Thursday, September 4, 2008

Here she goes...


My little Brookey-Brooke decided the other night to try and go down the bottom step of our stairs by herself WITHOUT holding onto anything.  She would crawl up a stair, turn around and try and step down.  Sometimes she'd fall on her knees but a few times she did it.  She'd smile the BIGGEST smile.  She knew she had accomplished something big!  It was the cutest thing.  Today I took her outside and of course she wanted to try it on the steps.  I was a little worried cause it's concrete rather than carpet, but she had on jeans so I let her do her thing.  Here she is in the act of going down ALL BY HERSELF!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Tu-tu cute!

So, I made this darling tu-tu for Sky for her to wear to dance class for the month of October.  It turned out so cute, I had to take a picture and post it for you to see.  I can't wait to take her picture in it.  Halloween here we come!



Hip, hip, hooray, it's time for class!

The first day of computer class for Sky and Jett.  Jett isn't technically old enough, but because he's so smart, knows how to use a computer and has a great attention span, the director offered to let him try it.  Well, he did FANTASTIC!  The director said today when class was over how amazed she was at how well he did and she is glad I pushed to get him a spot.  He's not the typical 3 year old boy!  He's his daddy's boy, for sure!  I'm so proud of him and I knew he would be as good as the teacher said he was!  He loves his class.  I peaked in on him and he was glued to his computer!  I wish I would have had my camera then.  Maybe another day...


"Not long..."

Okay a story... this time it's a "marriage thing."  
This weekend Neils and I were laying on our bed with Brooke trying to get her to sleep.  Neils suggested that he might want to take a nap himself.  I asked, "How long do you want me to let you sleep?"  I ask because there have been times when he or I have slept way more than we wanted and then it was too hard to go to bed that night.  His answer was "not long."  I asked him, "How many minutes is that?"  He said, "I don't know, how many minutes is it when you say, not long?"  He got me.  I started to laugh.  There have been many times in our married life when he'll ask me such as when I go to get my hair done or when I leave to go to the store, he'll ask, "How long are you going to be gone?"  My answer is always, "not long."  My answer is ALWAYS, "not long."  Thanks honey for keeping me on my feet!  You got me A-GAIN!

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

So I promised some pictures... here is one.  I like that the REAL photographer is captured in the corner.  He did an amazing job.  I saw some of his already and feel lame even sharing these.  But hey, I've got to start somewhere.  It was such a beautiful day, I found myself enjoying it more than taking pictures.  They were married and sealed in the Salt Lake Temple in the morning and later there was a ring ceremony/PARTY at La Caille Restaurant that evening.  The weather was perfect, the food fantastic and the best part was that my kids held up rather well throughout the ENTIRE day and night.  They all had melt downs in the car on the way home, but to make it until 10pm was just short of a miracle.  I'm so glad I got to share in their perfect day.  

Coming soon...

more wedding pictures and Jett's 3rd birthday pictures.


My sweet boy Jett turned 3 yesterday!  So I haven't had a chance to go through my wedding pictures and post them.  I can't wait to share them with you.  For now, I'll leave you with a couple of my sweet 3 year old and the gorgeous bride!

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Smart

My brother got married on Friday August 29th in the Salt Lake Temple.  They're an adorable couple!  This was just the beginning to a fabulous day we had celebrating with them.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

The purpose...

The sole reason I blog is because some day I plan on going to www.blurb.com to "slurp" my blog into a book where I can save these stories and pictures forever.  It serves as my family journal for you all to be apart of, but will one day be for looking back on when my kids are grown.  With that said, I MUST include a couple stories from this week.  Neither of which have pictures to go with them, but I would never want to forget these moments.  

Today for breakfast Sky asked Jett if he'd say the prayer.  He always perks up and is willing to do so.  Don't ask me why Sky's in charge, she just always is! (Is that how I was mom being that I was the oldest child, bossy and in charge?)  In the prayer Jett said, "Bless me and bless Sky that we will be as strong as Sportacus and Daddy cause we eat our healthy pancakes."  I smiled so big, I had to hold back so that I could thank Jett for such a thoughtful prayer.

The other story is of my sweet Sky.  She started Preschool this week at Challenger.  On Wednesday she jumped in the car with exciting news.  Her friend from last year (Alex, her bestest buddy who has blonde curly hair like her!) who was put in another class was now in her class.  She was thrilled!  This exciting news was then followed up by sad upsetting news.  She went from smiling and a cheery voice to tears and gloom as she said, "Guess what mom?  There's another Sky in my class and HE'S A BOY!  So now I'm not just Sky, I'm Sky Jorgensen and he's Sky Lilenquist!"  Ohhhhh, my poor Sky Hannah Banana.  I asked her if the boy Sky was really named Skylar.  She said, "NO mom, he spells it S-K-Y-E, he's not Skylar, just Sky!"  Later that night while I was away Sky had some time with her dad.  She told her dad the same story.  Only dad had a different reaction... "That's great Sky, you guys have the same name!  You should give each other a high five when you see each other."  Way to go dad!  Way to be positive and uplifting.  Way to make her feel good!    

