Tyson & Bridgett

What's it Gonna Be?

2012-01-04T15:00:00.001-08:00

Boy or Girl?? We find out next week! Can't wait to get a peek at our little squirmer!

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4 Months

2011-12-18T19:11:00.001-08:00

A QuickFix Christmas

2011-12-17T16:13:00.001-08:00

This weekend, we had our annual QuickFix Christmas party. We had quite the classy evening filled with surfing and Brazilian dining.

Tyson and Jared

Taylor and Jenny

Bryce and Jared Surfing

And crashing...

Some of the QuickFix crew

It was a good thing that we surfed before eating at Tucanos. We had a fun time at the restaurant and we definitely gorged ourselves! We are so glad to have such great people on the QuickFix team and we had a lot of fun celebrating this holiday season with them all.

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A Little Christmas Spirit

2011-12-03T20:27:00.001-08:00

I am so very grateful to have a gang like this around the house every now and then....

These kiddos did me a great service today by decorating my Christmas tree. I was feeling like I was never going to feel well enough to get around to decorating, so these guys saved me.

I couldn't have done a better job myself. Big thanks to Bree, Lindsey, and McKay! You guys are awesome.

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What would we do without our iPhones?

2011-12-03T08:25:00.001-08:00

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Thanksgiving 2011

2011-11-26T11:51:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving is one of our favorite time of the year. It's always filled with lots of food, family, and fun activities. In Tyson's family, thanksgiving also means WarBall. WarBall is a long thanksgiving tradition and is played every year, with usually only a few minor injuries:). This year, we got together for the feast at 12 noon and had a large banquet full of tasty treats. The family is so big (or awesome) that we have to hold our thanksgiving in a church to accommodate us all. After eating, the tables were cleared out for WarBall. WarBall is kind of like dodgeball and when you get the Brown boys involved things can get a little competitive.. Just a little.... There were lots of other activities throughout the day like making Indian headdresses, puzzles, drawing, and of course a glow in the dark dance party. People have those at every thanksgiving party right?:). We had such a good time celebrating this holiday with our family and we can't believe it's already over!

Relaxing and hanging out

The Tribe

Getting their groove on thanksgiving style.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Hoppy Day!

2011-11-06T18:46:00.001-08:00

While eating breakfast for dinner... We spotted this little friend outside our window! We had a good time chasing him outside in the cold until dad made an amazing snag and then we were able to take him home. He made me smile and reminded me of our first pet Hopscotch:)

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3 Years!

2011-08-21T15:20:00.001-07:00

Today I have been married to my best friend for 3 years. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. These past three years have held many fun times and many great accomplishments. I feel that each year we get better and better at the whole husband and wife gig. What can i say?.. We make a great team!

I couldn't ask for a better husband. He's the man who makes me laugh, makes me a better person, and who is always there for me no matter what.

Happy Anniversary Tys! Love you forever!

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Wedding Weekend

2011-08-01T14:54:00.001-07:00

This last week, we were doing a lot of wedding stuff. Tyson's good friend Devin, from his mission, got married and they had a many wedding festivities going on. Tuesday, the boys got together and went to the flowRider and then to Tucanos. Devin and Carly got married on Thursday and we were lucky to be at their wedding ceremony. I say lucky because halfway up to SL I ask Tyson, "did we grab our temple recommends?" The answer to that was a big NO! LUCKILY we made it right on time but we were sure nervous that we weren't gonna make it. Later that night they had an amazing reception at Carlie's parents house and then on Saturday they had another party up in Idaho at Devin's patents house. We had a really good time hanging out with friends, eating awesome food, dancing, and of coarse celebrating Devin and Carlie's marriage.

The "Best Men"

Reception in Ogden

Hotel in Idaho
We actually ended up changing rooms later so our friend Blake could have a place to stay. I woke up at 2AM and the boys had ordered a pizza! Funny night.

Idaho reception

They had these awesome paper lanterns that we lit. It was like that scene from tangled.

Before we headed home we checked out the Idaho Falls. It was a really fun weekend! Makes us want to go on more vacations!:)

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Cherry Hill

2011-07-19T15:29:00.001-07:00

This last weekend, we spent some quality time at cherry hill with the fam. I have very vague memories of the place from when I was little. It's funny how much bigger things feel when you are a kid. We had a good time camping, swimming, and having lots of good treats and laughs. My brother Josh and his wife Patrice invited us up there to camp in their trailer. It was awesome to see us 6 adults fill every square inch of the trailer when it came time to sleeping arrangements.

Bree was sleeping below our bed and she got a good kick in the head when I got up to go to the bathroom one night.

I love being able to spend time with the fam. I didn't get any pictures since we were in the water most of the time but we definitely had a good time!

This next weekend we will be up in Idaho for my family reunion! Very excited to see all the Idaho peeps and have some good fun:)

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4th of July

2011-07-13T13:29:00.001-07:00

Since we've been married, we've managed to celebrate the 4th of July differently every year, but each year is just as much fun as the last. This year, Tyson's sister Christy and her husband Travis and their cute family invited us up to their cabin to celebrate the holiday. This last winter, they built their amazing cabin by Schofield Resivour.

We headed up on Saturday morning where Christy and I took the kids to the Schofield parade while Tyson went to work. It was a cute and decent sized parade. It only took about 20 minutes which I thought was the perfect amount of time!

(Mason, Jaxon, Nathan, Logan, and Austin) these boys were great at collecting all the candy!

Since there was a cabin full of Browns, of coarse there was a lot of "friendly" competition going on. At the Engar's cabin, they have lots of fun toys which includes mini 4-wheelers. It didn't take long for the boys to establish a track and start conducting relay races. It was very entertaining to watch and I even gave it a go at one point ( I was secretly a little shaky afterwards though)!

Travis demonstrating the "aerodynamic" form

Followed by a victory fist pump!

Josh and Tyson were basically wearing the same outfit so everyone kept getting them confused.

Tyson coming in on the last turn.

Zach, going as fast as he can.

