Ballet Under the Stars - Year 3!

Wowzers! Can you believe it? Jeff and I have actually done something for 3 years in a row! You may remember this post "Our First Kiss" from last year. Well now we have another year of Ballet Under the Stars to put up!

This year, my favorite piece was from "Rubies"

Amazing!!

There were lots of changes from last year to this year! First, we broke down and wore different clothes and we didn't eat chicken like the last few years. Uh oh. We're breaking the trend!

Also, they built a new bridge over Tempe Town Lake 

And most importantly!! We have a baby!! He's the best. Scotty loved the performance. He was memorized by the music and dancing and kept dancing along! 

I hope the video works. It's my first time trying to post a video! Sorry it's sideways. I can't rotate a video. Just tilt your head ; )

(A nice person took this picture of us)

Some things just never change though. We are still as weird as ever :)

I love my family!!!

Since it was the 2nd anniversary of our first kiss, we HAD to take kissing pictures :)

"Don't Blink!"

There's a country song that says, "Don't blink, Life Goes Faster Than You Think"
Seriously. Scotty is almost 11 weeks now! Time flies so fast it's crazy! We're just trying to enjoy every moment of it.

Our little boy has grown so much!

At his 2 month check up:

Weight: 13 lbs 12 oz - 90th Percentile (that's my boy! haha)
Height: 24 in. - 82nd Percentile
Head - I don't remember I'd have to look at the paper but it was only the 75th percentile

He's also learning new things!

• At 10 weeks he started rolling over from his tummy to his back!
• He also started laughing!! It's the cutest thing. When we load the video to the computer I'll post some of them. He just cracks up. I love the sound of a baby laughing. To me, it is one of the sweetest sounds in the world.
• He loves blowing spit bubbles...he thinks it's hilarious!
• He loves books and toys
• He likes licking his monkeys on his carseat straps (kind of gross I know, but funny)
• He holds his head up so well
• He smiles all the time
• He sleeps through the night (and has been since about 3 weeks!)
• He's just perfect!

We love our little boy so much!!!!

PS Jeff and I are still crazy about each other :) Just with such limited time, I can only blog a little and I know you all would prefer to hear about our cute baby instead of us being all mushy ;)

Happy 1 Week!!

These pictures are of Scotty any where from 5 hours old to 5 days old

Scotty is 1 week old today! I can't even believe it. Time has flown by already. I know it's only been a week since he was born but it feels like we've had him forever. It's This little boy has brought us so much joy! I didn't know it was possible to love someone like this. Every time I think "How could I love any more than I already do?" But each day the love for this little boy and his daddy grows deeper and deeper. Scott really has the most amazing daddy. Jeff is the best dad a kid could ask for and a better husband than a wife could ever dream of. I am the luckiest woman ever. 

I love my men!!!

Counting Down

Last year was the first year I didn't have a countdown to my birthday. With dating Jeff and getting engaged, I had much better things to countdown to...like our wedding!

This year, who cares about my birthday. I'm looking forward to the birthday of our precious little boy! Only 110 days (give or take a few!) left or 15.5 weeks or 3.5 months. However you want to look at it : )

Oh my little baby boy how I am so anxious for February to come so I can finally hold you in my arms (instead of having you bounce on my bladder). Your daddy is really looking forward to you as well. He already loves talking to you and kissing you. He's going to be the best daddy--he's already the best husband :)

and PS
There are only 4 days left until my birthday :)

I used to be this cute :)

1 + 1 = 3

If you haven't heard yet, we have BIG news!

We are having a baby!! Well, at least we thought it was a baby until we got our 8 week ultrasound and saw that it was really a gummy bear....

Our Gummy Bear: 8 weeks, 2 cm long

Surprisingly enough, we went back at 18 weeks and found this!

A baby!

And.......

'nough said



The doctor says everything is looking great! He's healthy and very active. His favorite past time is kicking mommy's insides. He's already very strong!

We are so excited for our little man to make his entrance into the world! He should be joining us around Feb 26, 2011. Just a couple days after Jeff's birthday... then it can be a happy birthday for both my men!!

I fail at Blogging... So here's an update

Here are the highlights since my last post:

~Jeff and I celebrated our 6-month anniversary! I love you Handsome!!!! I can't believe it's been 6 months already. It's gone by so fast.

~My little brother left on his mission to Boston, Massachusetts. He will be there for 2 years! I love him so much and I am so incredibly proud of him.

