Breckyn's Blessing

Last Sunday was a very special day for our family. Brady blessed our sweet baby, Breckyn. It was such a fun and busy day! Breckyn wore my blessing dress that my grandma crocheted for me. She also wore a cute slip that her two grandmas made together for her. She looked so cute! We had lots of friends and family come to support our little family. Afterwards we had a little lunch at our house which also turned out great. We are so grateful for our sweet baby and also for all of our family and friends that are always there for us. Here are a few pictures of Breckyn and our family on her blessing day. Thanks to everyone that came and also to everyone that helped out, we love you!

Good girl...

Well we went to the doctor again today and our baby has moved to be head down! We were really happy that she did it all on her own and didn't have to be moved by the doctor. So thank you to everyone that said a little prayer for us or thought about us. We have such wonderful friends and family that support us. So, again, THANKS and we love you all! Hopefully she will stay that way and things will go quickly the next 22 days! We can't wait for her to get here. It is going to be a wonderful experience!

Long Update

Wow we have been really busy it seems! I am horrible at keeping up on the blog, that is for sure! Here are a few highlights from the last month...

BRADY, LAUREL & PAISLEY LEAVE
This is the worst part of the whole last month. My best friend, Laurel has moved away! Brady is in medical school in Pittsburgh. I am so sad to not have her here but I know it will be a wonderful adventure for them! We got to have a fun little party with our friends before they left. Brady and I also got to go out to treats with Brady and Laurel right before they left. They are such good friends to us! Brady, Laurel, and Paisley, we miss you and can't wait for you to come back and visit!

(We have pictures of the party but they are on my parent's camera.. I will put them up soon).

BABY SHOWERS!!
I am such a lucky girl. I have had three fun showers so far. The first one was with my job at DBH. I work with three other ladies so they had a little shower for me. It was so much fun! We made a quilt for my baby and just ate and had fun! The next shower was my friend shower. My sweet friends Laurel, Steph, Emily, and Shelby did it for me. It was SO nice! I got so many fun gifts. The girls went to so much work and it was just perfect! Thanks you guys SO much for doing that for me, especially when you are all so busy! The next shower I had was the Hess family shower. My sister-in-laws and mother-in-law did this one for me. It was also a perfect shower! They did such a good job with everything. It was so fun to just get to talk with the girls and eat yummy food! So, thanks to everyone that came and everyone that has done so much for me! I love you all!

LINDSEY GOT MARRIED
My beautiful friend Lindsey got married August 8th. She was such a beautiful bride! I can tell that she is going to be so happy with her new hubby! Congrats Linds!

FALL CONFERENCE
For my work at DBH we had to go to a conference down at the Grand America. It was a three day conference. It was so nice to get a little change for work. There were some really interesting classes that we went to, along with some really interesting food! Okay, the food was okay except for the first day. They gave us pretzels, corn dogs, and nachos for lunch. It was very interesting. But, the other two days it was much better. It was fun to get to hang out with the girls from work and just have fun together. The only part that was rough was sitting for so long. By the end of the day my feet were always so swollen. Oh, and the second day we were there, my car got wet drywall all over it from that parking garage. But, that got fixed and all is well now. It was a good information and good company!


JEN HAS BABY BRISTOL!!
My sister, Jen, had her baby on her due date! It was so crazy! Jen went into labor Saturday August 22nd in the early morning. Jen and Scott became Jen, Scott, and Bristol at 7:40pm. She is SO beautiful! She is such a good baby and was wide awake and aware from the time she was born! It was SO exciting for my family to get the first grand baby! We were all being a little dorky, waiting outside the room listening for a cry. They named her Bristol June Read. She was 7 lb. 2 oz. and 19.25 inches. She has tons of brown hair and big beautiful eyes like her mom. We are so excited that Jen and Scott have her and that Jen and Bristol are doing just fine! That just made Brady and I even more excited to have our little angel!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CHRIS!
Brady's brother had a birthday the same day that Bristol was born. We were sad that we didn't get to see him that day but we hope it was a wonderful birthday for him. We celebrated his birthday as a family this past Sunday. Chris, we love you and hope your birthday was awesome!

