WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!! Our family of 2 will be growing to a family of 3 with a little munchkin on May 20th!!! We couldn't be happier. Saturday, November 26, 2011
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WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!! Our family of 2 will be growing to a family of 3 with a little munchkin on May 20th!!! We couldn't be happier. 
Party!!
I went rock climbing with these studs at the Quarry and it was so much fun! It was hard but I really liked it. These guys are sooo good at it too, it was just as much fun as it was to climb! This could be the beginning of a new love :)
Here were the lights at the Riverwoods. Mark and I went and it was fun walking around and seeing the lights!
John Schmidt was there and Mark heard him play for the first time. He is great!
One Saturday, we decided to go to "The Raspberry Patch." It's this place in Payson where you go and pick your own raspberries. They charge $2.00 per pound, which is incredible. It was fun picking the berries. We ended up picking 5 pounds. I came home and made my first raspberry jam and we froze a bunch to use later. 
I did not see this little cutie for almost the whole summer because he was in the Academy for firefighting. He is officially a fireman and I think this picture is the coolest!! The Academy is the craziest thing every. He had class from 5-10 pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and class on Saturday from 7-4. He was also working full time, what a hard worker. I am grateful for him. He's hott!!
This was his class photo, cool!
He also did a lot of this! Is he amazing or what? I am biased but thought this photo was fun.
I made my first wedding cake!! I volunteered to make my sister McKenna's wedding cake and tried to take a cake decorating class like 15 times but they kept cancelling it. Finally, the night before her wedding, I make this until 3 am. Not smart for pictures. I probably looked like a bum. Fondant is harder than I thought, but for my first cake, I was pleased.
These little cuties got married. It was such a beautiful day and I love them so much!! Proud of my sister for getting married in the temple!Randomness in no particular order
I realized that I am the worst blogger, but I have finally accepted why. Each week I think of all these things that I want to blog about, and when I finally get the time to sit down to blog, too much time has passed and there is too much to blog about. At that point, I get overwhelmed and then I just don't blog. Until a day like today comes along and I decide to blog a years worth of stuff in one sitting and then I'm blogged out for the entire year. Whew, just thinking about it makes me tired. So, here we go...
So, we moved into our house in December (2010) and we have our very own pear tree. I was super excited and decided to try to can my very own pears. I came home from work one day and just decided that I was going to can all of them that night.
Word to the wise, canning takes longer than you think.
You have to de-core and peel each fruit and then make the juice, process it, etc. After I finished, I went to bed and all night I heard them popping and making these terrible noises and I was so sad because I thought that none of them were going to work and we would have to eat a million pears in a few days so they wouldn't go rotten. Apparently, the lids pop and it all worked but here is the product of my hard work. 12 cans, probably lame, but I was happy!!
Nursery is the best calling EVER!! Here are some of our cute nursery kids from my parents ward. I miss them. What calling can you hop around to music and eat Bugles? Loved it!
I am a couponer. I have actually really gotten into couponing. I am not one of those crazies, no offense, with their huge binder and 10 carts but I use coupons and I love it! This was something like $175 worth of groceries for $35. How cool is that?
So, Mark and I were parents for a weekend and we took my brother Nathan to Vegas for a soccer tournament. We realized that we are terrible parents. We reserved the cheapest hotel, "The Golden Spike," need I say more? My brother was scared for his life the whole time. I don't recommend it.
We decided to go to IHOP for breakfast the morning of his championship game and by the time we got the food, ate it, and finished, it was only 30 mins before he needed to be at the game. He ate somewhere around 7 pancakes, hashbrowns, bacon, sausage, eggs....he was soooo sick. I felt bad.
He took first though and we were sooooo proud!!
So, we moved into our house in December (2010) and we have our very own pear tree. I was super excited and decided to try to can my very own pears. I came home from work one day and just decided that I was going to can all of them that night.Word to the wise, canning takes longer than you think.
You have to de-core and peel each fruit and then make the juice, process it, etc. After I finished, I went to bed and all night I heard them popping and making these terrible noises and I was so sad because I thought that none of them were going to work and we would have to eat a million pears in a few days so they wouldn't go rotten. Apparently, the lids pop and it all worked but here is the product of my hard work. 12 cans, probably lame, but I was happy!!
