Fun in Idaho!!

So last minute, literally, we decided to go to Salt Lake and then to Idaho for a long weekend. We did not take many pics, but here they are:)

Brookie got many new clothes from her Grandma Bush. So if you are wondering why she dresses better than us, this is why.

Jonathan, Tanner, and Mikki!

Aunt Brandy is the coolest cause when mom and dad were just too tired, she read Brookie and Tracker a book. What a good mom!

long time, busy lives

Here is our funny monkey playing with her friend Cora. And yes, it has been a while since we posted:)

Brookies First Icecream Cone

So Brook has had icecream before, but never in a cone. On Friday we decided to enjoy the whole day with our little bug since dad is finally on semester break!!!!! Yeah! We went to Louisville, CO because we googled best icecream in Colorado, and this is what it gave us. Louisville is between Denver and Boulder, and it was a way cute little city. And yes, the icecream, which was actually gelato, was great!

She was such a petite little eater and hardly got any on herself. It was funny cause inbetween every lick she would stop and say, "mmmm".

I had to get a pic of my target clearance outfit from last summer! Cute, but a pain to change a diaper in!

Ok, there were just too many pics to choose from.

It was a be-a-u-ti-ful day!!!!!!!

Strawberry...yummy!

Back to fun times

So our friends gave us tickets to the circus and we went on the 18th. It was a blast!!! This is dad and Brook hanging around at the intermission.

This is Brook saying "woof" when they brought out the..........

yes, tigers! Brook thinks that the tigers look an aweful lot like dogs.

And I just thought this pic was funny. I don't even remember the story behind it. Even the cutest babies can have bad picture days I guess! haha

Update

So yeah!!! Good news! They caught the menacing thieves and recovered our car. It is still in the body shop, but eventually we should be back in the Infiniti! Yeah! Sad thing is that it turned out to be our neighbor boy and one of his gang friends. We had a feeling it could be him cause he is always hanging around shady people, but it was still kind of shocking. He is 18 and his friend is a juvi, although they both lived with their parents. They got caught because they stole a gun from someone else and were threatening people in our car, so our plate kept getting called in for "gang incidents" and they finally caught up with them at the Aurora mall movie theater. Unfortunately that have not recovered any of our other belongings. We have been invited to the hearings and the judge wants a statement of losses from us to take into consideration at sentencing. When I went to the impound lot to see the car it looked banged up, but not too bad. The inside was filthy with liquor and teenage boy things like a play station and some Michael Jordan spray. It was funny cause our insurance guy saw that I was just going to trash everything and he asked if he could have the alcohol. I let him have it, but thinking about it now I should have sold it to him for the price of our deductable. Oh well, haha. It surprised me when the body shop said that it would be $5300 to fix. I guess car things are more expensive than I thought. We still don't know how they got our keys in the first place, but hopefully that will come out at the hearing. Sadly, our neighbors mom is not cooperating with the police. We have been told not to even approach her.

In other news we moved! Yeah!! We love our new place (which is only 3 blocks away) but it feels like a fresh start. Thanks to everyone who helped out! We will post pics later.

Also, I am officially closer to 30 than 20! For my b-day we went to the circus (it was a riot!) and then out to Chinese food with some friends. I will also post pics of that later!

Also #2, Drew got the praticum that he interviewed for last week and to make it cooler its a paid practicum!! Yeah! Thats one less student loan on our ticket!

