Meet The Robinson Jr's

Update

2012-01-20T00:33:00.001-08:00

In process...... coming soon!

Memories

2011-10-11T00:48:00.000-07:00

On September 13th Kip's Grandpa Garr Robinson passed away. He passed away of old age and was lucky to have lived a very full and happy life of 92 years! He was very happy in his life before he passed and was surrounded by those that he loved and love him. We all pictured the reunion of him and Grandma Lina who had passed 4 years before. We are so grateful to know that family's are Eternal and that we will be reunited with the two of them some day!
We were so grateful to be able to plan the trip to be there to participate in the funeral services. This trip made for some MUCH NEEDED family time and days of memory making as well and remembering one we loved!
Our little family of 4 left on the evening of Wednesday September 14th. We decided to drive to leave at the kid's bedtime and drive to Las Vegas, NV and spend the night there. We LOVE the South Point Hotel in Vegas and they have the best prices so we choose to stay there again. The fun fact is that we stayed at the same hotel when Brooke was just 1 week older than our little Kipper was on this trip (he being 5 weeks old). Thursday we were supposed to pick up Uncle Rick at the Las Vegas Airport at 6pm so we had the day to play. We spent the first part of the day at their Arena watching the Horse's in a competition. We had a front row seat and Brooke was in heaven! We were there entertained for quite a while. Of course I loved every moment as well!

Brooke was in HEAVEN running around the hotel, especially when she got to ride with Daddy on the "moving stairs", a first for her!

Favorite statue at the hotel!

After the horsies we went and ate at our very favorite CAFE RIO which never let's us down, we had to check out before lunch so the kids took their nap in the car as we parked in a hotel parking structure, Daddy and I took naps as well in our straight up seated chairs, NICE!
After naps we headed back to the South Point Hotel for some bowling, another first for Brooke and Baby Kipper!

Bowling was A BLAST! We will for sure be doing more of it with the little family we got going on!
After Bowling it was time to go pick up Uncle Rick from the Airport. His plane ended up running a little late and I needed to feed the baby so Kip found us a SWEET place to kill the extra time and for me to milk. I LOVE the man I married, I really do, he goes places that people just don't go and with that we end up getting to see and do things the typical person just wouldn't get to experience. These pictures don't do justice AT ALL but we were seriously RIGHT THERE watching planes take off and land. Brooke LOVED IT, every single moment! I loved nursing my baby and watching my little Brookie run around giggling with her Daddy, making memories that I just want to set away in my mind and never ever forget! One of my favorite moments!

We watched Uncle Rick's plane land and headed over to pick him up right before the kid's bedtime. PERFECT!!! The second Brooke saw Rick she began calling him Junkle Ricky, it stuck! We got on the road and headed to St. George. When we got there a little after 10pm we found out that the GIANT Motor Home that the rest of the family drove up in was not functioning the way it was supposed to. Eeks! No water (bathrooms), no electricity (TVs), you know the things that make a Motor Home REALLY convenient for travel? No bueno! BUT it was already driven to St. George, it was the ride we were all planning on traveling in the remainder of the trip so it was a go! Our little family of 4 spent the night of a wonderful friends house that evening. The kids were AMAZING!
The next morning was the service in St. George which was beautiful and went very well! Kip got to give the Life Sketch at the funeral which went super well, he did a great job!
After the funeral we unloaded the car that we drove our little family up to St. George in (Grandma's SWEET car) and loaded all our stuff into the Motor Home. Grandma and Pepaw Robinson, Auntie Laurie, Hailee, Jake, Junkle Ricky, and us 4 = 10 people who were now going to travel together from St. George to Star Valley, WY for the burial service that was taking place the following morning. We were a little worried to see how it would go?
The drive went AMAZINGLY WELL!!! The kids had a blast together, they stayed busy, it was quite pleasant and we had a ton of time to just hang out and chat! It did not feel over crowded, it was surprisingly easy! I do have to say I always imagined a motor home being smooth like flying on a plane or something like that? NOT SO MUCH!!! You gotta hold on and be very careful while moving about! You can pretty much feel EVERYTHING, which made for some fun! I think the kids were THRILLED to be driving and not being strapped down in car seats! Kip and Rick were THRILLED to be driving the GIANT that none of us girls even had the desire to try and drive!

(YEP these are ALL taken in the Motor Home, we have decided it's the ONLY way to travel with kids :) )
The burial service was wonderful, it went beautifully and let me just tell you the site is one of the most BEAUTIFUL cemetery's EVER!!!! Kip and I have said we both wouldn't mind ending up there, in the end. The cool thing is that a TON of the gravestones are Robinson's. Is that cool to anybody other than me?
The huge mororhome couldn't make it into the little cemetery without getting stuck with no way out so Rick picked us up in a Budget van that was used to transport the casket from St. George, UT to Freedom, WY. Showing up in style!

I hung out with the kiddo's during a lot of the service keeping them busy so everybody else could enjoy the service. We kept busy by playing hide and go seek behind the gravestones, looking at all the beautiful scenery, playing tag, ring around the gravestone.....whatever we could think of to stay busy.

I wanted to get a picture of Baby Kip with all of his namesakes. I wish I would have been able to while Grandpa Garr was alive but since that didn't happen we got it with his gravestone. (am I strange that I wanted this shot?)

Afterwards we headed over to the church building for a luncheon. Let me tell you Freedom, WY is a photographers playground, it's awesome, it's beautiful, it's the perfect kind of run down! This is across the street from the church building. I really wish I would have had my nice camera with me, just had a small point and shoot.

A couple shots from the luncheon.

On our way out of town we stopped by Robinson Ranch. As far as I know Great Grandpa Garr grew up there, Grandpa Kip worked there as a kid on the farm equipment, My husband and his bro and sis took pictures there as little kiddo's, and now we were all back as a larger family with another generation of kiddo's and now spouses taking pictures. Love that the property is still in the family!

Daddy found a grasshopper and showed it to Brooke, she quickly grabbed it out of his hands and began loving it! SO FUNNY!

Total Robinson Shot!

Brooke was IN HEAVEN skipping rocks with Daddy, I think she could have done it all day long!

That was the last of the shots I took.
From that point we drove about an hour and a half to Rexburg, ID to drop off Junkle Rickey. The drive there was BEAUTIFUL!!! I was SO excited to finally SEE Rexburg since I had never even seen the place and we are considering moving there. We were not there long with sunlight but we did get to tour a part of the College and from what I saw of Rexburg I loved it!
After dropping off Junkle Rickey we headed to Great Grandma and Grandpa Ginos's for the night, even tho we didn't get there till like 4am. We got to hang out with them for a bit the next day and then did the drive all the way home from there. We stopped in St. George and our little family of 4 picked up Grandma's car that we left there and drove home.
It was an amazing trip with incredible memories! I can't believe that at 6 weeks Baby Kipper had been to 6 different states on a trip! AWESOME!!

September Fun!

2011-09-25T23:26:00.000-07:00

Here are a few shots of our September. I would still like to update the previous months I have skipped posting, but for now, let's get you all out there in blogger land current on our lives!
We have had lot's of days of playing in the blow up pool, the sprinkler, using sidewalk paint, and enjoying the outside in this summer heat!

Kipper hanging out!

Brookie and Kipper! Brooke sure loves her little brother, sometimes a little aggressively but she would never intentionally hurt him....at this point at least!

Brooke feels like such a big girl these days..... along with a BIG attitude too!

We like to get crafty!

This is what we have been finding at the top of our stairs almost every night these days as we head up to go to bed. Of course we encourage Brooke to stay in her bed every single night but I gotta be honest, this makes us both laugh. We both remember being kids and doing the same thing, trying to listen to our parents being awake as we were supposed to be sleeping. It's cute!

The Princess & The Frog

2011-09-25T22:48:00.000-07:00

The other night Brooke and I were upstairs in her bedroom doing our night time routine of picking out what jammies she wants to wear we have the cupcake ones, the butterfly ones, but this night she picked the froggie ones! Right after we got her cute little froggie jammies on and her teeth brushed Daddy entered the room with a suprise in his hand. I was just as curious as Brooke was as to what this little suprise was. Brooke pried open Daddy's hands to find a huge froggie that he found in our front planter as he was coming in from emptying the trash. Brooke flipped out in a LOVING the frog type of way. She instantly grabbed it, we did our best to keep her gentle with the little guy. She kissed it, hugged it, rocked it, pet it, watched it hop all around her room, giggled, squeeled, and was in total and complete heaven! She seriously fell in love and would have been thrilled if this little guy had become our new little pet! The cutest part, other than seeing our little princess kiss a frog, was when the froggie was ribbitting Brooke told us he was singing a song about asking for chocolate milk, she cracks us up! Here are a few shots we got as we were cracking up as our little princess loved the little frog!

Say Cheese!

2011-09-09T09:01:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine of Talitha Noel Photography took these beautiful photo's of our cutie pies! I am super happy with how they turned out!
Here is our little baby Kipper at 5 days old! He's such a little stud

Here is our little Brooke for her 2 year old shots! She is such a ham!

A 2 year old and a 5 day old are not really the easiest ages to take photo's together but Talitha did a good job at getting a few sweet shots!

He's Here!!!

2011-09-07T22:36:00.000-07:00

Kip Garr Robinson III
Aug 7, 2011
7:09am
9 lbs. 1 oz.
20.5 inches
(12 days late)

Well today our little boy is 1 month old, I seriously can't believe how dang fast this month has gone by! I also can't believe that I have not yet let the Blogger world know about his birth. SORRY! Facebook world has been well informed and kept up to date but poor Blogger world has suffered since Facebook world came into my life. I'm working on getting back into the swing of Blogger things!
So here's the story!

On August 6th I was scheduled to be induced at 7:00pm on my 11th day being over due. We got there and as they hooked me up to the monitors we come to find out that my body is naturally having contractions regularly. They were just not too strong and not super effective. We were also surprised to find out when they checked me that I was dilated to a 2.5 to a 3 which was AMAZING since 2 days previously I was at a 1 and had been for 5 weeks! Things were looking like all was heading in a wonderful direction. I was really hoping to have a vaginal delivery but was not convinced I would be able to after Brooke's delivery? With Kaizer making me wait till I was 11 days over due I was pretty convinced I was having a BIG baby and was curious if he would even fit out of my body? I was quite thrilled with every other thing about Kaizer other than them letting me go 11 days over.So they decide to hook me up to petocin to get these contractions becoming more effective. The plan was that in a few hours they were going to break my water.

By the time the water breaking was about to happen I NEEDED an epidural. I think I dilated to a 5 when they gave me my epidural, aaaaaa.... I LOVED the relief and can't believe people suffer BY CHOICE through that pain OUCH! After the wonderful epidural kicked in they came in and broke my water. Come to find out there was A LOT of merconium in my fluid (no surprise since he was 11 days over due at that point). I was very freaked out after finding out about the merconium being in the fluid because my little sister got VERY sick after being born from swallowing merconium. They then calmly told me that the NICU would be in the room when he was born and that they would need to work on him right away. One of the biggest reasons I wanted to have a vaginal birth was because I really wanted that moment when your baby comes right out of you and they place them onto you immediately. That was now not going to happen, it made me sad but of course I wanted my baby to be healthy before anything else! About 8 hours from when I checked in I suddenly felt very sick and sadly had to throw up quite a bit. I also felt a TON of pressure in my hip bones, like they were going to shatter pressure. I was being told that that was not where I was supposed to be feeling the pressure and that I couldn't be at a 10 quite yet. I made them check me anyway and sure enough I was at a 10 BUT he had not dropped :( They put my bed at an incline for about 2 hours to see if gravity would help him descend. I tried to sleep to be prepared for the pushing. I was very happy with what my body was doing. This labor was a million times better than with Brooke's 33 hour labor. To go from 33 hours to being at a 10 in 8 hours I was feeling like Wonder Woman this time around! When they came in to check his position 2 hours later he had not dropped at all. They decided to have me push anyway to see if I could get him to drop down while pushing.

I pushed for about 45 minutes and the kid was not budging AT ALL, he was stuck on my pelvic bone (as I anticipated) THEN his heart rate began to drop. They very quickly decided to do an Emergency C-Section. I got quite emotional at this point. It was such a let down after such a positive experience thus far, it was also exactly the situation I was praying to avoid and was sure was going to happen after being over due 11, now 12 days.

So we headed in for the C-Section.

The C-Section went SO QUICKLY! They did the whole numbing thing on me and told me to tell them if my hands began to feel numb or if I began feeling sleepy, all that precautionary stuff. They invited Kip in, and as he was tieing on his face mask we hear "OK here's his head, and his feet, he's out!" I immediately heared his cry and began to cry myself. I couldn't believe it, I just had another baby, a son! The NICU nurses took him right away and began doing their thing on him. I tried to peek at him through the nurses the best I could. I was worried while watching them that there was something wrong with my baby. Kip kept assuring me that he was OK. As this is all happening I hear the Dr say "her uterus is not clamping down" right after that I had some nurse feeding me some pill. As soon as that pill dissolved in my mouth I began feeling my arms feel numb. I started to freak out and made Kip tell them my hands were going numb. They said I was OK. I was confused because they just had made it sound like it would be a bad thing if that were to happen to me. Then I began feeling like I was going to fall asleep or pass out. I told Kip to tell them and they said it was a reaction to the pill that I needed. Before I knew it my head fell to the side (opposite my baby) and I could hear everything but not really move much. At one point the nurse turned my head for me and announced "here's your baby" Kip had brought him over and began showing me my sweet little boy. Immediately I noticed his hair line, his dimples, and the dimple in his chin. I thought he was super handsome and I thought he looked like his daddy and I.

Just moments after I saw him for the first time I began feeling nauseous. I turned away from my little boy and began throwing up. I don't really remember anything after that? I woke up to my Mom and Sister trying to get me to wake up in recovery. They immediately showed me pictures of my little boy that they had taken in the nursery. I just cried, and cried, I felt like an emotional wreck. Shortly after I woke up they brought my little boy into me. My arms were totally numb so I was not really able to hold him well. The nurse set him on my chest and just started him nursing for me. He latched on beautifully which was a total relief.

After that I would say everything was normal, great, and all happy. Of course the recovery of a C-Section is a bit painful especially in the hospital. A liquid diet for days on end is not so much fun. BUT I had a healthy baby boy who immediately was such a good baby! My recovery went well, I was so very grateful for all of the help we received by our wonderful families! We have been SO BLESSED and we are so very grateful to have a healthy son and daughter! Life is good!
Here are a few hospital shots.
Father and his Son!

Auntie Nana

Grammy Carlson

Pepaw and Grandma with their new little Grandson

The 3 Kip's!

Daddy and his little BOY!

STUD!

My Best Buddies Came!

First Family Photo

More and more updates to come!!!

Stationery card

2011-09-05T00:27:00.003-07:00

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Gonna Do It!

2011-09-05T00:27:00.001-07:00

Ok, it's a new year of my life..... so for a resolution....... IM GOING TO CATCH MY BLOG UP!!!!

Day 8.....

2011-08-03T20:10:00.000-07:00

OVER DUE!
Eviction Date set for Saturday Aug 6, 2011 at 7:30pm (unless they are packed, then I get to wait longer)

I just went in today to be checked because I was having stabbing pains in my lower right side of my stomach. He is a healthy little boy, moving around still like crazy, his heartbeat was great, fluids were great, everything checked out great! I am also STILL dilated to a 1, he is apparently STILL high, and I am only 60% effaced. I'm grateful for such a healthy baby and for a body that for sure has no troubles getting and STAYING pregnant! I, every single day wake up and think about my blessings. I am over due yes, I am uncomfortable yes, I am so tired that I have a hard time keeping up with my little busy 2 year old yes, I have no lap left for her to sit in yes..... BUT I AM PREGNANT! I know how lucky and blessed I am to be pregnant, to have easy pregnancies, to have my baby still be so healthy! I look forward to the moment that I get to meet him in person and hold him tightly in my arms, to count his fingers and his toes, to look into his little eyes..... but that moment is not far from now! Thank goodness for modern technology and for them no longer letting people go beyond 42 weeks pregnant. I get to see him Sunday is my guess??? I can't wait till Sunday but until then I will soak up the very last moments that Brooke and I have together just her and I!

