Our educational trip to Body Worlds!

On Friday night, Brooke stayed at my moms so Kenny and I could go to The Leonardo to see Body Worlds: The story of the Heart. It is a museum type thing that has real bodies and organs displayed like statues. You can see every muscle, ligament, blood vessel, and pretty much any type of thing that is going on inside your body! We learned so much! Kenny got to see what the heart really looks like on the inside. He saw on a TV screen what exactly his heart was supposed to be doing and seen the part of his heart that is not working right. It was very cool! It helped both of us understand more about what is happening to him. My favorite part was the Human Developement part. They had fetuses there and there was one for each week from the beginning of the 6th week to the end of the 9th week. It was crazy to see how much it changes in that little amount of time! At the end of the 9th week, it has fingers and toes! They were so cute! The fetus was the size of my pinky nail and had teeny tiny fingers and toes! And they had babies that were between 18 weeks gestation and 32 weeks gestation! It was sad to see them, but also as a mother, it was amazing to see how they develope inside your tummy. I have always been curious about it, and have read many books about fetal developement. Seeing it with my own eyes just put it more into perspective for me. Something else I learned was about the smokers lung. It was something that I have been wanting to see for a long time. I really wanted my mom to go with us just to see this. She doesnt think it could happen to her. They have a non smkers lung that had a little bit of gray on it from breathing in dust, but will disappear over time. Then, they had the smokers lung. It was BLACK! So gross! I learned that 20 cigarettes is equal to a coffee cup full of tar that gets on your lungs and doesnt disappear. And that every cigarette is one minute off your life! I know my mom probly wont read this for awhile, but for when she does: Mom, Please quit smoking. Seeing it for myself made me realize that you may think that it may not happen to you, but it already has. Please don't make it worse. I learned that When you quit smoking, Your health automatically improves, your taste buds enhance, and you have more energy! So please take all that into consideration! We all love you!

Brooke's 2 year check up!

We took Brooke in for her 2 year check up on December 29th. She now weighs 26 lbs. and is 35 1/2 inches tall! She is in the 84th percentile for height and 44th for weight! Tall and skinny! Her pediatrician said that her speech is very advanced for a 2 year old, and that she seems to be a very smart little girl! Yay! While we were talking to her doc, Brooke was sitting on the bench putting her shoes on, and the doc was so amazed that she could do that and she had them on the right feet! I never thought anything of it, because she has been putting her shoes on by herself for about a year now, I then realized that i couldn't remember the last time she had them on the wrong feet unless they didnt have buckles! (That is a little harder I guess!) Anyway, she is growing great, which is good since I can't seem to get her to eat anything! And before you know it, she will know her ABC's and you will be watching that video on my blog!

Brooke's latest changes!

Well, I cannot believe that brooke is now 2 years old! 241/2 months! It's just crazy! She is so smart and so funny, with her little girl attitude and her hilarious fake laugh that she does! I know that most of my blogs are about her, so everyone knows a few things that she does, but seriously, since she turned 2, I swear that she just got twice as smart, twice as bossy, twice as funny and twice as cute! I wanted to tell everyone what exactly I mean by this with examples: Since turning 2, she has learned to zip up her coat( that includes hooking the zipper first!), she now says "bless you" when you sneeze, " 'scuse you" when you burp, and " please" and "thank you" almost everytime she gets something. And she has also figured out that daddy will give her pretty much anything she wants if she looks at him with her cute little face and says "Pleeeaase Daddy?" That string that she has him on is wrapped so tight around her finger, that it should be turning purple and falling off soon!! And every morning she HAS to put on her "lip stick" (its lipgloss!), put lotion on her hands and arms, perfume on her neck, and anything else that mommy does too! She has also learned how to do this fake laugh that she throws back her head, slaps her leg and laughs so hard that you just cant help but bust up laughing with her! Somehow she has also learned to play pretend. Typical I know, but what I saw her doing just made my jaw drop!! She was in her room playing with her dollhouse, and she had the mommy talking about how to put the babies in their carseats. Then she grabbed the daddy one and started talking to the mommy with a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT voice! I have no idea where she learned that from! I was just staring at her in amazement! Her bossyness has gotten worse also! She will tell us to "sit there!" while she plays, she has to go "first" up the stairs, and if she wants something she can't reach, she will tell us to "get!" She has learned to put so many words together in the last 2 weeks and she can almost say complete sentences now! Her newest ones are: "I busy", "Mommy reach it","What doing?", "What happened?", "I get you!", "come get me!", "I hiding", "I mad!", and there are so many more that i cant think of right now! And she has started this new thing, that when she wakes up in the morning she says, " 1,2,3 open door mommy!" Cracks me up every time! She will say it over and over until I go in there! She has been put in time out more often when she needs it now that she understands more about what it is, and it seems to be working. She does drive us crazy sometimes, but we always end up laughing about it at the end of the day! We will begin potty training soon, I just need to go get the plastic panties! We have a potty chair and she knows what "potty" is and what you do on it. It's a good start. I will keep an update on that one!

Christmas Eve!

