Family Pictures

What Family Picture is better?
1=Trey smile
2=Trey strait face

May-June Update

We are loving these summer days.

Clovis has been sunny and not too hot, making it for an incredible last few weeks. We have spent lot of time outside, on walks, picnics, and at the park or pool.

Lorin= A picture of Dad at work, with catalogs every where. We are just about to launch a much better web site for furniture. Can't wait for you all to see the new and improved sight.
The kids love it when he comes home from work...or downstairs/opens the door. Seminary has come to an end...bitter-sweet! Lorin has truly loved teaching these kids. This picture was taken on the last day and only half were there. He taught New Testament to about 23 kids.

Kelli= Life is truly full of picking up toys, changing diapers, wiping faces and feeding kids. I try hard to take the advice of my great friend Joy who always says, "These are the best days! just cherish them." I figure if I repeat that over and over I'll live for today and not wish my kids to be bigger. We have been swimming a ton and playing hard. I am able to accomplish so much more not being pregnant I feel like a new woman. Instead of doing one load of laundry a day I now can do like 5 and maybe clean one bathroom. Lorin and I went on a fun date "where is waldo" and dressed up for our Young Women and Men at the Mall. These our our costumes. The Man with the pink hair is our Bishop, Bill Barlocker. He is and awesome sport. Lorin and I also went on a great date this month up to the mountains and out to eat with our friends, the Lenzingers, on our motorcycles. We also went to an incredible Turtle-Bird Zoo.

Lindi= Just celebrated her fifth birthday on May 3rd. We had a party at the park with a few families. We played red light green light, duck duck goose, penny penny who has the penny and had a pinata. Lindi is so easy to please. Lindi is our little card player! she now asks all day long to play cards. She likes progressive Rook the best. She really gets it! She knows to slough off the bad cards and to hold the good ones and follow suite. It is lots of fun to play. Trey plays too, but is lucky when he gets what he calls. Lindi is so excited to go to school we bought her a backpack and she is pumped. The other day she filled out a whole math fax sheet! She is great at addition.

Trey= Has become our little fish! After a few swim lessons he has taken off. He loves to dive and jump in and can swim a good 15 feet. He isn't quite strong enough to take a breath, and we are working on the turn and float method. Trey has aged a ton in the last 8 weeks it is like he is big now. He actually helps clean up the toy room and loves to unload the dishwasher. He is a little wiz at working Lorin's "I"Phone. He loves swords, guns, dinosaurs and spider man. The picture off him in the armor is from a family night as Lorin taught about putting on the full armor of God, Trey loved it.


Allie= Is one of the big kids now. She doesn't like swimming, but keeps up in all other areas. She loves books, SHOES, coloring with a pen, and Tucker. She loves to use the word "no" and has quite the little attitude. She likes things done her way or else it has to be done again. This is hard at times for Mom, because she doesn't reason or bargain. Allie is our little light that keeps us all united.

Tucker 6 Mts Old

Tucker is our little Joy!

He is learning to roll all around, will sit up now in a crouched position, eats oatmeal cereal one a day, constantly gets attacked by Allie, loves to jump in his bouncer and gets loads of kisses from the whole Brown Team. He is so easy to please and is always smiling.

April Run Down-... Utah, Confrence, Easter, Blessing, Birthdays..FUN! .

What a Month! At the Last minuet we decided to go to Utah for Conference, Easter, to Bless Tucker, and celebrate Sophie and Makaylas Birthdays, and Much more.
I was so exhausted trekking 4 kids around after 16 days...but it was worth it with how much fun we had.
Conference was truly incredible I hadn't been to conference since I was in Primary and couldn't believe how inspired I felt being in the Conference center. We were able to go with Caitline F. who has been a member for about 18 mts now and it was a huge pay day for me to see her and how far she has come. The spirit was so strong and I didn't have to fight kids to listen!! It was great to spend quality time with Abi too.
Easter was also an incredible day. We blessed Tucker Leonard Brown. Both Lorin and I were able to feel of his name sake, my grandpa, and There is nothing like being surrounded by family at such an event. ( Thanks Mayer Fam. for letting us use your ward ...once again)
Easter was full of lots of Hunts, candy and fun. We went to an Easter egg hunt at my Uncle Ben's with the Driggs side. and one at Trinnies with all the Browns and close friends. Easter was nice and quiet as we spent the afternoon with Tash's Family and are kids played amazing.
Both Sophie and Makayla celebrated their 5th birthdays while we were there!!! How fun to have so many close cousins...aunts...and 2nd cousins for Lindi and my kids to play with. I had some great fun with Aunt Katie, Lance and my cuz Molly and her kids at Wheeler Farm. Also one day Katie and I spent 6 Hours at the park. But then other days...it SNOWED! We got to play with my Friend Heidi Belcher Peterson one day whom I love and her three kids...
Wow as I write this I could go on and on of all the Fun we had. No wonder I was so tiered. Lorin didn't get to really play at all he the trip was a work trip and he didn't shy from working.
One of the greatest highlights for me is Kathy Brown took the time and did a therapy session using sand and little figures. I haven't let a day go by where I haven't thought of what I learned from that hour of time and how I can be a better mom. It is always great to see a weakness and then try and work on making it better.
My cousin Alex's wedding was a blast. You should have seen my Nana busting a move. She is incredible. I also got to go one day to the "What a girl Wants" expo with her and other extended fam. Overall it was a 10+ trip!!!
Then the next weekend back Spencer and His family came into town and wow it was also a blast. We went to the rodeo parade, played games, and had a photo taking afternoon. It was fun to stay up late and talk and watch little Lance as he dove right in with all my kids. I could have had them stay another five days.