Update

2011-07-30T01:07:00.000-07:00

So I am back! I hope!
I am going to do a QUICK UPDATE, I will expand further later on, for all of you out there in Blogger land that do not have a facebook account to keep up on our lives.
After this update I am going to do my very best to do a bunch of catch up blog posts. That way no exciting moments are lost! I do plan on turning these years of blogging into books so I want to keep everything captured in these blog pages if not for you, for us!
We have had a very busy few months since I last posted!
On May 28th Kip celebrated his 30th Birthday!
Kip's friends (with a little help from me) planned a total GUY day for his actual Birthday. The evening before Clint, Kip, and Ryan went camping out behind our houses up in the hills. They just took the quads out and found a place. The following morning, Kip's actual Birthday, Rob meet up with them and they all went on a shooting frenzy! They had a TON of ammo, cut out animal targets, and fresh fruit to blow up! Sounds like they had a very testosterone building experience!

The evening of Kip's Birthday it was just Kip and I, we sent Brooke to Grammy and Pa's for the weekend, and we went out to dinner and had a relaxing evening at home.
The following day Kip's family came over to our house for dinner and celebrating!

On July 18th our little Brooke turned 2 years old!!!! We had 2 parties for her special day! We had 1 on July 9th here in Elsinore with family and close friends, a Rubber Ducky theme that is SO little Brooke, and lots of pool fun! What a perfect day it was!

Then on July 17th we had a combined party for Brooke and Conner who are exactly 1 year apart! Conner was born July 17th and Brooke the 18th a year apart! We had a ton of fun with the family that came down to San Diego for the day!

Papa Wyrick was able to come out for a week and we got to spend some special time with him. Brooke adores her Papa!

I just think this is cute so I have to throw this in here. Brooke has become obsessed with wearing Makeup! I only really let her wear lip gloss regularly but she sure loves it!

With Brooke's constant interest being shown we decided to finally just go for the Potty Training! We did not want the interest phase to pass and then never come back. We were not planning on potty training her before the baby came she had different plans. Boy did it go well! She really only had a few accidents. Day #1 was rough but it was my fault in my tactic I was using. From day #2 on she really has not had many accidents. She picked it up quick and we are SO proud of her! SO NICE to not be changing her nasty diapers! Also what a relief to not have to be buying 2 sets of diapers once the baby comes! She IS still in Pull Up's at night which is fine with me for a little while. I will tackle night time at a different time in life, I'm hoping that she will just phase out of night time accidents?

My Mom and I after MANY, MANY hours of hard work finished Baby Kipper and Brooke's shared room bedding! I am very happy with how it turned out! I don't have a photo of his bumper and crib skirt set up in a crib yet because that will not happen till we move. When it does happen I will of course post pictures of their room set up and all done!

Just recently we took down the crib and moved Brooke into her Big Girl Bed! I was really worried about how this transition would go but it really has not been as bad as I was expecting. Every once in a while she wakes up a few times in the middle of the night but all we do is put her back in bed, tuck her in, and she is out again! She is seriously such a good girl!
I got some really cute pictures of her helping Daddy build her bed. This is my favorite one. The girl just KNEW how tools were supposed to be used without showing her. We were both super impressed. I need to get a picture of her IN her bed! I'm always too afraid of taking pictures of her sleeping because I am too afraid to wake her up.

The FOR SALE sign went up on our house and the house has began emptying out with the furniture we have been selling. It's crazy! Brooke gets sad every time she notices a piece of furniture gone, it makes me sad!

Brooke seems to be ready for her little brother to come out! Every day she asks me if Baby Kipper will "Come out soon?" I feel like she really is grasping the concept that he is a real baby that she is going to hold and kiss and help me change his diaper? I DO think there will be a transition, I am already seeing signs of it. But I also think she is going to love her little brother and be a big helper with him. I am ready to have a lap back for her to sit in and energy back to play with her with!

Last but not least, we got all our baby stuff we needed, THANKS TO KIP'S HARD WORK! My favorite new items are my new glider that I got to hand pick out the fabric and colors, and my new double jogger that my wonderful In Law's got for us!

Baby Kipper's "Room" is set up! As much of a "room" as he is going to have till we move. He's right next to his Mommy and Daddy!

I guess you could say we have ALL OUR DUCKS IN A ROW!!!

Now it's just stinking time to have this little boy! I'm now 4 days over my Due Date! When he is going to come I have no idea? I'm guessing maybe his Pepaw Robinson's Birthday August 1st since he is the "original" Kip that this little guy is going to be named after? HOPEFULLY SOON is all I can ask for! I pray for a healthy little boy and a safe delivery! Can't wait to update you with pictures of our little son! Until then here I am on my due date!

I Have Lost It!

2011-07-14T23:17:00.001-07:00

I have totally abandoned my Blog the last little while. I really DO have great intentions on catching it up and keeping it up! Hopefully Im coming back, AND SOON!!!!

San Diego Zoo Safari Park

2011-06-12T23:59:00.000-07:00

One Saturday that Kip was gone working at the fire station I got a wild hair up my bum to call up my Mom and Sister and see if they would be spontaneous and meet up with me and Brooke at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Normally the 2 of them are not as spontaneous as I am, they say it's because they have more important lives (whatever), but THIS Saturday they were both up for the spontaneous fun! I was STOKED that they both said yes on meeting Brooke and I there. Good thing because my Mom was our free ticket in with the kind of Zoo pass she has! Hooray for a free family day of fun!
We ended up having a very, very fun time at the park! The first thing we did was the Butterfly Exhibit which just happened to be the very last day of it. Good timing!

They had a little dress up stop that Brooke and Kenna decided to take advantage of! These little girls are so dang cute together, it kills us!

I have a picture of Brooke in this same Butterfly about a year ago, maybe even longer. So cute! Butterflies will always remind me of little Brooke for some reason?

Sisters!

Next we went to feed the birds! That was an experience! It did not freak out Brooke the way I thought it would. She actually wanted so badly to just grab the birds and hold them as they landed. I was worried she was going to get bit. I think my Mom or Sis have pictures of us on their camera's and if so I will update this with a few photo's once I get them. It was really cool!

We watched the Monkeys climb all over everything while we waited to go on the Safari Park tour! I think the kids had a great time seeing all the animals in their elements! I thing for the girls the Giraffes were the favorites and for Kellen it whas the Rhino's.

Posed on the Rhino as a group!

Brooke was not really having it! Love this shot!

And just acted like the other word for Donkeys!

It was a SUPER fun day! I was so glad that my Mom and Sister's lives were not so important that day that it would have kept them from the day of spontaneous fun that we had! So grateful for fantastic memories!

Catching Up!

2011-06-12T23:19:00.000-07:00

I have about a month of catching up to do, it is so dang easy to get behind on the things in life! Too much to do an too little time and these days energy to do it all! I'm still waiting for this whole "nesting" phase to kick into high gear. It is actually something have been looking forward to this entire pregnancy! I'M READY TO NEST!!!! Until then I will drag my tired little bum through the things I need to do. Keeping my blog up to date is one of these things, it's suddenly a very important thing for me. This is going to be my only way of keeping a family journal and a journal for each of my children so I really need to keep up on the photos and the stories! Books WILL be made from this blog and I can't wait to see them in print!
You superhero mothers who do it all, HOW do you do it? Seriously I would LOVE to know these things?
So this post is going to be a mix of random photo's from May that make me smile!
This was a sweet little milestone to me! It was the first time Brooke went and played dress up with the big kids! It just made me feel like she was such a big girl when she came downstairs with the big kids in a matching leotard and then headed out to the trampoline for a dance party! So sweet! I love the Bruer girls!

This picture just melts my heart! Let me tell you something, Brooke has NEVER just layed down with me in the middle of the day and fell asleep but she does it with her daddy often! How in the world does he do it? I came out into the living room to check on them and this is what I found. My 2 loves sleeping together on the couch in pretty much the exact same position. Isn't this just the sweetest thing?

Another cute one! My sis and her crazy kiddo's came up one day for a day of fun in Lake Elsinore with us! I of course didn't get many photo's of the day of fun but this was too cute to not stop and take a picture of it. Amanda's kid's like to build little pillow forts while they are watching their toons and Brooke wanted to join in on the fun. They all sat there like this for a little while watching their toons in their little pillow made forts! Silly kids!

One of Brooke's very favorite things to do is draw! She draws or colors a few times a day. We LOVE sidewalk chalk! I think she is going to always have a love for art! I also think she is going to be quite good at it. We shall see if Mommy is right or not down the road?

Yes he is in control, No the quad did not end up rolling! Moments like this my husband is just more and more attractive to me for some reason! I sure love him!

One Saturday Brooke and I hit up a free little fair down in Corona. It was a nice day outside and we ran into quite a few friends of ours. Brooke was in a bit of a wimpy mood so we were not there as long as I had planned and I did not get as many photo's as I would have liked too but here are a few. It was a fun FREE thing to do!
Brooke is in LOVE with BIG TRUCKS! Especially trash trucks! Every single Tuesday we listen all day long for the trash trucks to come by so we can run outside and watch them do their thing. Brooke loves it and the trash men now know us and wave to us regularly. It's cute I think! So here she is in front of her beloved Trash Truck!

And for all of you that know me you will be very proud of these next few photos! Brooke has a love for playing with pots and pans, and a love for playing with water. This day I just let go and let her go to town with the two combined! She had a great time pouring the water from pot to pot. Of course most of it made it on the floor but who cares right? Memories are worth it, especially when you are no staying in your house anyway :) She had a great time even tho she looks very serious about her work!

The Count Down BEGINS.....

2011-05-22T21:39:00.000-07:00

I feel like once I hit 30 weeks it is seriously just downhill from here!
I AM freaking out a bit with all that I want to get done before the little guy gets here but I do know that if he were to come tomorrow (which he better not) it would all work out. I am a planner, kind of a control freak, I like things in order and I feel like I can't really do that TOO MUCH with the "situation" our life is in right now. I am going to do what I can to get there but we will see? We have some baby showers coming up so I am sure that is going to help out BIG TIME :) Looking forward to that fun!
As for the pregnancy, everything is going well! I feel super blessed to have easy pregnancies and I just try, in the moments where I am uncomfortable and feeling huge and miserable, to stay focused on the blessing I have with being able to be pregnant. I never ever want to take that gift for granted and never want to be a complaining pregnant woman! I do get heartburn pretty bad but have figured out that Zantac really works WONDERS, it in combo with Tums are life savers! I LOVE belly bands, stretchy pants, fitted shirts, flip flops, and sports bra's! They make my life MUCH more comfortable! I don't feel too fashionable this pregnancy and don't really care too much, more concerned about comfort for sure!
This little boy feels BIG to me! He feels boyish to me with his movements. He feels stronger than I remember Brooke being at this point. She never really made me uncomfortable when she poked or kicked around in me but HE DOES! Half the time I wonder what in the world he is doing in there? Then I remember seeing how stinking cramped he was in the ultrasound so I can't blame him for kicking so dang hard! He is active, strong, and just feels like such a different little person than Brooke was. I can't wait to meet him, see him, hold him, and get to know his personality. I am getting very curious to see what raising a little boy is like? I hear it is TOTALLY different than raising a girl? I hope can do a good job? I hope I can love him equally to Brooke, I can't imagine HOW that is possible but everybody says it is so that is good? I'm very happy to be having a boy too because I don't feel ready to share that "our little girl" spot with another girl quite yet. I am getting very curious to see how big he ends up being? Also if he is early, on time, or late? I just pray NOT 8 days early, that would be Brooke's 2'nd Birthday!
I constantly get comments on how big I am! It does not make me sad or hurt my feelings at all, there is nothing I can really do about it so why get all bummed out? I have only gained 20 lbs. well at my 29 week appointment that is where I was at and I am happy with that. I stay active, don't eat too bad, and I understand that I have a very short torso so the baby of course is going to go straight out. I just laugh at the comments I get! My sister was in amazement this past weekend while hanging out with me to hear and see all the comments I get as well. "Twins?" I have heard that a few times. "Where are you going to put 6 more pounds of baby?" I wonder the same people. "When are you due? Yesterday?" Yep that is a fun one, especially when I get to see their face when I tell them I have 10 more weeks. I even had a lady ask me "Why do you have so much longer to go when you are already so big?" Ummm??? Because that is when I am due?! Duh! So that has been fun! People crack me up with what they feel they can say to a total stranger. Good thing I really don't care!
Well let's see where this next month takes us? Looking forward to it! It's going to FLY! It is going to be BUSY! Happy 30 weeks to me!

What I Love About California!

2011-05-22T21:37:00.000-07:00

Thursday = Beach
I was down in San Diego visiting my family, Amanda and I decided to take the kiddo's to the beach that our Mommy took us as kid's La Jolla Shores! The day was perfect, sunny, warm, and beautiful! Amanda's kids had a total blast. Brooke, not so much! She hated the sand on her toes, hated the coldness of the water, she would not let m set her down! The only thing I think she did enjoy was when she was in the swings (away from the sand), and playing on the grass with her cousins. Either way we had fun. Amanda's kids enjoyed every bit of the beach! Hopefully Brooke will grow in her love for the beach?

These 2, Oh MY GOODNESS, they are so dang cute together but they are going to keep their Mommies on our toes, sometimes they have WAY too much fun together!

Can you tell how thrilled Brooke is to be here?

Kenna and Kellen were having a blast together in the water! I was trying to get Brooke to watch them and be tempted by the fun they were having but nope, she was not interested AT ALL!

BOYS! I can't wait to have mine! Amanda and I turned around from taking photo's and there was Kellen with it whipped out watering the seaweed! Ha it was great! So glad Amanda thought to take this picture!

Us and our blond haired, blue eyed babies!

Brooke is a GOON!

Saturday = Mountains
So Kipper's family made a super awesome last minute decision to rent a cabin up in Jullian, CA for General Conference weekend! They called me while I was down in Diego visiting with my family and invited our little family up for the fun weekend! We could not pass up the opportunity for fun and more family time! We are so glad they got this cabin. It ended up being a blast for us grown up's as well as the kid's. The place was huge, it was super cool, had a RAD yard, and was in Jullian which I LOVE that place! There was a kid's room that was so neat. It had a tree on the wall made out of chalkboard material and the kids LOVED coloring all over it! The cousins played together great, us adults enjoyed the time together as well. Tho Brooke did have a HORRIBLE NIGHT!!!! She didn't hardly sleep at all. I was up pretty much all night and Kipper traded with me really early in the wee morning hours. We were miserably tired the next day. Still don't know why she had her worst night of sleep she has ever had since she was born there?
We got some super dang fun photo's from the trip. Here goes!
Jake is SO CUTE and such a sweet boy!

Ring Around The Rosie!

I LOVE this picture of Brooke and Grandma Robinson!

Cute cousins!

The cool color tree!

Tag around pregnant me with bed head!

Breakfast! Isn't that a fabulous shot of Kip and I?

Yep that is our itty bitty little girl going down the Zipline, or as Brooke called it the Zippie, all by herself! She is SO BRAVE! We are so proud!

Brooke LOVED the Zippie, I think it freaked out Grandma a bit :)

Hailee LOVED the Zippy too! Echo looks like he is going to eat Hailee but he is just playing.

CUTE shot of Brooke, Echo, and Grandpa!

So one of the reasons I love California is the fact that both set's of our family live here so we can see all of the Grandma's, Grandpa's, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins all at once or within a few days! LOVE our families! We are blessed!
Another reason I love California is the fact that on Thursday we can be playing at the Beach and Saturday we could be up in the Mountains! Love it!
Another weekend of GREAT memories made!

The Easter Bunny DID Come!

2011-05-22T00:36:00.000-07:00

I know, I am WAY behind on my blogging. I am now dedicating my evenings to catching up on my blog posts till I am back on track. I am sure hardly anybody even reads this blog anymore but it is important for me to get these posts up here anyway for my journal purposes, being that I am turning my blog into yearly books for our family.
So here you go, about a month ago we celebrated EASTER!!!
We actually had quite a fun time celebrating this Easter season! Brooke really is beginning to enjoy the holidays the older she gets. It is getting SO much more fun for Mommy and Daddy as well getting to live it through her fresh little eyes!
We started off the Easter Festivities with our Ward Easter Egg Hunt! The primary did a WONDERFUL job putting this together, it was a hit and there were A TON of kids there! Brooke seemed to have a good time!

