The Brouse House

Interview with Miss Brouse

2011-09-06T13:28:00.000-04:00

Interview on September 6, 2011. We were sitting here and I decided to interview Bailey and here are her answers. Enjoy

Whats your favorite color? Pink

Whats your favorite food? Spaghetti

Whats your favorite clothes? Arial clothes

Whats your favorite thing to play with? Toys What toys? Arial Toys and all princess ones

Who's your best friend? Ava and Jackson

Whats your favorite TV show? Team umizoomi

What do you like to do during the day? play on swingset

Where would you like to travel? I would like to go to Lindsey's house

Whats your favorite animal? baby pig

Where do you like to shop? Lindseys house

Where do you like to eat out at? Wendy's

Who do you love? Ava, Jackson, Mommy, and Daddy and Jason

Anything else you want me to type: I like the princess castle. I want a new boyfriend.

If you need a new one who is your old one? Daddy

"I need two boyfriends.....lets go on and get them."

I heart faces contest!- Beautiful eyes!

2011-08-15T12:58:00.001-04:00

Went for a walk around downtown Charleston and stopped for some ice cream! She was loving it!

2011-05-11T13:01:00.000-04:00

For all wondering minds! This is whats going on right now in our lives. I really don't like to talk about, I don't like to explain it, I am mad, I am sad, I don't understand why, I am over it!!!!

We had an HSG dye test done April 11 to check my tubes and make sure I had no blockages that was causing us to not get pregnant. Everything looked fine. They said I was more fertile after "cleaning everything out"
Jason went to China for two weeks, but not before I ovulated.
I started cramping about a week before I was supposed to start, which I always do. Figured I wasn't preggo. Never thought anything about.
I was supposed to start my period Thursday. Had big plans hoping I was pregnant and buying a "Big Sister" shirt and taking balloons to airport to surprise Daddy that we were pregnant.
Wednesday morning I was changing one of the little girls diapers I babysit and the smelled made me so sick I threw up in my mouth and and to run to bathroom. I thought hmmm maybe I am pregnant because the smell of something made me so sick. Took a test it was negative. Got on with my week not surprised I wasn't pregnant.
Jason comes up Saturday and I still hadn't started but my period. We go to breakfast on Sunday for his bday and on the way home I say "Should I buy another test?" He said he will run back out later and get one.
Later that afternoon he runs out and gets a test and I take it we stand there waiting for it to be negative and hes reading to see what exactly a positive looks like and bamm there ya go!!! I handed it to him and said Happy Birthday!! IT WAS POSITIVE!!
We were in shock to say the least! I had never been so excited about my boobs hurting and my stomach cramping!
Monday I went to doctor for blood test to confirm the two test I took at home. We went out that evening and I started getting so tired and was falling asleep in the car. I went to bed at 8 that night! Once again, never been so happy to be so tired just because I knew it was because I was pregnant.
Tuesday- got the call from doctor confirming I was pregnant, but levels were really low and they put me on progesterone pills. She also told me there was a chance of miscarriage.
Went back for another count of Wednesday and my HCG levels went from a 52 to a 53. They are supposed to double every other day. They knew I was going to miscarry after that. It was nothing they could or done or nothing I could have done. It just wasn't mean to be.
I started miscarrying Thursday night.
Now we are right where we started...only child! :(
When we say we don't want to talk about it....we don't want to talk about. Maybe we will....maybe we wont, but until then it's something that we can't bring ourselves to talk about with others.

Makeover!

2011-04-05T09:35:00.000-04:00

Well as you can tell I have a new look! I won this look at a contest on The Drama Mama blog. I have been trying to get myself back into blogging and thought if I won I would start blogging again! Well I won and here I am blogging! Especially because my dad reminds me all the time that the last time I blogged was like October 4th! So since October 4th lots of things have been going on! Here are a few pictures...I tried uploading more but it was taking forever so I gave up. Thought I would share these and get back at doing this better another day! I will add more pictures and let you in on whats been going on! I just hope this time it doesnt take another 5 of so months to come back!

Im back!

