Brand New Baby Boy

My brother Richard and his wife Amy had their baby boy on Saturday. They named him Wendell Mac after one of Richard's grandpas and one of Amy's.

Amy said Wendell looks like Richard.


The whole happy family.


Look how excited Isabelle is to see her brother! She is so stinkin' cute!

New Favorite Band: Safetysuit

I think I heard of Safetysuit on a local radio station around here. I loved what little I heard and downloaded all their songs I could find. I love the passionate vocals and lyrics. I love the attractiveness of the band members. I love the catchy, but unique, melodies that I can sing along with at the top of my lungs.


"Someone Like You" is their single that's out now. You can watch the music video on YouTube here.

My favorite of their songs is "Anywhere But Here." You can listen to the song right here!


My other favorite song is "Stay."



Check 'em out! Tell me what you think!

Brooksby Family Seatbelt Safety Awareness Day

When catastrophic events happen in our family we sanction the day they occur as a family awareness day. We only have two of these days, thank goodness. The first was when my mom fell off a ladder and cracked her head open in several places. Since that day November 4th has been Brooksby Family Ladder Safety Awareness Day. Last December 8th my parents and I were in a car accident and I wasn't wearing my seatbelt and so I was injured the most. So now December 8th is officially Brooksby Family Seatbelt Safety Awareness Day. It even says so on all our family's calendars.

So if you haven't figured it out yet, today is the one year anniversary of the car accident. I just thought we could all reminisce about it and I'd update you on stuff since then...

You can read my original post about the accident here or my six month update here.

I was brought into the hospital on a stretcher in an ambulance. You can see my red hoodie lying around me after it was tragically cut off of me. I was so upset about the hoodie being destroyed but my friends Clark and Daylyn and my sister Brittney and her husband bought me a new one to match it!


The blood blisters on my knuckle was the only blood we saw from the accident.


Lori came to visit me later that morning. She brought my camera and is trying to clean the dirt from it. We eventually got my camera working with only minor permanent damage.


Leaving the hospital with a barf bucket, just in case. I was pretty nauseous.


Lori and Kurt's Idaho wedding reception was that night and I was allowed to go. I look pretty good actually!


I don't remember much about that day. Especially don't remember wearing sneakers to the reception! I'm sure if I wasn't so out of it I would have insisted on high heels.


My mom, Lori and my dad at the end of the party, totally worn out. My mom was dishing out the drugs to my dad and I.


We went back to the crash site to look for more of our stuff and so I could actually see the place.


The posts along the side of the road are still bent where our van rolled over them.



I've included a ton of pictures of the van after the accident because the destruction was so great.
















I fractured two of the discs in my back and had to wear a back brace for 3 months. My mom says I'm so cool that only I could make an ugly back brace stylish.



I'm feeling great and have little to no pain! I have no restrictions and can do anything I want.
In the past year I've been camping...


I've ran down the beach looking for dolphins...


I've been camping at the beach...


I've been to concerts...


I've been on road trips...


I've been on day trips...


I've been tarantula hunting...


I've been shotgun shooting...


I've even thrown clay pigeons...


I've been tubing down the river...


I've been on amusement rides.



Thanks to everyone for their concern and prayers and help and for everything! Mm-wah!

Halloween Time at Disneyland: Downtown Disney

My friend Kelsey has had an annual pass to Disneyland for almost a year now and wanted to go for Halloween before it expired. She invited me and our friends Eric and Adam to go along. On the way down I got introduced to the Wicked soundtrack and all the Miley Cyrus I could stand. Really, I finished my book (Odd Hours by Dean Koontz) and tried to act interested. We stayed with Kelsey's aunt and uncle near Anaheim and got there in the evening on Thursday the 28th. When we got into town we dropped off our stuff at the house and then grabbed sandwiches at Subway (wish I had my camera out at the restaurant because Eric got mustard all over his face!) and then we hit Downtown Disney!

Me, Kelsey, Eric and Adam all waiting for the tram to take us from the parking lot to Downtown Disney. The hedge is even decorated for Halloween.



In giant letters in front of Disney's California Adventure it spells "CALIFORNIA" and they had changed the coloring on the letters for Halloween. "C" is for Christina!


This guy was headed into California Adventure to go to the Halloween party. I just had to take a picture with him.


Disney goes all out for holidays. Even the entrance gates to Disneyland were all decorated.


Adam and Eric in jack-o-lantern Mickey ears.


Kelsey and I in Minnie witches hats.


The sky was overcast and gave a spooky, Halloween-like, effect in the photos. These guys are both scared and scary.



A Love Meter machine. This thing does not lie. If anything it underestimates.


We went to explore the resort/hotel area next. This giant Sorcerers' hat is in-between Downtown Disney and the hotels. It says "Year of a Million Dreams," which is the theme for the year, and it lights up periodically.


A pirate's cove for a pool area? Disney really does go all out. This place is amazing! We snuck in when a family was leaving and had a look around. There was a pirate ship, Skull Rock with a waterslide, a 30-person hot tub. Goodness!



Mural in the Disneyland Hotel


Adam got to hold Minnie's hand.



Looking at the entrance to California Adventure. See the letters all decked out for Halloween? The "A"s are giant candy corn!







I love Daisy's outfit!


A little Halloween vignette displayed during the tram ride back.


Honestly this Hearse with a coffin was in the parking garage! Totally creeptacular!