronson's birthday too so she got to wear the birthday hat while we sang to her.

HaPpY hAuNTinG

I thought we would try carving pumpkins this year. We are definitely amateurs but it was still fun. I was in charge of the gut scraping and fine tuning on the carvings and both kid pumpkins. Travis carved a haunted house and I did the scary kids. And I'm sure you can tell which kid belongs to each pumpkin. Next year I think we'll stick to paint and stickers.

Halloween was awesome this year. For the whole month of October Tray has been wearing this motocross costume thinking that he was Lightning McQueen. Well when it came time for Trunk or Treat he wanted nothing to do with it. So I packed it anyway and when we got to the church he thought it would be ok to wear it. But he had no interest in getting candy. He found Spiderman and was climbing trees with him most of the night.

Kinlee was the cutest monkey! I even put a flower in her "hair" so you could tell she was a girl.

I bought a mullet wig for Travis to wear and Tray wanted to try it on. When he put it on I about peed my pants from the resemblance of Joe Dirt when he was a kid!

My mom and dad came out when we got back from the T-O-T. Tray wanted nothing to do with sitting a getting a picture taken. So my dad held him prisoner.

I'm Rude

Me: (Laying on the floor pretending to be asleep)
Tray: (Smacks me in the head) WAKE UP!
Me: You're rude!
Tray: No, I'm Tray!

All Gone!

Hair Today.......
Gone Tomorrow!!!

We finally had an eventful weekend!!!!!

The kids stayed the night at Grandma's house.

Travis and I went to Thriller

Kelton got his mission call!

He is going to Richmond, VA and he leaves November 19th for the MTC!

Happy Birthday!!

Sorry it's a few days late but Happy Birthday Kabrie! Welcome to your teens. I can't believe that my baby sister is growing up! I love you so much and I know that the kids do too!

And the Fun Begins.....

My little stinker is growing up so fast! She's going to be walking so soon! She's already getting into EVERYTHING! And she loves climbing the stairs! I feel I have another Tray personality coming!

Standing all by herself!!

Making a mess!

~What? I didn't do anything!~

Not Much Going On

We've been pretty boring lately. But I took some fun pictures of the kids and thought I would share them. Travis and I did get tickets for Thriller next week. I'm really excited to go, especially with my husband. We for sure need some time alone.

I'm Limber!

This is about the only way Kinlee sleeps. I don't know if she falls asleep sitting up and she falls this way or what. But this is how you find her the majority of time.

From my crazy mind!!!

So I've been doing a lot of thinking lately and I feel that I need to write down my thoughts. I've made a new blog that will just contain my random crazy thoughts and I'm sure they will be very random and very crazy. They only thing is that I made it private so as to not accidently offend someone. So if you feel that you can handle my CRAZY ideas (if you know my you should be laughing because I'm really not that crazy ;) ) leave me a comment with your email and I will send you an invite! Loves!!!

Look What I can Do!

What's summer without the County Fair?

I'm sure millions of blogs are being updated with pictures from the BE County Fair. And why not!?! It's the hippest thing in town! Oh how it's changes since high school. Remember when you'd call your friends and all plan on meeting at the Zipper at a certain time, come all decked out in your new school clothes, and just hang out in a HUGE mosh pit type crowd? Well now I see my friends in line for the train, or the merry-go-round, or other types of kiddie rides. I myself was dressed to the max......clothes covered in baby spew, sweating my butt off, and running after a 2 year old who, even though is on a leash, escaped to ride the trucks again. And is sucks having to buy tickets! Now I understand why we had to roll pennies for our fair money. Boy how times have changed. And I swear that kids from our grade did not dress so WEIRD!!! Since when is it normal to be frightened by someone almost 10 years younger than you? Here are some fabulous pictures of our adventure at the fair.

Surprise Visitor

I had a secret I was keeping from my family for 3 weeks. It was driving me nuts not telling them but I finally got to reveal my surprise on Thursday the 21st. Kylie came home for a quick weekend visit! She has been fighting fires since May and we have missed her so much! It was so great to spend some time with her and to actually see that she is safe. Tray loves Ky Ky and was so excited to have her home. She left on Sunday and will hopefully be back sometime in October.

