ROCKtober

as the record shows i'm really not a consistent blogger.. if I get in A blog A month i'm pretty on muh game.. this blog makes my grand total: TRES (how do you spell that???) this month, meaning???= I've seriously outdone myself..

>>>>>>so at the beginning of this month we had homecoming..

well MOST off homecoming ON homecoming.. except of course the homecoming GAME, which was postponed (due to the govt shutdown shutting down ALL national parks.. aka 1/2 of Wyoming.. so it was going to take the 10 Powell fans an extra day to get here..) & isn't the GAME the core of why homecoming even exists??

whatev's I ain't in High School no mo.. & actually I DON'T understand football, I'm not in HS so this normally wouldn't even be a 'mentionable' on muh blog.. EXCEPT we have Lyv.. who has 2 more years of HS dances to attend.. so we HAVE to know these things cause isn't it ALWAYS about Lyv?? just the way she likes it;)

PS.. we totes lost.. like really bad.. the paper's headline of 'BRAVES GOT MAULED BY PANTHERS' was NOT an exaggeration..

>>>>>>Phil got a deer.. he went hunting.. but like only kind of?? he just went & walked around on his parents property until he found a cow deer.. NOT in the sense that is was an actual FEMALE deer but more because it was like a cow (ate grain & pasture food??)

^dad & coley's 90's grunge buttrocker skinning garb.. only thing missing is flannel & cocaine..^

 



but I guess it was a deer.. so he gets to kind of keep his man card.. in Coley's pocket.. where it belongs;)

>>>>>>>so for those out there, not aware, our house is the 'Island of Misfit Pets'.. & thanks to our new addition 3 weeks ago we now have 7, SEVEN, cats..

& was she ever a ROUGH addition!! she was so young her eyes weren't even open all the way.. so they were kind of pink & crazy looking..

^cat set to scale against a womans standard 7&1/2 size foot^

 ALSO she has NO idea how to properly clean herself so cleaning her BODAGGITS off her butt have REALLY become a labor of LOVE!! (on bath days I really have to go to my happy place).. her name has been a big area of debate.. some people call her Butterface (butters for short) & some people are wrong..

it suits her cause she's REALLY cute BUT her face..

>>>>>>>The boys are 1 month older!!! & boy are they BIG!!! I consider myself a grand champion breeder.. I mean I reproduced without even trying.. some say LACK OF PROPER PREVENTION MEASURES.. I say SKILL!

 Gabe=11 Months old.. Likes to: speedrace in his walker, scream at EVERYTHING, play with TRUCKS, say mom (everyone is mom).. favorite food: bread & cheese (the tears of my enemies).. I can CRAWL!!.. I have discovered the WHEEL & I love it!!.. favorite movie: Beauty & the Beast.. my head is OFF the charts!.. 24lbs 10oz.. 30&1/2'tall.. has 8 teeth!!

Ash= 7 months old.. likes to: demolish 'lid towers', use the FORCE, have 'dude time'.. favorite food: gluten-free bread.. he's a babbler & he smiles & laughs at everything! (even Phil).. he LOVES the baby kitten.. 26&1/2" tall.. 19lbs 7oz.. has 2 teeth!!!!

I guess Coley is a grand champion momma too.. she IS going to have birthed 2 kids in 14 months time.. only this ones a female.. ALSO last night we were sitting around. looking up baby girl names, & writing them on the white board (aren't they just the niftiest?) & dad walks in & gives them a gander & then exclaims in horror 'PEN-ELOPE!!(pen-elle-lope) ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?'.. so as far as i'm concerned that one is OUT of the running cause i'd forever just hear the disgust in Dads voice as he phonetically mocked Coley's name suggestion..

