Haapy Christmas

Ok, So I wasnt so good at writing all the time. Lets be honest The only people that read this I have been around a week anyway.
Brooklynn and I came up to Utah for Christmas, its been lots of fun. Shes been quite attached to her daddy and loves her aunts and uncles and can now point them all out in a picture. YEAH. She was fun Christmas morning, Santa got her a bean bag chair which she counts then jumps on and her grandparents got her a rocking horse which she likes to climb on and make it neigh.
Its been fun, had some snow which she just ate. Then we both got nice and sick.
We were supposed to fly out today but I called and canceled our flight to be oh so kind to others.. cause who wants to fly with a screaming child and a mom who's too tired to handle her? So now the question is.. When to fly home... ahhh I love trying to figure that out.
Hope you all had a very merry Chirstmas.. I sure did.
Oh and I got to talk to my sister who's out on her mission in Argentina.

Inspiration

playing at the beach in sept!

Well, I am looking for inspiration to keep up my blog. I am horrible at it. Probably cause Derek always has to computer and I take all my pictures with My dads camera, but those are just excuses. I also want to be more crafty but you have to have money and a place to store those things so I will just wait till I got my own place for that.
In the meantime..
We are up in Logan visiting Derek's family, they are sure happy to have Brooklynn around and we will even be up here for Halloween, even though she doesn't eat candy yet (yup I am on of THOSE moms who doesn't want her one year old eating suckers and candy). We are going to be pirates.. arrrrr. Brooklynn is working on her arrrrrs.. too cute. I will post pictures. I made her little costume all by myself.. yup all me.. my mom was there for moral support. I am defiantly going to miss having her around when we eventually move out.
I will try to keep up my blog from now on.. promise.. for now here are some kind-of recent pictures of our latest outings.

loved the fair.. and all the animals

My child has no fear of any animal.

Today

What I accomplished today:
A shower.
um...
well..
you see I did..

Yup that's it, Brooklynn has been sick sense Friday and I am starting to pull my hair out. Thought she would be getting better by now but I think today was by far the worst!

Oh well... There's always tomorrow

Me likey!

Find it here!

In the mood

I am on the mood to craft today. Not sure what to do or if I will ever have time to do it seeing as I am waiting my time on the stupid computer! The other problem is I Have no idea what to do, I was thinking of making a diaper bag cause I just cant seem to find on that I like then I realized its cause I want a Mary Poppins bag, one where everything just appears but doesn't take up a TON of space. I have a dress cut out for Brooklynn I really just need to go sew it but I find myself wanting to do something for me. started a skirt awhile ago and I have found that skirts with yokes don't fit me. I made the skirt my size and it fits made the yoke a size bigger and it doesn't.. hmmm I am confused, its too small! how lame. now I don't have the energy to figure out how to make it work. If anyone has any ideas let me know I am open for suggestions!

Maybe I should just go shoe shopping.. just a thought.

Brooklynn Stats.

Well today is her day. I took some pictures after her bath so we could remember how she looked today. She is 29.5 inches tall, and I think she weighs about 25 lbs. That's what the scale upstairs says every time i weigh her and I am a slacker and her shots aren't till the 9th of august.

Some of the this that she loves to do:
* walk.. everywhere. Sometimes just up and down the hall for no reason but to just walk and show me she can.
*swim. we can't take her by the pool are she starts to cry that she wants to get in.
*talk. she will just talk you ear off if you let her.
*read. haha she sits with her books and talks to herself its to darn cute.
* feed the cows. She says moo and point over to the cows and then to the tree for some leaves.
*play with Gus. Gus is Polly's dog and he sits there and takes her unconditional love.
*eat. but it has to be big girl food. no baby food, which is kind of hard sense she still has NO teeth. everyone keeps telling us they are on there way. Hopefully!

B's birthday

Eating cake!

As of tomorrow B will be 1 year old. Yup it was a year ago that I spent 3 painful days in the hospital.. Yup I still remember too all of you who say you forget your labors and that's why we have more kids.. Still remember the WHOLE thing.
Well on Saturday we had a party with family to celebrate her birthday it was lots of fun. We invited Derek's grandparents who live nearby and had a swimming party. B loves to swim. We had a good time and cant believe that our little girl is already 1, wow how time fly's by.

