...and I woke up running

Last night, in the middle of the night, I woke up to find myself running out of my bedroom door. I don't remember getting out of bed, and didn't know why I was running. Until I heard Breven crying. I could tell he was hurt and tried to stop at his door but I was hit from behind by Andrew who was also running. I followed Andrew into Breven's room to find him on the floor crying. It was dark and so I didn't know he had cut his head on something, until I found dried blood on his head this morning. He is fine, and the cut was small. I have no idea how he hurt himself as the bed is only 6 inches off the ground, and all his toys were put away. He doesn't fall off his bed despite the fact that he doesn't have guard rails on the side. I guess it will remain a mystery.
What a weird night.

Flood, paints, coolwhip, and birds

The other day I asked Kyla to go put her shoes in the garage. A couple seconds later Kyla yells I can't mom, there is a river in the garage! I go running out and sure enough, there is a river in our garage. I had put a load of laundry into our washer and left it, as usual. 3 1/2 hours later I find water poring down our driveway. Come to find out, a mouse (yuck! I hate mice) chewed a hole in our draining hose, our pressure hose, and the hose that fills up our washer. It was the pressure hose that caused the flood. It wouldn't stop filling up and kept over flowing. Now our washer was under warranty, but the warranty doesn't cover mice. So we are out of a washer for a week and a half. Andrew has really stepped up and reverted back to his missionary days. He has been washing laundry in out tub for us, and thankfully we have a great friend Janine who lets us use her washer. I never knew I had so much laundry.

Kyla is into painting these days and when ever she gets to pick out a toy, she usually picks out a paint set. She is getting good at staying in the lines.

Breven, my boy, found the cool whip tub, and as you can see....he enjoyed it.

And lastly we have a baby bird's nest above our front door. I thought it was really cute at first, and fun to see the birds building their nest. Now, however, it has baby birds in it and we get dive bombed every time we step out the front door. Also whenever we have visitors, Like i did today for lunch group, they also duck their heads till we open the door then come running in with a bird chasing them. Here are some picture of the little birds, Andrew was the brave one to risk the wrath of the birds to get the pictures

am i dumb?

So I have set up our blog, unfortunately I am not so computer smart. At the time I set up our blog I only knew Ken and Shelly's blog address, so that is the only one i entered. I bet they feel special since they are the only link on our page. Well....now I have tried to set up more links ( so I don't have to keep going to other people's pages to look at my friends/family's blog ) but I can't seem to figure it out. Am I able to squeeze pity from anyone, and maybe you could tell me how to do it ( preferably without to much harassment ) ;). I thank any advice in advance, you would truly be my knights in shinning armor.......well I would at least be grateful.
(Oh and by the way, does anyone else think that making all single "i" or "I" capital is just a pain, I know i am silly but I always forget and have to go back thru my entire letter and fix them all... oh and thank heaven for spell checking)

Crazy mothers day

So we had a crazy weekend. First of all we headed over to Sugarland to visit Andrew's parents for mothers day. On the way there, friday night at about 1:30 - 2:00 a.m., I was passing a mustang in the left side lane, and as i got up to him we saw in our head lights an allegator in the road. This thing was huge!! it's nose was in our lane ( the left side ) and stretched all the way across the right lane with it's tail in the grass off the shoulder of the road. Huge. the mustang hit it head on going about oh..75 mph and jumped the allegator, went airborne, flipped the thing up and into our lane just missing our new van. crazy. Sorry to say we don't know what happened after that, by the time we had room to pull over ( as there was no room on the left shoulder ) we were a couple miles past the scene of the accident.
The next crazy thing is Breven, poor guy, fell into grandma's pool, really scarry for us as he never struggled or anything to get out, just layed there face down in the pool till we got him out.

Also that weekend we went fishing, and took some pictures in a field of yellow flowers. It was a lot of fun.
hope ya'll had a wonderful weekend
Bren

our new car

I was walking through the kitchen the other day and i came upon the cutest thing. Breven was playing in the side walk chalk outside and apparently walked through it then came inside. So i had to take a picture.

so we have a new car. Our old car our white buick regal, was going to die. So we went to buy a new car, and low and behold, we now have a new 2007 dodge grand caravan. It's red. My two favorite features are the fold away seats, and my remote control entry. It is so fun to push a button and have the doors open. here is a picture of our new wheels. Oh and notice my little modle who is showing the car to you. Kyla loves the car to.

Random pictures

Kyla and Breven at the gym

Finally my hair is fixed, my new hair cut.

A few funny things, Breven loves to sing now, and it is quite cute in church. He is also starting to talk using sentinces, and putting words together. You still can't understand half of what he says, but you can figure it out eventually.

Breven will be 2 in a couple months, and is a whopping 17 lbs. if i put a lot of extra clothes on him, he can make the weight requirement for his carseat. haha He is still working on his teeth, he is still missing 6 of the ones he that are normal for this age. Oh well

The other day kyla was missing one of her toys and couldn't find it so she asked me to help. I asked her what toy she wanted, but i had never heard of it and didn't even really know what she was talking about. but she was really distressed, so i walked around the house and asked, is it this? or this? maybe this? picking up each toy i found that she might want. But alas every answer to each question was no, nope, or that's not it silly mommy. "Finally i said honey i can't find your toy, lets look a little later" she is quite upset i can't find her toy when she turns, then picks up and IMMAGIONARY "toy" out of the air and say, Oh here it is mom, i just for got where i put it. Yes i was looking for about a 1/2 hour for kyla's immagionary toy.

Today was the first time Kyla came home from church and started telling us about what went on in detail. It was cute, and she is walking around singing a song from chruch. I just wish i knew what it was. She keeps singing the verse i don't know i guess.

hair accident

So I have needed a hair cut and new do for a long time, according to Andrew, So while he was out of town i decided to surprise him. I went to walmart and got it cut by a person who didn't speak English very well, and it turned out nothing like i wanted it to. Too frizzy, too long the list goes on. But i thought i might get used to it. I also wanted to lighten it and make it all one color, as i had previously had highlights. I tried a lighter blond, and turned my hair red. a strawberry blond red. I didn't like that at all, although i looked a lot like Jackie. So i tried again going to a more expensive hair place. This time it went to an auburn color. Oh did i tell you Andrew doesn't like red hair? here are the pictures.

The first one is of what my hair origionly looked like, the second one is the strawberry blond, and the third is my auburn hair. and then the hair cut

So now I have auburn hair and a funny hair cut, hopefully i can get it fixed.