Brian, Megan, Jayden, & Layla

Our little girl is 1!

2011-11-20T17:24:00.001-08:00

Our little sis is 1 today. I can't believe it flew by this fast. I know I haven't posted since her blessing. Having TWO babies was and still is a WAY BUSY FULL TIME job! I am so grateful that my lovey love can support us so I can stay home to be with our sweet children and teach them... or really have them teach me!
Our little girl has been such a sweet, happy girl. She always has a smile on her face ALL the TIME. She is the smartest little girl I know and watches her brother do everything. She loves him to peices more then anyone knows. Im with her all day long everyday and I know she HAD to come the time she did, cause she couldnt be away from him in heaven any longer! She said his name at 8 month and follows him everywhere he goes and plays with everything he has. I am so greatful she came to our family. Even though we were in shock of how fast we needed to get pregnent I WOULDNT change it in anyway!!!! We love you sweet sis! happy 1st birthday!

Layla's Blessing

2011-01-08T16:55:00.001-08:00

We had Layla's blessing! It was beautiful! She was beautiful! Everything turned out perfect! I love when these days turn out so well! Thanks to all the family and friends that came and helped out!

New Yrs Eve '10

2011-01-08T16:44:00.001-08:00

Ok so my dad is in charge of the big New Yrs Eve event in our town and there was a hypontist. My sister and I jumped up to be his volunteers. We have more pictures, but they are all burry because Brian was laughing so hard. My sister fell back and woke up so she wasnt up there the whole time, but I was. I dont remember it, but the whole family told me what happened and what I did! HA let me know if you want to know more about it. The post would be way to long if I told you everything.

Christmas Pictures

2011-01-08T16:15:00.001-08:00

We were so lucky this year! My sister had a friend give us an AWESOME deal for our photo shoots. All of them- Family, Layla's and Jayden's 1st bday. She said she would do it for FREE if she could use our pictures for her buisness! We totally told her YES!!

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Layla's Newborn Pictures

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Jayden's 1st bday pictures

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I had to put this one in... look at his face.

My baby turns 1

2011-01-08T14:17:00.000-08:00

Our sweet son turned ONE in Nov.!! Time has flown by! I can't believe it! It has been a fun, stressful, exciting, and amazing year having a baby of your own for the first time! He was my baby and now is the big brother! We are truely lucky to call him OURS! He always makes us smile. He was such an easy baby. He never cried, ate every 4 hrs., is always happy ,and so much more! He is our lil' JR. of dad! He wants to be doing everything his daddy is doing. From vacuuming to working on the 4wheeler! He has so much engery and loves to be outside. We truely have to be outside for aleast 45 mins a day. He wants to learn what everything is, what is feels like, what it does and what it taste like! He talks all the time some english and bablish (english and baby talk together) He is the nicest, sweetest, most fun baby ever. He is one of our biggest blessings. Im so happy I can be home with him and teach him lots!

We throw him an "Old McJAYDEN" Party! He still to this day loves the Old McDonald song and loves animals! We had family and a few friends there. It was so fun! We had a BBQ and played 'Disguise the Turkey' (I did a turkey cause he was born on Thanksgiving). We pinned different clothing items on it so it could hide from the farmer. And we had different farm animal cupcakes . My mom was in charge of bringing the candle. Can you see the candle she brought! ha

Here are the farm animal cupcakes I made.

Layla Shay Simkins

2010-11-27T12:03:00.000-08:00

Layla Shay Simkins 8.5lbs and 19.5in long
Saturday Nov. 20th at 12:00am we when in to get induced. The doc. broke my water at 1:15 and said I was a 4 and 80% efaced. at 4:00am our sweet little Layla was put into my arms and I fell in love all over agian! She (right now) is a twin of me!! Dark brown hair; my eyes and lips; round face. She defentitly has Brian's ears, long fingers and toes! She will be tall! She has such a dark complection and we are wondering where that came from probably Grandpa Sanders. Everyone that sees her comments on her chucky cheeks! She came out with some big cheeks! I love it! She is beautiful!

Brian with our Layla! He was able to hold Layla right off. With Jayden he wasnt able to because of his breathing problem. He had such a light about him when she was in his arms and I told him she already has him wrapped around her little finger! Its so true! He loves holding her! (I really think he has held her more then me) ;)

Jayden meeting Layla at the hospital for the first time. He has done so good with having a new addition to the family.

Holding my sweet son! He is truely the best son ever! I love sqweezing him and having him give me *KISSES*!

Halloween '10

2010-11-27T11:08:00.001-08:00

This was our costumes for Halloween this year! Jayden was a cow! He loves cows!! Brian and I were skeletons: Brian with food in his tummy and Layla in mine!

Our Jayden in 8months

2010-08-23T14:44:00.000-07:00

Jayden has done so much in his 8 month. It has been crazy! I kind of dont like it cause he is trying to grow up so fast! But in another way I love to see the progress he is making and I know it will be better when his sister comes.
What Jayden has done this month
*started to scoot 1st wk
*In that same wk he was pulling himself up on things
*started crawling the next wk
*Says MAMA!!! in a low voice at first (so cute)
*Standing up all by himself for more then 10 sec.
*of course wants to walk walk walk still but now can with holding only one hand from someone
*growing 2 bottom teeth

Had to put these pictures on to show you how much Jayden is his daddy! Look at his big smile on his fac! He is on a dirt bike and 4wheeler! His daddy his proud! He is starting young!

I had to put this picture on because Jayden looks so funny when he has to POOP! We call it his POO FACE. He has his bottle in his mouth so you cant see the full effect but he makes a half smile and turns bright red and grunts! SO FUNNY! And plus this picture show him standing up all by himself.

We are VERY blessed and lucky to have Jayden in our family! He is still always happy and never cries unless we say NO for him trying to grab cords to the TV. He has had a rough last wk because Mamma went back to work, just part time. He has been clingy. I have felt bad for the babysitter but I kind of like it when I get home because I feel like I am truely a mamma and can snuggle with him to make him feel loved and comforted! He is my little BUBBA. He is so like his daddy and I love that too! We love you Jayden keep of the progress! Your doing great!

Father and Son

2010-08-23T14:36:00.001-07:00

After taking my sisters and mom for a flight, Jayden was dying to be in the plane with his daddy! We couldnt miss taking these pictures! Daddy teaching his son about airplanes. So cute!

Surprise Date

2010-08-23T14:09:00.000-07:00

A couple of wks after Brian passed his test, he took the day off and told me he was taking me on a surprise date. He had everything planned! He asked my mom to watch Jayden so he could do this date. He drove me up to the airport and I asked where are we going? SURPRISE cant tell you? he said. When we got into the plane and was ready to take off he gave me the sectional and told me I was in charge of trying to find the different 'land marks' to see where we were going. I really enjoyed that because I got to find the diff. lakes and rivers. He taught me a lot about the instruments in the plane so I could understand a "little" about what the plane was doing.

Here is his plane he flys.

The cute couple!

Yup he took me to Bryce Caynon! I didnt even think of Bryce. This is where we went on some of our Honeymoon. I was in HEAVEN!! He even had the restruant pick us up to go have breakfast! What a fun date! I dont mind these at all! We then flew through Cedar City and if I was out on top of the plane I could honestly raise my hands and touch the clouds! It was such a fun, beautiful date! I will defentantly be wanting dates like this more often! Thanks babe for the suprise date of my life!

2010-08-22T15:29:00.000-07:00

So after trying to throw 2 suprise family parties and them not really working, I decided to throw one with some of our friends. It was short notice so only a few came. But before I get into the party and how it went. I have to start from the beganing, I was wondering how I could get Brian out of the house while I needed to set up and get everything ready so I called my good friend Cortney and we came up with a plan that we had a jewelry party to go to and her husband and Brian would hang-out. We told them that we would been done with the jewelry party at 730 and to have them meet at our house at 730. We took the 3 boys with us and went back to our house to set up. I tried to come up with AIRPLANE themes. So there were sandwhiches, peanuts and prezels. Bottled water labeled 'PILOT BRIAN' and cupcakes with airplanes on them with 'FIRST CLASS' in them. Then for dessert I had ice cream. All the topping had ariplane terms. Like 'bomber bears' (gummy bears), 'captian chips' (chocolate chips), 'cessna crumbles' (gram crackers), 'FFA fudge' (chocolate sause), 'cockpit carmel' (carmel sause. And for the take home gift, the 'BAGGAGE CLAIM', of course they were airplanes. It tooks us two with our 3 boys about 2 hrs to set up. Next time it will be way easier to have the men take the kids. Right around 7 we finished and a few friends had shown up.We were all chilling in the living room for more friends and we heard the door open...it was BRIAN!!! Oh my I was shocked! What are you doing? I asked. You cant be here now! Brian explained that there was flash floodling where he works (he works for the city) and he got called in for emergency to help with the flood and he had to be there now! My face was in more shock! Another party down the drain! I worked my butt off for this party to be the best and he couldnt even be there! I felt so sad that he had to go and couldnt even celebrate! He grabbed a sandwhich and left! By then most of the friends were there. So I decided to still have the party! I felt bad they all came and then Brian had to go but the party was good. We all chatted and hungout for a couple of hrs. I think Duncan was the subsitute for Brian. He is a character! He was making everyone laugh. Duncan is Chris and Cortneys oldest son (4yr). I have to share one story that made us all laugh. Hope you dont care Cort? So Duncan has been on a kick about marriage. He has said that he has found his future wife at a pizza place. So that night he went to one of our friends Ben and said, So you married? and Ben said Yes. Well where is she and Ben said right here. and Duncan turned to her and said with a discusted face--You married HIM!!??? HAHA we were all busting up laughing. Jena the wife said Yeah put him in his place! and Ben said something like Yeah she couldnt of done better huh!? Duncan you are so funny we love you!!!! Brian felt bad really bad that he wasnt able to be there. All week long he was telling me that he was sorry. Poor thing! Its ok love! I love you! Even though my planning of parties STINK!!! Yu will always be a PILOT!!! and MY true love and only!

