Project DVD

Before we moved in to my parents house we had a grand plan of several projects that we could undertake. I am proud to say that we have officially started project DVD ... the first of a possible many (depending on how long we stay). This project involves gathering all the DVDs in the house, organizing them by certain categories, alphabetizing them, and then cataloging all the movies so we can have a printed list ... we really need one when there's this many movies! I'm talking about at least 1,000 DVDs here. So far, we pulled all the movies out that we could find during halftime of the Utah vs. Utah State football game last week and organized them alphabetically.


you can see the FB game in the background :) These are the stacks we made mostly during half time and a little into the game ... I also need to thank Steve-O for his help. He was watching the game with us and got drafted as a helper in our project. Luckily he was more than willing :)

Since then we decided to make a Disney/cartoon category, a holiday movie category, an LDS category and a TV show category. We have gone through and alphabetized all those categories and have them separated and we have catalogued all the main DVDs (not in a special category). It may not sound like much, but this is a huge project! We're coming up with ideas of where to put them ... we kinda like the idea of making shelves along one wall and having them all out where you can see them instead of in little cabinets so that you have to go through 10 different places before you find what you're looking for. In the long run the decision is up to Mumsy, so we're just hopeing she'll be on the same page with us. Oh, and I forgot to mention the part we haven't even started yet ... we have at least as many DVDs in edited versions that we're going to do completely separately. We are still finding movies every now and then that we have to add into our stacks and catalogue, but we've done well so far. Here's where it's at now. Much more organized. Now we just need the finished product!

The Fun Stuff

I've tried to be good and save up our baby budget money until we see what we get from showers,etc. but I'll admit that's it's SO HARD sometimes!! I just want to go baby shopping and set up a nursery and all the things that I would call "the fun stuff." I just have way too much time on my hands to think about all the things that I could be doing and want to be doing. But, I've tried to keep myself busy with little projects and doing all the things that I never had time to do. Right now, all I want time to do is get ready for my little buddy. I can feel him move around every day and I can tell that he's getting bigger and it just makes me think about him constantly. I feel like I already have the kid. It's pretty sad when you can be entertained by poking at your belly and waiting for him to poke back, but it happens ... a few times :) Anyway, I have been blessed with a very understanding and supportive husband who wants me to be happy and thus lets me go baby shopping. I know he's right when he suggests that we save up for the big stuff (and there's a lot!) but I love love LOVE looking at all the little outfits, shoes, etc. We went shopping together the other day while there were Labor Day sales and got our little man his first Christmas outfit and a handsome little Sunday suit! I just have to post them because I'm weird like that. But, let's face it ... we all have our quirks.


the front of the Christmas outfit

The back ... so cute!

This is my favorite! You don't find little suits very often so we just had to get it! Thanks Shopko!

A Blessing and A Curse

We are loving having a backyard for Sadie to run around in (notice we haven't had to post much about all the puppy damage lately). BUT, as nice as it is, it has it's downsides too. 2 main things stick out in my mind. First of all, we get jumped on between 6 and 7:30 every morning by a little puppy who wants to go play already. This is not only due to the fact that there's a yard, but also because there are so many other doggies to play with now. However obnoxious this wake-up call can be, I can handle it. Especially because I tend to wake up multiple times every night, what's once more?

The main thing that I'm not a fan of is that Sadie is never clean anymore. Never. I gave up on giving her baths because she will either "play" with Amber (consisting of Sadie biting Amber's face off, tugging on her tail, etc. and Amber trying to fit whatever part of Sadie she can into her large mouth). This play time leaves Sadie slimy and gross. Or Sadie will simply go outside and come in covered with dirt and/or mud. I let her out one night before bed so she could go to the bathroom. She was only out there 3 minutes tops. When I came to get her, she was COVERED ... and I mean covered ... with mud. Her paws were no longer white or black, they were brown. Her face looked as if someone had flung mud off a paintbrush onto her ... she had speckles of mud all over her head. I have to admit that my first reaction (after the shock of her "new look") was to bust out laughing. I felt bad that Preston was in the other room saying his personal prayer so that he missed the whole ordeal. He came just in time to see all the mud left in the tub after I rinsed her off. Although it was quite entertaining, the last thing I wanted to do was give my dog a bath when I was so ready to climb in my nice comfy bed. If only I had taken pictures of our mud puppy I would post them. But, of course, those pictures are locked in my memory and my memory alone. However, I do have some proof that Sadie gets dirty.


