Cute Pictures

It's been a long time since I've posted some pics of little Brooklyn...who isn't so little any more!! She is growing up soooo fast!!! I can't even believe she will be 7 months old this weekend!!! She is sitting up so well and rolls and wiggles all over the floor!! She loves to click her tongue and say da-da-da and ba-ba-ba all day long! She'll even throw in a wo or wow sound, she's pretty awesome! It's so much fun listening to her, I love being a mom!!! She is also quite the little poser, all I have to do is pull out the camera and she is all smiles, and will sit and pose for the camera! I love it!!! So here are just a few pics of our cute little girl!

Flowers Galore!

We finally have our internet working again, so now I can catch you all up on what has been going on! Last week the floral program put on their annual Floral Art Show, most know it as the Bridal show, and it turned out really great! This year our theme was "Gathering with a Melody in your Heart" and we based our rooms around different styles of music. My group was assigned brass/big band music. After we got our music assignments then we had to come up with an "event" to decorate for. Our group decided on a New Year's Eve Party, and it turned out Awesome!!!! Here are just a few pics from our room and one of the arrangements I designed.

The Before:

The After:
My Centerpiece

Buffet Table-Table-scape
Dance Floor

Dining Area

Party Table

And finally my bouquet

So there ya have it! It was a really great show, and took tons of time, but in the end it really paid off and looked great! If you missed it but will still be here next year be sure to go!!!

This wasn't a part of the show, but i made this "cake" for a presentation in one of my floral classes. It's not a real cake, just made up of floral materials, but I really liked how it turned out so I thought I'd share it too!

Hooray for NO MORE Snow!

We have finally made our decision of where we will be moving for Greg to attend law school!!! We are so excited that we are going to be living in FLORIDA for at least the next three years!!! At the time of our last post, we had a good idea of where we wanted to go, but we wanted to see what everyone else's opinions were, so thanks for all the votes and comments, they made us even more excited for our decision!!! Wyoming really is a good school, but we just feel that Florida is the right place for us! We have been busy the last few days looking online for apartment complexes, and it is actually a really good time to rent!!! We have come across a lot of good deals, allowing us to get into a really nice complex that we can afford and we are soooo excited!!! Besides being close to Greg's school and to the ocean, it also has 4 pools, 6 tennis courts, a fitness center, 2 sand volleyball courts...and like 11 lakes on the property! Living there is going to be like being on vacation...except dirt poor but hey, at least we will be having fun!! These are a few pictures that we could find of the complex, Paradise Island, just to give you an idea!

We Need Your Help!

We need your guy's help deciding where we should go for law school! Greg and I are from around this part of the U.S. and have never really been away from home and we need to pick between Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville or University of Wyoming Law School in Laramie Wyoming. Both places have their pros and cons. Here are a few pics that we found contrasting the two places. We put a poll up on the side of our blog, so make sure to vote and give us your opinion!

Laramie Wyoming

OR

Jacksonville Florida

Our Little Bookworm

Brooklyn loves books!!! She really likes looking at the pictures and flipping through the pages when we read to her. The other day, while Greg was working, we were playing on the floor and reading books. I sat her up and gave her a book and left the room and when I came back this is what she looked liked. It was so cute!! She was just sitting up looking through her book and trying to turn the pages. Brooklyn is such a smart little baby and catches on to things so quick!! She amazes me!

Any Suggestions?!?!

So this is what you see when you turn on our camera! Curious as to why? Well i will tell you.... Tuesday morning I got in the car to head to my class and after putting the car into drive it wouldnt really move. So i thought, crap i hope i dont have a boot or a flat tire! Sooo i get out to check the tires when low and behold i see our camera case underneath the passenger side back tire of our car!!!! I coudn't believe it!!! I hurried and backed the car off the camera and prayed it wasn't smashed. Well it wasn't smashed, just the view finder was cracked and broken, but when you turned it on you see something similar to the picture! I started crying and and went back in the house, showed Greg, who started laughing, and went and sat on the bathroom floor and cried some more!

We got back really late monday night from star valley, and I was trying to carry most of our stuff in the house in one trip and i must have dropped the camera while i was grabbing everything! Not only did i run it over, but there happened to be a rainstorm monday night as well. I am so mad at myself and can't believe i ruined our nice and not exactly cheap camera!!!

SO I need some advice from all of you. I have been looking around at different cameras on the internet and i want to know what cameras you guys use and love!!! Our old camera was great! It was 8 mp and 10x optical zoom, so i want a camera with at least that, oh and not extremely expensive!!! So if you have any suggestions throw them our way!!!!

Birthdays!

Greg turned 24 on Monday and Brooklyn turned 6 months old on Wednesday!!! I can't believe how fast the time has gone by!!! We had an early birthday party for Greg and Brooklyn, since my grandpa's funeral was on Greg's actuall birthday. Greg made a great lunch (he wanted to do it) and his brother Sam came over to eat and have mississippi mud pie, Greg's version of a birthday cake. Greg got a new shirt and tie, a movie, new scriptures, money, candy, and candyland! We got brooklyn a purple ball to play with and her own toothbrush, she always wants ours and so we got her her own baby toothbrush that lights up and she loves it! Uncle sam brought Brooklyn a talking winnie the pooh and its her new favorite toy!

Today we had Brooklyn's 6 month appointment and her last set of shots until she is a year! She is weighing in at 16 pounds 14 ounces! She gained 3 pounds in 2 months!!! But she is only 69% for weight. She is 26 1/4 inches long and 72% for height. So she is growing like a weed!!! She now has the chubby wrists, thighes, and cheeks and we love it!! The past couple of months she has been going to bed before 10:30 and sleeps all night until at least 10 a.m.! It's AMAZING! She's such a great happy baby and is so much fun! We love her soooo much!

A Tribute

This past week our family lost a very special member of our family. My Grandpa Wolfley passed away last Wednesday night after a long and valiant battle with diabetes and various other health problems. He had been in the hospital for about a week when Greg, Brooklyn and I were able to go and see him, one last time. While we were at the hospital my grandpa took a turn for the worse and by Wednesday night he passed peacefully away with his family by his side. I had a very special bond with my grandpa, he was like a second father to me and I love him very much. All of my life I was very close to both him and my grandma, and so losing him was a very big shock. He was such great person and taught me so many things throughout my life. I am sad that Brooklyn won't get to grow up knowing her great-grandpa tex but she will know of his life and legacy! Even though we will all miss my grandpa so much, I am thankful that he is not sick and in pain and suffering anymore. I am so thankful for the knowledge that the gospel gives to us of life after death and that families can be forever! I am thankful for this gospel and for the comfort and strength it gives to me when times get hard. I will miss my grandpa so much, but I know that he is in such a better place, and now he can watch over me and my little family as we go throughout our lives.

This is one of the only pictures we have of Brooklyn and my Grandparents

It's amazing to me to see how the Lord has a hand in all things. Just a week before my grandpa died, we happened to learn how to do funeral flowers in my class, and because of this I was able to do the flowers for my Grandpa's funeral service. It was a great experience being able to do this for my grandpa, it meant a lot to me and I am thankful for the opportunity. I know that my grandpa was there with me while I made his flowers, and every once in a while his voice would come into my head saying "looks good sis!" I know that he was watching me!

Here are just a few pictures of how the flowers turned out

We love and miss you Grandpa, and we can't wait to see you again!