>>>>>> here are some cute pictures of ashcat thrown in for good measure

 ^camo CUTIE^

 ^david bowie babes^

 ^mom's chunky hunk^

 ^smoulder^

 ^he done parked his walker all by hisself!!!^

 ^lyv kept saying Asher was HER mini-me.. cause ya know she DIDN'T carry him for 9 months OR push his out of HER hoo-ha.. SO naturally I had to make a side-by-side comparison to prove he is MY handsome-R mini-me.. ^

^note gabes semi-disgusted face in the background^

#ldsconf

so it's conference weekend!!

more importantly OCTOBER conference weekend.. there is just something about october conference weekend that really gets me, ya know??.. something about it SCREAMS sweatpants & naps & oh hey food! & don't ALL of those wonderful things just have 'Amy' written all over them??.. & more importantly it's in October which also means Halloween (aka the kickoff to the holiday season) is right around the corner, ergo, it is like one of my favorite weekends out of ALL 52 of them..

so Saturday morning it hits us.. CONFERENCE!!! so then we have to decide.. do we go all out & make HOMEMADE (as in from scratch!!) pancakes for conference morning breakfast, OR do we just buy doughnuts?? as if it was even a question! so pancake breakfast it was & oh was it glorious! we had pancakes,

 eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, & orange juice!! this time we only ended up doubling the pancake recipe (instead of our normal tripling!) because we don't have our heavy hitter Ben AND Coley has a dr's appt (aka WEIGH-IN) on Monday.. Phil demolished 10 pancakes all by himself but honestly when Cole has her game face on that is childsplay for her (we are just really good at eating?? & coley is our MVP)

after we ate.. okay more like demolished our conference breakfast we then set about watching conference.. we watched, we napped, we were oh. so. merry! So many good speakers this year!

 

 I wonder if they purposefully throw in an 'accent' every few speakers to keep us from falling asleep.. cause I personally perk up whenever I hear the distinct sound of someone who's first language was NOT English.. who can tune out Uchtdorf?? not I!! I hear airplanes

& BAM! i'm wide awake..


So Saturday night Dad goes to throw on his suit for Priesthood sesh when Coley presents him with a revelation of revelations that Priesthood session, for the first time, is being streamed LIVE on the internet for all to see!! His face was like Christmas!! I mean what guy is going to be NOT happy that they don't have to climb into a monkey suit & go sit on the hard overflow seating in the chapel for 2 hours?? & instead gets to stay in his hoodie & listen to church leaders from the comfort of his home with a redvines kicker??? that my friends is the recipe for a happy dave dude!

Sunday morning Coley made strata & monkey bread (conference breakfast RULES!) & we sat about the living room for the 2nd days messages.. I honestly ended up passed out for the majority of the morning session (in my defense i have a wicked cold).. BUT i promise i will pay especially close attention to those talks when the conference Ensign comes out in 1 months time!!

Then during the break me & mom took the boys on a walk.. honestly with all the snow lately we thought our strollin' days were over until next year BUT alas today it was b-e-a-utiful so WALKtober it shall remain.. for now.. (Wyoming weather is just supa unpredictable & winter can be a skank)..

when we got home Asher was passed out so naturally we decided to NOT wake the sleeping babes.. i fed baby sister cat (she is FINALLY starting to drink from a dish!! no more bottle feeding hurray!!! ) & i started this blog post with my down time.. about 5 minutes in I hear a THUD & i honestly sat there for a minute or 2 wondering 'what could have thudded' then it hits me. BABY. SISTER. CAT!!!

 so i toss (gently set down) the computer & i rush to the bottom of the stairs where i find a perfectly healthy albeit very stunned small kitten.. so I bring her upstairs & throw her up on my shoulder (in a very maternal manner) & continue to blog.. Then the Ashcat wakes up so we put BSC back in her bathroom & i cuddle my poor sick baby.. well not 5 minutes goes by & we hear FRANTIC meows from the bathroom so Mom opens the door, expecting her to burst out like a jailbreak (in true BSC fashion) but.. nothing.. so Mom investigates further & finds her swimming in the toilet!! i know WOOF!..

so all in all a very successful conference weekend!

full of food, naps, & elastic waistbands!! granted BSC used up 2 of her 9 lives.. but you can't win them all..  well until next time!! see you in 6 months Monson!! you stay classy fellow mo-mo's!!

'brooke you have to eat the whole banana'---- *scoff* 'even the core?'..

So my little brother (the only flesh & blood I have with X&Y chromosomes.. minus of course my babes) Ben is currently serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Lisbon Portugal. Which is super far away.. back in the day it would have taken something like 5 months & the lives of at least 2 family members to make the ocean voyage across the pond to reach him.. Luckily we have more modern means of transportation, i.e. airplanes, to get around..also Mom is a flight attendant, ergo, we have fairly easy & regular access to airports.. So what do you do when you know your little brother is going to be sitting in an airport for X amount of time before he takes off to fulfill his 2 year tenure to the Lord & you have an 'in' at the airport??

