Brown Family

Very much needed update

2010-01-17T01:57:00.000-08:00

I am going to go over 6 months in a couple of paragraphs.

Update on Elyn: He has 4 molers and 8 front teeth, making a total of 12 teeth. At Christmas he was playing at Grandpa Morrell's house and tripped and hit a glass garbage can and chipped his front tooth. Luckily they are only baby teeth. His vocabulary is growning everyday. He says Mom, Dad, Nigh-nigh (that's for his binki and bottle), Ball, show, cracker, and he knows alot of animial sounds. Every bird to him is a quack quack. His favorite song right now is 5 little ducks. In the last week he has started to respond to questions, for example I ask him if he wants to watch a show and he will nod and say yes and run to the couch to watch a movie.

We just moved to Ethiopia and are loving it. Mark spends most of his time down at the farm which is 16 hours from the Capital, which is were I'm at the majority of the time, in a car but he had to go down in a semi truck this last time and it took 32 hours. He wasn't too happy after that. Our trip over here wasn't too bad, but we did have our adventures. We had a 14 hour layover in London which we were planning on touring as it was in the day time. The day we get there London decides to have its biggest storm in a generation. So their public trasportation is down and we were not dressed or prepared for snow. We ended up staying the whole 14 hours in the airport. Elyn did sleep the whole time in the airport which was nice because we didn't have to chase him around in that very busy airport, but it made it so he didn't sleep at all the last 8 hour flight. We finally made it to Ethiopia and got through customs smoothly. We get to the baggage claim and had found 2 of our 7 bags (we had 5 bags, a big box with a big first aid kit and his car seat) we wait... and wait... and wait. After about an hour or longer the baggage claim only had 13 bags left on it and our bags are not there. We go to the lost baggage area and they asked for a address to send the bags, and I didn't have it. So they asked for a phone number to call and I didn't have one. So we left with their number hoping that we would be able to call back and give them are information. We got home to Dad's house here and were able to get ahold of one of his workers who called and figured out our bag situtation even though it was their Christmas. We got our bags the next day. WHEW! The first bag I open we a big mess. This was very encouraging let me tell you. We had some lotion that I forgot I put in there explode, Formula can explode, and maple exctract explode in a zip lock bag the also exploded. Not fun to clean up. Luckily that was the end of our adventure getting here.

Mark is in Beltu right now, at the farm building our house. They went into the market the other day and had a crowd surrunding them. He said he had about 300 kids following him and towards the end of the trip sworming him. Because there were so many people stands were getting pushed over, fights were starting. It just was crazy all together.

I will try very hard to update weekly. I will post pictures later.

Elyn is 1!!!

2009-08-06T12:49:00.000-07:00

Elyn turned 1 a month ago. It was so hard for me to have him turn 1. I know that he didn't change much just a number but that fact that he his getting more and more independent scares me. He is not a baby anymore, he is a little boy.

So much has happened in the last couple of months, I'm sad that most the pictures I have of him growing up and are funny are on my phone that just crapped out on me. So future note for me "take pictures with the real camera!!!!"

Anyways back to Elyn... He has 6 teeth now, 4 on top and 2 cute little teeth on the bottom and let me tell you they HURT!! One of his favorite things to do when he is mad is to bite mom. He never bites Mark, only me.

His 1st birthday was fun! We had a small celebration at Lake Powell with the Morrell side and then we had a celebration on his birthday with the Brown side. He had a lot of fun. We celebrated his cousins Karson's 1st birthday the same day and they had a blast. They got a cake all to them selves to dig in. Karson was shoving the cake into his mouth and Elyn just played in it and flung it everywhere.

About 2 weeks ago we were up visiting Grandpa and Grandma Morrell and Elyn fell down the stairs for the first time. Horrible experience but he got over it in about 60 seconds and it took me a half hour. I guess some sense was knocked into him because he started to walk a half hour after he fell (which is why I got over the fall) :)

We went to CA to hang out with Mark while he was working and went to the Sequioa National Park and saw the really big trees. That was really cool! As you can see Mark doesn't seem like that big of a guy next to these trees.

Elyn is still trying the walking thing but perfers to crawl because it is faster but every day he gets more and more confident in walking and I'll catch him walking even with out us there to encourage him.

He is getting so big, it melts my heart when he says mommy. Even though a lot of things are mommy to him but it is nice to hear my name. It brings me even closer to him. He also says dadda, hi, no, and he did say nigh nigh once.

Happy Mother's Day Mom!

