My favorite Gal

Saturday was gorgeous!! Gorgeous weather means... shopping time with my little buddy! We weren't able to hit up the new city creek mall yet (that's next week) but we were able to hit up the Children's Place!... so after five pairs of shoes, couple shirts, four hats, swimsuit, and chap stick we headed over to my favorite place to eat... Bajios! I've decided it's kind of creepy how Brooklyn absolutely LOVES the things I craved most during my pregnancy. To name off a couple: Bajios Green Chile Chicken Salad, apples, bananas, strawberries, pretty much anything to do with fruit. I had ordered her a pork taco and myself the salad. When we sat down she looked at me and said, "um. my salad mom, not yours." Soo... I settled for the pork taco. Crazy child I have here that likes eating vegetables.
Things I need to learn not to say:
"your nuts"
"you're driving me crazy!"
"oh suck"
"oh crap"
"oh hellena"
"ya old fart"
"numb nuts"
"big dickhead"
"that's a big butt"
Just to name a few that have accidentally slipped from my mouth and the child repeated them... Mainly to her father who doesn't appreciate being told "you drive me crazy" from a three year old.
Since I was on such a spending spree yesterday I bought a bike for Brooklyn! She loves it!.. and pets it...and calls it her precious.... yup. She'd probably sleep on it if she could. Anyways. Here are a few pictures from our fun eventful weekend.

I'm too lazy to put all the pictures in order.... so enjoy!
I have to add one more thing. Does anybody else have that awkward moment when someone tells you something.. and you don't understand what they said.. so you ask,"what?"... and they say it again... and you still don't understand them... so then you kind of do that awkward laugh, and say ya..... and then run away as fast as you can.... yup. That happens to me every day of my life. Maybe I need hearing aids with my old age.

Saved by the Babe

Brooklyn came to my aid when I stepped on a jagged piece of glass. Her sunglasses and heels made the care that much better. She wiped up the blood and put a band-aid on it, saying, " all better mom, you need to wear my glasses?" I've trained her well. Don't mind my random leg hanging out in the air. My feet are dirty and I'm in my workout clothes, BUT when you're in pain anything flies.

The Random:
-Did you know once you get married you can never pee alone? Or maybe it's when you have a baby? Or a dog? Ya, that's right. Even the dog likes to join me in the bathroom. Freakin perverts! Give this mama some privacy! Oh.. along with this subject. Anytime I go into the bathroom brooklyn follows me with her stool, sits down, and proceeds to tell me to PUSH. Yup, great support system we got going on over here.
-Tanning beds make you smell like burnt flesh... obviously. I imagine if I were on the Walking Dead series the sets would smell a lot like this.
-Does anybody else hate getting in an elevator with one other person you don't know? Awkward.... I pretend I have some important paper and stare at it intently... or pretend I'm talking on the phone... or run out and take the stairs, OR just say hi to the person and pray the elevator goes super fast.
-I like Victoria Secret bras haha. Just thought you should know they aren't a waste of money!
-I'm going to nursing school in the summer... no big deal... just the biggest goal I've had for the past five years....BOOYAW!
p.s. Christian's baby hungry...... if you all didn't already know.... he's been shoving Brooklyn's baby dolls up my shirt...wow. He's pretty desperate. Poor fellow.

ya know that moment?

Don't ya love it when you slam on the brakes and the HUGE container of cheese puffs in the back seat fly everywhere? Oh wait, most people don't eat that crap... it's Brooklyn's FAVORITE junk food snack... anyways. back to the real stuff.

Hmm. 

Brooklyn's Special Day

-Waking up at 6:30a.m. to open presents.

-Singing happy birthday.

-Playing with all the neat toys while mommy studied for two tests.

-Going for a walk with daddy to buy Reese's Peanut Butter Cups at the gas station... in your Halloween costume. Only because you can wear whatever you want on your birthday.

-Going to see the movie the Lorax.... still in your Halloween costume.

-Buying a bag of popcorn the size of you!

-A birthday is never complete without chicken nuggets and Mcdonalds playhouse.

-The bestest friend of the family making you a GIANT cupcake!

-Having happy birthday song to you from all your aunts and uncles

-Cuddling up and watching some favorite movie that I currently cannot remember the name of....

GREAT DAY! Happy 3rd BirthDAY Brooklyn!!

