Take Luck!!

Luke SUPREEZED me for Valentines and got us tickets to see Brian Regan live!! I am SO excited and I will be posting pictures of the grand event in March!"

"You ever start to say something and in the middle of what you're sayin you decide to say something else? Completely different. Our friends were leaving the other day and I started to say "Hey take care!" and I decided to say "Good Luck" like half way through. So it came out neither. "TAKE LUCK!" "Take luck and care. Take care of the luck- Good luck takin care of the luck you might have...if you have luck...take it...care for it. TAKE LUCK CARE OF IT!"

-Brian Regan

before February is gone

I must pay tribute to the LOVE month in our home...not only do we get to celebrate V-day, but we also get to celebrate our anniversary! This year makes it 3 years! Lots has happened in 3 short years:

We fell in love, we got married, I quit my title job, Luke got a sales job...moved to florida, kept falling in love, moved back to centerville, got called as sunday school teachers, I got a nanny job, still falling in love, got pregnant, luke got a banker job, luke graduated from college, got pregnant again, moved to layton, continued falling in love, got called as primary teachers, quit my job, had a baby, fell in love all over, I got called to YW and luke called to sunday school presidency, luke transfered locations for his job, baby turned one, luke started his MBA, and we are still falling in love as we speak.

I can't believe how much more I love Luke today than I did the first time we fell in love. 3 years is such a short period of time, but we have learned and grown so much together already! We are so blessed to have sweet Brockton to share our love with and we can't wait for everthing to come in the future!

I love being his and knowing he is mine...and to that there is no end. February 1, 2007

Together Forever

I am a mother

The past couple of days I have been feeling sorry for myself. Brock has been particularly clingy and needing constant attention which has been wearing me out. I've been losing my temper with him more than usual when he throws all of his food on the floor instead of eating it. I have been telling him "NO" more sharply when I find his hands in the toilet filled to the brim with soaking toilet paper and him covered in it too. I've been shooing him to go play with his toys while mommy puts her makeup on. I just need a minute!

Well today, after finally getting him to take a nap...just one nap...he usually takes two, I sat on the couch and opened up Luke's laptop and came across this blog. An LDS mother who left her two toddlers in the tub for a few minutes while putting away some laundry last week and her son {who is 5 weeks older than Brock} drowned. He is in the PICU at Primary Childrens and barely alive.

I sobbed as I read of the pain and horror she is going through right now. I can't even fathom. I bet this mom would give anything to be able to see her son playing in the toilet right now, to have her son pulling at her pants and whining until she picked him up to cuddle him. I am so selfish. I have been pleading for forgiveness for the last hour for being so ungrateful for the sweet healthy little angel Heavenly Father has blessed us with. There is not very much else that matters to me right now, my perspective has changed. My prayers are going out to this family right now and to little Bronson who is in the hospital fighting for his life, I am so sorry for what they have to endure...but I thank them for the change of heart I have experienced today...

I think I'm going to go sit by Brock's bedroom door and wait until he wakes up from his nap, I can't wait to hold him again.

Walko Brocko and Wedding Cake Pics!

Brock actually left his hat on so I had to take some pictures of him. He's getting so big!

My first ever wedding cake! It was super stressful and super fun!! In the pictures it looks like the edges are antiqued, but it's actually a shimmer dust that gives the cake a pearlized look in person.

These pictures are courtesy of Luke, my official photographer and cake mover. I couldn't have done this without him...even if I was yelling at him from the back seat to drive slower the whole time. :)

...and last but not least, a video of some of Brock's first steps...he is a full-fledge walker by now, but this video is so cute of his little unsteady legs!