Sarah

One of my friends from my mom's group was in a car accident and is not doing well. Sarah has a two year old little girl and a two month old little boy. As of right now she is in the ICU and the upper part of her brain is showing no activity, this means she will most likely be non responsive for the rest of her life. The other mom's and I have decided to have a garage sale/ Bake sale on October 25th at 247 E. Handcart Way (8400 S.)Sandy, UT 84070 If you would like to stop by and donate to the sale, or buy something that would be great. Sarah is a great person and my heart hurts so much for her family. Feel free to pass along any info to anyone about the sale. Or call me if you need more details. We will be donating a couch and a washer and dryer, let me know if you want to just buy them now.

Update: Sarah's family made the very difficult decision to take her off of life support and she passed on Tuesday.

Oh BYU!

Our ward had an awsom pie's pumpkin's, and poetry night on Saturday and I decided to wright my own poem and share it. I sang it to the tune of Oh Christmas Tree.

Oh BYU, oh BYU
Why did you fail us again
We thought you would be a challenge
A chance for us to get revenge
Oh BYU, oh BYU
You failed your quest for perfection
The U of U will show the way
To play and win on New Year’s Day
Oh BYU, oh BYU
We want to thank you for losing
You had big dreams of the BCS
And now your program is in distress
Oh BYU, oh BYU
Why can’t you be perfect
Like the U


I think it went really well, but Brad said we now have to move due to the threats we recived afterwards!

California!!!!

So last year for Christmas, by the way I have issue's with spelling the word Christmas, I usually spell it Christmass in fact I have misspelled it in one of my scrapbooks. The reason for this is when I asked my good old dad one day how to spell Christmas he said "It's just Christ plus mass." so for the longest, and I really mean longest, time I spelled it Chirstmass. Anyways back to the post, We got a trip to San Diego California for Christmas last year from Brad's parents and we are finally taking it. Not that we delayed taking a free trip, but this is when it was scheduled. We started the trip a little rocky, our flight was canceled and since all the boy's had 240 dollar tee time's at Torrie Pines we decided it would be best to just fly into Orange Count and drive down to San Diego. The Flight was fine, except Lincoln cryed during take off, Callie cryed during the flight, and Mia cryed during landing, so the Burns family made sure we were known on the flight. The hotel is AMAZING! It's right on the water, and it doesn't smell funky! Pretty much any hotel that doesn't smell funky is great for me. Lincoln had made it his life's mission to not be on the same nap schedule during any vacation as any of the other kid's so that kind of sucks, we always miss swimming with the cousin's.

So we hit up a Dogers game and I guess when we bought the ticket's some one specifically asked for the fight section! It was down right crazy! First it took about a year and a half to park, eventually we all got out and went in except for Grampa and Grandma, they got stuck parking outside of the arena parking because it was too full. We made our way to seats that were so high up I really felt sick like I was going to die, it was really scary being that high, and because we were outside of Utah everyone was drinking and quite a few people had a little too much. In fact one guy went in the ladies room and wasn't even fazed by it. So we are sitting there trying to see the game when a fight breaks out about 3 row behind us and a little to the left, Brad handed me Lincoln and I guess the rest of the family just left, all I know is all the sudden one of the security guards and another guy are falling down a couple of row's of seat's, at this point it just seemed like pure insanity was breaking out. There was like 3 row with no one sitting in the seats so they fell a few row's and landed on some people, Brad jumped down to help the guard get up and another guard started pushing him, and people were still fighting above us. It was crazy, I'm sure Kara (Brad's sister) will post more about it. Needless to say I will never go to a baseball game again. Once was enough for me.

The trip was great Lincoln really enjoyed the beach, he ate some sand but was terrified of the water and we had a really great time. Thanks for the trip, Oh and a big shout out to the best dad in the word, Brad took care of Link the whole time it was great!

Lincolns Firsts

So Link has had a lot of first come up lately that are worthy of noting. First he got his first tooth, then he right away got tooth number two, so really he got his first teeth. I have tried over and over again to get a picture of these teeth, but I have failed. I have tried everything from the surprise picture to holding his mouth open but his tongue seems to be in the way every time. So alas no picture of the teeth.

Lincoln attended his first University of Utah Football game. I think this may have been the proudest moment in Brad's whole life. Everything went really well, Lincoln feel asleep right after halftime though so most of the pic's he's asleep in. Oh and Brad accidentally dressed him in girl pants. (I know it's half my fault for accidentally buying them, but come on they were 5 dollars.)

Another big first for our big man is he is finally crawling, but only on carpet, which we do not have any of. So he lives it up every time we go over to grandpa and grandma Burns house.

Ok so I know you all were wondering, did Brad drag Rachel to Michigan to watch a football game? Well of course the answer is yes. I know it was a few weeks ago but we have been trying to catch up ever since, and yes I will admit I had fun and got an awesome new necklace with earrings. So we flew out on the 27Th of August, and had 4 nights of bliss free sleep with out the baby. Although I did miss him very very much. We went and checked out down town Detroit and we did not get shot, but a cop did honk at Brad when he made an illegal right hand turn, I had nothing to do with that. We also spent some time on campus checking it out, it was weird, I felt like I was walking around on a movie set. I saw people playing volley ball in there front yard, parents on a school tour, and frat houses littered with red cups, in fact every other house was littered with red cups. We went to the game on Saturday, and it was insane. There were 104, thousand people in the stadium, and the guy in front of me kept touching my legs the whole time, I almost kicked him. We had a really great time though and it was great to watch the Ute's stamp out Michigan. Before the game we rented bikes and rode them around campus and even hit up Burns Park. Oh and we ate at Brad's favorite place Potbelly's twice. He used to try to eat there everyday when we lived in VA. I guess now that football season is upon us I will share my favorite things about going to the games.