This year Grammy Carlson wanted to start a new tradition of a Grammy Easter Extravaganza for all of the grandkids! She did a fantastic job of finding activities that seemed to entertain quite the range of ages of the grandkids. All of the grandkids had a total and complete blast as well as a total and complete SUGAR RUSH! We left with some super dang cute crafts, some yummy treats, and some wonderful memories! Here are some of the MANY pictures we took at the party.

We started with Craft Time!

The kids played games!

They got to play Wash The Jelly Beans (squirt the balloons)!

Had Create Your Treat time! Us Mommies really enjoyed this one as well!

There was a Pinata!

And an Easter Egg Hunt!

By the end of the party the kids were BEAT! Brooke especially! But they had a blast, so did we Mommy's! I think we ALL took some great naps afterward!

The next morning Brooke got to go on the search for her Easter basket that the Easter Bunny left for her the evening before. She totally didn't get it, but she did enjoy the treats once she found it!

All and all we had a FANTASTIC Easter with family! We loved every bit of it! We even got to go down to Mission Bay and visit with Kipper's family who was staying in a Beach House down there. It was so great to get to see ALL our family in the same weekend! Also our little nephew Jake turned 1 the day before Easter! What a busy and fun filled weekend!

Traits?

2011-05-05T23:06:00.000-07:00

2 more shots I discovered after looking through all the photo's of our little boy again.
I think he might have the same dimples as Brooke???

And these look a lot like his Daddy's calves which Brooke also luckily got!

Can't wait to see if these give me a correct idea of his look and his little traits he is picking up! O goodness I can't wait to hold him!

My Gift!

2011-05-04T23:06:00.000-07:00

I know I still have a few posts to do that happened prior to this, like Easter, but I'm just WAY to excited to not post these first!
ALL I wanted for Mothers Day was to get a sneak peek at our little boy! I ended up getting my 20 week ultrasound at 17 weeks and it just feels like waiting till my due date to see him is just WAY too far away. So today we went and got me my PERFECT Mothers Day gift!
Here is our little Kipper at 28 weeks!

The fuzz in front of his face is his umbilical cord, I still think it's a cute shot of him!

This is how he was most of the time! No wonder he kicks me so hard, this looks so uncomfortable!

Look at this little guy grabbing his foot! Precious!

Here are the stats they came up after the measurements they did. I have been thinking he has been feeling big so it makes me feel more in touch with this little guy having him actually measure big. I am 28 weeks 1 day along and due 7/26. I still don't think he is coming early tho, not going to go there mentally like I did last time :) He just better not come on 7/18, that's all I ask :)

Well we love this little guy to pieces and this makes us even more excited to hold him! It was so wonderful to get to hear his strong heartbeat, count his fingers and toes, see his cute little face, all of those things that make a parent breath better! I am thrilled to know that we have a healthy baby growing in this belly of mine. I feel so very blessed! I am so grateful for Mothers Day and the chance I have to be a Mother (I will most likely expand on this on Mothers Day because I could go on an on and on about how grateful I am). I am in love with this gift that my sweet husband got for me, nothing could have been more perfect and more appreciated!

I will be giving you more of a pregnancy update at my 30 week mark but lets just say this boy is busy, he feels strong and large! More than I felt with Brooke at this point in pregnancy. We are so excited to see what it is like to raise a son vs a daughter. We can't wait to love on this little Kip but we will let him bake a little bit longer so he can be nice and perfectly healthy!
Do you think he looks like his sissy?

Freakster Bunny!

2011-05-01T23:44:00.000-07:00

This is the MOST frightening Easter Bunny I have ever personally seen. I almost thought it was an absolute joke but nope, they really were charging $5 for a photo with this frightening creature! So yes, I paid it, knowing Brooke would freak, but looking to the future I knew I would love to look back and laugh! So here you go! Poor Girl, I know I am an EVIL Mommy, you don't need to tell me.

Another Easter post to come! I have some serious catching up to do! Keep posted!

6 Months!

2011-04-18T23:26:00.000-07:00

WOWZERS!!!!!
I seriously can't believe I am already 6 months pregnant with this little guy! I am in awe at how fast time has flown by with this pregnancy! I am actually getting a little bit freaked out to be quite honest with you. I am not knowing if I WANT to already be 6 months pregnant? Of course I can't wait to meet, hold, see, love, and squeeze this little guy but I have SO MUCH to do before he comes and SO MUCH to get to be prepared to have a little boy! I hardly have any cloths yet and still pretty much have all the big ticket items I had previously posted to purchase, tho I HAVE ordered our glider and am SO excited about it! Today I found some seriously cute cloths on sale and just couldn't pass them up so I did get him some cute dress cloths! Boy stuff is suddenly getting VERY cute to me, it actually took me a while to warm up to boy cloths feeling cute after all the fun stuff you can get for girls! I am also starting to get very curious about how this little guy is going to look? I pray he looks a lot like his Daddy or Brooke because if he comes out with dark hair and dark features I think I am going to have a very hard time calling him Kip! I imagine he is going to look a lot like Brooke but who knows? Who would have thought my sister and her husband would have 2 out of her 3 kids so far be blond haired and blue eyed, and who would have thought that my sister in law and her husband would have 2 kids with such light features when their Daddy is so dark featured? I'm starting to be confused? I was convinced he would be a boy version of Brooke but now I am not so convinced? We will see a few short months from now? I just pray he looks like a Kip to me, that is seriously my biggest concern other than making sure he is a healthy and strong little baby boy!
This little guy is VERY ACTIVE and VERY STRONG! I read that he is supposed to be weighing in at a little over 1.5 lbs but I am having a hard time believing that somebody so small can be so strong. I feel like he HAS to be bigger than that? I am worried to see how big he is going to end up with his sister weighing in at 8 lbs 9 oz and me being bigger at this point with him than I was with her? Again we shall see? I have only gained 15 lbs, I know that is how much some people gain their entire pregnancy but to me I am proud of being 26 weeks and having only gained 15 lbs. That is less than I was with Brooke at this point. Everything with him so far has checked out perfectly with all the tests they do, hooray for that! I AM starting to get pretty uncomfortable at times. I do pee all the time, I have nasty heartburn that causes a not fun cough that I have now had for 6 weeks. I am trying different heartburn medications to see if it helps out? I'm not going to complain tho because I just feel blessed to be pregnant and to have generally pretty dang easy pregnancies!
We feel VERY BLESSED!
I also just got this SUPER CUTE gift given to me from a wonderfully sweet friend of mine! She made me the PERFECT Car Seat cover with the most adorable fabric EVER and a Nursing Cover with the same super cute fabric! I love them SO MUCH! They were things I really wanted to get and am THRILLED with! THANK YOU!!! If you ever want to order some of her stuff, she makes he cutest stuff and AMAZING little hair bows for girls as well! Click HERE if you want to check out her site!
This is a close up on the stuff she made for me. I LOVE handmade gifts!

Easter Dress

2011-04-18T22:33:00.000-07:00

I thought I would get a few photo's of Brooke in her pretty little Easter Dress. I really wanted to plop her in the middle of a bunch of the beautiful wild flowers that are out right now but I am SO freaked out about snakes that I just could not bring myself to do it. I found what I would consider a safe spot to get some shots in just right behind my house. So here you go!
Brooke is now 21 months old as well as a little over 21 lbs of pure JOY!!!

Here are a few of the funny and fun shots I got of her in the middle of all the cute ones!

(just FYI if you would like to see the collages I make better just click on them and they get bigger)

We are excited for the upcoming Easter festivities! This is when Holidays really start getting more and more fun!

Adopted

2011-04-17T21:53:00.000-07:00

Meet, who Brooke calls "Cat Cat"
"Cat Cat" has officially Adopted our little family! I am pretty sure somebody that moved left their little kitty behind. This poor thing had been starving, I can't believe somebody can do this to an animal, it makes me very upset! It is very obvious that this cat was somebodys pet. He is very sweet, loving, gentle, and not skiddish at all. The cat is in love with Brooke and Brooke is in love with this cat! The other night when Kip was getting the quad ready for his and Brooke's little date he got to watch these 2 interact with one another. The next day he told me I was aloud to feed "Cat Cat" as long as he never came into the house! That is the deal! So I am not sure if we have adopted a cat or if a cat has adopted us? We do own cat food, we have a cat bowl of food on our porch, and we do feed him daily, he sleeps on our front porch, and we make sure to go out and play with him every single day!
Just look at these pictures, how in the world could you not feed and care for this cat when you see this look on Brooke's face?

Daddy / Daughter Date

2011-04-16T23:47:00.000-07:00

The other night I had a meeting at church so Kip decided he was going to have a special Daddy / Daughter Date with his little girl!
Kip just recently brought home one of his parents quads to fix up for an upcoming trip. Well he got this one running pretty quickly and we have enjoyed playing with it the past few days! We have a huge field behind our house that connects to tons of hills, at least a few hours of riding straight from our garage!
Daddy decided it was time for Brooke to experience her first quad ride! I was a huge supporter of this idea, we want to start them young :) So the Daddy / Daughter Date would be a special quad ride just for Brooke! I was able to get a few pictures before I had to leave of the two of them cruising around. Brooke took to the quad right away, she loved it!

Kip told me that they were out riding for over an hour. He said Brooke was just squealing with joy as they cruised all over the place! They went to a little stream and stopped for a while to get the froggies to come back and start croaking, SHE LOVED IT! He also took her through a secret passage way to a spot he told her was where The Wonder Pets lived. She sat on the quad and sang the Wonder Pet's theme song to them, SO CUTE! I loved hearing this! Honestly, I sometimes wonder if my heart will ever stop melting when I see Kip and Brooke interact with one another. It happens all the time and yet, every single time I see them together it just makes me melt! I love seeing my husband being a Father to a Daughter and the tenderness that is involved. I also LOVE seeing my Daughter have a Father that loves her so deeply and is so involved with her! I did not have what she has for years of my life, I know what she has, how special it is, and it touches me so very deeply to know that she will ALWAYS have a Daddy there for her that loves her unconditionally and that will ALWAYS be very involved in her life and her interests! She is such a lucky girl to have a Father like Kip! I am so lucky to be married to him! I will never ever take this for granted and I sure hope she never does!
Ever since her date night every single time we enter the garage and see the quad she tries to climb on top and keeps repeating "ride". The date left a lasting impression for sure!

Jump, Jump, Jump!

2011-04-16T23:11:00.000-07:00

Since this little girl was a baby and we had that little toy jumper that babies have, Brooke has had a DEEP love for jumping! I am totally and completely convinced she is going to be a long jumper in High School some day, maybe do the hurdles? Who knows, maybe she will be a short white girl that can dunk a basketball? Probably not but White Girl's Got Hops!!!
I have to give credit where credit is due! Brooke gets this love for jumping as well as the skill of jumping high from her Daddy! Kipper since he was a little kid has a ton of pictures of him jumping over or off all sorts of things. This little girl is following in her Daddy's footsteps for sure!
The other day I had taken apart Brooke's crib to measure all of the bedding and she was in HEAVEN! Brooke took total advantage of her access to her crib mattress! Check out these shots, she went on and on and on with the jumping! I remained very entertained and blown away by her agility!

Here are a few other shots I got of this busy little girl that day!
Brooke has a few favorite things in her room, her fan and her froggie (humidifier)! She constantly turns them off and on, hugs and kisses them, and each night before bed she has to give her froggie a kiss goodnight! I did not tell her to give them affection so I could capture it on film, it just happened and I decided to document it since I think it is kinda funny!

Another favorite thing to do these days are summersaults! She pretty much taught herself how to do them and now she has them down pat!

Brooke just recently learned a new phrase with a cute little action to go with it! She holds up her 1 finger and says "One More Time" this usually happens while trying to get her to leave a park. I happened to get it out of her while playing in her room!

Brooke just being cute!

And now some super cute Daddy/Daugher shots! Brooke just adores her Daddy as she should, he is quite the amazing Daddy to her!

Another regular activity that happens at our house is the evening window opening to listen for the froggies outside. Some nights we hear them going crazy and others we mostly hear crickets. It is so cute, Brooke puts her pointer finger to her lips and says "Shhhh..... listen". Yes, froggies are a new favorite of Brooke's right now as you can tell!

This girl, aaaaa..... she just makes us SO HAPPY and fills our life with so much fun and so much laughter!

Fun with Grandma and Grandpa!

2011-04-16T22:44:00.000-07:00

Another weekend went by with Daddy at work so Brooke and I decided we would head out to Corona to spend some special time with Grandma and Grandpa Robinson!
Brooke had a total blast playing with Grandma and Grandpa! I think she wore each and every one of us out that evening.
One of Brooke's favorite things to do there is to go in Grandma's workout room and grab her big blue workout ball with the expectation that somebody (Grandma or Grandpa) will help her bounce, bounce, bounce on it! After she is done bouncing she likes to hurdle herself over the back of the couch, scoot her little body off the couch, and then head back to the blue ball for more bouncing! She could do this FOREVER! I can't imagine how sore Grandma and Grandpa's arms were the next day :)
Here are a few fun pictures I got while they were playing the other night!

Grandma was doing A TON of playing with Brooke but I happened for some reason to only get pictures of Grandpa playing with Brooke! They were having a blast finding each and every way you could play with that big blue ball!
We are so very grateful to have family that loves us and our kids so very much! We are so grateful for every single chance we get to spend special time with Grandma and Grandpa! Brooke adores her Grandparents, as I know baby Kipper will as well! We are all very lucky! So grateful we headed down to Corona for some special time, we truly had a blast!

Resourceful!

2011-04-07T21:35:00.000-07:00

Brooke has suddenly discovered that if she finds something the right height that she can push around or pick up and put wherever she decides, she can get about anywhere she wants to! Suddenly this week she has become OBSESSED with getting herself to higher places!
I am by no means surprised with this new little discovery, I am actually surprised that it has not come sooner, but boy does this make things a little more complicated for life as a Mommy! Today Brooke got a chair over to the kitchen counter right where the knives are and went for a reach "NO" and then moved onto the stove which very much excited her NOT ME! Tuesday she loves to look for the BIG TRUCKS (trash trucks) so she pushed a chair over to our open 2nd story window, right by the screen, do you know how easy it would be for her to lean a little too hard on that screen and fall right out that window? I DO! So yes, my life is a bit more stressful and her life is a bit more free! I hope I can keep her alive and unharmed!
With this little case she now has access to each and every light switch in the house and LOVES IT!

Getting to her Fishy!

She is OBSESSED with water and washing her hands right now! I think she asks me like 20 times a day to wash her hands.

O and a side note, it kinda goes along with this post, Brooke escaped from her crib for the first time yesterday while she was supposed to be napping. Aaaa... here goes!

The New Pet

2011-04-07T21:17:00.000-07:00

Meet Fishy! He's our new little buddy!

Going Private!

2011-04-06T21:31:00.000-07:00

Ok so if you would still like to view our family blog I am going to need your e-mail address. I will be going private with our blog in a week so you have till Friday, April 15 to get me your e-mail so I can add you to our list of viewers. Thank You!

This Is Rad!!!!

2011-04-05T22:37:00.000-07:00

Fabric Wall Decal

I was just given THIS link (THANK YOU) for this super great way to add some fun to your walls! This will be perfect for me when we are in an apartment!
Just thought I would share what was shared with me!

I think this is it???

2011-04-05T00:31:00.000-07:00

So here it is...... I'm pretty sure?
I am not a person that normally has commitment issues but for some reason I have had a hard time committing to themes for things. I had a hard time committing to my wedding theme, my house theme (part of the reason nothing ever made it onto the walls), and now our children's bedroom theme. So strange... the things I CAN change in life I have hard time committing to and the things I CAN'T change I don't have a hard time! Maybe the issue is that I have such a wide variety of things that I like that have nothing to do with one another? Or maybe it is the fact that I CAN actually change it that makes me have a hard time committing? I think I also want to make sure I represent both Brooke and Kipper so I feel the pressure of representing each equally?
So here is what I am thinking I am going with for the Brooke/ Kip bedroom theme and bedding!
This print looks Yellow to me here but in person it is actually a Pea Green base color. I actually like the color it is in person more than the way it comes off here!

