Happy Halloween

Baseball may have ended for the season but support for the Yankees is still going strong at our house. Bryce had an all dressed up and nowhere to go kind of Halloween. I put his costume on in the afternoon and we waited for our trick or treaters. No one came by before he went to bed. It's 8pm now and we've only had one group come by. So disappointing!

Pumpkin Carving Party

We had friends over on Sunday to carve pumpkins. I had no idea that we had such talented friends. The pumpkins were so good!

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Visit from Nana and Grandpa Bob

Russell's mom and stepdad came to visit this week. We went out to dinner on Friday night. Can you tell that Bryce enjoyed his meal?

The big event (of which we have no pictures of) was Bob attending his first UT football game. He was nice enough to take Russell and my parents. From what I heard, he loved the expereince!

Pumkin Picking

We met some friends today to take pictures in a pumpkin patch. You feel less silly taking pictures when you have a bunch of friends with you. We all took a million pictures, all with the hope that your own child would smile at least once into your camera. It was pretty entertaining...

Visit with Mimi and Papa

My grandparents were at their lake house last week so Bryce and I went to visit. Bryce loved lunch, lasagne is always a good choice. Then he and Papa enjoyed some animal crackers for dessert. I barely got him buckled into the car seat to head home when he conked out. It's exhausting entertaining great grandparents are !

Farmers Market

We went to the farmers market by our house this morning. It's held every week but this week's focus was herbs. I bought a few plants for the garden and we sampled a lot of good food. Bryce like always ate everything. Why no picture of this fun event? I forgot to take pictures. You'll have to make do with this one in the backyard. The weather is a little more pleasant these days so we're playing a lot back there.

San Antonio Zoo

While Russell and my dad played in a golf tournament, my mother and I took Bryce to the zoo. This was something that I loved doing when I was little and was excited to take Bryce. He had such a good time. Monkeys were the best but petting the goats came in a close second.

After you pet the goats...you need to wash your hands. Luckily...there was a Bryce sized sink available. He loved to wash his hands, but didn't think the goats were much dirtier than Josie.

After we wandered around we had a picnic by the train. He loved watching the train pull in and out of the station. We ran out of time to ride it this trip so we'll be back soon.

We went to cheer on our golfers on Sunday. Bryce brought snacks to keep him busy since watching golf isn't the most exciting thing. We showed up to watch holes 9 & 10 and helped Dad pick out a nice pair of shoes that he won for making the longest putt on hole 17.

Baby Naming

We went to San Antonio today for my college roommate Jen's second child's baby naming ceremony. It was fun to see some college friends that I haven't seen in a while. We all have kids now, how things have changed in just a few years!

Jen with her first child, Bailey.

Marc, Mark (Jen's husband holding Maegan) and David

Jill holding her little boy, Jake. Jake liked Bryce a lot. After the ceremony he kept bringing Bryce M&Ms to eat. So funny!

Art

Our good friends from college, Leah & Seth Abrams, and their daughter Dylan came to visit this weekend. It was fun to catch up and watch the kids play. Dylan loved the toys at our house, Bryce was less than thrilled to have company. We're going to have to work on his social skills.

The Abrams brought Bryce a wonderful gift, all sorts of art stuff. Bryce is actually able to scribble so I was very excited. We played with everything today.

New York Newmans

Russell's dad and stepmother came to visit. AS you can see by this picture, Bryce was pretty excited about the visit. The guys had a good time playing golf and Barbara and I spent the weekend rearranging furniture. This is what I do with guests these days so think carefully before you decide to come over.

To Grandmother's house we go...

Bryce and I took a road trip and went to visit Dede in Corpus. Bryce was so good in the car and enjoyed listening to my audiobook. Wonder why he slept so well...

We had a great time at Dede's. Marty was also visiting and Bryce was so excited to see him.

Marty was celebrating his first birthday so we were invited to Susan and Bill's to help eat the cake.

Bryce neatly ate his piece from my fork, Marty got a little more involved in the process. A hose was needed after he finished :)

Yoga

I've been wanting to take Bryce to a class of somesort for a while now but nothing seemed to fit into our schedule. My work trip got cancelled today so Bryce and I decided to try a yoga class for crawlers. It was so much fun! The first part of the class was mass chaos. About 15 mothers set their babies down and began to do some yoga. The babies were everywhere. The instructor kept advising to look behind for a baby before doing any bending, kneeling, leg lifting, etc. I think 3 kids came up to Bryce and touched his hair. So funny.

After the yoga for moms we did stuff with the babies. Sang songs, bounced them around, read stories. Bryce loved watching everyone. I wish everyone could see this for themselves. IT was hard to keep from laughing the whole time. We will definetly go back.

A BIG thank you

My parents are about 98% responsible for helping us complete the backyard. Russell and I did do a large part of the manual labor but without my dad's tools, vision, and help we wouldn't have anything framing the deck. It wasn't easy to go from mudpit to oasis but with their help we got it done in record time! The backyard came out even better than expected.

Thanks also to Mother for entertaining Bryce so well while we worked and to Lara for buying this great swing!

A few more pictures from the weekend

Here are a few more pictures from Bryce's party...

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Here's a little something I did...thought it was kind of cool

A Big Birthday Weekend

This past weekend was Bryce-a-palooza. Bryce took his rump shaking show on the road to NYC. It was his 1 year anniversary reunion tour where he got to play some new venues. The tour started at Gram and Pops's crib. Bryce was asked to give an interview by Pops but he didn't feel like Pops new about his struggles.

However, once the article was printed, he felt like his readers would get a much better sense of who he is offstage...although he was misquoted once about his stance on gay marriage.

As part of his trip, his publicist/mother asked if he would do a spot on playground safety. The slide did not seem very safe, but after a thorough inspection of the swing, he felt it was worth the B stamp of approval.

Bryce then decided it would be a good idea to cool off in the shade and show the crowd how the king of the jungle rolls

Pops thought he might join in the act, but once again...Bryce was leery of a misquote

The paparazzi was hot after Bryce as he took some time to pose with some adoring fans:

Sunday was the day of the big show. Bryce played his heart out and then came the after party. Bryce opted out of his normal In Da Club style party for and old school backyard bbq...B style. That meant all the freshest and dopest kosher meats and salads and the sickest kanishes this side of Jerusalem.

Bryce's main man Dan served up the flava making sure the drinks were filled and that B never ran out of his favorite spicy mustard. B did have to go upside his head once after he accidentally served 2% instead of whole milk.

Bryce found time to mingle with his peeps.

He thought he would play it cool with the ladies by sipping his beverage

Bryce is against smoking so he found a twig instead...still sophisticated, but cancer free

The celebration started to wind down as B offered a small token of racial harmony by serving a cake that was half black and half white. The train..."Thomas"...represented new clean biodiesel as B also cares for the environment.

Unfortunately...Bryce at the whole cake

After the party B had to make a quick stop and present at an awards show...he did find a moment to sort through his presenter gift bag

Finally...the weekend was over...even though B had plenty of energy while waiting for his private jet to shuttle him home, his entourage just had to crash

Big ups to the the NYC crew for a weekend that was off the crunk. While B is already talking about doing it up next year in Las Vegas...a return trip to the Big Apple is probably in store.