1- I get to eat what ever I want from the vendors. Brad feels bad because he thinks I don't like going to the games so he buys me what ever I want.

2. Brad is really nice to me. Once again Brad feels bad so he is really really nice.

3. I secretly like going to the games. I just don't like the constant football talk the rest of the time.

Hellooo out there! So this last little bit of our lives has been very crazy so I will do one big giant long update. First we went to Flaming Gorge, it was a blast, Lincoln loves to boat! He is just like his daddy, every time we got on the boat he went strait to sleep, in fact at one point he wouldn't stop crying so I just walked him down to the boat and we just sat there until he fell asleep! This was our fist experience camping with a baby and might I suggest do as Brad's parents do, reserve two campsites far away from each other and make people with baby's stay in one and people with out baby's stay in the other. Link didn't sleep well at all and it was so stinking dark I had to turn on a flashlight to get up with him every time he cryed so that woke him up even more. Luckily we had drunks for neighbors so no one but Brad and I really missed out on too much sleep. We took our 25 dollar jogging stroller that we got from the neighbor and I'm really glad we did, we used it to push Link back and forth from camp to the boat, and from the baby free camp (lucky people) to the non baby free camp, which by the way was only us. The truth about Flaming Gorge is I love it! It is my favorite vacation by far and if I could I would live there. So thanks Grandma and Grandpa Burns for taking us every year.

Next important thing that happened ....... Lincoln turned 6 months old so that meant that on July 31'st (also my mom's birthday, I know I always give the best presents) we went to court to have the adoption finalized. It was sweet! I honestly don't remember much of what was said, but the Judge gave us a DVD of the whole 20 minutes or so, so we can watch it anytime we want to, as long as I don't lose it. I can't believe how relived it was to walk out of there and know that no matter what no one can take my baby away now. If you ask me though Lincoln kind of got the short end of the stick look who he is stuck with now! Ha Ha! After court we had a huge Ice Cream party in our backyard, lot's of friends and family came and it was really nice to just hang and celebrate.

Soooo after that we went to the Temple, we went to the Jordan River Temple on the 9th of August, and it was amazing. We were sealed by the same guy that did Brad's Grandpa's second marriage a few years ago, and this guy has know Brad for a very long time so it was a very personal sealing. Afterwards we took the cutest pic's and as soon as I get those I will post them. Oh and I got Lincoln the cutest white tux, but it was made in China so it the leg's were too long and too skinny for my chunky 23 pound 6 month old. So my mom got to resew them but it turned out really cute.

In other news I went back to work, I'm working at the same old place again, Copper Hills Youth Center, with the same old creepy sex-offenders. Hopefully we get enough money saved up that I can quit again soon for good. That's about it I will try my hardest to keep this updated so I don't have to do really long post's again.

It's a sad, sad day in the Burn's home. We sold the Jeep. Due to rising gas price's and food being so flipping expensive, we have to cut back, budget, and sell stuff we don't use very often. The Jeep was the first to go, and I think I caught Brad crying about it late last night when he thought I was asleep. We have really enjoyed having the Jeep and we have lot's of fun memories of driving in it. Lincoln even loved the one ride he got to take in it. Too bad I'm an idiot and didn't take any pic's of his one and only Jeep ride. Oh well I guess in a few years we will have to buy another one. I hope.

So we were on our way to Lagoon the other day with our very interesting family. JJ is my oldest brother Mikes boy, he is 4 and he is Hispanic. Dace is my younger sister Nicole's boy, he is 2 and he is very white with blond hair and blue eye's. And of course Lincoln, who I hope everyone can tell by now is black. As we drove down the road JJ leans into Nicole and says "Maybe we should get Lincoln some plastic teeth since he doesn't have any teeth." It was very cute. JJ really loves Lincoln and I catch him snuggling him all the time, maybe he is trying to tell his parents something?

Well it has been a very very long time since this blog has seen any action! This started out as Brad's and he has obviously been seriously slacking on it I've decided to take over. For a very quick update Brad and I moved back to good old Utah, and we also adopted a baby. We named him Lincoln but we call him by his initials Lb because is such a chunk. He also drools a lot, which is what inspired me to update and take over Brads blog. Today I changed his diaper then set him in his green chair while I blow dried my hair and cleaned up the kitchen when I went to pick him up his diaper was soaking wet, I'm talking it made a huge wet spot on my shirt. So I think gosh your diaper must have leaked and I look in the chair and there is a puddle! I take him in to the bedroom to change the defective diaper and low and behold it is completely dry on the inside! Lb drooled so much he soaked his diaper and left a puddle in his chair. GROSS! ps. this is an older pic of LB he is much much bigger now I just wanted to show the drool chair.