~My sister and her family came in town for a couple weeks. It was crazy but fun.

 (That's my mom not my sister, I know, she looks really young and hot, but yes, she is the grandma of these cute kids)

~Jeff's almost finished with his summer semester. He got into the El-Ed program doing Special Ed. AND the government is giving him lots of money to go to school. You know, being married definitely increases your chances of getting Pell Grants!

~ We celebrated the 4th of July

~The 2009-2010 dance year ended at Dance Republic with our annual recital. It went SO well. I'm very proud of my dancers.

~I've been scoring some fantastic deals at the grocery stores. I love couponing!

~We actually socialized and had friends over for a BBQ. I'd call it a success!

~We went up to the Brinton's ranch. So fun!!

~I got assigned to be our ward's Roadshow Director. It's in November.

~oh, and Jeff found out what happens when you're an hour late coming home from work...

Argh!!! Matey! This is what ye get for coming home late!
then I proceed to attack him with my form sword. He finally recovered his senses enough to fight back. We had a lovely sword fight if I can say so myself!


So that's about it for now.
One day I will keep up this blog...

Spring Break!!

When I went to school, I chose BYU over ASU because I couldn't find any way I liked ASU over BYU. More than a year after I graduated BYU, I have finally found one... ASU gets SPRING BREAK!!!

Now you'd think since I'm already graduated that it wouldn't matter to me, but my hunky husband is going to school at ASU and that foreign concept of Spring Break came as a welcome relief.

Although we both still had to work, we managed to find time to have some fun.

We went to a Cubbies Spring Training game and because my father in law rocks, we got to sit in the Mayor's Box right behind home plate. Best way to watch a game. I am now officially spoiled.


The following day, we finally got to utilize the tent we got as a wedding present.



Yep! We went camping! I'm not a real camper but I think Jeff can help cure me of that. We had such a great time.




The weather was perfect for camping and Arizona was so green!! (Ok green for a desert. No comments saying it's not green! haha)


When we returned, I wanted to take a cold shower only to find out that we had no cold water, only piping hot water. Yuck! Thankfully we live near my in-laws and we used their nice cold water.

Saturday rocked! We got up early and went to the temple, which is one of my favorite things to do with Jeff, made a delicious breakfast, totally cleaned our apartment and hung more picture frames on the walls and such. I love having a clean apartment! and having stuff on the walls makes it feel more like home (well except that we haven't put pictures in those frames yet so we have pictures of random people on our walls).

Although this week was a break from school for Jeff and teaching for me, it was not a break from the play. So after all of our house work, I had a matinee performance, got a massage and ice cream between shows, had another rocking show that night, and ended the night by going out with my husband, the cast, crew and friends to Oreganos. We came home exhausted and crashed. But it was such a good day! Such a good week!!

For not being a student, this Spring Break was one of the best I've ever had!!

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Brinton

On January 8th, 2010 I married my best friend who is the most wonderful man in the Mesa LDS Temple. Our family and friends joined us in the Temple for a beautiful ceremony. Normally Jeff is the crier and I am not, but that day as we were both sitting there beaming, I was the one shedding tears of joy. The day I had only dreamed of and imagined my whole life was finally here and I was so overwhelmed with wonderful emotions and feelings I couldn't help it! I felt so blessed to be marrying this incredible man. I did not know it was possible to love someone so much.


The reception was absolutely beautiful. Thank you SOOOO much to everyone that helped. It was picture perfect. Speaking of pictures, I'll be posting more soon.

I don't know what I did to deserve Jeff but I thank my Heavenly Father everyday for him.

The Night I Got Engaged (Not the full story, sorry!)

Jeff's sister, Staci is wonderful and has blogged about several events that have happened in my recent past. Like the night Jeff and I got engaged! She helped Jeff put his plans into action. Read about it here.

I Forgot

For the first time in my entire life (that I have memory of!) I forgot it was my birthday. If you know me really well, this probably is a shocker to you. But I have a countdown to something even better: my wedding to Jeff Brinton! It's been a while since I last posted, but Jeff proposed on November 3rd. I have never smiled so much in my life! My cheeks were burning! We're getting married January 8th in the LDS Mesa Temple.

So when I woke up on my birthday I was so wrapped up in wedding plans I completely forgot it was my birthday. My mom had to remind me! Instead of getting normal presents that day, I got my wedding dress :D Pretty good trade off, no?

