I am alive.

April 20, 2009

I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve posted. I’ve had good intentions but the last month has been a bit overwhelming with lots going on. At some points over the past few weeks I have felt like a boulder was sitting on me, a physical stress reaction to everything I had going on! I […]

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Happy Easter!

April 11, 2009

I loved General Conference. I was so inspired and touched by the words spoken. Elder Holland’s powerful message was one of hope and comfort and the true reason why we celebrate Easter. I am so grateful to know that the tomb was empty….Christ lives! And because of this, we are never alone. I love my […]

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GG Digital Designs Birthday Giveaways!!

April 3, 2009

GG Digital Designs turns TWO this month, so we are doing a birthday celebration “blog train” with lots of cute free stuff from the creative team! So welcome to my “stop” on the train. 🙂 All of our “party favors” were created using the brand new “Celebrate” digital scrapbooking kit at GG Digital Designs. I […]

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Happy First Birthday, Haylie!

April 1, 2009

Our sweet baby turns ONE today! WOW!! What a wonderful year it has been with our Haylie Belle. The Birthday Girl in her birthday dress. 🙂 I could not imagine our family without this sweetie. Every day Jaden and I look at each other and say “SHE IS SO CUTE!” We adore her (still toothless) […]

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Neato Web Findings!

March 25, 2009

Here are a few links that I wanted to share on my blog today. I’ll probably do this every so often to share some of my findings and stuff I like. This is what I pulled together this fine freezing cold snow-ish March morning.Digital Scrapbooking A Charity Collaboration Kit–in honor of my sweet friend Amy’s […]

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Happy 6th Birthday, Brandon!

March 19, 2009

Someone in our house turned 6 today. It’s BRANDON! Brandon was born on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 5:27 am, weighing 6 pounds 7 ounces and measuring 21 inches long. Here is more of his birth story: http://brookie-wookie.blogspot.com/2008/03/happy-birthday-brandon.html This is the day I became a mother, something I had wished for and dreamt about since […]

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Happy Lucky/Green/St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2009

Today was such a delightful day! It’s amazing how happy the warm weather makes me. 🙂 This is my first daffodil of this spring. It looks so cheerful in my front yard and I love it. I can’t wait for the rest of them to bloom and for the red tulips to follow. Today we […]

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Annie’s Pinkalicious Party

March 16, 2009

Now that we are FINALLY feeling better at our house, I’m going to try to get more caught-up on blogging. So today we are going WAY back to November 2008, when Annie turned 3! I asked her what kind of party she wanted to have, and she just said, “pink.” So we decided to have […]

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Fever, cough, and general malaise

March 8, 2009

That describes our house the past several days. I like the phrase “general malaise,” I learned in nursing school that you can use it in so many situations. 🙂 Anyway, we’ve had a little wave of sickness pass through our family this past week. It started out with Annie, with a fever Monday all day […]

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Haylie=Sassy Baby contest winner!!

March 2, 2009

I’m just getting around to posting this but we are SO EXCITED!! In January I submitted this photo in a baby contest for a darling store called Sassy Baby in conjunction with Highlite Photography. I was definitely not planning on winning and almost didn’t even enter the contest. But I sent in the photo and […]

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