And this is the pattern I think I am going to try and copy, with my Mom's help of course :) The only thing I would change is I would have the bumper look the same on the outside as it does on the inside. Also the comforter will be for Brooke's Toddler Bed, I'm not going to make Kipper a comforter.

I will also be making window treatments with the fabric and maybe a pillow for my glider?
I may even try to get some vinyl tree's made for the walls to match the tree's in the print? I can't paint in an apartment so I think that would be a fun way to add color to the walls?
Whatcha think?

Look who Daddy found....

2011-03-30T00:25:00.000-07:00

You are not seeing things wrong, this is an itty bitty baby snake the size of a large worm! Kip found it slithering across our driveway. At first he thought it was a worm, then he saw the red ring around it's neck and realized it was actually a snake. He saved it for Brooke and I to see, touch, and play with. Kip almost wanted to keep it but then decided not to. THANK GOODNESS!!! I'm not a snake person and I plan to NEVER have one as a pet no matter how much a little boy (or Daddy) begs me to have one!
So FYI it is BABY SNAKE SEASON!!!! Keep an eye out for them, this one is not dangerous but a baby Rattler is VERY dangerous! I am thinking twice about doing any photo shoots in any fields right about now. This really freaked me out, once we let him go in the grass he was invisible to us! YIKES!
This was a fun experience to have seen and touched a snake this small but goodness am I freaked out now! Be safe out there!

This snake was a Southern Ring Necked Snake found normally in Southern Florida! How random that we found one in Lake Elsinore!

Rosetta Riders!

2011-03-23T16:20:00.000-07:00

First off Kyra I am SO glad you took this picture and I SO love the name you gave it! So I stole it! :)
Kip got home from working in Arizona on Saturday morning at 3:30am, got to sleep for 2.5 hours and then was off to work his shift at the Fire Station by 6:30am Saturday morning. He thankfully only had a 24 hour shift to work so we got him back home TO KEEP at around 9am Sunday morning! WE ARE SO HAPPY!!!!!!
Kip had woken up to work a full day on Friday at 4:30am, worked till about 5pm and then headed back to his Arizona home to eat dinner and sleep for about 2 hours before he packed up his truck and headed home to California. So from Friday morning till Saturday night at 10:30pm Kip had only gotten 4 hours of sleep. Poor guy!

Sunday~ We got him home for good but that day was spent mostly sleeping, of course we totally understood! We were just happy to have him home.
Monday~ Kip woke up and went off to work. He got home around 4:00. As he walked in the door he asked me if he would be aloud to go ride for a few hours with "the guys". I always tell Kip yes for pretty much anything he asks me. I know, Im a nice wife like that :) So I let him go! He was stoked because it was the first sunny day after a few days of rain, apparently that = PERFECT riding conditions! He was also stoked about the fact that this would be the first time he has seen any of his "guys" in a month and a half! I was happy to see him so happy! As a few of the guys gathered in my front yard I joked with Brandon that he was uncool or stealing my husband on his second day home with me, his response cracked me up "You know, we have needs too!" This is true!

From Left to Right:
Matt Thompson, Brandon Chatham, Kip Robinson, Clint Hannon, Ryan Russel

So the guys had a total BLAST together, I guess the riding was AMAZING and each of them had a great time! It was the first time they had all been back together since Matt Thompson got home from his CHP Academy and Kip got home from AZ. They are called the Rosetta Riders (stolen from Kyra) because we all live in Rosetta Canyon and they all can ride the hills from our garages! Pretty nice!

Emergency Preparedness!

2011-03-21T14:38:00.000-07:00

The has always encouraged Emergency Preparedness but is really stressing it right now! I feel that we really need to be prepared for whatever is to come in our futures as a family! So far, I am SO embarrassed to admit, we have NO extra food storage other than whatever is in our pantry. Yep, NOT GOOD! I am feeling like a pretty lame Mom and Wife lately! So we are going to get on this ASAP!
I was just reading a friends blog and she had THIS great link for those interested in Emergency Preparedness!
I am going to get on this immediately!
Good Luck on your food storage! Just think, most likely you are already doing better than me if you have ANYTHING started!

Family Home Evening

2011-03-21T14:31:00.000-07:00

So we have decided that we really need to start doing Family Home Evening. This is something that is very important in the church and I can totally see why. We really need to take the time as a family to spend time together but also to learn more about the Lord or other good lessons. We are going to be starting this very soon! I really would love to get these books to help make FHE appropriate for Brooke, I am so glad my sister pointed out that the Nursery books would be the perfect way to do that!

These will also be very helpful in the learning of the scriptures for Brooke and the rest of our little babies!

I would also LOVE this to play at home during the day or in the car! This can also help out with FHE!

Im really enjoying making wish lists these days! These books are actually pretty inexpensive and I feel are very important for the growth of our children so they will be purchased very quickly!

20 months!

2011-03-19T23:10:00.000-07:00

Our little baby girl is now 20 months old! Isn't this about the time that you stop counting the months and start just telling people that she is 1.5 years old? I don't know if I feel ready to stop counting the months? That is yet another thing that makes me feel like my baby is gone and my toddler is here. I know this truly is the case and in a way that is a very good thing since we will be having a new baby in a few months. It is better to have 1 baby and 1 toddler than 2 babies right?
Anyway, Brooke is getting big, well not big, just getting mature. She is still little, that's just her, Im sure she will always be petite. Suddenly though Brooke seems to be maturing on such a quick pace. Daily she is saying new words and phrases. She is now singing 3 entire songs "Happy Birthday", "The Wonder Pets Theme", and " Ring Around The Rosie". She is quite the little talker and I am not sure if there is even a moment in the day where she is not babbling something. I love it about her and just talk to her all day like she is my best friend. I found myself at Target the other day asking her if she liked the white sandles or the black ones and which she thought I would wear more often. I noticed a stranger looking at me like I was crazy and at that point realized that I do this type of thing all the time with Brooke and never think anything strange of it until that moment. O well! She's my best girl buddie, what can I say? I even got us matching shoes!

Brooke has also been coming out of her little public shell a bit. She seems to be developing more of her personality. It is so fun to see her doing this. Brooke is always crazy at home but a lot of times in public she sticks close to me and does not interact much with other kids. She is perfectly fine interacting with and demanding attention from adults. Just recently she has been interacting more with other kids and has been willing to wander further from me at places like parks or other play group type things. Brooke does much better with older kids! She is not too fond of kids her age, especially boys. I think it's because kids her age and size are a bit more aggressive with her than older kids. She tends to be an easy target for feisty kids. She does not defend herself well and is timid with other kids. I want her to grow out of this a bit and toughen up but I am at least glad she is not the kid that picks on others and is the one being picked on? Which is better really?
Another new thing that she has been doing is playing pretend. She loves to play with her little Fisher Price Animals. She can play for quite a while with her little imagination. It is so cute to see her at this age. It's nice for me too that she is at a more self entertaining age. She is OBSESSED right now with these 2 little Rubber Duckies! She has them EVERYWHERE with her, even demands to bring them into the stores sometimes. She LOVES to let them swim so I have a little bowl of water for them set out in the kitchen half the time. More than the bowl of water she LOVES to take baths with her duckies! She takes at least 1, usually 2 baths a day with those little guys!

Brooke has also been showing an interest in potty training. I was not planning on doing this yet, I was thinking I would try a little closer to 2 years old but she seems to be wanting to give it a go? I am not sure if I am going to let her pace herself or if I am going to just give it a go and try to potty train her pretty soon here? She has been telling me each time she has gone pee pee or poo poo and then goes and grabs a diaper and lays down for me to change her. She also asks to sit on the potty randomly through the day. She LOVES the potty (too much) I need to actually keep her away from it or she would be playing with the potty 24/7 if I let her. I randomly let her run around nude or with her bottoms off just to give her the chance to go pee pee on the potty. She has not had an accident in months and has now peed on the potty 4 times. Maybe next week I will give her more of an opportunity and see how she takes it? Anyway I have gotten some cute shots of her during this pantsless time of the day.

Another thing she is loving these days is washing her hands! SO CUTE!

Something Brooke does at some point daily is coloring. I now just leave the markers and the coloring book out for her use whenever she chooses. I love these magic markers that only draw on the special paper. What a genius invention! She is so serious most of the time when she is coloring. It's impressive to me!

Other things Brooke is into right now:
~ The moon and finding it every night
~ Looking for Buggies
~ Reading
~ Froggiess, Ladybugs, Fishies, Piggies, and Sheep
~ Going on walks
~ Bouncing on pretty much anything she can bounce on
~ Swings and Slides
~ Target ("The Ball Place" as Brooke calls it)
~ Wonder Pets
~ Pringles, and Popcorn
~ Choo Choo's and Big Trucks (especially Trash Trucks)
~ Practicing on going up and down stairs like a big girl, none of that tummy stuff!
~ Counting! She is counting everything right now! She usually counts 1-2-3-5-6-10. We are working on getting at least 1-5 right. Just missing that 4.
~ Brooke is also loving learning colors
~ Loves having to choose between 2 things. This door or that door? This blanket or that blanket? This drink or that drink?
~ Still on 3 Pediasure's a day but is eating a little better
~ Still has 4 I teeth that need to stinkin cut!
~ In bed at 8pm-7am and then naps from 2pm-4pm'ish
I think that's her in a nutshell for her 20 month update? If I come up with more I will add it to the post. I also need to get back on track with taking pictures. I have been SO BAD at pulling out my camera lately. I don't know why because she is at such a dang cute stage right now!
This kid is my world and I love her more than she will ever know or understand!

A Visit Home

2011-03-19T21:56:00.000-07:00

While Kip was out of town Brooke and I took a 5 day trip down to San Diego to visit my family. I go down there often but don't normally stay 5 days. This was a fun break from the day to day here and it was nice to have the company and the help with Brooke.
One of the days Brooke got brave and learned a new trick while we were playing in Amanda's backyard. I was freaked out a bit, she just seems so small to be doing big stuff like this, but after a while she was out there on her own just climbing up the play set and sliding down the slide over and over again. Here is my non baby learning new and scary things! I am proud of her!

While at Amanda's house we had a fun time after lunch one day decorating cupcakes with homemade frosting that Amanda made. The kids had a blast, ok and so did I! You can't blame us, the frosting was AMAZING!
Makenna was most likely the most mature one here. She actually did get quite a bit of frosting on her cupcake. Some still went straight into her mouth but she did a pretty great job. Way to go Kenna Mae!

Kellen had a very smart tactic. He got the frosting on his knife and then very carefully dipped the frosting in his sprinkles making sure he got the perfect amount of sprinkles. Then straight into his mouth the perfect mixture went. Bud Bud you crack me up!

The only frosting that touched Brooke's cupcake was the frosting I put on it trying to show her what she was supposed to be doing. The rest went straight from the kife into her cute little mouth. At least my child will eat frosting, she will not eat much but she will eat frosting!

And then there was me! TOTALLY EXCITED to stuff my face with a frosting filled cupcake! I'll just say that Baby Kip wanted it, BADLY!!!

We also had an evening at Grammy's house where she made us all personal sized little cakes that we decorated. As soon as I get the photo's I will add them here. It was a frosting filled weekend I must say! I also must say that my little Mini cake looked the best, of course it would :)
Amanda also got this cute picture of me with all the little chickens reading. I sure love my Nieces and Nephews and am so glad they all get along so well with my little Brooke!

Lastly, I grow little petite kiddo's and my sister grows giant kiddos! Saying that here is a picture of Brooke and Conner taking a bath together. He is a day less than a year younger than Brooke and here, other than Brooke looking more mature than Conner, they sure look like they could be twins. I actually think Conner looks bigger than Brooke now! Yep, we knew the day would come that Conner would pass up Brooke. Just did not think it would be when the kid was 8 months old!

I love living close to both of our families! I love that Brooke loves her Grandparents SO MUCH and knows them all so well! I love that Brooke has special relationships with each of her Cousins and knows each of their names! It is such a heart melting thing to watch them all play together and have a blast! As Brooke gets older these moments just get more and more fun!
All and all a very fun and MUCH NEEDED trip home!

Over The Hump!

2011-03-17T23:47:00.000-07:00

Well I am officially over the hump, I am more than half way done with the pregnancy, 21 weeks, that's right, I can't even quite believe it! It has seriously gone by SO FAST! In a way I hope the speed keeps on going at this pace and in other ways I want it to SLOW DOWN!!!
The reason for wanting it to slow down is because as soon as we have this little guy we are moving away. In a way the whole moving away thing is fun and all, a new adventure, a fresh start, all that jazz. But in a bigger way, right now to me at least, I am sad and not looking forward to the move! I don't want to leave my family, my friends, the nice weather, my comfort zone, you know all that stuff. On top of that I am dreading stuffing our house into a 2 bedroom college apartment! I am not excited to go back to laundry mats, YUCK, the kids sharing a room, the FREEZING COLD. BUT I know it is where we need to be, I know it is where the Lord has told us we need to be, I know that this is a step in the right direction, and I know we will be blessed for our decisions to follow by faith! I am excited for Kip to be going back to school full time at BYU~ Idaho! I am excited for the opportunity we will have to live by Rick, Kip's brother. I am excited for all of the outdoors activities. All that stuff.
Anyway, back to this little boy and the fact that he is more than half way done cooking! HOORAY!!!
I started feeling him move randomly at about 16 weeks along. I was surprised to be feeling him that early. But of course I LOVED IT!!! I just last night March 16th felt his little kicks on the outside of my belly with my hand for the first time! I am LOVING feeling his movements and am excited that they are just going to be getting stronger and more frequent!
I have picked up the work out's and I feel great! I am trying to walk at least 3 miles a day at least 5 days a week. I have so much more energy when I get my walks in!
I have gained a total of 10 lbs already and am the largest of the 7 (I think) women in my ward that are all pregnant and due within days of one another. It's ok tho, I am big, as long as he is healthy, I will take it!
I just had an appointment today and got to hear his little heartbeat! Brooke was even there to hear it, tho I don't think she had a clue that it was her baby brother that was making that funny sound.
So far all of the tests I have done have checked in as normal, a relief! He seems to be growing and progressing the way he should be.
We are very grateful for the healthy baby boy that is in there and hope that everything stays on track!
Well here is my 21 week, or in other words 5 months shot!

Without The Daddy!

2011-03-17T23:01:00.000-07:00

Well the time is coming shortly that I get Kip back and actually get to KEEP HIM!!!
Kip left for AZ the beginning of February to Project Manage the building of a store in the Scottsdale, AZ mall. He was expected to be opening the store on March 1 but as construction projects go the date was then moved to March 11 and now to this coming up Friday March 18th. He should be heading home tomorrow night March 18th but then OF COURSE he has a shift at the Fire Station on Saturday. SO I get him for a few hours Friday Evening and then have to let him go for another 24 hours. Sunday morning he returns and will be home again for good! WE ARE SO EXCITED! More than excited!
I was just thinking the other day of all that has gone on while Kip has been gone, it feels like it has been longer than a month and a half! I have also been proud of myself for staying strong even though I missed him LIKE CRAZY! I thought it would be fun to write down all that happened while Daddy was away!
~ Attended 4 baby showers
~ Hosted 2 of the 4 baby showers
~ Attended 1 birthday party
~ Did our taxes (thanks Mom for your help)
~ Got 2 new toilets installed in our home
~ Got 2 new shower heads
~ Got a new Cable Box as well as New HDMI Cables
~ Turned our first year of Blogging into a book with Cutest Blog on The Block, SO EASY! Now I just got to get the $ to pay for it :) Can't wait to see it in print!
~ Weeded and trimmed the bushes of our entire front yard's planter (Kip's jobs are normally all the outside stuff)
~ Made Chicken Salad Sandwiches for 70+ people at my house
~ 2 Dr. Appointments for Little K
~ Brooke and I took our first road trip together, just the 2 of us, up to AZ to visit Daddy!
~ Brooke went potty in the toilet 4 times
~ Brooke started growling when upset at things or frustrated
~ Brooke developed an obsession with rubber duckies
~ Brooke learned a whole bunch of new words including the words to the song "Ring Around The Rosie"
~ A few trips to San Diego
~ Only got a babysitter for Brooke 3 nights of the whole month and a half
~ I got bigger and gained a few pounds (baby weight I hope)
~ Started feeling little K kick on the inside and just last night began feeling him kick on the outside!
Maybe that is all of the larger details that happened while Daddy was away? It was a very busy Month and a Half! Life is survivable without Kip but SO MUCH less enjoyable without him! I have decided that I NEVER want to be a Single Mom and I have developed such a respect for every Single Mom out there! Even more I have gained such an appreciation for Military Families! My goodness they sacrifice SO MUCH for our freedom and I love and appreciate that in a whole new way! I struggled with having my husband away for 1.5 months and they go sometimes 12 months with worrying about their safety every single day! I am grateful, SO GRATEFUL for my Husband who I love with ALL my heart! I am SO GRATEFUL for what an amazing, helpful, and loving Father he is to our children! I am truly blessed!
Yes Kip, I can survive without you but I NEVER WANT TO!!!!!

