"Our House"

Up the street from where we currently live, there is a beautiful home! When the family who owns this home was building it a couple years ago, Brooke came up with her own conclusion. This house was "our house". We were just "letting them live there". And she frequently makes statements like that. I thought I would post about it. It cracks us all up! Like not too long ago we drove by and their youngest son was outside playing catch with a friend. Brooke became upset wondering what they were doing. So I told her. And she said something like "I wish they would move out so we can move into our house!" I love it! I honestly wish it were our house. Here are some pictures of this gorgeous house.

A Father's Day Surprise!!

I know this is late but I wanted to share. So we woke up Sunday morning to a surprise! We found this in one of our basement window wells!!
Yes that is a skunk!!! I think when our sprinklers went off that morning it was scared or trying ot move out of the way and fell in. The window well is deep, so Mike put his crawdad trap in it, so it would hopefully climb it and get out. Well it did but 3 hours later. He decided to feed it a little dog food, because it was so tuckered out from digging and digging and scratching on the window trying to get out. That's when he decided to spray. Yes it did go into our basement (which still smells). We decided to finish taking all of our stuff out of the basement (which wasn't much other than our bedroom stuff and entertainment center, chair, fishtank, and fly tying stuff.) So poor Mike had to work all day. But he's such a trooper he didn't mind. However, I have to say that he was cute, it was just a baby and looked so lost and helpless. Anyway here is another picture of it (without the muddy footprints and hard water stain on the window)

Selena!!!

Okay so a couple weeks ago when Sena came down for the weekend, she told me that she wants my dad and I to do her senior pics. I am so excited! We started that weekend. I figure we have all summer to do so many different spots and clothes, etc. She will have many to choose from! Most people don't know I LOVE taking pictures. By the time Brooke was 1 (possibly before then) I had a good 2 -3 inch stack of pictures of her alone!! Anyway here are a few we have taken.

Okay so I had to post this because, it shows she does know how to pose cute cute for a camera!! If you know Sena you know how ungirly she is so I love that I got this picture (even with the wind blowing her hair everywhere)!!


There's one better than this, but if you look closely you can faintly see her belt buckle and it has PINK on it!!! She borrowed Brooke's buckle that is sparkly pink!! I was so surprised. (I really do love my sister, she is just so far from anything too girly.... seriously if a shirt has pink on it, she'd rather not have it let alone wear it)

My dad wanted her to wear his hat in some. I loved it. She reminded me of a Sherlock Holmes or something like it.
I was sad that I didn't take a better shot here, but I still really like it!!

Baby Aiden

So I just wanted to post these because they are too cute! My good friend Karena had her baby 3 weeks ago this Saturday. ( Wow! Already!) They moved back to Parowan when he was a week old. Brooke and I ran over Saturday morning before we went to Zions (while my fam was all getting ready) to see him for the first time. Here are the pics!

Brooke loves to feed him! She can only stand it for a few minutes because "her arm gets tired" But she still loves it!

This is Brooke talking with Mercedez Karena's neice...Candice's daughter
Brooke liked feeding Mercedez because she could hold her own bottle!! But she quickly grew tired of holding it too...
She's going to be such a great big sister and so helpful!!! Some day.

Pictures from Zions

Better late right. Here are pics from the trip to Zions we took with my family a couple weeks ago. WARNING: TONS OF PICTURES!!

Girls Camp & No Brooke

So when my family left Sunday night Brooke wanted to go with them. We made sure to tell her over and over that we wouldn't be able to come get her. I had girls camp and mike had to work. Well she did great until wed. I didn't have great service so I couldn't call her well she started getting really homesick that night. I came home Thursday and as soon as I had service I called and she just balled. She couldn't even talk. It made me so sad. So mike and I decided to go get her early instead of waiting until Saturday. And my was she ever so happy even the whole way home and bedtime and even this morning! There was absolutely no attitude or complaining. She had fun but was ever so happy to come home.

As I said earlier I went to girls camp this week. We left Monday and got back yesterday. It was long and yet it wasn't either. It was fun and I learned a lot about all the girls and even about the other leaders. I was however very grateful to come home especially to shower! Lol! And to hopefully catch up on sleep. I was already tired cause Brooke was sick Saturday night and I had been up half the night with her then I lost more sleep up there so I am extremely tired! But its worth it. However I will say it was different being on the other side now... No longer the girl but the leader.

Zion's

Last Friday my family came down to visit. Saturday we went down to zions. It was beautiful! We were rained on but it was nice other than one down pour. We went on one little hike which everyone loved! I'll post pics later.

Brooke's Birthday

We gave Brooke her birthday present when Mike came home for lunch. She absolutely loved it!! I thought she would be a little hesitant about riding it, considering her reaction when she couldn't quite make the pedals work on her cousins bike a few days before. But she didn't want to get off of it all day. Or for the next few days!





We had a family bbq for Brooke's bday on Saturday. That was a day!!! Mike and I started the morning by mowing the lawn. While weed eating (or trimming as most people call it) Mike hit a stick that was then thrown into the window on our sliding glass doors. And yes it broke again!! Now last summer Mike did the same thing to the same window only with the lawn mower and a rock... breaking the first window panel. Well he busted the second window panel. We spent the rest of the morning cleaning up the glass!!! By the time that was finished my siblings arrived from Aurora. And of course it was about to rain so we hurried to Cedar for a new sliding glass door. We were hoping to put french doors in, because they would look a lot better and make moving easier as well and more postive points. But our landlords wanted sliding doors for their dogs. So the good chunk of money we had started to save for a vacation in the late summer/early fall is gone now. Which we were so thrilled about. Lucky that is just extra he earned not what he had really planned.
Anyway so we spent the rest of the afternoon taking out the old and putting in the new. Hence my house wasn't that clean, the cake was made late and dinner was over an hour late. It was definitely one of those days!!! But everyone enjoyed dinner and the fire pit.


This is BrookeLynn riding her bike and yes she is in dress ups. It's hard to get her to stay OUT of them. lol!






I missed this... Mike likes to use the easy way when he can, put gas etc. on the wood. This he says wasn't the high point, it was apparently about twice as high. Everyone teased him about having to roll away or something like that, so he did and Amy snapped the picture. I thought it was hilarious!!




This is her cake. Now I know that I am really not that great of a cake designer. But I was hoping this would have turned out a lot better but then I put it together in like 45 minutes maybe less. (remember the day I had...) However Brooke loved it so that's all that really matters!