Later that night, Tyson found the legos and so unlike my very non-competitive husband (wink, wink), he just HAD to create the tallest lego tower.

Lined up tallest to shortest from Travis to newborn baby Rowan. I couldn't get all of the people and all of the tower in one shot.

At the cabin, there is a constant buzzing sound outside which we found was made by these little critters

Cicadas!
There were so many of them that the boys were able to trap a whole bunch and we tried to go fishing with them.

Tyson, Josh, and Jaxon

Cicada fish bate

I was laughing so hard at Mason cause this was his reaction to me when I told him to "smile".

Tyson and Marabelle saying cheese.

We also had a really fun time catching crawdads. We were pretty successful and Tyson even cooked some up for dinner!

Austin & Mr. Crawdad

I waited for the BBQ instead...

On Sunday, we were able to go to church up in the little town of Schofield. They have a very all branch there and on the 4th of July weekend they get around 500-600 people coming to their building. There were so many people that the members parked there car on the grass and we sat outside under a shade tent for the services.

To the right is the cute little church.

Temporary parking lot.

Since it was so crowded and because we couldn't hear, we put our chaos in a circle and had our own little Sunday school lesson for the kids.

Nathan, Jaxon, Mason & Austin

It was a pretty cool experience to see all the dedicated latter day saints who still made church a priority on their vacations. It just confirms my belief so much that the church is true.

When we got home Monday, we joined some of our neighbors for some fireworks. They had a pretty good collection between them all and it was fun to watch the kids get so excited around the cool explosions.

You know it's the 4th of July when you have sparklers!

Later that night, PG Jr. had a firework show. Instead of competing with the crowds, Me, Tyson, Bree, Lyndsie and her sister Lauren, got onto our roof to watch the show. We had an awesome view and it was crazy to see the whole valley lit up with all the amazing fireworks.

Bree and I on the roof waiting for the show to start.

Dufas #1 & Dufas #2 :)

Bree, Lyndsie, Lauren

The 4th of July is one of my favorite time of year. I feel so lucky to live in such a great country and very blessed to have such great people to celebrate these things with!

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Tucanos

2011-07-01T20:56:00.001-07:00

Today was my dad's birthday and we celebrated by going to Tucanos for dinner. It was Bree and Dad's first time and they quite enjoyed the experience.

Afterwards we spent some time just hanging around the shops before Bree met this gentleman..

They hit it off pretty quick:). Needless to say, we were all very stuffed after our great meal and had a good time celebrating our dad's birthday.

Happy 50th Dad! You're officially a pre-shriv! Haha

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Summer Fun

2011-06-27T19:37:00.001-07:00

Days off are great. Day off plus boating... The best! Today I didn't have to work so I made a request to go boating. It was pretty hard to convince my dear husband (wink, wink). So we loaded up the boat with lunch supplies, a ridiculous amount of poweraide, and some good 'ol QuickFix employees. Weekdays are our favorite for boating. There are usually very few boats to share the water with and the water/weather conditions are almost always prime. We had such a good time playing in the water and working on our tans/burns:)

Bryce & Bo

Tyson working while playing

Bo, Izak, Chaz $ Taylor

Bryce floating away on the baby floaty toy

Izak possibly drowning

Jenny & Me

Thanks for playing everyone! It was an awesome day!!

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April 2011

2011-05-01T09:14:00.000-07:00

April has flown by! I really can't believe that it is already May. It seems that time just keeps going faster and faster. We had a lot of fun this last month. Every weekend there was a party going on somewhere and with me starting my new job, it made for an EXTREMELY busy month. Even though things felt a little crazy sometimes, it was still a great April!

This year, my brother celebrated his 27th birthday. We are all so grateful for what he does for our family and Bree and I decided we would treat him to something a little different on his birthday this year. Growing up, our brother really like monkeys and so Bree and I pulled up our sleeves and made a birthday cake that looked like a monkey!

We had so much fun doing it. I never realized all the anxiety that comes with making an out-of-the-ordinary cake! I have a lot more respect now for people who make cakes for their profession.

Throughout the month, we celebrated many things... Birthdays, baby-blessings, Bree's goats being pregnant... And of coarse there was Easter. Every Easter Bree and I have this tradition of watching the 10 Commandments. You know... The one that is 4 hours long! They play it on TV every year and it sure took up a lot of space on our DVR but it brought back memories of watching it every year on Easter growing up.

Easter morning, we woke up and had a little gift exchange.

After church, we had some family over for dinner and an Easter Egg Hunt in our yard.

Fancy Cheesecake Cups

Front Yard

Back Yard

Carter already eating his treats

Taylor and Jaxon with lots of good finds

We had a lot of fun getting together and celebrating the day.

On the 29th came the big day of my college graduation. The ceremony was at 8AM! But once we got there, I started to get more excited about the idea of graduating. I was able to finish my college degree in less than 4 years. It took me a while to find out what I wanted to study and I don't even remember how I decided on my major, but I am so glad that I ended up in education. Though I am not working as a teacher right now, I know that it will we a great field to work in and has benefited me greatly in my current position I hold at the school now.

We arrived at the school bright and early! I was excited to get the whole ordeal over with, but it was a lot more enjoyable than I had anticipated.

This is when we first got to the school.
I laughed so hard when I saw the kreepy face Bree was making in this picture.

Part of why my schooling and graduation were so enjoyable was because I was surrounded by great people and friends.

McCall, Me and Jenny (we lost Allyce somewhere)
I'm lucky that I got to graduate with these great girls!

My fan club:)

Thanks a million to my family who has supported me throughout my education. I couldn't have done it without you!

As the month ended, we came upon "National Doofus Day" as Bree would call it. Otherwise known as... PROM! After some complicated situations (2 boys asking one girl to the dance) the day finally came and Bree had a great time.

Bree and Danny

She looked very beautiful for her senior prom!
Can't believe this girl will be graduating in a month!

New Job!