"WORLD'S FAIR"
Okay, no we didn't go to the real "World's Fair", but Brady and his family calls the Box Elder County Fair "The World's Fair". I think that Brady's favorite thing about going to that fair is the food. He thinks the hamburgers are yummy. So, of course, we all got some of the yummy hamburgers. It was fun to go to the fair and see the animals and the booths. But, it made it fun because Travis and Sierra brought their adorable little girls. They loved to see the animals and ride the rides. How cute are they!?




FIVE MORE WEEKS UNTIL OUR BABY WILL BE HERE!
Well, I have five weeks left! We are getting so excited and a little nervous! We have a pretty good start on the nursery. We have the crib, dresser, bedding, glider (almost), and some ideas for decor. If anyone has a good idea for decorations for her room, let me know. The room colors are red, pink, and turquoise. Anyways, we don't have a name for sure but are working on it. I have some belly pictures but they are on my camera so I will have to wait to put them up. My feet and hands are permanently swollen. I have to shove my wedding ring on, but at least I can still get it on there, right??? :) But, other than getting swollen, things are going great. We get to have another final ultrasound next week to make sure she is in the right position. Hopefully she is all ready to go and in a month after that we will have her here, safe and sound!

Well, there is the update. Hopefully I will keep up a little better in the next month! Oh, if anyone knows some good photographers, let me know. I am looking for a good one for when we have the baby. Other than that, thanks for reading (if you made it all the way) and hopefully we will have some good updates soon!

Catching Up...

I have been a slacker with blogging for a while now. We have been pretty busy the last few weeks! Here is a little update on what we have been up to the last month or so...

June 19-20: Brady and I were asked to help out with our stake Youth Conference. It was a two night conference. The first night was dinner and swimming party at Brigham City Pool. The kids had so much fun there! The next day was the BIG day. Everyone met at the stake center for a little opening prayer, breakfast, and then loading on the buses. Then we went up to the tabernacle in Brigham for a devotional. It was awesome. Then we were up to Logan for the rest of the day on the farm. . . Brady and I were in charge of games for all of the kids for 1 hour. We set up three stations for the kids. The first was a Cranium station, church style. The next station was four square with sheets. The third one was the Human Knot. We just rotated all of the groups through. I think that it went well. After we got our part over with, everyone went to eat lunch. After lunch, there were several different breakout groups to attend. Then there was dinner for everyone. After dinner, everyone got to listen to our wonderful stake president talk. After the talk they showed a movie. Brady and I left after the stake president's talk, but it was really a wonderful Youth Conference and we were so glad we got to be a part of it.

Some of our cranium winners!

Some more of our cranium winners!

Some more of our cranium winners!

4 square

Human Knot

June 21: Father's Day... I had to speak in sacrament meeting. This is why Brady and I left Youth Conference before the movie. I still had had NO time to prepare! But, it went well I think... I love you dad, Brady, and Dave! You guys are the best dads ever (or will be soon)!

June 25: Brady got to play in a 3x3 basketball tournament. I didn't get pictures... Whoops!

June 26: Brady and I got to babysit our adorable nieces overnight! They are SO cute! It was so much fun to get to spend time with them.




June 27: Marc came home from his mission! *See post below*

June 30: My cute mom's birthday! We went out to eat at ABC Mandarin and then partied at home with a DELICIOUS cake and presents! Happy Birthday Mom! Love you lots!



July 1st: My family left for Ohio, New York, Boston, Washington DC (without me and Brady) :( They had lots of fun though and brought us lots of cute stuff!

July 10-11: Brady and his brothers and dad always go up to a golf tournament in Twin Falls, Idaho. We went up this past weekend and it was so much fun! I got to hang out with my awesome sister-in-laws and mother-in-law! We did some serious shopping! It was so much fun! Brady and his brother Chris were in a three way tie for first place. They got to spend some money at the pro shop. Congrats guys! I can't wait to go again next year! I forgot our camera so no pictures from this fun trip...

July 14: I am officially 28 weeks pregnant! I can't believe that it is going by so fast! Not too much longer and we will have our sweet girl here! I haven't taken any official belly pictures because I really don't like to look at myself with this belly, let alone make others look at me. But, I have a couple pictures from when Marc came home I will put on here and you can see my belly. I will have Brady take a real belly shot and I post it.



So, we have had some fun things going on! The rest of the summer is going to be just as busy it seems! Next week we have some showers to attend, a going away party (SAD!) for my best friend, Laurel and her hubby Brady and their beautiful girl Paisley. After that we will be having more showers, birthdays, and then next month we will have our 4th anniversary and my sister will have her baby! Then only six weeks later we will be having ours! It will be so much fun! I will try to be better at posting more often.

