Brynn’s Two!

ugghhh…sorry i havent been better about blogging! everday i promise myself that i will sit down after we put brynn down for bed and get on here but i get distracted with things i need to do around here. so much for trying to get at least 2 posts in a week! i’ll try to bring you all up to speed since our last post.
we’ll, our 4th of july went well. we went to the raybon’s house in bickendorf (which is in a nearby village towards the autobahn) for a BBQ with lots of friends from the ward. it was fun and the weather wasnt crappy for once! i was really paranoid about brynn running into the street (they live at the bottom of a hill on a curve) as there are a lot of cars that never seem to slow down and we were outside in her driveway partyin’ it up. its hard to enjoy yourself when youre watching a toddler like a hawk! so steve and i switched off that duty so at least one of us could socialize at a time. brynn was hamming it up and showing off her skills to everyone around. when i say skills i mean farting on command and showing everyone her belly button. ehhh, what to you expect with parents like steve and i? hahahahaha poor child! at 10:30pm on base, they had a fireworks show but we didnt make it as brynn was getting crabby at 9:00pm so we opted to head home. it has been 3 years now since we saw a fireworks show!!! so sad! i wasnt big on fireworks but since living in germany, i miss it! i miss going to the indian reservations in washington state and getting cheapy bottle rockets and bricks of black cats so i could watch my brothers light them off. im too afraid to do it! i had an experience when i was younger where a bottle rocket flew into my chest and since then ive opted to watch from the sides.
we took our car into a mechanic in binsfeld monday night and heard back from them on thursday (yesterday) that the cooler needs to be replaced. i didnt know that there was such a part like that in a car? maybe its the translation from german to english? i dunno…but the part wont be in till next week so we went back and got our car as ive been going insane being stuck at home all week isolated! whats weird is now that weird high pitch noise i had heard the past 2 weeks is now gone! so who knows whats going on…i hate cars problems!

brynn turned 2 on wednesday july 9th and we celebrated by having some friends over to help us eat the elmo cake and elmo cupcakes that i made! i spent all morning trying to get my frosting to turn red ( it was pink! i tried sooo many things but eventually gave up. a pink elmo would have to do) and then the other half of the day was spent frosting all the cupcakes and cake. it was long and my wrist kept cramping up…but it was all worth it. brynn was thrilled when i lifted her up to the counter to see it for the first time. to say the least, she was pretty excited to have an elmo cake. we also got her a big balloon bouquet complete with 2 elmo balloons and 12 solid ones. can you believe that the craft store on base charged us $10 EACH elmo balloon to blow them up?! YEAH! RIDICULOUS! i guess when you dont have competition, you can charge crazy amounts like that. stupid, as i brought the balloons in! i wasnt buying their balloons, just needed some helium! ugh….oh well.
we also received a package from steves parents FULL of elmo paraphernalia on her birthday! i was happy to get all of the fun stuff that louise found at tj maxx (again, im so jealous that you guys can shop their whenever you want! UGH not fair!). brynn loves the elmo puppet book (elmo is into everything these days…) and the elmo potty book! she carries them to and from her room to the living room along with her elmo stuffed animal that she received from steve and i.

brynn had a great time and we were happy that everyone was able to come over and help us celebrate. sadly, i had to throw the leftover elmo cake away this morning as i have no self control and have been eating cake the last 3 days!!! ugh…so much for trying to lose a pound this week.

oh, some exciting news! while i was at the gym today working out with jessica (i started with a personal trainer a few weeks ago to help me tone up and get rid of my baggy stomach) i heard that billy blanks (creator of taebo) is coming to spangdahlem to teach an aerobics class! thats so rad! i hear he will also be available to take pictures and sign autographs so i hope i can get a picture with him. i have a few of his dvd’s and they KILL ME! so i should probably review them as i dont want to be the one falling behind while he’s teaching. i was pretty excited about this! im trying to convince steve to go with me but he isnt into aerobic’s classes…too bad! this is going to be awesome! he comes on saturday, the 26th of this month so it will be good as my birthday is the day before so i’ll need some butt kickin’ to get rid of the extra calories from cake!

tomorrow is our 5 year anniversary! so crazy how time flys! i was looking at pictures of steve and i outside the temple and it seems like it wasnt that long ago.

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