"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes...and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp...I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really there, and that I really lived."

~Marjorie Hinckley



"Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify." Henry David Thoreau



"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." Lin Yutang

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Brooke turns 2! 18 March 2010

Thursday Brooke turned 2! We enjoyed our traditional birthday pancake breakfast.....for dinner :)
Brooke continues to progress each day. We are grateful for every little thing she does! About a month ago she finally put something in her mouth....it was a chocolate chip....guess she knows what she wants. :) Brooke LOVES to walk...with some assistance. We are hopeful it won't be long before she is walking all by herself.

Here she's holding up (almost) two fingers to say, "I'm two!" She is such a sweetheart. We love her so much and are so grateful she is part of our family.

And, to finish off the day, we had angel food cake with fresh, real whipped cream and super yummy strawberries(just like last year on her first birthday)...this is the perfect time of year for strawberries here, so we have decided we'll make this a tradition!





2 comments:

B said...

Happy Birthday!!!

Maggie said...

Happy Belated Birthday, Brooke! She seems like such a little lady :) And fresh strawberries and real whipped cream sound heavenly!

Just a reminder....YOU ARE AWESOME!!!