Brian's a PILOT!

2010-07-27T10:10:00.000-07:00

So Brian passed his test!!! He is now an offical pilot!! Way to go love! It has taken a very long time for him to get here! 1st having to build the credit to get a loan for his school! (not a lot of banks will help and be easy for flight school) 2nd having the loan with a full-time job, a part-time job, a full-time church calling, full-time husband and dad, and an instructor not really teaching him the things he needs to know. Finally finding the right instructor giving him the training he needs he recieved his licence! He is so happy! He is pursuing his dream! I am so happy for him too! A couple of more yrs and a few more hrs of flight time he will be on his way of doing this for a career. Love you babe! Keep it up, your doing great Pilot Brian ;)!

Brother's Wedding

2010-07-27T09:18:00.000-07:00

My little brother got married a couple of weeks ago! I cant believe time has flown by and now it was his turn to get married! I remember when we were little. He would play Barbies with me if I would dress the girls and play dinosuars with him! Wow he is married and starting his own family now! His wife's name is Jessica! Welcome Jessica to the family! Sorry I didnt get any pic of the cute new couple. (forgot my camara) :(

Here is Brian and Jayden after a LONG day. Their sealing was around 2 and then of course picture outside the temple. We were all hot and hungry! We got to the little lunch-in Jessica's family through around 4 and we couldnt wait and eat! Jessica's colors were green and orange. Our family was orange. I didnt get any good pic. of us girls wearing the same dresses with all different accessories. This is the only one we got of Brian and Jayden. I bought the ties for the men and made this bowtie for Jayden! I love it! It turned out so cute!

Fathers Day

2010-06-29T15:14:00.001-07:00

I know, I know Im a little late with the whole fathers day! Im sorry! We did celebrate it! Its just I havent had time to blog it (Same with our anniversary) because I have been SWAMPED with being a full time mamma and babysitting my mom cause she had a major sergery! She was also the camp director for girls camp so I had been helping her with EVERYTHING on that! That should be it's own blog! anyways
But here is my shout out for FATHERS DAY!

To my sweet, amazing husband who had is first Fathers Day! He is the best daddy out there our little guy could ask for (including me)! Jayden looks up to him so much and we can see he truely loves him! He of course said "DA DA" first and has picked up so many of Brian's great quilities! He is working so hard for our family! 10 hour days in this hot heat! WOW! Who could do that!? Not me! I thank HF everyday for the man I married and for him being such a hard worker! He also does full time schooling to become his dream job--- a pilot! He works and studies so hard so that he can make our family have the oppertunity to be together as a family and have me home taking care of the children. My dream job! I cant thank him enough for all that he does to give our family everything we need! Thanks babe! Jayden and I love you! We are very blessed and lucky to have a dad like you!

4yrs!!!

2010-06-29T14:36:00.001-07:00

4 years ago Brian and I got married in the St. George Temple on June 17th. What a perfect day to be married!

Wow! Time has flown by, but it seems like we have been married for so much more then that! And we love it! Words can't express the love I have for my sweet lovely love! Being married to the man of my dreams, my best friend and the love of my life! We started a great, fun-loving journey that we can make wonderful chapters in our book of LOVE! Now 1 1/2 kids later we are still DEEPLY in LOVE! Happy with every choice we have made for our family! I knew as a young women the type of man I wanted to married and I got MUCH MORE THEN THAT! He is TRULEY the ONE for ME! Perfect in everyway! Our quote for eachother is -We are a match made in Heaven!-
Thanks Honey Bunny for being the best husband I could ask for and loving me through it all!

Gender of our new little one

2010-06-06T17:54:00.001-07:00

Yep! Its a GIRL! We were pretty suprised! ha Because he were told it would be a BOY! This girl wanted to come first I guess! We are excited cause now we will have both! Our other boy will come just not right now! Now we gotta think GIRL... pink! ha so if you guys find anything cute bedding with pink and orange thats what Im kinda going for with big gerber daisies and butterflies for deco.

1st Baseball Game

2010-06-06T17:23:00.000-07:00

We took Jayden to his 1st baseball game! He loved it! He will defentatly be a baseball player!

1st Babysitter

2010-06-06T17:10:00.001-07:00

This was Jayden's 1st babysitter! She was GREAT! Words can not express how much she means to us for helping us out while I had to work the last part of this school yr. It was so hard 1. Knowing you have to leave your 1st child with somebody and 2. Trusting someboby to watch your 1st baby and feeling, will they will protect him and give him the love and care while you cant! And she did just that! I will always know she gave Jayden the best care for him while his mamma was at work! I was kinda jealous when I would drop him off and take him out to give him kisses and loves before I left and he would look at her and smile the whole time! So I had to turn him around for him to look at me while I did the loves and kisses! But really it was a great sign he KNEW HER and was HAPPY to see her! Thanks Carol!!! You truely are the BEST!

6th Months

2010-06-06T17:06:00.001-07:00

WOW! How time has flown by! Jayden is now in his 6th month. We when for his 6th month checkup. He
weighs 17lbs
height 27inches

Jayden can...
*sit up all by himself
*roll over
*say DA DA
*sign MOM
*eats solids
*hold his bottle
*stand on all fours but not crawling yet (almost)
*sleeps through the night 7-6
Jayden loves...
*mom and dad!
*DOGS
*uncle Jaren's mouth opened (dont asks us why! It is so funny
and weird! Jayden will just laugh and smile)
*food!!! fav. PEAS
*music and to dance
*smile and laugh
*His hands and feet
*daddy's baird
*taking baths (*splish splash* fits him perfect)
*his cousins
*books
*Balto the movie
*Old Mcdonald song (whenever he cries in the car, I stick that song
on and he stops crying and smiles and laughs)
*being outside and sitting on the grass
*go for walks
*to be on his feet and try to walk (wont take long after he learns
to crawl he will start to walk. He has wanted to at 3months)
*talk, talk, talk!
*be happy
Jayden doesnt like...
*ANYTHING

He is truely the best baby! We have been told by many! We are very lucky to have a baby that sleeps all through the night since day one; eats every 4hrs since day one; is ALWAYS happy and hardly cries! very patient and smart! wE ARE VERY GREATFUL FOR HIM AND LOVE HIM LOTS! We are sad you are growing up but happy to see you learn and grow to be a great example to friends and family! Mamma and DA DA loves you!

Home Fun

2010-06-06T16:51:00.000-07:00

So my mom is a P.E. elem. teacher and she brought these belly bumpers to have the family try out! It was SO funny to see what would happen and who would win! Brian and Jaren played and looked how they posed for this one! haha we couldnt stop laughing and then look at Jaren's face when Brian bumped him! Jayden was getting so excited watching them so we put him in there! FUTURE BELLY BUMPER

Jayden is going to be a

2010-05-09T17:58:00.001-07:00

Yep! We are having another baby! YES YES YES its fast! We thought the same thing when we were told another baby was to come to our family! We are 12 wk pregant now and the funny thing is, is that Jayden was born on Thanksgiving and this baby is due on Thanksgiving! haha They will be the best of friends! Thats what I am excited for! Yes I will be a busy mom! But really I can't wait! and Brian, he cant wait either! We knew the sex even before we got pregnant just because what my dream was about! So we are really excited! And by this picture Jayden is pretty excited too! Acually when I woke up from that dream and before I told Brian, I was changing Jayden's diaper and I asked him if there was another sis/bro (I acually said the the gender I was told) suppose to be coming to our family!? and he smile so big! I had never seen just a big smile on him like that before. That was another comformation this little spirit was really to come down! Cant wait for baby E**** to come! Anyone want to guess what we are having and what the name will be? =)

Daddy and Son

2010-05-09T16:05:00.000-07:00

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture! They both fell asleep and I couldn't miss taking this precious picture!

