A couple of weeks ago we went swimming at our friends the Reese's pool, and Brooklyn absolutely LOVED it!
Mark & Brooklyn Splashing around
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Swim, Swim, Swim
A couple of weeks ago we went swimming at our friends the Reese's pool, and Brooklyn absolutely LOVED it!
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Arizona
A couple of weeks ago we went to Arizona to help our friends Matt and Whitney move. It was actually a lot of fun. We drove to Phoenix on thursday night and got there friday at about 4:00 am... way to long of a car ride... It was a lot of fun though, we really enjoyed hanging out with Matt and Whitney, and we also got to go visit Jake & Tessa! We loved it! It was a short trip but lots of fun.
Mark and Brooklyn at 4 am.... So tired!
Brooklyn's first airplane ride!
Brooklyn's first airplane ride!
Since we drove Matt and Whitney's car down we flew home. I was really worried about taking Brooklyn on a plane so young but she did great. She slept the entire time. It was perfect!
Can't Get Enough!
I can't get enough of this little girl!!! She is so cute, she is always smiling and laughing now, I LOVE IT! (I know these pics are all pretty much the same but I had to put them all up cause I love her face)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Meet Brooklyn
(I don't know how to turn the flash off of my camera so all the pics I have she is making faces :))Born March 15th 2010 at 11:19 pm, 7Lbs 11ounces, 20 inches.... She is perfect.
So as most of you know she was almost two weeks late. So Sunday we went to the hospital at 7 pm and then they incuced me around 9pm. At 5pm Saturday I was dialted to a 9 and the doctors said I would probably be dilated to a ten within the next hour or two. Well 5 1/2 hours passed and I was still dilated to a 9. So the doctors decided my body was to small to deliver this baby vaginally and that I needed to have a C Section. So we headed up to the OR and at 11:19 Brooklyn was born. She is already such a blessing in our lives. There were some scary points during the day where her heart wasn't doing well, and we thought we lost her, but she was a fighter and I am so glad. I don't know what we would do without her. It's amazing how much love you can have for this one little person.
Well from the second they handed her to Mark, she has been completely attached to him. Can we say major DADDY'S GIRL! She will be screaming at the top of her lungs, to the point where I have no clue what to do for her or what she wants, then Mark will come over and pick her up and she calms right down. She is actually a very alert baby. She is so curious about her surroundings, and loves looking at everything. She also smiles ALL the time. Whoever said newborns can't smile was definitely wrong. She really is such a perfect baby and we love her so much.
We are still at the hospital, so I will post more pictures when we get home.
Thank you all for your love and support! It means so much to us.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Lately
So it has been a century since I last blogged. (no surprise there) So I just thought I would give another update. Our little girl is due today, but she still isn't here. Hopefully she doesn't wait to long because I am getting really anxious!!! Mark is also getting really anxious, he just wants this little baby out of my belly! We can't wait to finally meet her.
Family and friends, you have all been so awesome in helping us get what we need for this little baby. I promise if you haven't received a thank you card yet, it is on its way. Seriously though we have been so blessed. Everyone has been so helpful in giving us books, clothes, a crib, carseat, stroller, blankets, toys, towels, diapers, a diaper genie, all the little things we would never have thought of, and great great advice. We feel so blessed, and we are so grateful our little girl will get to know and love so many amazing people. So we just wanted to say thank you to all of you, you guys are amazing and we have no idea what we would do without you!
Confession: I haven't taken any tags off of clothes yet because the Fiedler family doesn't have the best track record. And what I mean by that is two of Mark's cousins were told they were having girls, and they came out boys. So I think this baby is a girl, and I have been told by the doctor it's a girl, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
Family and friends, you have all been so awesome in helping us get what we need for this little baby. I promise if you haven't received a thank you card yet, it is on its way. Seriously though we have been so blessed. Everyone has been so helpful in giving us books, clothes, a crib, carseat, stroller, blankets, toys, towels, diapers, a diaper genie, all the little things we would never have thought of, and great great advice. We feel so blessed, and we are so grateful our little girl will get to know and love so many amazing people. So we just wanted to say thank you to all of you, you guys are amazing and we have no idea what we would do without you!
