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.