Feb-March Picture Update

March:
*Kelli's 27th Birthday
*Trey's 3rd Birthday
*Park Play Day
*Lindi & Kelli @ the Dentists
*Playing @ home since I rarely Leave...to hard with 4.
*Playing on Dad's Phone when he is home from work.
*Sam Staying with us for a week before he lef
I sure love my kids- They are the Joy of my life. I'm the Luckiest Person alive. It makes all the difference to be well again. Being crippled sure makes life hard. I can accomplish so much now that I'm not pregnant it is crazy I now can do all I need to and still have a little time for myself. I've tried to take Pres.Uchtdorfs advice and create check it out.
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We sure have fun here at the "Brown Team" house! Always playing...cleaning...and making food!
There is nothing better and harder in the world than being a mom. Advice I got today from my Aunt Natalie was, " The days are long but the years are short" so enjoy it!

Cancun Mexico with Brett and Trinnie

Here is a little piece of Heaven!!! 8 DAYS worth!!! We were able to go to an all inclusive resort with Lorin's Sister Trinnie and her husband Brett and the two babies. It was truly incredible we never left the resort and Socked up the sun in the shade because of the babies, eat, played tennis and relaxed.

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I needed this!!!
Just for the day...
1. Kids jumping on tramp with scissors
2. Trey smashed 3 eggs all over the back patio
3. Lindi and Trey decided to run out fount and disappeared
and it has taken me 2 hours to now pay my bills online.
and it is just 3:00pm I'm sure there is much more ahead.

but I did get a great talk in with Katie my sister-in-law....love her and the other night I started creating! a patch work quilt and it felt amazing!

Photo op -Gone Bad

So today I tried doing another Photo op of my little kids. And lets say It just was not as successful as I would have liked. I did get some cute pictures but not a good one of all 4 of them together. I needed 2 more sets of hands.





Movie clip of the treat after...

January Update

Tucker Leonard
Is my little cuddle buddy; sad but true I really never hold him unless I'm feeding him or in the middle of the night, but I love evey chance I get! Tucker is a perfect baby. He sleeps great, doesn't freak out when he is attacked by his siblings, and eats consistently every 3 hours. I sure love having him in our home, and the spirit he brings. He is now 9.9 lbs vs 6.1 lbs- after only 4 weeks, my milk must be cream.

Allie Jane
Allie is our little Joy she is always happy. Just the last four days she has been sick and even then she is really pretty happy. Allie loves to color, she tries to copy her big sister. However I'm working on keeping the crayons out of reach because she doesn't get that you can only color on paper...not walls, tables, chairs and the fridge. Her hair is getting real long, as you can see I was able to braid it! She also knows tons of Animal noises and likes to point out parts of her body like her nose, tongue, cheeks, head, toes... She is picking up a few words but doesn't talk much. She also likes to make faces for different emotions like "Happy Face" Sad...Surprised...Thinking and Mad Face. She is a true Joy!!!

Treyton Lorin
Trey has entered the "I can do it myself" stage big time. He likes to have an opinion on what he wears and if any article of clothing gets wet or dirty in any way he has to change...well get naked and stay not dressed as long as possible. He has to go potty like his Dad so he stands on the toilet seat and squats, since he can't reach. He also has to wear underwear to bed but has not made it through the night without peeing his bed, making tons of extra laundry for me. Trey loves Movies. He is capable of watching the TV all day; he'll set out all the movies he wants to watch and even go look through movies as if they were books. He is just understanding the difference in gender and constantly tells us he is a boy and Tucker and Dad are boys. Since Trey figured out Tucker is a boy, he has taken a special interest in his little brother. Trey's new bad habit is sucking on all his fingers, a habit I want to break. Trey is all boy! He loves all the new boy toys from Christmas, his Batman, action figures, Handy Mandy tools and his Crocodile.

Trey with is choice of Sunday atire on Lorin's 29th Birthday

The only time our Toy room is ever clean..with his hand in his mouth.