Chau, chau

Robbery

ok, so many of you already know, but for those who don't, here are the details. So yes, we got robbed!! Wednesday, April 8th started like any other day. When noon came around, Drew had to go into school and I was going to take Brook to the park. We searched around for our second pair of keys and couldn't find them anywhere. We did not panic because A) we have a 1 year old and things get hidden all the time, and B) there are only so many places in our apartment for them to hide. So, Drew took the car keys and I took the house key and we went on our way. I got back from the park and waited for Drew to come home from school. He did for a brief second cause he was going to help with youth baptisms at the temple. Luckily my friend Pilar had asked if I wanted to come over for dinner. So from 4:30-8:30 that night we were all gone. And yes, we locked the door. We got home that night and were all tired so we went straight to bed. Well, Thursday morning we woke up and got ready. Drew had an important interview that day for a school practicum so he wanted to go get his hair cut. He went outside and returned within about 2 minutes. He asked me if I had moved the car, and I said no. Then we both ran out to the balcony and staired blankly at the parking lot for at least 5 minutes. Yes, our car was no where to be found. Completely and utterly gone. Thats when it was almost like our eyes were opened. We started looking around the apartment and noticed that things had been moved. In horror we ran to our bedroom closet where we keep our safety box and...it was gone!!!!! We had passports, social security cards, marraige licence, and birth certificates in there, not to mention a significant amount of cash and our bank statements. At this point I am crying and Drew is in shock. We called the police and waited for them to come. In our vehicle was Drew's wallet (so we had to cancel all of that) and his Palm Pilot, our GPS system and an array of ramdom things, including our Motab collection that Bethany's mom gave us for our wedding:(. Lets just say it was a crappy morning. So as far as we can figure, this theif somehow got ahold of our second pair of keys, waited for us to leave and then came into our home and took what he wanted, then waited for us to get home and took our car. It is creepy to think that someone had access to our home. Lucklily we have some great insurance companies that we are working with. We have renters insurance through Farmers and they have been able to cover everything(including car stuff) except for the cash. They did feel bad enough about the cash though that they waved our $500 deductable. Also, we have Geico and we heard that they can be a nightmare when it comes to claims, but we have not seen that. Within 20 minutes on the phone, they had Enteprise coming over to give us our rental car and they cleared $300 in advance for a new car seat for Brook and cash for items in the vehicle. Granted, we would rather have our car and stuff back, but at least people are being kind to us. We also have had lots of support from our friends and family, thanks guys!
Anyways, just as an update, we have not found the car yet, but there are some promising leads. Our thief is an idiot. He threw Drew's wallet out the window and a kind lady found it on her morning walk. She called us and we got that back (yeah!) Then the net day on her walk, she noticed our mail on the street and a McD's bag next to it. She picked it all up and called us. The police were able to get prints off of the stuff, and our stupid thief left his receit in the bag. Well, Drew went down to the McDonalds and talked with the owner and they have the guy on servaillance video driving OUR car and buying food with OUR money. His face is kindof blurry but the cops said that the CSI lab will be able to touch it up. With any luck we will find this guy. We can say that he is between 18-22, hispanic male. And for anyone that is curious, he ordered a Big Mac Meal , biggie sized, and a Deluxe Chicken Burger, biggie sized.
Well, I know this is a long blog, but this has been our week, sorry no pics:(. By the way the ironic thing is that we picked up keys to our new place this last saturday. Too bad we didn't move last week-haha.

Brookies First Sled Ride

Ok, so we realize that it has been well over a month since we have posted anything! This is because Drew is our Blogger, and he is getting towards the end of the semester which leaves less time for fun stuff like this. So...We finally decided that I (Shayna) learn the art of blogging! Enjoy the next few posts! PS. T-Ray is doing great and growing well, and we are excited to meet him soon.

This is Brookie's first sled rie with dad! She loved it!

After Blizzard Fun

So we had to take advantage of the storm and take Brookie on her very first sledding trip!

She looks scared but she squeeled in delight shortly after this ride!
It was easier to drag the kids to the park, rather than drive or walk! This is Brookie with her cousins Owen and Amy

Getting ready to leave for the park, Claire is dragging the youngins

This is our little Stay Puff Marshmallow! Needless to say, she was the only one of us three that did not get cold!

Blizzard of 09

This is the great Blizzard of 09......dun dun dun! It was actually kindof fun cause Drews work got cancelled and we spent the day indoors enjoying some family time.

This is a pic of our car which took FOR-EV-ER to scrape clean

Apartment with a view!

Fun around the house

Yes we know that it has been a long long long time since we have posted, so enjoy the many posts!

Brookie loves her Peanut butter sandwiches!!!

