Happy Birthday Brooklyn!!

I cannot believe that my baby is 4 years old today. Where does time go? Some fun things about Brooklyn.

-Brooklyn IlaRee: Brooklyn is named after the Brooklyn Dodgers. IlaRee is after my grandma we lived with for 3 years before she passed away. She and Brooklyn were the best of friends and we always say that Brooklyn gave her an extra year of life.

-She is obsessed with High School Musical. She is in love with Troy (from the show) and she is Gabriella. She has full out conversations with Troy and he is her "boyfriend." I don't know how many marriages we have had for her and Troy. When we go places and people ask her what her name is, she tells them Gabriella.

-Her favorite color is PINK.

-She LOVES the Disney Princesses.

-She started preschool this year.

-She also started playing soccer this year.

-She is a GREAT big sister.

-She brings so much joy and happiness into our lives and our family.

Happy Birthday sweetheart we love you so much!

I was tagged!

I'm "it" and here it is...this is about my husband.



What is is name? Sean



How long have you been together? We met in 1997 at a Stake Youth Conference. So this July it will be 11 years.



How long did you date? We had the typical High School relationship- on-again- off-again. Then broke up the summer after our Senior Year. He then went down to Snow College for a year. We started "hanging" out again and became best friends, got serious, and then he left for his mission. He got home in October 2001 and we got married in December 2001.



How old is he? 27



Who eats more? This is a tough one because I can eat quite a bit, but he probably does.



Who said "I love you first"? He did. We were at his parents house watching a movie and out of the blue he said, "I'm falling in love with you." I was shocked and said, "What?" And he said, "I love you." I was so shocked I didn't say anything back.



Who is taller? He is.



Who is smarter? Although I tease him that I graduated first- and he graduated Cum Laude- I would say that we are pretty equal.



Who does the laundry? ME! I am pretty picky about how the laundry is done and so I do it. Every so often he will do a load of HIS clothes, but he doesn't touch mine.



Who does the dishes? Again- miss picky pants does not appreciate the way Sean does the dishes so I do them. We don't have a dish washer and I like them washed a certain way.


Who pays the bills? Autopay- but Sean makes sure everything is correct.


Who mows the lawn? Usually it is him, but I do on occasion.


Who cooks dinner? We both do. He works mostly nights so isn't home a lot for dinner. In the summer he likes to grill things.


Who drives when you are together? Mostly him- but sometimes me.


Who is more stubborn? This is a tough one because we are BOTH very stubborn. I think that I might be a little more though.

Who kissed who first? He kissed me first.


Who asked who out first? With the help of our friend "Big Rach" Sean asked me.


Who proposed? He did- my sister had to remind him that I was having my bridals done and might want to have my ring for the pictures. So he pulled together a great proposal.


Who has more siblings? He does with 4- I have 3.


Who wears the pants in the family? I would say we are an even match. I don't know if Sean would agree.


Now I am tagging Kara and Rachel

Janalee, Soccer, and Pops

What a day yesterday was!! I apologize now that this post is so long, but most days I don't have any activities planned- not yesterday. About 2 months ago my cousin Janalee (from the same family that experienced the car wreck- when it rains it pours) was having some pains in her neck and had an MRI done, nothing was found in her neck, but by some chance find they found a growth on her Thyroid. To make a long story short, she found out she had cancer. She is not even 30 years old! She planned the surgery to be on the 15th the day after they got home from Mexico. So, yesterday was her big surgery day. The doctors took the Thyroid out and a couple lymph nodes that the cancer had spread to. My sister and I decided to load up the kids and head to Ogden (where she had the surgery) to see her. I might add that the kids did surprisingly well. She got through the surgery well, came home today, and is now on the road to recovery. We know that is was by divine guidance that the cancer was found. Jan we are praying for you and love you so much!!!