Lindi Jonna
"My biggest Helper" I can't say enough of how grateful I am to have Lindi. I don't think I could be a mom of 4 little kids without Lindi by my side. At four and a half she truly takes on a mother role. Lindi is so conscious of her siblings and their needs. She watches out for them and helps keep the action going; at times too much and gets in their faces. When she is gone I become the entertainer and I don't always have time for it. Lindi gets mad at me if I start to change Allie's diaper and don't let her do it. She is obsessed with "Momma Mia" She now has all the music downloaded and she walks around with head phones and sings the songs. She has a love for music! She is so smart and has the most incredible memory I've ever known. I wish at times is wasn't so good. She is our little Mom.I even heard her tell her dad the other day that she can do everything that mom can do!

He is Here!!!

Tucker Leonard Brown

Born Dec. 23, 2008 @ 1:06am

6 Lbs 6 oz / 20 inch

Our Family of 6
Lindi 4 1/2- Allie 14 mts/ Trey 2 1/2

Each kid taking a turn holding their new Brother.

Lorin and Bev Just after Tucker came out.
(To bad they didn't stay by my side the whole time j/k)

Laying in the sun soaking up some vitamin D to help with jaundice
MOVIE CLIP
Just home from the Hospital...

My Letter to Tucker....

I have never counted down to a specific date more than with you. On Nov.15^th my body pretty much shut down. I have horrible varicosities while I’m pregnant and with 3 little kids it was hard to stay off of my feet. So after a Saturday work day in the yard, I pushed my limits and your Dad had to carry me to bed. So for the last 6 weeks I’ve been on ‘Bed Rest’ and it has been a tough trial but well worth YOU!

Your due date was Jan 8^th however the Doctor said since I was in lots of pain and on bed rest she would let you come on Dec 18^th. Granny Bev came down to help and be with your brother and sisters. We were so excited and arrived at the Hospital at 6:30 am for the induction. Four long hours later we were sent home, because there wasn’t enough room in the hospital. The Lord knew you needed a little more time to cook, despite what your Dad and I wanted. Granny extended her stay to the 26^th and booked a ticket for Poppy to come for Christmas. We were now counting down to the 23^rd of December. Monday the 22^nd I went to see the Doctor (Allyson Pielop) and by 2:00pm I was having steady contractions on my own. By 4 PM I was in the hospital excited that you were on your way. The Doctor didn’t break my water until 10 pm because we let her go to her family Christmas party and we were nervous if we did it earlier she would get to her party and then just have to come back to deliver you so we decided we would wait. For me it was the first act of service I had given all Christmas season after having received so much. Around 12:45 am the nurse said I was ready to push. I had a nurse go find Dad and Granny because they had gone to lie down. Right as they walked in each stood by one of my sides. After about two minutes Granny got dizzy and had to sit down. Then 30 seconds later Dad got dizzy. The Hospital was crazy so we were just trying to get nurses to come help. Everyone seemed more concerned about Dad and Granny not fainting… than us…well almost. I only pushed for about ten minutes and you were here.

When you came out Dr. Reddington put you right on my chest. I can’t describe the feelings that rushed through me. I felt so much love and gratitude you were here and healthy. The heavens truly opened up and the veil was so thin.

I couldn’t hold you for long because you weren’t breathing that well. The nurses hurried you off to the nursery to get you on oxygen. You were there for about two hours and then back in my arms. For the first 24 hours you constantly made grunting sounds. At first I didn’t know why but I just kept pretending you were telling me about heaven. I later learned, from Dr. Jones, you had moisture in your lungs.

The hospital stay was wonderful in the fact that I had tons of time with just you. I did share a room with 2 other moms, so it wasn’t always quiet but still peaceful. I didn’t have a phone and only our little family came to visit the next morning. Lindi, Trey and Allie were so excited to see you. It was overwhelming and exciting to have all 4 kids on my hospital bed. Your siblings didn’t stay long. Dad finally got to hold you and then stayed for a few hours. We didn’t have a name picked out until just before we left the hospital. We thought you might be ‘Aaron’ but when we saw you it wasn’t right. Dad and I have a hard time agreeing on boys names; we both loved Tucker so that was that. Your middle name is Leonard after my Grandpa Driggs. He passed away last year and is an incredible man. Dad and I feel honored to carry on his name.

Lindi hasn’t wanted to leave your side. Christmas morning Lindi was the first to wake up, she was sleeping on my floor and you were in my arms. She jumped to her feet and said, “I have to wash me hands!” For the next 40 minuets she was perfectly content just holding you before she was ready to go down and open presents. Christmas Eve as we acted out the nativity Lindi was so excited to have you as her little Jesus. Allie thinks you’re her little doll. When it is her turn to hold you she takes her dear sweet time and won’t let you go until she has given you tons of wet kisses and made you cry with her not-so-soft pats. Trey as been very sweet as well and shows way more interest in you that I thought he would. He has a tender touch with you.

We are so excited you are here! You are perfect. The best Christmas present we will ever have.