Here is a picture of Kip with his Uncle Bobby who he has been staying with along with his Cousin Ali and her Husband Logan! They went spelunking, sounds like they had a blast! Kip also got into hunting with his Uncle and now wants to come home and be a hunting pro! He has very much enjoyed his time he has spent with his family and the opportunity he has had to make wonderful memories with them as well as strengthen relationships. Did I mention they live DOWN THE STREET from Cafe Rio? LUCKY!!!

Doing My Research!

2011-03-16T23:21:00.000-07:00

I have decided that for myself I need to make a list that is written down somewhere other than my head for what I need to get before this little guy gets here. Thank goodness we don't need AS MUCH as we needed with #1 but we do happen to need more than I had originally thought? I am thinking that after getting these things we should be pretty dang good to go for #3 & #4? I hope that I can somehow get these specific things I have researched. Im trying to not go with the MOST expensive stuff but at the same time hope to get stuff that will work and last through the rest of our babies. We shall see? Not that any of you care about any of this, it's more for me to remember but here is my wish list:

~ Double Jogging Stroller

Schwinn Free Wheeler (Blue, Black, & White)
$265-

~ Double Stroller

Joovy Ultralight Caboose (Black)
$230-

~ New Baby Monitor

Target
Graco iMonitor Vibe
$60-

~ Toddler Bed for Brooke

Babies R Us
Dream On Me Toddler Bed (ESPRESSO)
$90-

~ Crib Mattress for Toddler Bed

around $100-

~ New Pack and Play that is also a bassinet

Graco Silohouette Pack n Play (Brown & Green)
$170
or

Baby Trend Deluxe Nursery~ Havenwood
$130-

~ Glider Chair

Something like this? As long as it is Comfy, Mocha Colored Wood, Solid, Prefer a Darker Fabric!

~ Bedding for Brooke and Kipper

Im thinking I am going with this fabric? With kinda an ABC theme on the walls!

~ Need to make a boyish cover for my bouncer chair (currently pink)

~ Nursing Cover

~ Car Seat Cover

~ LOTS OF CLOTHING

So much to do! So much to spend! SO EXCITED!!! Now show me the $$$$$

The Belly

2011-03-03T23:41:00.000-08:00

The BIG Belly at that! But I LOVE IT!
This is not the best picture, not too in focus, and I actually don't think that I really look like this but maybe I do?
Anyway here you go, a belly picture!

This was me 3 weeks ago. Boy is it popping out quick isn't it? I hope he is not a ton bigger than Brooke since I am really hoping for that Vaginal Birth?

There you go, for all those asking for belly pictures :)

HELP?

2011-03-03T23:11:00.000-08:00

I think the Nesting may be kicking in early with this little guy? Or maybe it is just me being the typical Sarah that I am? Or the fact that I am trying to prepare early since right before this little guy is born and after he is born life is going to be CRAZY!!!
We are planning on moving the very beginning of September. Maybe we can even do it on September 2'nd which will be our 5 year Wedding Anniversary and My Birthday? Good way to celebrate the last 5 years right?
Anyway, let's get back to the point of this post.
Brooke and little baby Kipper will most likely, well pretty likely, be sharing a room when we move. I am not thrilled with this idea, first off them being a boy and a girl in the same room, secondly we can't do a totally cute BOY theme or GIRL theme for either room, and more than both of those reasons because I fear that 1 kid will wake up the other each night and then I will have 2 awake kiddo's in the middle of the nights YIKES! We will make do, people do it all the time right?
Since this is kinda a sad thing for me I am trying to make it exciting by already thinking of how I want to decorate their little room? I most likely will not be able to paint so I can't count on the paint on the wall's color being a big part of the room. I want to represent each child as who they are and the sex that they are, I want it to be appropriate for their ages, fun, and happy! I also want to figure it out semi soon so I can get started on the bedding since I will be making HIS bedding and HER bedding as well. With the 2 combined I think I will be making 1 Comforter for a Toddler Bed (Brooke's), 1 Crib Bumper, 1 Bed Skirt, Needing Fabric for Window Coverings (that I can't make till I know where we will be living?), and possible Decorative Pillows?
I have done some research myself as well as have enlisted the help of some WONDERFUL friends of mine The Creative Mommas. These are 3 of my favorite color theme ideas! Let me know which of the 3 you like the best. If you have any WONDERFUL ideas or links you can send me that would be much appreciated as well!
I don't know if hardly anybody even reads this blog anymore but if you do please help me out here?
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Thanks for your advice :)

Visiting Daddy

2011-02-25T22:30:00.000-08:00

Currently Daddy is up in Arizona working hard for our family. His company had the opportunity to build a store out in Scottsdale for an owner they have built a few other stores for. Of course in this economy the opportunity was taken and appreciated. The store is in the Scottsdale Mall and it is quite the nice mall I must say. He is having the opportunity right now to be staying with his Uncle Bobby and Aunt Cindy, who I mist also say are absolutely AMAZING people! So funny, so real, so much energy, sweetness, love, and everything good exists in their home. Kip is loving the chance he is having to get to spend that quality time with them and is SO appreciative that he gets to have the company and love of a family rather than spending this month and a half away from us alone in a hotel room! A HUGE THANK YOU to Bobby and Cindy!!! We love and appreciate you SO MUCH!
Brooke and I had the wonderful chance to go up and visit Daddy this last weekend. It couldn't have come sooner! If Kip was not such an amazing help and such an amazing Daddy he would not be missed as much as he has been. I am grateful every moment for him in my life!! I have decided in this time apart from him that I have all the respect in the world for all the Single Mom's or a Military Wife's out there! Like my own Mother that I have a new found respect for. I think if I did not have a child I could maybe handle it, I feel like I am independent enough and secure enough in our relationship that I could handle it alone for a period of time, but since we have a little girl that ADORES her Daddy, that is what makes this the hardest! It is so sad to see her confused about why Daddy is not coming home, why she only gets to talk to him on the phone, why our nightly routine is disrupted, it makes me SO SAD when she hears a motorcycle go by and asks if it is Daddy, or when she stands at the front door and says "See Daddy?". How do you explain all this to a 19 month old that loves her Daddy and needs her Daddy! Don't get me wrong, I have missed him with all my heart! I love him SO much and appreciate him SO much more than I even did before!
It was a wonderful trip. I LOVE KIP'S FAMILY!!!! Bobby, Cindy, and each of their kids are AMAZING and SO much fun! I felt like I was in my own home when I was there! What amazing people they are! I can't wait to see them again! I was grateful that I got to eat at Cafe Rio a few times :) But most of all I was SO grateful to spend time with my love. I was grateful to see him and Brooke together, always heart melting! I LOVED my cuddle time with him, not sleeping alone in bed, his kisses goodnight and goodmorning, our family prayers, all of it! It was fun to go to the Mall and see the job he is managing. I am SO impressed that he knows how to Project Manage the building of an entire store from the shell of the walls to the smallest details of a store! My man is AMAZING!
So, I think I was too excited while I was there that I did not even think to pull out my camera till the last day there! We spent a lot of time at the parks out there, we spent a ton of time with family, we played card games, told LOTS of stories, and spent A TON OF TIME in The "Raaarrrr" Room!!!!
Here are the photo's I got the last day when I finally remembered to pull out my camera to capture a few moments. All the pictures are of Daddy with Brooke, which to me was what was the most important to capture, plus, Im always the photographer :)
Here we are playing at the park behind Bobby and Cindy's house. It is SO COOL, they literally have a gate in their backyard that takes you out to this park! Super convenient! We spent a lot of time working with Brooke on what we called "Slide Therapy". Brooke had a fall down a super tall slide right before Daddy left for Arizona. I don't know what happened half way down the slide but she began tumbling head over feet, and ended on the bottom of the slide skidding on her face. She had a black eye and a scrape on her arm from it as well as slide TRAUMA!!! For a time we could not even get her to walk back up the stairs of any toy at any parks. I would love to say that I think we have gotten her bravery back. Today she was loving the slide! This day in Arizona at the park with Daddy we made the most progress!

And here Brooke is in her favorite room in their house. She called it The "Raaarrr" Room! She was not at all afraid of the array of animals in there, we actually had to keep a close eye on her to make sure she did not try to mount and ride them :) Kip's Uncle Bobby is a big hunter, you can tell he is pretty good and take pride in it :) Here are some funny pictures in the room! O' and every morning when Brooke would wake up, the second we would walk in sight of the room she would yell "Raaarrrr" it was SO funny!

So there it is, we love our Daddy, we miss our Daddy, and we are SO grateful we got to go visit him! I am glad we had the finances to do it, were able to make it too and from safely, as well as the amazing chance we got to get to know family better!

Baby Kipper

2011-02-16T20:50:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we had an Ultrasound. I just recently switched insurances and we now have Kaiser for the remaining process of this pregnancy. They wanted to do an Ultrasound to make sure my due date was correct and just get a look themselves since I was a transfer. They sent me to the Radiology area to get it done and just ended up doing the entire 20 week Ultrasound since I was 17 weeks and they could already measure everything they needed to.
We were happy to hear that Kipper is still a little boy!
I also had a wellness visit today for the pregnancy and already got the results of the Ultrasound. Everything seems to be checking in perfectly. He seems to be growing properly, everything seems to be on track, he looks SO CUTE to me and I already think I can see his Daddy in him. We shall see when he comes out :) We are so happy to hear that so far everything is healthy and going great! We hope that it remains through the rest of the pregnancy. I worry so much about him for some reason!
My Dr. today told me that I should be able to go into this Labor in hopes for a Vaginal Delivery but need to keep my mind open to the idea of a C~Section. I guess Kaiser hardly ever does the Vacuum Delivery so if he is not coming out easily they will send me off for the C~Section. I am hoping he does not get stuck like Brooke did, but I of course want whatever is the most healthy for him so we shall see what ends up happening? It's a while off anyway, I am just already having a little bit of anxiety about the Labor after Brooke's crazy one!
Well, we are thrilled that all is on track! Here is a photo of the little guy! Love him!

I still can't believe we are having a BOY!!!! We are SO excited!!!

Grammy's Camera

2011-02-14T14:19:00.000-08:00

I have come down to San Diego for the weekend to kill time and have a little help with Brooke since Kip has been and will be gone for the entire month. It has been fun being down here, as it always is! I am SO grateful that both Kip and I's families live so close to us! I am so grateful for the special times Brooke gets to have with her Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins! We feel so blessed to be so close to them all and will definitely miss it when we move away.
While down here this weekend I got ahold of my Mom's camera and was just flipping through the pictures. I found a bunch that I either forgot were ever taken or did not even know they were taken in the first place. I thought I would blog them while I am down here so that I have them in my hands now and get to share them with you all!
SO here goes, random pictures from Grammy's Camera!
These were taken one Sunday while we were down here. This is one of my favorite Sunday outfits that Brooke has. The dress was bought by Papa Wyrick and I made the bow to match.

I hardly have ANY pictures of Brooke and I together. I think I dont look so much like me here but it is still a decent picture of the 2 of us so I will take it :)

Here is a proud Pa Carlson teaching Brooke all about a Cross Bow! CUTE!

I like this picture of Kipper and I, it was taken on Christmas Eve. I didn't even remember we even took this picture.

Brooke is ALL ABOUT stacking things these days and I must say she is pretty dang good at it. She can make a pretty tall tower with all sorts of shapes and sizes!

Brooke and Makenna are quite the little buddies together these days! Brooke ADORES Makenna and calls her "Ka". Makenna can make Brooke laugh just about any time, even in the middle of a tantrum. They are going to be good buddies and I can already tell they are going to get into some trouble together. Sis and I are going to be on our toes when we are all together :)

So the other night Amanda and I were dressing our kiddo's after Grammy gave them all their baths and as we had Brooke and Conner laying next to one another we could not help but notice that they were pretty much the SAME SIZE!!! Conner was born the day before Brooke's 1st Birthday making Brooke 18 months in this picture and Conner 6 months. Yes I grow them small and Amanda grows them BIG!!!! Can you believe this?

This is a better idea of their size with their legs straight. Brooke IS longer but I think Conner's head is bigger and is a little higher than Brooke's in this photo. Still can't believe that kid is a GIANT!

I am so glad I got my hands on these shots! I need to keep checking her camera when I come down to make sure there are not more pictures that I could be missing out on!
Hope you all are having a WONDERFUL Valentines Day!!!!! I am away from my love today, but will have a nice date night with him this coming up weekend when Brooke and I go up to visit Daddy! CANT WAIT!!!!
Love sent to you all!!!!

SO BIG!

2011-02-07T19:55:00.000-08:00

Today I looked at my baby and did not see a little baby anymore! She looked like a little girl, so I had to capture this moment on camera! It is so amazing how fast time fly's by!
Maybe it was the jeans? I never put her in jeans, mostly because I have a hard time finding ones that fit. These ones were PERFECT!!!
Well here is our BIG girl! I guess that is a good thing since she is going to be a BIG sister in a few months right?

Recent Happenings

2011-02-05T21:41:00.000-08:00

I know I have been super lame at keeping up on my blog. Sorry :( I am trying to get back into the swing of things and get things back in order. My problem is that I have not been taking photos lately. I know what in the world is wrong with me? Normally I am totally picture happy and lately I have hardly been picking up my camera. I am getting back on top of things here. So these are a few of our most recent happening!
This is Baby Kipper and I's Shadow at 15 weeks!

Here we are at one of Brooke's FAVORITE places in the world right now TARGET!!! She call's it "The Ball Place" and requests to go there daily. Ok Im not going to lie, I love Target too!!!! We just walk around there sometimes when we are board and most of the time we run into our friends there :)

We also just LOVE going to the park! Brooke would be outside all day every day if she could!

Ever since Brooke started Gymnastics she can not see a curb without wanting to balance and walk on it! I think it is SO CUTE that she loves Gymnastics type stuff the way I did as a child! It makes me proud!

One of the things I can almost always get Brooke to eat is Peanut Butter, especially when I stick a few Mini M&M's in it to tempt her! The thing I hate is that for some reason when she eats Peanut Butter she thinks it belongs in her hair. SO HARD to wash out!

Brooke LOVES her Daddy SO MUCH!!! She adores him!!! He adores her! Here are a few photo's of them together! Seeing them together ALWAYS melts my heart! I am SO happy that Brooke has a Daddy like Kip! We are both SUCH lucky girls!

IT'S A..............

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BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His name will be:
Kip Garr Robinson III

We are THRILLED!!!!
Kip and I both felt that this little baby was a BOY, we are stoked that we were actually right! We have felt SO in tune with this pregnancy. I prayed for months before we started trying to know if this was the right time to bring a new spirit into our lives, at that point I felt that the next spirit would be a little Boy.
This pregnancy has also been so very different than the pregnancy I had with Brooke which is what sealed the deal on us thinking he was a HE.
~ I have felt nauseous since the day after we got pregnant, I was hardly nauseous at all with Brooke
~ My hormones have been much more effected this time around
~ My skin is not clear the way it was with Brooke
~ I crave totally different foods (almost the opposite of what I craved with Brooke)
~ I am showing very quickly (Im sure because it is my second?)
~ My chest seems to be preparing much more for a Boy than it did for a Girl (if you are picking up what I am putting down)

We are thrilled that we now have 1 of each!!! 

