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Yippee! I just wanted to see if my signature worked right...and it does! Cool, huh? :o)

Cruise!

So my parents decided that they wanted to take all of the kids (at separate times) on some kind of vacation, which was really nice. They took Brian and Allison and Sam and I first because we are both expecting babies here in the next little bit and they figured it would be harder to go on vacation after that. So we all went on a Mexican cruise in January. It left out of San Diego and we actually got to spend a couple days there first. It was a lot of fun, but sadly, I didn't take hardly any pictures! I don't know what I was thinking! But here is at least one....

Here are Sam and I at our dinner table...holy cow the food was insane! First of all, it was EVERYWHERE at ALL hours of the night! Our favorite was the all you can eat ice cream machine:o) Brian really took advantage of that one!

And here are just a couple of cute pics of Brooklee. My mom got her this hat for Christmas and one day I put it on her and she wouldn't take it off! It is cute though! I switch out the flowers on it to match her outfits:o)

I love this one because she looks like she's posing...isn't she cute! :o) She is growing up so fast and she is so much fun!

I guess I should put in a baby update...I am 22 weeks now and everything is going great! I would put a belly picture, but there really isn't much to show yet, I pretty much just look fat, but as soon as there is something I will have to take a picture:o) I think I had already taken a hundred by now with Brooklee...things are definitely different with the second one!

We Are Having A...........

Girl!!!!!

And have absolutely NO names, or ideas, so if anyone has any, please HELP!!! But we are soooo excited and can't wait to have a little sister for Brooklee to play with! The baby is already soooo active. Brooklee was the same...and still is, so I guess we are just going to have to get used to having extremely active kids! Brooklee already says "baby sister" but really has nooo idea what changes are coming...hopefully we can somehow make her understand and prepare her enough before our new arrival!

Accidents, Messes, and Christmas

So, let's go ahead and start with the accidents ;o) Ever since Brooklee was born, I noticed she had weak joints, just like her mother:o) Every time we change her or move her arms in any way, they pop. Well, one night ( this was back in November, I am just a bad blogger!) I was changing her into her pajamas, I hear a pop, and Brooklee starts screaming! It was aweful! She wouldn't move her arm at all, so I called Sam and had him meet me at the emergency room. They took a few x-rays and of course we sat in the room for a couple of hours before we ever heard anything, but come to find out, they sent the x-rays to a specialist because they couldn't tell exactly what was wrong...but the specialist couldn't tell either, so he told them to just bandage her up and, send her home, and have us watch and see what happens. The thing that confused them was that she wouldn't, or couldn't, move her arm at all. Anyway, here is Brooklee and Sam in the hospital room waiting:

Poor little baby was such a good sport throughout the whole thing, considering she was in pain the whole time!

Here is Brooklee bandaged up and home after the ordeal. She was all happy because they had given her tylenol with codine:o) Anyway, she went to bed that night just fine, even bandaged up, and then the next morning when we went to get her up, she was waving her arm around like nothing ever happened and had been fine ever since! All we can think is that maybe her arm popped back in on its own somehow. Either way, it is something I wish to never experience again!

Here is a picture of Brooklee and Santa! She wasn't too sure about him at first, but then gradually warmed up to him because he had her doll:)

I am so sad that I didn't get a lot of pictures of Christmas day. Brooklee didn't really get a whole lot, considering she really isn't old enough to care that it is Christmas. I know that she loves to play with kitchen sets, so I knew a long time ago that is what I wanted to get her....and she loves it! It is pretty much the main thing she plays with these days!

We also got her this rocking chair...she loves to sit on her Nana's rocking chair when she is over there, and this one looks a lot like it, so we had to get it for her!

And here is where the "messes" part of the post title comes in! Just tonight after having dinner with Sam's family, Brooklee was a mess, so Kasi (Sam's sister) gave her a bath. Well, we got her out, dressed and ready for bed, and we were talking in the bedroom and Sam and his dad were in the front room. I thought sam had Brooklee, and he thought I did...anyway, next thing I know, I hear a splash and I run into the bathroom and this is what I found! Brooklee playing in the water in her pajamas!

In this picture she is telling me "out" which is one of her new favorite words. I usually empty the water right after I bathe her, but just got caught up and didn't even shut the bathroom door! It was definitely a lesson for me! Well, I guess that about sums up what we have been up to, although I know I have missed a lot! Hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday season!

Family Pictures....And Exciting News!

So it has been a really long time since I last posted and sooooo much has happened that I am afraid I am just going to have to skip some stuff to catch up! Brooklee has of course changed the most! She turned a year old in October and also has had a lot of firsts...including walking, teeth, talking and so much more! She is so much fun and keeps me going constantly! We finally took family pictures a couple of months ago and I thought I would share a few. Sarah took the pictures for us and did an amazing job, so here they are...