Jayden's new fav. food

2010-05-09T15:49:00.000-07:00

Jayden's new favorite food is PEAS! Look he was trying to take the spoon himself and stuff his face! He is really strong so it was so funny to see how both of us were trying to feed him and he was trying to take the spoon away.

My 1st Mother's Day

2010-05-09T15:36:00.000-07:00

Oh this is truely a great holiday to celebrate! I love being a mother and I had a great Mothers's Day! I woke up with my boys lying next to me asking me if I was ready for breakfast! I walked downstairs with rose petals all the way leading to my seat at the table. Brian had made me breakfast! So YUMMY! Both Brian and Jayden gave me each a card. Love it! That night we had dinner at my parents house. Brian made fruit pizza. He knew us girls have wanted to have this pizza for awhile! Thanks babe! Brian is such a great husband and dad! He really tried to let me have the best day! He took Jayden everytime he had to be feed and be changed. Thanks lovey love! I love you so very much! I love you with all my heart and a half! I'm so happy we found eachother and get to grow in love and share our lives with eachother! I had the best 1st Mothers Day! Thanks honey bunny!

My Moms

2010-05-09T15:14:00.000-07:00

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!
I just wanted to tell my Mom thank you for being such a great mom! For being the BEST mom! A great role model that I truely want to be like! She has taught be so much and is still teaching me! She is the best Grandma too! Jayden smiles so big when he sees her! and laughs so loud when they play! She is always so giving and thinking of everyone else first before herself! She never talks mean and is always doing things for other people. She has had some big trials in her life and she has held strong and been a great example to me! I Love You Mom! This song reminds me of you! *next post*

For my mother-in-law, Thank you for letting me join your family! You did a great job of rising your son! and loving my boys so much! You too are a great Grandma and all the grandkids are lucky 2 have you! You are some creative with all your games! Love you too!

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Easter Egg Hunt

2010-04-05T13:19:00.000-07:00

Its a tradition on Brian's side to have a big easter egg hunt for the little kids and then for us adults. This was Jayden' 1st time finding eggs. He did great he found 10 and a bunny!

Duck Drop

2010-04-05T13:06:00.000-07:00

There was a duck drop at the rec center for little kids. They find a duck in the water with a number on it and go recieve a price. See that big yellow bucket? Well that was full of water and ducks. All the kids were on the outside of the pool and Brian was with Jayden right in the middle of the pool! ha That bucket was pushed and all the water and ducks fell right on Brian and Jayden! Brian totally ducked and covered Jayden! Jayden loved it! He won a bucket and shovel for the beach. Jayden had a lot of fun in the water! He loves water! I am going to be one of those moms always at the pool!

Rice and Oatmeal

2010-04-05T12:52:00.001-07:00

Jayden's 1st time eating rice and oatmeal! He loves to eat! Oatmeal is his favorite! We cant wait to feed him the real baby food! ha that will be some funny pictures.

Blessing

2010-04-05T12:37:00.001-07:00

Jayden's blessing was great! Tons of family and friends came! We went to our old ward in St. George because we were there clear up to a month before we had him and we have tons of friends in that ward too. Brian did a great job! I am so greatful and blessed to have a sweet husband that is worthy to give such great blessings. i love you honey! And you to Jayden! He was so cute dressed up in his white suit.

birthday surpise

2010-04-05T12:29:00.000-07:00

Brian suprised me with tickets to see Phantom for my birthday! Oh my gosh! It was amazing! They sounded just like the movie! I cant explain how great it was! All the special effect was amazing! We had great seats too! Thanks for the great birthday suprise babe!

Friends

2010-04-05T11:39:00.000-07:00

This is Beckham. He is our friend's 2nd boy. He is a few months older then Jayden. Chris and Cortney and their cute 2 boys live in Cal. She came to visit because she hadnt seen Jayden yet! It was so cute, Beckham and Jayden sat there and looked liked they knew each other! They will be great friends!
This is Jayden at his 1st birthday party for his friend Jazime. He was surrounded by girls!

Wedding

2010-04-05T11:36:00.000-07:00

Brian's Cousin, Mike, got married and Brian was in his line. Kaden our Nephew got the garder! He keep looking at in and then sticking it on his head like a headband! What a character!

Poster Child

2010-04-05T11:29:00.000-07:00

Jayden was asked to be a Poster Child in the Labor and Delivory hospital. We were pretty excited! He has already posted to be a model!

Jayden's 1st Christmas

2010-04-05T11:18:00.001-07:00

Jayden

2010-04-05T10:55:00.001-07:00

Make a picture slideshow

They are HERE!!!!

2010-01-04T15:34:00.000-08:00

Oh my gosh! Jayden's gallory is done! They all are so cute I cant stand it! You all have to go see our sweet little J!
go to www.staciashaw.com, then click clients proof and the password is simkins!
Tell me what you think! I love them all!

Sneak peek of Jayden's pictures

2009-12-31T13:11:00.000-08:00

When I found out we were pregnant I was looking around for the best photographer and found Stacia Shaw Photography at a womens expo and feel in love! I knew she would be the one to do it! So here is a little sneak peek of some of our cutest boy's pictures ever! Please leave a comment on her blog because if we get so many we get a discount on the prints! When she is done with the gallory I will post so you can see more!
go check it out! http://staciashaw.com/blog/

Questioner

2009-12-09T12:29:00.000-08:00

1. Where were you when you found out you were pregnant? Home
2. Who was with you? Mylee my sis. but she didnt know
3. How did you find out you were pregnant? 3 pregnancy test and test at the lab
4. What was your first reaction when you found out? I screamed on the phone to the lab lady "IAM IAM IAM!!!???" shocked and VERY HAPPY
5. Who was the 1st person you told? My husband of course
6. Did you plan to get pregnant? We had for 2yrs then decided to stop and let it take its course
7. Did you tell everyone right away? That weekend
8. Was everyone happy for you? YES of course
9. Did you go out and celebrate? YES
10. Did you want to find out the sex? YES
11. What was the sex? an XY-boy
12. Did anyone throw you a shower? Yes the best friends and family!
13. How much weight did you gain? about 15 1/2
14. What did you crave the most? at first cheesy potatos or hamburger and fries then later snow cones
15. Did your water break? Yes the doc did it
16. who drove you to the hospital? Brian my love
17. Who was in the room when you gave birth? All the nurses, doc and Brian
18. Did you go early or late? Early
19. How long were you in labor for? 7 hr
20. Did you have drugs for the pain? Yes
21. Did you go nautral for c-section? Nautral
22. What was your 1st reaction after giving birth? He is really mine! He came out of ME!
23. Did your husband cry? Yes
24. What did you name your baby? Jayden Clyde
25. Does his name have any meaning? Jayden we just loved! Clyde was Brian's grandpa's name. Brian looks up to his grandpa very much!
26. Did you have visiters? My mom! My dad came in to help with a blessing but stupid swine flu! The hopital wouldnt allow more then 2 in my room! My sisters and dad were able to see him threw the glass in the nursery
27. Did he have complications? Yes with breathing on his own
28. When is the next one coming? Well from Brian right off with me not for awhile
29. If you could do it agian, would you? YES very much so!
30. Who does he look like more? Me! He only has Brian's eyes, big hand and feet

Our Baby Jayden

2009-12-09T10:12:00.000-08:00

Here is our baby Jayden Clyde Simkins. He was born Thanksgiving morning at 12: 41am. He was 7lbs 9oz and 20in long.

This was the board that has our nurses and my goals. I was so worried about having horrible nurses! I think thats what make me so nervous and got the high blood pressure that morning. But I had AWESOME nurses! My main nurse Kristen was my parents old bishop's wife. She is the cutest, sweetest lady ever! and my tech was great too!

On Wed. morning we had a doc appt 2 strip my membranes. All morning long while we were getting ready I was so nervous!!! I kind of felt like this was it! We need to bring our bags because he is going to come! We went to the doc and of course brought our bags. I got my weight and blood pressure checked. Weight was great but my blood pressure was not! Well the doc came in and stripped my membranes and said well you want to have him this weekend? I can use the excuse with your high blood pressure to admit you. (He knew about how I was forced on leave from my job and felt horrible and wanted me to have him early to spend time with our little boy) He let Brian and I talk and we both felt like it was a good idea because 1.family could all come up and see; because of the holiday. 2.we could spend more time with him before I have to go back to work. 3.everything was healthy with us both! So we made the decision to do it. by the way they checked my blood pressure agian and everything was normal but the doc said it still will work!

