Christmas Time

These are the picture blocks I made for the grandparents. I thought they turned out cute :)

Spoiled right?? Thanks mel for the awesome kitchen!!!

Black mail pictures of me with NO make-up NO nothing!! Christian gave me a cricut!! I've been wanting one forever so it was the perfect Christmas gift!

We had an AwEsoMe Christmas here at the Hancock house. We began opening gifts at 9:00am which seems really late to get started opening presents haha. Brooklyn was quite upset with us when we started ripping the wrapping paper....... I think she thought we were ruining them or something so she was going behind us trying to put the presents back together. My parents spent a couple of days with us before heading home Christmas eve. I was really grateful because my mom was able to keep an eye on Brooklyn the day after her surgery while i worked. Her "surgery" went fantastic!! Not sure if you could even call it a surgery considering she was only in the OR twenty minutes. I think she's doing much better because she's having 3 hour naps and sleeping at least 8 hours a night so its a blessing!!My mom gave Brooklyn a baby set and a stroller and clothes..... shes in love with the baby and stroller haha she's been zooming it around our house ever since she got it! Thanks mom for all you do! She cleaned my entire house, as well as organizing every closet. Did all my laundry and made delicious dinners each night. :)

We went up to Christians moms house and partied with the siblings. Christians mom gave us a GORGEOUS quilt that she had been working on for two years. It has pieces of fabric from different people in Christians family and the design of the quilt has significant meaning to Christian. I'll get a picture of it up here soon. THANK YOU JOY!

Christmas Party

Wednesday the girls all joined me at my house for a Christmas Party!! We had soups, bread bowls, and brownies dipped in chocolate, covered in sprinkles hmm hmm hmm! We watched a little bit of A Christmas Carol (I think thats what it is called) which was rather.... interesting haha. Played a little mad gab and ended with an awesome white elephant gift exchange! I sure love these girls and the leaders I get to work with!!

So excuse Brooklyn for being half naked, and my messy house in the background. Brooklyn is trying to decide if she wants to be a puppy.... or a hellian.... lol. I think she makes a pretty good puppy :)

So i've been trying to be artsy fartsy so I made this for my mother-in-laws birthday. Her birthday is on Tuesday so hopefully she doesn't look at this post............... hmm...... oh well I wanted to share!! I made some awesome christmas presents too, but I better wait til Christmas to post them.. I would hate to spoil the fun!!

Also, Christian made an AMAZING ham today :) It makes up for him being a big wanny baby this whole week lol. He's got a pretty crappy immune system and somehow catches what Brooklyn gets. So they're both on antibiotics while I nurture their every need. Which SUCKS! I get enough of it at the hospital haha.

I'm also DONE with Christmas shopping :) After battling through Kohls, Walmart, and BestBuy yesterday I might shoot someone..... My BIGGEST pet peeve is when people stand super close to me in line!! In kohls this lady... or dude ( I couldn't really tell) was up against my back the whole time in the fifty foot line! When I can smell your B.O. its time to STAND BACK!! To say the least, I made it out of there without punching anyone :) Now for wrapping all these presents and I'm ready for Christmas! Hope you all have an AWESOME WEEKEND!

One step back two steps forward!

Today was a ROUGH day. It was the first day I watched Brooklyn fail, and I couldn't do anything about it.
We went to the ear, nose, and throat doctor today to see if Brooklyn needed tubes in her ears. She was FantAStic for the doctor!! She sat all by herself in the solo clinic chair, sideways might I add. She let the doctor look in both ears without me having to hold her and offered the doctor some of her treats. They took us into a little room with a little dog, an elephant, and a clapping monkey. They told me not to help Brooklyn at all when the animals would randomly go off. So we sat in this dark small room and waited for the noises. I could hear them go off about five seconds before she would turn her head towards the noise..... It was tempting to cheat and kind of give her the nudge of where the sound was. BUT what would that do??? I felt like a bad mom for not knowing she couldnt hear us half the time. Instead I assumed she was just ignoring us.... I still wouldnt put it past her.... LITTLE MISS ATTITUDE!!!!! So the surgery is scheduled next week at the hopsital where I work. Which is a relief. I know all the nurses, all the doctors, and if I want to I can go in and watch the surgery.
I can't wait for this to be over and have her feeling like a million bucks!! On a side note, we had all my young womens over for a christmas party... Pictures on their way!!