Kip is so excited to think about Father/Son campouts, shooting bb guns, building tree houses, riding dirtbikes, you know, all those little Boy type things a Daddy looks forward to doing with his Son! 

I am thrilled to have a little Boy as well! I hear that Boys are super attached to their Mommy's which our Girl is attached to her Daddy so I am thrilled to get mine! I also hear that it is fun for a Mommy to have like a little Boyfriend that just adores her and loves her to pieces! I can't wait to see what Mothering a Son is vs Mothering a Daughter! 

We LOVE being a Mommy and Daddy to our little Brooke so I am SURE we are going to love being a Mommy and Daddy to our little Kipper!

18 Months Of Bliss!!!!

2011-01-22T23:03:00.000-08:00

Brooke Lyn Robinson

18 months old

~ Full of Energy
~ Full of Chatter, she is ALWAYS talking and is quite the good talker. Our favorite words she says are Please, Thank You, and today she threw out Your Welcome.
~ She LOVES airplanes and can spot them a mile away and in the night sky as well.
~ Loves to look for the moon at night, sometimes she still calls it the "big white ball"
~ LOVES TARGET she calls it the "ball place"
~ Loves Echo (used to be our dog, now is Grandma and Grandpa's dog) she talks about him daily, opens the blinds and yells outside "Echo Come"
~ Loves going on walks, we try to go on one daily, she almost always finds some type of hiking stick and holds onto it almost the whole time.
~ Loves, Loves, Loves to 1-2-3 JUMP or bounce on our friends trampoline she calls it a "bouncy, bouncy"
~ LOVES to be outside
~ Just started gymnastics and is doing very well at keeping up with all the kids that are almost a year older than her, she can even do summersaults all by herself! Also any time we see a curb she has to try to walk along it and balance. I love it!
~ BAD eater but doing better day by day, still mostly survives off of 3-4 Pediasures a day! EXPENSIVE, but it keeps her alive and growing (slowly) so it is WORTH IT!!
~ 12 month pants, 18-24 month shirts
~ Her favorite song is "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in the car she requests it and every time it ends she says "Again?", she also loves "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and knows how to do the spider motion, SO CUTE!
~ She loves to run from us ANY time we call her, not good when we are outside heading to the car, and she usually finds the farthest place she can to hide from us, she thinks it is SO FUNNY! I think it's funny when we are indoors but not so funny when we are outside.
~ The kid can run FAST!!!!
~ Very interested in the potty, flushing the toilet, putting TP in the potty, and sitting on her own potty as she says "Pee pee, PSSSsssss......". I hope to have her potty trained a little before or near after this next little baby comes. Im not going to push it.
~ Her favorite shows are Elmo or Wonder Pets
~ Brooke LOVES animals!!!
~ In bed at 7pm up at 6:30-7am without a peep in the evening!
~ Down to 1, 1 hour nap a day (not long enough for mommy)
~ Timid around other kids, especially ones she does not know well.
~ Does not like learning things with other kids around, likes to figure it out on her own first.
~ Has some impressive stacking skills with blocks of all shapes and sizes.
~ Loves to read and draw.
~ Is ready to get out of the house BY 10am and starts to melt down if we are not out by then!
~ Brave and Wimpy at the same time, Shy and NOT AT ALL at the same time.

Brooke has been the biggest blessing to our lives. We can not imagine life without her and cant even remember life very much before her. She has changed us forever, has changed our home forever, changed our hearts forever, and even Kip and I's relationship forever! Kip and I have never felt such joy, experienced such laughter, and felt such LOVE as we do now with Brooke in our lives! 18 months ago our lives changed in the best way they possibly could FOREVER!!! She is our Angel!

It's Been A While.....

2011-01-15T22:11:00.000-08:00

..... this year has had a slow start on New Years Resolutions and well EVERYTHING!!! Somebody in this house has been sick every day since before Christmas. We have had colds, sinus infections, strep throat, pregnancy sickness and tiredness, and I just got a call from my sis, who I happened to share a salad with today, who apparently just got her first symptoms of the 24 hour flu they have all been passing around down there. SO looks like I will be sick as a dog in about 36 hours. Hopefully at some point all this sickness will end so we can get started on the GOOD things to come in this New Year! We are determined that this is going to be a wonderful New Year and we are just looking at this first month as getting the bad and sickness just out of the way right away!
Hope to be up on the posting and even more up on the Resolutions!
Talk to you soon, HOPEFULLY!!!

She's A Doll!!!!

2011-01-15T21:41:00.000-08:00

Literally!
Meet the doll that, to me, was designed after Brooke!
Similar features, the eyes, the dimples, the curls, the blonde, the bow, the hair part, and even more fun the fact that the baby is created to bounce and talk!
Yes I HAD to get it!

The Belly Baby!

2010-12-27T21:20:00.000-08:00

Here is our 10 week Ultrasound of our little #2! We love "it" already and already can't wait to find out what "it" is! Vote on the side of our blog for what you think we will be having, I am always curious to hear what the majority thinks :)
The little one is doing well, it is measuring a little under 10 weeks but the Dr says it is normal to range from 5 days ahead or behind of what you are "supposed" to be at. So we are in the normal range. The heartbeat looked good and was at 148 beats per minute, between 120 & 170 is considered normal. Brooke's was in the 160's if I remember correctly, I do have it written down somewhere :) We think the little one is beautiful and can't wait to watch the baby grow through these months! We will be going in on February 1st to find out what we are having! We are already counting down the days!
Here our our 3 shots we got!

This is a profile shot of the little one's head with it's arm and hand right by the face! I love the detail of this one!

A few things I want to remember about this pregnancy so far:
~ I have been sick to my stomach since literally the day after I got pregnant.
~ The first 8 weeks I felt sick almost 24/7.
~ The past 2 weeks or so I feel sick between the hours of 3:00pm-7:00pm, and I feel REALLY sick then.
~ Very tired, as I was with Brooke, but I feel MORE tired because I have a 1 year old I am trying to keep up with.
~ My mouth always tastes NASTY, almost a metal taste, eeewwwww......
~ I feel bigger faster.
~ For some reason I am more worried about complications this time around than last time? Don't know why?
~ I crave Cold Cut Sandwiches, mostly Roast Beef ones, and LOTS of Mustard!
~ In the very beginning I felt like a bottomless pit but now it feels like a chore to eat most of the time.
~ I am THRILLED to be growing our second little one!

(This pregnancy has been SO different than with Brooke, I craved doughnuts almost daily with Brooke, never felt sick, but just felt VERY tired!!!)

Feels So Good!!!

2010-12-26T21:01:00.000-08:00

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!
As I said in the last post, I LOVE CHRISTMAS! We had a wonderful Christmas this year! We are SO lucky to be so close to both of our families to celebrate the Holiday with!
We got to spend Christmas Eve with Kip's entire family! We had a blast, ate amazing food, went caroling (which is SO different for Robinson's), opened gifts (we were spoiled), had some laughs, and time went by WAY TOO FAST!!! Kip was passing out early in the evening due to his lack of sleep the night before so we had to head out early to finish our evenings events with being Santa's Helpers!!! We had a wonderful time helping Santa set up the gifts!!!
Of course I am SUPER LAME and have Pregnancy Brain and forgot my camera so I will be stealing pictures from family of the Robinson gift opening extravaganza!
Kip and I took a few shots of us helping out Santa! Kip had SO MUCH FUN being a Daddy and helping Santa! It was cute!

The loot after Santa came!

Christmas Morning Brooke was in HEAVEN!!! I do not have any pictures of her opening gifts because well.... she didn't! Once she saw her Kitchen and all her pretend food she was focused on that and that only which we were fine with! We opened the rest for her and showed her each of her toys, she looked for a while then headed back to her Kitchen! SO GLAD SHE LOVES IT!!!

Daddy and the Family Gift! Daddy is also working hard to get me a MUCH BETTER camera ASAP so my Big Gift will be coming in the near future! IM STOKED!!!

We played this for hours in the morning and had a total blast together as a family. We were breaking a sweat with the Kinect games and Brooke was even getting into playing them!!! This will be PERFECT for when we get up to Idaho and are stuck indoors for the winter months :) We LOVE IT!!!
And Echo beggin for his beggin strips, YES our dog get's gifts and his own stocking!

After playing our games and opening gifts we headed down to San Diego to spend Christmas Day with my family! We ate a WONDERFUL home cooked meal with the very best Turkey all of us have ever had! SO GOOD!!! Also complete with Dad's Poway Beans which were AMAZING as well! We enjoyed laughs, watching the kids go wild, opening gifts (which I also did not get pictures of due to me being busy opening my gifts and helping Brooke), being spoiled, then after dinner and gifts we all packed up and went out to walk a neighborhood full of Christmas Lights! It was a very fun thing to do on Christmas Day! We came home, had pie, and then headed home! It was a wonderful Christmas Holiday!!!

I am NOT loving my house being trashed as it always is after Christmas! Maybe I will get to that tomorrow :) along with going through all Brooke's toys and finding new spots for them. I do LOVE the relief of Christmas being over! Starting to think of the New Years Resolutions!

I hope you all had a very WONDERFUL Christmas and took time to think about the Savior! I hope you all got everything you desired but more than that I hope you all were able to spend time with those you love!

Pre Christmas Post

2010-12-23T20:46:00.000-08:00

I just can't believe that TOMORROW is Christmas Eve! Where in the world has this year gone?
I SHOULD be wrapping gifts, which I am sure I will be up all night doing, BUT I just had to get my Pre Christmas Post done that I have been putting off. I wanted so badly to get a picture on Sunday of our little family all dressed up in our cute matching attire and it just did not happen :( SO I have been putting off this post in hopes that we would get all dressed up again just to pose in front of the camera for 3 pictures which OF COURSE did not happen. SO you may be getting a picture of JUST Brooke (really all who matters anyway) in her little dress that I will take tomorrow or on Christmas. Sorry you missed out on Kip and I's hottness, we looked super cute as a matching family I will tell ya that much :)
I just LOVE Christmas time! I love the excuse to spend time thinking of others and being able to spend $ on those we love! I really look so much MORE forward to the gifts I am giving each year than the gifts I am getting, not that that part isn't wonderful as well :) I also LOVE Christmas decorations! I love all the colors, the feel of Christmas, I love having a big lit tree in my house to look forward to seeing each day (so does Brooke, it is the hilight of her morning), I love spending time with family, friends, and loved ones! I love the focus we have on the Savior and on his life! I love that we seriously take the time to focus on being more Christlike people this time of year and wish that it would last all year long! I love Christmas music, Christmas Lights, the smell of baked goods and fireplaces! I am THRILLED to get Christmas cards and letters from our friends and family (some we have not seen in years)! I just LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!
I hope you all have a WONDERFUL and safe Holiday! I hope you all take the time to reflect on the Savior and his life and what he has taught us and given us! I hope you all love each moment you spend with your family members, friends, or other loved ones! I hope you all get what you wanted from Santa, and had a ton of fun GIVING! I hope your Christmas is a Wonderful one!
Here are some of the things that make my Christmas Happy!!!
The Christmas Tree

Brooke's Little Tree

Our Decorations

(Brooke plays with this daily)

Seeing Santa
(not such a fan this year)

(with the cousins)

The Christmas Cards

The Annual Girls Bake Off

And The Delivering Of The Cookies

Our Little Beauty Posing In Front Of The Tree

Lounging On Rainy Days In Our Jammies

And Brooke Helping With The Wrapping

Now it's time to get back to the Wrapping!!!!
Have a Merry Christmas!!!

8 Week Ultrasound!

2010-12-20T22:30:00.000-08:00

SO we decided that before we send out our Christmas Cards with an announcement about our little Baby #2, we should probably actually SEE that there is actually a baby in there and that it is doing well. SO we went in for our first Ultrasound at 8 Weeks. We will have another at close to 10 Weeks with my Doctor and we are very excited about that one as well!
WELL....... I am SO happy to announce that there really IS a baby in there and it is growing well and we even got to hear the Heartbeat! I was not expecting to be able to hear the Heartbeat this early but it was there 158 beats per minute which is PERFECT for a baby this age!
SO here is a picture of our little, what they say is the size of a Kidney Bean, Bean Baby!

Trash Digger!

2010-12-20T21:04:00.000-08:00

So lately Brooke has been very interested in the concept of the trash can. I find her tearing up pieces of paper and going back and forth throwing away her trash. It is so cute! If you tell her to throw something in the trash she will happily go and do it!
We have encountered a few problems with her love of the trash can tho! First she does not totally understand the concept of what is "trash" and what is not "trash" so we have found things like remote controls hair bows, toys and more in the trash can. I am constantly checking the can to make sure ONLY trash is in it!
Our other problem we encountered is that she does not realize that the trash can is only for putting trash IN not taking it OUT! I am constantly finding her digging in our cans. This day in particular I was on the computer and Brooke was quiet behind me for quite some time. I look back and this is what I find! My little TRASH DIGGER!!!!

P.S. SEE she does not ALWAYS have a bow in her hair :)

Family Photo's 2010

2010-12-20T20:28:00.000-08:00

Well the time has come for a new family photo! Kip looks forward to our Family Photo Shoot each and every year..... ok, well wait that is me not him so much, but he is a great sport about it! Brooke knows exactly what to do in front of the camera since she has had one in her face since the day she was born. To me she is a natural! So here they are. I am very pleased! We had Amanda Fien take our photo's this year and we are very happy with how they turned out! Thank You Amanda for working with Kip's CRAZY schedule and the many reschedules that we made!
ENJOY!!!!!

Our Newest Shoot!

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Due:
July 25, 2011

Want to Giggle?

2010-12-04T23:52:00.000-08:00

Here is Brooke enjoying playing the Wii, she was really into it!

If you listen close she says "Im Ok" she cracks me up and is one tough kid I tell ya what!

I Love Them.......

2010-12-03T21:38:00.000-08:00

SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update!

2010-11-21T22:43:00.000-08:00

I feel like I have not been on here to post in FOREVER!!!! I also feel like I have not taken many family shots these days. Not good, gotta get back on that! I am also very sad because my computer that I have been using FOREVER that has all of my pictures on it has a virus I can not get off of it. As I was trying to transfer all of my pictures onto our external hard drive before it crashed I "think" I may have lost all of my pictures from September. So yeah, sad for all the posts I did not do from September that I was being lazy and waiting on. I had some CUTE pictures from September too. I hope that when somebody figures out how to fix my computer that I can find those September shots. I know I did not push any delete button so they should be somewhere right? Anyway. Here are a few of the updated shots of our crazy little Brookers!

About a month ago we had Brooke's 15 month appointment. I was not looking forward to this appointment because #1 she was getting more shots and those just melt my heart, but #2 At Brooke's 12 month appointment she was pretty low on the charts for her weight and as I was seeing she had not gained much weight since then. She was also going through a VERY picky stage with food. She was hardly eating ANYTHING that was solid and it was very much stressing me out and making me feel like I was failing as a mother. NOT FUN! She ended up being 19lbs. 4oz. 4% and 31 1/4inches 48%! Yep she is small! I promise I feed her! She is a very picky kiddo. I have talked to 2 different Doctors about her weight and eating habits. I even lost it and was bawling at the second Doctors appointment because I was so worried about her. The doctor was super sweet, sat down with me, watched her run around in her diaper and concluded that she is a very smart, active, PICKY CHILD! She is doing much better these days with her eating. She does have 4 I teeth that still need to come in and I think that has something to do with it, I have also modified our eating arrangements and her fluid intake. It is getting better. She is also now on 3 Pediasure's a day to help her gain weight and get the nutrition she needs. Anyway, she is healthy and strong and smart and SMALL! But we love her BIG time!
On to more pictures! Enjoy!
Daddy is SO proud of his little girl! So am I! I think this comes more from Kipper's genes tho :)

This one needs no explanation....

She LOVES glasses but happens to break them easily too :(

Brooke LOVES this Blanket!!!! It is her favorite blanket but will take her Pink one if the Purple is in the washer. She has started sucking on the corners to calm and soothe herself now that she no longer has a binki. She calls them her "Giki"'s SO CUTE!!!! SO here is her with her beloved Giki!

Brooke and her Echo! I think this is such a cute picture!

