What we've been up to!

So i figured I'd do a quick post of what we've been up to lately since it has been so long. I am also currently dilated to a 3 and having mild contractions, so the baby may come any time and then it would really be a long time before I posted again! So this first picture is of my belly at 37 weeks. I should probably get one more before I have the baby, but it really hasn't changed much since then!

Here is a picture of our garden! I really should have put a more updated pic because it looks sooooo different now! It has grown so much in the last couple weeks. You actually can't even see the dirt anymore, just green! It has been so much fun!

My little brother Brian and his wife Allison had their first baby on April 27th! Her name is Ruby Ann and Brooklee just LOVES her! She is soooo cute with her so I am really excited to see how she will be when her little sister makes an appearance!

Sam rigged up the arctic cat so that Brooklee's carseat would buckle in the middle and it has been so much fun! We can take it anywhere now and Brooklee just loves it! This particular day we went exploring and found a little wash to play in...Brooklee absolutely loves the water!

And this last picture is of our baby girl's first day in nursery! She is loving it almost as much as we are! :o) She does so good (i hope:) and it is so nice to be able to sit through our other meetings in peace:o) She is growing up so fast, but I guess it's a good thing because our next will be arriving soon and it is going to be hard enough as it is! But we are soooo anxious and excited!

About time for a new post!

It has been a while, but we went to the Phoenix zoo back in February. It was a lot of fun and Brooklee really seemed to like it. Here she is making a cheesy face while sitting on the statue of an elephant.

Whenever anyone pulls out a camera, Brooklee says "Cheese" and this is a good example of what all of her pictures end up looking like:o)

Here is Brooklee and Aunt Kasi (Sam's sister) by the lion...

Brooklee's favorite part of the zoo is the petting zoo with the goats. Don't you just love the look on her face:o) She was actually saying "eeeewww" in this picture (one of her recent favorite things to say:o)

This is a picture at the entrance to the zoo...Brooklee kept saying "balloon, balloon" and pointing to the big globe:o)

And this is the best picture of my belly I could do myself:o) Anyway, this is my belly at 28 weeks...only 12 to go! Yikes!

Signature

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).