Introducing......

The most beautiful baby in the world!!!!! Aka, Brookiestwin baby brother!

Timothy Ray Brazier

7lbs 3 oz

20 in.

born June 22, 2009at 6:46

Ok, now for the details. I didn't have my next appointment until this thursday but I had been up again with false labor all night and was so sad and tired that I called Monday morning to see if there were any cancellations so that I could be seen. They had an opening at 1:30 so I took it. Drew and Brook came with to the appointment and the waiting room was packed. I did not get back until 2:30 and I was being seen by an associate doctor since my doctor was out of town for the week. She checked me and I was dialated to a 6! Then she said,"uh-oh" and I said, "whats wrong?" and she said, "I think I just accidentally broke your water! Then there was a big gush and we were ecstatic!!!!!! She said that if I wanted any prayer of an epidural, I had better get to the hospital quick! Needless to say, that was motivation enough for me. We jumped in the car and ran across the street to Aurora Medicaland called my awesome cousin Jen to come get Brook. Drew stayed in the car with Brook and I waddled up to the labor and delivery unit. Aparently everyone in the city decided to go into labor that day as well. There were nurses briskly walking every which way and when I told them I was there, they put me in a room and told me they would be right back. Well....an hour later no one had come to check on me and my contractions were getting painful, so I hit the call button and the lady came on the intercom. All I could think to say was, "can I get an epidural please!" to which she replied, "who is this?". Aparently they didn't know that I was there! So a nurse came in just mortified that we had been chilling for an hour, and she checked me and said that I was already an 8 and that if I was going to get the epidural it would have to be right then! I calmly told her that I am the biggest woose on the face of the planet, and that I knew for sure I could not go natural. She said that I would be surprised, to which I replied, "no, you would be surprised!" So I got my epidural and the nurse said she had to step out for a minute and check on another lady. About 2 minutes later I told Drew that I felt like I had to go #2, and so we called the nurse to tell her. She came back in and lifted the sheet and said, "oh no, he's crowning!" to which she ran to the door and said, "hey I need a doctor in here, any doctor will do!" Sad to say, I don't even know the name of the doctor who came in, but she strapped on some gloves and went to work. 6 minutes later, T-Ray was born!!!! It was a quick and relatively painless delivery, and I have to say, he is sooooooo cute!!! And amazingling enough, his stats are the exact same as Brookie! 7lbs 3oz, 20 in. Well, I will post more pics!

Randomness

So we haven't posted in a while. We went to the doctor for my 37 week check up and she said that I would have the baby within a few days cause I was so dialated. Well, that was 10 days ago, and we are still waiting! For anyone who has ever had false labor, I feel your pain! And I am considering grounding T-Ray when he decides to come:)!

ok, so my mom brought this cute cute grass skirt home from Hawaii for Brook and this is how she thanks her! I don't know why, but she hates wearing it. But like a good mom, I forced her to and took a picture!
Beautiful sunset on our anniversary!

She got caught trying to type on dad's computer and is explaining what she is doing up there.

She is still our cute little girl, and it is pictures like this that remind me that I don't always want to kill her! just kidding, we love her.

Childrens Museum

These are pics from the Children's Museum here in Denver. They have a free day on the first Tuesday of every month from 4-8 pm. We had fun, but there were definately too many people there. It would be fun to go some time when it's not so crowded.
There was this little play house there and Brook kept climbing up on the doll bed!

Going down the rock slide

My goofy girl

And yes, it's another Rockies game.

These are our friends, Emily,Shane,and Hannah Rowley.

Ban Smoking at Aurora City Parks

I know Shayna is always putting fun family pics on here and I don't want to ruin that by raving on our blog about 'stuff'. HOWEVER, I need your support! It is sooo much fun when we take Brookie to the park and play. She loves to meet new friends and run, run , run!! There is not much more aggrevating than to have the person next to us or our CHILD light up a smoke. I'll be fair and say it does not happen every minute; however, it has happened enough times. I am all for everyone having their own rights, but it is more than that... when you having your own rights impedes my childs rights.... then it all stops there!! And just because you have the the right to smoke at a city park does not mean it is the right thing to do! So, I have been dialoguing with the City Council of Aurora and the Director of Parks and Rec. They are very supportive in the effort of banning all smoking on the grounds of Aurora City Parks. They have already initiated a reseach team to investigate the concern. If you or anyone you know would like to leave a note that I can pass onto the City Council please do so. Even just a line stating smoking should not be allowed at parks would suffice!!!! Just leave a not on here or email at babybrazier@msn.com

Thank you sooo much!!! Isn't is a blessing to live in a country in which our voice is heard! Please, remember I do not want to be one of those groups 'hatin' on others, I am sure the people smoking in parks are not 'bad' people, I just want our children to have a clean environment to play in!

Leave a Message

Hey everyone, in the spirit of spring, my husband got excited and put a Rockies background up. Well....it deleted all of our contact info for all of you, so if you wouldn't mind, it would be easier if you would just all leave a little comment so that I can add you back in! Thanks!!!!

Yeah, The Rockies

You know spring is here when......the Rockies are in town! Yeah! This pic is from our first game of the season so it was a little chilly,but the rest of the games have been great weather.

Brookie thoroughly enjoys the games, and we enjoy the car ride home:)
This is the cute little Rockies shirt and skirt that Rachie got for Brook when she was in town, thanks Rach!


As you notice, we go all out when we get seats, we stay at least 4 rows from the very top!

The amazing Brook

We could never have too many park pics, right?

She is such a big girl now, doing it on her own.

Denver weather has been really nice lately!

Rachie came to town!!!!

My dear dear friend and past mission comp, Rachie McKissick came to town!! So of course we had to show her what we do here all summer long.................................

Rockies games!

We love you Rachie!

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.