Santa, and the Magic of Believing

Maycee wanted to leave something out for Santa, something like milk and cookies, I told her that Santa would probably prefer Diet Coke. So she ran in the kitchen and we heard the pop of a can and she brought out this glass of diet coke and some Ritz crackers. way to make do girl, because we had no cookies. Ahh, the magic of Believing! I love it.



My Boys and Santa!

my baby girl and Santa
Braysyn and Landyn with Santa.

I took this one on Sunday of Maycee, Mylee and Mckindie.
So there you have the low down of the kids and Santa. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

Christmas eve has always been a highlight of Christmas for our family. We would always gather at my Grandpa and Grandma Chynoweth's house and watch them open all of their presents, then when all of us grandkids had our own kids we had to move it up to Ruby's Inn, eventually it turned into a big pot luck dinner with Chili, rolls, pies and whatever else we could muster up, there are alot of good cooks in the family and we all like to eat. Then last year on Christmas eve we could not have the party because Grandma was so sick with her cancer, all of her children gathered at her home for a small private party, Grandma's Birthday is on Christmas day, but she passed away at about 8:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve. It has been a hard day for my mom and I am sure everyone else thinking about her on this day. My hearts breaks to see my mom cry off and on all day. I know that she is happy where she is but of course it is hard for us here. I hope everyone has a merry Christmas and remembers the things that are simple and important in this life, as all hearts come home for Christmas!!!

Today's the Day the world gave us you!

My little Braysyn turned five on the 16th of December. I haven't had time to do a post yet so here it is. That is the face only a mother could love right there:)






Braysyn is such a fun little boy to have around. He is so lovable but yet such a little poop. Me and him have been inseparable for the last few years so it has been a Little different with Mylee here. He follows me around to whatever I am doing in the house and if he can't see me he will holler "mom... I like you" he does this so that I will have to answer and then he knows I am still around.

1. I love Braysyns hugs and kisses.
2. I love that Braysyn plays trucks and cows..... in on my bathroom vanity:)
3. I love Braysyns witty ways.
4. I love Braysyns smile.
5. I love Braysyns innocence.

Happy Birthday to one of my favorite boys in the whole world!

pulling my hair out at 84718

How could this sweet little angel turn into this? (look below)
I don't know either but it happens.... all the time. I told clint that maybe she was allergic to my milk. I was kind of joking until we tried some formula and she was a much better baby. This morning when Clint left for work at 2:30 a.m. I decided to try my luck again.... not a good idea. I was up from then on with a screaming baby. we have tried the drops, candy cane which does help a little, and some other stuff. So I went and bought a can of formula and about had to take out a second mortgage, and I am in pain, extreme pain. But I am not willing to go to an allergy specialist to see what she is sensitive to that is in my diet so I guess we will go with formula. This does not completely solve the problem but she is 75 % better on the formula. Anyone have any amazing advice you could give to me? Anyone?

Tag about beliefs

This post is all about belief. Here are the rules - some of your answers can be religious. You should include at least one belief about food and one belief or unbelief that reflects your philosophy about life.
6 things I believe
1. I believe in the magic of your dreams.
2. I believe I have one of the most kindest, compassionate, mothers that has ever
lived.
3. I believe motherhood is God's greatest gift.
4. I believe Clint has made me a better person.
5. I believe I learn lesson's from my kids about life through little things each day.
6. I believe in loving and being loved.

6 things I don't believe
1. I don't believe I will ever feel my children are safe without me when they close the door on the way out of the house each day.
2. I don't believe I will ever give up eating chocolate.
3. I don't believe anyone can take away what you do believe in.
4. I don't believe in to much change in my life at one time.
5. I don't believe you ever get over that feeling of having a beautiful baby placed in your arms for the first time.
6. I don't believe in making fun of or being mean to those who are less fortunate than you are.

6 things I am not sure of
1. I'm not sure I will ever be free of anxiety
2. I'm not sure I will ever get over the fear of something happening to one of my kids.
3. I'm not sure I could ever live without my husband.
4. I'm not sure I am always the best person I can be.
5.I'm not sure I feel old enough to answer all the questions my kids are starting to ask:)
6. I'm not sure I will ever get over it when my kids don't need me as much.

12 wonderful years

It is our anniversary today. 12 years. Like the words above our picture say "your everything I never knew I always wanted" this is so true. I never imagined I could be so happy with someone. Clint completes me in so many ways and takes care of me more than I could ever have imagined. I love him so much and we got the best gift ever this year, a new little life to share in our lives together. I love you more than words.

