Bryce pulling himself up :)

He is getting bigger by the minute!  All Bryce wants to do now is stand.  He still can't sit up by himself from lying down (so we sit him up) but he is almost there.  Everytime he wakes up in the morning or from his naps, this is what he does.... he thinks he's hot stuff!  (p.s. we finally got him his bumper for the crib... so no more "blanket bumper")

He's so proud of himself

Then he fell down and bumped his head

Our Small Spanish Piso

 We finally got our little place some what organized.  It is working out just fine for us, but if we do have visitors come and stay with us....well we will just have to see what happens because it is so small :)  Here are a few pictures of our place. 



We are on the 6th floor (the top floor of the building)



Here is a view from our window of the street below

Here is another view from the other direction (the brown building at the top right, Bryan's basketball gym is right next to it)

That is a statue of Christ that we can see from our window (There's a light that shines on it at night and it just glows!!!  It's beautiful!!)

Bryan's and my room / Living room/ Kitchen

Our room /Living room/ Kitchen

Kitchen (with washing machine next to the oven and stove. Also there is no dishwasher)

Hallway from our room to the bathroom and Bryce's room (the bathroom is that door on the left)

Bathroom

Bryce's room (the fan is to help with the drying process of our clothes that are on the drying rack.  The other drying rack is outside the hallway window)

We finally got Bryce a crib (and yes those are his blankets as his bumper for his crib, we haven't gotten his bumper yet)

Home Sweet Spain

Well we finally made it to Spain!  It's so beautiful here and such a different place to what I'm used to.  We live in Oviedo, which is about an hour plane ride north of Madrid.  We got here 2 weeks ago, and finally got internet yesterday.  So you can imagine how hard it has been not to have any entertainment or being able to talk to family for the past 2 weeks.  Our trip here went great.  Bryce was amazing on the plane ride over (it was an all-nighter flight, so he did sleep for the majority of the flight)  he only cried once, and that's because he was ready to be fed and then go to sleep.  We landed in Madrid after our 10 hour flight and had to make a connecting flight to Oviedo.  We of course missed our connecting flight because after going through customs and then their security, which was an absolute joke, people were pushing and yelling and it was not organized one bit (something that would never be tolerated in the States).  We finally got on our new flight and got to Oviedo.   One of Bryan's coaches picked us up from the airport.  Our first night here will probably be my most memorable nights sleep I have ever had.  We didn't sleep at all.  We would sleep like 2 hours and then be fully awake and then try to go back to sleep etc.(its a 9 hour time difference here from California)  One of the longest nights I have ever had in my life.  Bryce did ok though.  The next day we were shown our new place where we are going to live for the next 8 months.  It's a really, really small place.  It's a one bedroom, one bathroom place.  Our bed is 2 twins pushed together, and we actually moved our bed into the living room, so that Bryce could have the bedroom.  So Bryan and I made our room into a little studio apartment.  The kitchen, the kitchen table, couch, couple dressers and washing machine ( the washing machine is right next to the stove) are all in our room.  It's pretty small here, but we are making it work.  There are no such things as dryers here in Spain!  It's horrible.  We have a drying rack and a rack outside our window where we hang our clothes to dry.  It takes days to dry!!!  It's something I have to get used to I guess.

 We are enjoying it so far.  I finally got Bryce out for our nightly walks which are just beautiful!  It's like New York City here (a place I have ALWAYS wanted to live) it's very busy....but a beautiful city.  There's a park we walk to, so it's nice to have some quiet around.  Everybody, I mean EVERYBODY speaks Spanish (as they should) so I am having a hard time with that.  I can't talk to anybody and I just keep to myself. Bryan translates everything for me and is helping me out a lot.   The one good thing about me not speaking ANY Spanish is that I do not like to talk during Bryan's basketball games, to anyone, so since I don't know the language...I don't have to talk to anyone :)  Bryan is fitting right into his new life as a professional basketball player.  He likes the coaches and his new team very much.  The basketball gym where he practices at and also plays his home games at is about a 1/4 mile walk.  It is very close.  Here are a few pictures....I will get pictures up of our apartment once we are fully settled in!

Bryce's first time showering in Spain

His bed for now (couch cusions surrounded by all our suitcases)

First time to San Francisco Park (a park Bryan would go to all the time on his mission and actually the very first thing Bryan ever sent me while on his mission was a postcard of this park!)

First time eating in his new high chair

First time going to watch his dad play basketball

We finally got him a little tub so that he doesn't have to shower

Happy 8 Months!!!

Bryce is 8 months today!  I can't believe it.  He has grown so fast (and so big).  These last 8 months have flown by.  He already has his 2 bottom front teeth, he's rolling over like crazy, and he is sitting up (well for a little bit, until he throws himself backwards) He is also starting to get up on his knees and scooting....I'm sure he will be crawling within the next 2 weeks.  I have taken his "Month" pictures every month and it is so fun to see how much he has grown!

Every month is a different sports theme (it just happened to be basketball this month)