Confession: I haven't taken any tags off of clothes yet because the Fiedler family doesn't have the best track record. And what I mean by that is two of Mark's cousins were told they were having girls, and they came out boys. So I think this baby is a girl, and I have been told by the doctor it's a girl, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
Wish us LUCK!!!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Update!
Wow it has been FOREVER since my last post! So here is a list of things that have happened in our life in the past 6 months...
1. We are having a baby GIRL!!! And we are so excited. She is due March 3rd, and time is flying by. Also we need a name, so if you hear any really cute names let us know! I am starting to show and clothes are getting tight. It is so strange watching my body change like this, but it is also really exciting. She is moving a lot! And mostly when I am trying to fall asleep or relax. There are a lot of funny/random things that come with pregnancy. Every day is a new experience.
2. I have read a lot of good books lately and 3 I would recommend are:
Seriously though you HAVE to read them! They will change your life. I loved them, however I don't recommend reading them right before bed otherwise you will have the weirdest dreams.
This book is Amazing. It opened my eyes to so much. I learned so much about the Japanese culture. It is amazing how different a typical family's lifestyle is from ours. I highly recommend this book. You will learn so much from it.
His birthday was a lot of fun. We found out we were having a girl, then we went to dinner with some friends and just had a relaxing day. He really is my best friend, and I love him so much.
4. On August 15th we had our 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!! I can't believe we have been married for over a year. Time seriously goes by way to fast.
This year for Thanksgiving we went to Wil and Kim's house. It was a lot of fun. Everyone was there except for Heidi and Bryan, Nic and Cass, and Bryan. It was so fun to see everyone especially Jake and Tessa and their 4 kids. They live in Arizona and so we don't get to see them very often. So it was so good to see them. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays I love spending time with family and really being able to reflect on what I am thankful for. And most of all I LOVE Thanksgiving dinner!
Well that's all for now, I will try to post again soon.... Don't count on it though.
1. We are having a baby GIRL!!! And we are so excited. She is due March 3rd, and time is flying by. Also we need a name, so if you hear any really cute names let us know! I am starting to show and clothes are getting tight. It is so strange watching my body change like this, but it is also really exciting. She is moving a lot! And mostly when I am trying to fall asleep or relax. There are a lot of funny/random things that come with pregnancy. Every day is a new experience.
2. I have read a lot of good books lately and 3 I would recommend are:
- The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins
- Catching Fire also by Suzzane Collins; this is the second book in the series
Seriously though you HAVE to read them! They will change your life. I loved them, however I don't recommend reading them right before bed otherwise you will have the weirdest dreams.- Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden
This book is Amazing. It opened my eyes to so much. I learned so much about the Japanese culture. It is amazing how different a typical family's lifestyle is from ours. I highly recommend this book. You will learn so much from it. 3. This guy turned 25 on October 15th.
His birthday was a lot of fun. We found out we were having a girl, then we went to dinner with some friends and just had a relaxing day. He really is my best friend, and I love him so much.4. On August 15th we had our 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!! I can't believe we have been married for over a year. Time seriously goes by way to fast.
5. Thanksgiving!
This year for Thanksgiving we went to Wil and Kim's house. It was a lot of fun. Everyone was there except for Heidi and Bryan, Nic and Cass, and Bryan. It was so fun to see everyone especially Jake and Tessa and their 4 kids. They live in Arizona and so we don't get to see them very often. So it was so good to see them. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays I love spending time with family and really being able to reflect on what I am thankful for. And most of all I LOVE Thanksgiving dinner!Well that's all for now, I will try to post again soon.... Don't count on it though.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
SO FUNNY
Someone emailed this to me. So FUNNY and so True.
This HAD to be written by a woman! No one else could describe it so accurately!
When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied.
Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall.
You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter, the wait has been so long you are about to wet your pants! The dispenser for the modern 'seat covers' (invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn't - so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR! ), yank down your pants, and assume ' The Stance.'
In this position your aging, toneless thigh muscles begin to shake. You'd love to sit down, but you cer tainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold 'The Stance.'
To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, 'Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!' Your thighs shake more.
