Look what I found......

I was cleaning RJ up after "Ma Ma" gave him some Mac and Cheese and I noticed something up his nose. We tried to get pictures of it all the way up in there but they turned out to blurry. "Nurse Anji" (on her day off) performed a little minor surgery. We told RJ that it might hurt a little but he said, "Da Da, RJ, Ma Ma GO GO GO" which means, I will be fine if daddy is with me but I want Ma Ma to leave so she won't hear me scream and freak out to much. We appreciated his concern and he self-sacrifice but since "Ma Ma' is doing all the handy tweezer work it really wasn't possible. We offered to go buy him some whiskey to deadend the pain but he refused and just wanted me to hold his hand and said, "RJ NO" which means, I won't move or cry go ahead and perform the surgery or it could of meant, get your hand off my head and get me out of this chair.....we really couldn't be that accurate with the translation with all the adrenline pumping in our veins. "Nurse Anji" went to work and about 5 long seconds later we had it out with no tears (just like he promised or didn't .....we are still not sure) We had to stick it back up in there a little bit to get this picture but "Nurse Anji" promised that he wouldn't be harmed in doing so and as you can tell by the picture he looks quite happy.

RJ 16 months old

Time really flies, I can't believe he is 16 months old. He is so cute and has the funnest personality. He jabbers and jabbers all day long. We can make sense of a few words like...."dog", "outside", "book", "Go", "da da", and "hat"! We are so blessed with this little one!!!!

St. George Half Marathon

First things first....Does anyone else think I look like sloth from the Goonies? Man I need to do something with my hair before I run. Waking up and running isn't a recipe for a good picture as you can tell. Oh well, even if I am U...G...L...Y and I have no alibi, I still have the cutest wife and kid by my side and thats what really counts. One crazy thing that happened during the race was a horse for some reason jumped the fence and was running the course with us. It happened right in front of me and for the first couple minutes of watching this big burley beast run wild on the course I was afraid that we were going to have some seriously hurt people, but the flood of runners acted like a moving fence and kept the horse confined to a relatively small area. As I continued running, I saw more police cars converging on the place where the horse ran wild and later saw an ambulance heading that way also, on any other day I would of enjoyed watching the local authorities try and coral the horse (I am sure I could of gotten some good video footage) but I was on a mission and didn't want to get distracted from my goal. Overall the race was lots of fun, I didn't talk to anyone....and as I was approaching the finish line and looked up at the official time I first hoped that it was under two hours and then I was shocked to see that it was 1:46:00. Fastest time yet.

Christmas Eve 2009

Top of Angels Landing 9:30 am...nice run up and an even more amazing view.

-- Sent from my Palm Prē

"Tag Your It!"

This is a picture of one of the "Hand Offs" during the St. George Expedition race. Someone else took the picture but we found it on Facebook and liked it so much that we wanted to post it here.

Diaper Cakes!

These are diaper cakes I made for 2 for my friends baby showers. The top one was for emilee who is about to have a little boy and the bottom for Joelle, who's little girl is due next month. If anyone really knows me....I have a bad case of craft-impairdness, so these we a huge accomplishment for me and they were way fun to make too! Now the rest of my friends need to have babies...so I'll have an excuse to make them again!....Anji

Anji's work party 2009 (Dec)

B-Cuz! (Busselbeerg Cousins)

Here is a collage that I complied of the 45 mile (St. George Expedition) race day. The name of our team was B-Cuz which stood for Busselberg Cousins. I am going to remember this day for a very long time because it was spent with family doing something that wasn't easy but super good for us and lots of time to talk and enjoy the experience......always a good recipe for great memories. I have wasted lots of Saturdays in my life but this one will never be in that category. I am grateful to my cousin Randy for putting the team together, running the first leg of the race and passing the Santa team (even if we did blow the lead in the radio hand off....he will never forgive me for that......I was hungry and wanted some potato chips!) and to my nephew, (The Bennie winner!) Brandon for running up Snow Canyon (Say it ain't Snow!) and the final stretch of the race in record time, my beautiful wife for showing us all even with a bum knee that you can still run 6 minute miles uphill, while chewing gum and sporting sunglasses, and to my lovely cousin Melody who broke a personal record for how many miles she has ever run in one day. Even though we didn't break any land speed records....running in any race is better than sitting on the side lines and watching people live life.

