July 4th

This year for July 4th Clark's family all got together at his parents house (our current residence) and had a bbq. It was fun to be with everyone. We took a picture of all the grandkids decked out in their american colors. Too cute!



Then after the bbq the family had our 1st Annual 4th of July Wii Bowling Tournament! It was tons of fun!! So Clark had to battle his Grandmother and he barely won. In the end it was between Lizzie and Clark and Clark got schooled! (Thanks lizzie for humbling the man)





Here are some other photos of the day...


Brooklyn and Bub (new name for bob and he's not a fan...love ya)


Okay so two seconds before I took this picture Logan was being so sweet to brooklyn and she WAS happy and I guess you could call this the wrong picture and the wrong time...it looks like Logan is chocking her and she is terrified...

Picture overload...

Okay so I found everything I needed to download my pictures so I am gonna lay it on you with the pictures...


Brooklyn was really young in this picture, I would say about a week or so old...Can tell because she still had the hospital bow..



Brooklyn pimping it out with her collar up...


Her shirt reads: "What part of princess don't you understand?" Her great Aunt Cindy gave that to her. She already knew how it was gonna be


This is my favorite of Clark and her because its so her. She makes the nastiest faces when she isn't happy and for the first month of her life we saw it a lot...

Bath time

Since the first few minutes of Brooklyn's life we knew she would love bath time! The nurse washed her hair and brooklyn almost fell asleep during it. Well Clark and I gave her a bath together after her cord had fallen off and again she loved it. I think sometimes she has blow outs just so I will have to stick her in the tub!! Here are some pictures of the experience...


The both of us going crazy with the baby wash!


Brooklyn Chill-laxin in the tub


She is all wrapped up and Daddy is giving kisses. And she does not like it when we take her out, you think we were seriously hurting her by the way she screams

Colicky Baby Changed

So I thought I would update everyone on how Brooklyn has been doing these past 5 1/2 weeks of her life. The First two weeks were really good. She slept a lot and was a pretty happy normal newborn. Her day included Sleeping, eating, pooping, and more sleeping. Then at about the 3rd week or so she got really fussy and Clark and I didn't know why. She wasn't her normal self and it was bothering us that we couldn't find out why but we stuck it out. After about a week of her still being fussy we were out at my sister's house. My brother in law Chad has been helping us look for houses out there in Queen Creek and we had just made our rounds on looking at homes. I breastfed Brooklyn for about 45 minutes to get ready for the drive home so that would "help" her. Unfortunately she was immediately fussy and so my sister recommended topping her off with a bottle. Oh my goodness, that girl downed 4 ounces flat and then slept for 5 1/2 hours right after that. Poor girl, I was starving her and not even knowing it!! So I started to make sure I topped her off after each feeding. Things got better....but

But not as well as we thought she would. I took everyones advice about how to help her: giving her a bath with soothing baby wash, then lotion, colicky medicine to put in her bottle, just about everything!! I hit my breaking point last week. I was in tears and so stressed. This past weekend I had my family here because Darrik, my younger brother, went through the temple for his endowments. My loving husband, seeing I was just about run off the deep end, let me take off Friday night to be with family while he watched Brooklyn. It was so needed. But I still didn't know what to do with Brooklyn and not looking forward to going home and not knowing what to do to help her be happy.

Saturday was when my brother went through the temple. The whole time I was there I was saying a prayer for not only Brooklyn but for myself and Clark. As I was pondering and praying the thought came in my mind to ask my parents what to do. So as I was at dinner I asked my mom what I should do. She did after all have 8 kids!! My mother said she had 2 colicky babies, the very first 2. She advised me to put her in a dark room and make sure she is getting enough sleep. She said once the baby gets fussy being awake to put her down and if I have to, let her cry it out. I was so ready to do anything.

Today is Wednesday and can I say I am so much happier, Clark is so much happier, and our little angel is so much happier. Grant it she does cry for 40 minutes sometimes before she falls asleep and as hard as that is I know its worth it when she wakes up and is happy. She use to cry all the time, to the point where Julie my mother in law said there was something wrong with her!

Brooklyn is cooing now (ahead of the game) and smiles a lot! I guess she is like her mother and doesn't want to miss out on anything going on around her, she wants to stay up and party. She sleeps 6 hours at night now if not another half hour more. Thank you mom for your advice, Ashley for letting me use your port-a-crib, and mainly thank you heavenly father for hearing my prayers and helping me find my answers!

A Few Pictures

Life is Craziness...

Okay so I know all of you have been asking for more pictures I would love to put them up but currently we are living with Clark's parents and I accidentally packed away everything I need to transfer the pictures from my camera to the computer. I don't know which box its in either which totally sucks but I plan on buying it all again so just give me a little more time. Man, life has been crazy! When I feel like I have time to jump on and blog Brooklyn either wakes up or I need the rest and sleep when she does giving me no time to do it. Or I have errands to run, or laundry to do, or help my mother in law who just got a knee replacement...Enough excuses, I will get some up. Hope all is well with everyone and make sure to drop a line. I don't get out much so this might be the closest thing to chit chatting...

2 Weeks Are Over...

Yesterday was the first day I was on my own with Brooklyn. Clark had gotten off work for 2 weeks to help the both of us out and man was it great! He was always up for changing her diapers, burping her, rocking her, and singing her to sleep which she loves. It has been really nice to spend some time with just the three of us. And with Clark it feels like I am falling for him all over again. He is so good with his little girl and I am lucky to have him. It was hard yesterday not having him there to nap with, talk to, and mess around with. Brooklyn and I miss him terribly but I just wanted to say how much I appreciate all he has done and will yet do for the two of us. Thanks for making this a great and wonderful experience honey! Love you!!