It's a Great Day!

Happy Thursday! 

Life around the Brant house has been pretty "ok" lately haha! Regan is back in the states right now for training, so it's been just Sasha and I for the last 1.5 weeks. It's hard not having Regan around to distract Sasha from me in the evenings, but we've been doing ok, I think. 

I've been doing VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) on my personal youtube channel, so that's actually been taking up a lot of my time (probably the main reason I haven't been posting in here as much). 

Here's my channel, in case you don't know: http://www.youtube.com/user/CuteCoil

The sun has been rising well before 7 AM lately, so Sasha has been having a hard time staying in bed even though he's tired. The other morning I woke up to him standing next to my bed with wet pants. I thought he hadn't made it to the potty in time, but he kept trying to tell me he spilled something on himself. When I went downstairs, I found out what had spilled...

He's not QUITE ready to get his own breakfast...

He got the Rice Krispies, soy milk, cups, bowl, and spoon out but he just didn't have the strength to pour the milk, poor thing! He was SO CLOSE!! Instead half of the soy milk container ended up on him/the chair/the rug. That stuff's not cheap, either! Oh well! That's what I get for trying to sleep in past 6 AM. 

We've been hanging out with our good friends, Beth and Zoe, once or twice a week because Beth's husband has been out of town lately, too. A couple of weeks ago, Beth bought us a season pass to the Gartenschau in Kaiserslautern - it's basically a huge, awesome park. Lots of playgrounds, a huge sand pit, water play area, giant dinosaur statues, flower gardens...you get the idea. It's awesome!! We've been trying to go at LEAST once a week to get the most use out of our pass.

"Stop taking pictures of me! I WANT TO PLAY!!"

Sasha is happiest at the park!

The weather has been AMAZING this whole week, so we've been going to a lot of parks. Yesterday we decided to go find a tower south of Kaiserslautern. I should give some back story: When Regan and I first moved here, we didn't have a gps and we loved just driving around and exploring. We had a map of the area and it had castle ruins/towers/etc marked on it. So we would just drive around and try to find them all. There was this tower that we saw and we tried to find it, but we drove around forever and got really lost and never found it. So yesterday, the weather was nice, so I was like "SASHA!! LET'S DO THIS!!!!!!!!!" I thought I could find it on the gps and drive up to it. I was wrong. The gps took me to a dead end - actually, it was a private dirt road that people use for a bike/walking path. I decided we could just walk up to the tower, so I parked and that's what we did. It took an entire how of hiking up hill, but we got there! It was actually a ton of fun and a really beautiful hike. Sasha was a total trooper and just hiked right along with me. Sad story is, I didn't bring the digital camera. I brought two different film cameras....but I can't show you those pictures yet. Sorry. 

Sasha is still kind of having a hard time staying in bed. The other night, I walked into his room to check on him before I got into bed, and this is what I found. He was completely passed out...

Is that really better than sleeping on your bed?

Last night I found him asleep in his closet with the doors shut. I have no idea. He just seems to really hate sleeping in his bed! At least he's sleeping, I guess. 

And that wraps up what's been going on lately! 

Easter and the Temple!

Two weeks ago, for my Harvey Bloodline video, I showed Sasha and I making these lovely paper plate bunny face things. Here's a better picture of them than what you probably saw in the video:

Sasha's is a bit abstract, I think.

We had a great Easter. A bunch of Regan's co-workers got together last Sunday evening for a 'brunch-for-dinner' potluck event! I brought peanut butter sticky buns (which were absolute heaven! SO GOOD!!!), bacon, and I made eggs Benedict there (since that's not really a 'make ahead' type of meal). There was SO MUCH food. I don't think I've been that full for a long time. Very uncomfortable...but very delicious. And seriously, those peanut butter sticky buns were just...amazing. SO amazing. I ate so many!

This past week was rather uneventful, besides the usual story time and a couple of play dates. We were able to go to the Frankfurt temple this weekend, though, which was a lot of fun. We drove up Friday and stayed in the lodging on the temple grounds. We checked in and then went out for some Thai/Chinese/Japanese/Asian food (they had pretty much every country in Asia on the sign, so I don't know what they really identified as) and it was SO good. I had a massive pile of fried glass noodles with chicken. mmmmm my fave. It was really cheap, too! After that, I went to the 7 PM session at the  temple. Regan got up the next morning and went to the 9 AM session. His was in English, too! Lucky duck! I haven't gone through a session without headphones since my brother's wedding over a year ago! The headphones are now a normal part of my temple clothing haha. 

This weekend is also General Conference, but being in Germany, the times are all weird. The Saturday morning session comes on at 6 PM, for example. Regan went to the Priesthood session this morning at 11, and then we watched the Saturday morning session. So far that's all I've seen. BOO!!! But with the weird times, it's just hard to watch them as they air live! I'll catch up during the week, though, so it's ok. That's how we usually do it anyway. 

Well, it's after 11 and I am trying to go to bed earlier. 10:30 was my goal...but this is a start! At least it's not midnight yet.