The Good Times

Someone told me I had lived an awesome, but difficult life. After reading this, I was a bit surprised. I'd never thought my life to be that difficult. I lived my life, grew up in an amazing family, graduated from high school, went to college, got married, had a kid, have a job, and bought a house. I'm thoroughly blessed. So many times people get caught up in the trials, but the truth is, trials are just like hiccups. Unexpected and quick. You learn to roll with the punches. You can sit and waste your life away... or you can grow from the trials you've
been given. I'm choosing to GROW.

I was able to stay at home the entire day with my family. What a blessing! We are always on the go so to be able to actually sit and cuddle my little Gus was a gift. I love my family, even though we may fight, kick, bite, and scream at each other, we

love each other and are continually growing closer together through the trials we have.

This past week was mine and Brooklyn's birthday. What a special week it was to reflect the day she was born. My dear friend Cori gave me a wonderful idea of sending a gift to my mother on my birthday and thanking her for giving birth to me. Awesome right?? My mom LOVED the surprise she got from my neighbor.... it's a start of a new tradition.

I'll post the daily events of our bithdays later.... but today here's to the new machine the husband gave me... it only took me an hour to figure out how to turn it on.... :) To the Good Life!

We've kept pretty busy the last few weeks. We've splurged and went to Boondocks with a few of our family members and had a blast! As soon as our little baby niece woke up Christian was the first to hold her.... someone's baby hungry. BAD.

My family came to visit for the weekend and left the boys at my house while the "older" kids went and watched my cousin wrestle for the state championship. Who knew Costco could be so fun? We of course had to get hot dogs, pizza, ice cream, and churros!... With them being from Idaho and not getting out much we took them to Sears so they could go up and down the escalotors! Yes. It's true. It was a first for some of them. Then we headed to the movies where we had popcorn, sodas, starbusts, and m&m's. I love my little brothers. I'm always afraid that since I'm the oldest of the eight that they will forget about me.... so I try to stay in their lives as much as possible. Another plus about having my family come for a visit is.... my mom can't stop cleaning. SOooo I get a really clean house to end the fun weekend with :)

Hmm what else? ...Christian and I are both going full blast to school.... ugh.... the never ending school. We shall get through it!

Christian's birthday was about a month ago. I took all the pictures with my Ipod... which has crappy resolution so I'm not posting them right now... maybe later. It turned out perfectly!... My mom offered to take Brooklyn for the week since I had reserved a room in Salt Lake for the perfect getaway. Christian didn't have any idea what was going on and had sugge

sted to go see Sherlock Holmes. While he was getting ready I quick packed a bag and threw it in the car. After the movie I wrote down the address to the motel and told him to find it. Super cleaver and romantic right? After driving in the horrible snow storm we made it down to SLC and headed to Tucci's, a small, but DELICIOUS, Italian joint in Trolley Square. Then we went hot tubbing, then to trolley square, to Wise Guys (I had purchased tickets online to see a comedian show and once we got there they told us they were all sold out because a family had reserved it for their Christmas party, in January, so that was a no go... ) We headed to the Gateway and saw Mission Impossible 4.. or 5... whichever one it was, on the IMAX screen. Then called it a night. It was a fun weekend to spend with my now thirty year old husband. I wuv him.

Treehouse museum

My family came down for a visit and we decided to hit up the treehouse museum. Surprisingly it was a lot of fun for all ages... as you can see from the pictures :) I sure miss my Idaho family!!

On a side note, Brooklyn decided to potty train herself. Wahoo! She found some panties in her dresser and put them on and has been doing great ever since!

Quotes

Ever have those days when you just need to read something that makes you want to be better person? I'm in need of that... so I found a couple quotes to get me through the week.

The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.
– Socrates

To err is human, to forgive, divine.
-Alexander Pope

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-James Joyce

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
-Cardinal Newman

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
-William Arthur Ward

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-Mark Twain

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it
-Henry Ford

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-Jonathon Swift

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
-Unknown

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: "If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!"
-Denis Waitley

There's nothing more dangerous than an idea if its the only one you have.
-Mark Twain

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-Logan Pearsall Smith

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-Dolly Parton

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
-Stephen Leacock

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
-Madonna

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
-Socrates

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
-Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
-Emily Zola J 'accuse

Attitudes are more important than facts.
-Carl Menninger

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-Anne Bradstreet 1664

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher 1500's

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
-Emmett Fox

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle