Kisses from the Horrocks family!

Today we realized that our chicka was running low on food. So we did a quick run to the grocery store. The baby food was on sale, so we stocked up. We bought $50 worth of baby food. I am just glad we didn't pay for one cent of it. Thank goodness for government assistance. The sad part is that this food will last about a week and a half. We have a hungry baby on our hands. We say she is the "second baby jake." (Shout out to my cousin)
The one picture of the chicka with the computer is because this is her new favorite toy. The other day I saw her playing with the computer and went over to shut it and put it away. I then saw a black thing in her hand. Upon further investigation, I saw that it was the CAPS lock key. So this blog has been really hard to write because our CAPS lock key is just chilling on the spot where it needs to go, because we don't know how to put it back on.
The two pictures of the boys are of them doing yoga. They like to work out together but occasionally will stay at home and just do yoga. What fun boys!
And the other pictures are just for your enjoyment!

More Teeth!

Our cute little chicka has her two middle-bottom teeth. Today we have just discovered that she is getting two more teeth. They are also on the bottom. They are on both sides of the middle teeth. Now it is somewhat explained why she isn't sleeping all that great and a little more grumpy. Wow, I hope the rest of the teeth at least take a month, I need some rest.

Celebrating a Day Late

Since we got married Bren and I have decided to celebrate Valentine's Day a day later. In this case two days later. We decided we didn't want to wait in line at a restaurant or buy things at full price at a store. I know you are all probably thinking that is the cheap way to do things, but hey it works. So we went out to Carino's tonight. After dinner we went to the mall to check out a few stores.
My brother was with us and found great deals on sweaters at Gap. So we went in and looked around. 30 minutes later Bren came out with two sweaters, that were under $5, and a great looking pair of pants. He decided he wanted to do some modeling in them to let everyone see how dang handsome he is. Excuse the funny faces in some it is just his modeling personality coming out.

Brrr...It's Cold Out There!

Sorry the pictures are out of order. My hubby and my brother decided to go work out at the gym on a Saturday morning. So I thought it would be fun to take the Chicka on a run. I know I am crazy but the sun was out and I thought if I bundled her up real and tight she would be ok.
So i had her jacket on, her hat covering her precious head and socks and mittens on her hands. In the stroller I had three blankets over her. I definitely thought she would be taken care of. Needless to say she came back pretty chilly. Her hands were frozen and her nose was all pinky. The top picture is after the run when she found our space heater and feel asleep in front of it.
How did I do running you ask? Pathetic. My lungs were freezing trying to warm up the air and about every block I had to stop and walk for a few steps. So if you see me and I am still squishy you know why!

6 Months and Still Growing

Sorry that we do not have an update of pictures. We thought our long run without internet was over...oh but wait it's not. However I decided that we still needed to update on our cute chicka who is officially six months old today.
She is the sweetest thing ever. She now has her first two baby teeth and looks adorable when smiling. It was a pain trying to get them to break the surface but she was a trooper throughout the whole ordeal.
She is a champ when it comes to sitting up. She even knows how to lean to her side to get something while resting on her elbow and then miraculously returns to the sitting position.
She loves paper and anything that makes noise. We put tons of toys in front of her and instead she rolls and stretches to get our books. Too funny!!
Her Uncle Adam is living with us at the moment and she is loving every minute of it. She would sit and stare at him all day long if we let her.
As for Bren, he officially started the first day of classes on his last year of school. We are so excited for him to get done. He is taking three accounting classes, with one of them being the hardest in his major. I don't think he likes it so far but we will continue the journey. He is still working on campus and we take the trek to the school (to the use the internet) to say hi to him and give him a bit of cheer from his baby girl.
As for me .... let's think. Nothing really new. I am still working and trying to take care of my chicka. I am starting to feel more like a mother and a housewife. I am trying to stay up on the laundry and making the house clean but I don't think I am having too much success. My one goal this year is to cook more for Bren. Last year I was too pregnant to worry about cooking so I want to make up for it.
Sorry again for no pictures but I promise they will be soon.

What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas

So not really anything to update. We are still chillin in Utah, wondering when will be the big day that we will grace Rexburg with our presence again. So I thought I would update the blog by telling a little story of our trip to Vegas.
This was the trip that was right after Arizona. I decided to go visit my brother and his cute family. So my sister-in-law and I decided to take pictures of the little girls. The Vincent side only has two cousins so we thought it would be an easy task. Yeah, not so much.
We first needed to get matching outfits. We went to every store possible. I think we bought an outfit at every store. We did this because we thought maybe one of the outfits would match what we already had. Yeah, not so much.
We ended up going to Babies R Us, and it was the right place. We found cute outfits. Then we needed a head band for the Chicka. We found dresses with a pink that was an off-pink and hard to match too. We almost had an emotional break down in the aisles of Joann's trying to find a ribbon to match the dress. We were laughing hysterically, probably trying to hide back the tears of frustration.
The next day we had an appointment at JC Penneys. We ended up being late because...well what else can I say, trying to get two little girls ready and out the door by a certain time never happens. We moved our appointment to later and decided to take pictures of our own. We drove to a park and was hoping to find some shade. What were we thinking? It's Vegas, there's no shade. Well ok there was a little.
Now the next dilemma is trying to get two little girls to be happy, focus on pictures, and stay in one place and to look at the camera. So to achieve this my sister-in-law and I would sing the primary song of, "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree," very loud so that each girl would look at us and maybe give us a confused look as opposed to the screaming and crying look. It was an exhausting day, and at the end of it we have vowed that this will not happen every year. So these pictures represent how tired the girls were after the park photoshoot. We also bought them matching pajamas, aren't they cute?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I loved this Halloween. We are in Ogden with Bren's brother and his family. We were able to go around trick or treating with my cute nieces. I wasn't going to dress up but my sister in law thought otherwise. I am so glad she had a costume for me... it was like I was 12 all over.
We aren't so creative with the Chicka. However, we did buy her shirt at Walmart. It is a skeleton that glows in the dark. She looked dang cute. My family had a cute toddler's costume of Princess Leia (is that how you spell it?), anyways so we had to get a picture of the chicka with the wig on. Cutest thing ever!!!
I do also have to say that she officially rolled over today. She has been almost rolling over for about a week, so I am glad she finally did it. I don't know how often it will be repeated but oh well. However, with the excitement almost came the tears. I almost broke down because she is growing up so fast and I do not want to miss any of it. I am sure all you moms out there can sympathize.
For dinner we made our nieces orange pumpkin pancakes with chocolate chips as the face. We loved it... the boys of course had to make fun of us.