Monday, August 25, 2008

Love the hat!


On Saturday night I took my little family over to Murray Park so I could practice my photography skills.  I was so excited that Brooke actually wanted to wear her hat this time, I was able to get some cute photos.  See my photography blog for more... www.nubiephotos.blogspot.com

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Bed Bugs!

We did it!  My goal for my little Miss Sky was to get through the first three sets of Bob books, recommended by Carin Davis (she gives more than great photography tips).  As of Thursday night this week, we read the last one in set three together.  Sky has done a fantastic job learning to read and she loves it.  She's constantly spelling out words and writing notes to me.  I love some of the ways she spells words still.  
She is my little smarty pants.  There are two things I refuse to correct her on.  I want her to stay little and cute for as long as I possibly can.  She still says "baby" instead of maybe.  It's so cute.  Baby?.... I should go to bed and the other thing is "ReNember."  I love the little mistakes and am holding onto them for as long as I can.  She doesn't start Kindergarten 'til next year so she can stay little at least another year!  I love this kid!

Friday, August 22, 2008

Why? Why? Why?

Okay so I'm lacking on pictures whenever I have a "Jett" story.  You'd think that as much as I like to take pictures to document my life and my kids, I'd be better about snapping away when Jett goes to town.  I think every other day I'm saying to my mom, "I don't know if he's going to live to see his 3rd birthday!"  (What a mom thing to say!)  I remember her saying things like this about my brother Andrew.  Let me tell you an Andrew story and you'll understand why.  When Uncle Andrew was 2-3 yrs old he took a black magic marker and at waist height drew along the walls as he walked around the entire house.  He drew along the hutch my dad made for my mom for Valentines Day as he walked through the living room and into his own room.  He climbed up on the top bunk as he carried his marker and ended by putting a nice drawing on the ceiling.  Needless to say, this was soon followed by new wallpaper and paint and endless hours scrubbing the ink off the hutch.  Now for Jett's version... It always seems that it's when I'm putting Brooke down for a nap (cause it gives him more than five minutes unsupervised), but this time it was milk and not a permanent marker.  He saw that I had left Brooke's bottle on the counter.  I use those Playtex drop-ins so he realized he could reach up and squeeze the plastic part and it squirted like a squirt bottle would.  He took this bottle which was full of milk and squirted everything in sight.  The walls were dripping milk, every toy in sight was now speckled with white dots, and there were drops on the floor that I could feel as I walked around the room in anguish!  Uggghhh... I noticed my rocking chair was especially wet.  I asked him what was on my chair.  He then pointed to the squirt bottle filled with water (the one I use to comb Sky's hair).  He told me he was trying to get rid of the white.  "Yeah, now it's just watery, white!"  NICE!  Okay, so my story doesn't top that of my fellow Queen Blogger, Tiff (refer to her T.V. incident) cause I just called the carpet cleaning people to come steam clean my couch and I wiped off every toy, so my situation was easily fixed.  Tiff's on the other hand... good thing that's not my boy, he definitely wouldn't have lived to see his third birthday!  Just kidding!  Really, though Tiff, I don't know how you kept your cool on that one.  In all seriousness, Jett is a joy and he keeps me on my toes.  I just hope the house doesn't burn down.  I think I've heard that one before too.  Who is that talking, it's certainly not me! :)

Friday, August 15, 2008

She has my eyelashes!

I just wanted to post this picture I took this week.  It is of my beautiful baby Brooke!  I recently took a photography class from Carin Davis.  She is the one that has been taking our family pictures over the last year and a half.  I love her work and was so excited when she decided to teach what it is she is so amazing at.  I went and since have been trying to create beautiful photos.  This week she posted on her blog a challenge to those of us who were up for it.  It was a challenge to focus on the small detail of eyelashes when they are wet.  I went to the pool excited to capture an eyelash picture.  Here is my version.  I wanted to share it with you and share my blog www.nubiephotos.blogspot.com where I will be posting pictures as I go along, hoping they get better and better with time and practice.   

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Anyone looking to add to their food storage?


