I am alive.

April 20, 2009

I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve posted. I’ve had good intentions but the last month has been a bit overwhelming with lots going on. At some points over the past few weeks I have felt like a boulder was sitting on me, a physical stress reaction to everything I had going on! I […]

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Happy Easter!

April 11, 2009

I loved General Conference. I was so inspired and touched by the words spoken. Elder Holland’s powerful message was one of hope and comfort and the true reason why we celebrate Easter. I am so grateful to know that the tomb was empty….Christ lives! And because of this, we are never alone. I love my […]

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GG Digital Designs Birthday Giveaways!!

April 3, 2009

GG Digital Designs turns TWO this month, so we are doing a birthday celebration “blog train” with lots of cute free stuff from the creative team! So welcome to my “stop” on the train. All of our “party favors” were created using the brand new “Celebrate” digital scrapbooking kit at GG Digital Designs. I made […]

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Happy First Birthday, Haylie!

April 1, 2009

Our sweet baby turns ONE today! WOW!! What a wonderful year it has been with our Haylie Belle. The Birthday Girl in her birthday dress. I could not imagine our family without this sweetie. Every day Jaden and I look at each other and say “SHE IS SO CUTE!” We adore her (still toothless) smiles, […]

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Neato Web Findings!

March 25, 2009

Here are a few links that I wanted to share on my blog today. I’ll probably do this every so often to share some of my findings and stuff I like. This is what I pulled together this fine freezing cold snow-ish March morning.Digital Scrapbooking A Charity Collaboration Kit–in honor of my sweet friend Amy’s […]

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Happy 6th Birthday, Brandon!

March 19, 2009

Someone in our house turned 6 today. It’s BRANDON! Brandon was born on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 5:27 am, weighing 6 pounds 7 ounces and measuring 21 inches long. Here is more of his birth story: http://brookie-wookie.blogspot.com/2008/03/happy-birthday-brandon.html This is the day I became a mother, something I had wished for and dreamt about since […]

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Happy Lucky/Green/St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2009

Today was such a delightful day! It’s amazing how happy the warm weather makes me. This is my first daffodil of this spring. It looks so cheerful in my front yard and I love it. I can’t wait for the rest of them to bloom and for the red tulips to follow. Today we had […]

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Annie’s Pinkalicious Party

March 16, 2009

Now that we are FINALLY feeling better at our house, I’m going to try to get more caught-up on blogging. So today we are going WAY back to November 2008, when Annie turned 3! I asked her what kind of party she wanted to have, and she just said, “pink.” So we decided to have […]

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Fever, cough, and general malaise

March 8, 2009

That describes our house the past several days. I like the phrase “general malaise,” I learned in nursing school that you can use it in so many situations. Anyway, we’ve had a little wave of sickness pass through our family this past week. It started out with Annie, with a fever Monday all day and […]

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Haylie=Sassy Baby contest winner!!

March 2, 2009

I’m just getting around to posting this but we are SO EXCITED!! In January I submitted this photo in a baby contest for a darling store called Sassy Baby in conjunction with Highlite Photography. I was definitely not planning on winning and almost didn’t even enter the contest. But I sent in the photo and […]

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