It is a good thing we took these now because we are going to have to update them pretty soon anyway...in other words....

We are expecting another baby!!!!!

And we definitely couldn't be more excited! I am almost three months along, so I figured I would go ahead and post it! But everything is looking great so far and I will keep posting updates (hopefully...I haven't been to good about that lately:o).

Climbing the Stairs!!!!

A friend of mine and I are doing a preschool together in the basement of her house. Well, last week I didn't see brooklee anywhere, and then I found her on the stairs! She was so proud of herself! After she figured out she could climb the stairs that was all that was on her mind. Now she has to climb up everything! But here is a picture of where I found her...

She was laughing the whole way up!

This next picture I took of Brooklee in the Monahan's backyard at my friend Bethany's baby shower. Her dad made this HUGE pond/waterfall thing in their backyard that Brooklee just loved. She loves any kind of water.

And this is just a cute picture of Sam and Brooklee at the 24th of July celebrations. I was bad and didn't really take very many pictures of it, but this one was cute at least!

And last but not least....HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!!!!! Okay, so it was actually yesterday, but I just want to make sure he knows how much I love and appreciate him. He is the greatest husband and Daddy in the whole world! I love you Samuel!!!!

It's About Time!!!

So it has been like 5 weeks since I last blogged. Every time I say I am going to get better I end up getting worse...so I am not going to say that this time! Sooooo much has happened since I blogged last that I have a plethora (I like that word:o) of pictures and news to go with it! But instead of trying to put it all in one post, I will probably have to do a post a day for the next few days in order to catch up. Please don't anyone feel obligated to read any of these, it is basically for journaling purposes anyway. I just happen to be able to show off my adorable baby while I'm at it! :o) Since I last posted, Brooklee has gone camping for the first time, she saw her first fireworks, we took a rode trip to Texas for a family reunion, we celebrated pioneer days, Brooklee got two more teeth (and is currently working on two more!) and she has learned to crawl and I believe is now very close to walking! So yah, I have a lot to post about! Anyway, I will start with Brooklee's first camping trip and 4th of July! Here are the pics:

Okay, so this has nothing to do with camping or the 4th of July, but I just thought it was a way cute picture of Brooklee and Oscar. Brooklee LOVES Oscar and I think Oscar loves her even more! It is so cute! He will come up slowly and sit or lay by her and she proceeds to poke his eyeballs and pull his ears and he seems to enjoy it!

Here is Brooklee in her carseat ready to make the trip to the White Mountains. She is SUCH a good traveler, which was such a relief knowing we would be driving to Texas in the next few weeks (which she was AMAZING during that trip as well)

Sam's mom gave us this backpack which has been the greatest thing ever! Brooklee seems to really enjoy it too!

Here we are! Family photos such as this are pretty rare, so I thought I better take advantage of having this one! We look pretty ragged, but hey...we were camping!

Did I mention we went camping on the weekend of the 4th of July? Anyway, here are the girls dressed up to go to the fireworks in Showlow (which was a horrible experience by the way, and we will NEVER do THAT again) Anyway, Jennifer made matching bows for all of them which turned out really cute!

Here are my parents and all of their grandkids. It is way too hard to get that many little kids to smile at the same time, but this is good considering the circumstances!

At the fireworks there were people selling glowing toys which all of the older kids got. Well Brooklee kept trying to steal them from the kids, so Sam went and bought her one, which she absolutely LOVES. She still plays with it. To this day it is probably her favorite toy. For such a cheap thing it has held up really well and still glows! Impressive! (She kept smacking sam in the head with it...it was so funny but sam didn't seem to agree :o)

Here is Brooklee in her feetsie pajamas. She hadn't worn feetsie pajamas since she was really little and I loved her in them. So I was so excited to be going where it was cold and I just HAD to buy her some! I kinda went crazy buying them...she ended up only wearing about half of the ones that I bought but she looked so darn cute and cuddly!

Okay, so I know this is really random too, but I just recently re-decorated my bedroom, and I thought I would post pictures of it. I couldn't find my "before" pictures, but here is the "after". It is not completely done, but it's close. It pretty much turned out how I had planned, so that is good. Nothing big but enough of a change. I just like the blue and brown color scheme and thought that a bedroom was probably the safest place to try it out. I was pretty proud of myself because it was a relatively cheap project. Most of the accessories I already had. It just took a few cosmetic changes (I love spray paint by the way! Everyone should use it! It does wonders) and a lot of time, but decorating is always fun!

Here is a panoramic shot of the room. I was just messing around with the camera and decided this panoramic thing is pretty cool. Anyway, like i said, it is not completely finished, but mostly there. Well, that is just part of what we've been up to this summer. There is definitely more to come!