My birthday actually lasted all weekend long. But my most favorite present of all was what Jeff gave me...my real ring! Yay!!!! He proposed with a ring from Walmart because my real ring wasn't in. I would have been so happy to just have that ring, but I love love LOVE my real ring. I still find myself testing the light in a room to see how it makes my ring sparkle :D hehe.

The wedding is in 5.5 weeks!! I am so excited to marry my best friend and the most amazing man I have ever known. I am the luckiest girl in the world. I get to be Mrs. Jeff Brinton. Mmmm I like the sound of that :D



I love you Jeff!

Life = Pure Happiness

Is it possible to be any happier?? :)



I'm am so incredibly blessed.

Something's Amiss

I'm not quite sure why, but for the last couple of days I've just felt like something is amiss or missing from my life. I have no idea what's going on or what needs to happen. I feel like I'm doing everything I'm supposed to be doing! So what's the deal? Why is it that I feel anxious and that I want to burst into tears? I really have no idea.

Seeing the Light

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been apart of some very frustrating conversations. Thankfully though, those conversations have helped me see the light. More than ever, I know now I am where I need to be. The Lord needs me here, my mom needs me here, and I need me to be here right now. I’ve had a really hard time coming to grips with that last one, because I didn’t really want to be here at first. I wanted to be back in UT, living my own life, being with my friends, and ballroom dancing. I begrudged my situation. However, in longing for the past and for a different situation, I was missing out on what the present and future had to offer me and what I had to offer it! Many of the LDS leaders have offered such great advice for times like there. President Monson keeps saying, “find joy in the journey now!” President Uchtdorf “Lift where you stand” and someone else who I can’t remember “Blossom where you are.” I took these messages to heart and I’ve been trying follow their council. In doing so, I realize now that I need to be here for myself, for personal growth and for experiences I could never have had if I had remained in Utah.

I don’t know what the Lord has in store for me, but then again, if I knew I wouldn’t need to have faith and faith is something we’ve been told we must have. Faith, hope, and charity. So I will continue to have faith in the Lord and His plan for me, hope that there are greater things in store, and charity feeling the pure love of Christ in my life and sharing it with those around me.

What would I do without the Gospel in my life to shed light on the darker times and bring me such peace, joy, and happiness?

Why?

Why do I keep fighting what seems to be a losing battle? Why can't I just give up??

It's amazing how well this quote from Princess Diaries 2 sums it up...

The heart does things for reasons that reason cannot understand

Trust in the Lord

Also in my free time I love to read. Here is a talk that has really touched my heart in light of recent events in my life. I suggest you read it. It's called "Trust in the Lord" by Richard G. Scott. Here is the url; just copy and paste it so you can read it too.

http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=73c027cd3f37b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1

Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understands. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths"

What a great peace this scripture and its promise brings in hard times such as this.

Bored to Tears

Have you ever thought, "Oh I wish I had free time or just some time where I could do nothing?" After these past two weeks I would say to you, don't wish too hard or you just might get it. Tomorrow will mark the end of week 2 of my unemployment. I am going nuts. Day after day I spend hours on end searching for jobs, applying for them, and then getting rejected by them--not that I really wanted any of those ones anyways, but still, rejection in any form kinda hurts.

Most of my life I have kept myself so ridiculously busy that I have barely had time to think! But that's how I like it. Now that I have too much time on my hands and too much time to think the boredom is really getting to me. In fact, I want to cry right now because I feel like I've been so unproductive. Which, if I may interject my own thoughts right here, is not really true. Each morning I wake up at 6 for ballroom practice and when I return, I make myself a really, really long "to do" list (with things such as scripture study, cleaning, reading, exercising, job hunting, etc) just to make sure I stay busy. But without something big like school or work to fill up most of my day, I feel like I'm just wasting my time. So back to me wanting to cry...yeah, I still want to. In fact I would do so right now if my roommates weren't here to see it.

Je ne sais pas

I am slightly a control freak (My friend laughed at me last night when I told him that). I just prefer being in control of what goes on in my life. That's not too much to ask is it? Apparently it is, because sometimes I just have no idea what is going on. For instance, sometimes things will be really good and I feel like there is a possibility of progress and other times I will feel so confused and even a little hurt. I wish I just had the courage to take charge, to speak up when I feel like I have little control. Until I have that courage, my most repeated phrase will most likely continue to be "Je ne sais pas."