I am hosting a Food Storage party.  I know sounds weird but as Ward Emergency Preparedness Leader I have been working on my food storage.  In doing so I have talked to many friends and family about what their ward or stake is doing and have come across many great ideas to be better prepared.  This is one of those great tips I've been given.  My sister in law attended a party put on by The Ready Project.  She was talking about how she got to go and taste test a sample of the food that they sell for food storage.  She said the food was REALLY GOOD, so I thought I'd try it.  For any of you that might be interested, you're more than welcome to come. The party will be on Thursday September 25th at my house from 7-9pm.  I will have samples of food for you to try all of which you can purchase if you'd like.  I have been given a discount code that gives you 5% off your total order should you purchase anything either through me or later through the website.  The coupon code is 61965 
Check out their website...
 http://www.thereadyproject.com/ 
to get an idea of what it is they sell food storage wise and be sure to stop by to taste a sample of their food.  I am looking forward to trying it myself.     

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Coming soon...
Just as soon as I can spend more than 5 seconds on my computer, I will post some new pictures.  I have just been focusing on the last few moments of summer.  I want to get in as much as I can before school starts.  We went with my darling friend Suzanne to the Childrens Museum this week, we're going to the Zoo one more time, to the pool at least one more time and to Bouncin' Off the Walls with Dad on Wednesday.  In just a couple weeks preschool starts which means summer is over!  This is good and bad.  I think Sky and Jett could use a little time away from each other.  Spending SO MUCH TIME together, and they start to get on each others nerves more than they get along.  So as sad as I am to say goodbye to going to the pool, it's time. 

Sunday, July 27, 2008

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I just wanted to post a few from the wedding & reception of the darling couple.  I had fun taking pictures at a wedding!  Thanks to Matthew and Marissa I'll have another wedding to shoot at the end of August.  I can't wait.  It's fun to see the pictures at the end of the day and even more fun when it's family.  I love these two so much and I hope they had a fabulous day.  I can't wait though for them to feel the pain I did, standing in 100 degree weather chasing after 3 kids who were hungry, bored and miserable.  They just had to hold hands and smile at the cameras.  I dripped from head to toe chasing kids and still had to jump in on a few of the family photos and smile.  One day... you'll feel my pain!  At least I hope you do.  I had to let you all know my true feelings.  Cause when do I not?    

Monday, July 21, 2008

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Smart

Saturday, July 19, 2008

My new sister inlaw... isn't she gorgeous!  I'm so excited for my brother Andrew.  He did good!

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Had to post a few from the wedding.  I'll put together a slide cause there are just so many cute ones to see.

Thursday, July 17, 2008






On Saturday we went to Raging Waters to celebrate Grandpa and Uncle Matthew birthday and to watch Mallory perform with her dance group.  We had a great day!  The kids love the water!  

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The kids after dinner Jett, Sky, Mallory, Megan and Brooke!
Dad doing a flip off the diving board
Dad and Brookey
Aunt Wendy and baby Macy
Grandpa playing rings with Sky and Jett
Jett swimming away at Murray pool

We had a fabulous 4th of July at Murray pool where we spent most of the day hanging out with Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt Wendy and family.  We enjoyed several hours of eating, and swimming.  The kids could live there I'm afraid so they had a blast.  Later that night we met up and went out to eat with everyone at Cafe Rio.  Then it was home where we watched our neighbors do their box of fireworks.  It was a great 4th of July.  

Friday, July 11, 2008

I wish I had a picture for this story.  It seems I've always got a latest "story" about Jett.  The sweetheart, testimony bearing little boy that he is, is also a definite 2 1/2 year old boy.  A few days ago I was out in the backyard playing with Sky and Jett while Brooke was napping.  I came inside to check on Brooke.  I came in just as she was waking up and because it hadn't been a very long nap, I tried to cuddle her back to sleep.  This meant that I was inside leaving Jett outside by himself for more than two seconds.  (You've got to keep an eye on that kid!)  By the time I got back down to check on him, I looked outside and there he was laying down on his belly with the hose on and running in one hand and making swimming motions with the other.  I in a stearn voice said, "What do you think you're doing?"  In his adorable little voice he said, "I'm swimming."  But of course, that's exactly what it looked like.  He was soaked from head to toe.  I couldn't help but quickly change him into dry clothes and hug him.  He was so sweet and innocent, even though he had just added to my pile of laundry with more wet laundry, I couldn't get mad.  I smiled inside and called to tell Neils the cute story.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Thank you Carin Davis!  Once again, you did an amazing job.  I love the pictures and am so grateful you were able to capture some of the milestones in Brooke's first year.  I am grateful to know you and to have learned from you.  Thanks for everything!!!