Happy Easter

Brady and I had such a nice Easter. Brady did have to work all day but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. He got up and went to work and I got up and went to my parents house for breakfast and a quick Easter egg hunt. Then I ran over to Brady's work to go to his church that they have for the patients there. It was fun because I got to spend a little time with my sweet Brady. Then I went home and went to our ward to teach primary. After that I left to go to my mom's house to make cookies for a baby blessing. This was the funniest part of the day. I started out making the wrong recipe so we just used what was in there and tripled the real recipe so the yummy recipe would work. Then, whoops, my mom tripled the already doubled amount of SALT! It was so funny! So, we ended up making a 6x batch of chocolate chip cookies. After we baked them we were off to the baby blessing. It was for my best friend Laurel's baby, Paisley. She looked SO beautiful (as usual) and Brady (her daddy) did such a wonderful job blessing her. It was a wonderful blessing! My Brady was able to take a lunch and come to the blessing and to their house after church. Laurel has such a wonderful family and they are all so sweet! I am glad that I am able to know them, they really are a WONDERFUL family!
After Laurel's house, we went to my parent's house for dinner and another Easter egg hunt. Seriously, my mom LOVES Easter egg hunts! She loves hiding the eggs! She hid like 300 eggs! She is a maniac! Anyways, it was a really fun night! Oh, I have to add this so we can look back next year a know the TRUTH! Tyler, my little brother won the first Easter egg hunt by about 10-15. I won the 2nd one by 10-15! Anyways, I am really grateful for Easter. Not just because it is so much fun, but because I get to learn about and remember my savior. I am so glad I can be with my family for eternity! I love them all so much! I know that would not be possible without my savior! I am just so glad that I can repent for the many things I do wrong so that I can eventually see him again and thank him for what he did for me. I love the savior and I love you all that read this. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter like I did!


This is SOME of the candy we got from the Easter egg hunts!

Jubb and Kylie brought over some cute Easter houses that we made! It was SO much fun! I think they turned out really cute!

Thanks Jubb and Kylie!

"Joining the club"

I have been SO excited to FINALLY be able to do this post! Brady and I are FINALLY "joining the club" (that is what Brady says). We are going to be having a baby! My due date is October 6th. Brady and I knew a little before Valentines day but we were in denial until we actually saw the sweet little baby on Monday. We hadn't told anyone until we actually saw it. We told our family on Monday night. It was so much fun to get to tell people finally! My sister is going to be having a baby too. She is just six weeks ahead of me! I think I have talked to most of you who look at my blog but for those who I haven't talked to here is a little info so far. Brady and I don't really care if it is a boy or girl. Brady does tease me that it is a boy and I tease him that it is a girl. But, in reality we just feel so lucky to get this little baby that it really doesn't matter! I have been feeling nauseous all day every day for the last three weeks or so. But, I have been lucky that nothing has come up and out yet! :) We are leaving for California tomorrow so I hope that I start feeling a little better while we are there! But, it is all worth it so whatever! Anyways, we are really excited to have this baby! We are so grateful to our family and friends that have been so excited for us. Thanks! Now I finally have something to blog about! Well at least once a month.... I will work on it.


One more thing I just had to add about the post before this one..... My sister-in-laws were teasing me about this. I didn't really think about it until they said something so thanks Sierra and Kerri, you two are so funny to notice this (or I am for NOT noticing) Anyways, I started off talking about eating healthy and watching what I eat with that website and everything and then I put a recipe for CUPCAKES (with cream cheese inside too!) Anyways, I am sure many other people noticed and just laughed but I just wanted to say....I think that website is awesome and it is really important to eat healthy, but doesn't everyone like to eat treats too???? Well I know I do, so I guess I will keep making my cupcakes and maybe have a little fruit after or something. ;)

Happy Birthdays

Yesterday was Brady's brother, Justin's birthday. It was also our friend Ty's birthday. We celebrated Justin's birthday this past weekend and forgot to bring my camera! But, it was a lot of fun and Kylee made an awesome Oreo cake! We hope Justin and Ty both had a wonderful birthday! We love you both!


