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Marie's 40th birthday party!

2011-04-25T19:42:00.000-07:00

We finally celebrated my sister Marie's 4oth birthday!! She turned 4o on March 23rd but we didn't get to celebrate until April 15th. It was a great weekend! We had a dinner for her at Whiskenladle in La Jolla and then we stayed the night at the Grande Colonial also in La Jolla. Marie had her friends come down from Newport and they were so much fun. My sister Lisa came in town to host the weekend. She is 24 weeks preg and I am 35...Don't ask me why I did that to myself in the pictures. For family history sake and that's it!

We had a blast being together and celebrating our eldest sister! Big year for Marie and I! Happy Birthday Marie!! I love my sisters!!

Happy Easter! 2011

2011-04-25T19:09:00.000-07:00

We had a great Easter. Adelaide doesn't really get it yet but I think she still appreciated all the fun presents from the Easter bunny! I had the most fun with finding her the perfect Easter outfit. I left out the family pictures because I am not big on photos right now....36 weeks pregnant....next year. We had dinner with the Hills and Court our good friends. My favorite meal of the year! I could eat it everyday. Happy Easter!

DIRTY 30

2011-02-14T14:33:00.000-08:00

Well I am officially old now! Luke pulled out all the stops to make turning old feel extra special! We started celebrating the night before by going to dinner at Roy's. Gina sent us there, paid for it and watched Adelaide for us. That was awesome! Then on the morning of my birthday Luke surprised me and stayed home for the day and made us a yummy breakfast. For lunch my friend Jennifer offered to watch our girl so we could go out to Jake's. That was also fun!

Around 3 Luke had to leave to pick up Lisa from the airport. (that was suppose to be a surprise but I may have ruined it by looking at Luke's phone one day.....oops!)They were gone for about 4 hours running errands. They finally got here and we were off to dinner. Gina was watching Adelaide for us again. Luke said there was a red tide that he wanted to check out before dinner. We got out of the car at Moonlight beach to check it out. I looked down and saw a big bonfire going on with balloons.....hmmm.........Luke said, "should we join them?" I was in heels expecting to go to a nice dinner, clearly not dressed for the occasion. I first noticed my sister Marie and then I noticed my mother in law. I yelled, "JOY!" I was in shock, that's when I knew there was much more in store! Grandma is in town that means we are not! Yay!

There were so many of our good friends there. The picture above shows everyone. It was so nice of everyone to come out to the beach on a February night! Gina also showed up with miss Adelaide. Luke was cute and had sandwiches, chips, drinks and tons of cupcakes! It was a great time.

The next day we took Lisa to the airport and then headed to Palm Springs for the weekend. It was such a fun relaxing weekend! We went to the spa, hung out at the pool and went to dinner every night. Really we just relaxed and took naps if we wanted to. It was amazing!! We were there for three nights. Adelaide had lots of fun and lots of photo shoots (of course) with grandma Joy!

I had a great birthday! Thanks to Luke for being so thoughtful and planning it all. You are the best babe! I love you!

A great mix!

2010-09-10T16:34:00.000-07:00

We took these pictures not too long ago and we were both amazed at how much our little lady looks like her daddy in the second one.
The first one more like me.
Everyone that meets Adelaide always says what a great mix she is of both of us. We can't help but agree!
She is pictured with her Tia Gina b.

Crystal was here....

2010-09-09T16:25:00.000-07:00

Crystal and her family came to town a few weeks ago for work. While Sean was at meetings Crystal and I hung out and went to lunch, the park and the beach. It was great having them here! We didn't get a picture of all of us but this is what I got.

Summer 2010

2010-09-09T16:06:00.000-07:00

We will start with the most current and go backwards...
We had a great Labor Day weekend. We always love extra time with Daddy! On Sunday night we had a party at Gina's and then we went and spent the night in San Clemente with our friends the Hills. We stayed right on the beach in their beach house. It was great! We played at the beach on Monday and then had dinner on the pier.

Catching up!

2010-09-09T16:03:00.000-07:00

Yes.....This will take many posts. I decided to give this blog thing a try (again!). I was thinking that I needed to send my family updated photos of Adelaide. I decided it would be easier here so we'll see how this goes.
Adelaide is almost 15 months. She is so much fun! I wish I could capture every expression/funny face that she makes. Once you pull out the camera it stops...of course.
I just feel like I need to share her and the happiness she brings to us everyday with you all!

grandma joy's photo shoot

2009-07-06T09:45:00.000-07:00

my personal favorite

2009-07-06T09:36:00.000-07:00

6/24/2009 "Adelaide is doing very well… Brenda said she was really alert today and was looking around when she got there this morning to feed her. It’s been over 24 hours now that she has been off of the seizure medicine so she is more lively and alert. The nurse said the medicine she was on would be like taking a Benadryl daily which would make you drowsy of course. She is eating 5x more than she was so we are all really excited about her progress and can’t wait to bring her home. I think she’ll probably be discharged by Monday but we are not sure yet.

Thank you for all your love and support and we will continue to keep you posted."

Here is our beautiful daughter

2009-07-06T09:13:00.000-07:00

Friday 6/19/2009: "Our beautiful daughter was born on June 16th at 8:41 pm. It was a very long labor but I managed to push for three hours and she finally came. Poor thing came out with the cord around her neck 4 times. The doctors handled the situation amazingly and got her to come to quickly. She was then taken right to the Nicu. She was stable and doing quiet well right away. That day she had a few episodes where she held her breath and they had to get her oxygen quick. Since those two episodes she has been stable. I am giving this in a nut shell. The doctors were concerned that the loss of oxygen could have caused some swelling on the brain. They decided to give her a cooling therapy to stop any further swelling and to heal the other.

The last two days she has done so well and we are so thrilled! She is a fighter and we know she is going to be great. We have seen many miracles in our life already...her being the biggest one of course. Someday I will fill you all in on them and many more details. But for now I just wanted you to all know that she is here and doing well and we ask for all of your prayers at this time. She is coming off the cooling treatment today and it's going to be a crucial time to see how her little body reacts. This is where we need to pray for the best outcome.

When you look at this sweet baby you can feel her strong spirit and know that she is a fighter! We are so proud of her and love her more than I ever thought was possible.

Thank you for all of your love, support, phone calls, flowers and especially prayers! They are being heard and answered. We will keep you all posted. Please forward this to anyone I may have missed.

We Love You All!

Brenda, Luke and baby Adelaide Bryn"

Here we are!

2009-05-24T10:52:00.000-07:00

First post.....I hope this is working!

We decided it's time to start a blog. We look at everyone elses and love it. This will be the best way to keep everyone up to date when our baby girl arrives.....so soon! Just a few weeks away!

I had my last day of work on Saturday so now we start the nesting and the count down. We will spend our Memorial day at Babies R us and then we will feel ready. Gotta get the carseat!