Catch up

Once again, it's been awhile. See a pattern? It's called I suck at blogging, and keep telling myself it's going to get better. I did however by a new camera and have been taking tons more pictures so I now say that I'll post more because I'll have more pictures, but only time will tell on that one:) Here are some pictures from our life the last few months.

Easter at grandma's house. All the cousins.

Connor swinging at the pinata on Easter. He loves pinatas and Grandma Nae is great about bringing one everywhere so the kids are all sugared up.

We went to Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America and Connor and Andrew had a blast.


One of his favorite rides (the frog hopper, a miniature power tower). He laughs his head off the whole time. It is too funny. I'm not sure if he laughs more from the ride or if we laugh more watching him have so much fun.

Connor asks just about every night if we can camp out and have a bonfire. Here are some pictures of the first bonfire of the summer.


And a classic Connor picture, peeing outside like daddy.

For our birthdays this year we met Jed and Sandy at a hotel in Eau Claire for a relaxing weekend, and some swimming. Connor loves to go swimming, but it takes him about an hour to get comfortable in the pool to actually swim. (It's usually right at the point where we are ready to get out.)

It is quite a chore sometimes to get Connor into the bathtub, (he's quite the busy body and doesn't want to sit down), so I bribed him

And some funny pictures of Connor and Daddy.

Baby Brown Update

Last Thursday I had my monthly baby check. I've been having tons of contractions and I told the doctor this again, as I had the last few months. But this time I stressed that I have at least 2 every hour, and sometimes up to 5 an hour. I also told her that they've become stronger in the last few weeks. So she said it would be a good idea to do an internal exam to make sure I wasn't dilated. She said that I was not dilated but that my cervix had already started to thin out. Then when she measured my belly to check the growth of my uterus it had only grown 1 cm in the last month. It should typically grow 4 cm. With these 2 concerns she decided I needed to have another ultrasound to make sure everything was ok. We waited until Monday to get the ultrasound done and everything looked great. In fact she measured 2 weeks bigger. My cervix isn't as long as it should be, but it still looks good. Below are the new ultrasound pictures. I promise that is a baby in the picture, obviously she is running out of room because it's pretty tough to figure out what you're looking at, so good luck. If you can see the circular object in the top center that is her fist by her mouth, and to the bottom right of the fist is her nose (in profile). Her fingers were either in her mouth or right next to her mouth so it was hard to get a good picture of her profile.And of course we had to have him check the gender again, and he said, "there's the girl parts." You can try and decipher this one on your own. It's a shot right between the legs.

Random Pictures...and more blogs below

Here are a bunch of random pictures from the last few months. I've also posted a few new blogs too, or should I say finally. No more excuses now since we finally joined the rest of the world and got high speed internet. And since this is the first time I've attempted to blog since we got the high speed internet, I've realized how easy and fast it really can be, what a difference.

Here is one of my little man, and one of his favorite foods, oddly enough, it's broccoli. Whenever I buy broccoli, he'll eat it in one sitting. He just can't get enough of it.

But don't get me wrong, he also absolutely loves ice cream, candy and treats. Grandpa Bob brought over dilly bars for us, and he completly enjoyed his dilly bar. This is a picture of him saying, "Thank you Grandpa Bob!"

Random Picture of Ben and I.
Connor and grandpa Bob at the Monster Truck show. They had such a great time!


Connor loves to entertain us with his musical abilities on his guitar.


Building with Legos, Connor and Ben's favorite thing to play together.

They made a heart for me out of Legos.

Tool man Connor. Or as he would call himself, WorkerBoy.

"Nothing Between the Legs"

Yesterday we had our 20 week ultrasound. Connor was so cute the whole time he stood next to me and held my hand and just watched. He got to see the feet and the hands and the face. At the end Ben asked "what about the sex?" and the tech said, well there's nothing between the legs. And I said, yeah right, show me. So he had to show me from as many angles as he could because I just didn't believe him. But he just kept telling me that there was nothing there. So I guess we are having a girl, and Connor is going to have a sister. (Another word that he is trying to learn) And last night we were talking about names and asked Connor to give his sister a name. Here is what he came up with....Blanket, Beer, and finally Connor. When we told him we couldn't name her Connor because it would be too confusing, he freaked out and said, No her name is Connor. So we'll see if we can get him to accept any other names.