Grammy was in town for the weekend a few weeks ago. I had a photo shoot in the morning and my mom was to watch Brooke for me. I needed to test my lighting so I had them pose for me and this was my FAVORITE lighting shot I go! LOVE IT!

Brooke is quite the active little one! She loves to jump and bounce and fly! She jumps off our couch onto her little homemade love sack we make with all our pillows. SO funny!

I suppose she has learned what keys are for :) Just learning from watching, I did not teach this :)

Another cute one! Proud of this!

2 things Brooke is TOTALLY in love with in 1 thing! Elmo who she calls "Yaya" and Balloons! She adores both so when we found this Balloon at the dollar store she would literally NOT let it go! She ate her entire dinner with her balloon in her other hand. SO CUTE!

Brooke also LOVES to read books! So we let her read in the car and she LOVES IT! This day Brooke had a ton of fun playing with Grandma Robinson and crashed in the car almost immediately!

Brooke has been trying to do rolls, I have been helping her complete them from this point. She cracks me up. We will be getting her in a tumbling class soon hopefully!

This picture says it all!!! I LOVE how much Kipper LOVES this little girl!

And there you have it for now! I will be better at these posts! I promise :) Well, I hope so :)
The saddest part of taking the time to Blog lately is that I feel like nobody reads my blog anymore. I hardly get any comments anymore and I don't know if I am just waisting my time by putting these things up. I do do it for myself and my journal keeping so that is what is keeping me going. I just pray I will take the time at some point to put all of these posts into a book.
Hope you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Halloween Spirit!

2010-11-01T21:17:00.000-07:00

WE LOVE OCTOBER!!!!
This month has been JAM PACKED with Halloween Fun! We have had a FABULOUS month I must say! We enjoy the Halloween weather, the decorations, movies, haunted houses, carving pumpkins, celebrations, dressing up, CANDY, well pretty much EVERYTHING about HALLOWEEN!!!!
Lets Begin with the Beginning of October :)
The Halloween celebration began with the celebration of Laurie's Birthday on October 11th! Grandma Robinson planned some super fun games for us all to play, most of them with a Halloween theme. (I will soon have a post on JUST Minute to Win It games that we have played, so those pics will come later!)
Laurie!

Kiddie Fun!

Then on October 19th Grandma Robinson threw a SUPER FUN Little Goblin Party for her Grand kids! What a wonderful Grandma she is, she even got all dressed up for the party! She had games, a little photo shoot, a pinata, an orange themed lunch, sugar cookie decorating, and more! Brooke had a great time! I think the cookies were her favorite :)
Brooke and Grandma Robinson

This is about how the photo shoot went :)

Laurie, Hailee, Jake, Me, and Brooke

Grandma and her girls

Fun, fun, fun!

The weekend of October 22-23 Grandma Carlson came up here to our place for a weekend of fun! On Friday October 22, Amanda and her kids came up and meet us at Peltzers Farm for a day at the Pumpkin Patch! We had a blast and I got A TON of pictures! Enjoy!

On Saturday while Brooke was napping my Mom and I worked on this wreath that Sue and Laurie showed me how to make. I am happy with how it turned out, I just kinda wish I had not put them so close together. Anyway this is how it turned out. My Halloween Wreath!

Then we carved our little family of Pumpkins! We are all very happy with how they turned out :)
Here is Daddy and Brookie working on her Pumpkin!

Off to the Trunk Or Treat on Friday, Oct 29th! Brookie and I dressed up this year, Daddy did not dress up. I feel bad that he is not represented, he was there tho and we love Daddy. Here is Brooke the Monkey and Mommy the Cave woman!

Halloween Eve Brooke and I drove out to Rincon Indian Reservation where Daddy got a job as a Reserve Firefighter! Daddy was on shift and they just happened to be throwing a Super Spooky Haunted House at the station for the Reservation. Brooke and I were invited to attend so we took up the opportunity! It was SO fun to see where Daddy is now working, the station is BEAUTIFUL, and each of the guys we meet were super nice! They threw quite an awesome Haunted House! Brooke and I had a great Halloween with Daddy!

Kip and I have had this spider for 4 years now! We got it our first Halloween we were married. We randomly started hiding it in places that one another would find it, first off freak each other out, but it has also become a fun way to let one another know in the middle of a day that we were being thought about and are loved! We have gotten very creative in our hiding spots I must say. I hope that this little guy NEVER gets lost and always gets found. I hope he is there on our 50th Wedding Anniversary hiding in our cake :) Here he is! I suppose he needs a name? Any ideas?

Brooke the Monkey

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Brooke is such a little Monkey in real life I thought it would be fitting to have her be one for Halloween. Little did I know how well she would pull off the look :) Love this little girl!

Back in September.....

2010-10-14T22:41:00.000-07:00

....yep still catching you up on September. Like I said, it was a very busy month! I can't believe I let myself get THIS behind but these posts are worth blogging even if they ARE a month late :)
Soon to come my Birthday Party :)
But for now we have Brooke FINALLY LOVING the Beach!!!! We have only been to the beach a few times since she has been born but each time she did not even want her little feet to touch the sand. She HATED it and just wanted me to hold her. Well NOT this time! She was a HUGE beach fan! She chased birds FOREVER and covered quite some distance, ate sand, dug in sand, splashed in the waves, and pretty much NEVER stopped moving. It was a blast to watch her soak up the beach and be our little So Cal baby girl that she is! I am so glad that Shannon and I went down to meet Diana and her little family down in Carlsbad at their campsite. On top of the super fun day at the beach we got to eat some super yummy foil dinners made by Diana and some AMAZING dutch oven peach cobbler! MMmmmm.....! Enjoy the photos!

We LOVE Halloween!!!!

2010-10-14T13:08:00.000-07:00

Sidewalk Chalk

2010-10-13T23:50:00.000-07:00

I was recently inspired to try sidewalk chalk with Brooke after viewing a friend of mine's blog. Her little son looked like he had a TOTAL BLAST playing with the chalk and ended up drawing all over himself. I thought this sounded fun and decided to set aside my anal side and just let Brooke get messy and have a blast. I was not quite sure if she would get it or not being only almost 15 months but boy was I wrong! She colored, she did a ton of KISSING the Kitty Cat, trying to eat the chalk, and just having fun outside in the fresh air! I had a blast just watching her soak it all up! She is seeming SO BIG these days, it is breaking my heart and getting me excited all at the same time :) Enjoy her art and her sweet dirty face! Thanks Brindi and Aiden for the fun idea!

$9.00 Pool = $1,000,000.00 Memories

2010-10-12T21:18:00.000-07:00

Tonight Kip and Brooke had a BLAST in our little $9.00 pool that we brought inside to deflate. It was amazing to see how many different ways the 2 of them found to play with this little pool! I was cracking up just watching them and snapping away with my little camera. Enjoy!

Brothers In Law

2010-10-09T22:41:00.000-07:00

So BACK IN SEPTEMBER because remember how I am catching you up on September??? Well we had quite a few visitors..... one of them being my little brother David. He came up to visit us for the weekend to get away from the crazy parents, JUST KIDDING, he came up just because we are SO COOL and who in the world would not want to hang out with us RIGHT???
SO I had something going on on Saturday and could not join in on the fun BUT Kip decided to take David on The Bridge To Nowhere hike and they had a blast! Being boys together they did not take a ton of photo's but they said it was a good time. I'm glad David got to bond with his SUPER COOL brother in law!
Here are a few of their shots!

This is my brother David!

And here is the bridge! I think this is the bridge that the Bachelor filmed Jake and Vienna Bungee Jumping and FALLING IN LOVE, blllaaaaaa....

This is my HANDSOME Husband!!!

This is my ALMOST as Handsome Brother!!!

Brother

Husband

On their way back to the car they were walking on the trail in the dark with head lamps lighting their way and they said that on the ground there were millions of Daddy Long Leg's all over the ground! Glad I was no there.

Back in September......

2010-10-08T20:19:00.000-07:00

On September 2, Kip and I celebrated our 4 year Wedding Anniversary!

I am so very grateful to be married to my very best friend in the entire world, to a man that knows me better than I know myself, to a man that is my better half, and the half that makes me whole, to a man that I know loves me and never doubt his loyalty to me, to an amazing father, to the most amazing man in the world!!!

What have we done with ourselves in these past 4 years of married life you ask? Well....

We Got Married For Time And All Eternity

We Bought Me a Dirtbike

We Bought A House

We Bought A Car

We Started By Raising A Tree

Then Moved On To Raising A Dog (Echo)

Naturally We Moved On To Raising a Beautiful Baby Girl (Brooke)

I Have Had 2 Knee Surgeries And Lost The Hearing In My Left Ear (well I now have 20% hearing in that ear)

We Are Still Working Together As A Team On Hurdling The Many Obstacles We Face Daily!

Of course we have done A TON more than that, but those I would say are the BIG things.
It's not a perfect life, but it's OUR LIFE and we LOVE IT!!!!!

COMING SOON....

2010-10-06T15:17:00.001-07:00

..... to the BLOG!!!!
LOTS OF PICTURES!!!
We had a SUPER BUSY month of September and I need to sit my bum down and write about it and share it with you all. So keep your eyes peeled, I PROMISE I will be updating you soon. And since I am posting this now I HAVE TO!!!!

Chitter Chatter!

2010-10-02T00:12:00.000-07:00

Our little Brooke has been doing quite a bit of talking these days! I feel like every single day she is saying something new it is CRAZY! I am going to try and remember the words she is now saying for my record. I wish I could record every single word she says because I never ever want to forget how it sounds from coming from her little baby voice. It is the SWEETEST THING!!! I have already heard her words changing and becoming more mature. It is so crazy to see her growing SO MUCH! Brooke has also started trying to sing, I noticed it today while we were driving. I sing to her each night and in the car and I guess she is a fan because she is now quite the singer. She has been singing all day long today! Ok here goes the list of her words that I can remember :)
Mama
Mommy
Daddy
Doggie
Horsey
Ut Ooh
Da Done (all done)
Set-Go!!! (for Ready-Set-Go!!!, then she takes off running)
Ba Bye
Hi
Bath
Numma Num (food)
Gink (drink)
Ginkey (blankey)
Ok
Yeah
I think she is learning NO (dang it!!!!)
Es Go (Lets Go-I swear I heard her say that today as we were pulling out of the driveway today)
Eye
Ya Ya (Elmo)
Pre Pre (she is trying to say Pretty, Pretty for Flowers or some plants)
Baaa (Ball)
Key Key (Kitty)
U C? (Do you see?)
Us Dat (Whats that?)
Airpo (Airplane)
Gra Pa (Grandpa)
GaGa (Grandma)
Beep (fire alarm, ASK KIP)
Baaaf (Bath)

We love this little girl SO STINKIN MUCH!!!!!

OCTOBER!!!!!!

2010-10-01T23:28:00.000-07:00

Happy October!!! Let's welcome the month with some BLOOD!!!!!! Brooke just decided to get her first BLOOD owwie! I am actually really impressed that she made it to 14 months old before she got her first bloody owwie, being Kip and I's kid and all!
So here is our little VAMPIRE!!!!

So how did this happen you ask?? Well I did not see it but Kip did, she was on her knee's in the kitchen and I suppose she just slammed her face into the ground?? WHY IN THE WORLD??? Hopefully she learned her lesson! She sliced open her bottom and top lip with her tooth. I had her in the bathtub for a half an hour to get the blood to stop. Silly kid! She cried for a second and then just wanted to play with the blood. CRAZY!!!

Can you guess what Brooke is going to be for Halloween??? It is one of her nicknames!

Check out the new Jammies, they are our next hint:

A MONKEY!!!!!!!
I know it is not the girliest costume but I WILL put a cute little bow or flower on her little monkey head to make it girlie! Last year Brooke looked like a Turtle so she was a Turtle and this year she ACTS like a Monkey so she will be a Monkey :) I am SO EXCITED to see her costume that I should be getting in the mail any day now :)

Tonights Sunset

2010-10-01T23:00:00.000-07:00

The sunset tonight was AMAZING!!!! I missed the double rainbow, wish I would have gotten pictures or even seen it because I hear it was a PERFECT double rainbow all the way across. But I did get some shots of part of the single rainbow. Anyway enjoy the shots! Im glad I got to see the real thing!

Can you see the UFO's I caught up in the sky?????

Just kidding, look closer, I am shooting through a window and those lights are my kitchen lights, pretty funny tho :)
LOVED THIS SUNSET!!!!!

Happy Birthaversary!!!!

2010-09-08T22:31:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday, September 2 was a BIG day for Kip and I! It was the day I celebrated my 30th Birthday and ALSO the day Kip and I celebrated our 4th Wedding Anniversary! So, I have begun to call it my Birthaversary!
I told Kip all I wanted for my birthaversary this year was a special date/adventure, just him and I! Kip and I used to have adventure trips all the time but it seems that since I tore my ACL about 3 years ago our adventure trips have been very few and far between. That has been such a big part of US and our relationship and lately we have really been missing that. SO we finally got our adventure and it was WONDERFUL!!!! The perfect Birthaversary gift, it was everything I wanted and more! Well all but for the part where we lost our way and by the time we realized it our only option was to climb straight up the very steep and slippery mountain to the trail. Did I mention the fact that we were climbing on our hands and knees up a previous rock slide with loose rocks that were so hot they were burning our hands?? O and the fact that I had a break down and cried and told Kip that I did not want to die this way and that I wanted to raise our baby girl! Yep I am drama and a whimp when it comes to heights and a slippery non safe feeling! Overall still a blast! Now that I look back the freaky part just made it more fun, tho I would NOT do that again! We also decided that we are going to do stuff like this hike SO much more often and we are most definitely going to go back to this place again!

Here are some random shots from our hike! Echo was in dog heaven!!! It was a hot day so the water felt AMAZING!!! The water really was not all that bad at all, more refreshing than anything!

Little did we know at this point what was to come, but we had fun jumping off these rocks anyway!

The smaller bigger jump! SO FUN!!!

Daddy's turn on the BIG ONE!!! This was about 10 feet high I am guessing, we could not touch the bottom of the water which was so cool!

Mommy's turn!

Echo's turn!

Taking the leap together!

Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Robinson for watching Brooke for us for the whole day so that we could do this, and for throwing me a cute little party complete with a cake and NEW running shoes and socks that were MUCH NEEDED!!! THANKS!!!

P.S. This hike is in Azusa, CA about an hour from here and it is called The Bridge to Nowhere if you want to look it up! SO FUN and not too hard! (as long as you do not get lost :))

Sarah's Trip

2010-09-01T22:52:00.001-07:00

Yep, Kip took a trip and then a few days later Brooke and I got to take a trip up to Utah (thanks to Papa Wyrick)!
Brooke was an AMAZING little traveler, I feel so blessed to have such a good little baby. I know we are not going to get this lucky with ALL our kids so we enjoy having an easy baby while we got it :) Papa Wyrick and I decided to do the drive through the night hoping that Brooke would sleep most of the time. We left at Brooke's bed time 8pm and she stayed asleep the entire trip up until about 10 minutes before we got there! LOVE HER!!!!
We started our Utah stay at my friend Janel's house! Janel and I were super close friends back in High School playing on the same basketball team, unfortunately the same position so we had to compete against one another. Thank goodness we stayed friends :) She was FAR from Mormon back then :) BUT is now more Mormon than I am :) I would like to take some of the credit for her being baptized, the great example I was and all :) She also happened to marry into a family I have been close to for years and consider family myself. I got to see lots of the family and had a BLAST sharing story's and fun times, and teaching Janel how to cook :) Pics:
I'm pretty sure Kai and Brooke liked one another, they were so cute together!

Brooke is learning to be a Ninja here!

Look at all the fun toys to play with!!!

This is what happens when you explore new heights, you fall and bruise your pretty little face!

Friday night we moved our bags into Great Grandma and Grandpa Ginos's house! WE LOVE THEM!!!! The coolest thing about Grandma and Grandpa Ginos is that they are Kip's Grandparents BUT they have known me since I was like 2 till about the age of 16. He was even my bishop! Isn't that cool??? I think so!
Brooke was WONDERFUL at her GG's house! She LOVED playing on Grandma's stair chair, watching Elmo on their super big TV, sitting on the GG's lap's, relaxing on the couch, and pushing Grandma's walker all over the kitchen. We were all super impressed that Brooke went down at her bed time every night without a peep.
I enjoyed staying up super late talking with Grandma, hearing her stories was my very favorite part of our entire trip I think! Priceless!!!

