The Brower Bunch

I love these three.   And I love that they love each other.   I hope they continue to love each other as they grow older and find that they not only can be brothers and sister, but also great friends.  

So here is some food for thought. (Pun definitely intended.) I love dairy. Like, I love it so much I really could never even think about taking it completely out of my diet permanently. You name it, I love it. Milk? By the glass fulls. Cheese? Please! Ice Cream? Ummmm is that really a question??  So, I have gone 18 days without dairy because I am doing the Advocare 24 Day Challenge. (Which I have LOVED! Ask me about that later.) It has been hard, but I figure that it is only 24 days. I can do it.  Except, last night. I cheated. Just a little. I couldn't let Kennedi waste a perfectly (small) bowl of cereal go to waste right??!! So, I ate it. It was DELICIOUS. I mean, one of the best tasting things that I had had in a long time. I knew that it was cheating and I knew that I wasn't really supposed to be eating something like that until day 25 or so (yeah right, like I would have lasted past day 25). But for those few moments, I was in cereal heaven. And then......................

Kohen is growing up way too fast.  He is already a typical male....he loves his big boy food, and he LOVES his Momma!!  This post is dedicated to that. I know these photos don't show that he loves his food, but I promise you, he does.  I think this was his first time trying green beans or something.  I just love every one of his faces.    Snuggle time with Mom... Holy smokes, I love this kid.  It is just incredible.

Wait, you mean we JUST had Father's Day?  Wait, you mean I am a month behind on my blogging?  Oh that's right, this is Heidi we are talking about!  haha.  Yes, I am blogging about Mother's Day, but I can't go out of order and this is what is next. Mother's Day was wonderful this year.  Kennedi's preschool had a Mother's Day celebration where they put on the cutest little program ever.  I somehow think that EVERY program that one of my kids will be in will be THE cutest program ever.   Margaret, Kennedi's teacher, did such a great job.  The kid's looked so cute and they really new their songs and parts! I walked into her classroom to see this.....They were DARLING!! She is such a little model.  I just told her to look at me and she posed.    They gave us a fun candy treat and a plant.  She was so excited to give it to me. For Mother's Day, Jerrod made an amazing breakfast of Crepes.  The kids got me a CD. ...

6 years ago on April 23rd, 2005, I married my best friend.  I would have never guessed how much my life would be filled with this much JOY as we have taken this journey together.   I knew that I was marrying an amazing man, but I didn't realize what an amazing father he would turn out to be.  He helped make my ultimate dream come true of becoming a mother.  6 years later, we have 3 beautiful children who we adore and love more than anything.   I am grateful for our marriage and our relationship that we have today.  I love him more today than I did the day that I was sealed to him for time and all eternity.   In December, when I was sick, he was able to lay his hands upon my head to give me a blessing through the power of the Priesthood.  Through the willingness of the Lord, he was able to heal me.  I will never forget those moments when I could feel his hands touching me as I laid in the hospital barely awake.  I knew that he was there....

Kennedi amazes me.  She is such a girly-girl, but she LOVES to get dirty while playing in the dirt and finding worms.  She often comes to be back door to show us what she has found. I love this little girl, and I am so thankful that she is mine....as long as she doesn't bring her 'finds' in the house! 

You know how when you are in the moment and you hear your kids say something funny and you think, "I will NEVER forget that they said that."   Well, Jerrod just asked me yesterday what Kaden's first word was and I can't remember.  So sad.  Maybe I wrote it somewhere in here a couple of years ago, but I don't really want to look right now.   So, I am going to use this wonderful technology called a blog to help be my memory.   Today Kennedi and Kaden were upstairs in their room playing.  I was cleaning up and over-heard Kennedi say, "Kaden, your guy is named Jerrod and my girl is named Heidi."  They were playing "Heidi and Jerrod"!  It was so cute.  Kennedi was the little Mom who told "Jerrod" what she was doing and told him how to play with the kids.   It is so funny what kids pick up. The kids LOVE to play "I Spy" in the car when we are driving.  Kennedi is pretty good and will always pick tricky ones.  Yesterday she sa...