2011-03-30T10:59:00.000-07:00

So I got a new job that I will be starting in a few weeks. I went in to PG Junior High to get signed up for their sub list and I ran into the vice principal who is in our ward. He told me that they had a position available for a tracker and that I should apply. Yesterday I had the interview and they called me later that evening telling me I got the job! I'm really excited to be starting something full time (with the exception of summer vae-k of course) at a school. Hopefully it will be something to open doors for a teaching job in the future.

In other news... We are getting new carpet next week! Whoo Hoo! Buh-Bye blue carpet!!:)

Ohhh Blogging....

2011-03-27T19:59:00.000-07:00

So I'm really bad a blogging because I feel like I always need a bunch of pictures to prove that we do more with our lives than just work and be bums. Well.... I've decided to think of our blog more as a Journal as a way to record our own family history because just like blogging, I'm also bad at journaling! ( I think that's a word...) So hopefully I will be a little better and keeping this up to date. You might notice that I put up stuff from last year because I'm hoping to make note of the things we've been doing with our lives! Enjoy!

Lava Hot Springs

2011-03-27T19:53:00.000-07:00

Every November we go to Lava Hot Springs to celebrate Marnae's birthday but this last year she was pregnant with Roman and so we postponed the festivities. This weekend, we went with Marnae, Dennis and two of their friends up there to hang out in the hot "mineral pools". We had a lot of fun. It was nice to just relax in the hot water and hang out with each other!

Check out Dennis's heart shaped chest hair

Maui 2011

2011-03-27T19:05:00.000-07:00

We were SO excited to go to Hawaii again. We feel really lucky to get the chance to vacation every winter and this year Bree came with us!

Car ride to airport

We started out on Saturday by flying to LA. Flying standby can be a little tricky and nerve racking, but we lucked out by getting first class seats!

Unfortunately, our plane to Maui did not leave until the next morning so we spent our nigh in luxurious LA airport...

We had a blast and we did WAY to much stuff to post about so here are some pics from our trip..

Bree LOVED snorkeling. We saw turtles every time we got in the water.

Bree's a fish out of water! She was always swimmin, even on land;)

Tyson started burying Bree, what bree didn't realize was she wasn't going to have any hands to prevent tyson from putting his foot in her mouth:0

We found a coconut tree outside of our room and we spend the night plotting on how to get a coconut. When I started comparing tyson to Bear Grylls he ran at the tree with his bare hands and feet and snatched a coconut! He's "Boss" as Bree would say..

Our favorite hike in the Bamboo forest

After hiking the falls in the bamboo forest, you come to a river where you have to ditch your stuff, swim upstream, hike that small fall and then it opens up to the most beautiful waterfall I've ever seen! It's our favorite spot but since we had to swim upstream, we couldn't bring a camera to take any pics. But is sure is an adventure!

Tyson's favorite thing to do is spear fish. Here are some of his (stinky) catches;)

On the coast

Sweet waterfall we hiked to and swam in

The whole trip Tyson was scouting out coconut trees and plucking fresh coconuts for himself

Hawaii is so beautiful and full of the funnest stuff to do. We are so grateful for Ave and Erin and my parents in helping us go on this trip. Love you guys!

Bree=Future Aggie!

2011-03-27T19:01:00.000-07:00

Coming fall, this girl will be heading up to Logan to go to USU! Bree is VERY excited to be an Aggie:)

Erin's Birthday

2011-03-27T18:53:00.000-07:00

A few months ago, we celebrated Erin's birthday. This year we had a big party at Noah's with TONS of good food, fun games, and all the best peeps!

Tyson and Annie on the DDR

Just hanging out!

Julie joining in on the dancing:)

A little ping-pong!

This pic is my fav of them!

Happy Birthday Erin! Thanks for the awesome party!

Christmas 2010

2011-03-27T18:40:00.000-07:00

We had a really great Christmas this year. It is my favorite time!! All the fam gets together and it is always a lot of fun to visit and play games.

We started off the holiday by having the Brown family get-together at Ave and Erin's. We had a great dinner and then played our white-elephant game that has now become tradish. Bree won toilet paper again this year haha.

The grand kids' white elephant game.

Ave and Erin got us these super cute gifts for xmas:)
Love them!

On Christmas eve night, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Belliston's to have our annual Christmas eve party where we have dinner and then Santa comes. We sing Christmas songs and then have a gift exchange. After the party- Dad, Mom, Josh and Patrice came down to our house in PG to spend the night. We played settlers and watched a Christmas Carol and then went to bed. Next morning, Patrice woke us up nice and early to open presents. We had a really good time with our family and it seems that all of us got what we wanted that year:)

StarCraft 2 for Tyson

Super sweet new life jacket for me!

And Bree got a custom sweatshirt with Josh's face on it. Probably the best gift you could EVER get;)

Halloween 2010

2011-03-27T18:35:00.000-07:00

For Halloween this year Tyson was Napolean Dynamite, I was Deb, and Bree was an Avatar. We started out the night by going to Josh and Alisha's for their ward's Halloween trunk or treat and dinnder and then later to the Caldwell's for the big dance part-a.

Who's costume is the best??
Turns out it was Bree! She won the costume contest for the night at J&A's party:)

We Survived Tsunami 2011!

2011-03-11T11:19:00.001-08:00

As you might have heard, yesterday Japan was hit with a massive earthquake. The earthquake was the 5th largest ever recorded and has created a lot of destruction. As a result of the earthquake, a tsunami was created and was directed at Hawaii where we are currently vacationing.

At 12 AM we got a knock on the door. Not being used to the 3 hour time difference, we had been asleep since 9:00. The man at the door was pounding and yelling. He waited about 2 seconds for a response before busting into our resort room yelling for us to wake up. Dazed, I got up and went out of the room to find this guy standing in our doorway. Since I was still mostly asleep, I had a hard time understanding what the guy was telling me (He was probably wondering why I was standing there speechless and glaring at him). The man informed us that there was a Tsunami and that the alarms had been going off for about two hours already. Still half asleep all I could do was stare at him still.... He continued to tell me that it was very serious and that we needed to evacuate immediately as the entire building had already been evacuated. I finally started to register what the man was saying and quickly yelled at Tyson and Bree and told them we needed to get out. We were told to go the the evacuation center which was at an elementary school up the road. We grabbed some bottles of water and some extra clothes, got in our car and headed to safety. The weird thing was "safety" was only about 3 blocks up from our resort. When we got there I told Tyson, "Wow, I feel so much safer now..."

