Story Time-Food

Story #1
On our second date I invited Brad over to my apartment for dinner. Afterward he made an apple pie from scratch-I was impressed. I can't exactly remember how the subject came up but he was telling me that he had never burned anything while he was cooking. Suddenly I pictured my Dad scrapping burnt toast with a knife over the sink and thought that everyone has at least burnt toast, right?! I proceeded to tease him and he continued to defend himself. Of course it only escalated the more time we spent together. Then one day it happened! He burned a grilled cheese sandwich at my apartment. I couldn't help but jump up and down while laughing and screaming ha! I told you so! I remember the look on his face perfectly. He wanted to be mad but just couldn't help the smile creeping up on his lips. It was priceless. To this day I still tease him when he accidentally burns something. Granted it doesn't happen often, but just the other day he did make the fire alarm go off!! :)

Story #2

Before I had the baby, Brad and I worked for the same company so we would go to lunch together. One day I saw what looked like an adorable little diner so Brad and I decided to try it out the next day for lunch. It was called the Vertical Diner. We sit down and see that they had a lot of tofu and alternative proteins among which they also listed chicken. So I ordered a veggie burger and Brad gets the chicken sandwich. 30 min. later we finally get our order. I had an ok burger with 4 regular sized carrot sticks. And Brad had a odd looking sandwich with a few tortilla chips (no salsa or anything just plain tortilla chips) Then Brad bites into his and thinks that they made a mistake and calls the waitress over. He told her he had ordered the Chicken Sandwich. She informed us that it was an entirely Vegan restaurant and that was the "Chicken." Nothing against substitute meats but why would they bother listing 6 different types of protein and then call the 7th Chicken? Confusing to say the least! They also didn't have anything printed on their menu about it being all Vegan. Brad couldn't eat the rest and we both laughed as I finished off my four carrot sticks. The waitress took off Brad's meal (even though we didn't ask, which was very nice). Our waitress said it happened all the time....so you'd think they would have something somewhere that said everything was Vegan right? The next closest thing was McDonald's so we stopped in for a double cheese for Brad and I got a Hot Fudge Sundae. We really did get a good laugh out of it so it was worth watching Brad's face as he tried to figure out what was on his sandwich. Sigh...We'll always have the Vertical Diner!

Story #3

To have story time and not tell about the cobbler would just be wrong! This takes place back in my High School days. I'm sure a lot of you have already heard this...but it's a classic! My Mom had just made a big peach cobbler and had offered a piece to my boyfriend and I . My Mom, Stepdad Ren, Tyler, and I were all standing in the kitchen talking while we started to take our first bite. I look over and Tyler has a confused look on his face, gets his fork, and starts pulling something out of his cobbler. How this happened I will never know, but apparently a blue rubberband had somehow fallen into the pan and just as equally impressive, my Mom hadn't noticed it. It wasn't the standard size of rubberband either...it was huge! It seemed like he pulled it out for a good 5 seconds before the last of it had finally made it's appearance. It was shocking, very unexpected, but hilarious! I can't remember if he ate another piece or not. Poor guy was probably traumatized!

Catching up

I have to play catch up due to my nearly insensitive lack of blogging lately. My apologizes to Amy, Holly, and Brad :)

Our son was finally blessed! We had scheduled his blessing for February 3rd but as you can all remember, it snowed so bad that day that church was canceled. So we had to wait until March 9th when he was finally given a wonderful blessing. The whole time during the blessing I was bouncing my legs as if he was sitting on them in some odd attempt to keep him from crying. My Dad told me he was watching Brynner through the blessing and he was just fine looking around at everyone. I was really relieved. I admit I have an irrational fear of Brynner crying in public and me not being able to console him. Odd, I know. To this day I still have a hard time going grocery shopping, for example, without Brad. It's not that Brad can magically stop the crying, I just feel better with him there. We unfortunately didn't get a get a ton of pictures of Brynner in his blessing outfit because he was so sweaty and uncomfortable that we promptly changed him not long after we got home. We did get a few..none of Brad and I, but here is one with my Mom. She is the one that made the adorable outfit. I had her make it out of the train of my wedding dress. It really means something special to me to know Brynner and I shared two of the most important days of our lives wearing essentially the same thing. With that said, please do not tease my son that he wears girls clothes...appreciate it. I had to ship the material to Arizona where my Mom made it in just three days. Thank you Mom, you're the best!

(Brynner's Elvis impression)

The Easter Bunny also made an appearance at our house as he did undoubtedly to yours. For some reason Brynner was given things like a kite, candy and other ridiculous things such as a book and movie which he cannot (or should not, rather)enjoy yet. Don't be concerned, Brad and I discussed it and will play, eat, read, and watch his things until he comes of age.


As far as things that have changed with Brynner. Last night he slept 8 hours straight! Do you know how exciting that was?? So why couldn't I enjoy it?! I woke up countless times from 3:00 to 6:00 and had to go check on him to make sure he was ok. Man, I'm beginning to sound like...oh I know...a first time parent! This is huge if he keeps this up, I'm so proud of him!

Another very important thing he started doing last week was going phhhhhww. I have no clue how to spell it but it just might be easier to show you on video. I dare you to spell it. No I triple dog dare you. That's how long I pondered on the spelling of this rather adorable new trick.