Update!

I know it has been almost a month since I have done a post. It was actually kind of nice to take a little break. I wish it was a break of just relaxing but my break made it possible to stay some what sane through the past couple of weeks. I will have to post more pictures later. On the vacation my camera wouldn't charge so I have few pictures and for the other events I couldn't find my camera due to our move and things being scattered all over the place between two houses. Maybe some of my family and friends will be so kind to send me some of the pictures they took.:)

Mid May we went as a family with three other families to Vegas for a family vacation. We enjoyed the pool, aquarium at Mandalay Bay, and the Adventure Dome at Circus Circus which was the highlight of the vacation! We enjoyed good food and good friends. It was a fun vacation since that was going to be our only one for this summer since I am getting bigger by the minute.

Here is Ethan and one of our friends at the entrance to the aquarium.

Pic. of the jelly fish, gross.

Ethan showing every one up on a game at Circus Circus. He got the highest score winning Brookie the biggest prize.


Kylie doing the bumper cars. I think she and all the other kids only made it one time around the track. Driving is harder than it looks.


Kylie going her second time on the big roller coaster at Circus Circus and Matt being nice enough to take her again.


The next week Tay Tay had her 9th Birthday! We enjoyed a family party of swimming, eating pizza,cake and ice cream, and Tayler's favorite, opening presents! Tayler is growing up so fast and when I ask her to slow down she just laughs and gives me a your crazy look. She brings so much happiness to our lives and we love her soooo MUCH!!!

Swimming on her birthday, Tay Tay's favorite thing to do.

The last you heard from me Brookie had broke her foot and we were moving. Her broken foot postponed our move a week, but life continued to truck on. Brookie got her hot pink cast on and that did not hold her back. Within a couple of days she was walking, running and jumping with her cast on. She would call her cast "The big pink sock." She was darling in it and such a good sport, I actually think she liked all the attention she got, as if she lacked that from others anyways. I ordered a waterproof cover so that we could bathe her and let her swim. Well showers worked great and then we tried swimming and you guessed it. The cast was soaked and better yet just before I changed her out of her little swimmer she peed down her leg and right into her cast. I know, gross and nothing I could do to clean the urine out of the cast. So a call was placed to the doctor and we went in the next day. The cast was removed and they did an x-ray to find that enough of her bone had started to heal that the cast could come off. She now has to wear tennis shoes with good support and we are not to let her run or jump on her foot for three weeks because she is at a high risk of breaking her foot again. Ummm, they obviously do not know my Brookie. I explained her little vibrant personality to them and they just repeated the same directions. We left the office and headed right to the store to get her some shoes other than flip flops and guess what! She was running through the store. Seriously, not good. For the most part she is doing great and we are on our way to healing and keeping our fingers crossed. Brookie is just happy that she gets to swim. She tells me all day long that "Mama, I lika to swim!!!" :) So cute!

Brookie just before she got her Big Pink Sock cut off!

We are finally moved in. It took us forever, a whole weekend- actually longer because there were other days that we had to go back and get other things, mostly my husbands stuff for his construction business, but were are done traveling back and forth. The house is starting to look more like a home rather than a bomb. Moving nine months pregnant nearly killed me. By the afternoon I could barely walk and I don't know how I didn't end up in labor or with a broken back. I'm just glad it is done. I like things clean so I have been impatient with how fast things are being put away, so I know I bring a lot of the pain on myself. A clean home is important to me. We like our home, neighbors that we have met, and we have been to our new ward once and they made us feel very welcome. I have to say that I have not shed one tear over our other home nor have I missed it. The last day I was there I cleaned up Kamber's room and felt nothing. I didn't feel her presence there at all. I worried that I would feel like I was leaving her behind and all our memories, but the spirit of our family was already gone from that home. Kamber's presence has carried with us to the new home and I have felt peace with the move. There are some people that have expressed their sadness about our moving from that home, but please no sadness. It is just a home, yes it is beautiful, but there are so many sad memories there and we pray that this move is good for our family and we have faith that things work out for a reason. So goodbye home that brought us happiness, good times, horrible times, and growth we never thought would happen. It was an experience of a life time!

Since our move my dear family and friends threw me an amazing baby shower. It was beautiful and had yummy food and great company! I was in shock when I walked in and saw all the hard work that was put forth on my behalf. There are not any words to express my gratitude towards all those that helped and came to support me. I received lots of darling gifts for my little boy. It is still crazy to think that I am going to have a baby boy. Deep down I was really starting to think that a boy wasn't in the cards for our family. Looking back now I can't think of a better time for a boy to come. Heavenly Father truly knows what is best and when we have patience he can work his miracles.

After all this craziness my body finally gave up and I got sick for a couple days but now I am back trucking along through life trying to endure this HEAT like the rest of you. I look forward to reading your posts and catching up on everyones life once again. ;)

Oh, Dear!

What do you get when you are moving, pregnant, trying to set up a charity, going to baby showers, and your little one just broke their leg? You get one crazy MAMA! I have many posts I want to do, but since our stuff is scattered all over the place I am having a hard time finding my cameras for pictures for our Vegas trip, Tayler's B-day, and memorial day. I do have my nifty phone on me so I can upload pictures I take with it. I will have a lot of updating to do when we get settled in our new home.

So, like I said we have been taking our time moving our things to our new home, but we had decided that this weekend was the time to get our booties into gear and get- r- done. Yesterday was overwhelming for me. I have a lot on my plate right now and I could feel it's weight on my shoulders. I let myself have a break down and then I felt much better, ready to accomplish some things. Later yesterday evening Ethan had just arrived home to get a phone call about something at someones home and he needed to leave again to fix the problem. He wasn't happy about having to leave just after arriving home since he had been up since 4 a.m., but sometimes that is how it goes when you own your own business. He left and I had a couple things still left to do. Brookie was running around the house as usual playing when all of a sudden I heard a crack and her screaming. She was right outside the office where I was and I saw her screaming on the ground holding her foot. I had never heard a cry like this one come from her. We always say she is as tuff as nails because she will run into things all the time and bounce back up not to even skip a step. I knew she had probably broke something.

I picked her up and held her trying not to cry myself knowing she was in a lot of pain and I couldn't do anything about it. You moms know how this feels, it is a sick feeling deep down in your stomach. I called Ethan and he thank goodness was on his way home. I tried to see if she would walk and she wouldn't put any pressure on her right foot. She would cry for me not to put her down to walk. Next thing I noticed the top of her foot started swelling. So Ethan arrived and off to urgent care we went. The same one that we were at last week and the week before that with Kylie's battery situation. Ethan made the comment that hopefully they don't call CPS on us since we have been down there so often. Brookie got her x-rays and yes her foot is broken and she will have to have a cast on just in time for summer and swimming, which see loves by the way. YEAH!!! She is adjusting to her splint fairly well and soon will have the hard cast on. I actually found a place that has vacum seal covers to go over casts so people can swim. There has been nothing but 100 percent positive reviews about this product so it sounds like Brookie will be able to swim after all.

Life seems to get crazier and crazier around here. I am to the point that it almost makes me laugh. What a crazy time, sometimes when it rains it pours. We can take it, things could be alot worse.