The Brower Bunch

Well, I don't know yet, but we will soon find out! Jerrod has been so busy doing amazing with his second summer job, but he did find some time to weed the back for me. I was so thankful becuase we were really wanting to get a garden planted. On Friday, one of my very good friends helped me out with my garden. Last summer, Jerrod and I made the mistake of planting about 6 tomato plants and they all just engulfed eachother and so they didn't turn out as great as we wanted them. We were also gone most of the summer to take care of them. Well, this summer, I decided that I was going to try it out again. We planted tomatos, yellow crookneck squash, bush beans, cucumbers, cilantro, garlic, and peas. Shelley helped me pick out my plants and then came over and helped me plant everything. It was so much fun to get the garden together. I am so excited to see how it will turn out. Here are a few pictures from our little back yard/patio.

First of all, I hope that you all had a wonderful Mother's Day. I also want my mom to know how much I love and appreciate her. I know that becoming a mother myself has made me love and appreciate her in more ways than I ever expected. And, I know that that will only continue to grow as I have more children. I actually was able to spend a few days with my family last week. It was fun to just go "home" for a few days. I love spending time with my mom. She really is one of my best friends and I love our relationship. We don't ever want to get anything done because we would rather just sit around in our jammies all day and talk, laugh and eat. It has also been so much fun watching her become a grandma. She is the greatest grandma to Kennedi. I say that because I have the greatest grandmas! Which brings me to my next point... Last summer we had a good friend get married. He stated in his Facebook account that he married the most amazing girl in the whole world. That made ...

Kennedi just turned 18 months old, so I wanted to share a little bit about her. She is a funny, funny girl, who is becoming more and more independant. It is so crazy how fast this time has flown. I have been SO excited for her to be old enough to go into the Nursery at church. Sending her in there the first day was wonderful and emotional all at the same time. She did GREAT in there. She just walked right in and did her thing like she had been there for years. When I picked her up at the end of church, she was crying because we had to leave! But, she was SO excited to show me her art work. I displayed it proudly on the fridge, and Kennedi often walks by there and says "Mom!!" with a very proud look on her face, like, "look what I did!!" I couldn't help but think of how fast my little "baby" is not a baby anymore...she is growing into this darling little girl. "Where is Kennedi??!!" There she is!! Kennedi is also very smart. She loves looki...

We got a new kitty a couple of weeks ago. Jerrod had been looking online for a long time for a free kitten that we could get Kennedi. She LOVES animals, and she absolutley LOVES this kitty. When we went to pick her out, she was in a litter of 3 other kittens. I was originally draw to a very cute orange kitten. Jerrod was drawn to ours. He really focused on her personality and after a while convinced me that she was the right one. He was definately right. She is the greatest little kitten. She is so much fun and most of all, she lets Kennedi torture and play with her. She is so gentle with her. Sometimes Kennedi can be a bit overbearing with her, but then the kitten will just go hide for a while to get a break. We have found her a few times cuddled up with Kennedi in her crib. They really do love eachother. Every morning, Kennedi wakes up and after she is done yelling "Mom!" for me to come and get her, she says, "Kitty!!" and runs to find her. We origi...

I finally had Jerrod take a few quick photos of me yesterday so that I could show off what I call my baby bump. I understand that some of you may not call it that, but I will have you know that this was not there 4 months ago! It finally popped out just enough to show in a picture. So, for those of you who are wondering...this is what we (baby and I) look like at 22 weeks.

Yesterday, Jerrod and I celebrated our third anniversary. Usually now is where I would tell you all how wonderful and extravagant our day was because Jerrod was in charge. We decided when we got married that we would switch off every year, so this year he was in charge of Valentines day and I was in charge of our anniversary. For those of you who really know my husband, you know that he is AMAZING at planning out special occasions like this. He always suprises me and makes sure that my day is the absolute best. I, on the other hand, struggle with this. I am not very creative when it comes to coming up with ideas, so he will never get what he gives me. I guess that is where I just have to show EVERYDAY how much I love him and appreciate him. Tuesday night, Jerrod had a fever and wasn't feeling well. So, he stayed home from work yesterday. At first I was kind of bummed that he wouldn't get his suprises like I had planned, but it ended up being so wonderful to have him home all da...

I realized that I haven't really been posting anything about this pregnancy. I don't know why. Maybe because now that I am a mom Kennedi keeps me so busy that I don't just sit around wishing that the baby was here. So, I will share a bit about this one. This pregnancy has been different than when I was pregnant with Kennedi. The first 12 weeks were pretty similar, so I thought that everything was going to just be the same. I was wrong. I got the usual "all day sickness" feeling and I would always feel like I needed to throw up. Also, my poor husband had to cook for himself the whole first 12 weeks. I couldn't handle smells. They were quite intense this time. I also never felt like eating. Well, I thought that as soon as 12 weeks hit this would all go away. But, it didn't. I still felt nausious a lot and if I didn't have something in my stomach that would usually cause me to dry heave. Not fun. That feeling has actually gone down a lot over the past few...