Pictures...

On the left is us after I had proposed. On the right we are at a BYU basketball game-go Cougs!

Engaged!!!

So, this is probably a big shocker for everyone and I bet a lot of you thought it would never happen, but, I'm engaged! First of all, let me tell you about the love of my life, McKenzie Lawyer. Well, she's pretty much amazing all around evidenced by the fact that she can put up with me! She is graduating from BYU this April (as am I!) and plans to get a masters degree in Public Administration. She is one smart cookie, funny, and beautiful too! I don't know how I got so lucky! I proposed on March 8th at the southwest corner of the Salt Lake Temple. We will be married there on May 23, 2008. We hope to see all of you there at the reception in Salt Lake later that day!! I don't have much time now, so I'll post again with the engagement story and how we met when I get a few minutes. I'll also have to put up some pictures of us. So, see you all soon!

Some Good News...

Hey Guys,

Just a quick note. Life is good here in Newbold territory. I have been really busy with school and haven't posted in a while. Quick congrats to Johnsons and Sanders families. Good on ya. So are you ready for my good news?...... I got Jake to promise that he would post the Kaysville Cow Project movie here on the blog!! He has been promising to do it for a while, but he said that he would get it posted before the end of April. I will keep bugging him to do it. In other news I put up a link to my family blog. I put stuff up there for family that live in distant lands, so that blog gets updated more often, but I will keep you all informed here as well.

Announcing...

...baby Johnsen #2.

That's right folks, Josh and Brooke are having another baby. The new little tyke is scheduled to arrive October 8th. I've been feeling yucky, but the nausea is going away (thank heaven!). Josh and I are getting excited to have another little one in our family, but time is definitely passing more slowly this time around than it did with Tanner. Maybe that's because I have Tanner to focus on most of the time, so I don't think about the new one I'm carrying.

Anyway, just wanted to let you all know!

Owen's Here!

I just wanted to announe the birth of Owen Glen Sanders on Tuesday, February 5th. He was born at 10:54 am and weighed 7 pounds, & was 21 inches tall.

Sorry it's taken so long to post, but I've been couped up in my room a lot with Owen for 2 and a half weeks! Ryan got sick the day Owen was born & Clint tested positive for RSV the following Monday. So, we've been trying to keep the big boys away from the little one. It's looking like we'll be able to come out of hiding within the next little while.

Anyway, we're so happy Owen's here & all is going well with him. He's a great baby! He's very calm when he's awake & he sleeps great at night already!

Talk to you all later!!

Janneen

Cloth Diapers

I'm not sure how many of you check my family blog, so I wanted to put a plug here for cloth diapers. I'm sure most of you are reading this and rolling your eyes, thinking I'm nuts, and that's okay.

A few weeks ago, I read a blog where this young mother listed all her reasons for choosing to cloth diaper her son, who is now 15 months old. For some reason, all her reasons made sense to me. Before reading that blog, I never in a million years would have ever considered using cloth diapers on Tanner or my other future children. I had this notion of cloth diapers being those flat, square pieces of cloth that you had to fold and pin and cover with rubber pants. Then, when you had to change the diaper, you had to swish it out in the toilet. But, cloth diapering has come a long way.

Although they still make diapers like in the old days, the covers aren't rubbery anymore. They even have new styles, my favorite of which is the pocket style diapers (very similar to disposables). After reading this blog, talking to my sister-in-law who was getting ready to cloth diaper her sons, and doing a lot of research on the Internet, I decided to try it out. I bought a pocket diaper sampler package from wildflowerdiapers.com. It came with five different brands and it helped me figure out which brands work best for my lifestyle and on Tanner. So far, the bum genius brand is my favorite. See how cute they are?

Anyway, if any of you are interested in cloth diapers, let me know and I will be happy to answer any of your questions as best I can. Also, if you already cloth diaper, you should let me know!

-Brooke

I probably won't get into this... but here it goes

I'm not up to speed when it comes to blogs, and I guess I don't find my life so interesting that other people would want to read it in their spare time.

John and I on our wedding day, 17th of April 2007.

Life has changed drastically for me and my husband. But we are excited about what lies ahead.

John now has to get used to living in Utah, after 36 1/2 years of living near Cape Town, South Africa. He has given up everything for me and is the most wonderful man in the whole universe.

We do have an anouncement to make, after a difficult miscarriage in October, I have "fallen pregnant" as the say in ZA and we are expecting the next generation Bromberger at the end of July. My sister in law has the exact same due date so our child will have a cousin very close in age.

Life is moving forward. It is so nice to see pictures of all of you and all of those babies! I have finally caught up to you all!

I hope you are all well.


~ Laura Packer Bromberger