***Today my best friend, Laurel, is going to have her baby! We are so excited to see little Paisley! She is going to be so cute! I am sure there will be tons of pictures to come!

BYU Las Vegas Bowl

Brady and I were lucky enought to go with our good friends Brady and Laurel Mock to the BYU bowl game. We left on Friday and drove down in the morning. We stayed at Samstown. Friday night we went to the strip. We walked to the Bellagio and looked at their Christmas decorations. Then we went to the ESPN center to watch the Jazz game. After the game got over we went to Cheesecake Factory. Oh man, SO good! I love that place! On Saturaday we woke up and went to the new James Bond movie. It was a good one! Then we headed to In-and-Out for lunch. Brady and I didn't really like it last time we went but we thought we would give it a second try. Well, it wasn't as big of a disappointment as the first time, I will admit that. Thanks to Brady and Laurel for getting us to go there again. We have a much better attitude about it now. After lunch we headed to the game. I am sure most of you know that BYU lost. Yeah it was sad but I seriously must say, that was my very favorite football game that I have EVER been to! Brady and I are just so grateful to the Wolthuis/Mock family for letting us take those extra tickets. We left a couple minutes before the game ended. It was a sad night. We went back to the hotel and ate some food and then did a little bowling. I am going to have to brag a little now. .. Laurel and I dominated bowling. Laurel is almost nine months pregnant and she still did so good! We both wooped on Brady M. the second game. I think that we beat them the first game with overall points too. But bowling was really fun. We headed home on Sunday. It was so much fun to spend some time with our friends. Laurel is going to have her baby any day now so it will probably be one of the last times it is just the four of us on a vacation. However, I can't wait for them to have Paisley, she is going to be SO cute and fun! Anyways, thanks Brady and Laurel, we had so much fun with you guys! Love ya!

Baby Shower!

My best friend Laurel is going to be having a sweet little girl in January. We had a shower for her last week. It was so much fun to be with the girls and celebrate Laurel and baby Paisley. We had some yummy food, decorated bibs, opened presents, and just had fun talking. She got some really cute things for baby Paisley. She is going to be a spoiled little girl, I can tell already! Laurel, your sweet baby is going to be so much fun! I can't wait to see her! Love ya!

Halloween (yeah, a little late!)

I just had to add a few pictures from Halloween. Halloween was a fun and busy day. I ended up having one of the busiest days ever at work. So, I got home a little late. But, I got things ready for dinner (and Brady had been hard at work) so Brady's family could come over. His family came over and we had chili (Chris, Brady, and Patti all made some), bone breadsticks, mummie dogs (pigs in a blanket), and monster mouths (apples with caramel inside). Everyone did such a good job making chili. It was fun to have them over. The highlight of having Brady's family over was Chris's costume.
A little later that night Brady's brother Travis, his wife Sierra, and their girls Skylar and Sailyr came over. Skylar was SO cute (as usual). She was a little kitty.


Later that night, we had some of our friends come over. We all watched Skeleton Key. It was a good show for being a scary one! After the movie we all just talked the night away. It was really fun. Halloween is always such a fun time to get together and just eat and have fun!

Into the Woods we go. . .

This past weekend Brady and I were able to spend some time with some of my family. On Friday we went to see Ky and Shelby's babies (SO cute!) and then went to dinner with Laurel & Brady and Steph & Ty. After dinner, Brady and I drove down to Salt Lake to meet my parents and little sister, Karlee. As soon as we got there we went for a little swim. Then we ate frosties from Wendys and then went to bed. I got up bright and early so that I could take my test for my license (see post below). I passed so it was a great start to the day. Anyways, then everyone met up with me and we went to IKEA. If you have never been there, you need to go. That place is amazing. It is HUGE! My mom was crying the first time she went there because she didn't know how to get out of the place! (My mom cries a lot so this wasn't weird for her to do.) (There are arrows on the floor to follow out, but she still was lost. Ha ha.) Anyways, it was neat to finally go there and experience that. I had been looking at some chairs there and wanted to check them out! Brady didn't really like them so I am going to get some off Ebay. After IKEA, we headed to Gardner Village. It was some kind of kid day there because there was a million people there and like three million kids! It was crazy. So, we didn't stay there very long. I did get a Halloween decoration there. After we left there we got some lunch at Hires. They have the best rootbeer! Then we headed up Little Cottonwood Canyon to the temple granite quarry. It was SO neat! It was so beautiful and so amazing to see where they got the temple stone from. It made us all realize how amazing those people were. It was SO far away from the temple but somehow they managed to get these extremely heavy stones down the mountain to the temple. I can't even imagine the labor it took. It makes me feel SO grateful to live in the times I do. So, after we left there we headed to a theater in SLC (I think it was the Hale Centre Theater). We went to the play "Into the Woods". It was a cute little play. The playhouse was a little weird but it was fun to be there and hear the songs and everything. After that we headed home and just hung out for the rest of the weekend. Thanks mom and dad and Karlee for a fun weekend! We love you guys!