2010-10-04T20:38:00.000-04:00

I have been gone for awhile I know! Life around here is a little hectic right now. As we all know school started back, which means I am in full swing of babysitting. I have two extra kids all day everyday, one is 13 months and the other is 16 months. I also have another little boy that comes Tuesday and Thursday until noon and he is 22 months! Did I mention that I have a two year old running around???? Lets just say my house is always a mess with toys, we have lots of screaming going on, and lots of time outs around here!!

My photography business is kinda crazy as well. I didn't really think it would take off like this but it sure is keeping me busy. It is a little overwhelming at times because I am with the kids all day and then either have a photoshoot in the evening or have to work on pictures. I am a little overwhelmed at times and very sleepy!!!

Bailey is growing up to be something else! She talks ALL the time! She talks back too! Thats really great! Some Bailey sayings:

She walked into the kitchen this weekend and looked at Jason and said "I wanna go shopping" I taught her well!

She asks all the time "What chu doing?"
We were walking downstairs and looked at a pile of laundry and I asked her "will you do laundry for me?" She replied with "I do laundry when I'm older"
Everytime you ask her if shes sleepy, or mad, or anything she replies..."NO I'm happy"

She has really gotten into playing with our phones. It was a fight all day and evening for her to play games and watch videos on our phones. So we decided to get her an IPOD touch! She loves the thing. She calls it her phone. She knows how to go in and out of different games and play some of them better than me. She can go into youtube and watch different videos. The kid really amazes me with the things she can do on there. It definatly was worth the money!

Nothing but cute kids!

2010-08-13T14:27:00.000-04:00

Well things are so busy around here. We are putting the finishing touches on Bailey's room and I can't wait to share with you. I am completely booked for the month of August for photoshoots. I am doing two sometimes three photoshoots a week!!! Yahh!! Here are some of the pictures I have done. There are more on facebook on if you are interested in checking them out....click here!! Everyone has such cute kids!!!

Take me out to the Ballgame

2010-08-06T07:35:00.003-04:00

Ok I am pretty sure I have never put this many pictures in one post but here goes. This is from our trip Philly to go to the Phillies game!!

This is a double bridge. One way of traffic is on top the other on the bottom. Never seen anything like it before.

This reminded me of Full House!

This building was very tall!

We walked through Chinatown to go shopping.

Getting ready for the game.

At the game!

Bailey built a baseball at build a bear!

Halladay the pitcher.

My boyfriend Jason Werth, I call him Werth-A LOT!

Had to get a picture with Mickey!

Thanks Jack for the tickets and everything! Bailey loved everything about the game. In case you all didn't know Bailey is obsessed with BASEBALL! She loves going to her daddy's game she talks about the game all the time, and will even sit and watch it on TV!! It was definatetly an experience we will never forget! Oh yeah Bailey sings take me out to the ballgame at least 20 times a day! She loves it! Hopefully we will be able to come to another game, but fingers crossed it still won't be 90 degrees when we leave at 9 at night!

Boardwalk rides and tears with a smile!

2010-08-05T15:32:00.000-04:00

OK lots of pictures so I won't type much! Had to share this picture with you because its funny! Jason was tired after going to China and fell asleep and Bailey decided to give him some babies to sleep with.

She is obsessed with my small camera. She knows how to take them and then look at herself. Wonder who she learned that from??? Remember this???

Jason driving after I drove the first 6 hours!

While we were at the beach we went to the boardwalk and Bailey got to ride some rides.

Then the dreadful firetruck. She was begging to ride them. So we let her.

She was loving it and thought it was so cool.

Then it started going to fast and she wanted off.

Then she REALLY wanted off.

She was crying and so was I! As soon as they stopped it I grabbed her off and of course Jason had the camera and had to snap me crying too.

Broke my heart!

She was fine after a bit and wanted to ride the merry-go-round with daddy this time.

More to come from our trip!

Busy, Busy home from the beach!!

2010-08-01T12:57:00.000-04:00

We are back from the beach and we still haven't stopped! Jason has had baseball games, we have been unpacking (never ending with the amount of stuff we pack), and lots of cleaning. I am going to start babysitting another little girl this school year. I met her parents and her for the first time today and I have busy busy cleaning my house really good. I obviously had to clean because they were stopping by, but also I did some deep cleaning to get ready for the kiddies this year. We shampooed carpets and furniture and my mother forced me into organizing closets. This may sound like a normal thing, but we actually went grocery shopping!!!!! We have not shopped in so long we couldn't even remember the last big grocery shopping trip we made. We haven't been here that much so we just eat random things here, go to my moms, or just eat out!

