I Have A BABY!

I HAVE A BABY!!! Priya Rose was born on Valentine's Day, 2 weeks ago today! Priya is a Hindi name meaning Beloved or Sweetheart :) I'll post more photos etc soon. This is little Priya cuddling with her Auntie Alysse with her funny hat she had to wear under the lights to help with her jaundis. She is SO wonderful and we really couldn't lover her more!!

A Tribute to President Hinckley

Goin Bald for Brent

Here's some of the Lemke clan shedding their locks in support of Brent and his impending Baldness :)

Passing of a Prophet

PROPHETIC PASSING

I imagine he’s running to Marjorie now,

Yes, running, not waving his cane.
I see him embracing his father and mother

While they keep repeating his name.

I see him now meeting his forebears,

Brother Brigham and Joseph are there.

Sweet reunion of prophets, united by service

That only such noble men share.

I see him embraced by the Savior

While Father says, “Good and well done.

So faithful in stalwart endurance, I welcome

My noble, most excellent son.”

I then hear the ripples of laughter

As he says the reception’s just fine,

But he hopes that he’ll get an assignment or two

Since there’s no need to waste any time.

I can hear his clear voice in the stillness

At the close of this sweet Sabbath day,

Have faith and move forward – there’s work to be done.

President Hinckley would want it that way.

Anna M. Molgard, January 27, 2008

I just wanted to post a little tribute to this amazing and wonderful man.

God be thanked for you, President Hinckley.

Is it Baby Time?

So, I went to the doctor today. Theoretically, I'm supposed to have just over 3 weeks left before my kiddo comes. However, it looks like it might not even be that long! Who know - from here on out I could progress really slowly... but if not... this might be a Valentine's or even earlier baby after all!

Hopefully she'll at least wait till we get our kitchen floor finished! :)

Not a Silly Thing :(

For those of you who don't know, my little brother has cancer. Below is a copy of much of the first email update we sent out about his condition:

"Thankfully, we actually have fairly good news! Brent's prognoses just came back this afternoon (several days before they thought it would) and was encouraging. While he does in fact have cancer, it is not as bad as they thought it would be! He still has several legions in his lungs and a large mass in his "belly" (abdomenal, I believe), they are very hopeful that they should all be able to be taken care of with 4 rounds of chemotherapy, all about 3 weeks apart from each other. The mass will probably not be totally destroyed, but hopefully it will be killed and even shrunk by the chemo and will then be able to be removed by surgery. Each time he gets a dose he will be in the hospital for a few days and he will need to be here for probably another week or so, but other than that he should be home most of the time. He can even go to school - when he feels up to it :)

The name of this cancer is Choriocarcinoma, but they said the best way to get GOOD information on it is to go to www.curesearch.org and look up germ cell tumors. Choriocarcinoma won't be on there specifically, so don't try :)

So, with a little luck and a lot of prayers, he could possibly be through with most of this in the next 6 months! Of course, complications and delays can always occur, and if the first 4 treatments don't do the whole job, he might need a few more, with a stronger dose of chemo. But for now, things are looking much better than they were a few days ago! This is STILL going to be a long, hard journey with a lot of ups and downs, I'm sure. Thankfully, his chances are very good and the survival rate is high. This is really the best thing the doctors could have hoped for. It's a little morbid and ironic that you can be happy with a diagnosis of cancer, but since we already knew it was SOME form of cancer, we're just very excited that it is THIS type of cancer, where there is a prodical and a plan to follow, instead of what they initially thought it could be!"

Since this time he has started the first round of chemo and so far so good. If you would like to get email updates on his condition, please send an email to project.lemtron@gmail.com .

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!! Joe and I are heading off to the Midwest TOMORROW! We have a SUPER early flight so that should be a joy, but we are REALLY excited to see so much family so soon! I guess his parents both are part of a Christmas Fireside tomorrow night, so that should be fun as well :) I promise I'll try to actually up-date this every once in a while so that it's actually interesting to look at sometimes!
This trip should be great - let's just see how little baby girl Heaton takes it! Though I wouldn't mind having my baby born in the Midwest instead of Utah, I WOULD mind her being 8-9 weeks EARLY! :)
Merry Christmas! We are so blessed for the friends and family we have in our lives!
Bree & Joe

A Family In Need

Hopefully you can go to this site and check it out. Just click on the title of this post, or got to http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6713601445. I wouldn't have believed this was a real situation if it wasn't my friends brother! They really are wonderful people and honestly are in need. I know it's a little late to do much for Christmas, but I'm sure they won't stop needing support just because it's after Dec. 25th.
Merry Christmas!

How Long Do We Have?

-this was an email I got, but I thought it was worth sharing - definintly something to think about!

