Pre-School Graduation

So now that you have graduated from Pre-school what do you want to be when you grow up? "Um... I think a Dinosaur!"

Look who's 8!

Look who is 8 years old! Wow! It has been an exciting month planning my oldest boys
8th Birthday Celebration. We had to change the baptism date a couple of times to work with daddy's work schedule but we did it. It turned out to be such a fun experience. We were able to plan a private baptism that turned out so great. It was a lot of work but worth it. We are so proud of his decision to be baptised and he is such a great example to his little brother and sister. He truly has always had such a special spirit about him and now with the Holy Ghost as a companion.... watch out! He will be a great missionary someday. We had a big celebration after with all of our family in our backyard. It was such a great day. Happy 8th Birthday!

Women of Steel Triathlon

Swim 300 meters - Bike 11 miles - Run 3 miles - Finished 2:03

Ok....so we have trained for months; swimming, biking, running, working out, getting babysitters, pushing kids in strollers, getting up early,leaving kids and family's to train for this triathlon...you get my drift. Anyways, the day before the big day I get deathly sick! Really, really, really sick. I lost 5 pounds just on Friday. Well, do or die I decided to risk it all and go anyways. Thanks to all my cute friends that pressured me into doing this in the first place, offered up the most sincere prayers for me. So with no energy, nothing in my body, I went and finished the race and live to tell about it! Wow! It truly was a miracle and I am grateful that I got to complete the race. I guess it was all in the journey of it...but had I not been able to complete the journey would have made me sad.

Appendicitis!

Our little "big" boy got sick over the weekend; throwing up, fever, ect. I had a funny feeling that it might be appendicitis because those are so commonly misdiagnosed. But the Doctor talked me out of it and said it might just be the flu. I went all weekend with a sick little boy, DJ was out of town. Finally on Monday I got another feeling that something was wrong so I took him to the Dr.'s and said this is what I think it is....mother's intuition!They sent us to the hospital for an ultra sound and as soon as they did it we went straight to the ER for an emergency appendectomy! He did so good and is such a tough little kid. Good job buddy! Really, who needs your appendix anyways!

Look who is 5!

Happy Birthday to you! All he wanted to do for his 5th birthday is take some friends to the park and ride scooters. He had a Star Wars cake and donuts. We played some games and opened presents. Big brother gave him that awesome spiderman costume! WOW! We went and had pizza for dinner and went home. What a fun birthday! Happy 5th birthday to my little boy.

Baby's Blessing Dress

So we had to have a photo shoot of baby in her blessing dress! She was so fun.....look how cute.

Baby's Blessing Day

Today was our little baby's Blessing Day! It was so much fun planning and getting ready for this day. Daddy did such a great job on giving her a name and blessing. All of our family came after to the house to celebrate. It turned out to be great spring weather. It was such a perfect day!

Run, Run, Run....

Ok so I had these two cute friends that talked me into running the Provo's 5k this weekend. I really was NOT ready to run a 5k race but I did it anyways. I came in about 29 minutes, but my two cute friends Jenny and Emily took 2nd place in their age divisions for their 26 minute time...WOW!! It was so much fun and felt good to get out and run again. By the way it was freezing that day!

Batter Up!

We were invited to a UVU baseball game with some of our friends. The boyz had a blast! I don't think they watched much of the game...they liked rolling down the grass hill the best. It was such a fun night sitting on the grass, eating popcorn, and watching baseball. We are ready now for summer! Thanks RaKelly and Josh for the invite!

Easter Sunday

Happy Easter! Look how sharp my boyz look. Look how beautiful my little girl looks in her Easter dress. We decided to try and make it to church for Easter Sunday. Well we did it.....all by myself with my three kids! It was Aftyn's first time at church. Ok she is two months old today. Everything went great and everyone loved to see our little new addition...of course no one got to hold her. I kept her very close to me. And the best part about today was when we got home from church daddy was home from his week long work trip....Yeah!

Playing in the Poelmans' Pool

While daddy was out of town we decided to go play with some of our friends at the Poelman's indoor Pool. We haven't been out much this winter so it was nice to take Aftyn somewhere warm. We were celebrating Parker Chandler's 8th birthday. The boys had so much fun swimming and going down the slide. We will have to do it again when daddy comes back.

Our Little Princess

We finally got our little girl! Aftyn Adell was born on January 23, 2008 at 11:22 pm in the Utah Valley Hospital. She weighed 7lb 10 oz and was 19.5 in. She has been such a little angel.From the day she was born she has brought the sweetest spirit into our home. We just love her! I had these pictures taken of her when she was only 2weeks old....and look at her cute little smile! She is truly our "little princess".

Aftyn's First Photo Shoot

We had so much fun getting these pictures done. Aftyn was only two weeks old. I just had to post them all....I have the cutest kids!

My Baby Girl's Nursery

My baby girl's nursery has been a dream I have imagined for a long time now. I wanted a room that was timeless and a place of peace. My fondest memories as a little girl was this Fairy Book my Grandma Thomas used to read to me. I wanted this room to be designed around this book. I took the book and copied the pages to frame on the walls. The theme of this room then became "Fairy tales do come true..."! My sister and I took all my old baby furniture and painted it white....twice. I then started to add old antiques and most of them were my mom's things. Her baby book, doll cribs, books, clothes, ect. This room just started to come together. I had already picked out Aftyn's name and decided to have her middle name after my grandmother...Ruth Adell Thomas. This was the final touch I needed. It was then complete. Aftyn Adell Brown was born. I posted this on what would have been my grandma's 89th birhtday January 28, 2008....5 days after Aftyn's Birthday.

Baby Aftyn is here!

We finally got our little girl! She is so beautiful! We are so excited to start our new life with her. The boys are so excited and already have a nick name of "Affy Taffy" for her. So fun!!!

A Shower for Aftyn

My cute best friends gave me the nicest baby shower for my little girl! I got the neatest "pink" clothes and bows. What more do you need for a little girl....just for her to get here!

Clyde's Halloween Party

Ward Halloween Party

Oakley Fun

Tennis Anyone?