Logan Jesse Brown

Finally! Our little man is here! He was born on Dec 28, 2009 at 8:45 a.m. We were so excited/nervous. Everything went really well for him and I and is still going really well!

We are having a BOY.... we found out monday afternoon. We are so excited! Since the very beginning I was thinking that it is going to be a boy, but I had nothing to go off of and really no idea, just a thought. Angi's sister-in-law Anne, who was nice enough to give us one for free so we could find out, first thought that it was a girl... I was totally shocked, but after looking around for a bit she said 100% boy, for sure! Sean is so excited, and he can feel him move and kick! It is such crazy feeling and I absolutely love it. Now he hasn't started kicking me in the ribs yet, but I have felt it in my bladder... That is a fun feeling. ha ha! Anyway we tried to put up some of the pics that we got from the dr but we cant scan them in. We will keep trying though.

O.k... I have to tell you of my BIG-little problem... Last Sunday I was cleaning the house(I usually do it on Sat, but..). Our house is completely wood floors and linoleum so the dust bunnies are rampant. Every week I edge the entire house with the vacuum and about every other I edge inside of our windowsills. Well while in our bedroom pulling the blinds up I find 3 Ear Wigs, live. So, I call for Sean to squish them and continue vacuuming. Well I went back to the same window after he left with the dead Ear Wigs and edged that windowsill. 1,2,3,... started pouring out of the tiniest crack in the window! First of all anyone who know us Wiezbowski gals, they know we do not like the bugs. So now I am screaming because they are falling on the floor and climbing on the walls. Sean comes in to see what the problem is starts smushing. Well these bugs are amazingly flat. They do not always die with one stomp of the foot. So we kill all of the disgusting bugs that we can see and I continue cleaning, with Ear Wigs on my mind. I go to the kitchen next... As some of you may know we have a dog, and I clean her food, water dish, and little mat every week. So as I was washing it in the sink, one is crawling on my hand!!! Now the real Jill comes out. I scream as loud as I possibly can and throw the dish down. Sean comes running in and says, "stop doing that I keep thinking you hurt yourself or something". Well he kills the Ear Wig, and I break out in tears... Sean looks at me in disbelief, "is she really crying over a bug?" He sits me down and gets out some bug killer and goes out all around the house spraying(Such a good guy). Well since he has sprayed we are still finding them because they are trying to get away from the poison. We have found them on the toilet paper, paper towels, walls, dead in the lint thingy in the dryer(ew), and towels. They are getting less and less every day but I am at my wits end! I HATE BUGS

F.Y.I Ear Wigs do not go into your ears. They eat plant leaves and like moist places.

This might be a warning to everyone that Ear Wigs are taking over! he he

So... it has been a while since I have been on here. Our lives have been so busy, but FABULOUS! Everything is going great with the baby and I. Our Dr. every time we go in there says how much she loves having us as patients because we are having no issues and she sees no issues to come! Good good. We will find out the gender on the 20th of this month! Sean is so excited (I am pretty sure it is a boy, but just a guess).

Since I was on last, my parents were able to come up for the weekend before heading home from a week long vacation on Lake Powell! We had so much fun, I love it when they come up and visit! While they were here we went out to dinner to a new restaurant here and we got some onion rings.... ha ha ha, at least that is what i think they were. They were the biggest rings I, or any of us, had ever seen! We all started laughing when the server brought it out to us! My dad did the "long blink". Classic.

Also... I like to clean and I like to have things clean, but I DESPISE doing the dishes. We did not have a dish washer and Sean likes to use every dish we have when he cooks(which is most of the time, sad to say). I don't know why I dislike doing them so bad, but it just grosses me out. All of the soggy, discolored food. Yuck. So about 2 weeks ago Sean had to run a couple of errands with his dad and I went out with his mom, but when we got back he had a surprise... He had said he had gone to RC Wiley and immediately I thought it was a couch (if anyone has seen our lovely velvet, stork, quilted couch, you would totally understand). But he said it was white and I know that Sean would never get a while couch! So... what else could it be? A DISHWASHER! Oh my gosh, I was and am still super stoked! He is the best!

Also, our little big dog had her first menstrual cycle... oh it was so funny! here are a couple of pictures!

So for now, that is what is going on with the Browns.

See Ya

Some pretty BIG news....