Pollys Dog Gus loved the cake too.






Toy from Derek's Grandma, She loves the horn for sure! We are still undecided.

Pulling out more stuff, its just so much fun to see whats in the box

The cakes that Polly and I made. Cute hu? we played with fondant. Its a little tricky!

Swimming with daddy. She loves to swim!

Pictures!

This week

Well this week was fun. We had a house full and Brooklynn loved having kids to play with. My sisters and I started teaching swimming lessons which are going well. Brooklynn is still not feel her normal self which makes me sad. Derek had a ride alone in San Jose on an ambulance and had a good time learning. I drove all the way to Fairfeild and meet some new cousins Wednesday and took my license test on Thursday and I PASSED! Yup Its official I can play with your hair now. I am so excited it feels like I finally finished what I started 2 1/2 years ago. Polly sold one of my watch bracelets for me and now I am going to make more and maybe sell them on esty, still not sure about that yet.
Well that was our week so far. I am off to bed!

Sunshine

Well today was a fun day. My brother Steven and his family suprised my parents and drove down from utah and is staying here to play for awhile, so well we went to the beach. Almost the whole family, It was really fun. Brooklynn didnt like the water so much, which isn't what I expected, she loves to swim in the pool but the ocean was really cold. The sand on the other hand.. She loved. She ate a couple of handfuls of sand when I wasn't watching, but after a while she was content to sit and play in it. It was lots of fun. After we came home and played in the pool to cool off and had a BBQ with family. It was lots of fun till it came time for bed..

Once I got B down to sleep which took a minute.. I took a shower and got out and heard her crying.. I was frustrated that she had woken up till I went in to check on her and she had thrown up all over.. After changing her clothes and sheets I thought maybe it was just the strawberries that she had had. and we went down stairs and she did it again, and a couple more times after that:.(... My poor baby has Heat Stroke.. I am such a bad mommy.. She had a hat on, but lesson learned.. She gets to play in the sand in the shade and drink lots of water next time we are at the beach. Derek went to Walmart to get some pedialtie for her if she wakes up and want something to drink.. Its going to be a rough night, Don't think I will get much sleep Brooklynn is in the pack-and-play at the foot of our bed just in case she throws up again.
Such a sad ending to a Great day. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Day of Firsts.

Well its been one of those days, first for a lot of things:
First:
strawberry(sort of but yeah)
raspberry
alolaberry (cant spell that)
first day brooklynn stood up be her self.. 3 times.
she also stands by herself for long periods of times and walks along everything.. life as we know it is about to change!

well school is out and swimming lessons are about to start, which means I am going to be busy this summer(hopefully) and Derek is still going to school. I am getting ready to take my California license test so thats going to be great(if i pass, pray for me). brooklynn is still growing and loves to go swimming.

Up to lately

Well we have been up to a lot lately. Derek is still going to school at night but is getting ready to fly off to Utah to test with Salt Lake City Fire (here's hoping they like his personality and call him back in June!). I am shutting my thumb in the car door while trying to be ever so soft so I don't wake up Brooklynn from her much needed nap. She stayed asleep through my heavy sobbing( it really hurt, still does) needless to say Derek and my mom have been lots of help as I cant really do anything with my left hand without a thumb.

We are still helping Nana and Papa plant a garden, planted some corn tonight, yummo! It is fun to watch it all slowly grow, but I am getting impatient and want to eat already.

Brooklynn is crawling everywhere cant keep her still, if you leave the slidding glass door open she crawls right out and eats the dog food, yup dog food, its funny cause she doesn't like it she spits it out, but it keeps going in her mouth. hmmm maybe one day she'll figure it out. She crawls over to the door whenever she hears open she likes to sit and like the glass its too funny.

Everyone still loves her when ever we go out and she continues to give them the funniest look ever I will have to find a good picture and post it soon.