Nursery is the best calling EVER!! Here are some of our cute nursery kids from my parents ward. I miss them. What calling can you hop around to music and eat Bugles? Loved it!
I am a couponer. I have actually really gotten into couponing. I am not one of those crazies, no offense, with their huge binder and 10 carts but I use coupons and I love it! This was something like $175 worth of groceries for $35. How cool is that?
So, Mark and I were parents for a weekend and we took my brother Nathan to Vegas for a soccer tournament. We realized that we are terrible parents. We reserved the cheapest hotel, "The Golden Spike," need I say more? My brother was scared for his life the whole time. I don't recommend it.
We decided to go to IHOP for breakfast the morning of his championship game and by the time we got the food, ate it, and finished, it was only 30 mins before he needed to be at the game. He ate somewhere around 7 pancakes, hashbrowns, bacon, sausage, eggs....he was soooo sick. I felt bad.
He took first though and we were sooooo proud!!Side note: The Run for Lindsey was such a success and we raised over $10,000. Thanks for all of those who helped and participated!
Friday, July 8, 2011
The opening prayer will be by...
We had just moved into our new ward when I received a call from an unknown person, which is not my favorite thing. I decided to answer and the person was mumbling and all I heard was something about opening prayer on Sunday. I agreed and then the call ended.
I am always anxious about saying prayers in public, I don't know what it is, nobody is looking at me (or at least shouldn't be), and it can be quick if you want. It could go back to when I was a little girl and was supposed to say the opening prayer for this big achievement day get together and on top of starting with the words to "I am a Child of God," instead of the usual prayer, I also had a brain fart and forgot how to start the prayer. Awkward.
So, Sunday came, and we got to church early, big thing for us. I grabbed a program only to notice that my name was replaced with someone else's. Whew...the stress was gone. Until I noticed that I must be on the program at my old ward.
Needless to say, I was asked to say the opening prayer in my old ward and I was not there to say it. Thank goodness for parents that love you and say the prayer for you!!
I am always anxious about saying prayers in public, I don't know what it is, nobody is looking at me (or at least shouldn't be), and it can be quick if you want. It could go back to when I was a little girl and was supposed to say the opening prayer for this big achievement day get together and on top of starting with the words to "I am a Child of God," instead of the usual prayer, I also had a brain fart and forgot how to start the prayer. Awkward.
So, Sunday came, and we got to church early, big thing for us. I grabbed a program only to notice that my name was replaced with someone else's. Whew...the stress was gone. Until I noticed that I must be on the program at my old ward.
Needless to say, I was asked to say the opening prayer in my old ward and I was not there to say it. Thank goodness for parents that love you and say the prayer for you!!
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Run for Lindsey
My cousin's wife has been battling brain cancer and so me and a few others are putting together this fundraiser to help them out with the huge amount of medical bills. 
It is a 5K but you can come and walk it, ride your bike, push a stroller, run a mile, whatever you would like to do. Because it is a charity, there will be a limited amount of free t-shirts given to those that register early. T-shirts can also be purchased if you can't/don't want to run :) You can register and get more information at the runforlindsey.com website. Hope to see you there, it will be a lot of fun!!
It is a 5K but you can come and walk it, ride your bike, push a stroller, run a mile, whatever you would like to do. Because it is a charity, there will be a limited amount of free t-shirts given to those that register early. T-shirts can also be purchased if you can't/don't want to run :) You can register and get more information at the runforlindsey.com website. Hope to see you there, it will be a lot of fun!! Friday, March 11, 2011
Green Thumb??
I have become extremely interested in gardens lately and so I took this amazing class by Gordon Wells, purchased his book, and then tried his tips on my own. This is the product of our Spring garden. I was so excited to get it all planted. 
Little did I know that I would wake up the next morning to my garden covered in snow. I was so sad that I didn't even want to go out to check on my plants. The next day I walked out and most of my plants looked pretty good but my peas are completely smashed to the ground. Any way, we'll see how it turns out. I can't wait to eat my own home grown food!!!
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