^waiting, just waiting^

Exactly you are going to book some flights, hightail it to SLC international airport, spend copious amounts of travel & wait time to get to spend 3&1/2 precious hours with your baby brother.. *spoiler alert* we MISSED our flights.. but it. was. AWESOME!!  (for those of you who have the chance to bend that rule I strongly recommend it)

 

^gabe is unconscience & wouldn't be so docile otherwise.. plus Coley & Jellybean..^

Anyways so obvi we were up FARRRR before the buttcrack of dawn (which sucked), then we sat in a car for 4 MORE hours, (which also sucked), then once we got to the airport we waited an additional 2 more hours (which was an antsy kind of suckage), but it really was all worth it when we got to see Ben.

^a tender moment between ashcat & Unkl ben.. plus Lyv^

*sidenote* Ben grew up with 4 NOT-hoes & 0 bros, so he was beyond pumped to get out of dodge, leave his estrogen saturated environment, & enter the MTC, saying multiple times he a.wouldn't miss us & b. he would also NOT be writing us.. ever..

^warning nudity above^

ps we're going to take this same picture in 2 years & see how much the height gap is lessened

BUT apparently being away from us for 5 weeks made him looooooooong for our nagging voices, awesome Netflix preferences, & obvi hilarious senses of humor.. because he was nice??? like really, really nice.. okay, okay he forgot my hug BUT he hugged me baby super hard?? so it evens out..

 

^I look like butt.. ben has a hover hand.. what's with the not hugging Amy thing??^

So then we went and ate at the airport Café Rio!! HOLLA!! Ben told us about how he was STILL outnumbered due to the recent BOOM of sister missionaries, MTC food (bomb.com), & air drops.. (involves a full load, a bathroom stall, & impeccable aim.. boys. are. disgusting)..

 

^Oly likes to be in pictures.. like everyone.. ever 'you know what that picture needs?? a little bit of Lyv'*

folks i'm telling you the time flew by SOOO fast cause soon it was THAT TIME.. so then we walked him to his gate & waited..

^ashcat mid change.. he peed on Ben.. hopefully he washes that shirt^

 & said good-bye I swear like 4 times.. dang false alarms.. Ben cried, Cole cried, Brooke cried, LYV cried, Mom cried, Dad cried, Gabe cried..(for many & various reasons.. he's a sensitive kid) Lots of tears shed, lots of hugs

^gabe was actually sleeping.. he doesn't hug when he's conscience enough to make decisions^

(he passed me over like every time.. I really am his favorite??) eventually it REALLY was his turn to take off & away he went with baby pee on his shirt, café rio in his belly & an 'I love you' from Lyvie in his ear.. Then it was time to make the 4 hours trek homeward (NOT without a stop at IN&OUT.. duh) so ya.. now Ben is gone.. we are still here writing him faithfully (oh so faithfully.. he's a letter needy kid)..

ps on the way I promised Ashcat if he popped a tooth that day for Unkl Ben I'd give him $10.. on the way home I felt in his mouth an BAM!! I felt the beginnings of a sharp little tooth!! I was. thrilled! He has been teething for like the majority of his life so i'm going nuts in the back seat & all is happy & well in the world.. about 5 minutes later Lyv pipes up with 'didn't you promise him $10 if he popped a tooth today???' once shining brief moment & then leave it to Lyvie to be the materialistic weasel of the bunch & bring up matters of monetary value.. but yes for the record I DO owe Ash 10 green ones.. to be promptly spent on gluten free finger foods:)

well it's tired & i'm late

Well a lot has happened in the past month.. for instance, September is upon us.. September?? SEP-TEM-BER!!! that's the 9th month for those of you who aren't familiar with our calendar year! that means holy schnikies where the heck did the other 8 months go?? oh wait, that's right, they were overrun with sleep interrupted nights, poopy butts, & NO hygiene.. yes now I remember.. or actually I more realize what caused me to FORGET.. cause I really DON'T remember?? I just know they happened.. wha..???

