The Newest Mr. & Mrs. Brandley!

Over the weekend we got to attend the wonderful sealing of Louis' little brother Phillip and his 

wonderful girl Megan!  

It was a beautiful feeling and there was so much love in that sealing room!  

The smile on Phillip's face was so sweet!

We are so very happy for Phillip and Megan and are so glad that Megan is now officially a Brandley!

My favorite photos of the day:

Bowling

Yesterday we took Avery bowling for the first time.  She had SO MUCH FUN!  My goodness that girl!  We were able to go with Josh who is in town for Phillip's wedding.  It is a good thing it is loud in bowling alleys because Avery was being super loud!  She was yelled yay about after every single bowl.  She gave lots of high fives and just had a very good time!  Even though Avery beat me, I think we all had a great time.  We took some cute pictures, here are some of them:

7 Months

Our little Mary turned 7 months old yesterday!  I think I said this when Avery turned 7 months too, but 6 months seems like such a big milestone and now that's she's past it, it's crazy!  

I weighed her yesterday and she weighs 16lbs 4oz so that's in the 20%.  She is our itty baby!

She's still short too so that makes her look chunky!

Mary is still nursing great, I am so grateful for that.  She nurses 5 times a day right now.

She eats food 3 times a day now.  I usually feed her a whole jar of fruit in the morning, a half jar of fruits and veggies for lunch and dinner.  She loves all fruit!  She is a little picky with her veggies, her favorites are corn and carrots.

Have you seen those mesh bag things for babies?  You can put food in them and snap it shut then they can gnaw on it and get the juice out.  She really likes it and loves pineapple and oranges a lot!

I thought it was funny how she was sleeping with her arm out of the crib!

So earlier this month her nighttime sleeping went crazy!  She started waking up once or twice during the night.  It was a very frustrating 3 weeks, but for the most part she's stopped.  Thank goodness!  That was hard.  I think it was possibly just a growth spurt.

Mary naps 3 times a day and sleeps 10-12 hours at night.

Mary has continued to learn so many things!  She is just in a hurry to go!  She always has been.  We got pregnant with her after the first month.  She arrived in this world after only 2 hours of labor and 12 minutes after I got to the hospital.  She started rolling over before she was 3 months, she was getting up on her knees  and army crawling before she was 5 months.  Sitting up right after 5 months and fully crawling by 5 and a half months.  Just this last month she started pulling herself up and now she does it all the time!  On everything!  (Which is why she has so many bonks on her head)

Also since she was born she has been so squirmy!  Always trying to go somewhere!  I wonder if this attitude will continue on with her through out her life.

I took a couple of Mary crawling and pulling herself up.  If anyone is interested in seeing them, comment below and I'll post them.

Mary has been "talking" a lot the past couple of weeks.  She said Aaa a lot and she also says baba and dada.  You will also blow raspberries every now and then.  Avery and Mary have a little game they play together.  Avery will sit in front of her and take both of her hands and say Aaaa while she bounces them up and down.  You smile and laugh and join in with the Aaaa-ing.  It is super cute!  I love those two.

Mary continues to be a happy and curious baby.  We love her so much 

and are so glad she's a part of her family!

Grandpa J's 90th Birthday Party

As I said in my last post my grandpa's birthday party was on my birthday this year.  It was wonderful!
We started out with just family and then extended family and friends came.  During the just family part Ashley read a poem she wrote of 90 memories with Grandpa.  It was really nice, some of the memories were memories we all have with our awesome Grandpa.

After her poem Uncle Dennis had some trivia about Grandpa.  The grandchildren had to answer and we got chocolate if we answered right.  I'm pretty sure Nanette won this game!

After this Grandpa got up and he had me come up and gave me a present and everyone sang to me.  That was nice, and I really appreciated it.  He then gave presents to all of the great grandchildren.  He has also been working on his life history and had a copy for everyone.  I haven't gotten too far into it, but I'm very excited to read it!

Then the party started!  There were so many people that came to celebrate my grandpa's birthday!Grandpa also had a bunch of his Senior Olympic t-shirts on display and he had his grandchildren pick one out to keep.  I took his from 2010 because that is the most recent one I to.

 Grandpa is such an amazing man I love him so very much and feel so blessed to have him in my life!

