Hey everyone, I had to share Brooklyn's funny new 'quirk' she's got going on. When she gets her bath (either morning or night, since she gets 2 a day) no matter what I get her dressed in be it clothes for the day or jammies for bed, she will climb the stairs, run to her room and proceed to bring me every nightgown she owns until I give in and put one on her! she will just sit and claw at her clothes and cry until she gets her way. Most of the time if we're home I don't really care too much, but I've actually had to put them over her clothes to ride in the car somewhere just so she won't scream the whole way. A couple weeks ago Trent made the mistake of thinking she looked silly and took the nightgown off and she buried her head in a blanket and cried for 5 minutes until he realized he should put it back on. She has definitely come into her own personality in the last little bit, but she's just so darn cute that we just laugh and roll with it!

Braggin' On Trent!

Okay, so this weekend me, Heather, Nina and Debbie went up to Park City for a girls trip! We had so much fun! We went shopping, to dinner and a movie and stayed up all night talking, but the best part was that when I got home on Sunday Trent had cleaned the whole house and the kids were being great! That is the best thing to come home to when your husband surprises you and does stuff you don't ask him to do. I just had to let y'all know so that when I complain about him next that he does have redeeming qualities!! :)

Okay, so a while ago Bonnie told me how much Jaxon loves Andrei Kirilenko, so I thought it would be appropriate to share my undying love for Kyle Korver!! Trent already gave me a 'free pass' on him so I'm covered, but I seriously never even watched basketball until New Year's Eve 2007 when Korver debuted for the Jazz, and now I am like one of those crazy lady Jazz fans all of a sudden! Anyways, just thought I'd let you all know that little piece of information! ;)

It's About Time Lazy Bum!

So Brooklyn is just about 15 months old now, and FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY on Easter she quit crawling! She has been taking steps and attempting to walk for a long time now, but she finally just let got and took off. We were so excited that she was finally doing it, and then I thought to myself, why in the world was I so eager for her to become even more mobile! She's already into everything within reach, but now we will have to totally start watching every little thing she does. Anyways, we're proud of you Boo Boo!

Brooklyn's Big Day

So we got Brooklyn's surgery all scheduled and confirmed today and it's going to be on Friday, May 2. We won't know what time until the day before (mine and Trent's anniversary) because they finalize OR schedules 24 hours at a time so that the most time consuming and critical ones can be accomidated. We'll keep everyone posted on how she's doing and we'll call and text when she's out and in recovery and all that good stuff. Wish us luck and keep her in your prayers please!

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired!!

Hello there everyone. I need to whine here for a minute okay. I HATE being sick!!! I came down with like the worst multi-symptom yuck that I've had in the longest time this last week. I usually get like 'half sick' where for a few weeks you just can feel something brewing but nothing major really ever comes from it. Well I think it was all brewing for this round. I think every cold, flu, sinus infection, you name it finally teamed up to kick my butt and it totally had to be while Trent was out of town! He feels bad (yeah, right! I'd be cheering if I 'happened' to be gone when he was sick!) but there seriously is nothing worse than feeling like crap and just knowing that you are going to pass it on to your kids. What else can you do? I don't think it'd go over to well if I just didn't pick up Brroklyn to change her or feed her for a few days, but Libbie and Corbin definitley came to my rescue to be my helpers! I feel a TON better today than yesterday when I wanted to roll over and die, but my mom, bless her heart, skipped church to come over and help with the kids for a while and she cleaned my house for me too! Well I'm done venting, but I had to do it here, I have no voice and there's no telling when it'll come back! I don't care though, I've found that without the ability to scream and yell at everything, I'm probably alot more pleasant to be around! :)

Update for Brooklyn

Well we're back from our appt. at Primary's and I just thought I'd update everyone on her. Her reflux is about the same now as it was at this time last year, which means urine is backflowing into her kidneys just as much as it was when she was first diagnosed. She'll more than likely have surgery to correct the problems and to prevent long-term damage to her kidneys sometime between now and May. The doctors say it is a fairly easy surgery as far as surgeries are concerned, just the usual risks associated with all surgeries, but the good news is there's a 99% success rate after the procedure. Thanks for all of your prayers and concern and we'll keep you posted when we get her all scheduled and ready to go!