Commencement closure

Well, the day finally arrived that John was able to walk the stage and sort of gain some closure to the end of his long journey through education. Well, not the end, because now all he talks about his going back for his doctorate, but the end of his graduate years I guess. We were so exited sitting in a crowd of 20,000 people watching John walk across the stage, it was REALLY cool for Bash to see especially. It was the perfect day with mine and John's families and the perfect ending at Chilis'(thanks Yanet)with a group devouring of the Molten Chocolate Cake. Thank you everyone for coming and sharing in this special day!


It was cool catching John on the jumbotron

Muchas Gracias, Senora Brown !!!

Thank you all SO much for your quick response! When the dress came and I faintedpanicked, John was like oh just spread the word around, post it on the blog, your sisters will respond. He was right. Amber Brown came by a day later, measured the problem areas and took the dress away. What a "saint". Thanks again!

The "dress" is in.. but I NEED A SEAMSTRESS!!!! HELP!!!

I just received my dress for the sealing ceremony today. Thanks mom! It is just what I pictured. Being that our budget was zero REALLY tight,I found this store in China, through Ebay, that was super reasonable with free shipping. It was a strapless mermaid style and I had read on another blog about this girl in Washington that sewed her own sleeves to an Alfred Angelo strapless dress to make it Temple ready. So I email and sent pics to the store in China asking if they could add sleeves like the one in Washington. They photoshopped the finished dress with the sleeves and it looked just like what I asked for. I ordered it on the 9th of Sept. and it arrived today. I'm so exited! However, it is a little tight in the armpit area and around the thighs. If anyone can or knows anyone who can alter this,for a reasonable price, PLEASE PLEASE call or email me! Thanks

Puzzling behavior

Mia's been exploring the world super independently lately. We love to watch her just crawl around and pick up random toys, but lately she's been driven to her puzzles. At first she'd just dump all the pieces out and suck on them, but I think she's watched me clean her room and put the pieces back on the puzzles, so now Monkey see, Monkey do.

Seriously Mia, you're that tired ?

So, were just listening to the speaker in sacrament meeting one Sunday,and I notice that all of the wriggling and moving around on my lap stopped, so I look down and see this litte girl fast asleep, sitting up. She's so reverent!

How FAST could a FAT girl crawl, if a FAT girl could crawl FAST?

Ok so I've been meaning to post this for a week. Our little Mia is crawling at 7 months. Her brother beat her by a month but who's counting? He is.

Here is a little montage to recapture her first moments as a new crawler! YOU HAVE TO TURN UP THE SOUND!!!Enjoy

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These are just the same videos without the montage. So, this video is from the first attempt.


Then we though, "What would entice a little Fatty to want to crawl, FOOD!!!" So we let her suck on some oranges and then set a plate of them as bait a couple of feet in front of her. Yep, she went for it, Literally. Within a 30 min. she was on the move.


Heres her reward!

Love is in the air

Another year of happiness and many more to come... I'm glad I that I was able to force you both to stop and take a picture together, it meant the world for me to see how giddy you two looked as you hugged and posed for pics. We love and miss you guys so much! Happy 5th anniversary!



My beautiful mom, always advocating peace whenever possible

Of coarse mia had to intrude!

On to 3rd grade, not without my sister...

Sebastian had been dreading the idea of going back to school, so we find it only fitting that John and I walked in on this sneaky attempt to smuggle Mia to school in Bash's backpack
After he thought he'd tucked her away safely in there, we jumped out and asked what in the world they were doing. You can see by the expression on Mia's face that the jig was up and they knew they were busted.
We sat Bash down and explained that he was going to have a fantastic school year and after the first day he'd realize all the cool new stuff he would be learning and people he'd be meeting and learning with.
As for Mia the next morning we caught her like this, she just can't accept the fact that summer is over and brother will be gone all day.

Last Splash before school

Thank you so much Jamie for inviting us to your "fun in the sun" "back to school splash bash"! We had a great time, and thanks for the pics, I couldn't believe you sent them out so fast.

Old McRirie had a farm E I E I O....

...And on his farm, he had some pretty hilarious kids!







It all started with feeding one lil goat, then the whole family joined in. It was a feeding frenzy

Mia had a little lamb...

Our friend the COOKOO bird, I know he's not one, but he sure looks COOKOO