The Springer's

Trying

2010-07-01T16:08:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone in the blog world. Long time no chat. A lot has been happening in my life and so i will try to keep it short. we had our baby girl on Jan. 4, right on schedule. everything went great and she is a joy. We named her Kaedence Bell Springer.
I quit my job with Zions Bank and have started cleaning house, so if you know anyone who is interested please let me know. Matt is working as a supervisor of the census. He works night so it has been an ajustment to have him gone all the time.
Brooklin is 5 now and is just so big and such a helper!!! She is in swim lessons and loves being the big sister. I can't believe she will be in Kindergarten this fall. where does the time go. My baby will be 6 months on Sunday. Wow!!! Here are some picutres of us on Father's Day at Snowbird. What a fun day. I am going to do my best to blog more often this summer.

31 weeks

2009-11-06T20:13:00.000-08:00

I thought that I would post a belly shot. so here it is. about 60 days until you get to meet the newest member of our family and we are really excited! No we do not have a name for her yet but we have decided that her middle name will be Bell after Matt's grandmother. So if anyone wants to throw some names our way we are taking suggestions.

I really don't feel as big as the picture makes me look. I think that the lighting is all wrong *wink*. But this pregnancy has been very different from Brooklin's. Everyone tells you at every pregnancy is different and they are not lying! Not that I thought they were, however, I didn't really understand what they meant. I have been tired, sick, and hurting at different times this whole pregnancy. Nothing like the first. So I am really excited to have her here. I am after however that she is going to try to come right around Christmas so that I will have to be in the hospital Christmas Day. Which wouls really suck because Brooklin can't come in the hospital to see me. But I wont start that soap box. Any ways, this pregnancy has really gone by fast!

Halloween!!!

2009-11-06T20:08:00.000-08:00

OK so here are some pictures of Halloween. Brooklin had a blast as a Southern Bell. Matt and I had a great idea to dress up as old people. I think it turned out really good. Brooklin really understood Halloween this year and we had alot of fun with the whole holiday.

State Fair

2009-09-20T11:18:00.000-07:00

For the 3rd year we went to the State Fair this last Thursdays. We had a lot of fun! Brooklin loves the rides and this year wanted her Dad to go on them with her. She did Lil' DiamondsGlass House by herself and only ran into the walls a few times. Matt and I were laughing so hard!! I took a picture of her red forehead and cheek for the memories. She sure does make me laugh. She even got to go on the bungee tramp thing and was laughing the whole time. I can't believe how big my little girl is getting. Here is the video of her on the bungee tramp.

First day of Preschool

2009-09-15T15:37:00.000-07:00

Well I'm a running about a week late, but better late then never. Our little girl is a big preschooler! She start at Jacque's Preschool last week and really seems to enjoy it. She go 3 days a week, Mondays, Tuesday, and Thursdays for 2 1/2 hours. I love it, because I am able to get some things done around the house. It's great! Also on Wednesdays she goes to The Little Gym to a gymnastic class for an hour. Already I have seen her grow and a little bit of an attitude cjange for the better. Here are some fun pictures of her on her first day and at gymnastic class.

Thanksgiving Point Farm

2009-08-18T20:10:00.001-07:00

Stacy and I took the girls to the farm at Thanksgiving Point last Tuesday. Note to all, DO NOT GO ON A TUESDAY !!! They are doing $2 Tuesdays throughout the summer and people are flocking. We had a good time though, here are some pictures from our outing.

19 weeks

2009-08-17T19:45:00.000-07:00

Wow, time flies! I can't believe that I am in the second trimester of this pregancy, that's over 4 months that I have been pregant! I'm almost half way there. It's scarey to think that there is going to be another person to take care of, another person teach things to, another person to love. That is one thing I am looking foward to is the love that each child brings to a family and the instant love that you have for that child. It's exciting and new all over again. At times I am over whelmed with the thought of another child. Starting over again. The feedings, diapers, bottles, crying. I wonder is this baby going to be as easy and good as Brooklin was, is this the one that my mom "cursed" me with. Can I do this?? I know I can.. I am a strong women and being a mom is something that I have aways wanted to be, something I dreamed about for as long as I can remember. This new chapter in my life is scarey, but exciting and fun at the same time..

Sugar and Spice

2009-08-12T10:05:00.000-07:00

2009-08-12T09:54:00.001-07:00

Last month we joined Matt's family on a vacation to beautiful Steamboat Springs Colorado. Steamboat is a town a lot like Park City. It is tucked away in the Rocky Mountains and is very scenic and peaceful. There were 13 of us that went and Had a great time building some memories. The first day we got there Matt, Brooklin, and I went downtown and did some shopping and sight seeing. Main street is alot like Park City. Then the next morning everyone tubed the Yuma River. What an adventure. The tubes didn't blow up right, 2 of them popped, and while on the river the 3 little kids tipped over (thanks goodness for Laura and Darla being right there, and for life jackets). Also while tubing MATT LOST HIS WEDDING RING!!! After finishing the ride down we went back to the spot he lost it, and guess what?!?! We found it! Hurray!!! Then that night we went to the camp spot the Doug and Laura were staying that and on the way home Rick hit a deer. The next day we went Horse back riding. It was Brooklin's first time and she loved it! We found out that poor Jonah was allergic to horse and his poor eyes puffed right up. That night we went to the rodeo and they let the kids 6-12 try to catch a calf, and the kids 6 and younger to catch a lamb. Brooklin got to scared and came running back to me the minute see saw the lamb. What a baby. Enjoy the slideshow of the trip.

Surprise!!

2009-06-07T17:56:00.000-07:00

It's time to tell. We are expecting our 2nd baby in January. We are excited to welcome the new addition to our family and can't wait to met the bundle of joy. The offical due date in January 6th, however, if this one decides to follow it's sister it will be here 2 weeks early, but let's cross our fingers that is not the case with this one.

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Say Hello to Bear!!!!!

2009-05-02T08:18:00.000-07:00

Yes it's true... I finally have a puppy! I have waited 28 years for this day. Thank you Matt for getting him for me. He is a 7 week old AKC mini schnauzer. Oh I Love him, he is smart, loving, and tiny!!! Here is a picture of the newest member of our family!

NO COMPUTER

2009-04-25T07:54:00.000-07:00

So I have been really slacking on my posts, however at the first of March Matt, Brooklin, and I moved into a townhouse!!! YEAH!!! I love it! It's a three bedroom two car garage. It's so nice having my own place again. Don't get me wrong, living in my parents basement was fine but it's oh so much nicer to have your own! One down fall is Matt and I don't have a computer yet, we are saving to get one. So I have to find time at my parents or work (where I am now) to keep up on things. I will post so pic's of my place when I have more.

2009-02-04T19:56:00.001-08:00

it's 2009 and I haven't been very good and keeping my blog updated. I was bored tonight and started looking through some old disc and found the following pictures that I thought you all would enjoy. They made me laugh and cry, they made me remember the good times and the hard times, they made me remember that family is and will always be there. I miss the people in these pictures. As I grow older I have found how important family is and how fast our time goes with them. I want my daughter to know her grandparents and have them be a big part of her life, for as long as they can. If I could find the secret to a long life I would give it to everyone I love. I was once told the the secret to life is to live it. Cherish each day as if it was your last. House work can wait, the trip to the store can be put off. Take time to talk and listen, to love and laugh, and just enjoy every minute you have. LOVE YOU ALL!!!

National Champs!!!!!

2009-01-08T07:40:00.000-08:00

I have to take the time to say GO UTES!!!

I don't understand how anyone can say that they aren't and that the BCS isn't broken. To quote Rick Reilly
"Some gifts people give are pointless: Styling mousee to Dick Vitale. An all-you-can-eat card to Kate Moss. THE BCS CHAMPIONSHIP GIVEN TO OKLAHOMA OR FLORDIA." No one else went undeafeated this season, beat four ranked trams, and won thier bowl game against a tream that was ranked #1 for 5 weeks. The same team that Florida squeezed past to get into the BCS Championship game. Oh and Utah also has the longest bowl winning streak in the nation with eight straight. As former coach Urban Meyers stated "You don't really understand the whole mechanics, investment and passion that these coaches have," If a coach didn't argue for his team,"that's not a good coach." And that is just what Whittingham is doing. Following friday night's win coach Whittingham stated that he will "vote them #1"in the coaches poll, and hope more coaches do!!!
I think it is great that Utah's attorney general, Mark Shurtleff, is investigating the Bowl Championship Series for a possible vilation of the federal anititrust laws after an undefeated Utes team was left out of the national title game for the second time in five years. "It's not bragging rights. It's a multimillion dollar -- hundreds of millions -- business where the BCS schools get richer and non-BCS get poorer," Shurtleff said.
So in my opinion we should have shirts, hats, flags, and rings stating "University of Utah Utes National Champions 2008" if anyone wants to dispute it, let them come and play the Utes and fight for the title.

Christmas counter

2008-12-06T11:59:00.001-08:00

Christmas Countdown & MySpace Layouts

Life Off Game On!!!

2008-11-29T09:43:00.001-08:00

Last night Matt and I went to our first Jazz game of the season. The pulled out an 120 - 94 win over the Sacramento Kings.
We had really good lower bowls seats and loved watching the Jazz have the lead until the Kings came back to tie the game at half. Then they came out to play the third quarter outscoring the Kings 44-17. What a game. Derron (my favorite player) had a fast break where he bounced the ball of the glass for a dunk by Brewer. It was sweet!! The Jazz were missing Boozer, Collins, and Knight last night that were all out do to injuries. I think now that my man, D Will is back that the Jazz have settled back down and are going to continue with a get season. we just need to keep everyone healthy.

GO JAZZ!!!

GO UTES!!

2008-11-23T12:50:00.000-08:00

After hearing for days, weeks about the game it was finally here. It was time for the Holy War!!! I had dressed myself and Brooklin in RED and we were ready for the game. Matt was in his blue and his brothers Matthew and Jessie, and Matthews brother in law Ryan were also in blue. The numbers were against me. However I had faith in my Utes. It was game time and I cheered as loud as I could. Brooklin and my mom helped me with the cheering.
Then we watched as BYU quarterback Max Hall literally threw away a chance to earn a third consecutive Mountain West Conference championship.
Doomed by six turn-overs--- five interceptions and a fumble--- the cougars lost to my unbeaten Utes. The final score of 48-24 gave me bragging rights for the year!!
Now it's time to go bowling...........
Wether it be the Orange Bowl in Flordia, the Sugar Bowl in Louisanna, or Fiesta Bowl in Arizona, the Utes will receive an invitation to an elite group of postseason games called BCS bowls, and I want to go.It's to bad that the Utes are outsiders, with an undefeated season they should be playing for a national championship, but that's not how it work. they don't have the right zip code.

Am I a bad mom?