We were going to let the dogs in when we came home one afternoon, but this is what we saw ...


We tried to get a good picture through the glass door, but I don't think it does her justice.


This is my favorite "Well, are you going to let me in now or what?" look.

It's truly amazing that with how dirty she gets basically every day, somehow if you give her a couple hours or so her fur coat looks shiny and clean again. Oh how looks can be deceiving.

And So It Begins ...

Football season is back in business and off to a good start for the home team! We celebrated the beginning of the season watching the Utah vs. Utah State game on Thursday with hot dogs and soda, but today's game was WAY better!! Of course it helps that I am a BYU fan, but either way, WHAT A GAME!!!!! For you who watched it, you know what I'm talking about! For those of you who didn't see it ... let's just say BYU, ranked 20, beat Oklahoma, ranked 3! HUGE! Of course it helped that we took out their star Quarter Back at the end of the 2nd quarter, but we played great on top of that. It was a low scoring game (14-13) but I couldn't be more excited for the next game! Our Anniversary gift to ourselves this year were BYU all-sports passes/guest passes so we're stoked to go to the games!

Well, I just have to say that college sports don't get any less exciting being an alumni :) GO COUGS!!

The Best Two Years

This post is about two things. First, it was our anniversary yesterday which marks the end of the best two years of my life (so far). Second, my little brother Dan went into the MTC today to start the best two years of his life. Needless to say, we've had a pretty eventful week for our family and the fun is not over yet. Friday, Kim and Trip are leaving for Malaysia so who knows when we'll see them next. After this week, my family will be dwindling ... there's only Preston and I and my mom left in the house right now and Steve's down the street. That's a big difference from traveling and partying with the whole Doxey gang all summer though. I'll miss them all.


We didn't get to do much to celebrate our anniversary, but we did plan to go to the temple and do some sealings ... we ended up having the family join us for an endowment session instead, but I couldn't think of a better place to be on our anniversary than the very place our eternal marriage started!

Dan all ready to go to the MTC

Typical MTC drop-off picture ... gotta love it

They now have curbside drop-off, so this is the elder that helped Dan carry his stuff into the MTC to start off his mission experience ... they were actually in the same ward at BYU, so it was kind of fun.

Baby Names

Names are tough. There's so many names I like and so many names that I just don't like when Preston likes them. We've been going through a couple of name books alphabetically. I think we're only to "I" or "J." We already have a huge list. Some from the book and some we already liked before the book. If you ask me what my favorite names are, it might be different any second of any day. Today, right now, these would be my top 5. I just want to see what you think .... favorites and least favorites. Have no doubt that once we've been through the whole book of names we'll be posting again :)

Brayden (I had that one picked out before we knew we were having a boy ... I think Brayden Brown is just a cute name)

Zander (Neither of us were sure about it at first, but the more I hear it, the more I like it! Sinple, but original. Plus, it means "warrior" or "protector.")

Conrad (I just found out in conversation last night that this is a name Preston used to want to name a son ... I like it. I'd probably end up calling him Conner, but it's a good strong name.)

Weston (This one is a mix of Preston and his dad Wesley ... but, we wouldn't want him to be called Wes like Dad is and that's a pretty common nickname ... we'll see)

Daxton (Love this name. It's original. I googled "Daxton Brown" and I don't think there's one out there ... not on google anyway. There are Dax Browns, but no Daxtons.)

Sunday is a special day

Yesterday was a great day. We started it out by attending the Oquirrh Mountain temple dedication, which was great. Then we made a banner and left to greet Steve-o at the airport when he arrived home from his mission in Africa. He spent the last week and a half touring Africa with his mom, but was finally coming home.

After that we went home and took a nice sunday nap :) We spent some time reading our current book together, The DaVinci Code, and then went with my family to my little brother's patriarchal blessing appointment. It was pretty good times. I don't have any of the pictures we took after the blessing, but mom did her usual routine of taking pictures all possible combinations of people that were there, so hopefully I'll get to see how they turned out. The highlight, other than the actual blessing, was seeing the patriarch's football signed by Bronco Mendenhall. We should have thought to take a picture of us holding it, but too late now.

We had a nice family dinner and stayed up talking with each other until it was bedtime. But, before we went to bed I had Preston take a picture of me because I have had several requests for belly pictures and just haven't even taken any until now. I never really know what to do/ how to pose when I'm the only one in a picture, but here it is.