Byrom Family

Weekend Fun!

2010-05-31T17:03:00.004-05:00

We have been having a great time on the weekends. We have been to the beach a few times and one Saturday met up with Garrison's cousins at Home Depot for the workshop! This weekend we were at the beach and had a great time with family and playing in the sand. Sorry for the months I haven't posted anything. I will try to be better this summer! Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend!

Christmas 2009 & New Year's Eve/Day 2010

2010-01-03T13:44:00.011-06:00

The weekend before Christmas we spent it in Austin with Tommy and Kari and met up for lunch with Greg, Rebecca, Brock and Priscilla. We had a cupcake on South Congress and enjoyed the trail of lights at Zilker park and the train ride! We had Christmas Eve dinner at our house with Jon's family and then went to his parent's church service. Christmas morning was fun at our house when Garrison saw his bike by the tree. My nephew Ryan spent the week at our house and was with us on Christmas morning and we enjoyed having him here. Then we headed over to my parent's house and had Christmas with them. Then we all headed out to the ranch and had Christmas lunch. My dad gave all the kids a John Deere 4 wheeler so they all loved that. The day after Christmas we went back to the ranch for Megan's 9th birthday. It was great to all be together and celebrate with Megan. She is the sweetest girl and always wants to serve others. She is a blessing to our family! She wore her pink boots and even had cakes made to match her boots by my sister in law, Leigh. New Year's Eve is also my brother's birthday so we celebrated at my parent's house. We had a firework show that Jon and Griff did and the kids enjoyed their sparklers. John turned 35 and what a blessing to celebrate with him this year instead of in the hospital like last year. On New Year's day we had lunch at our house with Jon's family, his brother and family came down from Corpus Christi. After lunch we headed out to the ranch where everyone had a great time on the 4 wheelers. We wish you all a great year in 2010!

Great Wolf Lodge & Big 12 Championship Game

2009-12-17T21:50:00.008-06:00

My parents took our whole family up to Dallas to enjoy the Great Wolf Lodge. We had a great time as a family and the kids loved the indoor waterpark. I think the entire weekend it was in the 40's outside and we were swimming and playing inside in 84 degree water. We had such a great time. What a neat place for kids! That same weekend a group of us went to the Big 12 Championship game and UT scared us all but in the end we won! Jon and my cousin Tommy were nervous since they had already bought tickets to the National Championship game. We were all excited and we had a great time with everyone at the game. Even my brother John (an Aggie) was cheering for UT! It was a great weekend with all our family. We are so blessed and thankful John is back with us!

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T14:36:00.004-05:00

On Wednesday night we went to the First Presbyterian Church fall festival. This is Jon's parents church as well as Garrison's preschool that he goes to on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. His cousins were so cute, Noah as a cowboy and Joshua as a cow! Garrison had a great time and enjoyed the ring toss, bean bag throw and the cake walk even though we didn't ever win a cake! He also liked the fishing game and decorating a cookie and then eating it! We hope everyone has a safe and happy halloween!

Pumpkin Patch

2009-10-18T21:42:00.005-05:00

We met Jon's sister Leigh and her family at the pumpkin patch on Sunday. It was a beautiful day outside and there were plenty of pumpkins to choose from. Garrison and Noah enjoyed picking a pumpkin out to take home!

September (a month in review)

2009-10-05T21:07:00.011-05:00

The first weekend in September (Labor day weekend) we traveled to Port Aransas to meet up with all our friends from UT. Most of them were from my sorority Phi Lamb and Jon's fraternity BYX. We had such a great weekend with everyone and Garrison enjoyed playing with all his new friends. The weekend of the 18th we traveled to San Antonio with my parents, John, April and the boys and met my sister and her family at the Wild Oak Ranch resort. We had a great time swimming, playing on the play ground, eating smores and being together as a family. It was great having John back and being able to enjoy everything with him. We also went to Sea World on Sunday and all the kids loved that. Then the last weekend in September we drove up to Austin and stayed with Greg and Rebecca Palmer and went to the UT/UTEP game. We had a great weekend with the Palmers and Garrison enjoyed playing with Brock and all his toys! Thank you Greg and Rebecca for a fun weekend! That was Garrison's first UT game and he loved it! He still talks about seeing Bevo on the field and he tells us he was far away but that he saw Bevo run on the BIG TV! Sunday, September 27th was Jon's 33rd birthday so we celebrated it the Thursday before we left to Austin at Outback. On Sunday night when we got back into town we celebrated at our house with Jon's sister and her family and had a great time with them. Garrison had to wear his birthday crown from Chuck E Cheese while we celebrated Jon's birthday!

Garrison turns 2!

