The Zoo

We had a much needed family day at the Zoo. After Brandon's Grandma passing away and his Dad having a heart attack it was good to have some time together as a family and not have to think about anything. It was a beautiful day with lots of animals and lots of fun!

 

Bald Eagles

 

Elephants

 

 

The Rhinos were the most active we've ever seen them and one came right up to the window for some breakfast

 





 

The Polar Bear was as active as ever, coming right up to Briggs and doing a back flip in the water

 

The baby Giraffe is the same age as Briggs, only one week difference

 

Loved watching the Seals and Sea Lion.

It reminded me of being back in California.

Basketball Cake & Easter Eggs

Hey all, so it's been an up and down couple of weeks. There was Brandon's birthday on the 23rd and it had potential... except his Grandma isn't doing so well. So his parents were in Nevada. He tried calling friends to go to dinner but everyone was busy. So it ended up just us having sushi. My family gave him a party the next day, then his family came down the day after that for dinner, and then I planned a basketball party a week after his birthday. Sounds great right? Well the main part of the party was the guys playing basketball and I had reserved our church's gym and everything. So we get to the church and oh wait it's General Young Women's Conference. Not only was I already bugged but there was a lady that came up to me when I walked in and said, "There's been a mistake because we've had this scheduled for like years." -UGH she was just so rude about it! I wanted to smack her! So there goes the gym to the lady with a broomstick and pointed hat. (ya I'm still ticked) So anyway we had cake and ice cream in the primary room while we tried to find another gym (pics below). So we did end up finding another gym and everything was fine.

Yes, Brandon had a basketball party with a basketball cake :) and yes I made it

 



So Easter! The Easter bunny came to our house! (I have got to remember to keep that under wraps now) so here's our cute little egg hunter :)

 The real reason for Easter :)

 

Briggs got dinosaurs in his Easter basket so he had to taste them all. 

So for the last week I've had this nasty cough/cold and wasn't feeling up to going to church on Easter :( so we didn't get the Easter pic of everyone in their cute outfits but I'll try to post that next time... Until then feast your eyes on this cute mini hunk :) he's so adorable!

 

Until next naptime! Thanks for reading! -nrobbins

Naptime

Wow naptime is so great! I love that I get a little time to get things done during the day. So far the stay at home mamma has been very productive! Cleaning, updating the blog, dishes, dinner, Briggs' monthly pictures, redecorating and a little shopping. Maybe I should take a nap one of these days. It seems like I get more done with a baby than before. I can't really sleep in and be lazy anymore. Now I just have to start on my project list that I've been wanting to do forever. Before I do anything else I should probably finish a rug that I started when I was pregnant... Brandon keeps reminding me about it whenever I talk about another project :)

Besides my firm determination to put some miles on that jogging stroller it seems like I have an endless list of things that I want to get done this summer. Planting a flower pot for our front porch, make a couple skirts and a few blankets, finish our family portrait wall (which currently only has a large mirror and seasonal decor), recovering a couple chairs that Brandon inherited from his Grandma. They currently have this royal green velvet stuff, legh! While I really want to recover and refinish them I have a feeling this will be a huge undertaking for me and my pinterest boards... I may be enlisting the help of my wonderful mother-in-law (Trina) for the project, and my mom (Dawn) for babysitting :) I'm sure they would both be thrilled. Especially if they both ended up babysitting.

Oh, so many things to do! So on Monday I took pictures of Briggs for his 6 mo pics and realized that I haven't posted any of them so here ya go! Briggs' first 6 months!

Aunt Kara would like it pointed out that his bum which is not pictured says "Pirate Booty"

 

 

Briggs on his blessing day, because I can't find his 2 mo pic. He was about 2 1/2 months for his blessing. He looks so cute in his little sweater! Brandon did an amazing job!

 

 

He is such a content kid! He will just sit there and look around. The only times he gets upset is if he's hungry or tired, and let's be honest so does everyone other human being.

 

 

This is about when he started rolling over.

 

 

Had to add this pic, we started letting him play with his little stuffed animals and he totally growls while he's shoving them in his mouth! So adorible!

 

 

Look mom! No hair! Well he does have a little but the hair that was really dark at birth has completely all rubbed off except for a little on the back. But what's crazy is it looks like it's coming back blond, crazy!

 

 

Had to add this one! We started him on cereal and he loves it! At this point we were getting really close to him sleeping through the night. That's right, he still wakes up a couple times a night.

 

 

Briggs loves bath time, and pretty much any time he's naked. Even when it's time for a diaper change he gets this huge grin when the pants come off :)

 

 

Briggs was helping me go through our junk mail :)

 

 

I love my boys!

 

 

Briggs in the grass for the first time. He really did like it, I think the glare is for all of the pictures I took, Haha!

 

 

Mid smile... and kicking

 

 

Now that we can get him to smile picking pictures is going to get much more difficult...

 

 

 

 

He's mad that the carrots aren't coming fast enough

 

 

Once again, what happens when it's not coming fast enough. He pretty much dives onto that spoon! I love Brandon's face!

 

 

Our cute "Little Dude"

 

Thanks for reading! More updates to come!

Brought to you by naptime :)

-nrobbins



Stay at home Mamma!

Hooray! Brandon found a job which means that I was able to quit mine. Today is the first day of just me and Briggs!

Hopefully this means I can try to update this more often :)

All kinds of things planned including, planting flowers for spring, going to the zoo, spring cleaning and fieldtrips to see Nanna, Grandpa, and Grandma at work. So excited to finally be home!

Updates to follow, hopefully :)

BMR

Wow, how time flies! So I thought I would post something to try to catch up on the last little while. (I don't keep very good records for a History major) I'm sitting here reflecting on the past nine months, which in retrospect have flown by (for me anyway, Nicole may feel differently) and I am sooo excited for my little boy to get here. My sister and bro. in law just had a baby boy (#2) a few months ago and this last week we found out my brother and sis. in law are having a boy about six months after us. We are so happy and excited for them. I'm also very excited that Brigham will have so many cousins about his age to play with, and I hope they all have tons of fun getting into mischeif together! I look forward to all of the family get togethers, as I love my family more than I can or do express. Nicole throughout the pregnancy (which has been such a smooth one, luckily) has been such a trooper, I love her and appreciate all she has gone through so that we can bring this little guy into our family! Won't be long now as she is 38 weeks or so. I can't believe how close it is, and can't wait to meet my son! Here are some pics from the pregnancy.