So we got the call from the labor and delivory to come in at 4:30. My doc broke my water at 5pm and said I bet he will come around 3 in the morning. I was dialated at a 3 and efaced about 85%. My nurse kept saying I hope you have him before 6 am before Im off work. First time moms dont go fast! Around 7 I was ready for the epedurral. Brian asked if they could check me and kristen did and I was dialated at a 4 and still 85% efaced. Around 8 they came in and checked agian and I was at a 7 and 100% efaced. Around 10:30-11 she came in and check and I was at a 10 and 100% efaced. Kristen was shocked! She had me try pushing and she said oh boy! dont push anymore I need to call the doc! We called my mom telling her the news and she of course was right on her way! the doc came around 12:15 and I had him at 12:41! Everyone in that room was so shocked I had him so fast! I was acually was telling the nurses when I felt I needed to push.

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This was right after I delivered Jayden. He looks like he is crying hard but he wasnt at all. All he made was grunting and little wines. I thought it was great I didnt want a baby that cries to much. But the nurses said you do when they come out so you know they are breathing well on their own. So the nurses had to call in someone to help him try to learn how to breath on his own. This nurse wanted to try and not use oxygen and a half an hr and nothing was helping him. So they took him to the NICU. I was getting all fixed up while Brian left to go with him. My poor boys! My husband was pasing back and forth so worried about Jayden and my sweet son was having trouble breathing on his own. My mom came in that half hr while they were trying to work with Jayden on breathing. It was nice to have my mom there when the boys left and I had to wait for a few before I could get into a wheelchair to go see my boys! Brian wanted to give him a blessing so my mom called my dad and told him to come. (the rule at the hospital was ONLY 2 people could be in the room to visit the mom and baby. Thats it! It was because of the swine flu. So of course my husband was there and then I chose my mom to come in after the delivery) So since we wanted a blessing they said it was fine for my dad to come in too.

Here he is in the NICU all tuped and wired up. It was SO SAD seeing him like this! Brian gave Jayden a great blessing!

Here is the proud daddy! He is the best dad ever! Brian was not able to hold him after the delivery because of his breathing problems. So after 4 hr Brian was able to hold his little son.

Here is Jayden with only the nose tube after the blessing he was doing so good that he was able to have to those in his nose. He had to be there for about 6 hrs. We had to leave for about 20mins to go to our new room and we had to leave Jayden there. But shortly after we came back the nurse told us that after we left he pulled all of his tubing out to show how better he was. That he could breath on his own. We couldn't believe how smart and strong he was to show them he is a fighter! He is definatly our little fighter!

Here is the best doc EVER! I will recommend him to anyone! He truely makes you feel like a person not a patiant. Thanks doc Chalmers we will come to you for our other babies too!

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Here is Jayden in his new outfit Brian picked out for him. It was 0-3months and still way to big for him. He looks so small in that carseat too!

He is all bundled up in daddy's arms!

Brian was able to take a week off work to spend time with Jayden and me. I thought this pic was so precious because Jayden is holding on to Brian's beard.

Going to Grandma Fun's house. I love the lillte sleeper that doesnt fit him yet with his red beanie he got from the hospital.

Here is the 4 generation on the Sanders side. We will get one with the Humpherys and Simkins.

More showers

2009-12-09T09:36:00.000-08:00

This was my Panaca baby shower! WOW! It was GREAT! We got a lot of things we didnt have and needed! especially the crib, matteress and infant meds. Thank you Brittney for a great shower! It really means a lot that you through it for me! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And thanks for all the ladies that traveled to get there!

This was my up north shower. Mostly my mom's side of the family. This was a fun one too! It was a frog theme and the table was decorated so cute; with fake frogs scattered on it. We painted cute boy things on onesies-like airplanes, trians, sport balls ect. this was a gift from my mom a.k.a GRANDMA FUN. It was her first quilt she she made she was so proud of it! Thanks for all who helped with and came to this shower! I loved it!

I had another shower down here in St. George for my dad's side of the family and family friends. It was small but good too cause we all got to chat and get all caught up with eachother!

I got a call from a lady in our new ward and she asked if she could throw me a shower! Holy cow! We only had gone to church once and she called and wanted to make sure I felt welcome and have a few things ready to me a mom! Thank you Jaenette for being so thoughtful and making me feel welcome in our new ward!

The Last Couple of Months

2009-11-02T10:55:00.000-08:00

Im so sorry that I have been slacking about blogging! We have been so busy I havent had time to blog. I have time now and will share some things we did and had happen the last couple of months. There will be some pic for some events and then there are some without.

JULY:
It was such a beautiful day in July we went on a hike.

We celebrated 4 of July at our home with Brian's parents and Steph. We could watch the big ones in the sky from our house so we sat outside watching one way at the Dixie rock and the other way from the park! They were beautiful! Then we shot off some of our own!

Jaren came home from his mission in Japan! He looks so grown up and happy!

That weekend tons of family came and we had a family reuion at Kolob. We all camped up there hearing stories from Jaren's misson. We did tons of 4wheeling. I couldnt do much! The rides would make me sick.

Jaren spoke in church

end of JUNE:Brian and I had a party with some friends! How to host a murder party! It was a blast! Brian was a baseball player and I was a singer in a bar. I have done a ton of these growing up but Brian wasnt use to the way you play and didnt enjoy it much. He felt like we was getting attacked! Poor thing! but we werent the murderer!

AUG:

We started looking to buy a home.

Work started for me. It started out great until I was acused of something I didnt do. I had a HUGE meeting with a ton of people from the district and the princpal at my school. They (the district) were all attacking me and saying I did this one thing and should be fired!! If anyone knows me they would know I would never say and do anything like that EVER! I did nothing of the sort! The princpal was on my side and telling them how I make the classroom work and he needs me there. I was trying to tell my story and they threatened me not to share this with anyone. I couldnt even get my witness to help me out of this horrible situation. After that it was VERY stressful at work! I was always watching my back to see if something else would happen!

Brian was ready to take his flight test and found out that they spelled our last name wrong on his last test. So they couldnt verify that was really Brian that took his 1st test! So he cant take it until they change his name. You would think that would be so easy to change but NO after 9/11 The FAA has been really stricked on things! We have gone through so many numbers trying to fix a 'N' to a 'M'!

SEPT:

Koby had his baptism. He is getting so grown-up! He asked Brian to give a prayer and asked me to give the Holy Ghost talk. After his baptism we had his Mario brother birthday party at Grandma's and Popie's house. We gave him a 4wheeler helmet.

I had my 1st baby shower. My friend and ward baby shower. It was great everyone was talking and had a good time! Thanks Jena! I loved it!

More drama happened at work! My doc. told me I couldnt lift over 20 lbs now that im 30 wks. I told the teacher I work with and gave her a doc. note I also gave one to the princpal because I have been having problems with the teacher following what my doc. says. Well the district found out and forced me into taking my leave early because I couldnt lift over 20 lbs. I have never lifted over 20lbs. in my job ever. And they told me if I didnt come back to work on Jan 5 I would have no benefits or a job. My baby is due Dec 8th that only gives me 3 wks with him if he come on time! GRRRRR! I was so mad! but it has been a nice break. I havent had to deal with stress from work!

We went in for some 3D pic and movie of our little boy! It was so fun to see him moving in there. And seeing what a punch or kick was when I feel it! There were only a few pic that were as good as this. He loves to have his hands in his face and legs up there too! He wants us to be suprised of who he looks like! Very camara shy I guess!

OCT:

We bought our 1st home! We now live in Hurricane. About a min. away from my parents place. We love it! Its a 3bedroom, 2bath, 2story house! We love it! So much storage! And WHITE walls! I cant wait to paint and put our fun loving touch to it! Brian has made plans for the garage too! We cant wait to do our little boys nursery too!

Brian took a few days off work to help us move. I couldnt do much lifting so it was mostly him the 1st couple of days until we got some more man help. I did a lot of cleaning and some puching and moving and I thought I was going into labor, called to doc and he told me to take it easy and tell everyone where everything should go! It was a hard week. I felt bad for Brian, he did a lot!

We had our primary program in our last ward. I had to still lead the music. It was sad to leave but Brian and I are both ready for the move and new chapter in our lives!

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We went to Panaca for Halloween. We love dressing up and going trick-or-treating with our cute neice and nephews. Their costumes were so cute this year! They were the Mario brothers and Princess Peach!

Here was our costumes! Can you guess what we are?

Yeah, he is a baker!

Yep, Im the oven!

We have a bun in the oven!!!! ha

My mother-in-law gave me a project to do. She wanted her windows to be painted for the holidays so I painted these pumkins and leaves on her window!