After listening to the radio and the mayor, we found out that the tsunami was estimated to hit around 3:30 AM. Realizing that we would be sleeping in the car, we decided to walk back down to our resort (since the roads were closed) to grab some pillows and blankets. When we got back to our car, we wanted to make a bed on the grass next to our car. As we were looking for a place to lie down, some locals informed us that we were best to sleep in our car unless we didn't mind cockroaches crawling on us. YIKES! So we settled in our car for a long sleepless night.

Throughout the night the sirens continued to sound and we waited and waited for any new news. On the radio they kept us as up to date as they could on the situation. We were sad to hear of the massive impact the earthquake and tsunami had on Japan and we could only wait and see what was going to happen in Hawaii.

At about 3:45 the first tsunamis started to hit. Fortunately, the area we were in was not effected by the wave. Very close down the road, there was some flooding on the roads with about 6inces of water. In Lahina, which is a place we like to go, they had a 9 foot wave, we haven't heard much about what is going on there. At about 6 in the morning we were finally able to get through the blocked roads and back to our resort. Today the island is still on tsunami watch and nobody is allowed to go in the water. We are very lucky to have not been affected, now we are just a little sleep deprived.

Thanks to our family for the calls. We are all okay. It was quite and adventure and we are glad that it did not turn out for the worse in Hawaii.

Cars lining the streets

Our bed for the night in our car. Bree was really excited about all the drama! I was really tired...

March Is Our Time of Year!

2011-03-01T08:09:00.000-08:00

We've been lucky enough in our marriage to get the chance to travel a lot. Last year we went to Oahu in March and this year we are very lucky to go to Maui! We went to Maui on our honeymoon and I've been wanting to go back ever since. 

Next week we will be in this beautiful place...

Yes I know I have a bubble-butt....

And we're taking this crazy girl with us!!!

This is going to be an adventure..... :)

At The Brown House

2011-02-02T14:56:00.000-08:00

At the Brown house, we are all getting a little tired of winter. The other day Tyson was telling me, "We need to have winter so we can appreciate summer more..." I think I would be happy with more summer and then maybe I could appreciate the winter just a little bit:)

Yes I am awful at blogging, and yes I am awful at taking pictures, which is why there will be none to share (also the reason of why I blog so little)! These days Tyson and I get a lot of hanging out time as I am done with my student teaching and officially grad-gee-ate-ed (graduated). Right now I am working nights and substituting- which has been picking up a lot lately! Since I have more free time, I've found that I really enjoy cooking but still don't really enjoy cleaning (I'm working on it)! Tyson is still running QuikFix from home and going down to St. George weekly to work in the warm weather (makes me jealous). He has also been helping out with the wrestling program where he trains future champions! Bree has been doing her usual thing of getting into trouble and making us laugh. At night, we all get real cozy and hang out by our heater and talk about life. Bree is going to be graduating this summer and is getting ready to be a college girl! She is working hard by prepping for the ACT (which is next Saturday), learning how to keep up on laundry, and saving up money for her grand journey.

We are still very happy here on our hilltop in Pleasant Grove. Bree is missing her goats, who are away being bred, and the chickens have not been able to fill the hole of their absence in Bree's mind. We are looking forward to the weekend where we are having a birthday party for our sister-in-law at Noah's!

So weekend.... Please come fast!

Tyson's New Baby

2010-12-11T14:52:00.000-08:00

Isn't he SO spoiled?
Merry Christmas for the next 10 years Tys! :)

Student Quotes

2010-12-07T17:43:00.000-08:00

Student: If there were Siamese twins that were joined at the head and they shared the same brain, would they be able to see what the other twin was seeing?

Me: Uhhhhhh????

I couldn't help but laugh! Where they come up with these things.... I just don't know:)

One of These Days...

2010-12-06T17:07:00.001-08:00

One day I will be a better blogger. But..... For now, I have been way busy and have not thought much about posting. We had a blast on Halloween and a really great Thanksgiving. Hopefully soon I will get some pics up.
I am officially DONE with my student teaching!!! I can't believe it is already over! It was such a great experience and I learned that it is very hard work but I LOVE teaching. I have had a great time getting to know the students and being in front of the classroom. Right now I am a permanent sub teaching the same class. I am very excited to be done with school. I recently finished my senior project. This is the project that I have to complete in order to become a certified teacher. Anyways, I just finished and it is a whopping 91 pages. It is basically a novel.
Right now Tyson is working from home and Bree just got a job at my old work. We are all doing well and are getting very excited for Christmas! Once I figure out how to post pictures with my new camera, I'll be sure to put up some pictures.

How's Things?

2010-09-23T16:36:00.001-07:00

Wheeeew! Is it Friday yet??:) Haha. I am about a month into my student teaching so far and I am absolutely LOVING it. I have such a great time teaching and being able to get to know my students. Their responses they give me in class continue to surprise me and make me laugh. After school Tyson likes to ask me what kinds of things my students have been doing in class lately. So i'll share some funny stories with him and we will laugh about it together. I'm just finishing up my first unit and I'm excited to move on to a new subject.

Though I am having such a great time, I never knew how EXHAUSTING this business is. I come home with aching feet and all I want to do is Go To Bed!:) But unfortunately there is always tomorrows lesson plan... Staring me down... Waiting to be planned... As hard as it is though, I am glad for the challenge and for the things I am learning about myself and the things that I can accomplish.

This weekend, Tyson is playing in a golf tournament down in St. George. He get's to play 2 rounds a golf everyday. Isn't he such a hard worker?... ;) As for Bree and I, we will be at home working on school stuff! Whoo Hoo? Haha
Have a great Weekend!