Last, but not least, I have been booking photo sessions!!!!! I ran a special just so I could get the word out about my new business and try and attract more customers!! I would love for this business to take off because I really do enjoy taking pictures! So far I have 7 booked for the month of August!!! Thought I would leave you with just a few of the 490 pictures I took at beach and Phillie's game. I didn't even upload these pictures until about 2 days ago because I was so overwhelmed with the amount I took and everything going on.

These are just a few we snapped while waiting on everyone to get there. My sister-in-law and her friend!

My other sister-in-law and her boyfriend.

The whole beach crew!

All the kids and grandkids!

Gam and her kids.

More to come soon! I have a photoshoot tonight so lots to work on!!

Bring on the Travel...

2010-07-16T08:00:00.001-04:00

Well we are leaving soon and I am so proud because I got most of my pictures up from our first beach trip! Thanks so much for all the comments on them. We had a blast and of course there are so many more pictures, but I won't bore with hundreds of beach pictures. We are now off to a family reunion, then the beach, then a Phillies game!! It will be mine and Bailey's first time to a professional baseball game so that is very exciting!!

I do want to share these pictures because I have come to the conclusions that I bring bad luck when it comes to traffic when I go to VA. Remember this post and this one? Well this is what happened when we had only been on the road for about 20 minutes this time.

Yes...this is on I-64 right before the Hampton Roads tunnel if you are familiar with the area.

Misty of course getting in the middle of everything.

Thats it for now. I don't think we have the internet at ALL where we are staying! I could possible have a breakdown! We are hoping this time around Bailey will like the sand better.

We are outta here!

SEE YA!

Self portrait!

2010-07-15T11:41:00.000-04:00

So while I was trying to get cute pictures of Bailey closer to the water this is what we see. My sister guarding the stoller. Taking a picture of herself on her Iphone!

She had no clue Jason was getting this picture of her!

Pool time

2010-07-15T08:00:00.001-04:00

We had my cousins wedding to go to on Friday so didn't want to drag out stuff out on the beach and then leave early. So we thought we could go to the pool by the condo. We packed out stuff up and ready to go....until the guy told us we had to have a membership. Well we dont live there so NO we dont have a membership. So we were about to treck it down to oceanfront when, Amber, a lady Jason works with offered us her pool. Thank you so so so much Amber. You made Baileys vacation worth it because she LOVED the pool.

Her pointed once again. I think TT was about to jump off the divingboard...for the first time EVER! I would post a pick but she might kill me!

Notice how she is smiling here and not at the ocean.

Giving me some love! Gosh I love that kid!

She is full of herself!

Bailey being a super star!

Showing daddy that she learned to jump in the pool.

Love the faces.....

She loves her daddy!!!

Telling daddy where to stand to catch her!

My other favorite picture!

Once again thank you so much Amber, your poool was soooo nice!

Not one rainy day :)

2010-07-14T09:00:00.003-04:00

This year was very different than last year at the beach. Last year Bailey loved everything about the ocean. We stayed at a place that had a huge children area with ships and water shooting out everywhere. She would have rather been on the ocean. This year the sand totally freaked her out. (Some pictures are blurry because they are from my point and shoot camera and I just pulled it out and snapped)

This is how she stood for the first 20 minutes or so. As long as she had a snack and her hand touching me she was fine.

Then she got just a little too much sand on her feet and she couldn't take it.

She had to get between all toes on both feet!!

She got a little better the next day but still wasn't getting that dirty. She was always cleaning her hands off.

I talked her into coming out there with me. This was as far as she got...it scared her a bit but she stayed for awhile.

This is one of my favorite pictures. She was loving it after awhile.

Jason hanging out in a tube some people gave us.

Who's that stud??? Oh yeah thats right hes mine....Ladies back off!

Please look how sweet this and not the horrible look on my face. She was so worn out from being out there. I can guarantee this will never happen again. She never falls asleep like this, but it was so sweet when she did! I don't like to miss out on the sun, but too hold her its worth it!

