A girl and her Dog

Every time we go in the backyard all Brooke is ever interested in is our dog Jake. He is a huge dog and has gotten to be very aware of his size compared to her. He is very good with her and she absolutly adores him. She tries to act like him and I have to keep a close eye on her because she continues to eat dog food. I try to tell her its for him but she has sure gotten enough dog food in her system. She also gets on her hands and knees and tries to drink out of his bowl. I can't take it!! I've been taking her more in the front but she wants to go back with the dog. Hopefully soon she will stop eating his food!! Anyway I got some pretty cute pictures. He's so laid back and loves all the attention he gets from her.

Cold Texas Nights

So I admit I have lived in the Houston area for a while since I was 11 and have grown accustom to the climate here. So I freeze outside when the temp is around 50 degrees, I am such a wuss. Jared and I love to visit the snow and I would love to live up North(all though it would take some getting used to) Jared refers to Colorado as "coldorado" and never wants to move. So we enjoy the cold to us nights. We recently got an outdoor fire pit and love it. Brooke got to roast s'mores with daddy and loves being outside. She is very cautious of the fire and repeatedly says "hot hot" every time she looks at it. She loves the s'mores though!! Just fun to hang out around the fire. That doesn't happen too long around here soon we will enjoy the rest of the year in the pool!

Pig tails!!

Brooke's hair is growing slowly but surely and she has started to let me fix her hair. At first it was such a struggle for her to stay still but now I think she likes to get pampered, not to mention her hair stays out of her eyes. So, today i decided to put pig tails in her hair. So cute! My baby girl is growing up! She is looking less and less like a baby.I'm sure we will start using pig tails more often!

Snow Fest!!!

The city of Pearland has an annual Snow fest and we went and had a blast. Daddy took off that weekend to come so, all the more fun! Brooke loved it. She ran around crazy! She loved riding the ponies and feeding the animals in the petting zoo. Although she wasn't a fan of the goats. They were a little rough. Since there is hardly ever snow here they always make snow for the kids to play in and this year they had snow tubing! I do have to say we had a rough time in the lines, But worth the wait her 5 seconds on the slide!! Yeah! She doesn't want to wait!! Which who can blame her. Needless to say she had a great nap!

Surgery and Good news!!

Brooke had surgery yesterday, and thankfully she did great. I was so nervous about the general anesthesia. I was a wreck Monday night, crying randomly as I would look at her. She didn't have a clue and I was freaking out. were we doing the right thing and then all the what if's start coming. I really had to control my thoughts. She had what called deflux on her left and right ureter's to repair the reflux (which is causing all her UTI's). Hopefully this will fix it. we will still have to have her do some more testing to make sure. My poor baby is going to hate the Dr!! I was so worried the nurses would be having secret conversations pointing out the hysterical mom with her little girl, I got it all out Monday night! I was like a rock Mom!! Brooke was great she just let the dr's wheel her back on this Big wheels bike. The procedure was short but still seemed long to Jared and I. She was just mad when she woke up and ready to get out of there. After a about an hour in recovery we were able to go home. The pat day and a half Brooke has just been exhausted and a little cranky but she did wonderful. Such a trooper! I have to say how awesome my sister in law is she came over and cleaned my house and cooked for us! Oh yes, how jealous you all now are!! She's mine!! So on to the Good news. Our new baby boy will be born on February 26! My Dr already schedule the day for me to be induced. It seems so close now that I have a for sure day, unless of course he comes earlier but that will be 38 weeks so hopefully he will hang on till then. It is defiantly nice to be able to plan it. So everyone can be prepared, however I will never get the excitement of being surprised!

Christmas Train

So this year we tried to go to the Christmas train at the Livingstone's church. There was a huge line and Brooke just liked looking at the moving reindeer. She was totally scared of them but was so interested in them. She kept on having on we of us go by here to see them. We decided to skip the Christmas train and just walk around. It was chaotic but here's some pics.And this is the attempt of getting Brooke and Noah together in their Christmas outfits. I failed miserably but babies butts are cute, right? They are just getting too fast!!

Christmas Morning!!!

This year Brooke was really fun! She really got into opening her presents and getting on her new toys. She was at first a little nervous on her 4 wheeler because all you do is press a button and it goes and now she is having a total blast!! We played for quite a while until I convinced her it was time for breakfast. Jared totally surprised me with a new necklace! So pretty!! The picture really doesn't do it justice. Jared got a new/used boat for fishing so all in all we had a very spoiling Christmas as a family!