Primary Car Race

2009-06-27T11:13:00.000-07:00

We had a primary activity. It was a Car Party.

I had the 1st Pit stop they had to race to see who could fill the bucket full of 'gas' (water). They had jump start their car by jump roping. And pinning the tire on the car.

Here are some of their homeade cardboard box cars.

Here are my cute primary kids and family!

We are having.....

2009-06-27T10:51:00.000-07:00

So we found out what we are having! We are having a baby BOY!!! We went in to the doc this last wednesday and the doc asked what I thought we were having and I have thought the whole time it was a girl and Brian has thought it was a boy! So I said "Its a girl. I just know it!" The doc said "You sure? Im about 90% sure what it is, but we will just look and play around a bit!" He shot this pic and said "Well its got a penis! Its a boy!" I said "What! Really!?" haha "That little white dot is a penis?" haha it sure is! We are so very happy! I was in shock for a little bit just because the whole time I thought it was a girl! But I have always wanted a boy first! And we are getting one!

Right after we got out of the doc and was on our way home my mom calls asking about it! Well we had something planned and didnt want to tell her on the phone. She was so mad cause she wanted to know now! haha she kept saying is it blue or pink? When we got to their house we had 3 pink cupcakes and 3 blue cupcakes and one had a baby inside of it! They were suppose to eat them and find out but my mom kept saying "Im going to get fat and do you want to have a fat grandma?" geeze so I just had them brake them. They finally broke into the blue one. And they were screaming and was very excited! haha They would have acted the same way if it were a girl too! But it was fun! They are very excited to have their 1st grandchild and nephew! Here is the pic and cupcake that has a baby inside we made for Brian's family.

How we told my family

2009-06-27T10:33:00.000-07:00

The night we told my family we went out to eat at Applebees. Brian and I came early to set up. I had the waitress take these bottles and bring them out when we were ready to order.

This was in each of their menus. It said "Tonights Special for 2009" I couldn't look at my mom cause I knew she would see it right through me! Mylee was the 1st one to see it!

Here is the happy and proud new grandma!

This Brian's family came over the next night and we had a bbq at our house and gave them the same menu! They were pretty happy too!

We are PREGNANT!!!

2009-05-03T18:26:00.001-07:00

YEA!!! We are pregnant!!! Its a cute little mixture of us!! We are so happy and have been on cloud nine since we have found out! We have been trying for quite awhile and had no success with the fertility drugs and "really trying"! We finally told everyone and put in our mind set we were not trying anymore, just praticing! =) We went on vacation 2 weekends in a row and I quess it happened then! When we 1st found out it was on April Fools day! Of all days! I took 2 test and they came back +! I couldnt believe it so I drank about 4 glasses of water in like 5 mins. I had to take another one! I couldnt believe on April Fools day! Well before I could buy another one Mylee (my sis) came by so I made up this story that I was doing this April Fools prank on Brian and the lady I work with peed on this test and I need to peed on one so he will be confused! ha Mylee believed it and we went to buy one. Ha well I didnt think it all the way though cause what happens if it was + agian? She would find out before Brian! aahh! I took it and it was -! ha good for Mylee but seeing that - was a disappointment...agian, but thought not the right time! That friday both Brian and I had to get physicals for our insurance and told the doc what happened. He said we needed to take a blood test. So I did, but I couldnt find out till that night, I had to call. That evening Brian went to flight school and I was coloring Mylee's hair.! (ha she was here everytime!) I called the lab knowing in my head it was a -!!! The lady said your 1 to 2 weeks! I said what, -? She said no. 1 to 2 weeks pregnant! I screamed 3 time "IAM, IAM, IAM!? She said yes congraulations! I went out to the and Mylee said what your pregnant or something? Well I couldnt have her know before Brian. So I made something up on the spot "oh I dont have diabetes!" haha I know stupid but I was in shock!! I couldnt believe I was pregnant! The funny thing about that, Mylee believed me! haha I took another test and it came +!! Before Brian came home I decorated the tub (only spot I could so Mylee couldnt see). Brian came home and I told him he had to take a bath! haha he thought do I smell? He said well will you start it for me? I said no only you can! He was so confused! poor thing! But he went in there and saw the sign that said " CONGRATS HONEY! YOUR GOING TO BE A DADDY! and saw the + test and balloons and baby things! He couldnt believe it and looked at me! I said I called the lab! We are honey!!! Of course we had a small crying session! We are so happy! And would not trade that small trial for anything now that we have our little one! It defentaly means more when you have tried so long and hard to have one! We are due DEC 8th!!! What a great blessing this will be for us! We are starting a new chapter in our little family book! We thank the Lord everyday for the great blessinga he has given us and now this sweet baby we will help learn and grow in his gospel!

Brian's new friend

2009-03-28T21:01:00.000-07:00

Popie was offered a FREE pony from a neighbor and Brian jumped right on that! He is such an animal lover and has always wanted a horse or pony! He was so happy and went right over to pick her up!

Her name is Satarn! Dont ask me how the last owner came up with it. Brian kept saying "she is just your size honey look!!' Well yeah she has stubby legs haha

Here is ME on her! HOLY COW! I was so scared! im not an animal lover, never been! Brian is determined to get me to love her! Because we are TWINS!

Here I am trying to smile!

She is really cute huh!? It will take me a little while to love her! Wait a few months and it might happen! =) It really makes Brian happy! I told the in-laws we will be out more now because of her!

HOCKY GAME

2009-03-28T20:42:00.000-07:00

I suprised Brian with a pro hockey game the last night we were in AZ. He has never been to a pro game before! We both had a blast!
I bought him a coyote's hat for a souvenier!

Here they are playin!

Look at that happy boy!

This was way cool! it was 80s night! So they played great 80s music!

This is the coyote riding a 4wheeler on the ice! The best part was the they won! 5 to 1! We played Canada and they scored the last min of the game! By the 4th goal everyone in the audiance won a FREE chalupa from Taco Bell! wooowhoooo!

Cassi's wedding shower

2009-03-28T20:28:00.000-07:00

Here was another game we did! PINATA!

Cute girls!

Here was the FUN basket I gave her for the first night! Have FUN!

2009-03-28T20:13:00.000-07:00

I through a wedding shower for my friend Cassi. It was a Mexican theme. We drove down to AZ (where im from)

Here is all the food! YUM

I through a wedding shower about a yr ago and did this game for the first time. It turned out great! Everyone was laughing and so I had to do it at this one!

I said that the lights went out the first night of their wedding so she had to dig through the suitcase to find what to wear for her new husband!

She did a great job! Everyone was laughing! I couldnt hold it in any longer!

Way to go Cas! Your husband will love that! Thanks for being a good sport!

baby raddles

2009-03-28T20:06:00.000-07:00

Here is a cupcake raddle I made for my friend's baby shower! I stuck a plastic baby inside just one and whoever grapped that one and bit into the baby then they got a prize!

Here are the sticks with the ribbon I tied on them.

All the cupcakes!

Here is the things you need! I didnt have the gumdrops yet to put on the end of the stick. Just put the baby inside the cupcake 4mins before completely done.

Valentines Swing Dance

2009-02-15T15:28:00.000-08:00

Thanks love for a GREAT Valentines Day HONEY! And trying something you thought you never do! Your the best husband!

Here we are slow swing dancing! He did a great job his first night! After a few dances Brian told me he was having so much fun and wanted to take classes! I was so suprised he said that! That makes me so happy!

Here were some people at the start of the dance. There were a lot of cute old couples there! They were amazing! Brian and I were shocked they could still move like that!

Here was the table full of my favorite goodies!

Valentines night my parent and us went to dinner to Applebees. After dinner we went to a Valentines swing dance my dad was in charge of. Brian was a little nevous cause he was afraid that he couldn't dance very well... especiall swing! But my cute mom told him some fun moves! He learned very fast! He did a great job after practicing saying 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, back!

Valentines Day

2009-02-15T15:04:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines Day!

Our Valentines was GREAT! I love having Valentines on a Saturday! Brian and I got to sleep in! It was so nice! I woke up first and make him breakfast! I made pink pancakes and pink eggs, and brought it into the bedroom for breakfast in bed!

We gave eachother our gifts

I gave Brian- a spicy basket full of fun things to eat and play with, with me!

Brian gave me- a gift card for a day at the spa and beautiful flowers!

New Years Eve

2009-01-01T20:53:00.000-08:00

Waiting for the party to start!

I brought the fondue with marshmellows and strawberries! YUMM!

My vegi plate!

Kaden sturring the chocolate! He is so funny!

2009-01-01T20:40:00.000-08:00

Brian's family has a tradition that they play BUNKO on New Years Eve. I didn't know how to play, but I caught on fast and I was tied with Brian and Travis (the one on the left) winning! But to make it more fun we had gifts for everything including the biggest loser!