My sewing is progressing, I made a skirt for my niece for her birthday this week, I think she really likes it, it was a silky material so that was good practice for my silk skirt that I want to make for myself. Lots of fun projects to make, allways up for new ideas if you have any ( i bet my mom would love that)

oh anyone have an idea for a good mothers day gift that doesn't cost umm. anything or very much. Derek will be spending Mothers day in Utah with his family and I will be here, its kind of sad but its all good, I get to talk to my little sister when she calls!

Well I think that's it. I'll keep you posted!

Easter Dress

Here is Brooklynn in her Easter dress that I made.  It had a little bubble skirt on it. Grandma Green made the cute little flower. Isn't it cute.  They came down to visit this week and we had lots of fun.

I had an extra week to do it because we were so lucky to have Conference on Easter, and what a Great Conference it was.

Brooklynn

Got some pictures of Brooklynn taken today. There is a Sister in our ward who is starting up a children's photography business and wanted to take Brooklynn's photos for her portfolio, I was happy to let her. They turned out cute for a slightly cranky, Very tired little girl. Can't wait to see the rest of them. Go Here to see them.

Ode to a high chair.

I know, I know, a high chair, really? But have you ever not had a high chair? Brooklynn is now 8 months old and we were using a high chair that my Brother bought for my mom, It looks like one from a restaurant so it was working, but shes getting bigger and needed one with a tray, and she was too small for the restaurant style one, got stuck in it a couple of times.
My mom gets all these points from things that she buys and she had enough to get a great 3 in one high chair, It will eventually be a booster seat. (but that's besides the point). The first day we got it I put it together and was able to cool dinner while Brooklynn enjoyed her high chair and finger munchies, she thought she was the coolest thing.
So thanks mom!

Happy April fools.. I know I am a day late but Brooklynn thought that she would play a great joke and surprise me with the best of all things.
When Brooklynn woke up from her nap I feed her and then we decided to take a bath sense she hadn't gotten one the night before and she had spit up in her nap and it was now stuck in her hair, so as I was getting into the tub with her she was just standing there and I started to smell something, not really thinking much sense I was in the bathroom I didn't notice.. till i sat her down and notices a nice brown log... Yup she pooped in the tub.. Sweet she must have know it was April fools.. so after Derek picked it up( my hands were to wet to fit in the gloves) we washed out the tub and started over.. oh well we had a good laugh!

Onesie Dress?

I did it. I made the "dress" it was a creative project and my mom helped out some.. ok a lot. She knows a lot about sewing. Its great! I saw a dress like this at a quilting show that my mom sister and I went to in Feburary and we thought $10 for a pattern was kind of crazy so I figured it out on my own, and think its pretty darn cute. We saw some others online but I still like mine more. I need to work out the kinks betters on the next one, but this was the first one.

The fabric

The Onesie

The Dress

Its not the best picture of the dress, and the back has a cute little button that holds the sides together. I put elastic on it so that we can get it over Brooklynn's head. The front is stitched to the onesie than attached on the other side with the button. I like it.

Trip to Capitola and So mush more.

Well I said something about posting a video and well that didn't work so well. We will try again later.
Last Thursday we took advantage of the lovely weather and went to Capitola beach, It was such a blast watching Brooklynn playing in the sand. Now I did have to keep brushing the sand out of her mouth and hand, but I just feel like I need to clear the air about caring if she eats sand. If I didn't want her to eat it I wouldn't have put her on the ground. Right? Oh well, she was just having some fun, it was so cute. Luckily I had my phone and it takes pretty good pictures.

She was loving the sand, at first she was just feeling it, then she started to grab it by the hand fulls and proceeded to shovel it into her mouth.
It rained Friday .. I guess its a good thing we went Thursday.

Brooklynn has also picked up crawling, yup that's right, buckle down the hatches shes into everything. We were at my nieces 14th birthday party where all the girls were playing with her and my sister had her while Carli was opening presents and she saw me and started to cry. So Jodi put her on the ground and she drunkenly made her way over to me. It was so cute. Sense then it has been non stop everywhere. We were at a friends work and she was chasing a little dog that was totally scared of her. Now that was funny!