Miss Brooklyn

She's giving me the, "your freakin crazy mom" look

More pictures of my little Miss Brooklyn, Enjoy!

Pretty Lady

We had Brooklyns pictures taken up at my awesome mother-in-laws house. Although Brooklyn was being a stink we got a few good ones out of her! Tanya did a wonderful job go check her out :) www.tanyagarside.com

Finals are finally coming to a close. One more tomorrow and I'm done! However, I've been pretty depressed this week. It feels like I'll never get into nursing school, I feel like I'm one step behind. I need a 3.0 gpa to get in, I'm sitting at a 2.89. I took the hard classes right off the bat, so now I'm paying for it. Someday................ my dreams will become a reality :)

My poor dad had surgery today :( My mom dealt with his snoring for the past twenty years and finally snapped lol. He had a really bad deviated septum so when he would sleep he would stop breathing. They removed his tonsills along with giving him a nose job :)Keep him in your prayers! Luckily he is able to take the whole month of Decemeber off and be pampered by my amazing mom.

................their are more pictures of Brooklyn but they'll have to wait another night......

Christmas and Mayhem

Blurry I know, I tried!

Brooklyn wearing my shoes.. I don't know how to flip the picture, SORRY!

(I made this!!!)

I've been able to stay home with Brooklyn for over a week now. Truth be told, I'm excited to go back to work tomorrow!! Does that make me a bad mom? Probably. Or could it be that my child has reached the terrible 2's and creates mayhem whereever she goes? I think so. We've been battling all week to see who is in charge. She's destroyed everything in sight, colored all over her body with markers of different colors along with mascara, taken all the ornaments off the tree, tipped over the tree, smashed lucky charms into the carpet, smashed mac and cheese into the carpet, pooped on the carpet, pooped in the tub......... get the picture?

I love her though! She's a blast to watch while she sings to herself or the baby. Or dances around any time music comes on. I think I'm finally able to understand her jibberish language, so we have heart felt talks every five minutes.

School is stressful! Two more weeks.... I can do it.

Anyways I've been so excited for Christmas! I decorated everything the day after Thanksgiving! Brooklyns presents are all bought.... and need a new hiding place since she discovered them.

Also, Christian has undergone the project of remodeling our bathroom(S) YEAH! I'm pretty embarrassed to admit this, but as I was taking a shower I leaned against the wall and the whole thing caved in.... I went on a diet the next day. I shouldnt be too hard on myself considering the shower was over 40 years old... but coooooooooooooome on! I'm excited to see the finishing touches and excited to paint and design the new and improved bathrooms!

Growing :)

Christian and I had to give a talk on Sunday about our temple experience. Can I say..... IT WAS AMAZING!!!!! I personally suck at public speaking so I was extremely nervous for Sunday to come. I was on call for the hospital that day, so i was praying I would get called in and christian could just talk :) After the sacrament was passed I began to feel my heart pounding... it felt like it was going to pop out of my chest! I got up to the pulpit and since my hands were so shaky Ihad clasped them together. Then.... out of nowhere... an inner strenghth came out in me! I felt so powerful, I knew I had the audience captivated. I know it was Heavenly Father helping me get the words across because I know someone in that meeting needed to hear our message. After I finished Christian got up..... who'd ever guess he would cry more than me?? lol He skipped three pages of his talk, bore his testimony and sat down. I've never felt the spirit so strongly in my life.
In the parking lot a man came up to us and began chit chatting. He mentioned that he had an investigator with him today. After our talk the investigator leaned over.... and said..... WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO PREPARE FOR THE TEMPLE??? ah!!! awesome right??!! You truly never know when someone is listening. I know without a doubt I was a tool in God's hands. To this day I still feel "powerful" and more aware of those around me.
Im so grateful that we had the oppurtunity to be sealed in the temple for eternity. I couldnt imagine a world without Christian and Brooklyn. People make mistakes, we sure did but What a great trial and learning experience these past two years have been. My life has been forever changed and i invite each of you if your not already worthy for the temple GET WORTHY, and GO OFTEN!!!!!


.... I havent recieved pictures yet of our temple day... but as soon as I get them they will be on here!!....