Christmas

Christmas is on Friday that is in 5 days. I am really excited!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Presenting Mrs. Jacob Padgett

Hey Morgan,
I have you for cousins Christmas, what do you want?

Kayla

We just got your wedding announcement today and it is beautiful! I love the pictures and the color. Great job!

Happy Fifty Brucey!

Congratulations on the big day. Thanks for being so good to all of us. You are the best. We love you!

THANksGIVING!

Who all is coming for Thanksgiving???

California Girls

Don't you wish you all could be California girrrrls

WE LOVE CALI!!!

Thank you Grammy & Papa

Elder Kyle James Braithwaite

Elder Kyle James Braithwaite received a mission called to the El Salvador, San Salvador West/Belize mission - speaking spanish. This mission includes the western one third of El Salvador and then all of Belize. El Salvador is on the Pacific Ocean side and then Belize is on the Caribbean Sea.

He reports to the MTC on Feb. 10, 2010.

We will post a map of the mission later after we get it copied. He is very excited and is very busy calling friends. More to come....

Alina

Pictures of Alina!

Kayla and Alina...and the chicken

The family

And my personal favorite!

KYLE!

Even though you probably never even look at this blog I just wanted to say....

I can't wait for you to get your mission call! Let us know ASAP where you'll be serving! You're the best!

Love you!

Morgan (and the rest of the Mesa Heywood crew)

57 to 9

I am on a basketball team for a league that was put together and we played our old basketball coach for our school. He moved to the new school that was just built. He went into the game talking a little smack to us then we beat them 57 to 9. He left in the 3rd period... He could not bear it any more, he left it to his assistant to do it. I bet he wishes he would have stayed with us!!!
Its ok though because he just picked favorites and our new basketball coach is way way better!!!

Slumber Party!!

We had fun, girls! Thanks for spending the night!

Happy Birthday, Grandma!!!

I love you! I have even bigger smiles to show you in person! Thank you for your wonderful example. I hope you have a great day!

Love, Brady

Our darling boy

is ONE MONTH OLD!!! Man, time has just flown by since Brady was born! He's finally growing...and fast! He's one sweet boy who loves to have people hold him. We all just love him so much! He's starting to learn to smile and he's just so stinkin adorable when he does!

Brady Mark Heywood!

born July 24 at 5:17pm

8lbs 9oz

20 1/2in

chubby cheeks! 

4th of July Festivities

Just a few pics that say it all...

Sorry Uncle Roger, I couldn't resist...

Thanks for coming to our home and letting my family join in as well!

My family! From the trek!

TWINNERS!

And some pictures from Father's Day...

allie

What exactly is 7s? It sounds like so much fun! It seems so much easier than ours was! We had to kill, pluck, draw, boil, and debone our chicken! That was a neat experience. It was probably the thing I was looking forward to the most! The hardest thing was the first day when we met our family, assembled our cart, and pulled from about 3 in the afternoon until 2:30 in the morning!!! One thing is for sure...noone complained about sleeping on the rocky ground! And we could barely even get our sleeping gear out! But let me tell you....the chicken broth and roll was the most delicious thing I've ever had! We all slept like babies! I've always wanted to do a knife throw at a target! It sounds so fun! And homemade ice cream. YUM! We did homemade popcorn which turned out so much better than store bought! Your food sounds absolutely divine! the best thing we had was our home-killed chicken stew and fry bread. mmm mmm good! It sounds like you had a blast! Love ya!

sorry here is trek

sorry i have not checked forever.
but trek was way fun. my family was the best. we stayed up till 3am the last night and we were going to pull an all nighter but our company captin came and told us that we had to go to bed because people were complaining that our light was on... that just made me mad. that was my favorite part about trek. i dont have any pictures from it because my ma and pa took all the pictures and just sent us an email with a link to a web site to see them. i have to bear my testimony about trek on sunday... but it is better than having to do a talk. The food was great we had chicken pot pie from dutch ovens... different stuff like that... the activities we did were: 7s, washed our hair, apple bobbing, throwing knifes at targets, made home made ice cream, and in my family we took a little propane tank and stacked matches on top of it like reverse janga. i did not get any blisters... my dad did everything he could before trek to provent that from happening... that is my trek story kind of....

Trek Lips!

Since we are on the subject of "Trek" I had to post this disgusting picture of my lips after Trek last year. Gross huh? If Braithewaite's don't post about the trek soon than I will post some nasty pictures of our Treking feet.

The Trek!

Alright Braithwaites. I've given you plenty of time to recover from the trek...now out with the details! I want to hear about it!!! these are some things I would like to know...

1- your favorite part of the whole thing

2- what food you ate and how you liked it

3- what activiteis you did

and

4- how many blisters you got

Now, ponder over these questions and I would like to hear from all four of you!!! More would be great, but this is just a starter...

LOVE YA!

Treking - Brighams Battalion

We (Francie, Kyle, Allison and Mike) are leaving tomorrow for our stake TREK activity. We know very little about the details. I guess that our pioneers ancestors knew very little about what was going to await them also. We plan on having lots of fun. Francie and I are a Ma and Pa and will have 10 or 11 children assigned to our family. We plan to take some ancestors along with us: Kyle is taking Philo Dibble, Allison is taking Sarah Wilkinson Buchanan, Francie is taking Martha Spence and I will be taking John Buchanan. We have a chance to learn about these ancestors and then to share them with our TREK families along the trail.

We plan not to die along the trail as some of our ancestors did but if we go horizontal, please know that we love you all and have thought a lot about many of you as we have prepared. We love our family and cherish the time that we have with each of you.

We will post some pictures when we return.

Till we meet again,
"Cougar" and "Spike" (Mike and Alli - these are our TREK names)

Say a Hot Goodbye to Oddly Cool June

(I found this in the AZ Republic. Too true to not share!)


OK. You can start complaining now.

Summer's here.

It's time to haul out the dry-heat joke book and challenge your friends to see who remembers the most synonyms for "searing."

But look on the (glaringly) bright side. It is a relief to have moved beyond that strange season of disbelief.

Valley residents have spent weeks wondering, "What month is this, anyway?"

We're chilling our way through the coolest June since 1913 with astonished appreciation.

After all, how often does the heat wait to start until after the calendar's official first day of summer?

Now the full weight of the season is upon us with all the wicked certainty of a 180-degree steering wheel.

Some places have winter to endure. Arizona has summer.

Of course, we still have those glorious monsoon storms to enjoy.

And we can look forward to fall.

Not that we're trying to rush things, of course.

But it would be great if the heat ends when the calendar says fall has officially arrived. That's Sept. 22.

Summer arrived by the calendar.

Nobody will complain if it departs in the same way.

AMBER!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I"M SO HAPPY THAT YOU"RE A PART OF OUR FAMILY!!! 

To all our daddies!

Happy father's day!!! 

Thank you for all the hard work and everything you have done to benefit our family!!!

I love you all!

Happy Father's Day!!

Happy Father's Day to all Fathers in the family. We love you and appreciate your steadfastness, hard work, and play.

Papa doing what Papa does best. Well, this and chess :)

Check out that amazing form! Way to go, Dad!

We love you!

Bryan keeps saying "He's a dad, his baby is just hiding!"

Happy Father's Day!

*I realized I am lacking on pictures of the Fathers of the family...

What's this quote from?

For Freeeeeeeeeeeee?!? 

Freedom!!!

I'm finfished with summer school and am now free!!! I need some ideas of what to do with my summer days so feel free to leave some ideas for me. 

Mary brightened our day!

We had a fun visit from Mary! She helped Bethany clean out her closet and was rewarded. (I hope it's a reward). We loved seeing you and Grammy and Papa.

boot camp

The next two weeks are going to be like boot camp.I have a basketball camp for Davis!!! yea i really like that one. So I have that one from 10-12 then I have one for sports plex from 1-4... that one is a killer.... it is all boys with three girls and one does not really play basketball.... that is only this week. Next week I have BYU basketball camp all week from like 8-7 almost every day but that one could very a little bit. Then I have one week to recover then Treck comes.... I will be very tired by the end.

Summer Adventures

BALLOON PAINTING: The art of throwing darts at paint-filled balloons

ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: The place for big kids to act like little kids.

Just a Lego dragon. I made that in my spare time.

school :(

I am so sick of school this week is our last week we get out so late and i am sick of it.... I wish tomorrow could just be our last day it is basically in all of my classes...

Pied Piper Photographer's giveaway!

This photographer has such whimsical, fun photos! I love the finger-in-the-nose picture. Click the button then click on "blog" to see it!

She is doing a giveaway - I really hope our family wins!!!
If I understand right, she is doing a few catch-up giveaways. I really want the family photo session!!!

http://www.piedpiperphoto.blogspot.com/

I LOVE YOU!!!

I miss all of you in Utah and California and wherever else you might happen to be! I love you and can't wait to see you again!

10 Secrets of the Effortlessly Thin

As an aspiring dietician, I love seeing articles that share the down to earth basics, not ridiculous "do a million and a half sit-ups a day" or "the cookie diet" sales pitches. So I got pretty excited when I saw this article. (And by pretty excited I mean very excited!!!) Check it out.

http://health.msn.com/weight-loss/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=100218116&imageindex=1

It takes time and serious practice listening to the cues being sent by your body, but once you find that groove and have a responsive relationship with your body, it's amazing.

A Heywood weekend

We loved having Grammy, Papa, Francie, Rachel, Allie, Laurie, Christy come to Heber. We ate Sunday dinner and of course played word wiz. We wish everyone could have been here!

Ryan! Ryan! He's our Man!

He's turned 18 - so vote, he can!

He's got a smile that can't be beat
Visiting him is such a treat!

Hey Ryan! Go Ryan!
Hey! Hey! GO!

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday Ryan!

He is 18 today! We are so glad Ryan is around to cheer up our days and be Bethany's best friend. We love you Ryan. Happy Birthday!!

He is flying

On a jet plane! Two Years and he'll be back again. 

He'll arrive in Madrid tomorrow morning at 9:45 am - after a 17 hour flight.  And this is the temple he'll live next to for the next 6 weeks.

I am so excited for him!!!

Thank You!

We really enjoyed our trip to Utah, and to see the Braithwaites and Heywoods. Thanks for your kindness! Even though Austin started getting a little homesick the night before the MTC - saying goodbye, and knowing his cousin is coming home 1 1/2 weeks too late to see him was a bit hard on him - it was a great trip overall!  We really appreciate all our angels that made this trip possible!!!

Austin would love to hear from all of you! He will be in the MTC in Provo until May 12. Then we are hoping his visa comes in so he can then travel to the MTC in Madrid. Here is his Provo address:

Elder Austin Heywood

MTC Box #271

SPA-MAL 0512

2005 N 900 E

Provo, UT 84504-1793

MTC Bound!

Austin, sure looked handsome and very prepared as he left for the MTC! He has great parents and family. He will be in our prayers! We love you Austin.