Daddy's Helper

Brady only has one class on Friday, so after he came home from school we all decided to go to the park and take some grub with us, aka KFC.... aka delicious. Let me tell you, it was fabulous except for the part where they didn't except our coupon, forgot to give us napkins (I forgot wipes too.. oops), and they didn't give us a spoon to eat our mashed potatoes....
But it was worth it
soooo worth it

Jax had an awesome time playing with the crane scooper thing

Love this pic
oh and yes those are packets of butter and honey in Jaxtons hand
he knows what the good stuff is lol

October the Thirty First

So this past Halloween we had the opportunity to go trick-or-treating twice! The first time we went at our church, it was a lot of fun and my dad and his wife Sally came with. It was fun to see all the little kids dressed up and all of the cars all decorated. Jaxton dressed up as an elephant and Brooklyn was a kitten, (thanks mom!)

my cute little elephant

"Uh Oh" he says hah

For those of you who don't know... my husband usually goes all out for Halloween. Before we got married he would have the best costume at any party we went to but this is actually the first time he's done something since then. 

Oh and he made this in less than a day lol

Our halloween pumpkins!!

This past weekend we have the opportunity to go with my Dad and his wife, Sally to Remlinger Farms to pick some pumpkins! We went last year as well and we hope this will continue to be a family tradition! I had a blast taking pictures of the kids and I'm looking forward to Halloween coming up in a few weeks!

He got to ride the ponies this year!!

His new trick... 

never wants to look at mom

In Seattle, rain boots are a must

time flys

Can you believe that this little munchkin is already 6 months old? I know I can't either...

It seems like it wasn't that long ago that I was a week overdue and just ready for her to get here... I swear that last week lasted eternity.... but finally she came and boom... here we are six months later...

look how much shes grown!! (and how much better my photography is! ha)

This little lady is already crawling... yes crawling... she just scoots on around to go get whatever it is that she wants. another early crawler... will I ever get a break? She is such a good sleeper too! She and Jaxton go to bed every night (in the same room) at 8 and neither of them wake up until 8 the next morning! I'm sure blessed to have such wonderful children. I love being a mom, it is the hardest thing I have ever done and I don't know how good of a job I'm doing :/ but I sure do love them a ton and I'm pretty sure that's just enough

Vacation?

So for the past month our entire little family have been on a "vacation" Brady has been doing a clinical here in Idaho Falls for the last month. The first two weeks the kids and I headed over to Utah to hang out with my family down in Alpine. Let me tell ya, it was sooo nice to have a little bit of a break. Just to hang out with my family who I hadn't seen in a while was so amazing. We all really missed them. Brady would make the three hour drive on the weekends to hang out with us and then we all headed back with him to Idaho to spend the remainder of his internship. So here we are with only two more days to go! Tomorrow evening after he gets off work we will be heading back to Utah to be with my family. My mom is in the middle of moving, so the trip we had planned to Disneyland has been postponed. I was extrememly bummed about this... the only great part about not going is that I have the chance to go to a clothing exchange that same weekend that I wouldn't have been able to go to otherwise. In a year from now we are actually going to move to Utah for another clinical rotation for Brady, so I'm thinking we are going to go then and by that time the kids will be older and will appreciate it more. Another good thing about not going is that we are getting to see Brady's family as well, we are going to meet up with his parents and his sister Emmalee and her husband Burton, and we are really excited about that because we haven't seen them since Christmas and Emmalee is expecting a little baby!! We couldn't be more happy for them to start their little family! So that makes three pregnant women in the Brown family. Wahoo for little babies! Too bad we don't live anywhere close to any of them. sad day. Anyways I've been having a blast taking oodles of picture of my kiddos. Here are some of my favorites!

I just love his little toes in this picture!

In other news...

We just got a Zoo membership!

We went for the first time last week and we all really enjoyed the amazing seattle weather!

Not too sure about it

these things are HUGE! I had no idea they got so big!

love this little girl

hilarious... he put my baby sling on his head

Park N' Play

The weather has been so great here lately that we have been spending a lot of time at the local park!

Having so much fun playing at the park!

Swinging for the first time

loves her some tummy time!

the trees here

swoon

umm... adorable?

yep, adorable

Long Overdue...

So I just realized we never posted pictures of Brooklyns baby blessing!

