Brielle 4 Months

Brielle Hope

My baby turned 4 months!!

She is getting so big already! she is loosing all her hair :( she use to have so much dark hair but its falling out and its lightening up. so sad. but on the up side she is the happiest baby ever!! She will smile and laugh out loud at anyone who will talk to her. She's the best baby. I am the worst, I haven't taken any video of her ever and I haven't taken any pictures of her since her newborns!! Im so mad at myself! Everyday that goes by is just another day i keep missing!

 I"VE GOTTA PULL OUT THE VIDEO CAMERA!!

Here are her 4 month stats

23% Height

55% Weight

25% Head

I was at my sister Heathers house on Tuesday and she was doing a photo shoot for Titan. While Mallory was getting Titan Dressed I threw Brielle in front of the Camera and heather took like 6 quick pictures. She was just wearing a onesie nothing special. Its all i got but she's still adorable.



Bread

so you know those crazy die hard women who make homemade bread and never buy store bought bread and grind there own wheat?? well im privileged to say i've joined the club!! hahaha its a little crazy i know. my new years goal was to change the way we eat in my house. i want to eat a lot healthier! i strongly believe that by eating healthier and/or eating a certain diet could really improve your health. and we all know jeff needs all the help he can get. for christmas my parents gave us a juicer and a wheat grinder. so i've been juicing and making wheat bread. today we were eating sandwiches and my kids kept saying this is the best bread ever! i told them i made it and Brydee said.. i can tell it has so much flavor!! i thought that was interesting. but really i have to say it did taste really good. i don't think i'll use white flour ever again. and seriously i need to take and post some pictures of my kids!! Brielle is going to be 4 months next week! dang time goes by way too fast!!!

dinner..

So i don't know about you but i grew up with a good home cooked meal every night. and it usually could never be duplicated cause my mom hardly ever used recipes and when she did use a recipe she never followed it. for the first few years of marriage i stuck with the same 7 recipes and just rotated them! ha! but now im loving cooking and having fun in the kitchen. i notice im starting to cook like my mom. i'll read a recipe and then alter it (like i could make it better or something? :) its mainly because i gotta work with what i have :)  but anyways... so 2 nights ago i marinated and slowed cooked ribs for 7 hours! we never ever have ribs but i've ben wanting to make some really good ribs and they were on sale and such a good deal i couldn't pass it up. but i wish i would have! they turned out awful! and it wasn't because of me! it was terrible quality of meat! it was all fat and plastic tasting! i usually always get my meat at costco and i should know better to buy ribs at walmart but i just can't pass up walmarts prices.... but there is a reason there at that price right? so after that complete failure we took the ribs to roxy and she loved them! (my sisters boxer dog :) so last night i made some speghetti! even while im writing this im laughing. i feel like speghetti is no better then having cereal or chicken nugggets for dinner, not nutrition wise but easy cheap wise. BUT dang it was so good!! some good old fashion speghetti with some sausage meatballs and some homemade garlic bread!! dang it hit the spot! how funny that i tried so hard on my ribs and they were crap and then the next night made some speghetti and it was divine! hahaha gotta love it.

to all moms..

Have you ever heard the saying "cleanliness is next to godliness"? well if that's true me and Satan must be buddies. hahaha you have to admit that's pretty funny! but seriously i feel like i get up every morning send my kids off to school then clean ALL day while there gone then we do home work when they get home, then make and eat dinner then hang out as a family then bed time. and I'll look at my house and think what did i even clean today??? then i start over the next day with the same schedule only to find out i can never get on top of it!! AND there is no such thing as being caught up on laundry! By the time i do a load of colors then whites, greys and blacks i am starting all over again with the colors! there is always going to be laundry to do! my problem is balance! I'm either trying really hard to accomplish it all, but then I'm ignoring my kids and yelling at them for who knows what and driving myself crazy going behind them literally and cleaning up behind them or literally taking the toy out of their hand to put away just to make sure everything is clean and put away! haha or my house is in complete chaos! like i said i lack balance. i haven't quite figured it out yet. anyone else like me?  props to all you moms who got it down. you can tell by this post I'm having "one of those days." :)

Jay Jay

Jay Jay is hilarious!! He has been asking for a Santa hat for a while now so when i was at walmart today i picked him up one. when he got home from pre school and saw it he about died!! He thought i was the best mom in the world! anyways he lined up the kitchen chairs to look like reindeer and he kept acting like Santa all day today. but he had to take it one step further... while i was on the phone with his auntie Jill i saw him shoot down the stairs like a rocket and smash into the front door!!!! hahahaha im laughing so hard just typing this!! honestly i don't think i even asked him if he was ok i just laughed uncontrollably! i mean seriously what was h thinking?!! he said he was in his sled wanting to fly or something like that. i tried taking pictures of him but he was still crying.

poor jj

 this is him in his "sled" seriously he doesn't even fit in it.

 hahaha i said say cheese and he said, i don't know how to smile when im crying!! This is what i got...

 (above) The girls were at the bottom of the stairs just smiling and happy that there brother went down the stairs first t be the test run! haha

(below) jj is such a good older brother! he is always asking to hold his baby sister.

JJ loves going to papa Trasks house!! we go their every Saturday and whenever we get there he goes straight to the chicken coop! He gets a bunch of weeds and sits down in there and they just cover him and eat. I think they love him as much as he loves them :)

oh and see that adorable Yorkie in the back ground? she is for sale to anyone willing to pay anything for her! hahaha she is 7 years old and needs to go to a home where she can sit on the couch all day and get loved. not a house full of little grand children who pick on her. a perfect Christmas present! she is pure bred and 3 1/2 pounds! she looks terrible in the picture but she cleans up nice!

Reminiscing...

I was on my parents computer today looking for a specific picture and while looking i got distracted... here are some random photo's that bring back alot of memories!

These first couple of pictures are me and my sisters. It was the first time we went to go spoil ourselves and we went and got pedicures!! SOOO FUN!! and miss and love that car!

hahaha i had to throw this picture in. This is heather and Brandon and baby Jesus. haha and William. they were Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus up at tuachan. we went and watched them at was freezing cold!! William was only 3 weeks old? if that. they had to get special permission to use a live baby instead of a Doll. he was wrapped up really good so he was plenty warm and he slept the whole time! good job guys! Jeff and I were asked to be Mary and Joseph and have Brielle as baby Jesus but it was the same night as our ward party. and the kids were in the nativity at our ward party. maybe another year?  :)

(above) this was in California. our first vacation trip with all my siblings and there kids. we had a blast, despite the reason we were all there. (grandma trasks funeral) look how young and cute brydee and jj are (there the one's dressed up :)

(above) MY BOYS

(below) look how dang cute my husband was! haha he is still handsome NOW but in this picture he was so dang young and handsome. this picture was taken in 2003. we were married in 2004

(above) this is brydee and corben. this was the only way we use to bath them!

this was the flood in 2004. this was my parents back yard! look how many volunteers came to help out! it was amazing, neighbor helping neighbor! the community really united.

"Daughters in my kingdom"

I wanted to share with everyone this link. its a 2 minute video. i hope you take the time to watch it and i hope it instills in your heart a desire to read it. i read it and it changed my life. loved it.
http://lds.org/relief-society/daughters-in-my-kingdom/about-the-book?lang=eng#modal=the-gift-daughters-in-my-kingdom