Friday, March 23, 2012
Funny Brooke
Monday, March 19, 2012
Hello my old friend
I am out of suggestions of how to feel better. Anybody have any helpful tips? I will try anything:) If not please pray that my poor neglected children can handle watching TV while there mother lays on the bathroom floor all day for the next 8 weeks!:)
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Brooke's 4th Birthday

We let her open one present before Daddy went off to work. It was an art kit and she got right down to business creating away.

Brooke had preschool that morning. She wanted to share a treat for her birthday and decided on Krispy Kreme donuts. After school we had her friends Jillian and Ava over to play. Then the Felton's came over for dinner and we had what the birthday girl requested. Ravioli and celery with peanut butter.

Brookie you amaze me with your enthusiasm and zeal for life. You are up for just about anything and you have learned so much in the short time you have been in the world. You have learned to be kind and gentle to your brother. You are always wanting to help and take care of people. You are silly and goofy and still super duper loud. You feel bad if you choose the wrong and you are so great at asking for forgiveness. You have a testimony and you love Jesus and Heavenly father and you understand who they are and you know you can pray to them anytime you want. You love Primary and were very ready for that step up.
You love preschool and you do so good at all the activities that are given to you. You love anything Disney Princess and are somewhat obsessed. You are wonderful and so good at just about everything. You amaze us everyday and we couldn't be more thankful that you are our little girl. We love you Brookie Boo!
Brooke's 4th Birthday Celebration
Before we left I got her all fancy in her Sleeping Beauty dress. She actually let me do her hair and then modeled so great for these shots. I cannot believe she is 4. Well I can because she acts like she is 16 sometimes but I can't believe how big and mature she has gotten in such a short period of time.

The HUGE dessert tray after we had already eaten half of it. Brooke was loving this part!!
Monday, February 27, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Valentine's Day
Visit from Great Grandpa Leatherman
Lots of old things I never posted
Brooke, Kayla and I got to see The Wizard of Oz play. It was Brooke's first play and she loved it. She wasn't bored even though it was 2.5 hours long. She said it was just so much more real then the movie. :) I loved watching her as she experienced it for the first time. It was fun getting to have Kayla be with us. She is not only an awesome niece but a great friend as well.
I got to take Alec out on a date for sushi. He is the only one who likes it with me. We ordered like 6 dishes and pigged out. It was delicious and it was fun going on a date with a younger man:) No really he is such a good boy!!
The kids have been put to work in our house! The funny thing is that they actually do a great job. Brooke dusts my baseboards for me every week and she does it perfectly. I hope her enthusiasm for cleaning can last at least for a few more years.
A Christmas Post!
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Some thoughts on Christmas
"For Christmas is a beautiful time of the year. We love the excitement, the giving spirit, the special awareness of and appreciation for family and friends, the feelings of love and brotherhood that bless our gatherings at Christmastime.
In all the joyousness, it is well to reflect that Christmas comes in three levels:
Let’s call the first the 'Santa Claus level.' It’s the level of Christmas trees and holly, of whispered secrets and colorful packages, of candlelight and rich food and warm open houses. It’s carolers in the shopping malls, excited children, and weary but loving parents. It’s a lovely time of special warmth and caring and giving. It’s the level at which we eat too much and spend too much and do too much–and enjoy every minute of it. We love the Santa Claus level of Christmas.
But there’s a higher, more beautiful level. Let’s call it the 'Silent Night level.' It’s the level of all our glorious Christmas carols, of that beloved, familiar story: 'Now in those days there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus…' It’s the level of the crowded inn, and the silent holy moment in a dark stable when the Son of Man came to earth. It’s shepherds on a steep, bare hill near Bethlehem, angels with their glad tidings, a new star in the East, wise men traveling far in search of the Holy One. How beautiful and meaningful it is; how infinitely poorer we would be without this sacred second level of Christmas.
The trouble is, these two levels don’t last. They can’t. Twelve days of Christmas, at the first level, is about all most of us can stand. It’s too intense, too extravagant. The tree dries out and the needles fall. The candles burn down. The beautiful wrappings go out with he trash, the carolers are up on the ski slopes, the toys break, and the biggest day the stores in the entire year is exchange day, December 26.The feast is over and the dieting begins. But the lonely and the hungry are with us still perhaps lonelier and hungrier than before.
Lovely and joyous as the first level of Christmas is, there will come a day, very soon, when Mother will put away the decorations and vacuum the living room and think, 'Thank goodness that’s over for another year.'
Even the second level, the level of the Baby Jesus, can’t last. How many times this season can you sing 'Silent Night'? The angels and the star and the shepherd, even the silent, sacred mystery of that holy night itself, can’t long satisfy humanity’s basic need. The man who keeps Christ in the manger will, in the end, be disappointed and empty.
No, for Christmas to last all year long, for it to grow in beauty and meaning and purpose, for it to have the power to change lives, we must celebrate it at the third level, that of the adult Christ. It is at this level–not as an infant–that our Savior brings His gifts of lasting joy, lasting peace, lasting hope. It was the adult Christ who reached out and touched the untouchable, who loved the unlovable, who so loved us all that even in His agony on the cross He prayed forgiveness for His enemies.
This is the Christ, creator of worlds without number, who wept, Enoch tell us, because so many of us lack affection and hate each other–and then who willingly gave His life for all of us, including those for whom He wept.
This is the Christ, the adult Christ, who gave us the perfect example, and asked us to follow Him.
Accepting that invitation is the way–the only way–to celebrate Christmas all year and all life long."
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Family Pics 2011
I am sad Brooke and I didn't take any together but we will be taking them again soon to remedy that:)
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Fieldtrip to the Sawdust Factory
Disneyland with Grandpa
Monday, November 21, 2011
Homemade laundry detergent

I made my own laundry detergent about a month ago and I am in LOVE with the results. I am very picky about cleaning supplies and how things work so you can trust me on this one. This recipe will probably last about 9 months and it costs around $20 to make. Here is what you need -


































