Minute to Win It

We did a fun date night with our friends... Minute to Win It! It was a last minute idea, and was easy to put together. I think it took a total of an hour start to finish. I highly recommend it. Very entertaining and a night full of laughs. We had team names, and every team dressed to match. Meet the teams:

The Flying Ostriches

 The Bee Gee's

 The Growling Cougars

 And here are some of the games we played:

Bite Me

 Face the Cookie

 The Elephant March

 This Blows

 Penny Hose

We had tons of fun and loved spending time with our friends! Thanks for a great night and great laughs.

Holiday Happenings 2012

Well, I'm finally catching up with life after the holidays including updating the blog. So... take a little look at what we were up to this year.

 We took a trip to St. George for work, and had a little fun in the hotel room with Brynlee. We've officially retired this shirt b/c as you can see, it is too small for her head.

 We got to go see the lights on Temple Square, the ZCMI candy windows (a favorite childhood memory of mine), and listen to Mom and Dad sing in their Christmas concert in the Assembly Hall. It was cold, but fun!

 One of our family traditions is to open Christmas PJ's on Christmas Eve. This was Brynlee's first encounter with unwrapping presents. She wasn't too interested.

 And here we are in our Christmas PJ's.

Here is Brynlee Christmas morning with her big pile of presents and stocking made with love by Mommy :) We are excited for next year when she'll be a little more excited about presents. This year all she really loved was pulling tissue paper out of bags.

But it was a great holiday season, and we had lots of fun with family and friends!

Happy Halloween!

 Happy Halloween from the Draper home! Brynlee was so fun to dress up as a cave girl/baby, and she played the part well! She grunted and spoke caveman language perfectly if you ask me :) 

 We had a lot of fun getting together w/ the Ellingsons and the Taylors for our annual Halloween party. It was especially fun this year b/c we have all added a cute new edition to our families. Adalynn was the cutest little lady bug, and McKae was a very convincing Waldo baby! Aren't those glasses hilarious?!

Our first Halloween as a family was a wonderful one full of parties, candy, family, and friends!

Pumpkin Patch

Brynlee and I got to go out for an afternoon w/ our best friends to a pumpkin patch. Brynlee was a trooper to sit on all the hard pumpkins and hay so we could take pictures :)

 McKae, Adalynn, and Brynlee sure do love to be together, and we are so happy they have each other to "play with!"

 It was lots of fun to go out with Kait and Audge, and it's even more fun to all have baby girls together who we can watch grow up and go through their first year of life together. We will be so sad when everyone is done with school and parts their separate ways. If we had it our way, they would stay right by us no matter where we go! I couldn't ask for better friends :)

Happy Birthday to Me

This year my birthday was soooo different from last year. Brynlee was still a part of it, but in a very different way. Last year I was only about 7 weeks pregnant, and all I wanted to do was lay on the couch and sleep. I couldn't even make myself excited to open presents. Rob had to wake me up and make me sit up to open them. This year was a big improvement.

This is what I woke up to in the morning... do I really need to go on to say it was a great day? I think this little face answers that all by herself :)

 It was such a great day! Rob is the best husband in the world. He always goes out of his way to make sure my birthday is as good as it can possibly be. This was the first year I got to share my birthday with Brynlee too :) She was extra good for me all day which was the best present she could have given me.

That night after Rob got home, we took Brynlee over to a friends house to hang out for the night while we went out on a date! Woo hoo! Kid free. Love her to death, but I sure do celebrate when we get to go on dates these days. They are few and far inbetween.

Rob made a little "scavenger hunt" for me. The clues were very funny and creative. We went to the creamery for ice cream, to the park to play frisbee, and then to Tucano's for dinner. Yuuuummmy! It was so great! We then went to pick up Brynlee from playing with her friend, McKae, and watched a little of the BYU football game. After a little bit we headed home for some "cake" and presents.

I'm not a huge fan of cake, but I LOVE and CRAVE Marie Calendar's chocolate satin pie. Rob was a sweetheart and got it for me. Boy was it good! We even let Brynlee taste some whipped cream. She LOVED it! It was a wonderful birthday, and I have the best family in the world :)

3 Months

Time flies! Brynlee is already 3 months old, and she is acting like it! We love watching her pick up on new things daily. It's amazing to look back on a week and realize all the new things she's learned, and all the new things she's doing. We are so in love with our little bug! 

We decided since we are feeling poor and downtrodden that we would attempt to do our own photo shoot instead of taking her to a studio and having to pay money that we don't have. I think they turned out decent. Here are a few of them!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy first Father's Day to Rob! It started out kind of rough b/c of family leaving town and lots of tears, but it soon got back on track to be a great day! B/c we live by both of our Dads, Brynlee and I gave Rob our presents in the morning before we headed up to SL. Brynlee gave him an open it tool which is excellent at opening all those hard to open kids toys will all the zip ties and ridiculous packaging. She thought it would come in handy someday soon. 

 After church with Rob's family I changed Brynlee into her Father's Day outfit. The first time she had worn it, and it did not disappoint!

She even gave Rob his first Daddy-daughter kiss :)

My present to Rob was a weeks worth of Father's Day. Each day I gave him a "favorite" thing of his with a note. His favorite cereal, favorite dinner, favorite drink, favorite candy, a picture of Brynlee (his favorite little girl), we watched his favorite movie, and on the last day of the week we are going on what Rob calls a "Tiffany original date". That's just code for creative date. 

I am so grateful for my wonderful husband. He is always looking for ways to serve me and those around me. He's always doing the little things to make me happy, and he is the best dad to Brynlee. I'm so grateful for all the sacrifices he makes for us and all his efforts to give us the best he can. He is patient, kind, understanding, and knows how to make me laugh. Most of all, I'm grateful for his worthiness to be a priesthood holder and I think that is the greatest gift he can give our family. 

I have the greatest Dad and am so grateful for him. He has always made me feel like my best was enough. I cherish all the great talks and advice he has given me over the years, and he is the greatest example of how a parent should love their children. 

Thanks to all the amazing men in my life! Including my Heavenly Father who watches over me constantly and always has his loving arms wrapped around me. I can feel his love for me every single day, and I see his love in the people in my life he has blessed me with!