Brooke is 2!!

Monday was Brooke's 2nd birthday. We had a great day, first because I was supposed to work and was put on call. Second because Tyler took the day off work (not so good reason..we had a funeral to go to for his childhood friend/neighbor). After the funeral we went to get Brooke's presents and then we picked the girls up from the day care. When we got home we gave Brooke her present-a razor scooter. She loved it. That night Tyler's family came over and we had cake and ice cream. We celebrated with my family on Sunday night at my parent's house. Brooke had a blast and was spoiled. I can't believe she is 2, she is so fun and cute and full of life. She loves her sister and they are good friends (I hope this continues).

I've got the BUG....

....the running bug that is. This past weekend I ran my first half marathon. I finished in 2 hours and 9 minutes. I am pretty happy with my time. Friday I rode up to Salt Lake with my friend Connie and her husband, Tyler was at work up there already and met us at dinner. Thanks to him for picking up our race packets from the Salt Palace, traffic was horrific. After dinner we went to our hotel near the U of U, where to start of the race was. The next morning Connie, her friend Jen and myself rode the shuttle from the hotel to the starting line. I was nervous and excited about running my first half marathon. The first half of the race was pretty much down hill then pretty much flat the rest of the way. About mile 8 my knees started hurting and around mile 11 I decided to walk @ mile 12 I started to run again and finished. When I turned the corner into the gate way their were so many people watching and cheering, the energy was catching and fun to be around. I was glad Tyler was at the end to see me cross the finish line and be there for support. I definitely want to do another half marathon, but Tyler tells me NO. I want to do another one to improve my time. I'm glad I ran the race and had fun when it was over. My next adventure will be running the Wasatch Back in June (can't wait!)

Jen, Connie, Me before the race.

Connie and Jen

Me at the end YEAH!

Spring Break!!

This year my parents went down to St. George for spring break. I decided to take the girls and drive down with my parents. Tyler couldn't get off work to come with us. We went down on Wednesday and stayed until Friday. My uncle owns a house there and let us stay for the week. It was so nice to have sunshine and warm weather for a change. My brother and sister in law came down with their kids as well. We had fun hiking and playing in the sand and just enjoying the sunshine. Of course the girls couldn't go to St. George and not go to the outlets and shop. It was fun to get away and enjoy spending time with my family and girls.

Easter 2010

This year we had so much fun for Easter. It went on all week long. We had an Easter egg hunt with the neighbors on Monday...that is the only one I took pictures at...the girls had so much fun, despite Brooke being a little sick. On Easter Saturday my family had a picnic, Easter egg hunt/scavenger hunt where the kids had to find 3 eggs of every color like 3 yellow eggs, 3 pink eggs, etc. This way all the kids of every age get the same amount of eggs and the older kids don't take all of them. The kids also got a cute cuddly bunny. Chloee and Brooke had fun. After the egg hunt we have a tradition of decorating chocolate marshmallow eggs that my aunt K'Ann makes from scratch. The kids really get into decorating with every color of frosting and sugar decorations, I think I ate most of the chocolate eggs. This year at Easter it was general conference. The boys went to priesthood session and the girls got together at my mom's house and made pizza a decorated sugar cookies. I think we all were on a sugar high. Easter Sunday was the Sunday session of general conference. We went to my parent's house for lunch and to watch the last session of conference then we headed over to Tyler's parents and had another Easter egg hunt with the cousins and had dinner. The girls had so much fun opening all the eggs filled with candy. All Brooke could say was candy candy. She was so sick or at least I was for her. Here are some pictures from the first Easter egg hunt....

Sunday Best!

After we got ready for church today, I thought the girls looked extra cute, so I took some pictures. Chloee has a new dress and Brooke is wearing one of Chloee's old ones. I love that I can put the outfits that I loved on Chloee on Brooke. This dress was one of my favorites!!

Fairy Tea Party!!!!

Chloee and I had the opportunity to go to the Fairy Tea at the local city Library on Friday night. We invited Grandma Gae, Emma and her dad and my friend Joni, her little girl Skyler and Joni's mother in law came too. We had so much fun. When we got there we found our table and opened a special present-a cute necklace. Chloee wanted mine and Grandma Gae's so we gave them to her. When it was time to start 2 fairies started to sing and then this pretty white fairy came and was like the host.

After she introduced the program the Fairy King came in with his court.

Then four dancers from the sponsoring ballet company danced individually to music. They were good.

Then they fed us and all the little girls who were there were able to participate in the fairy promenade. Chloee of course chose not to participate, surprise surprise, maybe someday she won't be so shy. After the promenade they let the girls go up and get their picture with the Fairy King and his court and all the dancers and other fairies at the tea. Chloee and I had a good time and would like to thank Tyler for getting the tickets for us, he's the best!! Here are a few more pictures from the night.

Chloee and Skyler

Brooke is a "Big Girl"

I wanted to keep Brooke in the crib as long as I could, thinking it would be until she was closer to 3, not 2. So the other day she decided to climb out after I put her in bed for the night. The first time it was cute, after the 3rd, 4th up to the 6th time I was done. Tyler and I thought maybe it is just tonight, but the next day she did it again over and over again. I finally had had it and told Tyler to take the front part of the crib off and turn it into a big girl bed. We figured we were putting her back in the crib so why not make it easier on ourselves and put her in the bed, plus now she won't hurt herself climbing in and out. The first few nights were hard, but she's gotten better. She still gets out of bed so we shut her door and let her play until she is tired. Some nights it takes 2 hours, some nights it takes 30 minutes. She looks so cute, next step is potty training right (not sure we're ready for that yet, maybe in a couple of months after she turns 2).

She loves it!!!