2009-08-31T22:38:00.007-05:00

Today is Garrison's 2nd birthday and we have celebrated it for about a week and a half. My sister and her family came into town on August 21st so we had Garrison's birthday at Chuck E Cheese on Sunday August 23rd which is my dad's birthday. Garrison enjoyed his birthday so much. He loved playing all the games and then enjoyed the birthday show. He also loved the yummy cupcakes! We had a great time celebrating with him and it was fun to see how much he enjoyed his party.

Then last Thursday Jon's parents had us over for dinner to celebrate his birthday. He had fun opening presents and he was so excited about his cake. I had asked him about two weeks before his birthday what he wanted on his cake and he told me WORMS (Jon's sister had made a cake back in July for her sons birthday and it had gummy worms on it). Then he said he wanted Grandma (Jon's mom) to make him a chocolate cake with worms on it. She did exactly that and he loved every bite of it! He was very excited about his worm cake!

Today he started his first day of preschool at Lynn Flowers where his Great Aunt Pat is the director. He will be going from 9:00 to 11:45 Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He went right in and started playing with the race cars. We took cupcakes to his class today to celebrate his birthday again! Tonight my parents, Jon and I took Garrison again to Chuck E Cheese. Garrison had to wear his crown that he got at his birthday party.

We have enjoyed these past two years so much with Garrison. We are so thankful and so blessed. We look forward to many more fun years with him.

Swim Swim Swim!

2009-08-12T21:32:00.003-05:00

Garrison took swimming lessons from his Great Aunt Pat and he is swimming! He has had plenty of pool time this summer since he stays during the day with either my mom or Jon's mom and they both have pools so taking swim lessons was a great bonus! He is not afraid at all of the water and will swim from the steps to you and then swim back on his own. Here's a short video from one of his lessons with Aunt Pat.

Summer Fun!

2009-07-18T16:55:00.012-05:00

Sorry it's been quite a while since I've posted something. We have been having so much fun enjoying the summer weekends with Garrison. A few weekends ago we met some of our friends Matt and Shelley and their little girl Kelsey at Sea World. We had a great time and Kelsey loved the dolphins and even fed them. They also enjoyed the Shamu show and Garrison is still talking about Shamu. They both loved playing in the water too!

This weekend we went to South Padre and my sister and her kids joined us as well as my parents. We went to Schlitterbahn at the beach on Friday and had a great time. Garrison rode in the inner tube and wasn't afraid of the rapids or the big slides. There is also a castle with small slides and he did most of those by himself. We had so much fun spending time with family and playing at the beach.

Before we left the beach we cleaned up the condo. Garrison loves to vacuum so I had to get some pictures of him vacuuming.

Garrison is currently taking swimming lessons from his Aunt Pat so I will be sure to post pictures of that soon. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

Weekend in Georgia

2009-06-07T15:07:00.007-05:00

Last weekend we flew to Atlanta Georgia for my cousins graduation from high school. We had a great weekend with family. We spent time at the park and Garrison had fun running after the geese, and walking the BIG golden retriever. The ice cream truck arrived at the park so the whole family went to get ice cream. Garrison loves ice cream! While at the park the guys decided to play a game of ultimate frisbee and Jon fell on his shoulder while catching the frisbee and separated his shoulder. So after a few hours at Urgent Care they put him in a immobilizer and told us to see an Orthopedic surgeon once we got home. We went to dinner with the family later that evening and Garrison had salsa for the first time, I guess salsa in Georgia is not as hot as our South Texas salsa...he really liked it! We had a great weekend even though Jon got hurt. He saw a surgeon when we got home and they said that it was a third degree ac joint separation but it will heal on its own with no surgery needed...we are very thankful for that!

Memorial Day at the Beach!

2009-05-26T21:56:00.005-05:00

We headed down to the beach after church on Sunday and stayed until late Monday afternoon. We had a great time and Garrison enjoyed playing in the sand and in the ocean. He also enjoyed hunting for crabs on Sunday night with his flashlight and net! We enjoyed the time with my parents and the beautiful weather and our day off from work. We hope all of you had a safe and fun Memorial Day weekend. Thank you to all who have served and are currently serving and to those who have given their lives so we can have our freedom.

Fun in the Pool!

2009-05-21T21:01:00.012-05:00

Garrison loves the pool. He loves to swim, splash and come down the water slide! Most weekends we are out by the pool enjoying the time with him and here are a few pictures. We are so thankful both of our parents have pools for us to enjoy!

Just a little bit of personality!

2009-05-15T22:16:00.005-05:00

I was looking through my pictures and found this one taken at Easter and I thought I would post it to show all of you a little bit of Garrison's personality. He is so much fun. Lately he has been saying I'm so excited when you tell him we are going to do something fun! We are enjoying every day with him.

