Happy Birthday Wayne

Wow, 33!! It seems like we just celebrated his 30th bday in Omaha, NE. His Birthday was actually on the 3rd, I just slacked on posting it. His bday was kind of crazy. He didn't get home until 7 and I had scouts until 730 so after that we went to chilis for a late dinner. I had talked to Shaun Briggs earlier this week to get an idea for Wayne, he got xbox 360 medal of honor. Which he broke in real good this weekend. I don't know how guys stay up so late/early and still function the next day.
We love Wayne so much. He is a great husband and a great dad. He does so much for our family and we are so grateful. The kids love to go on dates with him as often as possible. He loves fishing, camping, bowhunting, golfing, traveling & trying new foods. He strongly dislikes celery & rude drivers.

Taking the next step. . .

We are so excited. Wayne is leaving the office where he has been an associate for the past 2 years. It's been kind of like a residency and he has learned a lot and we are so grateful for that. Wayne has a friend he went to high school with, he's a year older. But he has decided to go back to endo school in Florida. He has/had a practice in Riverton, it's been open for 3 years and is doing amazing. He called Wayne a few months back and asked him if he would be interested in buying it. We would have been crazy to say no. So ever since, we have been filling out tons of paper work and getting approved for everything. Everything is going great and we take over May 1st. We are so excited that we don't have to leave Utah and we can stay close to family. Wayne is transitioning into the new office while fulfilling his contract until the end of May. I have been going in and getting trained in office management. The office staff is great and hopefully everything will go smoothly when Wayne takes over.

Happy 8th Birthday Parker

Wow, I can't believe Parker is 8. Time went by too fast. 8 years ago he became part of our family. He was 9 days over and weighed 9 lbs 4 oz and came out screaming. We can't imagine our life without him. We are so proud of him and all his accomplishments over the past 8 years. He is such an amazing boy.
Why we love him so much. . .
He has such a contagious laugh/smile
He loves his sisters
He is a great fishing/camping partner
He is a great reader
He loves math
He never wants mom or dad to be left out
He is starting to sortof like to help aroung the house
He loves to learn new things
He loves to draw and is very good at it
He has made the decision to be baptized and is counting down the days

Some things you may not know about him. . .
Favorite animal-hippo
Favorite colors-green and orange
He loves to bike/heeley
He loves to play wii/xbox/ds
He loves to play sports just to get as many trophys as possible
He loves to go to sports games but doesn't like to stay the whole time
He is scared of dogs of all sizes
He still has Jake(fav stuffed animal since he was 3)
He is 25% for his height
Since he had his tonsils out-he doesn't snore
He is competitive with Dad
His favorite food-chicken cord en blue
He is shy around big groups
He is going through a paper airplane phase-we have over 50 around the house
He takes the hottest showers possible

President Hinkley was such a great man. He accomplished so much. We always looked forward to listening to him and watching him speak. He had such a great spirit was a great sense of humor. I know he missed his wife so much but he continued to the work of the Lord. He will be missed but we are so happy he is with Marjorie again.

Happy Valentines Day

This is the 2nd blog today. This has been on my to do list, which never seems to get a dent in it.
Brooklynn is completely potty trained-YA!!! She even gets up during the night to go potty. She runs around naked a lot. She got her big girl bed this week, my grandpa made it for her. Great Gpa was so bored at home so he offered to build it for her, we love Gpa. It is so cute. She hated it for several nights though. She kept saying "I don't wike my bed, I don't want it, I seep in mommy's bed". She is so funny. She keeps trying to say that now but I just say I know hunny, go to bed and she's fine.
Kendra is wanting so bad to play in the snow but Parker can't yet and she doesn't want to play by herself. And it seems all our neighbors have the flu. So she just gets to hang out with mom. She is doing so good in school. She is learning to spell more words and trying to read. We went to a funeral in January and Kendra saw her great grandma crying and she did fine until we got home and then broke down crying because she doesn't want Grandma to die. She kept crying for about an hour that night. I promised we would get over to see Great Gpa and Gma more often.
Holy snow storm this weekend. I went out to shovel before church on sunday and the snow was up to my knees, our front door was covered and the swing set in our back yard is almost covered. It was insane.

Sorry-I don't know how to rotate the pictures, if and when I figure it out, I'll fix it.

Parker's Tonsils part 2

Before surgery. . .
After. Finally calmed down.

So Friday we had to be at the hospital by 6:30 and because of the snowstorm we had to leave at 5:30. And of course he didn't go back to have the surgery until about 8:45. And mabey it's a mom thing but I counted every minute, the DR told us it would only take about 1/2 hour so at the 1/2 hour mark I was even more nervous. About 20 mins later the DR came out and said everything went great. They gave him the gas mask and intubated him (which scares me)-I think I'm too much of a worrying mom. He gave us prescriptions and said we could go back soon, they would call us. Not even 2 mins later they called and told us to go back to recovery. Parker was freaking out. Trying to pull out his IV and screaming that something was stuck in his throat, gagging. He was so figity and cranky. Just seeing him laying in that bed, freaked out - I wanted to just cry for him. It took him about an hour to calm down and start eating ice/popcicles. Finally we got to go home. He wouldn't sleep the whole day, he looked like a walking zombie. We gave him lots of popcicles, and all of his meds. Friday night went fairly well. Saturday night he was up for 3 hours throwing up (I can't even imagine how that feels after surgery in your throat). We quit giving him pain meds, and just stuck with motrin and he is doing great. He is eating really well as of Sunday night. He still puts up a fight with taking his meds. We were really surprised at how well he did.