2009-04-28T16:22:00.000-07:00

Here is a movie I made of Mom for Mother's Day. I heard this song and felt like I had to make it. Even though it was a very frustrating experience I loved every minute of it. This video is not ment to make you sad it is to encourage and make you feel good. That she is ok and that we don't need to worry 'bout her. I hope you enjoy this and please share this with any one that you think will benifit from it. Thanks, love Heidi.

Elyn is our Army boy

2009-04-07T14:56:00.000-07:00

Lots are happening with our little boy! He has two teeth and at the same time he is doing the army crawl learning how to crawl on his hands and knees and he is starting to crawl around furniture! WOW! It's fun but hard to watch him grow up. He has been saying "mamama" but I think he is starting to get what it means. He now will say "mamma" and "dadda" and "no no" after I have said it a couple of times. He also has learned how to throw tantrums :( not so fun. The other day we were shoping at cosco with Cherish, Katie and their little girls and they have sample foods all over the place. Elyn was sitting next to Eva in the cart and stole Eva's chip and then screamed at me when I tried to give it back to her. He would grab it out of my hand before it got to Eva. So I gave in and gave it to him and the started going again and then he started to scream again! I look to see what his problem was and he dropped in on the ground. I can't believe food can cause this much issues in a 9 month old. He shouldn't be loving food that much already. Oh well he is he father's son.

Below I've posted some pictures and Videos of Elyn in his Army outfit doing his army crawl. Katie suggested I do this before he quit doing it and I'm so glad I took her advise. Thanks Kate!

Enjoy.

He didn't like the grass so he wouldn't do the army crawl.

Growing

2009-03-17T09:11:00.000-07:00

Time is flying by too fast, Elyn has his first tooth, and he can stand by himself now (only for acouple of seconds). He likes to stand up to things now but he hasn't quite figured out how to do that, so he screams at me until I pick him up and stand him next to whatever he wants to stand up to. I know spoiled kid! He has had a blast here living with Cherish and her family for a while, he loves Eva and always malls her, but she does it right back so it evens out. Eva loves to kiss Elyn, in Church she took Elyn's binki for him so she could kiss him on the lips. We will have to watch out for these kissing cousins. :) Elyn is getting so fast with his army crawl I forget how fast he is until he is almost in trouble. oops. But it is sure fun to watch him grow. Here are so more fun pictures.

Elyn in his cowboy outfit, boots and all.

Eva taking over Elyn's carseat as a Chair to watch TV

Elyn and Eva going down the Slide together.

Just some fun pictures

2009-02-23T13:58:00.000-08:00

Elyn's drapes in his room.
Mark being weird

Elyn was haveing a hard time sleeping with some gas issues but Mark has the touch to get him to sleep, it was just to cute not to take a picture.

His cute Hair do.

Elyn chewing on a string on my shirt, his favorite thing to do.

Here is a fun video of him laughing make sure the volume is up!

Elyn is Crawling!

2009-02-23T13:34:00.000-08:00

Here are some video's of Elyn crawling.

He's only in the army crawl/scoot but he is starting to get on his hands and knees to try and crawl that way. It's been a lot of fun watching him progress.

Pictures

2009-01-27T19:06:00.000-08:00

An older picture of Granpa holding Elyn
Merry Christmas Everyone

One shot of the tounge, when he sticks it out further its even funnier

Another shot of the tounge

Mark, his nephew Karson who is 1 month older than Elyn, and Elyn

Small Update

2009-01-13T09:02:00.000-08:00

I know I just wrote but just some small things that are exciting.

Elyn has discovered his tounge and sticks it out all the time. It is pretty funny to watch, I am working on getting a picture of that so that will but up soon.

The other thing is he is saying Mama, I don't think he connects mama to me but he knows if he says mama he gets attention.

Like I said just some small updates.

2009-01-09T15:34:00.000-08:00

Right before getting sealed

Such a cute family

Some of my sisters thought that Elyn looks like Sweet Pea off of Popeye, I think they are right

Catch up, what happened around the holidays

2009-01-09T15:29:00.000-08:00

Sorry I haven’t written lately, just been busy. What’s new. December 6th Mark and I went to the temple and took our endowments out. Not only was that day exciting for the temple but it was busy and exciting for another reason. The night before we went out to dinner with my family and I had gotten steak stuck in my throat but didn’t know for a fact that it was stuck so all night I was throwing up trying to get it out. I didn’t get much sleep, then in the morning we went to the ER in American Fork. It turned out I would have to get put under anesthesia and a scope put down my throat, but the doctor that had to do it wouldn’t be there till 11 and we had to be to the Salt Lake Temple at 1:30. Any ways the whole procedure took only 15 minutes and we were able to get to the temple on time.