This is Kaden (nephew) he wanted to show me his pirate face!

This is Kaden 's big toe...I mean MR. TOE. He insisted I take a pic of MR. TOE. He talked to him all night! hahaha! He comes up with the funniest things everytime we see him! We love you Kadan!

Aimee our sweet neice. She is the smartest thing ever! And wanting to grow up so fast like your brothers. Here she is in her brothers snow boots. So cute!

My new hat... DARE TO EXPERIMENT

2009-01-01T20:28:00.000-08:00

We came back to Brian's parents house and was waiting for the NEW YEAR! I was getting a bit bored.

YEA!!! 2009! We were the only ones home so it was hard taking a pic of both of us kissing. So just know we did. And we had a toast for the NEW YEAR with sparkling cidar!

Our Christmas

2009-01-01T20:18:00.000-08:00

Our tree and gifts

I had a great Christmas! I got a lot of hair stuff for my hair business. I love Christmas! I can never sleep on Christmas Eve I get so excited, but this year I started to not feel very good. Brian didn't want to wake me. And I slept till 8am. I couldn't believe it!

I put money in every gift he got because he wanted money for his big present for his new bug he is restoring.

Here he is in his bug! He his a happy man!

Our Games on Christmas

2009-01-01T19:40:00.000-08:00

If any of you know our family you know we come up with the funniest games! When we ever get together we always have a new game to play or play BOOGA BOOGA to bring ya into the family.

This is Mylee's man. When he comes and plays our games he really gets into it. And we thought that BOOGA BOOGA would be a great game for him to play.

He was so funny! We all couldn't stop laughing, when your supposed to have a straight face the whole time! He really got into it. If you don't know how to play and you want to know, let me know and I do it to ya! hahaha

Here we are playing BIG BOODIE! Mylee and I were the last ones in and I lost! Dang it! I get so competative and I was so close!

The Call

2009-01-01T19:27:00.000-08:00

This was our Christmas call to Jaren. Jaren is still on his mission in Japan. He will be home in July. We were all excited to talk with him, but didnt show it as much as mom did.

Dad calling him up.

Here is Mom very EXCITED! She was so happy, nervous, excited... you name it! She was like this for about an hour before we got to call him! She keep asking if we had any questions for him and saying we all had tell a story. She was so funny! But when she got to talk to him by herself she was a very proud mom.

We are listening to him on speaker phone.

Brian was here too. He was taking all the pic. Thanks love!

Lunch at Olive Garden

2009-01-01T19:23:00.000-08:00

On Christmas Eve we always go somewhere to eat and Olive Garden was it! We always have a good time being with eachother.

2009-01-01T19:09:00.000-08:00

The THREE AMIGOS! We look dang good!

Look at her she is so funny! Your very stylish mom!

Honey you got the wrong girl! ;) No, I thought this was a really cute pic! Brian walkin' with my mom! My mom loves him so very much!

Snow in St. George???

2009-01-01T18:57:00.000-08:00

We have been getting crazy weather here and look what happed that made us have a SNOW DAY! It is so beautiful! This is right outside our door. I had to keep on opening the door just to make sure is was for real!

And this is the next morning. We really did have a snow day in St. George.

This is our cute little love shack covered in snow!

Christmas Girls Night

2009-01-01T18:21:00.000-08:00

Here is the craft we made! I got a cricket and wanted to use it with vinal lettering. Brian drilled a hole at the top and we put big Christmas beads inside for the snow!

This girls night was fun and very rewarding! We decided to help a family in my ward. In primary I was doing a singing time and had the kids write down their fav. primary song and 4 things they wanted for Christmas. Two kids in this family wrote down that they wanted food. It killed me inside SO BAD! I was so worried about them! So I decided at the girls night to be a Serect Service Santa. We all brought something for the family and hopped into Rachel's car... ok not the girls in the back! HAHAHA they were the ones with all the food cramped in there.

We had a full basket, a big box and 3 bags. Wow! What Christmas time does to you when you want to help in some little way. These girls truely have big hearts! Thanks girls!

Look they are so happy and so cute!

Hahaha! Rachel, Steph and I were the ones that had to put the food on the step and I was the one that had to knock. Lia and Amanda were to scared. We wanted to park close by the house so we could see them get the food so here is Rachel with her game face!

Well this is me trying to disguise myself since I was the one who had to knock and they know who I am. I saw Rachel's sunglasses and tried them on and I tried to move my head and I couldn't see out of one eye and we were laughing so hard cause I look so funny!

2009-01-01T18:07:00.000-08:00

Here is our gift exchange

Rachel had me- She gave me a christmas smelling candle and a church movie. Thanks I love it!

Steph had Amanda- she got a bennie hat! I love it! So cute!

Amanda had Steph- she got cute mittens!

I had Lia- she got scrapbook letters and a frame!

Lia had Rachel- she got a real pearl and incenses!

Christmas Pictures

2009-01-01T12:51:00.000-08:00

Here are some of our Christmas pictures that Steph (sis-in-law) took! She did a great job! Thanks sis!

2009-01-01T12:34:00.000-08:00

Me kissin' the goose!

I think Brian is about done takin' pictures! HAHA

Popie's Christmas Gift

2008-11-29T15:37:00.000-08:00

So on Black Friday Brian's family came to come shopping in the afternoon. Brian and I had gone earlier that morning, way early. We all went around to different stores shopping. One time we split up and then met up again. Popie was getting bored. So Brian and Popie went to our home to chill. Us girls went shopping and found out that Mom had gotten Popie a 57in flat screen T.V. for a really good deal. We were so excited! He hes been asking for one for awhile. We had to make a plan so he wouldn't know what was going on. He thought we had to pick up a dish washer. We did but not here! ha ha!

Here is Popie's face! Look he is so happy! He was so shocked! I thought he was going to cry! For reals! We love you Popie!

Look he even had his gloves on ready to get the dish washer in the truck! haha! Merry Christmas Popie!

See that bow? Brian's mom gave it to one of the workers to put on the T.V.. He looks so happy!

Brian, Brittney and Popie are loadin it up!

Thanksgiving

2008-11-29T15:16:00.000-08:00

Here is the family waiting for the dinner to be done. While they were waiting the were waitching the football game. Brian, Maren, KJ (dog), Mylee, Takia (dog) Grandma Sanders.

Here is another shot of them chilling.

It took awhile to get this pic. Brian was really into the game and he would look and my camera would say...CHARGING FLASH. So then Brian would look back at the game. Then Brian was slumping down and didnt have a neck so it looked way funny and poor Maren just kept smiling.

Mylee and Grandma.

Here is Mom in the kitchen waiting for the "STUPID" turkey. This turkey was quite big so it was taking a lot longer then expected. Mom would check and say "STUPID TURKEY!" Ha ha! We all laughed. Finally when it was finished we had our wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner. Thanks Mom it was great!

Here is the things I made for the dinner. If you would like the recipes just let me know! They were all really good! This one is the Pumpkin Roll.

Here is the Vegi dish. These were the first time making them all.

This is called Turtle Pumpkin Pie. It had caramel. I love caramel so I had to make it.

And this Chocolate Pudding Cake.

2008-11-29T15:03:00.000-08:00

This is my friend Mason! He Is such a special young man! He was one of my students a couple of years ago. He is so smart! Now I go to his house to play with him every Wednesday. I help him on his different skills he is working on. He is a friend that I want to keep for live. He has such a tender heart, and is so funny. I will video tape him so you can hear how funny he is.

Here he is in my car. We are waiting for Brian to get off work. Brian's truck broke down a few days before so we had to pick him up. Look how happy he is! He is always smiling. These fun, special kids teach me so many things, not the other way around. I love ya Mason.

Air Show in Vegas

2008-11-29T14:26:00.000-08:00

Look how cool this is this was at the Air Show in Vegas.

About a month ago there was a Air Show in Vegas. Brian wanted to go so bad!! He came to me and said if we go to this you can go shopping! How can I say no to that! There are not a lot of shopping places here in St. George so I jumped right on that! Here is us on the bus ride to the show. There was a very long line and we even went early. The soilders were checking us all in metal dectors like the airports. The air show was at the navel base.

We finally got there and Brian saw this one first cause this is his dream plane. He wants one of these when he gets older. Look at him, he is SO happy!

This is such a big plane. Look at how big its fin is.

Here it the whole plane. I had to be so far to get the whole thing. We went inside and took a tour. Wow, it was really cool. It could carry a lot of things.

Here are the jets. They were just starting there engines. It was so loud that we had a soilder get us some earplugs.

