A night on the plaza

Mommy & Brooke went to the plaza one, cold Sunday evening with Aunt Rosa. We had dinner at Buca's and then walked around looking at the lights and drinking some Starbucks. It was a lot of fun and Brooke did really well during our 2 hour long dinner!



HA! Look how Aunt Rosa made Brooke be closer to the big dog than her...Rosa hates big dogs...like Brooke was going to protect her or something!

Shopping at Gap!!!

Hanging out with Mommy in the SNOW!!!

A bit behind

So, my mom informed me I'm behind on my postings...so hold your britches...I'm catching up today.
These are from Brooke's first birthday. She got a cool bounce - n - spin zebra from Nana & Pops and a Nativity set from Aunt Rosa.


Eating the yummy cupcake with Aunt Rosa...she LOVED it!!!


It was an unseasonably warm day on her birthday so we took her to the park for a little while.

We LOVE snow!!!!!

No worries - we were only outside for a few minutes in the 20 degree weather yesterday...but we had to go out and sled down the hill in the front yard. Brooke wasn't all that thrilled but Mommy & Daddy had fun! :-)

She's 1!!!

One year ago today I woke up convinced I was going to have my baby! And sure enough at 10:00 that night, she was here! What a year it's been. I never dreamt I would be so in love with her! As I remember holding her in my arms and staring into her beautiful little face that night, I am amazed at how much change has happened in her little life in just 1 year. She communicates with us, she crawled (only for a short while), she pulled up on things (her daddy's hairy legs), she took a few steps and now she runs all over the place! The best thing in the world is to walk into a room when she hasn't seen me for a little bit and her face lights up and she runs to me with her little arms straight up in the air reaching for me.
This morning I was reading a little book to her about baby Jesus' birth and tears came to my eyes as I thought of the awesome responsibility we hold as her parents to teach her about our Lord and Saviour. My daily prayer is for her salvation. What a precious bundle of joy the Lord sent our way!!!
Happy Birthday, Brooke, we love you!!!

Funny Brooke

Just a few of the funny things Brooke did this past week!

One morning I found her lounging in her living room toy box...swinging her legs, singing a little tune and picking out toys one by one.


She's been eating real food forever now, but got to feed herself spaghetti for the first time on Friday night. She loved it...of course she was hamming it up because Aunt Rosa was eating with us! :-) Those 2 are like 2 peas in a pod, but man, do they love each other! :-)

Happy Halloween

Last night was Brooke's first Halloween. So we dressed her as a Care Bear and hit the streets in search of lots and lots of candy for Mommy & Daddy! :-) She did great considering all we put her through. We started at Aunt Rosa's house, then hit the houses in our neighborhood, then went to some friends house, then it was off to church and finally one last friends house. Whew, it was crazy!!!!
Daddy got to put Brooke in her costume!
Isn't she the cutest little Care Bear you've ever seen?
Knocking on our very first door...who was there, AUNT ROSA!!!!! Brooke was the most excited about this house! I think she knew she was going to get spoiled here! :-)

Aunt Rosa gave her the purple Care Bear (Share Bear) and a whole bag of Teddy Grahams!

Mommy & Brooke in the front yard of some of our neighbors...they were really into Halloween!

Petting Zoo

Aunt Rosa told us that Tree of Life bookstore was having a free petting zoo today and if Brooke wore her Halloween outfit we got 10% off our purchases...so Mommy jumped at that! :-)
Brooke loves animals right now so we knew this would be a lot of fun!

Isn't she the cutest little Care Bear you've ever seen?

Look at that face! I think she just got a goat kiss!!!

Brooke knows all about zebras...they live in her jungle room with her!

She loved those mini goats...and they loved her!

Brooke's friend, Hannah, came home from college for the weekend and met us at the petting zoo...the new boyfriend came home to meet the family as well! Tim, you're a brave man!