Merry Christmas IN January

I know sending this via my blog is lame (not to mention it is January) but I have a couple of excuses. First I sent two different cards that took hours to put together to Costco and both times they didn't work out. Second I totally ran out of time.
I felt bad every time I opened up a Christmas card from all my cute, responsible, on-top-of-it friends. And I have been filling bad for about a month now so this is my attempt to ease my conscience. So Merry Christmas from all of us (next year you are going to get my Christmas Card at the first of December)!!!

Thanksgiving with Smiths

One of the things I love about being in Utah is being able to have Thanksgiving with our families. It was my family this year and we had a blast together telling stories about when were young. I always remember how tame I was compared to speeding, fight starting, boyfriend lov'n siblings.

Could this table get any longer, I think we need to put a cap on any more grandchildren right now.

Twilight Party

I am way over my Twilight Obession but when the movie was coming out I couldn't pass up an oppurtnity to have a party. I had previously had an Olympic party and Halloween party at my house so I made someone else volunteer their house and I would help them plan it. So the theme was apples (because of the book cover) and the colors were black, white and red(also because of the books).

So in this picture we are all enjoying our apple beer.

Then of course all the food was apple themed. After we had twilight trivia we went and saw the movie.
Just a side note, I am so not a fan of the movie. Robert Pattenson has ruined Edward for me, oh well I guess Jason is still the only one for me:>

What's new?!

It's been a long time, I know! So much for my once a month blogging. So I just wanted to catch everyone up on the last 6 months of our lives. Well, to tell you the truth there isn't much to catch up on, there hasn't been any major changes or events that have happened. We have just been busy living life.
Brooklyn has probably gone through the biggest change. She has gone from a newborn to a little girl who is crawling. I know parents aren't suppose to have their favorites but she comes darn close to being mine (the other two are a close second). We had a rough start with her having colic but now she is so calm and sweet. She just crawls around the house doing her own thing.
Zack has kind of become the teasing, jealous older brother we thought we had avoided. He is so cute and fun most of the time but loves to scream all day and make sure Brooklyn has no toys in her hands.
Brock just finished up soccer and flag football and will start basketball in January. It is definitely his life that makes ours so busy. Between homework, scouts, and sports dinner often becomes take-out.

We spent Halloween in Disneyland this year with the Allan Family, here are some of the pictures.

Sneak Peak

I know I have been talking about finishing my basement for awhile now, well we just got the carpet installed:) All the finishing touches aren't done yet so I am not going show all the pictures but here are some along the way.

Jason is suited up to spray the basement while me and the kids evacuate the premises. The next weekend we rolled the whole basement (so take notice of the beautiful color on the wall). It took us from 7:30 am to 10:30 at night to get it all done, we even had a babysitter watching our kids and it still took us that long.

This is the future play room, I designed the shelves so they fit my containers exactly. I can't wait to have all the toys downstairs.

This is the Kitchenette. They are installing the tile in this picture. Now there are cabinets there but the sink, microwave and fridge aren't so I don't want to take the final picture til it is all done.

SO there, I have caught you up on some major events in my life: the basement semi-finish, Zack's Birthday, and Baby Brooklyn. Now I remember why I don't blog very often. These 4 blogs have taken me 3 hours, between feeding Brooklyn, getting the pictures to come up right and fixing my horrible English, it takes me forever. Surprisingly what you read is the polished version.

Future Blogs: Finished Basement, Brooklyn's Blessing, and Brock's Baptism

Thanks for Checking my blog now and again.

"Hop-PEE" Birthday Zack

Zack absolutely enjoyed his birthday. Every time someone said happy birthday he would say "hop-PEE" with the end of the word being an octave higher. While the Happy Birthday song was being sung he would waggle his head like an old blues singer. He actually has quite a passion for music, when a song comes on he has to get up and move to the rhythm.

Most of his presents were baseball related, that is his other passion. He can make anything into a bat and ball. He has brought me sticks, swords, and bowling pins to be the bat and anything round will do for the ball.

OK so this is the only non-baseball gift he got. He was so cute, he would only push it long enough for the bubbles to come out and then chase the bubbles. Sweet, now I don't have to blow them for him.

Girls are fun?!

Brooklyn at one week old. She definitely doesn't look like the picture I had in my head. I guess I thought that since she was a girl she would take after my coloring a little (illogical, I know) Where did all this dark coloring come from? If it is Jason's side I sure hope she gets the blue eyes.

Brooklyn at one month old and still oh so sweet.

Yep, we still look nothing a like.

It's kind of like having a little doll you can dress up. How come boys were never this fun to dress?

I thought this picture was precious, Jason only notices his ginormous hand.

Zack can't figure out why he isn't the baby anymore. He actually has been really good with Brooklyn. He loves to give her kisses on the head and always asks if he can "hode her". He tries to be a helper too by giving her the Binky (backwards) and finding a bottle and letting her suck on it air and all.