Saturday morning Papa Wyrick came and picked Brooke and I up for a morning of nature and fun! We decided to take the Alpine Loop from GG's house to Provo since that was where we were headed. I am so glad we took the pretty route! We decided to stop about half way to change a stinky diaper, let mommy relieve her waters, and snap some shots! Here are some of my favorites!

Next, off to lunch at the Macaroni Grill (Brooke was crazy here but we managed :)) Then back up the canyon to Bridal Veil Falls!

Back up the canyon even further to Vivian Park to let Brooke RUN around, MUCH NEEDED running around!!! This park was where I had my farewell bonfire when I was headed down to Cali to date Kipper :) It was fun to be back with our baby girl!

Next a trip to the mall for a cute outfit for Brooke from Papa! Thanks Papa for the fun day!
He then dropped us off at my good friend Marie's house! Marie and I meet while working at Red Robin up in Provo, we became roommates and even better friends! I adopted myself into her family and spent a good amount of time with her at her parents house who I came to LOVE!!!! It was SO much fun to visit with them all especially since we figured out it had been 8 years since I last saw them all! I wish I would have gotten a picture of us with everybody. Thanks Mama Berry for taking a picture of Marie and I!!! Marie is pregnant with her second son who she will be having the end of September. It was so fun to see her pregnant!

Sunday we went to church with Great Grandma and Grandpa, visited with a good friend named Jarod (who I forgot to get a picture with) who also happened to know Grandma and Grandpa from San Diego. Such a small world! Then my friend Shannon came and picked us up and we headed over to another friends house. Becky and I also meet at Red Robin back in the day. Becky is one of the sweetest, kind hearted, and wonderful people I have ever meet. I also have come to love her beautiful little family, including her AMAZING Mom. I can see why she is who she is after meeting her mom! Becky has my dream home with my dream backyard! It was my first time that I just let Brooke go outside and play all by herself without keeping a constant eye on her. SHE HAD A BLAST and felt SO BIG!!! She loved the in ground trampoline, the HUGE grass area, the little car to ride in, the swing set, and the cute kids to play with! Becky your family and your house ROCK!!!!

O my gosh, I have to put this picture in here! Can you believe that I walked around for I have no idea how long with this size rip in my shorts??? My friend noticed and told me as I got out of the car right after a walmart trip. Yes this really DID happen!!!! Poor me! Hope my undies were not stained :)

The next morning we were back off to home. Papa picked us up and took us to breakfast and then off to the airport. Brooke again was a wonderful little travel baby girl! THANK YOU BROOKE!!! It could not have gone any smoother! And right into Daddy's arms where we plan to stay for a while. So much time away from daddy with our trip and his, we are ready to all be together as a family again!!!

I just love this face!!!!

2010-09-01T13:18:00.000-07:00

By the way Chelsea thanks SO much for making her dress and bow you did an AMAZING JOB!!!!

Kip's Trip

2010-08-31T21:01:00.000-07:00

Can you believe it? A post about something or somebody other than Brooke :)

Kip recently took a trip up to Rexburg, Idaho to visit his brother and to check out the city. Kip and I have recently decided to pursue the idea of having him go back to school full time at BYU Idaho? We are not sure if it is what we WILL end up doing or not but Kip and I figured it would be a good idea to have him go up there and check it out before we just pick up and move to a place we have never even seen. The fact that his brother Rick is up there and has not had many visitors was another big plus in getting Kip up there for a trip.
Kip had a TOTAL BLAST!!! He LOVED Rexburg and thought it was absolutely beautiful and he says the city just has a spirit about it. He did not get a "this is the place" feeling when he was there but he did not get a feeling that is was NOT the place either. He did LOVE it, loved seeing all the GREEN, enjoyed playing in the mountains, experiencing the summer thunder and lightning storms, and just LOVING the time he had with his brother. I am so glad he got to take this trip, he needed it!
Here are some of the pictures he brought home. Now I want to get up there very soon, looks like such an amazing place! Who knows maybe we will be living there next year? We shall see???

I can not find the video from the quad ride but it looks like it was a blast!

These pictures are of a hike Kip and Rick did up to a place called Table Rock. It was a 15 mile hike total and a HUGE elevation change. Kip says it is one of the most beautiful and most difficult hikes he has ever done!

Look at the sweat marks from Rick's backpack!

I can not believe how many calories they burned!!!

Rick filtering stream water, again the sweat marks!

Here are some scenic pictures from their hike, so beautiful!

Here are a few of the other things the guys did together. Checked out Rexburg, explored an old building, went to a truck show, saw Grandpa Ginos's hot rod, went to temple square and enjoyed a really cool organ preformance in the Confrence Center.

We will see if life takes us to Rexburg? Either way I am SO GLAD Kip got to do this trip. Him and his brother have not hung out this much in a very long time! I will keep you posted on where it looks like we will end up when we figure that out :)

Little Miss Personality!

2010-08-16T22:25:00.000-07:00

O how I love this little face!!! The kid too!!! :)

A few of Brookes favorite poses! Love how this captures so many different parts of her personality!

Yesterday.....

2010-08-06T17:00:00.000-07:00

..... my husband saved a strangers life!!!!
I can not imagine what that would feel like, to know without a doubt that you saved a persons life?
I am so proud of my husband, he is such an amazing, heroic man! He is so selfless and is always looking for ways to serve others! He is a man that when he sees a situation where somebody is in need he goes and helps! He does not go on by like the majority of people, assuming that somebody else will help. He is that helper!!! I am so proud of him for being HIM!!!
I love you Kip Robinson!

Someday

2010-08-06T16:21:00.000-07:00

With my birthday quickly approaching I have been thinking of all of the things I have done in the last 30 years of my life. I seriously can't believe I have been around for 30 years, that is just crazy talk to me! I wish I could say I can't believe all of the things I have accomplished in the last 30 years. In some ways I can't believe all of the things I have done but in others, more ways, I just think of all of the things I STILL want to do! I feel like a lot of my life really began when I meet my husband. I feel like I have done and experienced SO MUCH since meeting him! It is like I found my other half and now that I am whole I can go and battle and experience the world around me. Maybe that comes with the confidence he has given me or maybe the bravery, could possibly just be the crazy that is in him that is rubbing off on me, either way he really has given me SO MUCH!!! It fits that I will also celebrate the day he and I married for time and all eternity ON my birthday :)
Anyway, I would like to make myself a list of somedays that in some ways is just fun and in other ways is very serious. Things that I hope to someday do or be or have. I used to HATE the word someday! I hated hearing that someday I will be find the person I love and that loves me back, someday I will be able to be a mother, some day I will own a house. It was so frustrating for me to have to wait for someday to happen. So much that my friend Ryan wrote Kip and I a song that he sang on our wedding day to us called "My someday is today". Now that those things are now here I look at the word in a different light. I am not in such a hurry (now that I have gotten the things I wanted MOST out of this life, being a wife and mother), I still can't wait for someday to arrive but at the same time I want to more enjoy TODAY!!! I want to enjoy that time before someday a little more and just enjoy reaching for these goals. In the last 30 years of my life I do not think I spent enough time just enjoying today. I spent so much of my single life just hating that I was single, I spent a lot of energy in Kip and I's dating life just wishing we were engaged to be married, and then I spent a year of our first 2 years married just wanting a baby. Telling myself that when I had these things I would be satisfied. That is something I would say I have learned and would just LOVE to apply to the next 30+ years of my life. Yes someday when I have all of these things I will put on my list, wow that will be great! But I really want to enjoy the journey a little more.
This list might take a few days to add to and I might have to just cut myself off at some point because I am sure it could end up FOREVER long if I let it?

Here goes,
SOMEDAY I WILL:
~be a good cook and actually do it
~have the body I strive to have
~know the scripture stories super well and feel confident in my knowledge of the gospel
~have style
~have the $ to dress in that style :)
~figure out how certain women have more hours in the day, or whatever it is they have, to get the things done that they do????
~hang stuff on my walls
~own a horse, actually 2 horses
~travel the world with my husband
~overcome my fear of heights
~overcome my newer fear of riding a dirt bike
~become the wife I have dreamed I would be and I am sure my husband has dreamed I would be as well
~do all those little things
~go on a mission with my husband
~become the photographer I dream of becoming
~have the equipment to become that photographer
~have the confidence to become that photographer too
~become a better seamstress and make lots of my kids clothing and accessories, and things for my house as well
~be that person that always has a smile on her face no matter what hardship is being faced
~be the bestest friend a friend could ask for
~get a college degree
~learn how to spell
~be that mother that has found the perfect balance of being a friend and being a parent, one that my children can know they can go to for ANYTHING and about ANYTHING but that they still want to respect and make proud.
~be more of a go getter, and just believe in myself a bit more
~read more books
~be a better member of the church and follow ALL of the things I know I need to follow
~say my prayers daily without struggle
~read my scriptures daily without struggle
~do family home evening EVERY Monday night
~figure out what I want to be when I grow up (other than a mother and wife)
~BE ON TIME!!!!!
~get a pedicure at least once a month
~have a house cleaner once a month to do all the stuff I HATE to do ie. blinds, baseboards, showers....
~go visit the church history sites
~become an artist
~be a coupon user and big $ saver
~stop saying SOMEDAY I WILL and make the things I can control happen NOW and not SOMEDAY!!!!

I am sure I will add more as things come to mind but right now that's all I got! If you in any way can help these dreams come true for me, any helpful hints or tips would be much appreciated :)
In the meantime I am going to take control of my today and enjoy it to its fullest! Or at least try to :)

Everyday Randomness

2010-07-25T22:58:00.000-07:00

Here are just some random shots from the last few weeks. We have had some seriously busy weeks as a family and life is JUST starting to slow down a little bit! It is going to be WONDERFUL to get life back in order, back on our routine, and get this house clean again! I am also going to be better at blogging once again and have a goal to catch up on Brooke's Scrap Book and get this Blog bound into a book. I have a lot to catch up on! Anyway here are some of our everyday moments!

Brooke meet your shadow, shadow meet your Brooke! This was SO FUNNY and her hair just makes it all the more perfect! This is what her hair often looks like after dinner. What a rugrat!
Doughnut War Paint

Getting some of the babyproofing done! Thanks Daddy!!!

Our little friend Madisyn had a birthday party the week before Brookes party! They had the same due date but of course Brooke was a week later :)
Here is me, Brooke, Laura, Madisyn, Mitch, and Heather!
So cute from behind, don't they look like they are both having a blast in there???
Brooke, not so much!!! She was freaked out by the whole bounce house, sad, maybe when she grows up a bit more right? Mitch is looking at her like "whats your problem girl?"

Look at this AMAZING cake that Heather made for Madisyn!!!

We have been having lots and lots of pool time lately! It is the perfect way to enjoy a hot day, get outside without spending $, get the little bug tired, and kill time before bed or naps! Brooke seems to enjoy it quite a bit which is perfect because if Brooke is happy Mommy is happy!

Look at that crazy hair!!!

Kick, kick, kick!

Splashes!

Brooke and I love our morning time! We eat breakfast and just play, play, play till our first nap. This morning she was being particularly cute! She put that necklace on herself and started walking on her knees. I wish this would let me upload the video. She was so chatty and silly this morning!

Last but not least something that makes her mama really proud! This is Brooke's new best friend her horsey!!! She says horsey now too and it melts my heart! She now says Dada, Doggy, Baby, Horsey, Ball, Bye bye, Hi, Ut O (when she drops something), tickle tickle tickle, numa num (food), bath, drink, she is starting to say push. BUT STILL NO MOMMY :( She will not even try! O' well!

O and by the way Brooke is now walking!!!! She started walking exactly a week after her Birthday AT CHURCH!!! She went from not walking to walking around the entire kitchen in a day! She has now slowed back down a bit and is taking her time deciding to walk full time but she can do it!!! I have video of it but no pictures. As soon as I get some shots they will be up! I PROMISE :)

I am catching up! Hip, hip, hooray!!!!

Our little ONE!!!!

2010-07-21T21:46:00.001-07:00

Well as much as I am shocked by it the day has come, our little girl is ONE!!! I can not even begin to say how fast time has gone by and even more than that I can not begin to describe the pure joy and happiness this little person has brought to our lives in this past year! I never ever would have even imagined you could love a person the way we love our daughter. I always knew that I would love being a mother BUT I never ever even imagined being a mother would be as wonderful and deeply emotional as it is! I am sure it helps that Brooke is the cutest, silliest, sweetest, cuddle bug in the entire world! She has been an easy baby since the moment she was OUT of me...... now the process of getting this girl out, not so easy, but once she was OUT she has been pretty darn easy!
Gosh I could go on forever about this little girl, the way she talks like no other little baby/toddler I have ever heard, the way she smiles when her daddy walks into the room, the way she provokes people to laugh, how dang smart this little kid is, the energy she has, the fact that I can totally see Kipper and I SO MUCH in her looks and personality, I can already see her since of adventure, her desire to make people happy, how social she is and the way she will constantly seek out attention. I feel like I can already get a good idea of the person she is going to become. I sometimes worry about her and how much we are going to have to watch out for her. I can not even imagine the way I will feel as a parent the day someone breaks her heart, the way I will feel when a friend betrays her, any time in life she ever gets hurt physically, gosh I just want to put her in a bubble and protect her from EVERYTHING bad! But at the same time I want her to grow and experience life and become a very strong independent woman. I am in NO hurry to see her grow up quickly. I hope these years of her as a little girl slow down, I hope they take forever, because I just love this time in life!!!
To keep this post from being FOREVER long I will stop there with my deep feelings for this perfect little girl. I am just going to leave my words by saying BROOKE has been the BIGGEST blessing in Kip and I's life! She has come at THE perfect time. She has been the source of our happiness through this very rough year of our lives. The lord knew what he was doing when he sent this little person to our family when he did. She is our little ANGEL!!!!
Here are some pictures for your pleasure. Pretty sure you are going to have a picture OVERLOAD!!!!!! Which is pretty normal for me right?

You can decide who you think Brooke looks like! These are pictures of all of us at 1 year old. I think that she is a perfect mix, the best of both of us :)

I went a little over board for her party :) I have been planning it for about 6 months :) I had a blast putting it together but decided that for ALL of our kids we are going to go over the top for only milestone birthdays 1, 5, 8, 16, 18.... the other years of course we will do something special but on a much smaller scale :) I know I could have done more but to us the day was PERFECT! We were able to spend it with a ton of the people we love! Brooke took both her naps in between both her parties, she was in a great mood, was a champ with her cake, loved the attention of people singing to her, and even opened a few presents (with help of mommy and the million other kids of course :) ). We could not have asked for a more perfect day! Here are some party pictures.
The invitation I designed!

The first party ~ family time:
Mommy and Brooke

Brooke was LOVING playing with the balloons!

Auntie Stephanie, Brooke, Grammy Carlson, and Kellen

Me and my cousin Ian!

Kenna and Hailee playing, we tell them they are cousins :) They are to me! Don't they look like it :)

I love the look on Kippers face!!! Ha this was a fun game!

Uncle Tony won the game!

Cake time!!!

Mommy and Brooke

Daddy and Brooke

Grandpa Robinson, Daddy, and Brooke

Mommy being CRAZY!

The sugar ZONE!!!

I have had ENOUGH sugar!!!

Bath Time!!

Opening gifts!

Shannon, Danielle, Auntie Amber, Callie, and Ian

Grandpa Robinson, Grandma Robinson, Jacob, and Pa Carlson

The second party~ friends time:
Gavin, Coral, Lani, and Brooke!

Brookes first Pinata!

Brooke and I avoiding the FLYING candy!

Brooke loving people singing to her!

Daddy and Mommy with Brookie

The weather finally cooled off enough to bounce in the bouncer outside with daddy!

Kip and Josh and their little ones!

Here is a slide show of the party deco: ( I know you care to watch it :) )

And a slideshow of Brooke's growth:

As you can tell we LOVE this little lady! We had a wonderful birthday party and enjoyed celebrating the first year of this wonderful little person's life! We look forward to seeing your growth this coming year little Brooke!
Happy 1st Birthday Brooke!!!!