May 2011

We went over to celebrate Kyler's 22nd birthday! He got home from his mission last November, and headed to Snow College in January. He has been home for the summer working for Vernal City doing maintenance at the cemeteries. It's been so much fun to have him home all summer. He's planning on going back to Snow for another year in August. We love Uncle Kyler!!

Mother's Day 2011

In honor of Mother's Day I wanted to show how hard it is to get one good picture of Brooklyn:

This isn't even including the 900 more we have of the same pose :)

Grandma Batty and Grandma Monsen

Great Grandma-Dolores Monsen

Brooklyn and Kenadee with Grandma and Grandpa Monsen

Dan and Nikki came out for Mother's Day, so Brookie got to play with her cute little cousin Wakefield. They are two little troublemakers!

I know I say this all the time, but I am so grateful for my baby girl!! She is my world!

My 28th Birthday

My birthday was pretty low key this year. Ben and I both had the day off so we just hung out as a family. We tried to go for a Jeep ride, but it was kind of a rainy, yucky day and everywhere was too muddy, so we ended up just taking a little drive up Dry Fork. That night we had our family over for cake and ice cream.

Baby Easton

Easton Matthew Brunson

Baby Easton was born to our good friends Miika and Brandon on May 16, 2011. He weighed 5 pounds, 14 ounces and was 18 inches long. We drove over to Roosevelt to visit them in the hospital. He is such an adorable little guy, and we're so excited for Brooklyn to have another little friend to play with!

Brooklyn Mae

Memorial Day

On Memorial Day we had our annual gathering up at the cemetery with the Monsen's to visit Grandpa's and Linda's graves. Then Ben, Brooklyn and I went over to see the graves of his Grandpa Rex and Grandma Mae.

Biggest Loser

Ben was in the "Biggest Loser" contest at work. The contest ran from the end of January until the end of May. Ben has won this contest twice before and the prize is usually cash. This year the prize was an XBox 360 with Kinect. He wanted it so bad and was really dedicated to losing his weight. He WON! He lost a total of 50 pounds!! I was so proud of him, and he's done really well to keep it off this time around.

This picture is just from last Christmas

BEFORE:

And these two pictures were taken at his work BBQ the day they announced the winner!

AFTER:

Doesn't he look great!! :) Way to go sweetie!

We had a dance party at our house to celebrate with the new Kinect! It's so much fun! Sorry Amanda and John, you're the only two I took pictures of for some reason!

Family Pictures

When Ben's sister, Amanda and her family were out in Vernal for Memorial weekend, she took some family pictures and did some one year old pictures of Brooklyn. I thought they turned out so cute. She is really talented. These were all taken in our backyard! Thanks again, Amanda, we love you!

Brooklyn-1 year old!

Brooklyn turned one on April 22nd. I can't believe how fast that year went by! Everyone says that time flies when you have kids but now I know how true it really is. I have loved every moment of being a mom, I love this little girl more than words can say! She truly is the light of my life!! What a special blessing it has been to have her in our home!

I made Brooklyn's cupcakes the night before her birthday party, so I let her try one out for practice for the big day! She LOVED it!

Cute little birthday girl!