BYU Theme Post

While I’m a big fan, not everything we do centers around BYU sports. However, it looks like this post once again has a lot of BYU focus. The other night we went to the BYU Basketball opening home game. (We got a $1/person deal).

We only made it a little past half time. The “babies” wouldn’t sit still.

The boys had their first orchestra concert. They were amazing good for an elementary school orchestra. Here is Blake trying to charm the ladies before the concert.

Derek is in line to get his violin tuned.

Brandon decided it was funny to put pencils in Amy’s hair.

Here are some movie clips from the concert and from the game.

You can't tell from this video but I've been very surprised at how much they have learned in a couple of months. They both love it and they REALLY like performing. Keeping with the BYU theme they played the BYU fight song.

Horses, Rock and Walking

Brandon is almost done for the year with his horseback riding class/therapy. He LOVES riding the horses. Just walking in takes a long time because he keeps wanting to stop and say hi to the horses along the way.

Katelyn is very happy to sit and watch as long as she has her purple "hat".






We had a family night where we invited some friends to come over and play LEGO Rock Band.

This video may just look like an average video of a toddler learning to walk but it’s really exciting for us. Brandon’s stroke would have left an adult permanently paralyzed on their left side. However, we were told many times how amazing it is that young kids have the ability to adapt and overcome. We were often told that Brandon had a good chance of learning to walk at some point. However, I think everyone was just hoping he could walk before kindergarten. He is making progress fast. I keep taking videos to show his progress but it takes me a week to be ready to upload them. By the time I’m ready, I look at the video and realize he’s already a better walker and I should take a new video. He’s also pretty cute and charming.

Halloween

As usual, I’m late getting these up. It seems like everyone has already posted Halloween pictures and moved on already.

Here is some video from Halloween night. I really like Katelyn's "Happy Ween".

Pre-Halloween Fun

The kids have had chances to wear their Halloween costumes before Halloween. Derek and Blake had a school Halloween program. Katelyn and Brandon wore costumes to Brandon’s motor class.

Big Game

It’s kind of hard to talk about the game after BYU lost so badly. To make matters worse we sat near the TCU section. A bunch of people dressed in purple and calling themselves Horned Frogs made fun of my team and I let it bother me. It was hard for us to respond when we were being crushed. At least we will have more chances in the future but they will always have to call themselves Frogs. By the way, their mascot has to be one of the ugliest in college football.

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These pictures were taken before the game so we are all still happy. The kids may have still smiled after the game but I don’t think the Dads would have. We also went to the ESPN College Game Day broadcast in the morning.

Bear Lake

We were lucky enough last weekend that we has some very generous and good friends willing to invite us to spend some time with them. We went to Bear Lake. We had a great time and the scenery was gorgeous.

We stopped at the Sal Lake Zoo on the way back home.

old Video

This video is a little old now but I decided to post it anyway. I've been trying to get it uploaded for a long time. I have more I hope to post soon.