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

This past Thursday me and some of my best friends went out to dinner to celebrate some babies that will be coming really soon! We were going to do a shower but it just didn't work out. So, we just decided to do something together. Laurel, Shelby, Steph, and I went out to eat at Iggys. Shelby is going to be having twins any day now. Steph is due the second week in November. It was so much fun to just spend some time with the girls. They both look so cute! (Laurel, you do too!) I think that it was fun for all of us to get away for a little while and just sit and talk and have so much fun together. Thanks girls for a fun night out! I can't wait to see those adorable twins! I also can't wait to see that cute boy Steph is going to have too! How exciting!

Football, Computers, and Other Fun Stuff

Well I am sure most of you know that football season has officially started. This is a good thing for Brady since he can't play any sports right now. However, it isn't as good for me. But, so far it hasn't been so bad! Saturday was the first day that we were going to be watching lots of football. So, Brady took me shopping to get me a laptop. He bought me a new laptop so I can blog while he is watching football, but we can still be right next to each other. (He is so sweet, right?) We had something done to the computer so they said it wouldn't be done until 6:00 at night. I was a little bummed because I was going to have to watch at least a whole football game, if not more. But, I was saved when we were on our way home from the store. My sister-in-law, Sierra, called me to go to Swiss Days with her. I usually don't like to leave my cute little hubby on the weekend but I was more than happy to go with her. So, Brady stayed home and watched football and we went and had tons of fun (thanks Sierra). After I got home, our friends Justin and Melissa Chambers came over to say hello. We set up a blog for them (they just got married). So, check it out if you know them.
Sunday I was so happy because Brady got to help me with my primary class. Primary children are so incredible. I love being in the Primary. After our ward we went to listen to my dad speak. He did an incredible job.
Today we got up and went to get me a sofa table. I have been looking for one for SO long. We got one and I love it. Then Brady's family came over so that we could do our fantasy football draft. This is what Brady uses to get me to watch football. It was really fun though. I think I am going to win this year. I need to think of a good team name. Any thoughts? My team name last year was "Smack n' Sack". I need a good one for this year. Brady and I just got done watching the first show of the newest season of Prison Break. (We finished season 3 on Friday with Brady and Laurel (thanks guys)). It was amazing as usual. I will have to post about it more later.
So, tomorrow is back to work as usual. I am glad that this is a short week.

It's Here!

I know that this might not be very exciting for most people, but for Brady and I, this is about as exciting as it gets! Brady and Laurel called us last week to inform us that they had received season three of Prison Break. We were all very excited! Unfortunately, there was a writer's strike this past season so this is a short season. So, we are about half way done now! If anyone needs a little update for this upcoming season, come on over! Because Brady and I don't have a ton of exciting news or events, this is the only thing that I have to blog about. Acutally, there is one exciting thing that has happened. My friend Justin got married this past weekend to Melissa Warren. She is such a darling girl and we are just glad that she went through with it (just kidding). It was a beautiful wedding and I will have to post some pictures soon. But for now, I think I am going to go watch some Prison Break. . .

Boating

Brady and Laurel have been so nice to take us out on their family's boat a couple times this summer. We have so much fun with them! The last time we went out, it was me, Brady, Brady (Mock), Brady (Jenkins), and Ty. Laurel ended not being able to come because she had to finish school (hope it ended well Laur). It was a day that it looked like it was going to storm. But, luckily for us, it didn't. If you read Laurel's blog she talked about how I wakeboarded for the first time. This time it was my second and it was so fun! Brady Mock is the man because he got me up the first time! Anyways, I really think it is so fun! It was fun to go with the boys because they are all really good. I have a couple of videos so hopefully I can get them on here. I tried to get some good shots.