Ben's 29th Birthday!

Ben turned 29 on February 26th! Brooklyn, Ben and I went to lunch at Pizza Hut on Saturday before he went to work. Sunday morning we had Stake Conference, then came home and had his mom and dad over for dinner. Later that night we had our families over for cake and ice cream. I love him so much and am so grateful to have him in my life. Happy birthday Ben!!

Brooklyn with "Mom-mom" and "Bompa"

Ben with Grandma Monsen

This is our attempt at getting a family picture. Brooklyn is so cooperative. :)

Sunday afternoon I had Brooklyn help me decorate Ben's cake. Can you tell which spot she put the sprinkles on?

Kenadee, MiKell and Brooklyn

Birthday Boy!

Finishing our Basement

We decided that we're going to start slowly working on finishing our basement. Ben wants to at least get one room done each winter. It's a perfect project for him during the cold months when he can't work outside on the yard. We're doing a spare bedroom first, and hopefully next year we'll get the bathroom done. Every time he's down there working, Brooklyn wants to be right by his side!

Forts

The other day when I got home from work I found this big fort in my living room! Ben is such a good dad. Brooklyn absolutely loves him!

Dale and Shannon and the kids were over Sunday night and Ben and the kids made another fort downstairs. The kids watched a movie while we watched "Survivor" upstairs.

Cute Valentine's Pics

For Valentine's Day I took Brooklyn to Mindy Smith for some pics. She was doing some Valentine Mini packages, that included a few pictures and some Valentines. I thought they turned out so sweet!! We sent the Valentines to all her little cousins.

Happy Valentine's Day!

We had a pretty low key Valentine's Day today. I worked this morning and the rest of the day was just Brooklyn and I because Ben worked tonight. Before Ben left for work he gave me some candy from Little Sweet Pea and 2 adorable cards that Brooklyn colored for me. Mom and Dad came by to visit for a minute in the afternoon, and then Brookie and I went down to their house tonight to have dinner and watch the Jazz game. Happy Valentine's Day! xoxoxo

State Drill Team at UVU

Last Saturday (February 4th) we got up early and headed to Orem to watch the State Drill Team competition. My bosses daughter, Alysse is on the U'ettes and we wouldn't miss going to watch her. They're just like family to us. We also got to watch my cousin Charis, because San Juan was in the 2A competition, so it was a double bonus. I spent my day running back and forth because the 2A and 3A were facing opposite directions when they would perform. I got to visit with my Aunt Adele a lot and had a lot of fun seeing her. Uintah did awesome and took 1st! It was so fun to watch them and see how excited they were!

We barely made it within minutes before Uintah's first dance, because when we were driving through Daniel's, Brooklyn got a little car sick and threw up all over! It was all over her and her car seat. Luckily she was still in her pajamas, I was planning on getting her ready once we got there. We had to pull over and attempt to clean it up as best as we could with wipeys, and then rush to the competition. I think we sat down as the team right before Uintah was performing. A little too close for comfort, but I'm glad we made it!

Brooklyn was ready to go by this point and was in no mood for pictures.

I stole this picture from the paper. It was actually at region, but I couldn't find one of State. Go Uintah!-3A State Champions!!

Tommi and Luken's Birthdays

Tommi turned 12 on January 27th and Luken turned 7 on January 31st. On Tommi's birthday, Shannon, Shannon's mom, Tommi and I all drove over to Roosevelt to watch the Region Drill Team competition. We had a lot of fun and Uintah took 1st! Tommi had her birthday party the following night, and then we were back at their house a few days later for more fun for Luken's party.

Little Miss squinty eyes with the birthday girl

Brooklyn and Zuri

Luken, Zuri and Brooklyn

Dinosaur Museum

Misti and her family came out to Vernal the end of January and stayed with us for a couple days. On Saturday we took the kids to the Dinosaur Museum. Grandma Batty came with us too. Afterwards, we met the guys for lunch at Winger's. Ben has been working on finishing a spare bedroom down in our basement this winter, and Dustin helped him sheetrock the room that day. He was a huge help, and I'm so grateful to him, Dale and Ben's Dad for all they've done!!

I looked back through my pictures and found this. It's the last time we went to the Dinosaur Museum, and I thought it was worth sharing. It was in October of 2010, so Brooklyn was only 6 months old here. I remember she slept the whole time we were there. She looks so cute and little! My baby is growing up too fast!

Brookie LOVES her cousins Brandt and Cason! She's also going through this squinty eye phase. She does this in EVERY picture!

Brandt didn't like the noises in this room.

I think the digging was Brooklyn's favorite part.