First haircut by a professional

2009-05-05T21:10:00.003-05:00

Jon has always cut Garrison's hair but this past weekend we decided to take him and have his hair cut by the pros! Garrison enjoyed sitting in the car and watching Elmo while he got his haircut.

Fun filled weekends

2009-04-11T12:15:00.008-05:00

Last Saturday we went to Corpus Christi and spent the day with Jon's brother and his family. We had a great time. We went to the Texas State Aquarium and had a great time seeing all the fish! Garrison enjoyed playing with his cousins Allison and Lindsey. They were so sweet with him. Then on Sunday we went to Jon's parents church Easter Egg hunt and then to Baskin Robbins for ice cream which Garrison calls yum yum!

Today we went to the Country Club for breakfast and an Easter Egg hunt. We had a great time and Garrison enjoys finding the eggs and seeing what's inside them! My parents, John, April, Caden and Dalton were there so we had a great time.

We hope you all have a Happy Easter!

Fun in the Sun!

2009-03-26T21:38:00.004-05:00

We headed to the beach (South Padre Island) last Friday for the weekend. We had a great time with my family. This was really the first time Garrison had been able to play in the sand. All the times we had gone before the weather wasn't good or he was too young to really enjoy the beach. We went out early Saturday morning and stayed a few hours on the beach before all the Spring Breakers woke up and came out. It was crazy down there so we spent a lot of time in the condo which was very relaxing and fun!

Yee-Haw

2009-02-19T21:11:00.007-06:00

For Valentine's weekend my parents treated us to a weekend in San Antonio at the Hyatt Wild Oak Ranch Resort. We had a great weekend. We took Garrison to the San Antonio Rodeo and he loved it. He loved seeing all the animals. He enjoyed the pony ride and the petting zoo. He wasn't afraid at all and loved petting all the animals. Although I didn't get any pictures we enjoyed being with Jennifer, Rex, Ryan, Megan and Jake on Saturday at Ryan's baseball tryouts. He did great and we enjoyed watching him tryout. We then spent the rest of the day with them. We had a great Valentine's day and weekend. It was so relaxing and fun to be together as a family.

A night out with Uncle John!

2009-02-06T22:13:00.003-06:00

John has been home for 8 days and has enjoyed being home and has done so much in just a little over a week! He decided this afternoon that he wanted to go to the hockey game so Garrison enjoyed his first hockey game with Uncle John! We had a great time! Garrison also liked the bee and followed him around. We enjoyed the night and are so thankful to have John home and doing so well. We are so blessed.

Welcome home John!

2009-01-30T22:17:00.007-06:00

My brother came home yesterday and it is so good to have him back. A good friend of ours posted on her blog about John and it really blessed me. Her blog site is mammysfrontporch.blogspot.com

There are recent pictures of John on her post too. I just want to say thank you to everyone who has believed with us and has continued to pray for John. God is faithful. John is a miracle!

Christmas 2008

2009-01-01T10:38:00.010-06:00

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas. We started celebrating on Monday night with dinner and exchanging presents with my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents at my Aunt Pat & Uncle Tom's house. My aunt and cousins were down from Georgia so we enjoyed seeing them. On Christmas Eve we went to Jon's parent's church service and then to their house for dinner. We had Christmas lunch at our house this year with Jon's family. We had a great time and the boys (Noah and Garrison) enjoyed playing with all their new toys. We also did our annual dollar gift exchange and that was fun as always. Then the day after Christmas we drove up to Houston to see my family and be with John for Christmas. We exchanged gifts that night at the apartment and then on Sunday John was able to come to the apartment and open his gifts. It was such a great day with him. He really enjoyed being at the apartment with all of us and didn't want to go back to TIRR. We had a great Christmas and we are so thankful for John's healing and restoration. We are witnessing a miracle! Thank you Lord!

Ho Ho Ho

2008-12-13T13:50:00.005-06:00

We had breakfast with Santa this morning at the Country Club and Garrison did great sitting on Santa's lap. He was so still and just smiled, it was too cute to watch! Santa gave out gifts and Garrison thought that was great and loved his new Tonka truck. Garrison can tell you what Santa says, he says Ho Ho Ho!

Great Grammy's wedding

2008-12-07T20:28:00.003-06:00

We flew up to Oklahoma the day after Thanksgiving to be a part of Garrison's great grandma's wedding. Jon's grandmother got married on Saturday after Thanksgiving. Garrison and his cousin Noah were her ring bearers and Jon walked them down the aisle. We enjoyed the beautiful wedding and enjoyed being with all the family. It even snowed while we were up there so Garrison got to see a little bit of snow for the first time.