 

Anyways so September has been Septemberish??  Ashcat hit his 6 month mark!! (6 month shots soon=FAIL!).. I cleaned the basement.. again.. I just hate mess, ya know? & I REALLY hate mess in that area for some UNknown reason.. Our lifelong friend Nina got married! Mom gave Mudd a MOST  unfortunate looking haircut. We switched back to Verizon Wireless (woo-hoo) & got new phone swag(double woo-hoo!) ! And some poor soul done lost itself up inside Bessy's ventilation system..

 

So first things first, Ashcat is now 6 months old!

 My little baby is not so little anymore (sweatpant swag errrday for my little chunkmunk.. he's just really round & needs the forgiving nature that elastic waistbands provide).. he is a shameless flirt i mean he LOVES the ladies! good gravy, he loves EVERYTHING female!!

he makes these meowing sounds? (which yes, makes his mama love him even more!).. he's recently started making these exasperated fart sounds with his mouth when he's tired..i'm telling you my child is SOO strange..

 he's now WALKING in his WALKER! thanks to Gabey acquiring his own set of wheels, some ingenuity, & Tibbs dog leash.. aka Cole tied Ash's walked to Gabes & made him pull Ash around like a slave-ish sled dog for a morning & now VOILA! asher can walk in the walker.. it's actually more of a march in place with slight forward motion.. but with rhythm.. my kid likes to stomp the yard??

 

septemBRA!!

So summer vacation is really over now.. like really, really over for everyone.. especially Jack Frost.. & he has been taking his job a little too seriously.. I saw an ICICLE (looks like it should be pronounced eye-kick-uhl) the other morning & I felt the coldness clear into my empty chest cavity.. & now that there is a 'nip' in the air i'm debating whether or not its time to break out ACTUAL bra's.. like with liners & cup sizes.. I fully support just wearing sports bras (& they fully support me back!) which works fine normally.. but now that the tempurature is dropping (with no sign of it rising again in the near future) i'm thinking its time to send the girls back to boob jail.. though they have most definitely reviled in the semi freedom, like that which parolees enjoy, that spandexy athletic support apparel provides...

 

The Black Abyss

The basement.. Ugh the bane of my existence. We've had people leaving, people moving home, people swapping rooms.. it. is. chaotic. so naturally mess ensues. question: & isn't it always easier to just leave your crap piled away in some very conspicuous area of the house? answer: yes.. but it is most displeasing to the eye. So I once again went DOWN DOwn down & the mess rose higher (did I really just make a Johny Cash pun?? *face palm*) .. & really we have NO room/place to put anything else in this house so it's more a game of arranging all the crap in a more condensed & esthetically nicer manner.. & I am the CHAMP it is the America to my land-stealing white dude!! ..it's real-life tetris.. but not as fun??? cause nobody ever scores a concrete win!! 'you mean houses where people actually live in don't just STAY clean???

 

Nina & Brandon got MARRIED!

& i had to do fingerwaves..

 

(boo hiss) I know, a legally binding union was formed & OF COURSE I'm moaning & groaning about the VERY small contribution I had to make towards the entire shindig.. bad self-serving llama..in my defense though i was promised in beauty school i'd most likely NEVER have to do them again once i had filled my retro quota & gradumacated, that promise has now been broken!.. anyways Nina has been our friend forEVER! her & Coley bonded quickly in the 2nd grade when they used to make 'glue-sandwiches' (Nina had sparkly blue glue.. & isn't that just the BEST kind??) & a love of ALL things weird! Anyways it was a 1920's style wedding (which's fits Nin SOOO well),

we partied like it's 1929.. minus the Great Depression part..

 

the food was BOMB.com, the reception was beautiful, the ceremony went off without a hitch, &&&& most IMPORTANTLY they are now legally & lawfully wed so SUCCESS!!

Gross Dog..

How gross is thee?? let me count the ways.. only wait no there isn't a number high enough.. well gross dog has just been pretty much being gross?? only gross with a pep in her step!! She's like 10 years old & has seen many a pet come & go & every time one reached its demise she finds her sassy pants & is all 'i'm fit as a fiddle'.. eh, more like a cello.. so gross dog has 'bovine paploma virus' (the vet speculates she consumed a tainted mouse & that's how she acquired it???) anyways her BVP has manifested itself into an OCTOPUS wart tumor thing on her back.. normally it's just all sorts of gross just by itself.. it also normally has hair that covers it so it just looks like an unsightly mound on her back.. anyways Moo Roxie has decided she will homeopathically smite it with holy water & exorcism.. JOKE!! but really she's going all natural & trying to kill it 'Bill Nye the Science Guy' style with vinegar & baking soda.. & to make sure its REALLY effective she gave the growth a crew cut! Folks I now know what the 7th circle of hell looks like.. & it makes the apocalypse look GOOD!

she is sixteen going on SEVENTEEN!!