(There is also a chance this posted halfways through. Then posted again with the whole thing. I accidently hit the wrong button and it automatically posted)

I scream, you scream....

2010-07-13T22:26:00.000-04:00

So as we speak Jason is telling me I need to blog more. Who does he think he is? My blog manager?? He says he follows me and loves reading it! So nice to have such a huge ~~only~~ fan! We are leaving soon to go out of town so I decided I better show you the pictures from our first beach trip.

Bailey and Mamaw laying around after a long day on a beach!

Bailey and Daddy on the beach!

Ohh my sweet love!

The beginning of Bailey pointing everything out!

See a boat!

Who knows probably a plane or boat.

Daddy I wanna go over there!

Look at that hair!! Do you see the hair that the sun has bleached? Why can't I get free hilights like that?

Of course we had to get icecream with sprinkles!

We were supposed to share it!

I only got a few bites!

She ate practically all of it besides the cone.

Have you seen these signs before anywhere? They are all over the place at oceanfront. I am not sure how well people abide by them, but at least its a little bit more of a reminder considering there are children everywhere.

You hopefully will not have to wait long before the next post!

We are bored...KINDA

2010-07-07T10:05:00.000-04:00

Hi I am here. I keep saying that but I really am not here! Heres the low down on whats going on. As you know we went to VA a few weeks ago (I still have so many pics to post sorry). A week after we got home Jason left for China...hes still there...and comes home Friday. We have not stopped since he left. We have gone to the pool at my parents almost every day. We have gone shopping or visited friends every evening. For some reason I get really bored at home this time with him gone so we go places, lots of places. We have spent probably too much money...but we are BORED and Bailey wanted to eat out a lot and buy lots of things! (haha thats for Jason if he reads this). Anyways, Jason is home for three days and then leaves again for four days. Are you still with me??? Then the day after he gets home again we leave for a whole week. We are going to visit his Aunts and cousins for a family reunion for 2 days, then to the beach for 5 days, then to visit his Uncle and go to a Phillies game.

So the point to the story is Jason is gone A LOT right now. In about a month he will be in our house for about 9 or 10 whole days. We are bored without him here. When he went out of town before I was babysitting and always busy during the day. Then in the evenings I was tired and we would do low key things.

One more thing, Jason and my sister have talked me into trying to do photography professionally. I really love taking pictures and have just taught myself what I know. I have so much more to learn. Well, I have my first paying customer next week. To say I am nervous is an understatement. Hopefully everything will go smoothly!! If you aren't friends with me on facebook here is a link to Kristi B Photography. Check it out and "like" it!!

10 year reunion!!

2010-06-28T11:18:00.000-04:00

WOW!!! I have not stopped all weekend. This year was my 10 year reunion! I can not believe its been that long! On top of that I had lots of friends from college in town. So I have been out really late for 3 nights too many.

Jason and I on the first night!

My sister had to come join in on the festivities because she is friends with everyone!

Lets just say that the reunion wasn't well planned for Saturday. This is about all the showed up with a few more later that night.

But lots of friends showed up from college and they are what made it worth being out.

We seriously had the best time ever that night! Maybe because it started out with LOTS of wine!!

I promise there are so many pictures from the beach to post and I will do so. We have just been non-stop for days now.

Almost done with vacay....

2010-06-23T18:52:00.000-04:00

Hey do you all remember me??? I am back from the beach! We had a great time! I have lots and lots of pictures to share!

Did I tell you all that Jason got me Photoshop Elements for an early birthday present! I am trying my best to learn all I can about. If you have any tips, tricks, or good websites to help me learn please share!!

I am working on a little something and can't wait to share with you! I am not sure where it will take me or how well I will do, but I am really excited about!

Don't you wish you knew! I will let you know soon! I am busy resting from my vacation (haha) and going through all my pictures! Hopefully I will get more up tomorrow!!!

Layin' around

2010-06-15T12:17:00.000-04:00

We are packing to head to the beach and go to my cousins wedding! I haven't packed a thing and we are leaving in less than 24 hours! I work better under pressure!

Hopefully we will have lots of photo shoots while we are there and I will add some pictures!

Other than that I will be gone for the few days!

