My Sweet Ones

Last month I took Brooke and Brody to get their photos done with Nickell at Nickell Photography. She is AMAZING and always captures such gorgeous photos. Nickell took our family photos about six months ago ( they are all over my blog page ) but now that we live closer to her I figured why not do another session. These are just a few of my favorites. I should mention I have all of these in color too but I just love black and white!
Enjoy!

If you are interested visit her blog at http://www.nickellphotography.blogspot.com/

The Goldfish

Yesterday Bryan and I took Brooke and Brody to the Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days Carnival. We had such a blast!! There were games, carnival rides, food, boutiques and lots more. I really enjoyed the boutique and was really amazed at all of the handmade items that were up for grabs. I bought Brooke an adorable dress-up/pretend play fairy wings that were handmade out of sparkly fabrics. I would have died for something like that at her age and of course my girly girl was drooling over them so it was very hard not to buy it for her.
After some fun rides we played a few games and Brooke won her first goldfish!!! She was so excited, the first thing she turned and said to me while proudly holding her goldfish was "Mom! We have a pet now!" It was adorable, I was so happy to see her so excited. Brooke named her goldfish Ariel and "SHE" (according to Brooke) is in her fish bowl on the kitchen counter. I'm anticipating for poor thing to die ( don't they always) but so far so good.
Enjoy!!

Oma and Opa

This week my parents came to visit us from California. Brooke was in heaven! Oma and Opa came ready to spoil their grandchildren! We had such a fun week. Our many fun day trips included a picnic at the Heritage Park, (the park we love and enjoyed over Memorial Day weekend) a trip to Salt Lake City at Temple Square, and of course the Peppermint Place in Alpine so my mom could get her chocolate fix. :0) Brooke and my mom were able to have their own slumber party every night, and Brooke was pretty much on a sugar high everyday this week. They left this morning and of course it was hard to hold back tears. As they pulled out of our driveway Brooke was trying so hard not to cry but her little lip started to tremble and then came the tears. My heart broke for her, it was hard to hold back my tears as well. Brooke is doing better now and keeps talking about our visit to Oma and Opa's house in 2 weeks....and then every month up to December. :0)

This was my favorite picture from this week, my dad (Opa) and Brody.

Do I look like a girl?

When my Brooke was about 9 months old Bryan and I went to look at some apartments. While we were giving the leasing agent our information she said to us...
" HE is so cute! What a adorable baby BOY!"
Excuse me? Brooke was dressed head to toe in pink, and had a bright pink flower headband on rhinestone and all. I said nicely, "SHE is a girl." To which she said something about it being hard to tell at such a young age. I thought ok whatever this girl is a moron.
So today I had to run some errands and Brooke wanted to stay home. Bryan works from home so after checking in with him that it was alright, Brody and I set off to Wal-mart and Costco. While paying for our items at Wal-mart the check out girl said (with such enthusiastic expression) "Awe! SHE is SO cute! How old is SHE?"
WHAT?
Brody was wearing a blue super hero t-shirt with a lightening bolt that read "super duper" and camo cargo shorts and I spiked what little hair he has on his giant melon of a head.
I reply... "HE is a boy."
So what do you think she said next?
"Oh, he looks like a girl."
I wanted to slap her but of course I faked a laugh and a 1/2 smile and walked away reassuring my 9 month old baby boy that he does not look like a girl.

Fun Give-Away!!!

My super talented friend Melody is doing a give-away on her blog! Fun!!! Check out her super cute stuff on her blog.

http://www.lapofluxurydesignsbymelody.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!!

Brooke's First Talk in Primary

On Sunday, May 30th,

My sweet little Sunbeam gave her very first talk in Primary! It was so hard holding back my tears of joy while I stood up there helping her. She did such a great job and spoke loudly and clearly into the microphone. We are so proud of you Brooke!!

Here is her talk...

I have a baby brother, Brody, and that makes me his big sister. Brody always wants to play with me and my toys. Sometimes Brody takes my toys when I'm playing with them. I would get mad because I don't like him putting my toys in his mouth. That's gross. So I would take my toys away from him and he would cry. I didn't want to make my little brother cry but I don't want my toys yucky. My mom told me that to be a good big sister, I need to be nice to Brody. My mom asked how I feel when I take away toys from Brody and he cries. I told her that I feel sad because I love my baby brother and I don't want him to cry. Now when Brody takes one of my toys and tries to eat it, I find one of his toys and give it to him and then take my toy away. He doesn't cry because he has his toy and he gets to chew on those. Being nice to my brother makes me feel good and it makes everyone happy when he doesn't cry.

When we do something wrong, it always hurts us and often hurts others. We need to learn how to be good so we can be happy. Heavenly Father loves us. He wants us to be happy. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to make it possible for us to repent. Through His Atonement, Jesus paid the price for our sins so that we can repent and be forgiven.

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.