When we went to Panama, and on December 30th Mark, Elyn and I got to be sealed for time and all Eternity. But that’s not the end of the story. The morning we were suppose to get sealed I woke up with a stomach flu. I was really sick so Mark, Isaac, Casey, and I went to the store to get some coke and medicine, and Mark ended up buying beer also. Now don’t get the wrong idea. Mark was bumped into the beer and knocked off a 12 pack and had to buy it. Sadly he was wearing the same shoes at the store with the beer spilled on it as he was to the temple. Luckily they didn’t smell like beer when we went to the temple. Anyways about me being sick it was a testimony builder, once again something happening that could cause us not to be in the temple. I was really sick the whole 2 hour ride to the temple but as soon as I stepped foot into the temple my sickness was gone and I was just hungry, again.

Some new things that are happening with Elyn are he is now going from back to stomach and will stay on his hands and knees for a little. We just need him to start crawling. He teeth that were going up and down still have not broke through but they were trying again this week. He is laughing and is a chatter box. He is very happy and loves to smile and laugh with me while I’m working and he is in is bouncer across the room.

We are a happy family, and are doing great.

2008-11-12T16:27:00.000-08:00

Elyn sitting up on his own

Just some updates are he is sitting up by himself, has two teeth going up and down now, and he was a hot dog for Halloween.

2008-10-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

Answer the questions with one word (or a little more) and then tag three people
1. Where is your cellphone? At my side at all times
2. Your significant other? Redneck Mountain man that I love
3. Your hair? Blonde
4. Your mother? Mother of many adopted kids
5. Your Father? Amazing
6. Your favorite thing? my bed
7. Your dream last night? Elyn waking up (sucks that even in my dreams I don't get sleep)
8. Your favorite drink? Milk
9. Your dream goal? to be a Mother as well as my mom was
10. The room you’re in? Family room
11. Your hobby? camping now a days
12. Your fear? Losing a child (I'm with you Katie on this on)
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? In our house that Mark built in the middle of a 20 arce lot with neighbors no where by
14. What you’re not? A Cleaner
15. Muffins? Almond Poppyseed
16. One of your wish list item? Sleep
17. Where you grew up? Utah
18. Last thing you did? Made Mark Lunch (actually heated up leftovers for him)
19. What are you wearing?Jeans and a cute grey shirt
20. Favorite gadget? DVR
21. Your pets? Chevy the dog
22. Your computer? One with a full screen YAY!
23.Your mood? overwhelmed a littel
24. Missing someone? Everyone (again I'd have to agree with you Katie)
25. Your Car? Black Pontiac G6
26. Something you’re not wearing? Socks
27. Favorite store? Sadly Wal-mart for as thats the only thing we have in cedar
28. Like someone? My hubby
29. Favorite color? black and red
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31.When was the last time you cried? Oct 12

Taging
1. Cherish (if Katie hasn't tagged you already)
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pictures

2008-10-23T20:58:00.001-07:00

Elyn's furry warm outfit
In our trailer (sorry for the hip showing)

Our trailer that I thought I would have issues sleeping in but it turned out to be wonderful

First time swimming, it was too cold for him

Pregnancy test scare

2008-10-23T20:57:00.000-07:00

If you know me good, you know that I don’t have the best memory. So I forget to take my birth control regularly. This month we were afraid that I was going to get pregnant. The other day I took a pregnancy test and it came out negative, (Whew) but I decided to play a little joke on Mark. When Mark got home from work I told him that I took a test, and that it was positive. He was like “no way, you’re not pregnant.” I asked him if he wanted to see the test. He said he didn’t because he was afraid that if he saw it, it was going to be true. So I ran upstairs and grabbed the positive test I still had from when we found out I was pregnant with Elyn and brought that down and handed it to him (keep in mind he had no idea I still had that test). He looked at it had started to panic, bad. I couldn’t hold it in any longer I told him that it was a fake. Relief flooded his face. Sometimes I can be so mean. :)

Deer hunt

2008-10-23T17:32:00.000-07:00

We went camping for deer hunt we spent 4 days out in the middle of no where for Mark to get a big Buck. Nothing. Well I guess it wasn't nothing just nothing impressive enough for Mark to shoot. So he decides to come back into town and hunt around his mom's place, which is about 15 minutes out of town, and he finds a big 4 point buck. His horns measure 26 inches. For those of you that are not hunters, like me, that is big I guess. :) So he brings it home and needs to hang it up somewhere until he can butcher it. So where does he hang it? Right in front of my garage. Luckily the trailer is parked in front of the garage so that it blocks the deer from the majority of the traffic but not all. He says that if the trail was not there he wouldn’t of put it there but we both know that he would of done it no matter what. For me to be ok with this I have decided to laugh about it and call it our Halloween decorations. Hope all enjoys it.