I am going to soak up the sun as much as possible! I am also going to practice being a wedding photographer!!

So I will just be layin' around getting a tan, eating lots of food, and taking pictures!! Have a great weekend!

She's a beauty!

2010-06-09T20:32:00.001-04:00

Here are all of my other favorites!!

So now that school is over I no longer have Jackson anymore. I will miss him so much, but also very excited to give all of my attention to this little beauty! We have lots of trips planned and I can't wait! We are going to the beach at least twice and I am working on trying to get there for a third trip, we are going to a Phillies game, I am trying to make it to Cincinatti to visit a friend and the zoo! Its going to be a great summer!

Finally....

2010-06-08T15:04:00.000-04:00

We got Baileys 2nd Birthday photos done!! There are lots more to come! This is one of my favorites!

Stay tuned for lots more! I promise I will stop with birthday pictures after these!

Pink is my signature color!!

2010-06-07T09:00:00.001-04:00

When I found out I was pregnant with a girl I was ecstatic! I always wanted a girl from the time I was little. I would have loved a little boy just as much, but I wished and hoped for a girl. There are all types of little girls and I am sure they change as they grow older. Right now we have a 100% girly girl!!

Sometimes I will put an outfit on her and she will scream because its not pink or sometimes I will dress her and she will go in her room take her pants off and bring me some type of pink pants to change into. Sometimes she insist on wearing a dress.

She hates to get her hands dirty. If she is eating and food gets on her hand she screams "napkin napkin" so she can clean herself off.

She will play with rocks and sticks outside but she touches with with her about two fingers and her thumb. She is always careful to not get much dirt on her hands.

She loves to put rings on her fingers and wear bracelets. She will walk around the whole house with her pretend high heel shoes on. Sometimes she even pulls mine out of the closet and wears them.

When she has sandals on and the grass is a little wet or Jason has just mowed and it gets on her toes she freaks out. We have to clean her feet for her to carry on with what she is doing.

This is the best! She got some play makeup for her birthday. I let her play with it that night, as you can tell in the pictures she loved it. Well the next day we were getting ready to go somewhere and I was putting my make-up on and she insisted she had to put some on. She seriously cried and threw a fit that evening until I gave in and let her put some makeup on. Needless to say I wiped it off once we got to the car. I guess she thinks she needs to wear makeup to go places now.

Anyone know what movie the title of this post came from??? One of my favorites!!!!

Birthday party-Part 2

2010-06-06T10:01:00.001-04:00

Here are some more pictures from Baileys 2nd birthday party. We ended up having a great turn out of little ones. Here is pic of her dress one more time just to show you how cute it was.

Our little family!! (Sorry Jason wasn't looking in any of them for some reason)

Bailey very rarely gets to see her second cousin Jamie. But she loved him that whole day and talked about him for days. She followed him around and thought he was the best thing ever!

Bailey and her papaw!

These are my best friends twins, Kenlie and Kylie, and my sisters friends little boy.

Right before I snapped this picture he said "Mommy, look there's two of them."

Bailey and one of the twins going for a ride. Bailey is exactly two months older than them.

Everyone enjoying the new swing set! Thanks again Mamaw!

Bella! She is one of the cutest babies and has red hair!! She is also one of the best babies I have ever been around.

Bailey licking the icing off her number 2 candle. When everyone started singing Happy Birthday to her she started bawling and ran to me!

With all of her presents behind her! She got so much stuff! It was so hot that day she was begging to come in for a little bit. So we just decided to carry all the presents in and open inside because everyone was burning up. You can tell by how sweaty her hair is.

Mommy and Daddy got her this piano with microphone. I am not sure who liked it better Bailey or Aunt

Te Te!

Bailey I hope you had a wonderful birthday! We love you so much and the past two years have been so exciting and such a learning experience! You have turned our world upside down for the best and we wouldn't change a thing. You make us smile no matter the situation! I just wish it didn't go by so fast! Love you so much BB!!! Also a big thanks to everyone made the party! We appreciate everything you did for our princess!