Jan and Gracie

After seeing Jan, we rushed home for Brooklyn's first soccer practice. What a joke this turned out to be. My cousin Lacey's daughter Rylee is also on the team and as luck would go I answered the phone one night and was asked to be the coach. You can see by the pictures how well Brooklyn and Rylee did at practice. Brooklyn bawled like a baby the whole time and they both said they were so tired. To make matters worse, I hadn't grabbed my gym shoes and was wearing my UGGS and the floor was VERY slippery. I go chasing after a ball start to fall and tried to catch myself, but the floor was so slippery I fell right on BUTT! Yes, I wanted to die. I would say there were close to 100 parents there and there I am on my behind. Nat was sitting by a guy who burst out laughing and said, "the coach just biffed it!" I went straight to Lacey and hung on her and we laughed our heads off. I think I will definately be in the running for coach of the year. At the end of the night Brooklyn informed me she wanted Pops to be her coach. She has practice again tomorrow- so wish me well.

Brooklyn and Rylee "playing" soccer

The picture says it all- Rylee, Brooklyn, and my dad

It just so happened that it was also my dad's birthday, so we ended the day with dinner at Iggy's. When Brooklyn was little she started calling my dad "papa" and then shortened it to "pops" and that is was she has called him ever since. I would say that I am the typical "daddy's little girl." I am so lucky to have such a great dad! Thank you dad for all you do for us and for being you! We love you so much! Happy Birthday Pops!!

Pops and Gracie

Pops and Brooklyn
Pops and Garrett

Our miracle

This past weekend my family experienced a miracle. My aunt Paula (who is like my second mom) and her family were coming home from a trip to Mexico. They had two different cars that they were driving in. My uncle Ric and cousins Kami and Marijka were driving the truck pulling the trailer and then in the van were Paula, Jan, Karen, my brother Brett, and his wife Chelsea (whose car had broken down in southern Utah and these guys picked them up. When the van stopped to get Brett and Chelsea the truck kept going because it went slower. They were driving along and saw a huge cloud of dust and as they got closer they saw that there had been a wreck- then they noticed the red truck, and then the trailer. This is what they saw-

My uncle felt the trailer start to sway back and forth and tried to get control of it and couldn't and they rolled 3 times. The passenger side where Kami was took the worst of it. Luckily, Kami was laying down. If she hadn't been laying down she most likely wouldn't have made it. The first 3 people on the scene were a doctor, a nurse, and an EMT. Intially they thought that Kami's legs had been amputated and called for Life Flight. Once they realized they were okay they called it off. The doctor came up to my uncle and told him that she had to have had an angel on her lap. Her knees were up on the dashboard so when the truck rolled they figure they went through the windshield. They were cut clear to the bone and required 3 layers of stitches. They were in a small hospital in Fillmore and she had 2 doctors attending to her and it took them almost 2 hours to clean them up and get stitched. Ric and Marijka walked away feeling sore. We all know that they were watched over and I am so thankful that they are with us today. I love you guys!!

My family

So I was sick of seeing the Kansas logo every time I get on my blog- so I sat down to make a slide show of my favorite thing to look at- mt family. Over 100 pictures later I finished. Looking through all the pictures brought back so many fun memories.

Thank you Kansas

Every year since Sean and I have been married we have filled out brackets for the NCAA Tournament and whoever wins gets to pick something they want. In the 6 years we have been doing this I have never won- that is until this year. I picked Kansas and Memphis as the final two teams and then I picked Kansas to win the whole thing- and they did!! Sorry Rach- I didn't have BYU going out of the first round. (I do not follow college basketball so it really is just luck.) Sean and I are both very competitive people so when I picked Kansas he gave me all sorts of crap about it. As part of my competitive side I have to rub it in his face a little bit :) I haven't picked what I want yet- but it will be good.

Thanks to Melissa for sending me tips to get this blog going.

I finally did it ...

I finally have a blog! I must confess that about 2 months ago I didn't even know what a blog was. Sad to say until about a month ago I didn't even know how to find our pictures on the computer. Sean always makes fun of me saying, "you have a college degree and don't know how to run a computer?" My degree (in my defense) is in Family Finance not Computer Science. Once I finally got introduced to some of my friends blogs, I have really enjoyed looking at them and have had several friends tell me I needed to get one- so here it is. To my friends that sent me links to their blogs and I never posted a comment- I am sorry- I just didn't know what I was doing.