Student Teaching

2010-09-11T13:17:00.000-07:00

I started my student teaching about 3 weeks ago now. I was not sure what to expect and waiting for this time to come made me very anxious! It is kind of weird to think that I am finally here. Going through school I felt like the time for me to be student teaching would never come!

But from now until December I am officially a ......

That's right! I am currently doing my student teaching at Lehi Jr. High teaching 7th grade health and one 7th grade boy's P.E. class. I am absolutely loving the experience. For the most part, the students are Great! I have a really good time getting to know them and I especially love getting the chance to be in a classroom teaching. This coming week is when I will start teaching solo and using all of my own lesson plans. So right now I am planning, planning, planning! Getting all my lesson plans ready and making sure I've got all my materials prepared. It is more work than I originally thought, but I still really enjoy it:)

Quotes By Bree....

2010-08-20T09:14:00.000-07:00

"I can't wait till I'm an old lady and I can wear ANY kind of perfume!"

-Bree Wolstenhome

Goating Season Has Begun!!

2010-08-18T19:32:00.000-07:00

They're here!! Meet the newest members of the family... Francis, a.k.a-the pain in the butt, and Blanch, a.k.a-the favorite one. We got them on Tuesday night and within an hour they escaped and started eating out pear tree. Yup... Don't know what we got ourselves into!

Blanch on the left and Francis on the right

Francis showing us her big ol' mug. Still can't decide if they are cute or not??

Bree milking her very first goat! Get use to it Bree...

Me and the kids. They kept trying to eat my hair!

Well I just have to say that this 17 year old gets just about anything she wants. Happy Birthday Bree. You got your goats you've always wanted!

We are Getting.......

2010-08-16T07:24:00.000-07:00

Some of these----------

(This is going to be interesting)

STAY TUNED!!

Holy Smokes... Bree is 17!!

2010-08-15T17:15:00.000-07:00

Tyson and I really wanted to make sure that Bree had a blast on her birthday and we thought "what better way to celebrate than by going to the lake??" Bree was excited about the idea so we sent an invite to some of her good friends and planned a boating trip for Friday. As many of you know, Tys and I are big on wakeboarding and wakesurfing.

When we signed up to be chaperons of a boat-full of hyped up teens, we didn't realize that we would be doing this....

And this....

Oh, and some more of this....

These guys could play this game ALL day. Carson even lost his shorts on one round!

It was actually really entertaining seeing all these kids get thrashed around on the tube. I'm not gonna lie though... I was a little scared for their lives because this guy....

Showed NO MERCY!

Throughout the day, we did manage to get SOME surfing in. One of Bree's friends was able to surf the wave, without the rope, by the end of the day thanks to our RAD coaching skills.

Bree and Tyson's attempt at Double Surfing. They are Pro!

After about 8 fun hours of baking in the sun, we headed home for some pizza and ice cream. Tyson and I were glad that we could take Bree and her friends to the lake, but next year, we might just send her to the pool instead;)

Love ya Bree! Happy Birth!!

Aiden Marshall Brown

2010-08-15T16:44:00.000-07:00

Congrats to Avery and Erin on their new baby boy! Aiden Marshall Brown was born August 12th, 2010. He was 7lbs, 2 oz, and 19 inches long.

Welcome to the fam Aiden!

Marriage at its Best

2010-08-05T22:21:00.000-07:00

Nook Nerd!

2010-08-05T22:17:00.000-07:00

Tyson bought me a nook for an early birthday present. I LOVE this thing! I am using it so much that Bree and Tyson have started to call me a Nook Nerd:) It is so convenient to have and it is great to use! Thanks for the b.day present Tys!

Greatest Summer Ever!

2010-08-05T21:50:00.001-07:00

This summer has been so much fun. We have all been really busy but we still find time to go and have lots of fun. It has been awhile since I've posted anything.... So here some of the updates!

First off, this sassy teen got herself a job working for Mr. Dave Thomas! (otherwise known as Wendy's) She's a pretty good sport about it and Tyson really enjoys the occasional free frosties.

Bree and I had our first time at the Manti pageant. I really enjoyed it but I think Bree and her friends were more interested in all the boys there. Oh brother....

For the 4th of July, we went down to Annabelle which was my first year celebrating down there. It was fun to be able to hang out with the fam and to go to all the Annabelle festivities!

The kids got to decorate their bikes and ride in a bike parade. The boys got really into creating a covered wagon for jaxon to pull Marabelle in (didn't get a pic though).

4th of July Parade

Josh, Alicia, Marabelle, Lou, Me, and Heather watching the parade.
Tyson was on the sidelines begging for candy!

Cute ball player!

I was getting all comfy with my lawn chair and blanket ready to watch the game....

But it turns out they didn't have enough players, so I ended up being one of the few girls to play in the game. It was actually a lot of fun:)

Here's the QuickFix Krew! Bryce, Morgan, Tyson, and Taylor playing in the 3 on 3 basketball tournament. They made it to the championship round and sadly lost to a team that was about 3x their size. Good work Krew!

Mostly, we've been spending lots of time with the new member of our family. Our Super Air Nautique! We LOVE our new boat and we get out as often as we can for some wakeboarding and surfing!

Tyson rippin' it up!

We went to my family reunion in Idaho in July and spent some quality time with this baby on the Snake River. Gwen, Eli, and their new little guy Nash came with us and it was a really fun weekend. Too bad that I am TERRIBLE at taking pictures and only got this one of Bree and the delicious bass she caught the morning we were leaving.

Nice catch Bree!

Dan and Heidi's Wedding

2010-06-08T09:57:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, June 5th, my brother Dan and his fiance Heidi got married. Dan and Heidi have been together for about 3 years now. Dan is leaving for the Army this summer and will be gone for over a year and they decided it was time to get hitched!! They held the ceremony/reception in Heidi's parent's back yard. It was a very beautiful wedding and we all had a good time celebrating their marriage.