Well... for those of you who have not heard.....(drum roll) We are PREGNANT! I know... I know... crazy! It was a definite shock. Only after 4 at home tests, one digital yes/no answer, and an official test at the Dr's office did I actually believe it! At first we were kind of freaking out, just a little... but now we are SO excited! Things are starting to settle down around here and we can get into some kind of routine, which I absolutely love! I haven't been really sick, nausea (but I don't think anyone can get away with that), no throwing up, yet. My back hurts a lot..But it could be a lot worse,  thanks to my wonderful husband and his magic hands it is bearable! I will keep everything updated as things progress. 

eOver Easter weekend Sean's family and us went up to Moab, UT...K, I know this is going to sound really stupid, but I still do not know how to do the picture thingy in order! So these are in reverse, but it is the effort, right? On our way home on Sunday Sean wanted to take me to see some of the national parks near by. So we went up to see the Canyon Lands, and it was one of the prettiest natural sites I have ever seen. That first picture was taken by a really nice passer-by, the second one was taken by me! (I am terrible at those kind of pictures)This third picture was our first day there, we hiked up to see Delicate Arch. What a beautiful site.. Sean and I are the ones in the very middle, but it is so far away you can't really see us, but it is. It was so windy, I was afraid that we were going to be blown off the edge. Scary! We had so much fun... The first night we were there we were trying to set up our tent and it was so windy that it ripped our tent. Sean was trying to put everything together, while I was making sure that it wasn't blowing away.. Sean's family and his grandparents came to, but they were all in trailers!! To make a long funny story short, we ended up staying in a hotel that night. Lucky for us too, in the middle of that night it started pouring rain and got even windier! We had Isabel (the dog) with us to so she had a nice comfortable sleep. Then next night we set up the tent behind his parents trailer and had his dad park his car on the other side so we were a little more protected! It was a very nice night! We had so much fun and learned some good life lessons! 

So....... We are married! Yes it finally happened! The wedding and reception in az and in ut were beautiful!! I could not have hoped for anything better. It was fabulous! We went to Mexico for our honeymoon and it was so beautiful, relaxing, and of course fun! We are just finishing our first week in Ut and back in the real world.. there has been some adjusting but overall everything is FABULOUS! We wanted to thank everyone who helped out in anyway! Thank you! I wanted to put out a special thank you to my family! My cousins are the best! They helped with the shower and the wedding!! Thank you! Patti and Ray were fabulous with doing their first reception! It was so gorgeous, they worked so hard and it was something I will always cherish! Thank you and we love you. His sisters, aunts, and cousins were there whenever we needed them! My nieces and nephews were very good, leaving their moms and dads to be with me and Sean...Thanks guys. My sisters (that means all of them...) were so amazing! They were there for me when ever I needed them. They are the best in the world and I love them and miss them so much! My mom and dad... well I could not have done what I did without them. They have been so patient throuh everything! We love them so much! We love all of you so much! Thank you again. And if any of you need us give me a ring! We will be there! Thanks!

P.S. I will put up pics I promise, I just don't have all of them yet. 

Our OLD Washer(only)

Our NEW WASHER AND DRYER!

Sean's parents came over a couple of days ago to put in a new toilet for us. Me and Sean's mom Patti were just sitting in our front room talking and Sean calls me into the kitchen. When i get in there I see them! Brand spankin new! They fit perfectly and they work beautifully! I absolutely love them! Thank you so much Ray and Patti! 

So I had something funny happen to me the other day, or I should say I did something. So you all know that my last name is Wiezbowski... well the other day I was ordering contact from 1-800-contacts, and when you do that you have to set up an account. Since I was going to have the same account for forever I was just going to put me down as Jill Brown... well the girl on the phone asked me for my first name... I said Jill... then she asked for my last name... I spelled B-R-O-W-N... ha ha... I am just so used to automatically spelling my last name that I spelled one of the easiest names there is... ha ha 

K so I know that I already posted for today, but I don't know when I will be able to get back on...

Well yesterday was Valentines day, our first together, and let me tell you it was so much FUN! I have been staying at Angis mother-in-laws house until Sean and I are married, so he came to pick me up for the day and sitting on the front seat was 2 Purses with 2 red roses! (I had been hinting the purse thing for a while) He had been looking at one purse that he really liked and wanted to take me there so see if I liked it as well and then get the one I like better. We went to the mall in a huge snow storm, and I really like the one that he liked so we exchanged one and he let me keep one of the ones he got me because I really like the other one as well! Such a sweet boy! While we were at the mall we got Sean some new pants and a new pair of shoes to. When we got back to the house we were shoveling the snow from the side door to the garage so we could move some stuff from the house into the garage and some stuff from the garage to the house... Well I have been saying that I really want to go sleding with the sled that my parents gave us for Chrsitmas, so after our little snow ball/shovel fight, we threw on our snow clothes and jumped in the car! After what seemed like a long hike, which in reality was only about a 100 yards away, we were to our hill. Sean took the first go, to try and pack it down. After few times down it was my turn! It was very fun, but being tired from walking up hill in a foot and a half of snow I did not want to walk up any more! ha ha ha... So we started to build a snowman! I have never built one before and so I started to make a huge pile of snow, meanwhile Sean is rolling a huge ball of snow. So I ditched my wonderful pile and started rolling a snowball too. Well Sean made the base and the head and I made the body. We put all three pieces together and we realized it was nearly 10 ft tall!!! We finished him off with wooden arms and burrs (pokey balls) for the mouth, eyes, and buttons. Some soggy wood shaving was what we used for his mouth! After we got a big laugh of how big he was Sean wanted to knock him down but after all of that hard work I thought that he should stand so if anyone came along they would marvel at the hugeness of him! It was a miracle that we kept him from being knocked over with Isabel there (The Dog). Here are a couple of pictures...