On Christmas Eve, we were telling Brooke that she needed to go to bed so Santa could bring her presents. She moves around alot in this video, but you can hear her telling us what he will bring her! Listen closely and watch the looks on her face! It is so funny!

Christmas Morning!

Brooke had a great Christmas! She definately got spoiled this year! I am putting a video on here of when she first came out to see what Santa brought! It's hilarious! Kenny and I had a bet about whic toy she would go to first. Her baby doll or the kitchen. I said baby doll, and I won the bet! These pictures are not in order, but I will label them the best I can! We woke Brooke up at 8:00 to open presents, and when we were almost done, all she wanted to do was lay on my bed and watch her new Elmo movie that had Ernie in it! She didnt even open her last 2 gifts! After we had cleaned up a little, we went upstairs to exchange gifts with Ashleys family. Then we got ready to go and went to Grammys house! She got one of her favorite toys from there! It was the new Elmo Live! Elmo sings, dances, tells stories and jokes and talks and interacts with you! When he falls down, he says, "Uh oh! Elmo fell down! can you help Elmo up please?" and when you pick him up he says, "Thank you! You're Elmos best friend!" Brooke always tells him, "You're Welcome!" Its so cute! After Grammy's we went to go get Kenny's brother Steven and his daughter Jadicie, then went to his mom's house to open gifts! It was a busy day, but fun also! When we got home, Brooke finally opened her last 2 gifts! She loves all her toys and plays with them all!


She put her baby to bed in the crib that Santa brought!


She loves her new kitchen! it has an icemaker and a grill that has realistic flames!


Opening the gift from Grammy, Uncle Will, and Great Grandma!



YAY! It was Elmo Live!

She wanted it out of the box immediately! She loves it so much! She even carries it around and puts it in the baby stroller!


Zoey found a box!


Playing with her sesame street phone!

She got an Elmo Guitar!

Putting on her "Lipstick" its really lip gloss or chapstick, but whatever!

Checking out the goodies in her stocking!

Roll Family Christmas Party!

Sunday, December 21st was the Roll Family Christmas Party. That is kennys family on his Mothers side. It was so fun! just seeing everyone and seeing all the kids play together was awesome! Brooke had fun. She was shy at first like normal but warmed up to some people. I think the highlight of her night was when her cousin Jadicie got there! She was so excited and wanted to play with her so bad, but Jadicie is a very shy little girl and wouldnt let go of her daddy! She is Kenny's brother Stevens little girl. The party was at Nathans house, where we had her birthday party. Every time we go there, Kenny's cousin Jason, follows Brooke around trying to play with her until she warms up to him and goes on her own. He is so funny! I think she really likes him, But she is too shy to admit it! He gives her anything she wants! Chips, dip, toys, whatever there is! And when she comes looking for us, he just scoops her up and carries her around! She doesnt even cry when he does that! And brooke calls Kenny's aunt Ilene "Grandma". She gets so excited when she walks in the room! She yells and says " Grandma here!" It is so cute! She loves going there to play, and is finally warming up to Nathans big dobermans! they love her, but she is very intimidated by their size!





Santa came! cousin David dressed up as santa and all the kids sat on his lap! Brooke was excited to see him, but screamed when i put her on his lap! After that night, she didnt want santa to come bring her presents! My bad!

Kennys cousin Jason giving Brooke the toy he opened in the white elephant gift game. It was a squishy thing with sharks in it! She freakin loves that toy!

Kenny always looks like he has a lazy eye!

Kenny and his brother Steven ,(holding Jadicie) His uncle Mike, and other brother Tony. It was like the paparazzi that night, because you never see the 3 brothers together at the same time! You had to snap as many pictures as possible to savor the moment!

Brooke had had enough! This was the best picture of us we could get!

More Please! She did good drinking out of a big girl cup!

Daddy and Brooke... Dang lazy eye!

OOPS! i didnt mean to put this on twice!

Our 5th Year Anniversary!

Wow! we have been married for 5 years now! It really doesn't seem like that long. It has been a good 5 years. We have had our ups and downs, and recently, our wedding vows have put us to the test! Richer or poorer, better or worse , in sickness and health. Every one of them has been tested! But we are NOT giving in! We have alot of fun together, and love to drive each other crazy! There are even days that we argue about stupid stuff until we are laughing about it!

For our Anniversary, Carol and my mom paid for us to go out to dinner at a place called The Roof Restaurant. It was on the 10th floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was a beautiful view of the temple and of the city. The food was very good! They had alot of different things to choose from because it was a buffet. I tried some new foods, and some desserts too! They had a ton of different desserts to choose from! Even though it was very good food, I dont think it was worth the 80 dollars. We couldnt eat our moneys worth and we tried! We were so stuffed! After dinner, we went to the movies because we had movie passes. We saw "Yes Man!"
with Jim Carrey. It was pretty funny! I am a Jim Carrey fan anyway, but Kenny liked it too. When we came home, we drank some of the champaigne that my mom bought us for our wedding! 5 year old champaigne is very strong! All in all, it was a very good day! Her are some pics from it!



This was the view we had at the restaurant.

We had someone take our picture...

Our light up plastic wine glasses!

Being Goofy!