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: 'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.''
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasary.'
'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'
'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years''

During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. >From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. >From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. >From courage to liberty;
4. >From liberty to abundance;
5. >From abundance to complacency;
6. >From complacency to apathy;
7. >From apathy to dependence;
8. >From dependence back into bondage'
Professor Joseph Olson of HemlineUniversity School of Law, St. Paul,Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election: Number of States won by:Gore: 19Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by:Gore: 580,000Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:Gore: 127 millionBush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:Gore: 13.2Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

It's been a while!

Goodness, it's been a LONG time since I updated this! Hopefully though, since I'm such a bad journal writter, I can get a little better and at least try to keep SOME track of my happenings here! The problem is that I've become a Facebook Junkie, so that has sucked most of my blogging time - but enough of that! I am back and hopefully better than ever :)

As you all probably know by now, we are expecting a baby GIRL in Feb! It took 2 1/2 years, a couple doctors and eventually just a simple change of diet to get her here, but she's definitly on her way :) I wish I could feel her more consistantly, because it makes me nervous when there are long gaps between feeling her move, but I guess it's still normal at this stage to not feel the baby move very often.

Just for the record, we do NOT have any solid name ideas as of yet! It seems like the first thing people ask after we tell them it's a girl is if we know what we're going to name her. We JUST found out it's a GIRL people- how the heck are we supposed to know!! :) Actually, I have a friend that had a name picked out after less than 2 months of being pregnant (luckly, the baby will be a girl, otherwise they would have been in trouble) so I shouldn't be so touchy I guess :) I just don't know if we'll even know before we see the kid. Of course, I hope to have at least a COUPLE options by then so she doesn't have to stay "Baby Heaton" for longer than a few hours, but I guess we'll just see when we get there!

Anyway, enough for now! Have a great night and Remember Who You Are!

What's it's REALLY about

Let's not forget - not one of my silly things :)

Buggy Dreams

So, the other night I woke up at 3:30 am with a BUG in my ear! Now I can' get a good night's sleep because I keep waking up with feelings of bugs crawling all over me and dreams of spiders dangling over my head! I even have bug crawling feelings all over while I'm AWAKE!

What's worse is that I wouldn't be surprized if there is a leg or something left in my ear - it freaks the heck out of me and I think I'm starting to get dillusional from the lack of sleep and buggy sensations!

ps- Yes it did eventually fall out... but still, you have to wonder if it left anything behind....

Ha! This was WAY to accurate for me!

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Thanks Em!

"THE KNACK"

Ok, So I couldn't get this to embed right, but ANYONE who knows my husband, or ANY Engineer, for that matter, will like this one! Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmYDgncMhXw or go to YouTube and search for "The Knack" - it's NOT the band videos :)

Remember Oscar?

For those of you who remember the O-Man from the good ol' days, you should get a kick out of this! Oscar was one of Joe's first roomates when he moved out here and is probably pretty responsible for why Joe and I knew each other so well long before we started dating - we'll leave the details out of it, but our good friend called us yesterday to say that he and long time "good friend" Emmy and he made it to the finals of a ballroom dance competition with their SENSATIONAL SALSA!! You can actually even watch their dance online and VOTE for them! The winners will get to be on Dancing with the Stars! So here's the link: http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?s=6368029 If that doesn't work, just go to www.wlox.com and click on the Ballroom Dance Challenge ad on the side of the page. Way to Go Oscar and Emmy!

MADNESS!! - and Yard Work ;)

Oh My - have the last few weeks been OUT OF CONTROL! We had a FANTASTIC visit from my parents and my little brother and his friends, including a FABULOUS Easter, a trip to Vegas, compleate with Blue Men & The Rat Pack! Oh! I HAVE to add some photos from Daddy and Marilyn Monroe! But before that, I'll like to add a photo or two of our current guests, Juanito y Benjamin! They helped with some yard work the other day - what hotties! Single ladies, look out! These two are hot and ready for action! ;) LOL!

NEW RELEASE

We Have a Web Page!! It's still very under construction, but it's there! Feel free to check it out -http://breeheaton.com-

Thanks Adam!

Good Times!

WHEW! Well, it has been a crazy week and a half filled with lots of visitors! Em, then Cici and LaLa, followed by a day visit with Sar-bear! We had a lot of fun, got some stuff done, and all in all I'm glad I survived! :) (I'm glad Sarah survived it to!) Now all I need is a nice vacation on a far away beach.... Or Mom, Dad, Brent and a bunch of friends, plus the J-man coming for a visit :) We're excited they're coming and it should be a ton of fun! I just kind of wish all that fun could be spread out over a couple months instead of packed in a few weeks! Actually, it's not the family that's stressfull... it's all that "other" stuff... work, school, more work... you know, the responsibility stuff! Bah! Who needs that stuff anyway! ;) At least our projector is getting a work out! We love it!

Anyone else ready for the Heaton Getaway Package?

CHARLIE!

Things have been a little crazy and a tad stressful, so I though I'd share this wonderful magical sugary goodness with all of you out there in internet land. :) Enjoy the joyness!
ps - thanks to the fellow lemke sibs who led me to this mecca of sweetness!