She is here

Mylee Jean
Clark
Brinkerhoff

November 21, 2008
1:24 p.m.
8 pds 7 oz

We are so excited that little Mylee Jean is finally here. She is so adorable, I can't stop holding her. I want her to stay little. I am still a little bit in shock that she weighed so much. My others weighed 7'10, 7' 8, 7' 9, and 6'9. I don't know where she came from. And of course it had to be the one that I chose to have with no epidural. That in itself is a whole other story. I am glad I done it but still can't talk about it to much.
Proud Dad
just me and Mylee
The crew had to come and check her out they were so excited. They had a lot of questions some good and some not so good, like mom why do you still look pregnant, that makes me feel so wonderful:)
While the kids were visiting Dad was so tired he zonked out in the chair for a minute.
Just before we went home I got a few pictures of her, and see that little Binky, well I think we left it there so here we are stuck home with no Binky.
Here we are getting ready to leave. It was kind of sad knowing this is the last time we will do this. But we are very happy to have another little precious baby girl.
I can't believe that we were not going to have any more. I am glad someone else knew we had another one and sent her, she was an answer to my silent prayers.
who does she look like? I don't know yet, hopefully I can have a little bit of credit, I don't have much on the others except maybe Braysyn.
So here she is for those of you that aren't here to see, hold, kiss, smell, and love on her. We will do it for you.

All packed and ready

I think that I have pretty much got everything ready to go. I just have a few more things to get cleaned. I cannot stand to come home to a house that is not clean. Clint still needs to get the crib set up and the new little bouncer that I got. I am scheduled to go in at 1 a.m. on Friday morning, so we will go to Cedar on Thursday night. I am really nervous, I feel like I am having my first baby all over again. What am I going to do with a little baby? I hope everything goes okay at delivery, I am opting to go natural with no epidural, Clint is so nervous about that but I think we will make it through. I have to call one hour before to make sure that they have enough room for me, I'm telling you they better, you know how emotional a pregnant woman can be, of course they don't care about that they will just tell me like they did with Austyn when I went in to be induced, They said that they did not have any room for me so don't plan on coming in, I said are you sure, there is no way, they said no I didn't want to let them off the phone until they gave in finally the lady said, Honey I'm sorry it's like the Inn, were full there is no more room in the Inn.
(Those damn women that come in in labor on their own:) ) Anyway I did end up getting in it was just a few hours later than I was scheduled. So enough rambling. That is the plan I hope all goes well.

Finished

I promised that when I got Austyn's quilt done I would put some pictures on. I actually finished it a few weeks ago. I have never been so happy to get something done. He loves it and I think it turned out pretty cool.
Here's a closer look at the detail.
Another shot from the bottom of the bed. So there you have it, now I need to get their walls painted and then I will be done.

pumpkin carving and Halloween

Halloween is a great time of year. Here is the Brinkerhoff clan and our costumes. I am sister Brinkerhoff and Clint is Father. Maycee is Gabriella off of HSM, Braysyn is a lil' stinker, or a skunk, Landyn and Austyn are some spooks.
This is the kids carving their pumpkins, I usually get more into it but I didn't have it in me this year. Clint helped them out though.

Here's my little skunk with his cousin while waiting for the parade to start at the carnival.
Little skunk again.
Here are Clint and I , I guess you can tell what we are huh, shame, shame, I couldn't help myself with an opportunity to wear a costume like this I had to take it.


And this is Maycee and Braysyn with grandpa Raymond. Hope everyone had a great Halloween. I love this time of year. And Halloween is such fun.

Happy Birthday Landyn

My oldest baby turned 11 today, I can hardly believe it. Landyn was due on the 23rd of October which was going to cut into the deer hunt. Clint got to hunt the first day and that night at about 3 a.m. I started having contractions. I woke Clint up and we called my mom. The contractions were about every 3 minutes, we loaded up and drove really fast over cedar mt. well Landyn was born 15 hours after I first started into labor at 3:15 the next afternoon, so much for speeding over huh. He has been such a joy to our family he excels in everything he does and it just comes natural, I wish I were that way. He is very responsible, he is our little cowboy. He loves horses more than anything, he loves to play sports, especially baseball, he loves to ride dirt bikes, and loves spending time with his Dad, grandpas, and his uncle Dallas who shares the same love of horses as lan does. here are just some of the cute little things Landyn had said over the years that have cracked me up I thought you might enjoy some of them.

• we were in church and they were passing the sacrament , the bread came and Landyn leaned over to clint and said "what comes next dad the meat?"
• Lan had on some old pants, i wanted him to go put some on that weren't old, he went and looked and came back. He said, "mom I can't find any young ones their all old."
• We were in Church again, lan leaned over and asked if it was fast Sunday, I said no, why, he said, oooh that means its slow Sunday so it's going to go slow.
  

Happy Birthday Landyn we love you so much.

Kids say the darndest things

The other day Maycee was asking me about the baby and if they were going to have to cut my stomach open to get her out. I said, well I hope not because that would really hurt. I told her that that was called a c-section. She thought for a minute and then she said so if you don't have the c-section do they just move on to the b-section. I said well yes I think so. They are just so innocent sometimes.
Also a few days ago I had been doing laundry all day and I said to Braysyn that I was going to go prop my feet up. I got busy doing some things so a while later he came and said, Okay mom come on lets go chop your legs up.

Busy

Well this is what I have been busy working on for the last month or more. We bought Landyn and Austyn log beds a few months ago and I have been working on these rag quilts ever since. It has been a chore. I am now starting to sew Austyn's together. I will put it on here when I am done. I have spent alot of hours on this but it has been fun.

