Sophie Giggles

I will be posting pictures of Christmas shortly, but in the mean time, here is a little video of Sophie giggling.  I wish my voice wasn't so loud so you could hear her better but it's still cute.  Love this girl!

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Such a Blessing

We blessed Sophie this past Sunday and it was such a neat day.  The blessing was very sweet, she had lots of supportive family, she looked darling and she was an angel all through Sacrement meeting.  Grandma Lisa bought her beautiful dress and Mimi made her adorable headband.  What a lucky girl to have such great grandmas!

After everyone left she got in her comfy cozy's and relaxed for a while with dad.  She would have put a bow in her hair had she known I was going to take a picture.  Sorry Soph. 
We love this sweetest girl ever!!

Choo Choo! Look who turned TWO!

We went up to "This is the Place" park and rode the train.  It was the middle of the day in the middle of the week so of course we were the only ones there.  Brock loved the train so much.  He cried when we left...for several minutes.

Look at that smile.  Pure bliss.





One of Grandma Lisa's famous creations.  She made a Thomas cake for Brock, he LOVED it.  We had a train party for him that night for all of our family it was a lot of fun!

Yes we got him a train.  From the moment he wakes up in the morning until he goes to bed at night- all he wants to do is play with his Thomas train, watch his Thomas dvds, read his Thomas stories, color in his Thomas coloring book, sing songs about Thomas or talk about Thomas.  The kid is obsessed.

 Brock had all of his grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins there except for the Blacks who were only there in spirit. :)  Everyone spoiled him to death he seriously doesn't need anything for Christmas now.  It's just as well because now that he's two all he's getting is a lump of coal anyway.  JK we love this kid so much, he is the light of our lives.  He seriously makes our home such a happy place, I can't imagine life without him and wonder how boring it must of been before he came along.  He talks so well and says some pretty cute things, I'll just list a few:

• "Hi mommy, what are you doing up here?" (he just says that randomly)
• "Yeah, sure, ok, alriiiight!" (when asked if he wants something..or if he asks for something he'll answer for us)
• "Thank you mommy, you're welcome" (when he gets what he wants)
• "Where'd Sopie go?" (everytime I put her down for a nap)
• "Papa fix it train!!" ( he used to say this 50 times a day before we bought him his train because my parents have a train at their house that was broken and my dad fixed it...and apparantly that was the most amazing thing EVER)

He says a million other things in a day but those are the ones that he repeats the most.  I wish I had room and time to write every funny thing he says but I'll just share a recent one:
Yesterday we were all driving in the car and Luke and I were in the front seat talking when I hear Brock in the back seat do a dramatic smelling sniff and then in a sighing voice say "Strawberries".  Haha!!  At the end of Toy Story 3 the garbage man picks up a stuffed animal and does that.  So funny.  We love you crazo mano!!

Halloweeeen!

We loooove Halloween at our house!  This year Luke and I dressed up as Adam and Eve, with Brock and Sophie as our Lion and Lamb.  The day before Halloween we went trick or treating at Luke's work and his team loved the kids and wanted to hold them and get pictures with them.  It was so fun!  We didn't get to trick or treat around our neighborhood like we wanted because of the rain, but I was able to take the kids to the Trunk or Treat at Dicks market in the afternoon which was fun.  Can't wait til next year!

 I had to take a picture of Sophie in her cute halloween outfit from Grandma Great.  Isn't she just the sweetest?  We love our little Sopher. :)

 Brock saw me taking a picture of her and said "Brock hold it tiny baby Sopie?"  He is such a sweet big brother.  He is actually wearing his "coolest big brother" shirt from Grandma Lisa in this pic. :)

Thanks for reading!  Love you all!

Introducing Sophie Claire!!

Sweet Sophie is here!  She was born October 5th at 1:56 pm, weighing 6 lbs 15 oz and 20 1/2 inches!  She came two days before her due date and I went into labor on my own!  woohoo!!  I went into labor at about 5am on the 5th and we got to the hospital around 9am...5 hours later look who we got to meet!

 This is my midwife, Machel Knowles.  She was amazing, I seriously would recommend her to anyone.  She was so great and I will definitely be keeping her around!

 Sophie is the sweetest little thing EVER!  She is sleeping through the night and has been since she was 2 days old {knock on wood}!  She is quite the little eater and has already gained almost an entire pound in her first 2 weeks of life...her pediatrician hopes she won't continue at this rate...so do I. :)

Seriously how sweet is she?!  I know I am her mom, but you have to admit she is cute!  We are so in love with her and Brock is such a good big brother to his "baby Sopie".  I have tons of other pictures that I tried posting, but my computer hates me today.  Hopefully I can post some more soon!

Welcome Little Sophie!  We love you!!!

About to POP!!

38 weeks

Ok so I didn't think that I would have anything to post about until Sophie was born, but my mom and sisters surprised me with a baby shower on Saturday and it was the cutest shower ever...so I had to post some pics! The theme for the shower was "She's about to POP!" and they had everything pop related. Popcorn, Soda Pop, Lollipops, Ring Pops, Pop Rocks and little signs everywhere that said "Pop on over Sophie!" It was so cute! They made chicken croissant sandwiches, fruit salad, strawberry shortcake trifles, and brownies a la mode (my fav) for dessert. I got some super cute gifts and we all had a fun time. I sure love my marm and sisters...aren't they the BEST?!! Sophie will have a lot of wonderful women to emulate all around her. I also want to thank my mother in law and sisters in law for all of the adorable things they've gotten for her and the huge help they've been in helping me get ready. I am so lucky!! Here are some pics from the shower!The diaper cake was covered in a blanket and burp cloths that my mom hand crocheted the edges on...so cute!My little brother Grant helped my mom design all the cute signs, doesn't it look profesh?