More adventures from Tray

I have some more funny stories of Tray that weren't so funny at the time but I laugh now because no harm was done.

I had left the kids downstairs while I went upstairs to do something. I got side tracked (surprise) and I came back downstairs to an empty basement.
I called out Tray's name and heard him in the bathroom. I opened the door and saw the garbage can tipped over with garbage strewn across the floor, Tray standing by the toilet with the lid opened and nursing pads in his hands, and Kinlee with a wet head.
Kinlee had followed Tray in the bathroom, knocked the garbage over. Tray saw something fun to play with (nursing pads) and proceeded to put them in the toilet and squeeze the water out of them onto Kinlee's head.
It made me laugh because Kinlee FOLLOWED Tray in there. I hope that's not any indication of what my future holds with my children. One following the other into mischievous plans.

I need help!!!

Recently, I was diagnosed with C. A. A. D. D. - Child Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:

Today, I decided to do the laundry. As I start toward the laundry room, I notice that there are cheerios all over the floor and my car keys are in the cereal bowl. I decide to pick up the cheerios before I do the laundry. I lay my car keys down on the counter, put the cheerios in the trash can under the counter, and notice that the trash can is full. So, I decide to take out the trash. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash I may as well pay the bills first. I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left, my extra checks are in my desk in the office/playroom, so I go to my desk where I find a sippy cup full of juice.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I decide I should put sippy cup in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the sippy cup, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye --they need to be watered. I set the sippy cup on the counter, and I discover baby wipes that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back in the bathroom, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the wipes back down, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote, one of the kids left it on the kitchen table. I realize that after school when they go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote as they fight over who lost it, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down, get some paper towels and wipe up the spill.

Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the laundry isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm cup of juice sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find the wipes, and I don' t remember what I did with the car keys.

Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.

My friend Becky emailed this to me and I totally related to it!!! I was laughing so hard while I read it! Does anyone else feel this way?

Oh my baby!!!

Kinlee is still growing fast and learning new things every day! She's done a ton in just the short time since my last post about her. She is mobile. And not just the army crawl either. She is all over the place. Her favorite place is in the bathroom pulling the garbage can over. She has two teeth. And she can get into sitting position. Almost every morning she is sitting in her crib waiting for me to come and get her. She went to the dr. the other week and here are her stats.

Weight 17lbs 12 oz - 74%

Height 27 3/4 in - 96%

Head 44cm - 81%

Her other favorite place to crawl is under her crib. Usually I will leave her in her room and come back and she is no where to be seen. Then I hear her playing under her crib. She's so fun!

Where's Ninny (Tray calls her ninny cause he can't or won't say Kinlee)

Peek-a-boo I see you


Yummy licorice

Swimming

A Family Tradition

If you know the Bronson's you may know that we have a big family reunion every August with my Grandma Edith and her children. The reunion comes complete with a theme, planned activities that relate to the theme, and lots of fun and laughs. We've been having this reunion since I was in the 5th or 6th grade. I think 1994, 15 years of reunions! Wow, to say that out loud it seems like a lot. I remember when we first started I would sit at our window and watch for my cousins to drive by so I could go over and visit with them. We would stay up all night playing night games and sleeping out on the grass with my cousins. It was so much fun.
I'll just mention some of the themes just so you have an idea of how much goes into planning these things. We've had "Boot Camp" "Pioneers" "Olympics" "Knights" "Circus" "Decades" "Mountain Man Rendezvous" "007" "Luau" "Disney Movies"

Obviously there are more themes but I can't think of all of them right now. My grandma saves a piece of memorabilia from each reunion to hang on the walls of the party shed and it's pretty much covered by now.

This year the theme was "Superheroes" Rusty, Marlie, and Ruger (AKA Incredibles)

Grandma Edith (AKA Wonder Woman)

Travis and Kelton (Mr and Mr Incredible)

My crazy aunts Jean, Rita, and Connie (AKA I don't know who they were being)