2008-11-08T07:54:00.000-08:00

Ok so here's the deal, in the last month Brooklin has gotten hurt twice while I was "watching" her. I feel that I am a good mom and accidence are going to happen, however 2 in one week is that to many? here is what happened:
On Sunday the 2nd was sitting on my bed folding clothes and Brooklin was dancing and playing in front of the full length mirror that was behind the bedroom door that had broken a couple days ago that no one had taken out to the garbage yet. Well a longer piece of the mirror fell on her and cut her cheek. It wasn't to deep and stopped bleeding quickly. I was told that I need to watch her more carefully! What little girl doesn't want to dance in front of a mirror? How was I to know it was going to fall? I really didn't feel that I did anything wrong. Then on Tuesday we were watching Ratatouille and she climbed up onto the arm of the couch, I told her to get down or she would get hurt, she stepped onto the top of her Little Tike slide and it tipped over. She fell into the fireplace hitting her back on the slide and the side of her head on the fireplace. I sat there for a minute waiting to see her reaction. She started to cry so I went over and picked her up and then sat back down on the couch. I got her calmed down and then had her sit up so I could look at her head. When I pulled her away from me my shirt had blood all over it and so did the side of her head! Knowing that the head bleeds a lot I tried to stay calm. My dad was sitting in the chair next to us and I turned to him and said "help me", I stood up and went into the kitchen. My mom and dad helped my try to clean her up to see the cut. We decide that putting her in the bath was the best idea. After getting her in the bath we saw that the cut was only about a inch long, but looked pretty deep. It stopped bleeding so we thought that she wasn't going to need stitches. Later that night, Matt and Brooklin were playing and it started bleeding again. We decided to go to the hospital, she got 2 staples to help it heel. So my question is, Am I a bad mom? Could I have done something differently to prevent it? Accidents will happen right? or is there a way to prevent these accidents?

2008-10-25T12:20:00.001-07:00

So my Mom's birthday is coming up on the 30th of this month, and we wanted to get her something that she would really enjoy. We decide that we would give her tickets to the Neil Diamond concert and pictures of her 3 grandkids. So this passed Monday Craig, Stacy, and i got together to take the "girls" pictures. What a mess!! When you are trying to take pictures of 3 kids under the age of 4 and get them all to look at the right camera; since we had 3 going at the same time, and smile. Then we add 3 adults to the pictures, any ways it was fun, here are some of the pictures we got!

Witch's Night Out

2008-10-25T07:19:00.000-07:00

Last night I went to "Walk of the Witch's" at Gardner Village with all the girls on Matt's side of the family. This is the third year that I have gone with them. I enjoy traditions and this is one that I hope keeps going for years to come. Last night there were 21 of us that went and dressed in our best witch attire. Before going I was talking to Matt about the night and found that he thought that it was something that just the Kitt (Matt's step mom's maiden name) girls did every year. Ha ha! Can you imagine..... 21 grown women dressing up like witch's and walking around together just for the heck of it. I know that I am a little werid but that is even to werid for me! We had dinner at Archibald's, which was a 2 hour wait and then walked around to the different shops. Maybe next year I will take Brooklin. They had pony rides, a petting zoo, dancing, cackling contests, and everyone that wants to can walk across the stage they have set up for the walk of the witch's. All the shop's are decorated for Halloween and the staff is even dressed up. It's interesting to see how some people really get into it, I saw people dress as snow witches, the evil queen from Snow White, Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, Glinda from the Wizard of Oz, and just some good looking witches.

Thought we would share some pictures from the wedding, enjoy!

2008-10-04T10:35:00.001-07:00

Wedding pictures

2008-10-04T08:41:00.001-07:00

If you want your dreams to come true getting married is a way to start. On June 13th, 2008 I made my best friend my life companion; we made our family legally a family! It was the day that every little girl dreams of and it was just as I had always wanted. I felt beautiful, the place was prefect, and all the people that where important to me where there to share my moment!! I want to thank everyone who helped Matt and I get to this point in our lives, for the love and support that helped us understand the importance of love and understanding. We are excited about the years to come and I couldn't be more excited about who I have picked to share them with.

