March of Dimes

so heres the deal. i was contacted by March of Dimes, and what i have to do is called doing time for march of dimes. basically i will get locked into a room on August 4th 2009 for a while, but its for a good cause, but theres more to it. i have been set with a bail of $1000 and thats what i need to raise in donations to go toward babies born premature, with birtn defects, and low birth weight. all donations will aid in research to give all babies a healthy start in life. i decided to do this because being a mom myself just makes me realize how thankful i am to have a healthy baby boy, and i know that not always the case. i currently have a friend that is going through having her baby boy be premature and when this opportunity was right in front of me, i could pass it up. so im looking for people to help me out with donations. you can donate at www.jailandbail.marchofdimes.com/brittanydonan
you can mail your donations to me just contact me at 435-650-3829 for my mailing address
or you can donate in person just give me a call. all donations are 100% tax deductible and its going toward a great cause, so if you can help and would like to please do!

nor more bottle

well when merrick turned one i decided that i would need to start weaning him off of his bottle but i hated trying to take it away from him because he loved it soooo much and he was so cute when he would get all excited while i was making it, well i started giving him his cuppy too so he would start to get more used to it, and after a few weeks of giving the cuppy more than his bottle he gave up the bottle and is just as happy with his cuppy! hes such a good baby he didnt really cry about it or anything, but he did get bit by a spider on his cheek so that has made him not happy but its getting better so im happy for that!

little chin little chin

so i just posted but i forgot a couple things, so johnny decides that he wanted to shave off his goatee which suprised me, but i think its because merrick doesnt like to give him kisses he always rubs his face after when he does, and he will give me more kisses than johnny, so i told him to just trim it little by little in case he doesnt like it but he came out of the bathroom with a baby face! i really like it and he does to but honestly i never realized how little his chin was, i told him it reminded me of when we very first started dating and he had no facial hair at all so it funny i love it! merrick gives him lots of kisses now but i told him that if he was going to have a baby face then he needs to not let it get so pokey because right now its kind of like sand paper, but thats ok. he gets all sefl consious like it doesnt look good so it makes me laugh.
our friends hayden and kylie got married yesterday they have been together for like 7 years so its about time, but it was so much fun we danced our booties off all night it was a blast im so happy for them! we almost didnt make it to the ceremony, we walked in right as kylie made it up the aisle so everybody was standing so we just had to sneek in, and we did! johnny likes to say that im the one that makes us late but its completely the other way around im always ready and waiting for him, he always thinks he need 5 min to get ready but he takes much more time than that, so im just making the record clear that i can get myslef and merrick ready and be on time, so thats why we were late, but just by like 2 min. ok so i think im done updating!!!

picture overload

so i decided i need to post some pictures they are just random things i want to share. i will kinda tell you about why i took the picture or what was going on. so merrick loves suckers but idont give them to him very often because he makes the biggest mess but my aunt gave him probably the messiest suckers ever for his birthday so i decided to let him have some of one because they are big i didnt think he would need a whole one, but he was a mess in like 2 seconds and he was so proud of it so i had to take some pictures and of course he gives me his CHEESE!!! grin.i love it
Merrick loves to escape from me when he gets out of the bath tub because hes "free" so one night after his bath he was running fromme with his towel still on his head and it made me laugh he walked all over the house with it on so i had to take a picture.

so my little monkey loves to crawl on the couch and run around and what not but he likes to sit up there and watch movies and he always lounges back and crosses his feet so i got a picture of that and then johnnys mom gave him some batman jammies so i dressed him in them one night and had to take a picture and then he fell asleep on the couch and had a nap. he had never done that before so of course i think its the cutest thing ever. his jammies look a little small but they arent he was just laying weird.
and last but not least merrick got a little girraffe baby pool for his birthday and we finally had nice weather to put it up so today we did that and played in the water it was so much fun to do something as a family adn merrick had a blast but it wore him out for sure. but of course i took pictures, and he got to wear his cute little swim shorts!