The baby sister turned 17!! She's 119 in dog years!! How old are my parents right?? She got a starbucks frappucino & an early morning serenade for her birthday breakfast & WOULD have gotten a doughnut to boot iffff the doughnut NAZI in the Broulims bakery would have given me but ONE baked good!! (I get that your not supposed to put them out there until you put it ALL out there but come on, a childs happiness was at stake!! & yes she's technically a child for 1 more calendar year). Other than my ALMOST brawl with the baker it was a pretty low-key day.. she went to school, like kids her age do?? or don't?? (i'm not sure it's been so long since I was in HS..) got home, ate a dinner of homemade café rio (I went a little heavy on the lime.. i'm just really good at squeezing limes.. ya know??), & finished it off with tie-dye no-bake cheesecake & games with the family..  we go hard

Bangin'!

That's right. I cut bangs!! I haven't cut bangs in.. almost 2 years!! That is the life span of a toddler!

which is a funny coincedence because I now look like a toddler?? (I got a young mug) But it just felt right?? & I needed a change-er-oo! & oh hey scissors!!

Can you hear me now?? GOOOOOOOD

After a year of dealing with Union WireLESS (no really WORST CELL SERVICE EVER!! refurbished phone with nudies?? sorry weinerface11@gmail.com.. you have no secrets from me..) we switched back to Verizon! & i am now a self admitted yuppie brand whore!! oh yes.. iphone owner.. guilty as charged.. but i LOVE it & i love it even more now that i am on a network that WORKS.. & I LOVE that my first iAPP ever was fatbooth (followed shortly by agebooth).. I mean I really know how to make the most of technology folks!!! & i'm also weirdly accepting of 'fat amy'.. for whatever reason I think I don't look half bad twice my size.. those double chins really bring out my eyes, ya??

 



ZOOlander

So weekend before last we took the boys to the zoo. The first time we attempted an animal excursion was the beginning of May this year at Utah's Hogle Zoo. Cause ya know, we wanted to make their first official zoo trip a 'quality' experience.. however, since they were 6 months & 2 months old respectively, we could have taken them to Jurassic Park & it would have not made a damn bit of difference.. the babes, it takes a while for them to acquire an attention span..  Anywho this time we visited the Tauphtus Park Zoo in Idaho Falls.. & it was PURRRRFECT! it was overcast & cooler (80ish degrees *scoff) so ALL the aminals were out & super about!! so here are some pictures of our excursion.. I know i'm totes taking the lazy way out on this blog post.. BUT to be fair I JUST wrote Elder Ben a letter of epic proportions (& lengths) & to be honest I am ALL worded out.. enjoy..

 the only animals that did NOT come out to grace us with their presence

Sloth Bears

so me & Phil decided to be the Sloth Bears.. so the boys didn't feel like they missed out

I think we look pretty.. slothy???

 the boys on their exotic steed Raja..

 Ashcat & Aunt Suga

 Brookie & Gabey Baby.. and monkey

 brooke=the missing link

check out that wingspan

 gabe: 'oh hey look you found my binky..

ash: no this one is mine.. has my name on it

gabe: nope pretty sure its mine.. mine mine!

 me & Ashcat.. being cats... by an actual cat..

 handsome dudes

 David Bowie monkey

 Gabe & Mufassa lion

 don't sip 'n' stroll

 Asher & lion have the same facial expression.. LOVE

 the lions were playing

 they were GROWLING at eachother.. you could FEEL it in ya bones!

 chunky monkeys

 not exactly the same level of excite

 phil saw his FIRST lion

and it did NOT disappoint

 sloth bears pt. 2

 my humps my humps my lovely baby lumps!

 snow leopard poppin a squat

privacy schmivacy

 fat face

 ..we are Siamese if you please..

zebra butts!!!

 

so there's uh.. my blog.. hope ya liked it..

 

wolf out!!