Brooklynn has grown up so much the past few months! She is now being potty trained and is doing really great so we took her petco to pick out some goldfish. She has entered into the princess phase and is becoming all girl! Her favorite movie is now Cinderella and she loves to watch Looney Tunes. She says "bugs bunny is funny and daffy duck is silly". She is always saying the funniest things that make us laugh all the time. She loves to wear dresses and would wear a dress everyday if I would let her. She loves to dance around and always talks about going to the ball and dancing with the prince. She has also loved stickers lately and mostly wears them on her head. She is turning into a little mother and is so helpful with everything! We are so glad to have her in our family and couldn't picture life without her. Here are a few pictures of how cute she is!

5 Years and Running

This is Bryce, Today is a special day for me. Exactly 5 years ago I met my best friend and eternal companion. I consider myself very lucky that Kella had the patience and the poor eye sight to even consider me. When I met Kella I wasn’t necessarily living my life in the best way. Fortunately for me she saw me for who I really was not who I was letting myself be at the time. As soon as I met her I knew there was something about her that I could not resist and I knew without a doubt that my Heavenly Father was giving me another chance. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t thank my heavenly father for bringing her into my life. I am so blessed to have her in my life forever and for a beautiful daughter that she has given me. I am so grateful for the calming influence she has been in my life and also for the maid she has become to me. I am not very good at cleaning up after myself but without fail she is always right behind me to pick up after me. Kella is a very quiet person and I am glad that I am the one she has chosen to open up to, not a whole lot of people know her the way I do but she has such an amazing spirit and I could not ask for a better spouse and mother to my children. No offense to anyone else but I am blessed to have the most amazing wife in the world. Kella I love you more than anything, I thank you for everything and for helping me become the man I am today. I hope that today means as much to you as it does to me ;)

Halloween

We had a great Halloween this year! Bryooklynn was so excited to wear her ladybug costume she had it on all day and had her "pretty princess hair"done. She had fun trick-or-treating with some of her friends and it didn't take her long to figure out the whole candy thing- she kept sneaking candy from out trick-or-treating bowl into her basket!

Showing her baby pumpkin

Flying like a ladybug

Josh, Brooklynn, and Jackson

Trick-or-treating with her best friend!

Carving Pumpkins

On Monday we decided to carve our pumpkins for FHE. This was the first year Bryce and have ever done this and we had a lot of fun- Brooklynn being the little girly girl she is wouldn't touch the pumpkins cause they were too slimy for her but once her little pumpkin had a face she thought it was pretty cool.

Helping Me Make-or Eat Cupcakes

Not Too Sure About Touching It

Daddy Cleaning Out His Pumpkin

Family Picture Of All Our Pumpkins!

Pumpkin Patch

As a tradition every year we get to go to the pumpkin patch- or "munkin match" as Brooklynn calls it. She was so excited that's all she talked about all week!

All dolled up and ready to go!

She found her pumpkin

and another one- she kept picking the "baby munkins"

She loved driving the tractor!

Brooklynn and Daddy

Brooklynn kept choosing all the little pumpkins- we couldn't get her to pick a big I think she just wanted one she could carry around with her. She had a lot of fun and can't wait for Halloween!

Brooklynn helped me make brownies

well she licked the spoons for me!

Wearing her new "slipper boots" and very proud of them-

I got some ice out for the dogs to eat and Brooklynn decided she wanted to eat it

so she did!

Labor Day Weekend!

We had so much fun this past weekend! We finally got to use our trailor we bought at the beginning of the summer- we went camping with Bryce's family up to Lava Hot Springs. We enjoyed a little bit of fishing even though no one caught anything except for Bryce's dad and he was just a little guy- but Brooklynn sure did LOVE her fishing pole daddy bought for her. She also loved swiming in her "boat" at the pool and just hanging out with all of her cousins and we had a great time camping!

Brooklynn getting ready to fish

Trying to catch a fish... no success

Fishing with daddy

Hanging out with Papa

Papa's catch- the kids were so excited!

Playing with the bobbers

Hanging out

Brooklynn, Taylor, and Hailey

Brooklynn loved this!

Having a snack

Brooklynn and mommy getting ready to get in the pool

Riding Tysons scooter

Chilling with Jackson!

Making some smores around the campfire