Brooklyn! Six months!

Time has been flying by it seems and Brooklyn is growing so big! We had a doctors appointment on monday and here are her six month stats!

 Height: 25.5 in             39%

 Weights: 16.69 lbs       63%

 HC:  17.5 in                93%

 

Brooklyn like all of our kids loves to stand and laying is no longer enjoyable 

so we pulled out the walker and she has been scooting around the kitchen

  

 She is such a good sport about everything! 

The boys do everything to her, poke her, scare her, scream happily at her but she doesn't seem to mind as much as i thought she would! She really is growing to love the boys and there craziness!

 

 I still nurse, but i have recently been out of the house more often and unable to feed her so Brandon gives her formula and she doesnt seem to mind at all which is so nice.

 She even has started holding her own bottles which is wonderful!

 

The problem with the fact that Brooklyn likes to stand she really doesnt enjoy sitting she can as you can see 

 but she wants to stand so bad that once she starts sitting she will fling her legs out in attempt to stand and as you can imagine it doesnt turn out well :)

 

She is such a happy little girl, but she is getting a small case of stranger anxiety which i hate!!!

 

I just got released as the 1st councilor in the young womens presidency and they put me in as the laurel class advisor and all of the girls are super excited to have brooklyn in class so hopefully she gets us to the girls quick :/

 She loves grabbing at things right now cameras, peoples faces, food, cell phones, but she is not quite good enough to hold them for more then a few seconds.

 These are the pictures that i look at and i have a hard time telling kids a part, she looks so much like Hayden to me!

 They both have the same big eyes round head and smile!

 The boys we started on rice cereal as soon as they turned four months and they loved it!!!

 

I just expected that she would be the same but she really didnt seem to like it she actaully started crying because she did not want me to feed her any more :( 

 

i guess we will wait to try again?

 This is my favorite thing about brooklyn her smile! Well, i am not quite sure if you can call it a smile but that is what she is doing! 

When she gets really excited and happy she opens her mouth as big as she can and i love it! She is my adorable little girl!

Brandons 28th Birthday

This year was an interesting birthday for Brandon :) He really wanted a hydration belt (he sweats so much that long distance running is getting dangerous without him drinking!), new shoes, and there was a relay race that he was wanting to run. So being the wonderful wife i am i go him i hydration belt and let him run in the Ruby Mountain Relay! Well the relay was the weekend before his birthday and he need the hydration belt to run! He also got new shoes from his parents so they gave them to him early so he could use them in the race so the day of his birthday was kind of sad since he already had opened all of his present. I decided to make him a cookie dough ice cream cake so we had that to eat but other then that it was a uneventful birthday! 

 Every birthday they boys insist that use the Lightening Mcqueen candles and we only have five so that is what we used!

Brandon's relay was the weekend before but we don't have any pictures from it! It lasted 24hrs and they had 7 runners that each did about 20 miles! Brandon (and our children) sadly came down with hand-foot-mouth disease the day before the race so he has a hard time running more then 16 miles because of the sores on his feet :( but other then that he had a great time!

July 24th, Pioneer Day!

This year both Coleton and I were in the pioneer day parade! I rode Rose with Hanna and her family and Coleton rode on the wards float as a builder since this years theme is Builders of the Nation!

This picture of me is quite ridiculous but we were going so quick because the horse were excited that Brandon and his family didn't have a chance to get any more pictures :)

Fourth of July!

Like every year, we headed to the parade!

We had a great time and got lots of treats! Later that night, we went to a BBQ with the Bells, Humphries, Princes, and a few other families we didnt know but we had a great time! :) This year the fire works were canceled because of fire danger but hopefully for the 24th we will get some fireworks! Happy Fourth!

Whats are we are up too?

I figured we would just let everyone know what we were up to?? Brooklyn is now four months old so we took some pictures of her..

Hayden is our little dare devil. The other morning coleton came running in to our room yelling 'Mommy, Haydens in trouble come help!!" And this is how we found him! He had seen a cat climb up the rocks and he really wanted to play with it so he chased it! Well he never caught up with it but did get him self pretty high up! You would think that this little guy would be scared but no! When we came out he was standing up, peanut butter jar and spoon in his hand and not holding on to anything and said "i stuck"

He was higher then Brandon could reach so Brandon tried to climb up to get him down but Hayden continued to claim he didnt need help getting down so Hayden just climbed down like it was no big deal! He hardly seemed to care how very dangerous it was and has done it three times since then and we are very nervous! For him, he "just wanted to pet the kitty"

Here is Brooklyn in her bounce-a-roo toy that we got and she loves it though the boys actually love it more :)

In these pictures you can kind of see some hair growing! Yay! It still is pretty sparse but its coming along! Other then that we are doing pretty good right now! Brandon has offically signed up for the St. George Marathon so he has been training pretty hard and with the high temps here it has been quite the struggle! We are hitting 100s each day and there is not much shade though he is enjoying hiking in Zions National Park in the mornings. Coleton is quite the chatty kid lately. He loves to tell you about his day, and loves if you will sit and watch a show with him. He loves the super heros right now and constantly talks about all of his "friends" pretty much meaning anyone he plays with! For me i am just enjoying the last couple of months in the Young Womens presidency we have been told we are being released after youth conference next month since they have been in for over three years so i am just enjoying it while it last!

(Top left: Sheri landt, bailey Bearmann, Kayla Larsen, Kenzie Beardall, Maquel cox, Cameron Watts, Katie Levitt, Denise Parker, Tahya Jensen,  Talia Wilcock, Brooklyn and I) (Middle left: Liz dansie, Heather Rowley, Sara Jones, Krista Hess, Amy Ballard) (Bottom Left: Leann Parker, Sierra Rowley, Valeria Ashmore (laying down), Jennie Humphries, Aubrey Larsen, Madison Branch, Aspen Langston, Ashlyn Murphy, Julie Nelson). 

I was able to spend a few days up at girls camp which is my favorite thing to do. I was able to go for two days of the four and i was able to bring brooklyn since she is nursing and not mobile yet! I was nervous to have her since she was not quite four months yet in a hot camp ground with alot of girls and noise to sleep in a tent. Though i was nervous she did amazing!!! She loved being around all of the girls and they passed her around all day. I took her when she needed to eat and sleep (she slept in the carrier) and was happy and cooing the WHOLE time and i really am not kidding she actually slept the whole night with out a peep as us leaders laughed and giggled till 2-3am! We really had a great time! I was able to find babysitters and the boys had a great time with Brandon while i was gone!

Brooklyn got the youngest camper award at camp (though there was a eleven week old in another camp) and the girls used her as there little mascot but i am really glad i had a chance to go! Other than that we are just making it day by day and loving it!