The Bride and Groom

After the ceremony they had the reception. It was the most perfect day with warm weather and blue skies. We got to hang out with a lot of our family that we don't get to see all the time. Tyson especially loves playing with the little one. This is him and my cousin's new baby Kemson.

Sisters! Me, Patrice, and Bree just havin a good time.

Mulligans with Bree!

2010-06-08T09:44:00.001-07:00

On Saturday, Bree and I headed up to South Jordan to help set up for my brother's wedding. Well we finished WAY early and we needed to find something to do until the wedding. We were driving towards the freeway and drove past Mulligans golf course. Neither of us had played mini golf in ages so we decided to go play! It was a bit of an adventure with my crazy sister!

Hole #1. This is where Bree is still acting sane haha

I can never seriously smile....

Looks like a friendly golfer, but don't let her fool you!

This is where Bree starts to lose her mind a little bit. Haha it was really HOT!

Really getting into it.

This is when Bree got pegged by a stray golf ball!

Haunted House

After about 2 hours, we finally finished the course. I'm pretty sure I won...! We had a really fun time but we might just stick to wiffleball from now on:)

Tyson's 26th Birthday!

2010-06-08T09:20:00.001-07:00

Friday was Tyson's birthday and it is now tradition to have a BIG BBQ to celebrate his and Eli's birthday. It is always so much fun and it is great to get together with our family and friends.

We had just cleaned our house to get ready for the Party, so we decided to go to IHOP for Tyson's birthday breakfast.
We had about 40 people over for the BBQ! Good thing we have plenty of parking space:) We had lots of yummy food and of coarse birthday cake.

Devin, Shawn, Chelsie and Tyson having a pow-wow.

And of coarse it wouldn't be a BBQ at the Brown's without a little Badminton Comp!

Tyson and Eli opening their birthday gifts.

Birthday Kites! I got one stuck in our apricot tree 10 minutes later... Whoops!

Jana, Julie, Laurel, Marnae, and Shaunae just relaxing and having a good time. Cute girls!

I have the best husband ever! Happy Birthday:)

Latest Project

2010-06-08T09:13:00.000-07:00

I painted this for Tyson's office with his Quikfix logo on it.

Woudn't This Be Awesome?

2010-06-02T09:10:00.000-07:00

I Love Lamp...

2010-05-24T18:03:00.000-07:00

Made this for $3. Not bad eh? I love the thrift store down the road from our house!!

Keepin' Busy

2010-05-20T07:17:00.001-07:00

Tyson has been really busy lately running his business, so while I'm not working, I'm always looking for a good project to keep me busy:) Lately I have an obsession with thrifting. We have a pretty decent thrift store that opened up just down the street from our house and the owner is always up for a good bargain! Here's what I've been working on.

Before
After

I made this lamp shade awhile ago. It was fun to make, but I wasn't really lovin' the look of it in our family room.

Ahhhh, much better!

Mother's day gift (From Bree, Made by ME) haha

I've been on the hunt for a new night stand for our bedroom. Found this little guy at the D.I. It just needed a make-over.

Pretty bold, but I LOVE the blue, which is one of the colors I've chosen for our bedroom ReDo.
This one was a little more back-breaking, but very rewarding. This is even half way through!

We can now see our window! This project wasn't as fun as the others, but very rewarding in the end.

Right now I'm in the process of redoing our bedroom. I've done projects on everyroom in our house except our room. It has been really fun, but is moving pretty slow. I've got some ideas that I am so excited to try!

P.S. I bought a projecter at the D.I. for $5! Yeah like the kind we used in school... Can't wait to experiment with it!

Wow What A Weekend!

2010-05-02T16:58:00.001-07:00

This weekend was EXTREMELY busy but even more FUN:) I finished school on Thursday but it was not time to relax yet.

On Friday, Tyson graduated from Utah Valley University with a degree in business/finance. I am so proud of him and all the hard work he has done these past years in order to get his degree. Tyson's dad and I went to the graduation convocation to see Tyson walk. It was a really cool experience. Good Job Tys!!

Tyson the college Grad

Me, Tyson, and Lou

Shaunae, Tyson, and Trent

After the graduation, we had a get together at our house to celebrate Tyson's graduation. We had a really good time getting together with our family and friends!

Later that day, we headed up to a friend's wedding and then headed over to our dentist's office to camp out (confused?). Well our dentist office has a day that comes once a year where they offer free dental work for people, like us, who don't have insurance. We wanted to make sure we would be the first in line because we had to be to Jesse's wedding down in Manti the next day by noon. So we loaded our car with our camping gear and headed over to the dentist.

Yup. We were first in line! I felt kind of weird about camping out at a dentist office, but when other people started showing up with their tents it started to feel more like a giant campout:)

Here is Tyson getting our stuff ready. We were really rough'in it!!
Well.... It did rain a little bit;)

After getting only two hours of sleep, we finally got in to get our work done. Tyson had 2 cavities filled and I got my teeth cleaned (no cavities for me!). It was totally worth it.

Soon after the dentist we drove down to Manti for Jesse and Inhae's wedding.

What a cute couple

Like I said, we had a really busy weekend. Work, finishing school, graduation, graduation party, wedding, dentist campout, and another wedding. It was such a blast but when Saturday night rolled around we were excited to finally get some sleep:)

This is What happens when we go golfing...

2010-04-25T13:49:00.000-07:00

Tyson, Zach and I went golfing this weekend. It was not very long that we found out our golf carts did not have the devices that would slow you down automatically when you started going to fast... The golf course we were at had TONS of steep hills, which is where we started getting ourselves into trouble. We found this little lip at the bottom of this hill where we could jump the golf carts. Yes I know we are very mature.

Here is Zach's attempt...

Here is mine and Tyson's attempt. Notice the difference...

