BrEaTh Of FrEsH AiR!!!

I have been wanting to go walking everyday for a couple of miles and everytime I try and get my husband to join me he tells me, "It's to cold out," or "lets go later," etc etc you get the picture. Well today I am proud to say we went on a walk for a couple of miles and let me tell you it felt so GOOD!!! I needed it so bad. I have 11 weeks left and sadly you gain the most weight at the end so I am trying to choose a healthier lifestyle so that I won't be disappointed in my weight gain come delivery time! I am by no means going to diet or anything, but a little walking and healthy eating can't hurt RIGHT??

Well things here in our neck of the woods are just moving right along nothing to exciting. I am going to do my visiting teaching tomorrow and I was feeling bad about doing it this late in the month until my visiting teachers called this afternoon and are coming tomorrow too. haha Hey better late than never.

Bentley is saying "Love you" now and it melts my heart. Also he is being such a good sleeper, better than ever before. He sleeps from 10-1 and from 230-430 LOVE IT!! I sleep too.

So hopefully I can keep up with the exercising and also maybe the weather will get warmer to??

Here ya go Jess.....

So here I am with 11 weeks to go! I know you were all dying to see this...jk but this post is for Jessica :)

Good News!

Today I went to my doctor's appointment for our little baby boy Westbrook and I got some great news.

1- I am 27 weeks not 26.
2- I am weighing 5 pounds less than I did with Bentley at this stage of the game :) :)
3- I am being induced on April 14th if I haven't had the baby by then! (2 weeks early)
4- Another great ultrasound was done and he is growing so well! We weren't able to see his boy parts, but we hope they are still there!

Also I heard from my husband today and he is back at the Inauguration working as security and he is safe :) I don't know why I was worried, but I was. He said it was amazing. He comes home tomorrow and I will post some pics of his fun trip.

Family Pic's 2009

Yard Makeover!

From this....



To this!!!






It is hard to tell in the first picture, but there were 3 rose bushes up by the sidewalk as you walked up to the house that never really did very well...and so Nick replaced them with some new palm tree's!! It looks ten times better! Also there were 2 tree's planted in the front yard and one was dead, so Nick dug up the dead one and replaced it and also added a third tree so now we have a total of 3 tree's and 5 Palms. I forgot that he also removed the small green bush from under the guest bedroom window on the left with a palm as well! Thanks hun for doing a little Yard Makeover!! Hopefully in a few months when it warms up we can finish putting in the grass and plans etc in the back yard and MAYBE if we are here long enough we will replace the rock in the front yard with grass as well! :)!!

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Part of our Christmas gifts were an Electric Wheat grinder and Bosch mixer so of course we had to try them out! Cindy helped me make my first loaves of bread. I ground the wheat...and made the dough (with out killing the yeast :)) and baked it! It turned out good for my first time! I am only posting this because this is a huge accomplishment for me and it's something that I have been wanting to do for a very long time. Now I can!!

Also I finally got around to seeing Twilight with the girls. It was good, but the books are way better! Still had tons of fun though. I wouldn't mind seeing it again.

Christmas 2008

Wow what a wonderful Christmas holiday! We were able to have all ten of my immediate family members come stay for almost a week at my house! It was so much fun we played games, cards, rock band, catch phrase and the paper bag game. Thanks to Nick's friend allowing us to borrow there toy hauler for some of my family to sleep in!! We created some wonderful memories and laughed so much. We were way spoiled this year by everyone! We really focused though on the the real meaning behind Christmas. On Christmas Eve we ate appetizers and read the Polar Express and talked about believing! I gave each person a bell to help them remember to believe in the spirit of Christmas. We then read the the story about Christs birth from the scriptures. It was great to have family discussion as well. Then we opened our jammies and were off to sleep.

Christmas morning was great we all took turns opening the gifts we had. Bentley was not sure about opening them, but with a little help he did it. After we looked in our stockings to see what was inside. I had asked everyone before they came to put something in each person's stocking that resembled the true meaning of Christmas. We all told why we chose what we did and why we thought it resembled Christs birth. My mom then read the Christmas story called..The wooden shoes...I think. It was amazing followed by her testimony. We then ate our famous Holdiay breakfast and started preparing for our Huge feast later in the day.

All in all I felt the spirit on Christmas and created so many fond memories. My family stayed until Saturday and then we were excited to have Nick's family come on Sunday. We had a second Christmas on Monday morning with Nick's family. We have had so much fun with them this week while they have been here. I will post more of what we did later! Thanks everyone for coming and making it so memorable! We love you all :)

Happy Birthday Nicholas!!

On the Dec. 18th it was Nicholas's Birthday!! He turned 23! We started out that morning by opening his gifts and Bentley had to help! Then we headed to El Palacio for his birthday lunch with some friends and co-workers. Later that night we went out to Chili's for dinner with our friends Jessica and AJ that came and stayed the night on there way to St. George. He got a Dillon 550 Reloader (for ammunition) and accessories to go with it. He was thrilled. I think this birthday was a hit! Love you babe!

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Here is our fun Christmas tree! I love decorating for the holidays and this year I did it before Thanksgiving :)I will post a slide show of the Christmas extravaganza at the Westbrook's! We were luck enough to have two weeks of family and fun!!



Bentley was way passed done at this point of the reception and we were ready to GO!



Here we are at the reception that night. It turned out so pretty, but Bentley was very restless from the rushing around we did all day.



At the beginning of December my twin brother Mckay was sealed in the Salt Lake Temple to his beautiful wife Amy!! Aren't they so cute!



Also while we were up in Utah for Thanksgiving we had a gingerbread contest and here we are with ours.



I think this picture is so priceless. Before Thanksgiving dinner we were outside around the fire watching the kids play caught this cute moment between father and son.



Here we are again :) Outside with the beautiful scenery. It was raining too!



Bryson was so nice to take a few pics of us outside and here is one I thought was cute.



I know its really late but here is our little family outside on the back porch of Nick's parents cabing in Pine Valley, UT.



Before Thanksgiving I made this Christmas tablerunner. It turned out so cute and a big thanks to Cindy for providing everything and letting us daughter-in-laws come sew at your house!