More Pictures

2008-09-27T10:01:00.001-07:00

playing with daddy
His new baseball outfit

His Blessing outfit

Elyn's Baby Blessing

2008-09-27T09:47:00.000-07:00

On September 21, 2008, Elyn Heston Brown was blessed by his father. But that's not it. That day was a very interesting day. We get to church and of course between Mark's and my family we take up most the benches on the side. The bishop gets up to do the announcements and tell everyone that we were going to bless Elyn, and the next announcement was that sewer was coming up from some of the drains so after the sacarement was given everyone had to evacuate the building for health reasons.

So it was a great day, we blessed him, took the sacarement, and then we got to go home. Like I said a very interesting day.

The bear story

2008-09-27T09:16:00.000-07:00

Katie suggested that I tell about the bear. Well on his first camping trip, we went in the Beaver Mountains somewhere so that Mark could go prospecting for gold (his new hobby). Anyways during the day I would stay at camp and he would go up the creek prospectiny. He left me with his 303 british military gun, which is a rifle, and a hand gun incase bears come into the camp. Before he left he reassured me that in the many years that he has camped there he has never seen a bear there. Well later on when he got back and we were about to go to bed he says " Guess what I saw? A black bear 50 feet from me! But we were upwind from the bear so Chevy (our dog) didn't smell him or see him or anything. Cool huh."

Cool, right. So now that I know there are bears within walking distance from camp scares me. Then Mark starts to put all the food and everything in the bed of the truck and says he's putting it there so if the bear does come he will go to the truck instead of the tent. So now I'm even more scared because Mark is doing more things in case a bear comes, and in my mind that ment he thinks a bear will come. Let me tell you this stress is not good for a new mother. We go to bed and the whole night I'm scared that Elyn's cry in going to bring in a bear, or the music thing we have to put him to sleep is going to bring in a bear, or my biggest fear was that a bear might smell milk (since I'm nursing) and come into the tent. In the middle of the night I had to wake up and Nurse and since I was scared that the bear would smell the milk and come I asked Mark to stay up with me, and then I heard a growl, and I got really scared. It sounded really close and still Chevy hasn't moved. So I ask Mark, and I'm pretty much in tears now, what was that and he says "I farted." Needless to say I didn't get much sleep that night. Oh also we are sleeping next to a stream so every so often I would hear the rocks moving in the stream and would think it was an animals footsteps.

The next day I was still alittle on the edge, so when Mark left again to go prospecting I kept hearing those dang rocks and thinking it was some animal so I grabed Elyn and we sat in the truck with the windows up so that bears couldn't get us. And yes Mark made fun of me.

Pictures

2008-09-24T16:34:00.000-07:00

Elyn's first couple of months

2008-09-24T15:09:00.000-07:00

The first funny story happened before he was born. I was probabally about 8 months pregnant, and Mark was talking to Elyn through my belly, so his face was really close, and Elyn kicked really hard and hit Mark in the face. Mark's jaw was hurting because of how hard Elyn kicked.

On June 27, 2008 at 5:21 pm Elyn Heston Brown was born. He was early because of some high blood pressure problems I was having. He weighed 6 lbs 3 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. I was in labor for 12 1/2 hours, but only in hard labor for 5 minutes. He was completely healthy.

He started rolling onto his side from his back when he was only two days old. When he was a month old he was holding up his head, trying to stand (with our help of course) and at 2 months was trying to sit up. For his 8,9, and 10th week birthdays we went camping. One thing I have learned about Elyn, he loves to sleep with lots of noise. He sleeps better if there is noise. If it is quiet he will only sleep for 10-15 mins usually, expect for at night.

He is now almost 3 months and is moving enough to fall of the couch when I'm not looking, (my bad, good to know) and he loves to stand, or try to sit up by himself. I think that if he was able to have the balance, and his way, he would be standing and sitting up by himself. So in the last couple days he has been teething, his one little tooth his going up and down poor kid, and he won't let me put him down. This morning I put him in his swing so that I could take a shower when he was awake and when I got out I quietly peeked into his room and he must of heard me or something (I thought I was quiet) because he looked at me and he had this look like "are you really going to make me sit here?" It was a cute look.

Well that's all I can think of right now, I will try to post more stories now that I finally got this started.