Mother's Day was GREAT!

Of course I could never FORGET our own Mother's!!
Steve and I were both blessed with the best mothers in the WORLD!!
They have given us so much love and support through out our lives and never given up on us. They have ALWAYS put their children before themselves....they are our Mothers! We are so grateful for them... Thanks Moms!

Sydney made me a cute little...thing... from school, and Steve got me some very pretty flowers and CHOCOLATE!!! There's no picture of the chocolate because I ATE it....jk! not yet ;)

I love my cute kids!!! They gave me the best mothers day!! And I have the best husband..he did everything and I got to relax!

Steve got us a huge shade umbrella and fire pit from Lowe's. Cant wait to make S'mores with the family on Steve's next day off!!!

Reese is growing...along with the her siblings!

One attempt at a picture of all four.

Poor Reese....she had baby acne Really bad!!! Its just now getting better.

Grandpa Brooks visits

Grandpa Brooks and his girlfriend Terry came to visit the other weekend. We had a great visit and the kids malded them both like always whenever the grandparents visit! We also planted a tree in the back...well Steve did. Cant wait for it to grow and make some shade out on the patio.

Sydney's been BUZZY!

Sydney had her kindergarten music program the other day. It was very cute and Sydney did a great job. She was excited to be on the top row....she thinks she is tall since she was put up there. HaHaHa!

Happy 7th Anniversary

You can tell we werent (and still not) getting enough sleep yet.

ok I know no one else thinks this is funny...but I couldnt resist and I thought it was funny, because I had Steve go pick it up.

Easter weekend

I think out of all the kids Steven loves to hold Reese the most. Funny because I remember the day we found out it was a girl Steven was so mad and said he wasn't going to help with the baby, but I knew once she was here that would change. He loves helping with her and is really gentle. Its so cute!

Playing games with Grandpa

It was really nice having grandma here for Easter

You can really see the blond in Reese's hair here.

Dyeing eggs!

Baby Reese

Reese Rebecca Brooks: Born March 30th 2010 @ 1:22pm, weighing 8 lbs. 3 oz. and 21 inches in length.

Grandma, Grandpa and Tori with Reese. Tori loves to hold the baby and say "Cute baby!" So glad dad could fly down on business and be here with us for the week with mom!

There's a picture of Tori sleeping and making this same face.

After her first bath.

Big brother and sister LOVE to hold her!

first family picture of our family of 6 now!!!

Birth Story: ( sorry its a little detailed so guys dont read ;)!! )
We went into the hospital at 3 am Tuesday morning, which the day before I had gone to a doc appt, where they striped the membranes and told me I was at a 3. Whenever I go into labor its always been the same, I wake up around 2am and have a hard contraction followed by another, but usually spaced out between 7-10 mins. I always have to time to take a shower and time them for a couple hours to see if they continue and progress. Well I kinda jumped the gun this time and we headed in right away. When we got there I was a 3 so they had me walk for an hour, which Ive never had to do because Ive usually been at 5 and in "active labor" but since I wasnt this time..we got to WALK... not fun! After that they checked me and I was a 4 and they called my doc who said "he wasnt convinced I was in active laborm," well he was only on call for the next 2 hours so Im sure he didnt want to get up..lol! At this point I was already going to ask for an epidural which originally I was really going to try to avoid to save money...stupid idea I know..totally worth the money right!????? Well they wanted keep me on the monitors because the baby wasn't as perky as they wanted her to be, so they decided to keep me for 2 hours and then see what happened. The worse way to labor in laying in the bes not being able to walk around (in my opinion). Well the nice other guy doc who was coming on call ..came in and admitted me and said lets have this baby today! So I was ordered the epidural and I was soo releaved when it came..MAN they feel great! They are the best thing in the world! The doc didnt break my water right away because he had to be insurgery so I had to wait. My contractions spread out which usally happens when I have an epidural and my water isnt broken right away so in the meantime they gave me some patosin (spelling??) and then when we was available he came in and broke my water. Well I had started feeling the pressure and it was getting worse, one right after the other so 2o mins. later they checked and I was at a 10 and ready to push...and it was too late to get the epidural fixed so basically I could feel everything without the edge, maybe. I had to push for about 45 mins. and was so happy to get her out!! She was happy and healthy and I was relieved to be done! It was defintley a different birth story than usual, but with the same great ending with a Healthy baby! So just wanted to thank everyone for your thoughts and congrats....our family and friends are always an amazing support to us and we love you guys!

St. Patrick's Day

Dance Camp!!

Sydney got to go to her first dance camp on Saturday. She has been missing dance class because we havent found one around here to go to yet. So when she got the flyer from school with the high school drill team putting on a dance clinic there was no saying no! She LOVED it and did very well. The families got to come at the end and watch what they learned. It was really cute and Tori was totally entertained by the dances. I think we are going to have another dancer on our hands!!

Tori has been practicing her splits......not so much on the working out part (she is currently 33lbs. only 2 lbs. lighter than Steven).

Almost Spring time!

So the past few days its been so nice and sunny, that I let the kids go outside and play on the back patio. Its so nice to have a backyard for the kids to ride their bikes and play and not worry about them getting all muddy!