Twin Bed

2008-10-04T07:05:00.000-07:00

Last night we went and bought a twin size bed for Brooklin! My whole goal is to get her out of my bed and into her own. She has been sleeping in Matt and my bed since we moved into my parents’ house little over a year ago. I haven't and don't really mind it but it would be nice to more then half a pillow space to sleep in at night, I do enjoy cuddling with her however.
I just feel that it time for her to take that step and start sleeping in her own room, in her own bed. I took her shopping and let her pick out her own sheets and bed spread to make it more exciting and fun for her to sleep in the bed. I kind of have made it a big deal that she got this "big girl" bed, again trying to make her want to sleep in it. So last night was the test.
I gave Brooklin her bath, we got in jammies, and both of us got into her bed, and we started reading story. I thought for sure she would fall asleep because she hadn't had a nap and I knew she was tired, maybe too tired. She kept crawling under the sheet, jumping on the bed, and just not calming down. I start to get frustrated. Finally at MIDNIGHT (and I have to work on Saturdays) I gave up and told Matt that I was going to bed. I went into my room and crawled into my own bed. Next thing I knew here she came wanting to watch a DVD. Matt put in the DVD and the next thing I knew my alarm was going off to get up for work and Brooklin was asleep beside me. Oh, well I will try again tonight. I realize that it is going to take some time to get her to adjust; maybe if I start a little earlier trying it will work. I will be sure to keep everyone posted on the transition.

Tiny Tot Tumbling

2008-09-30T08:17:00.001-07:00

Brooklin started her 8 week tumbling class yesterday. She will go every Monday night for an hour. She had so much fun that's all she is talking about. They made pizza to stretch out, learned to roll onto their backs, do forward summersaults, a wide leg jump, sit ups, back bends, and wheel barrows. There are 13 little 3-4 year old kids in her class. I'm hoping that she will make some new friends. This first week she was a little shy, and for those of you that know Brooklin that is really out of character for her, but I know that she will open up in the coming weeks. Matt and I both went to her first class but I think in the future I will be going by myself, which is what must parents did, but if decides to come great.I'm excited to see the developmental skills that she is going to learn and also for her to have more interaction with other children her age. The teacher had a great idea that when she needs to be disciplined to have her do sit up, I'm going to try it and see if that goes over better than time out. Also she suggested that when she is watching TV have her watch it upside down she it will help her with flexibility and strengthen her back. She said the best way to have her do that is by having her hang over the back of the coach, we might try that but I don't know.

My Dad has Parkinson, now what?!

2008-09-24T18:53:00.000-07:00

Life is challenging as it is without the twists and turns that it tends to bring. We have been living our lives to the fullest, or at least I thought I was. About one week ago I got some news that will change my life forever.
I knew that my Dad was going to the doctor but I thought nothing of it until I heard more. He wasn't just going for a check up, he was going to a neurologist to have some test run to find out if he had Parkinson's Disease. I stayed positive and told him everything was going to be fine. I don't know if I was in denial or if I was truly hopeful. I called from work later that day and received the news that in fact he does. I stayed strong while talking to him over the phone. Deep down I was falling apart. I thought to myself, from this day forward I am literally watching my father die! I started searching the web to find out as much as I could about Parkinson and what I could do, watch for, and help.
Not a lot is known about the disease, med's can help a person live a full life after they find the right combination. However, they only give you one at a time for a month to see if it helps before trying another. As I have read and searched for information I have found more then I think I wanted to.
All the symptoms: hand trembling, shuffled walking, mumbled speech; these are all things that my father has. True he is in the beginning stages of the disease, however; no one knows how long we have. Like I said before with the right med's he can live for years. But you have to find the right combo before it's too late.
I feel that I have a lot of time left with my father, but who knows. It hurts to hear him say that the hardest part so far is the fact that he has to put the family through it. However, for me the hardest thing is know that he has this and no one can stop it!

Start Up!

2008-09-22T08:28:00.000-07:00

Okay, so here we go. I'm new at this so it many take some time for me to create a good blog, but I want to get away from myspace.

Let me tell you a little about us. Matt and I dated 5 1/2 years before tying the Knot this passed June. Not a lot has changed in our lives since we've been married. We have our beautiful daughter Brookin that is the core to our lives. She is 3 yrs old now and we have enjoyed every minute of watching her grow. Currently we are living in my parents basement while we tried to save up to get back out on our own, that will hopefully be by the first of the year.