Precious.....

This is Brantley! He has been dubbed the "part time resident of the Bryant home". :) My mom is watching him while his mommy and daddy work during the week. He always comes so happy and smiley in the mornings(thankfully)! It is so fun to watch how he has already changed and grown since being here for only about a month!


When I saw him lying like this I had to grab my camera really fast to take a picture! Too cute!
He likes to be all bundled up and he just looks so precious!
His perfect little smile gets us every time! He's such a happy baby and smiles at everyone and everything! Sometimes I wonder if he is truly laughing at us....lol!

I'm so glad that the Lord gives us these tiny little bundles to love and care for! I can't wait for the day that I have my own! :) (Neither can mom......)

~Hannah

So it's been...well....a long time since I posted! Honestly,the thought of blogging doesn't cross my mind very often and when it does I'm usually doing something else or just don't feel motivated! I know.Lame excuse.Anyway....I won't even try to give a full update,as our calendar has been so full of things, I wouldn't really know where to start! :)
We have had sooo much snow this winter which,if you like the snow,is great! But for those of us who don't really care for it,it's beginning to get a little annoying.Oh well. Spring and summer will be even more fun because of such the long winter!
I will end this post with the announcement that this blog is no longer "our blog" but just mine as it will be easier to post anything I would like as opposed to asking my siblings what I can and can't post.(This is one reason it's so difficult at times! :)) I will be able to post thoughts from my personal devotions as well as thoughts from Preaching.They haven't shown the interest in this blog that I thought they would so here we go.......Hannah's Blog!

Family pictures

These are the pictures that we had done last week!! They turned out great thanks to our aunt!!
I love this picture! The barn that is in our neighbor's cow lot proved to be an awesome backdrop!
I think the black and white makes this picture really neat.
Can you still call him your "little boy", mom???? :)
Dad and the girls
Nick and dad
Macy's face was too funny!! There is a normal one too but I loved this one!
This is the lake by our house......we all thought that it looked fake!
This picture was actually an accident.....but it's very "real"! Peyton likes to be in the middle!!
Ruby thought she is enough a part of our family to be in a picture or two!
This is just a sampling of allllll the pictures! There were a bunch so I chose my favorites!!The pictures were lots of fun to take! The weather was beautiful and everyone cooperated pretty well (ahem Nick)! Thanks Essa!
~Hannah

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Dad!!
Today my dad is another year older....we won't say how old though! :) I am putting a picture of both my mom and dad for two reasons. 1) I couldn't find one of just him that he wasn't being weird in and 2) because their anniversary was October 9th. They have been happily married for 17 years! (That's a long time.)

Wow! It's been entirely too long since I last posted! Here's our summer in a short summary.
Hannah and Nick spent 5 weeks at our church's camp working on staff there.It was a ton of fun but very tiring as well! Macy and Peyton enjoyed staying at home,although picking up all the responsibilities of their wonderful older siblings wasn't so fun! :)
We started school August 2nd!! At first I thought it was a crazy idea, but knowing that we are scheduled to be done mid-April isn't too bad. Nick and I are in our Junior year (yikes!),Macy is in 7th and Peyton is in 5th. So far the school year has been very busy but that is better than being extremely slow and boring!
We just got done with Missions Conference at church on Sunday. It was a busy week but exiting as well!
So that is just a very,very brief update but at least it somewhat catches us up!!
I will be posting some pictures hopefully in the next couple of days and will be getting much more frequent with posting!
~Hannah

So here are just some very random pictures of us! It's really late and I'm really tired so I decided to post some pictures.Some are a little more embarrassing than others and believe me,if I knew I wouldn't have mad family members I could post some even more embarrassing ones. I'm too nice and kind for that though! :)

I guess this isn't us! These are just some baby goats and one of our calves.

That's me(Hannah) and I have a very logical explanation for this picture but we won't get into that tonight!

This is Nick like two years ago! He was (and still is) such a nerd!

Here is a picture of all of us. It was for the cover of the CD we made for Christmas gifts that year.


That's not us either.....just a very fat cat!

Poor Peyton! She was so tired on our way home from church one night that she knelt on the floor of our Yukon and fell asleep with her head on the seat!


The girls were having fun with the camera!!

These pictures make me kinda sad....they look so old!



I think their brains have been a little warped! Just kidding! They are just weird.(That's because they spend too much time with Nick!)
So this post was pretty random but just looking through all our pictures made me laugh! We have so many good memories and I wish I could share them all but it's midnight and I feel like a zombie so I better go to bed!

~Hannah

Quick update........

Hannah:Four weeks ago I began piano lessons at the Mount in Atchison!! It has been fun but frustrating at times!I'm not used to people telling me how to play anymore! Anyway, along with that I've been helping a family that we have known for a long time.I get up and leave the house around 7:45 almost every morning and don't get home until 5,6 or sometimes 7:00 in the evening! I help take care of the kids and help clean the house.It's a long story! I've also really been seeking God's Will concerning college.I'm only a Sophomore (almost a Junior!!!) but I have begun to really start praying about this as college is only two years away! So in my spare time (when I have some) I still enjoy reading and learning more about music. Helping with the garden,keeping up with my chores around the house and organizing sheds and Sunday School supply boxes also find their way to the top of my long list! (smile)

Nick: Where do I start?? He's has been busy with mowing,gardening,and doing things that dad doesn't have the time to get done.Oh! And how could I forget turkey hunting?? These days it seems that he breathes,sleeps and constantly thinks hunting. I don't know how he has the patience to sit out there for so long but he does!He also somehow keeps up with being a pest but I guess that's what he is here and always will be here for!

Macy: She is quickly growing up! She's getting taller and she looks so much older!She still enjoys playing outside,messing around with the animals and following Nick's every move! She has got up once to go turkey hunting but another favorite thing of hers is to sleep, so early morning hunts aren't really her thing! She is truly becoming a young lady and her sweet (but ornery) spirit is so much fun to be around!

Peyton:Well,she's the youngest.Do you know what that means??! :) Peyton loves to do her makeup and hair and dress in big pretty dresses with matching bows!She truly seems to be that 10 going on 21! (So much different than Macy and I!)Jumping on the trampoline,riding her bike and playing with her baby dolls are also some of her favorite things. Peyton takes piano lessons and seems to enjoy it for the most part. She definitely likes to have control of each situation,and she enjoys telling we other three how it is.But I guess there has to be one of those in every family! (big smile!)

So this is just a quick update on us that is long overdue! Sorry for the long wait! Hopefully there won't be quite so much of a time lapse before the next post! :)

~Hannah