Birthday party-Part 1

2010-06-01T10:21:00.006-04:00

Well the birthday has come and gone! It was a long week trying to get everything together and cleaning. If you were to come to my house right now you wouldn't even notice I cleaned for a week straight! Bailey got so many presents it was ridiculous. I was so surprised people bought her so much! She is a very loved girl and hasn't stopped playing with everything. This post is probably going to be two post long because there are so many pictures. Jason and my sister took most of the pictures because I was always moving and talking. So here we go with some of the polka dots. I felt like I made so much but once I got it outside and it was spread out didn't seem like so much! Enjoy!

Where the theme started!!

Less than a week old.

One year!

Two years!

There were polka dot streams hanging beside the flower balls on the tent but they are kinda hard to see. Lets just say I cut a lot of circles!

To be continued.....

First day of being a...

2010-05-27T22:21:00.000-04:00

TWO YEAR OLD!!!!My My...Where has the time gone??
Dear Bailey,

I can not believe my sweet baby girl is two years old today! The memory of laying in the hospital having you is still so fresh in my memory. I honestly remember everything as if it were yesterday. You have been the easiest baby even before you were born. (I would like to thank you for making labor and delivery so easy and only making me push for 25 minutes. You probably were just really excited to meet me! Understandable.) Anyways, you have turned our world upside down. Just the thought of your smile brings a tear to my eye sometimes. When you are cracking up at the silliest things I just want to cry and wish you understood how much you mean to me. Right now you are talking up a storm about anything and everything. You love people, but at the time you are very shy at first. You will run towards one of us as soon as someone new walks in the room and hide. You love Mickey and Minnie, Elmo, and all things baby. You are such a little momma. You feel the need to help take care of all babies and kids you play with. You are also sleeping in a big girl bed for two nights so far!! We will talk more about that later!

Today we gave you one of your presents so you could get something on your actual birthday. You have talked about a wagon for weeks now. The little girl out back has one and its all you talk about it after you play with it or see it.

I started taking pictures this morning and decided to take them through out the day so you knew what you were doing on your 2nd birthday!

As soon as you saw we had a wagon we had to take it for a drive. Here you are crying because instead of walking at first I had to snap a picture.

We went on two walks in the wagon before 10:00.

Once again you being the mother hen and making Jackson put his seatbelt on.

You had grilled cheese for lunch.

As soon as lunch was over we put our suits on and headed out to the pool.

You love to play with the spray bottle.

Even drink from it!

You are such a beautiful little girl and I can't wait to see you the young lady you grow into.

You then made daddy take you for a walk on his lunch.

For dinner we went to a little icecream joint and got yummy milkshakes and dinner.

Then you got really hyper on the way home.

We stopped at Mamaw and Papaws for a minute and you had a snack and cracked up at Papaw.

We then came home and you insisted you needed to play in the pool again! Then we went for a really long wagon walk and are sitting here having a snack before bed!

I hope you have enjoyed your birthday!!!! Mommy and Daddy love you with all our hearts!

Happy 2nd Birthday!!

Just swingin'....

2010-05-25T09:05:00.002-04:00

Well we are almost to the big day! Bailey's big 2nd birthday!!!! I can not believe we are about to celebrate her turning two, I feel like she is still a baby! We have so much to do to get ready for her party this weekend. The most important thing we had to get together before the party was this thing!

Nope not a ladder! But the ladder is a very important part!

Bailey helping Daddy build, but has no clue what it is.

Here Dad I will watch and you do the work! Papaw came and helped but I didn't have my camera out the whole time. Then we were too busy inside making decorations for the party and food for everyone to eat. And here is the greatest present of all.......

The directions say that the assembly of this is 8-10 hours. I didn't believe it! Well believe it...they were putting final touches on it and it was almost dark out! PS the house still needs a roof so technically its still not finished!

That's Bailey telling her Daddy she can do it herself. And that she can!!

She talks about this thing all the time now. Well for the whole 3 days its been together.

Showing Daddy her picnic table that she ate cookies at earlier!!

We still haven't figured out who likes it better!! But I will say this kid loves to go to Mamaw and Papaws house. Every time I say lets get ready she says "Mamaw's house?" Well last night we were going to run over there while Jason took a ladder back and once she saw the slide she chose it over going to see them.

Mamaw Eskew bought this for her!! We thank you so much for getting so a wonderful present! It is definitely the best present that will keep the excitement coming for years to come! Thanks Mamaw!!!!