Caden's 3rd birthday at the Ranch

2008-11-24T21:39:00.006-06:00

We had such a great time celebrating with Caden at the ranch. The weather was great and everyone had a blast. There was a hay ride, tractor rides, pinata and Garrison just enjoyed looking at the cows. By the time the party was over he had a big bump on his head. It didn't seem to bother him....he still had a great time. The last picture is of Garrison telling us what the cow says!

Say Cheese!

2008-11-17T22:44:00.005-06:00

While we were in San Antonio we got pictures taken of Garrison. Here are a few of the good ones!

Shell Trade Show and trip to SA

2008-11-16T17:28:00.004-06:00

Last Thursday, November 6th we went to the Shell Conference and Trade Show and Garrison enjoyed the race car and the Chester chicken! Caden (John and April's oldest son) went with us too and had fun eating the free candy and ice cream! Garrison enjoyed that too! We stayed through the weekend at the Hyatt Wild Oak Ranch Resort and the kids had a great time playing outside. Garrison had fun with his cousins, Ryan, Megan, Jake and Caden!

G-Elmo

2008-11-02T10:06:00.008-06:00

We dressed Garrison up as Elmo for the fall festival at Jon's parent's church. It was so cute, a lot of the kids really thought Garrison was Elmo. Garrison enjoyed the night especially the hot dog with ketchup! Garrison enjoyed playing with his cousin Noah who was dressed up as Noah's ark. His grandpa took him down the big slide and Garrison enjoyed that too! We had a fun night!

Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-26T21:36:00.004-05:00

We took Garrison to the pumpkin patch today to pick out a pumpkin. We had a great time and Garrison enjoyed touching all the pumpkins. He couldn't decide which one he wanted to take home!

Update

2008-10-05T21:43:00.009-05:00

Sorry its been a long time since I've posted something...here is a summary of what we have been up to...

We celebrated Jon's 32nd birthday over dinner a few days early since he was up in Austin for the Arkansas game on his actual birthday.

Yesterday, we started the day by taking Jon's motorcycle to the Yamaha shop to sell it. Garrison loves the sound the motorcycle makes and he enjoyed sitting on it with his dad!

We ended the day by watching Texas beat Colorado! We went over to my parent's house and watched the game on the big screen. Garrison can't do hook 'em yet but he can show that he is ONE!

Weekend at the Park!

2008-09-21T21:33:00.008-05:00

We had such great weather this past week so we enjoyed taking Garrison to the park this weekend. We went on Saturday after breakfast and then on Sunday we met Jon's family at the park for a church picnic. Garrison liked the swings the best!

Garrison is taking a few steps!

2008-09-16T22:25:00.000-05:00

Garrison has been taking a few steps here and there. Saturday night was the first time he took a lot of steps all on his own. You can check out the video of him walking!

Saturday night fun with the family!

2008-09-14T09:24:00.004-05:00

We went over to Nana and Pop's house for dinner last night. April, Caden and Dalton were there so Garrison enjoyed playing with the boys. He doesn't get to be around them very often since they are usually in Houston with John so he enjoyed playing with his cousins!

Time to brush your teeth!

2008-09-13T15:30:00.000-05:00

This was Garrison's first time to use a toothbrush instead of the finger toothbrush I used to brush his teeth. I think he liked the fruity tooth gel more than anything. We are going to try to keep his pretty 8 teeth clean!

Labor Day

2008-09-02T22:10:00.009-05:00

We went out to Nana and Pop's ranch for the day and we had a great time. Garrison loved the cows, goats and ducks! I think we wore him out, he didn't last long on the tractor ride with Pop! It was a fun day and we enjoyed our day off!

Garrison's Party!

2008-09-01T18:45:00.012-05:00

We had a great day celebrating Garrison's first birthday! Garrison really liked when everyone stood around and sang happy birthday to him. He loves music so he really liked everyone singing to him!

His aunt Leigh (Jon's sister) made the cake and cupcakes! They were yummy! Thank you Aunt Leigh! We had such a fun party...we went swimming, had hamburgers and hot dogs and had fun with everyone that came! Thank you for a great party and for all the wonderful gifts! Thank you Nana and Pop for having the party at your house...it was so much fun!

Garrison turns ONE!

2008-09-01T10:45:00.008-05:00

The day started out great, we went over to Nana and Pop's house to get everything ready for the party and Garrison got to ride in his new carseat. I was so excited to be able to turn him around. He reached the weight limit a long time ago but he had to wait until he was a year old! Even though the trip was short over to Nana and Pops he loved looking out the window and sitting up so big in his new seat.

Garrison Austin Byrom

2008-08-29T22:54:00.000-05:00

Garrison is turning 1 on Sunday, August 31st so I felt it was time to start a blog to keep you updated on all he is doing. I hope you enjoy our blog and I will try to keep it up to date! Stay tuned for pictures from Garrison's first birthday!