Outside Fun

Cute girl with cute barettes in her hair!
Look at the camera?? I'd rather walk away! haha!

Umm...Where'd my Sookie go?? I know I had it just a moment a go!

Playing on the deck!

Laughing at silly Tucker

A video of how she gets outside!

Last new post!

Today Jeremy and I went to walmart and we found this car seat. Most people from the party gave money towards a new car seat and this is the one we got.

Brooke's 1st Birthday Party

Here she is before the party!

The Present table.
Guests...notice Jer is stuffing his face...lol

The streamers.

Mommy and the Beauty Queen Birthday girl!

The Balloons.

The Cake!

The Topper for the Cake!

Birthday hats??? What is this on my head??

I don't think she stood still for more then 10 mins all day!

Jeremy and Jen enjoying some nachos! Brooke hardly stayed still all day and Jeremy hardly stopped eating all day! lol

Presents from Sue

Present from Jen, Murray and family and Judy.

Daddy loves his up close shots!

Present from Jill and kids.

Time for Cake!!!

Let me at it!!!

Messy Girl with the barrets in (those are from Sue)

More messy pictures.

Boy did she ever love the ice cream cake!!!

The Almost Birthday Girl

I got her a pink chair while I was out shopping for party supplies. I've been looking for one because she seems to love things that come in her size. So I got her this one at the dollar store and she LOVES it! And 2 dollars is much better then 20 or 30!

A pretty good picture of Mommy and Brooke. Baby sister?? or Baby Brother??

Happy Birthday Brooke! She got to open Mammy and Grandad and Nanny's presents on her actual birthday. She got a lovely pink hoodie outfit and a Tigger outfit. Both are very cute and in bigger sizes so she won't be running nake when she turns 2! lol

More Pictures

Brooke has started to take to her Daddy a lot lately. Today when we were getting ready to go do our running around, Jer went out to get the van started and what not, she got very upset that he went outside with out her. She ran to the door and started banging her little hands on it...as if to say "Get back here, you forgot me!" It was really cute!

I found this dress in a bag, I had dismissed it as something I would never wear on Brooke...lol However, upon seeing it today, I just had to put it on her! lol She's so cute in her dress...I need more dresses for her...will have to keep my eyes open.

"Hey, You, with the camera! Get over here and push me!" lol

"Some one push me!!!!!" lol

First thing in the morning...she's a bit grouchy until she gets awake which doesn't normally take very long.

This is what happens when Brooke helps daddy garden! lol she ends up with a mouth full of dirt! lol

Too cute a picture not to share!

21 Weeks. Ultrasound should be in a couple of weeks, hopefully before Jeremy goes away. Is there a little boy in there??

Wagon Time

Here are a couple of cute videos of Brooke Playing with her wagon.

Slacking In the Blog Dept.

Hello Everyone,

I've been slacking in the blog department. Brooke has been sick for the last couple of weeks. First cold ever. So my days/evenings are filled with taking care of her. We haven't done anything too exciting in the last couple of weeks. It makes it so hard to update, when there really isn't anything to update on.

I've been back to work for 9 weeks. Hard to believe, and I have to say I do not want to be working, altho I do like making my own money, I really dislike being away from Brooke and seeing the housework pile up. It gets very annoying.

Jeremy is on exercise this week. He gets to come home each night, but will not be done work until 8pm. So he won't be home until after Brooke and I have gone to bed for the night. This also leaves me incharge of walking my puppy...who turns 2 years old this month. Can you believe we've had him for 2 years?!?! Crazy eh?!

Boneless skinless Chicken Breast have been on sale two weeks in a row! I can't begin to tell you how nice it is to eat something other then hamburger!

Gas has been at 80.4 for the last week or so. We gas up at the Superstore so that we can get the 7.5 cents per litre back in free groceries!

Brooke's first birthday is a little over a week away. It's so hard to believe that she's going to be a year old. I have decided not to have a big party for her. I'm just going have the party at Beulah's house and have just our family there. Brooke won't know what's going on, so no point in a huge party. This year she is also getting a Dairy Queen cake since Jer and I have a couple of gift cards. Until I can decorate cakes and have her appreciate them....I don't see the point in going all out. Altho, I do look forward to being able to decorate special cakes for her.

Well I think that's all I have to say....so til next time!

Walking and Playing

Random Pictures I missed somehow

Hugs and Kisses to the teddy bear that Aunt Bev got her. She has really taken to this bear...might become her teddy!
Brooke wants whatever Mommy has...this includes my water! and especially my supper!

