So I guess you have been wondering......

So do you all want to know what is going on? Are they adopting or is she pregnant? That is the question.

Well here it is....

I am now 13 weeks pregnant! YAY! The due date is November 5th.

So far after about a million doctor appointments everything looks great. We have heard the heartbeat and seen the baby through ultra sound and the baby is growing normally. We were pleasantly surprised that we were having a baby. Brooklynn is very excited, she also has a baby in her belly. Hers is a girl named Kenna Oldroyd. I asked her about mommy's baby and she said you have Baby Oldroyd, so no guesses yet.

I'm gonna be a big sister!!!

Brooklynn will be the best big sister ever!!!

Clark Planetarium

Last Saturday we went to my mom's house, my sister-in-law Johana had some visitors in town. Her Grandma, her grandma's husband and her cousin came to Utah to visit. Brooklynn really liked her grandma.

We decided we wanted to do something fun (we wanted something free). So we went to the Clark Planetarium. I didn't know how much a 2 year old would like it, but in fact both Brooklynn and Caleb had a lot of fun exploring. (She really did have fun)

Caleb's favorite was the contraption that had balls moving up, down and over.

Brooklynn really liked visiting Mars and the Moon. But she didn't understand why she couldn't pick up the rocks.

Johana got to see what it is like to have no gravity. We had a lot of fun.

It was a fun weekend. Too bad Ryan had to work, hopefully next time he can come with us.

Salt Lake Temple

On Tuesday we went to the temple to walk around with Brooklynn. We talked to her about how a year ago she was sealed to us. Brooklynn loves the temple, every time we pass a church she asks me "Is that the temple?" and I tell her "no, that is a church". Brooklynn says "I want the temple." We had a lot of fun walking around the temple grounds, it was windy though. (About 30 minutes after we got home it started snowing at our house, I was very glad it was nice weather when we were out.) After we walked and saw the temple, we went in the visitor center and the tabernacle. (Both Ryan and I hadn't been in the tabernacle for years.) Then we went over to the Lion House Pantry and ate lunch. It was very yummy. We have such a sweet spiritual girl and we are so blessed to have her in our lives. We had a great time and hope we can continue this tradition on with her.

High School Memories

On Saturday me and some of my highschool friends went out to dinner at Chef Tom's Italian Cafe (Francesco's). We use to eat there before football games, stomps or really any time we went out to dinner. It was so much fun, to talked about all our fun times with dating and all our crazy things us girls did. We have some wild memories, not really wild but we did some really weird things. One time for no reason at all we all dressed crazy and went over to my friend Kip's house. All the boys thought we were crazy. And one time we went and snuck in a guys back yard and they were all in the hot tub and we were eavesdropping, we heard who they all wanted to ask to Prom. By the end of the night most every one agreed Brandi set them up on bad dates. But I must say that although Brandi didn't set me up with Ryan, I did get set up by Brandi's brother Mike, and it worked out for us. I have known some of these girls for 12 years. I can't believe it's almost been 8 years since we graduated. After dinner we went over to Sconecutter and got icecream. We didn't want to leave but we had husbands and kids to get back to. Overall it was a great night. It was great, even though we don't get to see each other much it felt like we were back in High School. We really need to get together more often.

(PS Please ignore my squinty eyes, I always blink when I get my pictures taken. It is so ugly.)

Gracie K

Here are a few of the pictures I took of my neice Gracie. She is now 6 months old. At first she was a little nervous but she warmed up and we got some smiles. It was a lot of fun. Hope you all enjoy the pictures.

Time and all eternity.

With General Conference this weekend it got me thinking about the gospel and families. Especially that we can be sealed for time and eternity. One of the hardest things about adopting was knowing that Brooklynn wasn't our eternally. After the adoption finalized we were so thrilled that Brooklynn could be sealed to us. Today is the one year anniversary that she was sealed in the Salt Lake Temple to us. Ryan works today and tomorrow but this weekend we are going to celebrate it with Brooklynn. I will write later what we do. I am so happy that I know Brooklynn is a part of our family for time and eternity.

Good Stuff

Easter was a lot of fun this year. Brooklynn woke up and had to find her Easter basket. (we gave her a little help.) We went to church and after wards ate dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Oldroyd, Eric, Danielle, Katie, Abbie, Tyler and Chase. Daddy had to go to work and we headed off to see Grandma Bean.

Because of all the nurses in the family we did the Oldroyd kids easter egg hunt a week later. And the Dennis kids and adult easter egg hunt a week later too. At the Oldroyd Easter egg hunt she got two Littlest Pet Shop animals, Lip Gloss, a ring, a princess bouncy ball and some money. At the Dennis Easter egg hunt she got a new dress, a water ball, sidewalk chalk, a stretchy bunny, a couple other toys and some treats.

As for Ryan and I we didn't do as well as we usually do for our Easter egg hunt. Ryan got a lot though he found 71 eggs and got a Blockbuster gift card, 2 Panda Express gift cards, a Seagull Book gift card, The movie Mr. Magoriums Wonderful Emporium, 1 movie pass, Bubbles, Robin Eggs, Twinkies and lots of candy. I only got 35 eggs (Brooklynn picked up 3 of them) I got a Smith's gift card and 1 of the movie passes and the rest candy. I do have to add. My sister Terra and Ryan are the biggest rivals during the hunt. They follow each other around and in the past they have both even dived in on the same egg. This year was alittle more mild but a few times Ryan would pretend he saw an egg and go to run to get it. Of course Terra hurried after it and there was no Ryan behind her. He thought it was quite funny. Terra was the one laughing in the end. She won the hunt and had something like 80 eggs. It was a lot of fun. If you are wondering I lost big time, Johana was 2nd to last and she had like 55 eggs. So I was only 20 eggs behind. But overall together we got a lot of stuff and had fun. I hope this adult easter egg hunt tradition never dies.