So long sweet summer!

We've had such a busy and fun summer, I can't believe it's over. I am a huge lover of fall though and I am excited for the cool weather and crunchy leaves...well, and there might be a certain little girl that we're all slightly anxious to meet. :) Hopefully the next time I post it will be about the arrival of "Sopie" as Brock calls her. I am grateful to know that she will be so loved by all of the family she'll have around her. I'm always blown away by the amount of love my family shows to Brock and how excited they get every time they get to see him...which is several times a week. His uncles Guy and Granty are the ones who made him the train he's wearing in the picture. It's a nice feeling to know that while I'm in the hospital with Sophie that Brock will be in good hands with people that love and adore him almost as much as Luke and I do. We have the best families on the planet and we are so grateful for all the love and support we are shown. We love you all right back!! Oh yeah, and just so those who are interested can plan ahead, we'll probably be blessing Sophie the first Sunday in November if everything goes as planned. More details to come on that of course. Love to all!!

There's only ONE...

There's only ONE Lagoon and Labor Day comes but once a year, so Luke's parents treated us all to a little "Goodbye Summer" fun at Lagoon! The kids all had a blast and it was so fun for us parents to watch the looks on their faces as they rode all the rides. Some of the non-preggies (aka the men) went on some rides too, but it was mostly a day for the kids. Here's a little preview of some of the fun...Izzy took Brock on his first Lagoon ride, the boats :) Warning: I don't think Brock is looking at the camera or smiling in any of these pictures, but trust me, he was loving it.

Riding on the "dinosaur way up high" as he called it. This ride was fast and Luke and I were a little nervous letting him go on it to be honest. Luke jokingly turned to me and said "How am I ever going to let him play football?"

Luke felt the need to waste a little money winning some prizes for the kids. Good job babe, Brock loves his giant blow-up baseball bat. :)

Helicopter ride. Brock was too short to reach any of the handles on the rides that make them go up and down, so he didn't quite get the same thrill as some of the other kids, but he was still just as happy going round in circles.

This was a mini version of that big pirate ship ride. I was going to get on it with them, but of course there was a sign that said no preggies allowed.I think this was a spaceship ride. He rode with Gabey and Kinks...woot woot!Brocko riding on "Bulgy the Whale"..........Speaking of Bulgy the Whale...Here is where they got their inspiration for that ride! This is me at 36ish weeks. Just call me Bulgy...or Whale...whichever works.

The whole fam at the end of the day. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for taking us!! From L-R: Geese (Grandpa), Gus, Broodge (Brooke), Gabe, Kinks (Lincoln), Skyna (Scotty), Bones (Jace), Breena (Brianne), Izzy {note: I don't think you will ever see a picture of Izzy where she is not doing a cutesy pose}, Lis (Grandma), Me (and Soph), Brock, Luke :)

Our little family of four :) I sure love my boys and can't wait to have Team Girly evened out when Sophie gets here!

Beehive Camp '10

I'm actually not a beehive adviser, I'm a laurel adviser, but since our stake had Trek this year instead of camp, the beehives invited me to come to their beehive camp! I might have declined the invitation had we not been staying in a nice cabin with hot running water! It was a fun couple of days and guess who got to come with me.... You guessed it. Brocko Man. He was a very good boy...very attached to mom the whole time, but he slept like an angel which was great. It was only my 2nd time being away from Luke and I missed him like crazy!
Our 7 beehives doing a team-building activity.

Preggie me trying to fish. I was the only person who didn't catch one. I was too impatient. So unlike me.

The girls swimming in the man-made pond in the backyard. Freezing!! It didn't stop them though, they loved it!

All the girls on the last night with our matching PJ pants and our crowns we made. From L-R: Sis. Shiley, Nicole, Hailey, Michelle, Lily, Rachael, Sierra, McKenna, Sis Goaslind and Me+Brock (Not pictured is Sis Arnell). Our theme was "Be Strong and of a Good Courage, for Ye are a Royal Generation." We had Princess lessons, and a royal banquet that night. The leader on the far left is due with a little boy a few days before me...and we found out we have a mutual 4th great-grandma, Martha McBride. Small world!

Summer Vacations '10 Part 3

I'm ashamed once again to admit that I only have 3 pictures of this vacation... But, in my defense, most of our trip was spent on a lake and it's hard to remember to take pictures when you're on the boat! So this was another Flinders' family (Flinders, Sanchez, Wetsel) trip up to Flaming Gorge to visit Luke's Grandparents, Earl and Mary Ila Flinders. We stayed in Vernal at the new swanky Marriott each night and every day we got up and went boating! The first day we spent at Red Fleet and the other two days we went to the actual Gorge. Normally the Gorge doesn't have the best weather or skiing water, but the first day we were there the weather was incredible all day! Just when we were about to give up on you Flaming Gorge, you redeemed yourself. Well done!Brock and Luke at Dairy Keen in Heber on our way to Vernal. The kids love the trains! Brocko on the boat. He loves going on Grandpa's boat and every time he sees a boat he says, "Boat! Water! Daddy!" because he loves to watch his daddy on the water when we go boating.
Our little family on the boat

Thanks Lis and Geese for the best Flaming Gorge trip yet! Can't wait til next year!