If you didn't notice, our cart was a little out of control and we started to crash into the side of the mountain. I was about to jump out cause our cart was going to roll for sure! We barely escaped with our lives!! Yes we learned a valuable lesson and we might think twice about some of our crazy ideas from now on. No promises though:) We were actually kind of sad that Zach did not get the real action on film of where Tyson sacrificed his body to save our cart from rolling! We were so close to crashing and I was about ready to bail but Tyson was able to correct the cart last second. It might be awhile before I go golfing with these boys again!! But I won't lie... It was a lot of fun!

Office

2010-04-23T15:46:00.000-07:00

So Tyson's little office space is always such a cluster (Sorry Tys, but it's the truth)! Maybe one day I can change it into something like this. Not to clustered, not too girlie:)

Grayson's Blessing

2010-04-18T19:24:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday we were lucky enough to go to our nephew Grayson's baby blessing. Grayson is two years old, but better late than never! He is such a sweet little guy and we are so happy to have him be apart of our family.

Dan and Heidi

He is such a little stud

Projects, Projects...

2010-04-18T19:17:00.000-07:00

I love finding a good project to work on. I have to restrain myself sometimes so I can get some homework done, but once in awhile I find some spare time to work on something. I love to bargain hunt and find pieces for a good price. Lately I have been OBSESED with spray paint! It is so easy to use and makes for quick projects. Here are some things that I have worked on recently...

Before
After
Before

Got this end table for $10 plus an ice cream maker!!!

After

This project made for some MESSY hands...

THANKS FOR LOOKING!

Goodbye Nautique

2010-04-18T19:14:00.000-07:00

Yes we sold our boat... It was a sad day but we our looking forward to our upgrade! Hopefully we will be able to find a replacement soon. But we had a lot of good times on this boat and it is a weird feeling to not have one anymore!

Remembering Hopscotch

2010-04-15T11:49:00.000-07:00

Okay so I know that she was just a rabbit and that she is not like a dog who actually shows its owner some type of affection, but we really got attatched to our little bunny. This week Tyson and I went outside to go check on Hopscotch. We had recently moved her from inside our house to a nice roomy cage outside in our garden. Well when we got to her cage Hopscotch was nowher to be found... We've been keeping an eye out for her everyday, but I've decided that it is time to face the fact that she is not coming back. She was our first pet that Tyson and I had together and we will miss you Hopscotch!!

Happy Birthday Brother!

2010-03-29T17:16:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Josh!! We love you and are so grateful for all you do for our family!

Our Week In Hawaii

2010-03-29T16:35:00.000-07:00

Since our honeymoon to Maui, Tyson and I have been dying to go back to Hawaii! We thought it would be a few years before we could go back but we came across an opportunity that we couldn't resist. Tyson's brother is a pilot and he was nice enough to give us some buddy passes. Also Tyson's grandparents are in Hawaii on a mission until April so we also had a guaranteed place to stay. We realised that if we used our credit card points they could reimburse us for all our traveling expenses on this trip. So it wasn't a very hard decision to make! Two weeks later, we made our way to the airport. It was a little scary since we were using buddy passes!

This is us waiting for our plane. We were so excited and nervous! We had no idea if we were going to make the flight.

Unfortunately, we didn't make it on the first flight. The plane actually left with 16 empty seats! So we were feeling a little discouraged. Tyson's brother Avery was at the airport, about to fly out, so he gave us a quick tour so Tyson and I got to hang out with him while waiting for the next flight out.

The next day we were in Hawaii! We were dying to get to the beach but it was a little windy so Phill and Helen gave us a tour of the BYU campus and took us over to see the temple (we couldn't actually go in the temple our whole trip because it has been closed for renovations! but it is still nice to go walk around the grounds.)

While there, we were sure to go to the major attractions
Tyson at the PCC. He participated in one of the ceremonies. He got pretty into it! Way more than any of the other husbands out there ha ha.

We also went to Pearl Harbor. We didn't go see the Arizona cause it was so expensive, but it was cool to walk on the grounds and see all the monuments.
This kid was so funny! Tyson was trying to take a picture of this ship but this little guy here saw the camera and posed for the picture. I about peed my pants I was laughing so hard.

Mostly we spent our time on the beach and finding cool hikes to go on. It was so nice to get away and have some adventures!

Tyson thinking he's Moses/Ninja.
This place was SO cool. Plus it was pouring so hard we were soaked in 10 seconds! It was a fun hike.
Tyson being "creative with the sand:)

Lookout over the ocean.
We spent a lot of time boogy boarding. So much fun!
This guy decided to take a break on our beach. He was so big and smelly!
This was a really cool waterfall. Some guys would hike up the cliff 50 ft and jump down into the pools. So crazy! When they hit the water it sounded like a gunshot. The pain from hitting the water doesn't seem like it would be worth it to me...

We had such a good time on our trip and were very sad to come home to cold Utah! Thanks so much to our family who helped us get out to Hawaii! We appreciate ya!

Bree's Baptism

2010-03-29T16:17:00.000-07:00

Bree has been living with us for 6 months now and we've definitely had a good time, but this was the greatest day ever for us! Before Bree was living with us she started taking lessons from the missionaries and when she moved in with us she decided that she wanted to be baptized. One night Tyson and I were driving down the road when we spotted two missionaries. We both looked at each other and we knew that we needed to turn around and go talk to them. Tyson flagged them down and told them that our sister had already had the lessons and that she wanted to be baptised. Well they were pretty thrilled but they wanted to come visit with Bree to get to know her and interview her. When they met Bree and saw how much she knew and could tell that she had a very strong testimony one of them asked her "Why are you waiting 3 weeks to get baptized? You could do it tomorrow if you wanted to!" It was really awesome. When the day finally came for Bree to get baptized we were all so excited, but I don't think anyone was more excited than Bree...

Here are the Wolstenholme girls. Bree was waiting for the big moment and she was so nervous but VERY excited.

This is Elder Yamaguci and Elder Druck, the missionaries that Tyson and I flagged down a month earlier. They were really great and we enjoyed getting to know them. Tyson and Bree were really excited to wear jumpsuits as well:)

Bree and Dad right before the baptism.

