St George Baby Shower

My sister Heather gave me a Baby Shower in St George last week, my mom and other sisters helped her. It was great to see everyone and it was so fun opening cute little girl things, I am so excited for her to come....just not too early!

Heather had water bottles with this printed on them:

25 random things about me

Here's how it works as written by the person who tagged me... I'm not sure where this original project started but I got tagged and decided to continue it. All of you who read my blog I hope you'll play along because it would/will be fun hearing from you or seeing your random things on your blog or email. Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. Here goes....


1. I am absolutely totally in love with my husband, he is my best friend.
2. I love Halloween!
3. I love bluegrass music (Banjo & Fiddle) & 70's music
4. Favorite colors, Pink, Brown & Orange
5. I met my husband on LDSsingles.com
6. I have 4 nicknames; Wendy Lou(my middle name is Lee), Gwen, Wendell and now Windmill
7. I love to clean
8. I have 5 sisters and 1 brother
9. Love chips and salsa (with cilantro LOVE IT)
10. Never had a broken bone (knock on wood)
11. I love to decorate (house)
12. I want learn to play the guitar
13. I want to learn to read piano music and not just play by ear.
14. I love to travel
15. I love all my family members and love hanging out with them playing games
16. I love to dress up and wear heels
17. I love the TV show "Ghost Whisperer" and "Greys Anatomy"
18. I love to be inspired with inspirational stories and quotes.
19. I am a giving person (sometimes too giving so I'm told), but sometimes bossy
20. I am fascinated by volcanos and fault lines anything geographic
21. I love DARK chocolate
22. I love to drink super cold MILK
23. I don't drink soda pop
24. Went to the Police Academy and was a 911 Dispatcher.
25. I love DILL pickles and HATE sweet pickles(I even love to drink the pickle juice)

Our new Piano! Well.....it sounds new.....

Steve and I bought an old beat up (and I mean beat up) piano from my Aunt Beverlee. When we looked at it we thought WOW, this thing is going to take a lot of work. Well we had a guy come and look at it and he was pretty skeptical but he took it anyway. He called today and asked us to come by and see if we still wanted it or to buy any of his other pianos he had fixed up, we took one look at it and thought, are you sure this is our piano......Anyway he put a lot of work into it and replaced a few things and refinished it and now we have a great piano. There are still a few scratches in the wood but I think it gives it character. I should have taken before and after pictures because you would not know it was the same piano. (Thanks to Mom we have a bench to go with it until we can find a real piano bench to go with it).

Here we go, Up to the wild Blue Yonder....HAZE!

Steve got his Pilot license and really wanted to take me up for a ride, he thought I'd be nervous flying with him but I wasn't. The only thing that made me nervous was when he saw another plane on the monitor close by and then it disappeared. I kept thinking GREAT, he's going to come from out of nowhere and slam right into us! I could not believe all the HAZE....WOW! You could barely see the ground it was so bad. When we landed the plane started to really shake..BAD and so Steve had to let off on the brakes some to stop us. We took most of the runway just to stop. The mechanics said that maybe the shimmy bar had broken, well we found out the next day after the mechanics at look at it that we had hit some sort of animal with our front wheel when we landed and broke it, which is why it shook so bad. I was not nervous, we were on the ground and knew we would eventually stop in the snow if needed.(does not happen very often) It was a lot of fun and we hope to take a trip soon down to Parowan or St George. Steve mentioned also taking some friends and flying to Wendover for dinner and then flying back....we'll see. He is a good Pilot!

















This picture is not flying above the clouds, it's flying above the haze.

Playing in the snow....

We had so much snow on Christmas that the kids wanted to get out Dads toys to play...

I'M DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS!

We didn't have the kids until 2:00 on Christmas day so Steve and I slept in, woke up and made a nice breakfast and then opened presents from each other. Steve (Santa) is sitting in my present. What a perfect day and perfect Christmas, it snowed all day long!!

Brown Family Christmas Party

December 22nd was the Annual Brown Christmas Party down in Parowan. We ate, we made Gingerbread houses, and exchanged presents we had a GREAT TIME!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Thanksgiving weekend we went with some of my family down to the Temple grounds for the play "Savior of the World", and saw all the temple lights afterwards. What a way to start out Christmas with the REAL meaning of christmas.

We got our tree the next week....WOW it was 15 feet high! The kids were over that Tuesday night and decorated it (we used both mine and Steves ornaments and still didn't have enough to cover the tree, but it still looked good anyway. We'll get new ornaments next year.

Country Christmas

Every year Steve has a booth at the Country Christmas Expo for his business "S &S Barns and Buildings" down in Las Vegas for the NFR. This was his booth. While down there (Dec 3rd-14th), we worked the Expo and did a little christmas shopping. Some friends and family were able to come down and spend time with us going to the National Finals Rodeo and shop.

While at the Expo we ran into Dr. Webber from the TV show Grey's Anatomy. He was really nice and we were both surprised he was a cowboy.

For my brithday on the 13th we went to see "Phantom of the Opera" at the Venetian, It was AWESOME!!! We also stopped by the wax museum for some pictures.....

MERRY CHRISTMAS, from our family to yours!

I'm having a GIRL!!

My BIG Surprise!

Steve through me a surprise 40th Birthday Party thanksgiving weekend because my family was all here! I was so surprised that I made a fool of myself (nothing new). The cake had black icing and everyone had black lips, teeth and tongues when they are done eating. IT WAS AWESOME, my husband is so good to me, I am so lucky. My sister Jill made a video for everyone to watch of all my years growing up, it made me cry... (I don't actually turn 40 until Dec 13th)