Well both of my bridal showers are over and they were both fabulous! The first was in UT on the 31st of January! Sean's oldest sister Courtney and his Aunt Karin hosted the shower here,but  I know it was a group effort! It was so fun, I was really nervous having all of the attention on me, but all the people there were people that I knew so it wasn't too intimidating. ha ha. Me and Sean received some awesome gifts! 

The shower in AZ was February 7th, the very next weekend! Angi, my mom, and my cousins hosted this one. My sister Karen flew down from Indiana for only 40-some hours to be there for me too! It was so fun to see all of my home ward members! It was so beautiful and totally me! 

When i went down to AZ, my plane landed on Thursday night. When Friday afternoon rolls along we are all sitting at my moms house and all of the sudden there is a knock on the front door...? My dad went to go see who it is and all the sudden I hear Patti and Ray (my future in-laws). I got up from the chair to go to the front door and Ray, Patti, Courtney, and Lindy are there! They drove all the way down so they could come to my shower in AZ! We went out to Tia Rosas for dinner and the whether couldn't have been better! 

Thank you so much everyone for all of your hard work! They were both so beautiful and well put together! Thanks again!!! 

P.S. I do not have any pictures yet of the showers.. sorry!

Okay, so here are some pics of the house and what we have done. The bedrooms are not in on here yet, but will be as they get done. This is Sean's handy work in the bathroom. His cousins came over to help him with the tiling, but he did a lot of it on his own. Patti (Sean's mom) and I went to Lowe's for something and came across this fabulous tile that was so inexpensive. We immediately fell in love. Sean really wanted to have a trim and I wanted it to stay as inexpensive as possible… but we also found the trim for very little as well, so I think it was meant to be. This is the inside of the shower window, and the same trim goes around the whole shower. You can see it better in this pic. As the boys were measuring the tile they began to notice that the bath tub was not even. It took them a long time to figure out what they were going to do, since removing the tub was not an option. Bradon, Kenton (Sean's cousins), and Sean are such perfectionists that you cannot tell one bit that some of the tiles are cut differently to make them all straight in the end. The finished result looks so wonderful and professional. I never realized that I was marrying someone so handy... Lucky me!  I never thought so much dust could be possible! But I guess it didn't help that they had to cut half of the tiles in the house because it was snowing outside.. But everything cleaned up really well and looks so amazing. Thank you so much Bradon and Kenton, and your wonderful wives for letting us steal them away!

This is the kitchen. It is pretty nicely sized. We have a ton of storage and plenty of moving around space. The house was built in 1957 and at that time they did not have a lot of the luxuries that we have now. But there is a place right next to the sink for dish washer! There is not one there now but hopefully there will be someday. Sean's dad put in a disposal when he was redoing all of the piping as well. All of the appliances are new, and everything works really well. The washer is in the kitchen and there is no dryer, yet, but there is a clothes line in the back yard! ha ha never in a million years did I ever think I would ever use or have a clothes line! There is room for a dryer next to the washer which we will have before I move in, since all of the washing is being done at my apartment.

In the family room there was this perfectly fitted rug for the entire floor space that was forest green! We looked under it and there were “almost” perfect hard wood floors, the bedrooms have it but we were so happy that the carpet was just lying on top, not stapled in or anything. The previous owners painted the whole house white before they sold it, so for us it was a perfect blank slate. We painted all of the walls a light tan and have an accent wall of "Buffalo". 

This is what you see when you first walk in. This is probably my favorite area to look at in the house (there is not much to compare it to yet). With the lamps on at night and all the lights shut off I think to myself what that picture will mean to me and my family someday. That saying "All because two people fell in love"... This is the picture I want up there. The one I want to represent our family and our future. It is so peaceful; I can look at it and think about the future and what it holds for us. We are so excited for all the new things to come and feel really good where we are at right now. I hope you all like the pictures and can get some sort of idea of where we are at. I will keep you posted and take more pictures when all of my stuff is in here. By that time I will officially be Jill Brown!!! 

THE HOUSE

So this is Sean's new house! We are so excited! We are doing a lot of upgrades on the inside. Sean, his dad, and his brother redid all of the plumbing and put in all new plumbing fixtures(thanks Ray and Patti). My dad and mom came up and put blinds throughout the whole house(thanks dad and mom). Sean and his cousins re tiled the shower, and i am going to be painting! I will keep you updated with pictures as things get done and finished!

First Post

Hey.. I finally started a blog!

I figured since I live in Utah and am getting married(!!),

i better start letting everyone know what is going on with us.

This is one of our pictures that we took during our engagement pictures. I absolutely love this picture and already have it in a frame in Sean's (aka our future home) house.