Bree asked Tyson if he would be the one to baptize her and our coarse he so happy to do so! After a great program we went to our house to have lunch and to socialize. We had a really nice meal and had a great time with our family celebrating Bree's big day. Thank you to everyone who helped us put it all together!

Wow it's been awhile... Here we go!

2010-01-17T17:35:00.000-08:00

So it's no news to anyone that I am TERRIBLE at this blogging stuff. It has been forever since I have last updated this thing, and I'm sure that I am still doing it wrong, but I thought I'd make another attempt anyways.

Like I said, it has been a long time since I have last posted anything and we've been up to quite a bit. Our Christmas was great. Our new years was awesome. And we've just been having a good time with family, friends, and getting back into the groove of school.

Christmas Eve we slept over at my brother Josh and his wife Patrice's house and had a wonderful Christmas morning with my family. Christmas Day, Me Tyson and Bree headed down to Annabella to see Tyson's family and to go ice fishing (I'm sure I'll be blogging a lot about ice fishing this winter ha ha). Ice fishing is one of the most favorite of activities amongst the Browns!

Here is Bree at Fish Lake. The ice was so clear that you could see the reeds underneath you! It was a little creepy, but so fun. Bree caught this MONSTER fish and won the category of "the biggest fish" for the day.

Of coarse, over Christmas break, we had to go see Avatar in 3D! It was a good movie, but I got sick since we were sitting on the 3rd row from the screen... Blah

Here are the cute parents sportin' their 3D glasses, excited for the movie

We had a little get together on New Years Eve at our house with Tyson's sister (Laurel) and her husband (Nate) along with Tyson's cousin (Heidi) and her husband (Josh). It was fun to eat lots of good food, play games, and celebrate the new year with them. Laurel and Nate also brought their dog Bella along. She was pretty funny...

This is Bella. She stayed here ALL night long staring at our bunny Hopscotch. She would not take her eye off of her for anything! She stood like a statue in front of Hopscotch's cage for about 5 hours! It was hilarious

You know it's a happy new year when you have sparklers:)

New Years day, Josh and Alicia invited us up to Fairview to go snowboarding. I had never been there before and it was really hard work the first few runs where we had to break trail. The snow was AMAZING and we had such a good time! Good workout too!

This weekend we headed down to Annabell another ice fishing adventure with the Brown clan. I was freezing the whole time, so Zach and Julie built a fire right on the ice!

Everyone had a great time ice fishing. Thanks so much Lou and Julie!

Having Issues...

2010-01-13T16:11:00.000-08:00

Ok I think I figured it out. Anyone should be able to post comments on here now. Sorry! I'm still learning...

Temple Square

2009-12-14T18:05:00.000-08:00

This past weekend, we thought we'd get out and get away from studying for awhile. We decided to go see the Joseph Smith movie and then check out the lights at Temple Square. It was really fun and SO nice to get out of the house.

Bree had a good time. This was her favorite
decorated building. She is too funny.

Tys and I loved all the orange lights.

We had a really good time downtown and getting out of the house. Now it's back to studying for our finals! We'll be done by Thursday and Tyson will be officially DONE with school! Wish us Luck!

Bree's Dance!

2009-12-14T17:54:00.000-08:00

Bree had a good time at her dance that was a few weekends ago. It was a crazy week but when Saturday came it was all worth it in the end. Bree's group started the day making gingerbread houses and later they went to the dance and played games after. The stinker didn't give me any pictures... So here's the ones I took

Bree looked so darling in her dress!

Bree and The Parents

I made Bree's date's boutineer because she waited too long to order one! I also put these gold beads in her hair barrette to match her dress.

So we were very busy getting ready for the dance that week. In all, Bree had a good time and Tyson and I are glad that it is over!

Bree's Upcoming Dance

2009-12-02T15:41:00.000-08:00

So for those of you who don't know, my little sister Bree is now living with Tyson and I. Bree is sixteen and moved in with us back in October. This has been a big transition for Bree, from going to a charter school in Riverton with 500 students, to going to Pleasant Grove High with 1,800 students. She has been doing great here with us and has made a big impression on everyone ha ha. We are so glad to have Bree living with us. She is so much fun and she keeps things interesting for us!

This coming weekend is the girl's preference dance at PGH. Many of you heard how Bree was planning on asking someone and are probable wondering what happened next! Well here you go!!

This is how she asked him. If you can't read it, it says "I would DIG IT if you would go to the dance with me" and we buried her name in the dirt, which was actually chocolate cake, and he had to look through the dirt to find her name! She was so nervous!

The next night, Bree found this on the porch!

This is what it said...

Yes or no. What will it be?

YES!! Turns out Bree will be going to the dance on Saturday after all. Way to cut it close Bree!

Thanksgiving Weekend

2009-12-02T15:14:00.000-08:00

So Tyson, Bree and I had a great Thanksgiving. Tyson's family gets together at a church every year to have Thanksgiving dinner. Ever since Real's win, Tyson has been dying to get a soccer game going, so before dinner we set up some goals and played soccer in the gym. After dinner it's tradition that everyone gets together to play warball ( a more fun version of dodgeball)! It was such a good time.

After a few crazy, competitive games of warball we headed off for Anabella ( a little town outside of Richfield where Tyson grew up). I have been waiting and waiting for Thanksgiving to be over so that we could go down to Anabella to get a Christmas tree. Bree came along and had a good time.

*The Brown Family Christmas Tree*

Tyson was set on making sure that Bree would get the full Anabell experience, so of course, we had to go shoot guns!

Shooting clay pigeons

Bree shot the target first try!

It was a fun Thanksgiving weekend. We were so glad that we could spend it with Tyson's family and with Bree.

First Post!!!!

2009-11-02T21:36:00.001-08:00

Yay we have a blog.... Isn't it so exciting. We just had Halloween and it was so much fun. We went to Josh and Alicia's party and had a good time with almost the whole Brown clan. Everyone had really good costumes. We were "Where's Waldo" (Tyson) and Carmen Sandiego (Me). We even made it over to the Caldwell's for the dance party and got our dance on for a while. Good times...