Here are a few close ups so you get the idea of the rag part of it.

SCORE

Okay get your mind out of the gutter. I am talking about my birthday loot. Clint went and outdone himself this time. Any one that knows me very well knows how much I love perfume and cologne, it is a must have. I had been wanting some of the particular kind for a while. The other day Clint came home from work asking me what kind of perfume that it was I used to wear when we were dating. I told him it was spellbound. He said that some customer at work walked by him and had this on and it stopped him right in his tracks. I'm sure it took him back to all of the wonderful times that we had together:) Well he comes home from work and brings me in our bedroom and pulls out a bottle of this amazing stuff. I was just shocked, it is not very often that he gets me something on his own without my prodding him or purchasing it my self, you know from him to me:) He had a friend that he works with that was going to Salt Lake go in to Dillards and get it. Then it was really cute because he told the kids how much he used to like this when we were dating, he said that the smell would linger on his shirt and he would sleep with it. They thought this was pretty funny and I loved to hear this. This came after me and Braysyn had had a much heated argument that went on for 2 hours, he is so hard headed, he put a big dent in the wall in his room and his and my tears were both a streaming. So thank you babe for cleaning up my day, I love you so much.



This is what my M0m and Dad got for me. I collect the willow tree figures that remind me of each o f my kids so this is one for the new baby. Anyway that pretty much sums up the loot.

My Birthday

It's that time of year again. I can not believe that I am having another birthday. And I really can't believe that I am pregnant for my b-day. I am turning 35 today which is so crazy, I can't believe how fast time goes by. It is just Braysyn and I home today so we are going to make some sugar cookies. These are just a few pictures of me in my younger years that I thought I would put on here.

1. 

These are just a few things about me that you might not have known.

1. My nickname was once wicked wanda.(can you imagine this? me neither)
2. I hate double dipping more than anything.
3. I love to ride dirt bikes.
4. I cannot sleep in my bed if it has not been made that day.(so it is always made)
5. I hate anything on the counters in my kitchen.
6. I love pizza and pasta
7. I love to cook
8. I love being a mom more than anything in the world
9. I can be kind of moody sometimes
10. I love fall

Count Down

I guess it is not a close count down but anything sounds good when you are the one Pregnant right?
I only have about eight weeks left, I am trying to concentrate on other things that are coming up and taking one day at a time so I don't get to discouraged, this is about the time when I start to retain water and gain alot of weight, which I have already gained alot but we won't go into that. Anyway here is a little sneak peek of what I look like, Clint and Braysyn wanted me to get on my motorcycle and go for a ride the other night so I did, and Maycee took the picture of me.

Happy Birthday

I just wanted to wish my sister-in-law Cynthia a Happy Birthday. She is such a sweetheart. We have been friends for a long time, before she joined our family. She is fun to be around, I just wish they lived closer. I love her like she were my own sister. Happy Birthday, even though I am a day late.

The Random Tag

4 RANDOM THINGS I ADORE ABOUT MY HUSBAND

1. I come first to him, he will do anything I ask of him and I only have to ask once.
2. He enjoys spending time with the kids, playing baseball, riding motorcycles, he is hands on.
3. He is such a hard worker. He works two jobs plus a day a week for me.
4. He helps me out around the house, even cleaning the kitchen and vacuuming while I am at work.

4 MOVIES I'VE WATCHED MORE THAN ONCE

1. When a man loves a woman.
2. Indecent proposal
3. Finding nemo
4. A river runs through it

4 TV SHOWS I WATCH

1. Dancing with the stars
2. American idol
3. House
4. Las Vegas

4 PLACES I'VE BEEN

1. London, England
   
2. Paris, France
   
3. Venice, Italy
4. Mexico city, Mexico

4 PEOPLE I EMAIL REGULARLY

1. Cindy
2. Kyla
3. Sheena
4. Dixie

4 PLACES I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT

1. Bahamas
2. Germany
3. Greece
4. nauvoo

4 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE COMING YEAR

1. Taking care of a new baby
2. Being with my family
3. Paying off some debt
4. Going somewhere fun

4 PEOPLE I TAG

1. Kyla
2. sheena
3. kami
4. trish
   

My baby goes to school

Well my baby was off to preschool for the first time yesterday. I told clint on Monday that I was real worried about him going, he said oh don't worry about him he will be fine, I sat there a minute (you know trying to get a hold of my emotions) and then I said, well its not him I am worried about it is me, I an so used to just me and him being home. I did find some things to do to entertain my self, you know like laundry and more laundry. He gets out at 11:15 so it was not to bad. He went today and he went in and had breakfast with maycee, when clint and I picked him up I asked him about it and he said" I was eating my quesadilla and the fricking bell rang so I dumped it in the garage and whoom headed to my classroom", and I was waiting out in the parking lot to make sure he made it into his class and sure enough I seen a little white haired streak run in. I mean he talks like a little trucker I don't know where that comes from.