It was such a wonderful day and we felt very blessed to have Brady's family up from Arizona to see her blessing

Such a cute little thing

Of course Jaxton won't sit still for more than a second these days

The best shot we could get lol

Lets see

Not much has really been going on around here. Just loving being home with my two little ones! Jaxton has been such a good little boy lately, he has been really good with the baby. He's always wanting to give her kisses and hug her and he even tries to pick her up on occasion lol it's pretty funny. One new thing that Jaxton has learned is how to pray! Okay, so he can't say much but he knows how to fold his arms! It's the cutest thing in the world when we sit down and Jaxton automatically folds his arms and waits for us to pray. It's nice because he always remembers, unlike Brady and I. He is such a good influence on us lol He is really into making HUGE messes.... not so fun. He has these little tubs filled with all of his smaller toys and his favorite thing to do pick it up and turn it upside down... which results in a huge mess! But that's okay, little boys are supposed to be messy right? Brooklyn has been just a joy to have around. There is just something about small babies. I'm not sure if it's that sweet baby smell that I just cannot get over! I swear I could just smell her for days.. Or maybe it's her cute chubby cheeks, or her teeny tiny little fingers and toes. It's hard to believe a person can be so small. As much as I can't wait for her to grow up and do all sorts of fun girls things together, I makes me so sad that she is growing so fast. She's already grown out of her newborn clothes and diapers :( sad day...

Sooo.... I've been doing lots and lots of scrapbooking lately... I'm trying to hurry and finish Jaxtons baby book before too much time goes by. My plan is to make an album for each of my children that documents their first year of life and then anything that happens after that will just go into our family scrapbooks. I'm really close to being finished with Jaxtons, there are only 10 or so pages left. So far it's becoming one of my favorite albums ever. I'm completely in love with it! My wonderful husband got me a new stack of papers that will be perfect for Brooklyns album, whenever I get to start it lol. I still have a bunch of photos to scrapbook from before Brady and I were married to do... Not sure when I will get around to those.. they might just have to go in a regular ol' photo album...

What a cute little bum!

Little Miss Brooklyn

yes, she has finally made her big debut! and it was only four days after she was supposed to get here!

Isn't she the cutest thing? Ah I'm totally in love! It's amazing how quickly you can fall in complete love with someone you've never met! Here's the story, I went into labor on the 22nd at 10 o'clock at night. I had been having contractions pretty consistently for the previous week but they weren't painful at all just a little uncomfortable. Every time they would start up I would get so excited thinking it was finally going into labor but alas... I didn't. Then the night of the 22nd I was feeling pretty crappy and decided to just go lay down and go to bed and that's when they started. They were every 5 min until about 2am. Then I decided to go take a shower hoping the warm water would help with the pain (which wasn't all that bad yet) but after I got out of the shower I noticed that the contractions got really close together, about a min and a half. I thought this was kinda fast so I called Labor and Delivery at the hospital to see what to do. They told me that because of my overdueness and it being my second pregnancy that I should probably come in. I'm glad we did because after that the contractions started finally getting bad. After I they monitored the baby for a little bit they did an exam and I was only 3cm! I thought noooo.... they usually don't admit until 4cm I'm going to have to go home and deal with the pain, lame! But by some miracle they decided to admit me. thank goodness! I think it might have been because of my history of all those crazy surgeries this last summer. Then they got me into an l&d room and there was this big yoga ball that I got to bounce on and who knew it would help with the pain so much?! Another thing they did that surprisingly helped with the contractions was squeezing my hips together... I swear sometimes it made the contractions go away completely! They got me my epidural right away and then I was a happy camper. Finally able to rest, even though I didn't get to sleep really but at least I wasn't in pain! Then they ended up breaking my water in the morning around 10am. Then we were just waiting for me to be fully dilated. The doctor also noticed that she was face up (Jaxton was as well and apparently those labors are measured in hours.. mine was only 50min) but the doctor was able to turn her around so she was face down like she should be. I only pushed for 20 min though it felt like forever and then the doctor let my pull my baby out kardashian style... I couldn't believe she let me do it!! After she was born there was such a feeling of peace in the room. Our precious little angel straight from heaven. The veil really is so thin it was an amazing experience. I was a so exhausted after Jaxton was born that I didn't really get to enjoy that moment. We didn't decide on a name until the next day but we finally came up with Brooklyn Marie Brown and we completely love it and it fits her perfectly!!

In Love

with my new camera that is!!!

Yep, for my birthday last week, I was gifted with an awesome Nikon d5000 from my awesome, amazing mom!!! I've been wanting a dslr for a while now and I'm so happy that I finally have one! I also got some other cool thing for my birthday!! My wonderful dad got me photoshop, so I could edit my images taken on my new camera and the hubbs got me a set of photoshop actions that I've been wanting. They are from The Florabella Collection and the set is called Luxe II, they are awesome! I even got a $20 off coupon which made it an even better deal! Well I finally got all the software I needed downloaded to our computer and I've spent some time this morning playing around with some images. Here are some of my favorites!

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yay for awesome birthday presents and family who love me so much!!!!