Here was a really good shot of one of the planes flying over us and doing some cool tricks. I got some on video, but it wasn't letting me put them on here. So if you want to see the videos you gotta stop by or RACHEL your going to have to help me! ;)

Here we are on the bus ride back. Brian had injured his leg pretty bad at work the day before and walking on it all over the air show was hurting him. He can handle pain pretty well, so I know he was in pain. Plus it got really hot there and I don't do very well in the heat. We had a lot of fun though!

2008-11-23T16:14:00.000-08:00

22 things about me!
I love games so lets see who knows me the best and if you can answer my questions! Read the questions and write down the answers or just try to remember them. Then when you finish see the answers below and tell me how you did!
(Good Luck) ;)

1.. What is my full name:
2.. What is my fav. color:
3.. What am I most afraid of:
4.. How many pets do I have:
5.. Place of Birth:
6.. Favorite food:
7.. What's my natural hair color:
8.. How many tatoos do I have:
9.. Fav. T.V show:
10.. Whats my bedtime:
11.. Have I been in a car accident? If so how many:
12.. What colors are in our bedroom:
13.. Favorite day of the week:
14.. Favorite restaurant:
15. Favorite Flowers:
16.. Favorite sport to watch:
17.. Whats my fav. drink:
18.. Favorite ice cream:
19. Fav. Disney princess:
20.. Have I ever been to Hawaii:
21.. Who do I love more than anything in this world? (If you dont know this then you really dont know me at all):
22. Why I did I have 22 quetions:

***ANSWERS***

1..MEGAN SANDERS SIMKINS
2..GREEN
3..BEING RAPED
4..0
5..SALT LAKE CITY
6..SHRIMP
7..BROWN
8..0
9..BIG BROTHER
10.. 10PM
11..YES-4
12..BLACK AND RED
13..FRIDAY
14..RED LOBSTER
15..GERBER DAISIES
16..SOCCER, BASEBALL, HOCKEY, FOOTBALL, TENNIS (if you guess any of these your right)
17..PROPEL
18..VANILLA (with caramel and chocolate drizzled on)
19..ARIEL
20..NOPE (I wish- someday!)
21..BRIAN MY LOVE
22..CAUSE I'M 22 YEARS OLD!

Primary Program

2008-11-16T17:53:00.000-08:00

Today was our Primary Program for our ward. Some of you might not know, but I am the chorister for our Primary. I love this calling! It is so FUN! It is so rewarding to be with those sweet innocent kids. And somehow they always teach me no the other way around! I have had this calling while I was in hair school before I got married, but this one has been very different from that ward. We only have about 20 kids including the nurshery. It is very inclosed and personable! I think I like that so much better because I get to know the kids better. But anyways back to the program. It turned out so GREAT! I have been wanting to have a harp played with the song 'If the Savior Stood Beside Me' with the kids signing. I had been calling since Aug. for someone to play for me. Already there isn't a lot of people that play the harp let alone anyone here in St. George, but the last place they called gave me a number about a month ago. I called hoping and praying she could do it! And she could!! It sounded so BEAUTIFUL! Oh man I was a wreck. The tears couldn't hold back any longer! The kids didn't know what to do when they saw their leader crying and trying to sign and sing at all the same time! haha they did so good! I am very proud of them! Thanks kids for singing so well! And thanks to the fam that came to see the kids and supported me. Oh thanks Lori too, for the beautiful talent that put the finishing touch on the program!

Time to be THANKFUL

2008-11-09T16:47:00.000-08:00

BRIAN: The love of my life! My other half! The best husband that I could ever have! He fits perfect for me! He has such a strong testomony and love for the church! He has the sweetest personality and befriends everyone! I'm thankful so very much for you honey! Your a guy that calls ME beautiful every morning when I just wake up with hair all wild and make-up all over my face! You always put me first and let me get what I want when I ask cause you know that will make me happy! You will stay awake just to watch me sleep. You kiss, hug, snuggle and cuddle with me and you dont care who is watching! You want to show me off to the world even when Im in sweats! I know if I ever needed a blessing you would be right there to do it! You open the door EVERY time we get in the car or go through a door. There is SO much more I could write, but these are the ones that stand out the most! I love you babe! Thanks so much!

DAD (SANDERS): WOW! The best dad I could ever have! You have been the most supportive man in the world. You went to every soccer game I could remember. You have the best listening ear! You would and still listens to every story, and concerns I have. And you are the smartest man I know. I could ask you anything and you would have the answer. Thanks dad! Your the best!

MOM (SANDERS): Where do I begin? You have taught me all I know! Those 2 hours everyday helping me in school proving to those doc. I can graduate! Putting out all those prayer to make sure I was doing the right things. Teaching me about the gospel, homemaking, becoming the person I am today, becoming a wife and mother, and so much more! You call me to see how I am doing and gives me the best advice. Thanks mom for being the best and only mom that could put up with me!

JAREN: The best missionary in the world!! You are doing so good over there in Japan! You are a great example to me! ALWAYS standing up for what you believe in! Never caring what people think of you. Being the best brother anyone could ask for. You have such a sweet personality and a strong testomony! Thanks bro! love ya!

MYLEE: You are the cutest! You always have a smile on your face! Caring for everyone else's needs and not worrying about your own. You are a good example. So kind and lovable! I can talk to you about almost anything! Your always there... especially coming over to get your hair dyed! haha Thanks sis!

MAREN: We are definitely very similar! But you are VERY beautiful inside and out! You are so fun to talk to. Hearing all your fun stories! You are growing up so fast and I cant believe it! I know we have had some rough spots, but I want to let you know that I am very thankful for you being my sister! You have beautiful hair! Im jealous! You are a good example to me with your sweet prayers and strong standard and sticking to them. thanks sis!

DAD (SIMKINS): You are the best father-in-law anyone could ask for! You are so sweet and have such a tender heart! I look up to you in so many ways! You have taught your son so many qualities that I am truely grateful for having in a husband! I have never once heard you say anything mean about anybody! That is so great! Thanks popie!

MOM (SIMKINS): You are a mother-in-law that every girl dream about having! You are so kind and always happy! You are great about sharing all you have and making everyone feel loved! You taught your son so much that I will always be in debt to you for! You are so creative in the fun things you come up with, with the kids! I cant wait for our kids to come play at grandma's house! Thanks so much!

BRITTNEY: Man I have never had a older sibiling before. You truely are a sister I would look up to! You have been through a lot, and you are a saint for it! You are such a smart person! You have so many talents and quialities I want and am striving to have! You have a fun, sweet personality! You are so beautiful too! Thanks for letting me be a part of your family! I love your kids!

STEPH: I have never had a sister my age before! I love it! I love how you live so close and we can have girls night or just hang out! You are so fun to be with! Steph you are so adorable! You are a very talented person! You are so gorgeous too! I love you long hair...even though I cant wait to cut it! It is so beautiful! You are way smart too! Your a great example to me going to all the schooling! And your almost done YEAH-WHO! Way to go! Thanks for being my sis!

KOBY: Boy you are the smartest kid I know! And you have such a good memory! I cant believe it! You are the best big brother to your sister and brother! You have a lot of responsability, but I know you can do it! You are a great nephew! You listen very well to your mom, grandma, popie, Brian and I! You are so fun to play with! You are a very handsome boy too! Brian and I love you kobs! Thanks for being a great nephew

KADEN: hey mac and cheese boy! You are growing up so fast! You are talking so good too! I love when we come over and you tell me about school! I love to read you stories! You are a great nephew too! You are a good brother to your sister and brother! I am thankful to be your aunt! Love you Kaden!

AIMEE: My cute little neice, I love you so much! You have such a fun personality! You are so beautiful! I love your little dimples! You make me smile everytime I see you! Thanks for being so cute and my little neice! I love you!

Watchin the Kids

2008-11-01T21:46:00.000-07:00

Brittney has a carpet business and Brian went to go help her. I stayed and watched the kids.

Here is Koby doing a trick on the tramp. Way to go Kob!

Kaden is doing his jumping jacks. Good job bud!

Aimee loves to be with her brothers. Doing right what they are doing. She was opeing and closing the door saying "Hi" "Hi" "Hi" She is so dang cute!

Here is Aimee in her swing!

Trick or Treating in Panaca

2008-11-01T21:41:00.000-07:00

Brian and I live on a commerial street so we get no trick of treaters. So we decided to go trick of treating with our nephews and neice. I really wanted to be a fairy this year, but Brian wouldnt be one or Peter Pan. He didnt want to wear tights! I guess I wouldnt blame him. But we had to match so he is a pirate and I am his treasure chest!

This is Aimee the lady bug!

2008-11-01T21:28:00.000-07:00

Look how cute they are! Kaden as a puppy and Koby as a pirate!

Here is Brian as a Skeleton pirate. He is way freaky!

Ok so I know this is not a good picture of me. I was in the back of the truck cause I couldnt fit in front. We were riding to park at Grandma Simkins' house. I wanted to show you all the gold on my shirt.

