St. Patty's Day!

Our St. Patrick's Day started out with finding a whole lot of green treats on our front porch, left by "Lucky the Leprechaun"- aka my St. Patty's day lovin in-laws (Luke's sis Brianne and her hub). They even gave Brocko the green shirt he's wearing in the pics! Then Brock and I got to go out to lunch with Luke and we decided to go to the park near our house after. It was hot outside and our first time at the park this year! Brock LOVED it! Enjoy the pics and video!

He wouldn't stop smiling on the swings! He loved every minute!

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!

Pictures!

Finally! Ok so I had way too many pictures so I had to make collages, so hope you can still see the small ones! So I haven't posted pictures since Halloween which is my favorite holiday, so I have to post pics of that. We had a neighborhood -costumes included- Halloween party and it was lots of fun! I had help from the girls in the neighborhood to bring soup and we had bread bowls and salad...with {of course} the root beer and dry-ice witches brew! We set up tables, couches and a projector screen in the basement with a spooky Scooby Doo movie and we partied all night! Mimi and Papa even came for a few minutes too! It was a lot of fun and I think we're going to have to make it a new tradition! Brock was an elephant for Halloween and Luke and I were safari hunters!

Next came Brock's 1st Birthday!! I can't believe he's getting so big! I'm sure I've already told you that his favorite movie is Finding Nemo, so we had a Nemo-themed party for him. He had to wear his orange and white striped shirt to look like Nemo of course!
Grandma Lisa made the coolest Nemo cake you've ever seen and Brock was not shy to dig right in to it! I was so glad he got messy cause I wasn't sure if he would cause I don't usually let him get food all over when I feed him.
He got a pet fish from Mimi and Papa (Gibbons)...it's a beta fish and we named him Gilligan Cornelius Flinders, but we just call him Gill for short. G&G Flinders got him a sit/push truck that has all the bells and whistles a little one could hope for! He absolutely LOVES all the toys he got for his birthday, so thanks everyone!!
Both sides of the fam were able to come except for Luke's sister Brianne who was sick in the hospital with Spinal Meningitis. She gave us all a big scare, but she's doing much better now thanks to many prayers and Priesthood blessings.

Happy Birthday Brocko!!!Last came Christmas! We had such a fun Christmas this year! We got to participate in 2 nativities and spend time with both of our families, which makes us so grateful that we live so close to both of them! We also got to take some time on Christmas Eve and remember our Christmas Eve 2 years ago when we lost our first baby. I think Christmas will always be a bittersweet holiday for that reason. I am so grateful we get to celebrate the birth of our Savior at the time when we remember the loss of our little one because the Savior made it possible for us to be together as a family forever. That will always be the only Christmas gift I ever need.

2009 was a great year and we are so excited for a wonderful 2010!!

I almost forgot about you...

but not completely! I can't believe I haven't posted since October!! I have WAY too many pictures to post since then so I will just have to do a collage of some of the highlights like Halloween, Brock's Bday and Christmas... Luke started his grad school this past week so I have a feeling I'm going to need a few extra hobbies to keep my mind off of how much time he's not spending with me. It will be a difficult two years to get through, but...

I am really proud of Luke for having the courage to do it.

I've already started crafting away and I'm also doing my very first wedding cake this weekend! I am super nervous but also really excited!! I hope it turns out beautiful even though Luke's mom will be out of town so I'll be on my own. yikes. I'll post pictures of the final product {hopefully}.

I can't believe it's already a new year, I feel like time is flying by and I'm so busy. I haven't even had time to make New Years resolutions yet! Oh, speaking of new years resolutions though, last weekend my mom and I went to do initiatories (sp?) at the Bountiful Temple on Saturday night, which is a nice thing to do on Saturday evenings because there is usually no one there so it's quiet and peaceful {and usually pretty quick}, but when we got there at 7:50pm there was an enormous wait like I've never seen before! When we asked the lady at the desk what was going on she replied, "I guess it must be New Year's Resolutions!" I guess the whole temple was so busy that they ended up having to do an 8:30 and a 9:00 session to fit all the people in. It was a little crazy, but quite a cool thing to see. We should have new years more often!!

Well I will post pictures soon, and maybe even a short clip of Brock walking. Yes, I said he's WALKING! He is at such a fun age right now; trying to imitate everything anyone says and cheezing up a storm. And yes, I still get stopped in the grocery store and at the mall for "having the cutest little girl." Poor Brock. I guess dressing him in orange, brown and camo from head to toe isn't quite doing the trick.
One last thing!! My sister Brook and her husband Dan just had baby #3 late on Saturday night and they named him [Jesse Perkins Black]. He is a 9 lb 3 oz butter ball with lots of brown hair and I can't wait to meet him!!! Congrats to Eliza and Porter on their new baby brother!
Love to all! xoxo