today was alot of fun for us and merrick but he still managed to throw a fit in there and we have ahd to start doing time out, and suprisingly he stays there till we get him but he stands there and screams at us then stops until we look at him and then he starts the fit again and then he takes a nap afterward, i guess it takes alot of energy to throw those fits. so theres my picture overload!

just updating

well i havent blogged for a few so heres the update. there not a whole lot new right now merrick is still growing like a weed and refuses to be a baby. he has learned to get on the couch and he loves it so he runs around on it. so i lay a whole bunch of pillows on the floor that way if he falls it wont hurt him and it seems to work out really good. hes been going up the stairs really good for a long time but he just wouldnt go back down the way that i would show him but last night my dad and step mom watched him and they have two steps that go down into the living room and he always crawls up them and then wants to just run down them but last night he stepped down them! he didnt fall of anything so he crawls up and walks down its crazy he just doesnt want to waste time being a one year old. he has also started the lovely tantrums, so if we get mad at him he screams and holds his breath its scary at first but i know hes just mad and he doesnt pass out ir anything , johnny thinks its like a medical problem but he only does it when hes upset and i try and explain that but he still thinks what he wants. i feel like we are dealing with the terrible twos and hes only one so i cant wait till hes two! haha. we went to the comedy night last night at teh Holiday Inn and it was so much fun we laughed out butts off i think we will go more often it was fun. well Happy Fathers Day, johnnys golfing ( go figure) make today a great day!

my hair cut and merrick in his bouncy

ok so everybody was asking me to get a pciture of me with my hair cut so i took a lovely picture of myself. haha. for everybody to see. thats as good as your all getting. haha.
im also posting a video of merrick in his bouncer. johnny teases him and he throws himself all over its funny.its kinda hard to see tho.

Nemo Party 1 Year Old, and 1st Hair Cut!!!

Can you believe my baby boy is 1 year old already? hes getting so big i dont know here this past year has gone! its so sad and happy at the same time. i have loved being able to be home and watch him grow and learn hes such a sweetheart. So merrick is a huge finding nemo fan so on May 31st i threw him a Nemo party with family and a big bouncer for the kids. before the party we decided to get hair cuts and it was merricks first one and let me just say it didnt go well we got one little curl cut and he started shaking his head and screaming! it was horrible! so he didnt get his hair cut, but i did cut mine OFF! i love it! its short but so much better! for his party we decided to go all out since it was is first party and he had alot of fun! he loved the bouncer but the other kids had a hard time sitting still while he was in there so it was kinda frustrating but he still had fun, the only time he got upset was when i was trying to get him to open presents and when i wanted him to dig into his cake i made him, and i will add that i decorated it myself! he hated the frosting all over his hands but at least he tried. all of our friends and family were there to celebrate with us he got alot of presents, johnny and i got him a little bouncer for him to jump around in, a little lion thing he can ride on, a swing, a ball, a bucket and shovel, and a little climber that has a slide and stuff, and a chair that he likes to lounge back in and watch nemo. he got a wagon that is so so cute, a baby pool, swimming stuff, clothes, sunglasses, a little forwheeler it doesnt have a battery its juts so he can sit on it and push himself around,a bunch on other toys and nemo stuff, then my mom drew a picture of merrick and drew significant things that were throughout the year she wanted to add more but ran out of room but i love it! she did and awsome job!!! so overall i think everything went very well and hes growing up too fast! here is one video of merrick when he was first in the bouncer and didnt like it and then one when he did like it but all of the kids wanted to be by him, and my stepbrothers wife, jamie, is filming it for me because i didnt want to climb in there so she was nice enough to do that but i felt bad because the little kids wouldnt listen to her or anybody really but she tried.

forgot a couple things

ok so i forgot to say a couple things in my last post so i will squeeze them in now. ok so merrick is now riding in a big boy seat so he faces forward and he loves it! i cant believe hes so big. well my mom an di made a trip to provo to get the seat and merrick started throwing a huge fit so we started siing old mcdonald and he fell right to sleep so my mom bought him a CD that has all of the kid songs on it and he sings with and gets all excited and most the time he just falls asleep but it works! i recently took him to my dads so he could swing in a swing for the first time i know im a slacker. he loves the swing i think that we might get him a swing set for his brithday! while we were there my step brothers little girl Mallory just got a bunch of little baby chickens and merrick sat and chased them around and he fell on one and i felt bad but the little chick was ok, but he followed them around forever, but i will not be investing in any chickens...haha. but i do have a little video of him chasing the chickens!

