I miss you!!

Austin made this video for his Grandma and Grandpa Brown because he misses them so much. This is the longest he's ever been away from them! Even though it is late and he is hungry, he still managed to smile a couple of times!

I love you all!!!

A Sleeping Angel

Cousins!!

This is the first time they've met! Colby (8 months old) and Austin (3 months old).

Christmas pics...

Can you find Austin in all that wrapping paper?



Look at all my stuff I got for Christmas! I love my new tackle box. I also got some crib toys!


Have I mentioned how much I love Christmas yet??

Baldwin Christmas Party

Here is the first half of our talent show number! If you want to see Jere's part then go to about 7 min 30 seconds.

2nd part

Spice Gals!!

My family likes to do something fun for our family Christmas Talent show, and this year we did "So You Think You're an Idol." We combined things from So you think you can Dance, American Idol, Glee, Star Trek, Survivor, and Home Improvement. Here is the dance that my sisters and I performed! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!

A-Allen (Sporty Marci)
B-Brown (Baby Amy)
C-Cutler (Scarry Cari)
Double W-Wahlquist, Jena (Jena Ginger) and Chantal (Chantal La Push)

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!

I found my camera connector-thingy, so hopefully I'll be blogging more often now! Here are pics from when we went to look at the lights at Temple Square on December 12! SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!! We met Stacey, Ryan, Hunter, (Sami was sick and John was in Salem) Marci, Jon, Mckinley, and Aspen there!

Christmas Decoration

Ruth sent me this and I thought it was hilarious!!!

"Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after two days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories.
But two things made me take it down.

First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize that it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of the many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."

WHERE HAVE I BEEN!?!

Really, you should be asking, WHERE HAS MY CAMERA CONNECTOR THINGY GONE!?!?! I can't find it, and I know you can just put your camera memory chip thingy (i'm technology illiterate) in the computer, but I haven't tried it yet. So, that's my excuse for not blogging the last few weeks. This picture was sent to me on an e-mail. It was taken at church for a special program titled, "Angels Among Us." The program was dedicated to the older women in our church! It was awesome!! I consider Austin an angel too!

Marci

My sister ended up losing her baby. I think she found out yesterday. She went in for her usual check-up and they couldn't find the heart beat. At my first doctor appointment with Austin they couldn't find the heartbeat at first and it made my heart sink. I felt sick to my stomach. I can't imagine what Marci has been through. She is such a strong woman! She was induced and was in labor all night and into the morning. The doctors thought it was a girl. It's so hard to undertand the trials that we go through when we are going through them. I pray that she will understand why this is happening. I love her so much!

Congrats to Marci and Jon!!!

Here is how they made their wonderful announcement!! Coming soon...in May!! Austin will have another little cousin to play with!!

Awesome curling iron!!! GET ONE!!!

Check out how amazing this curling iron is!! go to www.enzomilano.com They are about $100 on this website, but I can get one for you for only $40 (including tax and shipping and handling) if you want one! They also come in pink! I could have it shipped directly to your house if you want. They have a lifetime warranty so if you break it in five years, they will send you a brand new one (and supposedly they will be coming out with one that has an MP3 player in it, I think i'll purposely break mine to get the new, updated version!) I curled my hair yesterday morning, and it is still curled right now!! It doesn't burn your hair like most curling irons! It is a professional curling iron and the best one I've ever used! You can even brush your curls and they stay in! I can get you the 1" or the 1/2" or both. So let me know what you want!!! It would make a GREAT Christmas gift!

Well, yesterday was my first day back to school. So I might not be posting everyday like I have been. Life just got too busy! It wasn't as hard to leave Austin as I thought it would be (everyone told me I was going to cry). But it defintely was a hard day! My students were all wild! One student stole a rotary cutter (what's that? it's like a pizza cutter, but WAY sharper, for cutting fabric) and another student, or maybe the same student, stole the magnet out of my pin holder (so now it's worthless). Today was much better because I put the students in a seating chart and was more organized. Both days at school I've been watching videos of Austin all day on my phone! It makes me smile. And I get so excited to go home and see him. Our neighbor, Marie Gale, is babysitting him. She has a six month old, Macguire, there is a picture of him in an earlier post. I'm so grateful for her, and she does a wonderful job! I'm going to go research right now about starting a preschool because I'm planning on starting one next year. Let me know if you know anything about starting a preschool. I would love all the advice I can get! Well, here are some cute pictures of our growing little boy. Enjoy!!

Thank you everyone that came to Austin's blessing!


He wore the same blessing outfit that Daddy wore. Looking through the pictures I realized we didn't get a good picture of it, so I'm going to have to dress him up and take another picture of the outfit!


Jeremy's side of the family:

My side of the family (they all traveled from Idaho Falls):

A lot of our friend's had already left before we started taking pictures! There were 13 priestood holders in the circle! It was pretty cool to see that many people that love and care about Austin!!

Happy Halloween!!!

We were trying to get a picture with Austin and his Halloween pumpkin pacifier, and he kept spitting it out. Jessie would put it in his mouth and out it would pop! We finally got one though (but it's already starting to come out, as you can see)





Here are all the cute outfits Austin wore on Halloween!














I am a Giraffe!!!

See my cute little tail??




Okay, so the clown isn't Austin! That is Uncle Hanko!!

More socializing!

Wow! Austin is a ladies man! Here he is with two girls in our ward! Rachel and Kiara (may have spelt that wrong) (Kee-are-a) He is bigger than both of them (they are both under 12 lbs) and they are both about 3 months old!

Here is Rachel:














Here is Kiara:














Thank you Misty for making me this carseat cover! I absolutely love it!!! Misty is Rachel's mom and she makes these ADORABLE car seat covers. They sell for $65 so I am soooo lucky that she made me one!

Yes, he really is that cute!!!

This is my favorite picture of Austin! Daddy was getting him to smile! Austin smiles all the time! Pretty much whenever we try and get him to smile! It is so fun!












These are Austin's friends. Macguire is 6 months old, Austin is 1 month old, and Jackson is 3 months old. Macquire weighs 17 lbs, Austin weighs 13 pounds, and Jackson weighs 10 lbs. This really shows you how big of a boy Austin is!

Austin was being camera shy!!! Cute little Macguire sure wasn't!!!