But she is always willing to share with daddy!

This is Brookie hiding from mom when mom said, "Lets change your stinky diaper." She ran into dad who was getting ready for work and pleaded for a hiding location!What a goof.

Well.................It's a BOY!!!!!!!!! Welcome Timothy Ray Brazier , now stop kicking your mom's bladder!

Brookie Ice Skating

We might have a future figure skater!

Fun Times

That is our little GIRL! It looks like she may be giving daddy 'the look'!
Our friend (Lindee) let Brookie borrow this dress for church last week!

Brooklyn loves the Zoo! She got a little dizzy this time.

Brooklyn and her friend Hannah hanging out!

The museum has this cool play place for the kids and she loved it!

Birthday Party

Gettin' creative with the cupcakes! We had a little birthday party for Brookie! We wanted to invite more of her friends but we can only fit so many in our apt... and we it was fun!
Brookie's friends and cousins! Little Owen (on the right) is usually the happiest baby. Brooklyn has some good friends!

We promise Brooklyn loved her presents... however she was a little overwhelmed by all these people in her territory!

We played a little game of how much everyone knew about Brooklyn! Our friend Lilit did really well and won some hot chocolate!

Brooklyn loves to play with her little friend David! David is trying to stand now and uses Brookie to stand up... gotta love little ones playing!

Brookie Turns 1

On our way home from Utah we spent our last night in Vegas so we could catch our early flight the next day. Brooklyn's grandparents (Braziers) took us to celebrate her birthday a little early at the Rainforest Cafe in the MGM. It was awesome!! Thanks Grammie and Grandpa!

They brought Brooklyn (well... us) out a hot fudge sundae with the sparkler on top. Brooklyn was eager to play with the sparkler!!! We stopped her :)

She loved looking at all of the cool scenery in the restaraunt! That or she was practicing to be a waitress!?!?!

WOW!!! Cute.... okay this is a time to brag as a parent.... A lady stopped us in the airport and wanted us to get Brooklyn started as a Gerber Baby model, she gave us the whole pitch and told us she was a representative of their company. It was a "thanks but no thanks" moment. We just can't believe how cute she is!

Brookie and Grammie cooking some yummy food!

Pregnant

Soooooo.... WE ARE PREGNANT!!! Shayna is now 14 weeks along and the due date is the second week of July! We are very excited and suprised! :) We will find out the gender at around 20 weeks and inform everyone!!! Brooklyn says she can't wait to teach her little sibling all the tricks!

Shayna Shootin'

Shayna shot a rifle for the first time!! It scared her the first shot but she had great aim!

Christmas Pics

Grammie (Brazier) enjoyed scooting Brookie around the house in this box. We don't know who was most entertained by this!!!

Aunt Heidi made the matching PJ's for all her kids and Brooklyn. These are her cousins Jake, Luke, David, Amber and Brookie! Thanks Heidi.... they are awesome!!!

Grandma Bush (Shayna's Mom) has made her home a kids dream. She bought this rocking horse that also plays music. As you can see Brooklyn loved riding the horse and loved it even more when everyone was watching!!! Thank you Grandma Bush!

Brooklyn warmed up to her Grandparents and even gave some snuggle time to her Grandma Bush!

CUTE!!!!! Grandma got Brooklyn this dress for Christmas and Drew made her the beanie for Christmas!!!! We love our adorable girl!!!

Halloween

Brooklyn got her first taste of candy!!! Mommie let her try her sucker and Brooklyn didn't want to give it back! She really enjoyed it and it gave a whole new perspective in her life!

That is just the way we roll! We didn't have an idea for Drew's costume on the day of Halloween so Shayna suggested to be the "bottom of the closet".... it worked out great for a poor grad student! We just pinned on the clothes everything we found on the closet floor! The dumbest things are funnest things!

Brooklyn was a frog! She walked around as we went trick-or-treating with our cousins kids (Cam and Jen's kids)... she seemed to like playing in the leaves more than anything!

Shayna was a football player!!! There is our little family!