Easter,and Durango,and Stories, OH MY!!!

ok so its been forever since i updated this thing i have new pictures and videos to share, i will start with Easter, so it was merricks first easter and of course the weather wasnt too wonderful! we went out to the desert to hang with the family but we didnt camp, merrick likes the dirt tho thats for sure! he is still to young to understand the easter egg finding but he liked to play with the eggs and he keeps a couple in his toy box. he got a some toys and clothes and crayons and candy he had fun ripping into everything. over all we had a pretty fun Easter!

Next, we headed to Durango, Johnny had a mine rescue competition in Aztec NM, and thats only about 45 min or so from Durango so merrick and i went and we stayed a couple extra days so we could visit family, johnnys sister had a baby in Feb. i think and she is such a doll!so we got to see her and spend time with our nephew as well. johnnys dad has been fixing up some property that was his father in laws, and i couldnt believe how many things he had stored away. i mean there was so many shovels, lawn mowers, weed eaters, rakes, ladders, doors, and of course johnny prized posession the Sky Lark. this car was johnnys in high school and he always had stories about it so he took a ton of pictures of it and now he wants to get it back here and fix it up. hes so funny. while we were there johnnys dad found an old wagon and we laid blankets in it and rigged an umbrella over it so we could pull merrick around, it was totally "redneck" but it was cute! merrick sat and played in the dirt that day and i dont know what it is but he likes to rub it in his hair, he had the dirtiest bath water that night but he had fun. one day while we were there we went to the mall and we had merrick ride a barney train, you know the ones that you put the quaters in and it just moves around, yeah well we did that and he really liked it i got a little video of it. we had alot of fun, its always nice to have a little get away!

now to catch up about the family, we are all doing very well, i just had my first mothers day and it was the best. i got a very pretty necklace and johnny got a card and wrote in it with crayon like it was from merrick, it was so cute i loved it! merrick had started being a little fit thrower so its been alittle stressful at times but hes still so much fun, he really cruising now he tries to run everywhere and suprising enough, he can! hes getting so big he will be one year old on the 31st i cant believe it! hes learning his animal noises now so he knows the ducky the cow and the chicken the best we are still working on it. he loves to say hi to everybody, i took him up to Toys R Us and Barnes and Noble and he ran around like crazy i deffinately got my workout in that day, but he went up to a little girl and peeked around the shelf all shy and was saying hi to her and then he started following her around it was cute. right now since the weather is nice he loves it outside he would play out there all day if he could hes such a sweetheart and monkey all mixed in one. i did get some new pictures of him done they are so cute i love them! so i will get them and all of my other pictures on here. and finally im done i think!

He said Dada! Finally!

the other day our baby boy finally said dada! we have been working with him to say it and he did! so now he says mama, dada, baba, hi, bye bye, and yay! i cant believe it! yesterday was a pretty scary day though, merrick managed to get out of his crib and it wasnt pleasant at all! he had a pretty good fall i figured out that he stood on his bumper in his crib so i had to take that out. i was so freaked out though i didnt know what to do i was just hoping that he didnt fall and break and bones or get a concusion so when he calmed down that was the first thing i did was check his whole body and his eyes. he got a bump on his head but hes ok, it wasnt long before he was happy and playing patty cake, but then later that night i had to do a party, johnny and merrick had bonding time but merrick is sick again!...and he was throwing up everywhere but he quit doing that and now he just has a cough and a runny nose which is still not fun. i did get some new pictures of him done but i dont have them yet so when i get them i will be posting them for everyone to see! so theres the update with my little family, not all good news but thats just part of it.