It's getting close to mine and Rj's bedtime. (Zowie is always game for a nap)

St. George Expedition 50 Mile Relay Finish Line

Snow Canyon Half Marathon

Here are some awesome photo's of me and my cousin running the Snow Canyon Half Marathon. I knew that they were taking some pictures of me so I was hamming it up a bit. I never knew how good I looked in spandex.....I need to make a mental note to wear them more often out in public. What Form! (ps if anyone is wanting to by the orginals of these photos you are welcome to contact TSS photography)

RJ and Grandpa watching the BYU Utah game....go Cougars!

-- Sent from my Palm Prē

Wedding fun and fun with the cousins

This weekend was Mindy's wedding (Ryan's Niece). Rj had so much fun playing with his cousins and playing in the leaves at the temple.

Photo opportunity while waiting for Mindy to come out of temple

Snow Canyon Half Marathon

Randy Paul and I at the finish line of the Snow Canyon Half Marathon.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

Morning Ritual

For the last couple weeks I've been making protien shakes for breakfast and one day I decided that I would see if RJ liked them and after that we became protien shake sharing buddies....I am much better at sharing then he is....but he is catching on.  He cries sometimes when its my turn for a swig but after he calms down I give it back to him and that how we pass the time as I drive to work and he gets driven to the sitters.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

Happy Halloween!

A little cute Dragon wishes you all a Happy Halloween!!!! Ryan's sister Aimee let us borrow this costume for RJ. It fit him perfectly. We only went Trick or Treating to one house....Grandma Vonnie's! She gave him some Gold fish crackers and he couldn't have been happier. RJ loves his crackers....its pretty much the only word he says right now....."CAA CAA"

Catching up on the last couple months!!

I had to start off by posting some super cute pix of RJ. I can't believe he is already 1 yrs old!!!!
I got a new job 2 months ago...which is one of the many reasons why we haven't posted on our blog lately. I worked almost 7 yrs as a RN on the Medical/Oncology unit @ the hospital and I moved to work in SameDay Surgery. I mostly did this for better hours (no more weekends or Holidays!!) and able to spend more time with my new little family.....it sure was hard leaving wonderful friends who were basically my "work" family. In the pic above is my last day at work with 2 of the many friends that I had the privledge of working with....I miss you guys!!!!!!! However, I do LOVE my new job!!! love everyone I work with, the hours, and its been fun to learn something new!

This summer it was fun seeing Mike, Heather and their kids a few times, since they moved from Illionois to Provo it seems like its easier to see them. Spencer was born 2 days before RJ and this summer was the first time they were old enough to play and interact with eachother. Rj's favorite game to play when they were together was "taking the binky" away from Spencer and of course the classic pic of "hair pulling"! It is so fun to see them together. RJ is soooo hyper and seems to get into EVERYTHING and we are hoping that Angelic Little Spencer will rub off on him eventually!!!



The last couple months have flown by so fast and we have done some pretty fun stuff. Ryan ran a marathon and a couple half marathons. I ran a few half marathons, but injured my knee right before St George marathon. :( It has been fun for us to share our interest in running. We haven't really ran races together since before we were married.!! Here are a couple pix after the Provo half marathon. This race was a little bit bitter sweet for me because I ran my best half marathon time and received a top 25 award so I was super stoked, however this race is where my knee injury began. :(


Love the Stephens Family

xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Long Over Due Cruise Pictures

Royal Caribbean has the best night entertainment of any of the cruise lines we have been on so far.

Really don't like this picture of me. Anji looks good. This is the day we rented a scooter and rode all over the island. (Anji's favorite day) We had a good time going to the beach and eating exhaust fumes.
This is the day in Key West....funnest day on the cruise....hung out on the beach and rode these bikes all around....got out my Palm Pre and went and found some geocaches and then we left some travel bugs that we had brought from Utah. (We put some miles on those travel bugs!)
This is us on the Island of Coco Kay. Went snorkeling and swam with 5 huge Manta Rays. They had at least a 6 foot wing span.....I was by myself so Anji didn't get to see them. (I saw two other little Sand Rays but they were only about 2 feet across).
This is Anji in front of the Atlantis Hotel before the security gaurds told us to move our Scooter. We went to the Lagoon and saw million dollar yachts lined up for miles. Ahhhhh.....how the other half lives.