You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that's still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck, that now, you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That would have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It's still smaller than your thumbnail
Someone pushes your door open because the latch doesn't work. The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet. 'Occupied!' you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT It is wet of course. You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try. You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you're certain her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear, 'You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get.'
By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose against the inside of the bowl that sprays a fine mist of water that covers your butt and runs down your legs and into your shoes. The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too.
At this point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat. You're exhausted. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.
You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women still waiting.
You are n o longer able to smile politely to them. A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. (Where was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman's hand and tell her warmly, 'Here, you just might need this.'
As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used, and left the men's restroom. Annoyed, he asks, 'What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?'
This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms (rest??? you've GOT to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what really does take us s o long. It also answers their other commonly asked questions about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse and hand you Kleenex under the door!
This HAD to be written by a woman! No one else could describe it so accurately!
When you have to visit a public bathroom, you usually find a line of women, so you smile politely and take your place. Once it's your turn, you check for feet under the stall doors. Every stall is occupied.
Finally, a door opens and you dash in, nearly knocking down the woman leaving the stall.
You get in to find the door won't latch. It doesn't matter, the wait has been so long you are about to wet your pants! The dispenser for the modern 'seat covers' (invented by someone's Mom, no doubt) is handy, but empty. You would hang your purse on the door hook, if there was one, but there isn't - so you carefully, but quickly drape it around your neck, (Mom would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR! ), yank down your pants, and assume ' The Stance.'
In this position your aging, toneless thigh muscles begin to shake. You'd love to sit down, but you cer tainly hadn't taken time to wipe the seat or lay toilet paper on it, so you hold 'The Stance.'
To take your mind off your trembling thighs, you reach for what you discover to be the empty toilet paper dispenser. In your mind, you can hear your mother's voice saying, 'Honey, if you had tried to clean the seat, you would have KNOWN there was no toilet paper!' Your thighs shake more.
You remember the tiny tissue that you blew your nose on yesterday - the one that's still in your purse. (Oh yeah, the purse around your neck, that now, you have to hold up trying not to strangle yourself at the same time). That would have to do. You crumple it in the puffiest way possible. It's still smaller than your thumbnail
Someone pushes your door open because the latch doesn't work. The door hits your purse, which is hanging around your neck in front of your chest, and you and your purse topple backward against the tank of the toilet. 'Occupied!' you scream, as you reach for the door, dropping your precious, tiny, crumpled tissue in a puddle on the floor, lose your footing altogether, and slide down directly onto the TOILET SEAT It is wet of course. You bolt up, knowing all too well that it's too late. Your bare bottom has made contact with every imaginable germ and life form on the uncovered seat because YOU never laid down toilet paper - not that there was any, even if you had taken time to try. You know that your mother would be utterly appalled if she knew, because, you're certain her bare bottom never touched a public toilet seat because, frankly, dear, 'You just don't KNOW what kind of diseases you could get.'
By this time, the automatic sensor on the back of the toilet is so confused that it flushes, propelling a stream of water like a fire hose against the inside of the bowl that sprays a fine mist of water that covers your butt and runs down your legs and into your shoes. The flush somehow sucks everything down with such force that you grab onto the empty toilet paper dispenser for fear of being dragged in too.
At this point, you give up. You're soaked by the spewing water and the wet toilet seat. You're exhausted. You try to wipe with a gum wrapper you found in your pocket and then slink out inconspicuously to the sinks.
You can't figure out how to operate the faucets with the automatic sensors, so you wipe your hands with spit and a dry paper towel and walk past the line of women still waiting.
You are n o longer able to smile politely to them. A kind soul at the very end of the line points out a piece of toilet paper trailing from your shoe. (Where was that when you NEEDED it??) You yank the paper from your shoe, plunk it in the woman's hand and tell her warmly, 'Here, you just might need this.'
As you exit, you spot your hubby, who has long since entered, used, and left the men's restroom. Annoyed, he asks, 'What took you so long, and why is your purse hanging around your neck?'
This is dedicated to women everywhere who deal with a public restrooms (rest??? you've GOT to be kidding!!). It finally explains to the men what really does take us s o long. It also answers their other commonly asked questions about why women go to the restroom in pairs. It's so the other gal can hold the door, hang onto your purse and hand you Kleenex under the door!
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