Here they are ready to get some candy!

And here they are with all the candy! They are very happy and excited!

Halloween at School

2008-11-01T21:23:00.000-07:00

I love Halloween! Here I am being a trash can. I glued and safety pinned all that stuff on me. And yes that is real pizza! This is Isaiah the skeleton.

This is Madi. She is a rock star! She cant even reach the doughnut. Mariah is holding it too high.

2008-11-01T21:16:00.000-07:00

This is Ashton. He is suppose to be the grim reaper.

Here is Isaiah. He is a skeleton.

This is Hunter. He is suppose to be a warewolf. He won the contest! He stuffed his face full!

Here is Hunter being his warewolf. He wasnt allowed to wear the mask at school. But I had to get a picture! SHHH! Dont tell!

Here is the class! This job is so fun and rewarding! I love it! They are the funnest kids!

Thriller

2008-11-01T21:03:00.000-07:00

So we decided to go see Thriller before Halloween. I thought it would be fun to have Mylee and your cute man come with us too. We have been trying to go on a double date for forever, but our schedules never match up. And plus your boyfriend's parents made a rule that if he wanted to see and go on a date with Mylee then he has to take 4 other girls out on a date! What a horrible rule! Well I really wanted them to come so I told Mylee to tell Cory to tell his parents that we already bought the tickets and it was a gift for them. It was a lie, but I really wanted them to go! It worked! They were able to come! And it was so cool! I wish I could of taken pictures throught out the show. a zombie kept following me Before we got there! I just had to tell her to get in a picture with me to get her away. It was kind of freaky! Mylee and I went to the bathroom and came out and couldnt find our tickets. We searched everywhere. I went back to the lady that gave them to us and someone found them and returned them! thank goodness for honest people!

Here Brian and I. He is way scruffy here cause he had to grow it out for his costume.

Cory and Mylee. Here is the other cutest couple. Us coming first! haha

The sisters

2008-11-01T20:54:00.000-07:00

I saw all these zombies seating randomly on people's laps to scare them. So I got one to sit on Brian's lap! He didnt know what to do!

I got this one to sit on Cory. I know her. She is a peer tutor for my students at school. Mylee did not like that at all!

Look how creepy she is! YUCK! Look at her arm! She by far won the best zombie!

This one was pretty creepy too!

We had no idea Steph and Lia were going to be here! I saw them in the croud right beofre it started. They were down a few rows! But they came to visit during intermission.

Flight to Panaca

2008-11-01T20:32:00.000-07:00

My mother-in-law took these pic here. We just landed in Panaca. She is so proud of him you can just see it!

Thats me waving!

We landed and there was Mom, Popie and Grandma Simkins there waiting for us! My mother-in-law is so sweet! She made us breakfast! So we went into the pilots lounge and ate our breakfast there.

The boys were so excited when they heard we were flying in. Brittney brought them after we had breakfast. Here they are trying it out!

When we left I was video-taping us in the air. I was busy talking on it and all of a sudden the plane was going back and forth well that made me so scared I screamed so loud in that mike. And asked what was going on they both said they were waving goodbye! oh man! that was scary!

2008-11-01T20:19:00.000-07:00

So Brian started flight school in July. He has ALWAYS wanted to be a pilot. It has taken him so long to get in. I am so excited for him! He loves it and talks about it non stop! He has wanted me to go on a flight with him and I kept saying no. Not because I didnt trust him on doing a safe, good job. But because I felt like it would take away from him being taught what he was supposed to at that time. I didnt want to be in there when they are doing tricks, stalls, sharp turns and things like that! That is scary!

So I gave in and went! We flew to Panaca. Thats where he is from.

Brian at the controls! He looks pro!

2008-11-01T19:55:00.000-07:00

Look at all those controls! Holy Cow! I would be the worse pilot. I wouldnt even know where to begin!

Here is Justin, his instructor, teaching him. He told Brian that when Brian first started school and flew for the first few times that he was very advanced in flying a plane already. Way to go honey! This is truely what he is ment to do!

Here I am! Kind of freaked out! I would hear stories from Brian and Justin of him flying and I knew he knew how to fly, but still I am in a small plane in the air! I didnt want to move cause it felt like I could move or tip it!

Ok I had to smile! No really after the take-off it was fine. I didnt like the take-off. Being in the air is so cool! I look pretty good with those headphones too!

So here is the city of St. George. How beautiful! It is so cool looking out and trying to find things like the temple, our home, the school I work at! It amazing! I love it! It was funny, I asked the guys why we were going so slow. They said we arent. We are going 110 mile per hour. HOLY COW thats fast! But i couldnt tell cause when your in the air you dont see things pass by you so I thought we were going really slow.

Family at Rodeo

2008-11-01T19:43:00.000-07:00

Here we are at the Rodeo! This night was the Breast Cancer Night. So we had to wear pink. There was no way Brian was going to wear pink. He said red is close enough! I didnt care! Im not much a fan of men in pink! You can see my skin is too. I got burnt that afternoon going with my students to the SP ED rodeo!

Here is my cute sis-in-law! She is clear over there savin' seats!

Here are the cutest nephews EVER!
Koby and Kaden

Here is the cutest neice EVER!
Aimee

Class Rodeo

2008-11-01T19:32:00.000-07:00

So one of our school field trips was to go to the SP ED rodeo! It was so fun! We all had a blast!

Here is Macey. The St. George News in interviewing her about the rodeo!

Here is ME! Hot as EVER! If anyone knows me, they know I cant handle heat! It was a very hot day! So I had to sit in the shade! Can you see the sunburn coming?

Here is the girls! Madi, Macey and Me. I respit them. I take them after school and give there mom a break. They are the cutest girls EVER! We were way hot, so we took a break in the shade!

Here is Dakota! He is now in Cali! We miss him! He was a handful, but a great student!

2008-11-01T19:21:00.000-07:00

Isaiah on the horse. He was only suppose to go just once, but oh no he snuck on a few more than that!

Ashton and Macey! Best Friends!

Hunter was so scared to come to the rodeo, but look he got right in a caught a chicken! He talked about that for days!

Madi on the horse! She is a pro at it too! I was amazed!

Superman and Super dog!

Girls Night!

2008-10-26T15:14:00.001-07:00

Here are the girls! Brian after all didnt have to fly out of town so he stayed home for a little to study. Some of the girls that come couldnt come, but there is ME, STEPH (sis in law), RACHEL (almost sis in law-Jaren's girlfriend) and AMANDA.

Here is the food table! We grilled kabobs and corn on the cob! That was some experiance!

So about once a month I have a girls night! Its usually when Brian is out of town, hunting or flying over night. Here is my cute sister-in-law. She is so cute!

Fam Vaca at Panquitch Lake and Bryce Caynon

2008-10-26T15:00:00.000-07:00

So I am going to print this, matt it and frame it and put it in our room!

We went 4wheeling and I have ALWAYS wanted to have our names in a tree! and I know its illegally to do that, but we can go back here 50 yrs from now and see our names!

Coming back from Bryce. I love this pic of us!

Ride that pony!

I thought this was perfect! He loves ice cream!

2008-10-26T14:44:00.000-07:00

1st time for everything!

What a cute couple!

Brian and I love the movie Open Season and this vaction reminded us of it. So we were quoting the movie the whole way to Brice and Brian saw this lady with a winnie the pooh back pack. Brian took a pic and we laughed so hard!

This vacation was so fun! We are trying to be a Hoodo! Do we look like one!?

Here we are in Brice and we saw this 'butt' Hoodo!

2008-10-26T14:28:00.000-07:00

It was UEA weekend and the in laws invited us to got to Paquitch Lake and Brice Caynon. Here is our cute little cabin.

Dad's new look

2008-10-26T14:17:00.001-07:00

Here is the new DAD! 10 ears younger

Here he is waiting and posing for pic while the color is processing! What a good sport!

It was Conf. weekend and I had to dye my mother-in-laws hair and I had color left over and asked Brian if he wanted to dye his hair. My father-in-law perked up and said he wanted to dye his hair. So here is the before pic. REALLY GREY!

2008-09-28T15:13:00.000-07:00

Brian and I are at the Roadrunners game. Brian won tickets on the radio. So we couldnt miss that!
Here they are on the field. They were wearing pink jerseys for breast cancer month. And they were auctioning off there pink jerseys to cure breast cancer. I totally wanted to do that.
So we tried for the pitcher. I was so worried someone was going to put more money down. So Brian and I had to check every inning. They would give the shirts out when the game ended. So when it ended there were a ton of people around the table wanting to bid on the jerseys. I kept my eye on number 24. The man wouldnt end the bid. I was getting mad! So finally they ended it. And we GOT IT! I WAS SO HAPPY!
Here is the score!