Family Pictures

I saw this white brick wall a few weeks back and I have been itching to go take pictures here for a while now! Early last week Rachel asked if I would take some family pictures of them before Brennan started dental school and before baby Jordan comes. I was happy to! And so excited to get some shots at this wall.

I have also been wanting to take pictures in this field.. This field is right outside of the neighborhood where I grew up, and the owners were very strict with trespassers. It is their farm. I understand.  It is soon to be developed.. so we had to go here too! It is seriously GORGEOUS! I was so worried all week about the weather during our pciures. I was checking the weather multiple times a day. Of course, it ended up raining and being SO windy. There were so many cute pictures ruined by crazy wind blown hair and clothes. Such a bummer. We will have to try again next summer. But we still got a few good shots! Thanks to Rach for snapping a few pictures of our little family too!

Lots of love, 

Brookeydee

sleepovers

I have mentioned on here a few times that Mikey is the oldest of EIGHT kids. yes. 8.  I adore his huge family!!

We have frequent sleepovers with part of the crew.  This last weekend was fall break for all of us so we took on our biggest sleepover yet with 4 of the kiddos.  Only leaving 2 at home (cause James is doing his missionary gospel sharing thang in Australia RN.)  Our little home was LOUD and full and it was so fun!  We love when they come to visit!

We picked them up and zipped down to eat some YUMMY waffles that Mikey whipped up! (I LOVE, LOVE when he cooks and I don't have to!) Then we went to the canyon and checked out Bridal Veil falls and enjoyed some fall lovin. I LOVE FALL. Its a thing.

Mike and I decided it was time for a Harry Potter revival after a short clip in our spanish class so the kids were forced (happily) to watch #2 and #3 with us. We just finished #4 last night (we are taking our time with this marathon)  Anyways, I just love this family of mine!  Also please note bella's outift.  I wish everyone could have seen her this day up close.  She cracks me up and has so much personality.  I love that she often wears clothes that reflect exactly who she is!  Like this combo of a plaid hat, donut sweater, boy shorts, hot pink fuzzy socks, and blue toms. I cant handle it!

We were sad to miss out on my family's fall break trip :( seriously sad. But, we had a best friend getting hitched and HAD to stay.  Their wedding was gorgeous and we loved dancing the night away with our dear friends! I wish every week was fall break.  and I wish fall would stay this perfect- temperatures and leaves and yumminess.

lots of love,
brookeydee

also... fun pic for the day- bc I asked mike to go to the store to pick up milk, reeses mini cups and pretzels to make some cute witch broom things I found on pinterest for a halloween party this weekend.  He returned with milk, reeses minis, GF pretzels flavored honey mustard and onion.... (WHY?!?), cheetos (long story but those are forbidden in our home), and loads of other unnecessary tempting treats.  He is no longer allowed to enter a store unsupervised.  Seriously when people told me wifing was like mothering I. did. not. listen.  Its a good thing I adore this sweet man of mine.

because you just never know

Its the first week of school and let me just say- although I am busy and I will have tests and projects that will be stressful, I LOVE SCHOOL.  I love the environment, I love learning, I love that I am gaining knowledge.  Its just a good good thing.

I also LOVE LOVE LOVE being in school with my Mike.  We take our study break together in the library and study our little hearts out!  And this semester we are in the same health class and share the same class level and professor for Spanish!  So we can study together for those two courses (we know this will never happen again so we are soaking it up!)

The first day of school was crazy!  I missed three and a half classes for the beautiful wedding of my friends Caleb and Maria.  And Mikey had to miss one class that day.  So it was a little different getting books and organized for the semester, but we are getting along just fine.  Then our next first day (the following day with different classes) we had quite the adventure!  I worked from 9-4:30.  Mike came to pick me up from work and take me to school.  On the freeway headed to UVU our car overheated- BAD! so we turned on the heater full blast threw on the hazards and started lane changing from the carpool lane to the side of the freeway. Miraculously the car engine temperature dropped back down to the normal range while we did this and we were able to get to UVU in time for my class! (Mike only has one class so he was able to attend to our poor broken car)  That was miracle #1.  After Mike fixed up the car, he sat in the car rockin out to some tunes waiting for me to finish so we could head to our last class of the evening on the other campus.  That class is about a 5 minute drive that we only have 10 minutes to do! Well, the battery died from the radio being on! HAHA! honestly.

So we walked up to a lady in her truck knocked on the window and asked if she had 5 minutes and jumper cables. She was SO sweet!  She did and she was so happy to help us. She proceeded to tell me that she never sits in her car looking through emails after class and she never drives her husband's truck (which has the cables) so essentially this was a one-time miracle squared. Miracle #2

I wish so badly I could thank that sweet car lady appropriately. I don't know if I will ever see her again, but I am so grateful she was there (placed by the Spirit no doubt)  It just goes to show, even if it seems like a weird prompting- follow it!  Cause you just never know.

After our car jumping experience, we zipped over to the west campus and made it to class before it started!! miracle #3.  It was a crazy day- I can't lie and say I had great positive thoughts flowing through my head all day.  But we were definitely being looked after. And I am so grateful for a Heavenly Father who is interested in the details of our lives.

I had to learn a lesson yesterday- a lesson of patience and that He really does care about the little things.  I am so grateful for that!

Cheers to a great semester with my Mikey!


Also, family pictures are done for both of our families. and i love them!

lots of love,
brookeydee