BIRTHDAY BOY!

Well, yesterday was the actual big day for Brigham! He has been waiting for this for many (like 9) months now. He had a great day that started at 6 am. We had a wonderful birthday breakfast of french toast, then opened his present. He spent the morning playing with his pirate ship with caleb. We were so happy to get a call from Grandma and Grandpa Randall from Germany. Brigham talked to them for a long time. Most importantly he wanted to know when he would get his present from them. The mind of a five year old. He spent the day with friends as he went to a neighbor boys birthday party and then went to a friends house for the rest of the day. For dinner we went a little overboard and went to jungle jims! He had a blast!! The night before his birthday he had his Grandma and Grandpa Beckstead over and his aunt and uncles from Laura's side over. He got many good presents. He has had a great couple of days. The party continues Thursday when we have his friends over for a party. What a week. Multiple birthday celebrations and Halloween.

Are you getting annoyed yet?

I told you I wasn't going to be great at this whole blogging thing. Hopefully it will be more enticing now that I can put some pictures on. Well, Gavin had his two week check-up this past monday. We found out that the things that have been up his nose (nasal stents) have to stay up his nose for the next six months. The great thing is they don't stay up on their own. I have finally taped up his face royally enough that they have actually stayed on for about 6 hours now( that's a record!!) I met Rus for lunch at Cafe Rio and someone came over and asked me if my baby had broken his nose. My poor child!! Six months!!!??? Brigham is extremely excited about his up and coming birthday next Monday. He is turning 5. I can't believe I have a five year old. He has been talking about it everyday for probably the last month. He has actually gotten extremely mad when I told him it wasn't the next day. We are going to have a "sports" party for him next week. Fun:) Rus and I went to see the dance performace Thriller Last night with our neighbors. It was so cool! I definitely reccomend seeing it, but leave the kiddies home. Lets just say the chainsaw guys and the chucky guys might leave them a little rattled. They might not understand the Lorena Bobbit part either! It was a riot!! Anyway, See ya soon! Love to all!

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?

Have you seen this man? He is considered to be highly contagious for a new unknown disease. If you have exhibited symptoms of strange silliness, excessive laughter, inexplicable need to put on crazy clothes, or just plain rolling on the floor, you need to get to the nearest doctor as soon as possible. Not long after this picture was taken, he was found to be a carrier of the new mystery disease, and then fled!! Please help us find him and bring him in before he infects other innocent bystanders!

HIGH-SPEED!!!

I just got high-speed internet!! It is 11:15 at night, but I am so excited that this is up and working that I just had to go somewhere, so here I am! I am going to get some pictures on just so I can watch how fast they come up!! My last post was of Gavin. His surgery went really well, and we are now over a week out. Next monday he gets his gear off, and we will be back in business. It is amazing how good he looks! Our plastic surgeon is truely a miracle worker! Gavin has been a little trooper through it all. He just rolls with the punches!(almost literally) Anyway, here are some pictures.(hopefully) I'm adding some pictures of our trip to St. George in our new toy. We ended up on the top of this mountain looking over all of St. George. It was Awesome!

GAVIN

Well....tomorrow is the big day!! I am glad that it is finally here. I didn't think about it for a long time, but for the last three weeks I have just been waiting. We will find out later today when he goes in. He will have his lip worked on and then it should look like what it is going to be. This past weekend we went to St. George to play on our new 4-wheeler. We were going to go to Moab, but there were not any vacant hotel rooms due to a bike race. We still had a blast. We went and rode the sand dunes of sand hollow, then went up past santa clara to a place called the joshua tree loop. Both were great. We took Gavin both times. Just put his carseat in the seat belt on the bench seat. I was surprised how well he did. He seemed to enjoy himself. Rus had a great birthday. He enjoyed the phone calls that he recieved. We really enjoyed confrence. Sorry for the lack of pictures. we still are dial-up(i know) and pictures take forever. To my defense, we did try to get high-speed through Qwest, but it was an abosolute disaster, so we told them to forget it. Everywhere else is super expensive. Any ideas!? Well, I will let everyone know as soon as I can how tomorrow goes. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.