Here are the pictures from the ultrasound we had at 10 weeks. Our doctor tried to give me a heart attack when she couldn't find the heartbeat in the office so she sent us down for an ultrasound where we got to, thankfully, hear the hearbeat and see the little one.


And here she is all grown up at 20 weeks. With a new due date of August 8th. The last picture you can see her arm sticking up above her head. We didn't get any pictures of "the view that counts" because at the end when he was trying to convince me that there was "nothing between the legs" (I think he said that about 20 times) she had moved to a different position and not the best view. But Ben said that he was watching the whole time the tech was taking measurements and saw the first "view that counts" and said he knew right away, it was a girl. I am still in disbelief because I was pretty sure I would have all boys, and keep trying for a girl and never get it, and end up with a house full of boys, so maybe this is the world's way to keep me from reproducing too many times:) Whatever it is, I couldn't be more happy and excited, but I will fully believe it when the time comes, until then, I'll still have some reservations about the true sex of Baby Brown.

Leyla Grace

Friday, March 6th @ 2:00pm, Dane and Sarah had a baby girl named Leyla Grace. She weighed in at 8lbs 2oz and 20 inches long

Connor is very excited to be a cousin. He is very slowly understanding that Leyla is his "cousin" because eveyone keeps asking him how his cousin is.


Proud Grandparents.

Ice Fishin

This winter, Connor and Ben got in their fare share of ice fishing. Every chance they got they were out there trying to "bring home supper." Connor absolutly loves going fishing with his dad and would get mad whenever Ben wanted to go without him.

Connor even got to teach Grandma Sandy how to ice fish too.

Two month recap

Yes, once again I realize I pretty much suck at keeping up with the posts. Everyday I tell myself to get going and get some pictures posted, but then I think about the pain it is to try to get the pictures downloaded and the thought quickly passes. Someday we will finally ditch this dial up internet and jump into the real world of technology, but until that day, I am not going to kid myself anymore. I will try to post some pictures and stories once a month.

So for the last two months we have had a lot of things happening. Since Connor is now 3, he got to experience his first trip to the dentist. Ben got to take him, and he was a trooper. You never know how he is going to act when we go places. Sometimes he is a little angel and sometimes, well, not so much. But Ben did a great job of preparing him for the dentist and telling him all the things that the dentist was going to do. He sat on Ben's lap for the exam and did a great job. When he was done he got a balloon, a toy and a new toothbrush. He was so excited when he got home, he had so many stories to tell, it was too cute.

Then on October 27th, we got a new addtition to the Brown family, Ben's brother Dane, and his girlfriend Sarah got married. They got married at the St. Croix County Courthouse, and were married by the same guy that married Ben and I:) That day we also found out that Dane and Sarah are having a baby GIRL, due March 4th.

Since Ben and I were married at the courthouse, we decided to take our pictures in the same spots that we had them taken the day we were married....This time Connor got to make a real appearance in the photos:)

Ben and I August 19th, 2005 (Outside the Courthouse)

Ben Connor and I October 27th,2008

Ben and I August 19th, 2005 (inside)

Ben Connor and I October 27th, 2008 (For this picture I made Ben take his sweater off so that we could be wearing the same colors as we did the first time:) He thought it was pretty stupid, But I thought it was a good idea)

On Halloween night, we had a 50th birthday party for my mom and dad at their house. Lots of food and drinks always makes for a good night. Ben and I decided to dress up as Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife Beth. Ben did a great job of playing the part.

Connor had a hard decision in figuring out what he wanted to be for halloween. It changed everyday, and everytime we went to look at costumes he would find something new he wanted to be. So I decided to wait until the week before halloween to get his costume. The whole week before he was telling everyone he was going to be Cowboy Connor. So I went out and got some cowboy gear for him. He loved being cowboy connor and was saying yeehaw the whole night. He is still