I have started to pick up sewing as I think I have mentioned before, I dunno. I have made some shoes so far, My moms scissors got sent away with mine to get sharpened so that put a damper on the sewing for a while. They are cute hu? Next I am going to attempt an Easter Dress for Brooklynn and a skirt on a onesie, hope they turn out cute.

This is a random photo I found on my phone. Its just to cute. She was sitting on my dads lap, jumping and loving the steering wheel. Thought she was SO cool.

Derek is still up to no good at school, learning how to do I.V.'s and stuff, came home with some good looking arms on Wednesday. He is getting excited. He has picked up softball again with San Juan's Fire Department, they have little team for the summer I guess.

Other Things we have been into lately:
Brooklynn:
Puppies
Stroller walks
Outside
Real food
Anything left on the floor

Amy:
Making crafting lists
Beading
Gardening
Cooking

Derek:
Softball
Wants to start Cycling
Tractor driving
Roosters.. (or the killing of)

Pictures and more

Brooklynn's 6 month Pictures.

who can resists those eyes?


She always has her tongue out, its just to funny.

This one is our favorite.

I just love how she has to eat everything.

So it the last blog I promised pictures, sorry they have taken so long. In this one I think I will promise some videos to come. We have been putting our Christmas present to use.

Sense I last blogged I have begun to embark upon some..(or many) projects. I am going to start making some random crafty things: bracelets for all your watches, baby shoes, baby clothes, etc.. Living with my mom gives me the opportunity to really learn how to sew. (shes awesome at it) so I thought Iwould put her to the test. I am excited to see how it goes. I am going to try to sell them and see where it goes.

As for Brooklynn she is learning to crawl.. its coming.. I give her a week at the most. She really just wants to get up and walk. she is pulling her self up on everything if she gets the chance. She has also been rolling everywhere so there is no need for her to be crawling, she gets where she wants to go just fine.
She has started to wave hello and goodbye, its pretty cute and usually accompained by a slight "hi" sound, pretty funny. Shes also picked up on clapping. Shes really good at copying whatever you are doing, she was trying to whistle at Nana last night.
It sure is fun watching her grow up.

Derek is doing well in school. Just had his first of 4 major exams this week and passed it so that's Great. He spends his days studying if hes not at work or preparing his lesson for the 10 year olds at church. He has had one night out learning, he spent it at the labor and delivery floor in San Jose where he got to assist in delivering 4 babies, Watchinga 5th and scrubbing in for a C-Section surgery, He came home with a big bouquet of flowers for me and said this is for you for what you went through 7 months ago. He is really enjoying school.

Till next time. much love.. The Greens

6 Months and 4 Years.

Well its now been 6 months since we had baby Brooklynn, and what a crazy 6 month they have been. She is now moving all over the place trying to get anywhere but not yet crawling, its fun to watch her grow.. she likes to say mamama, not really know what shes saying but she does look at me when it happens.. I WIN! I had my sister-in-law take some pictures and I will get them posted soon.
As for the 4 years. Yup you guessed, Derek and I have been married for 4 years now. I think I have counted 6 houses we've lived in not including living at the in-laws a couple of times, multiple jobs and schools. It has been crazy but we are still in it together and enjoying every minute with each other and Brooklynn.

Derek is full speed into Paramedic school, Its taking up all of his free time and he loves it. I am looking for a new hobby to keep me entertained, think I might take up sewing now that I have my mom to help :)

Christmas was good. We had the whole family over to my parents house (except for Jo and Jon) and we played our annual kick ball after presents to get out the energy, you just had to make sure you didn't step in any puppy surprises. My parents got two puppies for Christmas you could say and Brooklynn just loves them. She laughs and smiles when they are around, as well the cats outside the glass door.. Hours of entertainment for her. Makes getting ready nice.

As for new years.. well we didn't do much. Brooklynn decided she wanted to stay up till the new year with us but fell asleep just shy of 12. As for me I haven't celebrated in the last couple of years due to work, and was tired, but I made it through had some bubbly and went to bed. I know we're boring.

Here's to wishing you a late Happy New Year and to hopes that we
can keep you posted.