Our Lives Lately

Playing quick catch-up on what has been going on at the Bronson house etc since Spring began.

Easter at our house was fun.  A train!  This is the best train ever p.s. 

His Easter outfit. 

 He spent the next week sorting Easter grass.

We went to see Dan's sister Sheri's art show at BYU.  This is the only picture I have of Atticus playing with his cute Uncle A.J. and daddy.  Sheri did some paintings of Sherlock Holmes, portraying his different emotions.  They were awesome!

On May 2, my Grandpa Joe passed away.  He got really sick in January and just never recovered.  My grandpa was such a sweet and hilarious man.  He married my granny when I was seven and took such good care of her and my Aunt Jenny, who has Down's Syndrome.  He was always teasing and having fun with us.  The highlight of going to a Jazz game was going to visit him.  I think one of my favorite memories was his reaction when we threw him a surprise party for his 80th birthday.  It was just such a sweet moment.  He loved Atticus.  He even "passed on his good looks and lady wooing ways" to him.  I love and miss him.  This is a picture of Dayton from the day of the funeral.  I failed to take any other pictures of that day as Atticus was such a grump the entire time.

 This is us about 3 years ago at a Jazz game.  Love him.

Girlfriend and I got our feathers put back in our hair.  (Finally)  And then I chopped off all my hair two days later.

Dan and I celebrated our fourth anniversary.  We went to The Melting Pot in Salt Lake because we are party animals.  The cheese appetizer and the dessert were amazing.  I nearly died.  The main course was meh.  We're not so great at cooking our own food apparently.  We had also just gotten new phones the day before so we were being doofy with the cameras.

We went up to the Bronson's cabin for Memorial Day.  Atticus loved 4-wheeling.  So much so that he fell asleep on one of our longer trips.

My nerdy family 

 He was not amused by Mother Nature.

 He is a little afraid of Papa Jon.  Whenever he'd wake up from his nap, Jon would go get him and he would get so nervous.  Jon wasn't helping as he would be weird and sneak in to him with creepy voices.  "I'm baaaack!".  Atticus looks all sweet and cuddly here but he was actually stiff as a board with terror.

 The Bronson's have the most perfect tree swing.  We could've spent all afternoon on it.

I quit my job.  So that's cool.  I will miss my friends and my students but I'm pretty pleased about spending all my time with this kid.  (He was helping me clean out my classroom)

We've spent lots of time at parks.  Atticus loves swing, playing in wood chips and throwing himself down slides.

 This was his first experience with sand and he found it fascinating.  He was very focused on it.

 We got to go visit one of my most favorite people, Jennifer, and her baby Laila, whom Atticus will one day marry.  They are only a week apart but they had never met as Juju lives way too far away in Phoenix.  Laila is so cute and has the best facial expressions.  She is such a big girl too.  She actually walks around and chews her food unlike a little boy I know.  They had fun and it was so good to see my friend.  I realized how much I've missed her at that visit.  The kids jumped on the tramp.  All the pictures I have with Laila in it are blurry.  Also Jenn's family has a puppy and Atticus was in a complete, almost panicked state of joy.  He let that dog jump all over him and chased him throughout the house.

 Then Juj and I went overboard taking a million pictures of them together.  Atticus was a little wired and he kept blowing kisses as well.  Laila thought he was a weirdo.

I love this one of her cute expression and little tush stuck out.  

 We are getting ready to move.  Again.  This will be the fifth house in four years.  We had no intention of moving (just like last time when they raised our rent by 20%) but a guy Dan works with has a cousin who was being transferred out of state so they wanted to rent out their new house.  They were willing to match our current rent, it's much bigger and has a yard with frogs and snakes for Atticus to catch!  And it's close to Dan's office.  So we are moving.  I am quite sick of renting.  We keep thinking we'll only be here one more year so we don't think it's smart to buy a house and then we end up here for another year.  We will be here another year and a half at least as Dan's work is paying for him to get his master's.  But after that, it's quite possible we'll get transferred out to their main office or whatever.  Anyway, the place is in Nibley which is a small farm-filled town south of Logan.  Oh and the views are gorgeous.  I'm not excited to be packing and moving again, but I think this will be good.  Atticus has loved the packing process.