Always with her tongue out! I do like this picture tho...look at those blue eyes!

First Steps (kinda)

Brooke at Play

Almost Walking

Possibly a ballerina?? Maybe a figure skater?? Maybe just a dancer?? So much for trying to get her to walk on her own...she was more interested in her toes! LOL

A typical day when I'm in the kitchen. She's always got me by the pant leg! lol Somtimes she almost pulls my pants down, if I just have on a pair of PJ bottoms, she'll nearly have my pants on the floor! lol

So proud of herself!

She's good when she doesn't realize she's not holding on! LOL but as soon as she notices there isn't a hand she's got a hold of she goes right down to her bum! In this picture she was more interested in getting to daddy and teh camera! lol I hope you guys take note that my hand her and her hand are not touching!!!

I'm so sad at teh color in this photo. I really wish it had of turned out better, but it's the only one of her and Jer.

Brooke is most comfortable, and faster when she has a hold with both hands.

I'm Up and I can't get Down!

Brooke loves to climb the stairs, however she doesnt' know how to get down. She gets so upset when she gets up on one stair and can't get down, this of course usually happens when I'm busy trying to get supper ready and can't get right to her. She just fusses until I go get her. This picture doesn't really depict the faces that I've seen her make but she still looks a little upset.

Brooke VS the Doggy Door!

The Doggy Door in this corner! LOL

This is the look a 10 month old gets when she tries to open the doggy door and her fingers get stuck. LOL It's too cute really! It wasn't hurting her, she just couldn't get her fingers back in the house.

Van Craziness!

One day last week (the days run together on me....if I had to guess I'd say Tuesday lol) Jer called me at work early in the day. I figured he just wanted to talk, nope the van had just stopped on him. He hadn't dropped the baby off yet, he was still a bit away from the day home and he was worried about what he was going to do with the van. Both of us automatically thought, we'll just go buy a new van. I did however manage to talk Jeremy into taking the van to a mechanic shop, instead of to the house. All I could think of was "What are we going to do with the van once we get it there?!?!?!?" He got the ok from his work that he could take the day off and deal with the van.

That evening we decided to go have a look at new vans. Since the van is something we are likely going to own for 10 or more years, it would be a good to buy new and reliable. First we went to Ford, They aren't making mini vans anymore and have replaced the mini van with a Ford Flex. I tihnk it kinda looks like a hurse to me, but that was my opinion. Jeremy's ears opened up when the sales guy mentioned a built in fridge. LOL I do agree the fridge would be good for those long road trips for when we get posted to places all over Canada! But didn't think I should have to drive a hurse to get a fridge! and besides for years people have been using Coolers and they seem to work just fine!!!

Next we were off to GM. GM will no longer be making the Montana starting in 2010. Too bad because it was a pretty nice van, and they offered to take my car off our hands early. But we weren't looking at buying right away anyway, Jer wanted to see what warranties are available and of course overall cost of a new van.

After that we headed to Honda. Anyone who knows Jeremy knows he loves his forgein vehicles. Anyway, they have a gorgeous (as in I need it!!!!) mini van. I want it now, but once we sat down discussed price and everything, we were looking at a huge monthly payment on top of what we have now, as they wouldn't have taken my car off my hands, so I would have had to keep it and pay for it and the mini van until June. Not my idea of fun. lol

After our excursion, we headed home, in the car we discussed our plan. I told him to have the mechanic fix the van. That even though he loves to play around with the van and do work to it, that he really doesn't have the time to fix the things that need to be fixed. After we talked about it, and he agreed, he called the mechanic and had everything fixed that was a neccessity on the van. I told him we could do the repairs in a priority sequence. Heat....IMPORTANT!!! Starting...IMPORTANT!!!! Gear shifter working.....IMPORTANT!!! Speedometer working...Not as important as the other 3 I think you might agree with me there. lol

So the van got all the stuff fixed on it and we are set to go. Or so we thought! LOL
Thursday on my way home from work after I picked Brooke up, I was talking to Mom on the phone. I was almost home when I seen the van on the side of the road. I let mom go and stopped to see what was going on. My first thoughts was that it had stopped working again. But that wasn't the problem. The problem was that the tire had blown out. Luckily Jeremy was ok and the vans only injury was the busted tire. We spent the night getting the van back on the road.

So far so good...but let's keep our fingers crossed that the van continues to work for a while yet! lol