Brooklynn's birthday
Brooklynn turned 5 years old on December 28th. It was an amazing day and I can't believe it has already been 5 years. I just thought about the day we got to wait outside the hospital room for her. I remember hearing her first cry and that was my first cry as a mother. What a blessing she has been in our lives. I am so glad that Heavenly Father entrusted her to us. How lucky am I. It was a great day to just celebrate as our little family of 5.
Brooklynn has been collecting these statues and gets one on her birthday every year. She can't wait to grow up and get married in the temple and be a princess. I love that whenever Brooklynn was little and watched princess movies she always called the castles a temple. What a little angel I have. I can't imagine life with out her.
New Years Eve
For New Years Eve I wanted to go to the Aquarium for the New Years at noon, but didn't want to go by myself with the 3 kids. So I called up my sister-in-law and we were going to have our own party at noon. I got all ready to head out to have our Party. I was so excited, my mom and sister were all going to be there with us too. It took me almost 15 minutes to pack up the car and get the kids all buckled and then guess what??? My car wouldn't start. I took the kids out got all our bags out also and I was freezing. I didn't want to even try to get the car started. So I decided we would just have our own little party at noon. We had a picnic in the living room and watched a movie. At noon the kids banged pots and pans together. We had a lot of fun.
Brooklynn turned 5 years old on December 28th. It was an amazing day and I can't believe it has already been 5 years. I just thought about the day we got to wait outside the hospital room for her. I remember hearing her first cry and that was my first cry as a mother. What a blessing she has been in our lives. I am so glad that Heavenly Father entrusted her to us. How lucky am I. It was a great day to just celebrate as our little family of 5.
Brooklynn has been collecting these statues and gets one on her birthday every year. She can't wait to grow up and get married in the temple and be a princess. I love that whenever Brooklynn was little and watched princess movies she always called the castles a temple. What a little angel I have. I can't imagine life with out her.
New Years Eve
For New Years Eve I wanted to go to the Aquarium for the New Years at noon, but didn't want to go by myself with the 3 kids. So I called up my sister-in-law and we were going to have our own party at noon. I got all ready to head out to have our Party. I was so excited, my mom and sister were all going to be there with us too. It took me almost 15 minutes to pack up the car and get the kids all buckled and then guess what??? My car wouldn't start. I took the kids out got all our bags out also and I was freezing. I didn't want to even try to get the car started. So I decided we would just have our own little party at noon. We had a picnic in the living room and watched a movie. At noon the kids banged pots and pans together. We had a lot of fun.
That night Ryan had to work so we rented Ramona and Beezus. Such a cute movie. It has become one of my favorites. Ramona reminds me a lot of Brooklynn, she has such an imagination and gets some crazy ideas. I sure love her. Brooklynn LOVES it and wants to buy it so bad. Ryan's sister Allyson told us that if you leave your shoes out on New Years Eve, Jack Frost will leave you something. So this year we decided to give it a try. Brooklynn was so excited she left him a picture and she was so excited that he kept it. We woke up to a great surprise. Ryan got new tires for his bike, I got a movie, Brooklynn got a Teanna doll, Cameron got a McQueen flashlight and McKenna got a little ball.
Abbie's Baptism
My neice Abbie turned 8 years old and got baptised. It was a very nice baptism and I was glad we could be there and celebrate this big event in her life. We had a nice dinner afterwards, but I didn't get any pictures. Congrats Abbie! We love you!
Sick Kiddos
Brooklynn got strep and it was bad. This picture was the next morning and looks good compaired to how bad it had looked. Her throat looked aweful and she had strep not just in her throat. Poor girl had 103+ temp and could hardly walk. So glad that she is better.
Cameron didn't get strep but ended up with an ear infection. We took the last few weeks easy and had a lot of time to hang out in jammies and just play.
Abbie's Baptism
My neice Abbie turned 8 years old and got baptised. It was a very nice baptism and I was glad we could be there and celebrate this big event in her life. We had a nice dinner afterwards, but I didn't get any pictures. Congrats Abbie! We love you!
Sick Kiddos
Brooklynn got strep and it was bad. This picture was the next morning and looks good compaired to how bad it had looked. Her throat looked aweful and she had strep not just in her throat. Poor girl had 103+ temp and could hardly walk. So glad that she is better.
Cameron didn't get strep but ended up with an ear infection. We took the last few weeks easy and had a lot of time to hang out in jammies and just play.
McKenna's Blessing
McKenna got blessed on January 9, 2011. We did it in our sacrement and it was such a nice blessing. I am so thankful that Ryan has the priesthood and has been able to bless all 3 of our children. He is such a good dad. We are so thankful for our sweet baby girl McKenna (or Cocoa as Cam calls her). She is such a blessing in our lives.
Sleeping Arrangments
Cam started climbing out of his bed, so we decided to prevent any accidents to change his bed to a "big boy bed". Every night we put him in bed at 7:30ish and we hear him making noise for about 20 minutes. When we got and check on him before we go to sleep this is what we find. Cameron loves Toy Story or as he calls it "Weeba" (Woody Buzz). He always has to sleep with them. I sure love my silly, crazy, totally "boy", sweet, fun little guy. He is a blessing in our lives. Cameron has the best little personality and I am so thankful for him.
Brooklynn has always been my good girl at bedtime. We always read all the kids a story before bed, then Brooklynn reads her own books for about 30 minutes and either Ryan or I will go read a chapter out of one of her books. Then she just goes right to bed. Easy Peasy! She also loves to look at her baby books at bedtime.
McKenna loves to sleep. If she isn't sleeping she thinks that it is lunch time. This girl loves her mamma. She is very particular at who is holding her and how you are holding her. She also will not take a bottle from anyone but me. She is starting to get better, but she still prefers mommy. I guess it's another year of having a baby attached to my hip. I love her though.
My creative girly
2 comments:
Thanks for the update! Parker loves toy story, too. He has to take Buzz to bed with him every night.
You have been busy! Looks like a lot of fun though. Brooklynn was so concerned today at preschool when Blake was crying. She came over several times to check on him. So sweet.
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