Finish the rhyme:  

I dropped my shirt in the ________

I bought a pickle for a __________ 

24th birthday

Yesterday was my 24th birthday.  Guys I'm 24.  Next year I will be a quarter of a century!  It was a very good day.  It kind of started out sucky, but it quickly turned around.  Thank you to everyone who worked to make my day so wonderful.  I really appreciated it.  We had spent the night at the Brandley's and in the morning Annette and Joel made me breakfast.  Louis also made muffins and put a candle in one for me and they sang happy birthday.
After breakfast we just relaxed for a while and then I headed out to help set up for my Grandpa Jensen's 90th birthday party.  His birthday is the day before mine.  I decided to run to the church so Louis could have the car to drive himself and the girls to the church later.  I got a little more than half way there when my mom met me and picked me up.

I spent the next few hours at the party.  It was a little disappointing to be spending my birthday at someone else's birthday party, but I LOVE my grandpa so much and it ended up being a great day!  My grandpa even got me a present and had everyone sing to me.  That was very nice.

After the party we dropped off our girls with Louis' mom and dad and we went to dinner at Denny's with my siblings.

Then we headed back to the Brandley's and I left on a mini adventure with Phillip, Annette, Alisha, and Kami.  It ended with me getting them free ice cream because it was my birthday, but don't tell the manager of Farr's Fresh that.
That pretty much ended my birthday celebrations, the rest of the day spent driving home.  It really was an enjoyable day!  Tthanks to everyone who made it special!

General Conference

This last weekend was a good one!  General Conference yo!  Sorry for the yo, I'm in a weird mood.  We love general conference weekend!  We get to sustain and hear from the leaders of our church. We always go down to spend conference with our families and play some conference bingo.  If you missed it you can watch conference here.   I'll be honest, I don't end up paying very good attention during conference.  I'm too busy either with the kids or talking to my family.  Which is why I am so grateful for technology so I can go back and listen to conference!  This was my favorite talk.  Even though I don't do too well at listening the weekend is always filled with the spirit!  I love conference weekend!  I had a cute picture of Avery sustaining the prophet, but I think I deleted it!  Oh well, here's a cute picture of Tifannee and Mary!

Easter 2013

Easter weekend was great!  Now I'm trying (okay not so much) not to eat all of my candy!  I'm doing a "fit in 6" (as in 6 weeks) challenge with two of my sisters-in-law.  I'll blog about that later.  Our Easter celebrations started Friday night with our semi-annual sibling supper.  It was over at the Pugmire's.  We had an Easter egg hunt for the kids and a scavenger hunt for the adults.  As always, it was lots of fun even though half the Brandley siblings couldn't be there, and they were missed.

All the kids were matching and we didn't even plan it!

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Scavenger Hunt

Saturday we met up with the Pugmire's to go see the Easter bunny at Lee's!  Avery loved it!  She wanted the Easter bunny to come with us and said to him, "Come on Easter bunny!"  After Lee's we went over to the Home and Garden Show.  We saw Joke who was working there and just walked around really quickly.  We saw the Easter bunny there again!  Avery was so excited and even got an Easter egg from him.  It's two days later and she's still saying "Oh thank you Easter bummy!" whenever she see's it.  

We rushed through the Home and Garden show so we could get down to Ogden so I could meet up with Annette, Tifannee, and Kamila to go down to Salt Lake for the Young Women's Conference.  It was so much fun and all of the talks were amazing!  If you haven't had the chance to see it you can watch or listen to it here.  It was so wonderful to be there with all of the young women.  It's kind of weird because I still feel like I am a young women!  Then I think about it and I'm almost 24.  That's old.  Okay no it's not!  It feels like it though when you're around the young women!  

We spent the night at my parent's house and went to church with them.  We wish we could have spent more time with them, but we are glad that we got to see them for a short time.

After their church we headed home because Louis had work that night.  When we got home, we did our own Easter baskets.  It was a lot of fun this year.  Avery totally got the Easter bunny this year and I wasn't expecting her to.  She got that the Easter bunny brought her an Easter basket and had fun looking for it!  Mary had fun looking through her basket too!

We had a wonderful Easter.  We are so very grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ and the love He has for each of us.  We are grateful for the atonement and that through Him we can all return to our Father in Heaven.