Keep Calm and Love Brooke

This post is long over due!  And it will be mainly pictures from September 2015 as our family was blessed to be able to attend the SLC Comic-Con. It was amazing!! As you will see from all the fun pictures it was something that I will never forget! Leslie's goal was to have her pic taken with a Harley Quinn. Kylie's favorite character is Hawk Girl. Who doesn't love Harry Potter ? K This guy is SO COOL!! He's the lead singer from Kerby Krackle. They play nerd rock...and its awesome. He knew Ken by name from his Twitter handle...just cool. Check out their music...and he loved Sam...cuz ...well....who doesn't? I'm a big WW fan...of course Sam just had to get in the action. We rode in the train one day instead of driving...it was fun! Sam LOVED curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat. Storm Trooper playing fetch with a member from How to Train Your Dragon. For a minute...I thought that this guy was Hugh Jackman...but it...

So the last time I left off I had just finished the July 4th Firecracker run, which was held on a Saturday. The following Tuesday outta nowhere Kylie and I were doing 21 Day Fix Lower Fix...(which is AMAZING BTW) when I had 10 min left of the workout I had to stop because the pain was so bad an intense and it was in the same spot..in my lower left quadrant. I had to stop for about 10 minutes...there was just no way I could finish...then it left again. Kylie was worried and she said, " You better tell Dad."  So I sent Ken a txt telling him it happened again. He shot me one back saying that we have no idea what is going on...and that I better go into the Dr. This is what I was doing on the  inside!! I really didn't want to go..I thought that I had it all figured out. Reluctantly....I made the call and was into to see my Dr. on 14th of July. (NO.. I didn't push it back until then..they are just a super busy clinic...and I did NOT want to go to the stupid ER.) ...

So last blog...I left off at Leslie's birthday...so it's time to fill you all in on what has happened since.  We had family come home from Tennessee.Which was great!! I have missed them so much. They come home once a year usually around my Aunt's Birthday..and this year they came home because their youngest had recently turned the ripe old age of 8. She wanted to be baptized here where all her other siblings were.. which I totally understand.  Teddy and Uncle Nate, after baptism Tina,and Tian  taking the above picture. I am not sure where Thannon and Maddie went...  I lead the opening song, and I felt fine...totally normal. When we got up to change rooms so that we could all witness the baptism..something shifted and my stomach ( well I thought it was my stomach) started to hurt...no I am not talking about a belly ache. It felt as though someone took a knife and was stabbing my in my lower left quadrant over and over again.** Earlier during the wee...

Sorry my friends it has been TOO long, and I will try my best to remember everything that has happened since June.    Well....Summer has happened and with that being said....when the little's are out of school, my schedule tends to get thrown out the window. And they are all at that age where they all want to be on the computer so I don't get much blog time during the summer.. So once school let out...before I knew it it was Leslie's Birthday, she turned the big 9!! Can you believe it...*sigh* So for a while I saw her on her bike and she loved riding it but it got to the point where she would ride it then the next day, or sometimes the very same day, her back tire would go flat and no matter how many times we would replace the inner tube it would just get flat. So for her b-day we bought her a new bike!! I was so excited I could hardly contain myself...we hid it in Ken's mom's garage so that she wouldn't see it and know that the bike was for her. She reque...

As you all know, Leslie is involved in what's called a PACE program at school. Its for kids whose intelligence score at the above average mark. In Leslie's case she was in the 150's mark so its hard to keep her challenged in school. Well this years theme was FORENSIC SCIENCE..which I love!! I can't get enough of all the CSI type shows..which I'm sure my family can attest to. (side note: I'm really sad that CSI Vegas is ending this year)  With their theme being forensics they were able to do some really neat stuff. Go to the Museum when it was Forensic Science Have a local CSI from IFPD come in and lecture/show how to take finger prints Take Fingerprints Learn about DNA Replicate DNA molecules It was amazing! Leslie was so excited that she'd come home and try to take our fingerprints..she said that she wanted to dust for prints but we don't have the magnetic powder to do so. After a year of fun learning they put it to the test and hold a Fo...

So my loves last time I talked about how I was so excited to get my big present!! And I went this past weekend and I loved it!!! It was amazing!! Leslie wanted to go with me...and I was worried about that because I didn't want her to get bored cuz it was all about me! And I didn't bring anything for her to do. We had just come from a birthday party so I had Ken drop us off. When we first arrived we were offered Italian Sodas. I was blown away!!  But I said yes! I got huckleberry and she got pomegranate. Both were fabulous. I have NEVER had a pedicure so I wasn't really sure what to expect. IT was totally relaxing!!! I was able to sit in a massaging chair and had the knots in the lower back worked on, all the while Amanda was working on my feet. HEAVEN!!! I'll be honest I was in the spa for 2.5 hours and it seemed a little long to me...but I enjoyed every minute. After she was done putting the last star on my toe, she came back with these purple slippers......