Parker's Blessing

Sunday Parker started complaining of a sore throat and sometimes you just blow it off thinking it will go away and kids are over-reacting. Monday he stayed home from school but it wasn't until night time that he was crying that it was hurting, but of course it was after Dr's were closed so Wayne gave him a blessing and we gave him motrin and sent him to bed. He woke up during the night crying that the blessing didn't work and now his ear was hurting. We gave him more motrin and sent him to bed again and then at 830 called the Dr to get him in. He ended up with strep and an ear infection (which he hasn't had since he was 2 because he had tubes put in). He told us to call and ENT to get his tonsils and adnoids out. He said "there are big tonsils and there are HUGE tonsils, his are HUGE". So we called and there was a cancelation the next day for the consult. We called to get the surgery set up and they can do it Feb 1. They said he would be down for 10-14 days. We'll make sure to get lots of homework for him, HA HA!!! Wayne talked to him about his blessing and talked to him about what was said. He also said if his throat had gotten better, he wouldn't have had to go see the Dr. and have him see his tonsils to see that they really needed to come out. Blessings aren't always answered in the way we would like them to be. Sometimes we have to be patient and look for the blessings.

It's Potty Time

So Brooklynn is potty training herself. She takes off her diaper and runs for the bathroom. She hasn't had any accidents yet, only in her diaper. But she has been dry more times than wet. She is so proud of herself. We told her, when she is potty trained she can get a big girl bed. She is really growing up.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone. For those of you who have expressed disappointment in my blogging these past 2 months, I've posted 3 now today:) We hope 2008 will start off great and last all year long for everyone.

The end of another great year

It's been quite a year. 2007 went by so fast. This year we did a lot of camping and fishing. We went to Boondocks for the first time. We took the kids to Disneyland/Sea World/Wild Animal Park this past fall. I love visiting California

Wayne is still working for a Dentist as an associate. He has been fishing quite a bit, went on the bow hunt(I think he just likes to camp, just kidding, he really tried to get a dear) and is now attempting to build his own model airplane. He went flying with Shaun a couple of times. He bought a simulator to practice flying, and also bought xbox 360 (peer presure). He went to Las Vegas with his work and saw blue man group and even danced (if you can believe that).

I turned the big 30 this year and Wayne surprised me with a party/get together with our families. He also dropped the kids off with Gma over night and we went and stayed at the grand america hotel, went to Les Mis, went shopping and saw Pirates (all in 2 days). It was a lot of fun. I started working for a lady doing digital work. It's been fun learning new things. I havn't had much time to scrapbook but I was able to get a few pages done. Wayne and I were called as the Ward Activities Committee people and have been running around nonstop since August.

Parker turned 7 this year (8 in 2008). I can't believe how big he is. He has lost 3 teeth, learned how to heeley (which he is quite good at, he still makes me nervous). He still does NOT like going to see Wayne for his checkups though. He is learning to like swimming more. He played soccer, baseball, basketball and wrestling. We probably could have fit more sports in but we needed a break. We took sea doos to a lake and both Parker and Kendra loved it. Parker just wants to do anything his dad does.

Kendra turned the big 5. She is in Preschool again but still loves it. She is learning to write, spell and read. She took Gymnastics this year. She really is quite the singer. She wants to take singing lessons. She still loves the water. I think she was in our small pool this summer almost every day. She went to a little girls spa and had her nails and hair done (which she loved). She still loves to cook in the kitchen with me.

Brooklynn turned 2. She grew a few more teeth this year. She is loving to talk and run and play and be a girl. She loves dressups and watching princess movies. Just near the end of the swimming season, she started to love the water. She learned the word No very quickly and tries to get away with saying it to me all the time. She loves to get dirtier than Parker when we go camping. This was her first year to try sledding and she got more worn out than we did.

The Mateja's and The Davis's spent a few months in Utah and it was fun to visit with them and show them the sites. Brad and Jen Hammond came up to visit for a day and we bbq'd with them, Briggs, and Burdett's. We had another Christmas get together and saw Jared and Nicole, Briggs, Stephensons, Birch's and Jensen's. It's always fun to see friends. We have also gone to visit the Hintons in small town Loa a few times.

We are so grateful for our family and our friends. We have been so blessed this year.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Brown's.


In case anyone is wondering, yes you are getting a christmas card it's just been delayed.

We all had a fun Christmas. Christmas Eve, we made cookies for Santa and the kids slept until 8:30 Christmas morning.

Parker's favorites - he got a small remote helicopter, a remote dinosaur(which is way cool), nintendo DS with a mario game(which he shares with me quite a bit), and a BYU jersey.

Kendra's favorites - Island Barbie, Barbie car, Barbie horse, Bride and groom Barbie (is there a theme here?) oh and nintendo DS with a barbie game.

Brooklynn's favorites - Elmo (all the way), oger babies (ugly things but she loves them), princess babies.

Share-Eat-Enjoy

Ok, I saw this idea and thought it would be fun to try it. If you are interested in posting some fun recipes that you have tried and love, let me know. I hope everyone will want to participate. Just go to the link on the right.

Brooklynn's "Flies"

Before I start into the story you need to know that for some odd reason, Brooklynn calls her bugers "flies". So we were driving together the other day and Brooklynn says "Mom, look at my flys" so I turn around only to find her picking her nose and showing me her "flies". Kendra, so calmly and not cracking a smile says to her "Brooklynn, don't eat your flies". It was the funniest thing. It's good to have kids around that can make you laugh everyday.

Wheeler Farm

Ok I know I just posted our Halloween pictures but we went to Wheeler Farm this past week and it was so pretty. I took some cute pictures of the kids.