Tanner is on a Mission

My brother, Tanner, has officially left on his mission last Wednesday. He was so excited, he threw up on the flight over, after the flight, after lunch, and before he went into the MTC. :) Haha.. He's doing good tho! He wrote to us and said that it was just the stomach flu. I think it was all nerves. Anyways, if you didn't know, he was called to serve in the Argentina Cordoba Mission. His first week there has been kind of tough because he is already paired with a companion who hates being at the MTC and won't even talk to Tanner. He is staying strong, and has already asked me to send him some Dr. Pepper. If any of you wish to read his letters that do come through, you can go to his website at www.missionsite.net/TannerIBryant . You can send him letters (if you wish) and just see how he's doing. We're so proud of him! I already miss him. He'll be a great missionary though.

Before & After

So here is my handsome Scott! He grew out his goatee (is that even correct spelling??? it seems funny) for me because I really wanted to see him with it. I think he looks so dang sexy with it! And it makes him look really mature, and he seems older with it too. He started growing it out probably in the middle of June. So he has had it for 2 1/2 months. But it was time to shave!

Before:

After:

So.. I'm curious. Which do you prefer on him? The Before or After look??

(I think the After look makes him look little)

My opinion is the Before look. I want it back!

Camping

This last weekend, our ward had a Ward Camp Out up Hobble Creek Canyon in Springville. It had been planned all month, and I had switched work with some of the girls at work so I could go on this campout. As it got closer, we saw that it was supposed to rain. But, we still wanted to go because we haven't gone camping in a while, and I love camping.

Meli and Dash came with us and as we were driving there, it started raining. The raindrops got bigger and bigger. Well... at the grounds where our ward was, everyone was huddled underneath tarps because it was raining so much. It eventually slowed down to a light sprinkle and that's when we decided to hurry and put up our tent before it started raining again.

We were a little too slow. Our tent was still lying flat on the ground when it started POURING! Even harder than it had been before. We hurried and tried to put our rain tarp over the tent, but water still got in it. We were soaked! Scott and I were going as fast as we could trying to get the tent up. Well, Meli had a blast! She loves water so she was off and we actually couldn't find her for a while because she was exploring. Dash was absolutely MISERABLE! I wish I could've gotten a picture of him (but it was pouring) because he was huddled underneath a nearby tree, frowning at us. His little eyebrows were just drooping because he was so miserable. We couldn't stop laughing.

Well, I ended up staying with the ward underneath the tarps (soaked in my clothes, literally...it was like I jumped into a pool and got out) while Scott hurried home, with the dogs, to get towels, new sets of clothes, and dry the dogs off. When he did get back, we cleaned up the inside of the tent and everything went smoothly after that. Funny thing was, it didn't rain anymore after we cleaned everything up.

I still had lots of fun! I sure had a heck of a lot of laundry to do the next day. It was worth the memories though! Here are some pictures:

I am starting to look like I actually put a small basketball underneath my sweatshirt! But.. I didn't. :)

And that one picture doesn't look like there was a lot of water, but that was the tarp underneath our tent. We had already got our tent on the tarp before it started pouring. And we also got rid of some of the puddles before we took the picture.

Baby Weenie Dogs

A lady in our ward had weenie dog puppies! We got the opportunity to go over and visit them. I wanted one soooooo bad! It was so hard to leave them. Here's some pictures of the puppies.

Don't look at my ugly face in that picture above. I just love the dapple weenie dogs! They are sooo cute! It reminded me of when I got Meli. OH my gosh, she was (and still is, even though she's big) the cutest puppy ever!

Why don't they stay little?

I love how puppies run around! Meli was so cute in this video. She looks like a chubby puppy! Precious :)

Lost

The reason why I haven't been updating my movie blog as often as I should is because I have not been watching very movies. Why?! Well... LOST! It has taken over our lives!!! We were told to start watching this TV show and unless you want to sacrifice over 100 hours of your life, don't start it. There are 6 seasons and we started them in the middle of June. We finished the 5th season about a week ago. See how obsessed we have been???! We have been patiently waiting for the 6th season to come out on DVD on August 24th so we could get answers to all our questions!

You may ask what I think about this TV show. Well, it has been entertaining. The 1st and 2nd season were good. You don't quite understand what is going on but you can't help but keep watching episode after episode. The 3rd and 4th season got a little weird for me and more frustrating. It created more questions and things didn't make sense. The 5th season started answering some questions but created more still. But it was more interesting than the 4th season to the point when we finished the last episode we are dying to have that 6th season.

I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to put this on my movie blog because they aren't movies, but it sure seems like one gigantic movie if you watch it consistently. I do like this show though. Some of the characters bug me but I do have my favorites. I'm not sure what to think will happen, but I sure hope everything gets resolved. Has anyone else been into this show? I want to know what you think. When we finish, I will for sure post my thoughts on it.

Why has this show taken over my life?!!

Scottie Love

When we went to Arizona, Scott & I looked through a bunch of photo albums and found some cute pictures of him. I think some of them are quite hilarious. I took pictures of them on my phone and emailed them to myself so I could put them on my blog. They are kind of fun to look at, so enjoy! And I figure that this is how my little boy might look like. I'm so excited!

Scott & Cherri (his mom)

Scott & Sam (his dad)

Scott - this face is so hilarious! He looks frightened

Scott is in a basket and I don't think he is very happy about it

His brothers (Weston & Logan) torturing Scott.. no wonder why Scott has an attitude :)

These last two pictures are my favorite. This is Scott on his 3rd birthday and he is SO happy & excited to blow out his candles. (But then there is evil Weston..)

And evil Weston blows out his candles. Look at Scott's face.. That is the saddest face I have ever seen!! And the most cutest one too. I can't help but laugh every time I see this picture.

My little boy is going to be so darn cute! I can't wait to see what he looks like. And I'm sure he will be a lot like his father.

 And here is an update on my belly. This is 24 weeks! I am almost done! I can't wait!!!!!