San Diego...

So if you read my blog a few posts ago, you would know that my wonderful husband got me a trip to San Diego for my V-Day present.  Well, we went this last week and had a blast!  It really was so much fun to spend time together and enjoy the wonderful attractions of San Diego.  It was pretty cold the whole time we were there, but we had a lot of fun.  Here are a few pictures...

Here we are on the plane on our way to San Diego!!!

Here is my wonderful husband who was responsible for all of this!!!!

I LOVE YOU SAN DIEGO!!!

Here we are on our dinner cruise.  It was a lot of fun.  It took us all around the bay.  They had dinner and music and dancing

Here we are up on the deck of the boat.  It was a beautiful view

Here is Sam getting in on the group hug :o)

We rode the ferry across the bay to Coronado Island.  

Here is the view to the mainland from Coronado island.  Doesn't it look too beautiful to be real?!

at the harbor

We also were able to tour the USS Midway.  It is a GYNORMOUS aircraft carrier.  It was awesome!   Here is Sam standing in front of it

We definitely missed Brooklee while we were gone.  It was really hard leaving her, but there was no way that we would have been able to take her.  She is still doing breathing treatments and is still on medication for her ear infections.  I tell you what though, usually it is hard to come home after a vacation, but by the end of our vacation, sam and I couldn't wait to get home and see our beautiful baby!  Thanks mom and dad for taking good care of our baby!!!

My Poor Sick Baby!!!!

Look at those sad little eyes!  This week has been a long one for our little baby.  we found out that she as a form of RSV or something like it and an ear infection.  so she is on 3 antibiotics and she is also doing albuterol breathing treatments, which is what this is a picture of.  I think it is so cute that they have it in the form of a pacifier!  So she just holds it and sucks on it while it is doing it's job!  She has been to the dr's 4 times this week and he wants to see her again on Monday just to be on the safe side.  We have had some rough nights, that's for sure.  I just feel so bad for her because she is normally such a happy little baby.  But you can still get a smile out of her even though she is feeling rotten!  Hopefully she gets to feeling better soon!

All Dressed Up!!!

I just thought this was such a cute picture of Brooklee and Sam taken just before church this last Sunday.  My sister-in-law, Kristi, gave Brooklee this dress for Christmas and it is the cutest little thing ever!  It came with a little brown sweater, but it has been pretty hot at church lately and Brooklee is a sweaty little baby...but dang adorable!  Thank you for the dress Kristi!!!!

Since I was posting anyway, I decided to put in a couple other cute pictures.  This is Brooklee in her "Bumbo" chair.  She just sits on the counter and watches everything!  She looks like a little boy dressed in yellow and sitting in her blue chair!

Brooklee loves to take baths.  Well, she actually just loves to be naked!  That is seriously when she is most happy.  She gets so excited even when I change her diaper!  So this is a picture of her right after her bath in her little flower towel.  She has actually been kind of sick and congested lately.  She has also been coughing a lot, but you would never be able to tell because she is always just smiling anyway!  She is such a good little baby.  We have had to give her breathing treatments 4 times a day to clear up her lungs and it is the cutest thing ever because she just sits there holding the tube and sucking in the fumes like everything's normal!  I need to get a good picture of that and post it on my next blog!

I have the BEST husband in the world!

So Sam and I decided a few weeks before Valentine's day that we just wouldn't get eachother anything. So when Valentine's day finally came around, i thought that i would 1 up him and give him some chocolates and a card. But Sam is a man that will never be outdone. Actually, I told him that it is not fair to everyone else's husbands because he makes them all look like schlubbs and no one else could ever compete! Anyway, on v-day morning, sam got me out of bed and sent me on a scavenger hunt complete with poems and everything that he wrote himself! Anyway, his scavenger hunt sent me around the house and finally lead me to the new laptop that he got for me! And boy, if you are thinking that was really nice, that wasn't even the best part! In the laptop, he had created a folder for me to look at, and in that folder was the itinerary for a San Diego trip during spring break! He had made flight and hotel reservations and everything! I have the most amazing, thoughtful, wonderful husband in the whole world! I know I am the most spoiled rotten wife in the whole world, but blame it on my husband! I love you so much Sam...thank you so much for all you do for Brookey and I!!! You are the greatest ever!!!

Blessing Day!

So it has been a while since we actually blessed Brooklee, but my sister Sarah took pictures with her camera, so I didn't get them until yesterday. We probably should have taken pictures before the blessing becuase she was NOT happy when we finally got around to taking pictures. We do not have a single picture of her smiling! So Sarah and I decided that we will put her in her dress again sometime this week and get some pictures of her smiling :o) That might be cheating, but at least we'll have some smiling pictures of her in her blessing dress! Anyway, here are just a couple of the pictures. At least she had a really cute dress?!

Her little face gets so red when she cries! She definitely inherited that from my side of the family...poor thing :o(

At least you can see her full dress in this picture

And here is what she really looked like most of the time we were trying to take pictures...boy was she mad! Right after that, I put her in her onsie pajamas and she was happy as ever! Does anyone else have a problem with their babies being grumpy whenever they are dressed up? Brooklee definitely likes as little clothes as possible. She loves to be naked. You should see her smile when I change her diaper!

Growing Up!

I haven't posted in a long time! So much has happened in the last few weeks that I don't even know where to start. I went back to teaching 5th grade on January 5th and boy has that been an adjustment! In some ways good, and in other ways not so good. It is nice to have a schedule again, but it is really hard leaving my little girl. I am so thankful that I have my mom to watch her. I know my mom is definitely loving it! She doesn't live too far from the school, so I go over and see my baby on my lunch breaks, which really helps. I cannot believe how fast Brooklee is growing up. She changes so much every day and we are loving every minute of it! She is such a content and smiley little baby. She talks and laughs all the time and has brought so much happiness into our home! I didn't post any pictures of her blessing day because my sister Sarah took the pictures on her camera and I have yet to go over and add them to my CD. So maybe later! But here are just a few pictures of my sweet baby...
Here she is with daddy! Doesn't she look so cuddley?!

She's looking at me like "what're you looking at!" But I had to take the picture because it shows her holding her blanky. She loves her blankeys. It doesn't really matter which one..yet. We'll have to wait and see which one she really becomes attached to. She grabs them and holds them up to her face to go to sleep. It is so darn cute!

Brooklee's Baby Blessing

Just a quick (late) notice to let everyone know that Brooklee's baby blessing is going to be this Sunday at 2:30 P.M. in the Thatcher Stake Center on Reay Ln. Anyone who can make it is very welcome to come and share in this blessed event with our family. We will be having a LINNER (we couldn't decide if it was a lunch or a dinner) at 4:00 at the Valley Furniture rec room.