Adoption Awareness Month

It has been 2 years since we started the process of adoption. It has been an emotional and hard 2 years to endure. I know that Heavenly Father is mindful of our struggles and there will come a blessing of another baby if we will just be patient! November is Adoption Awareness month and we hope that everyone still remembers our desire to adopt a baby.

Once again, family pictures

It is that time of year again! We had family pictures and I can't believe how much Avery has changed in one year. I love to have pictures taken just to see the change in her. She growing up way too fast! Isn't her red hair gorgeous?!!

Well, since I turned the BIG 30 this year, I told myself that I was going to run in our local marathon BUT I didn't run A marathon. I would have been dead on the side of the road if I had done that! HOwever, my sister in law, Jackie and I decided that we would shoot for a 5K. It turned out to be really fun. We met up with a friend in our ward and off we went! At the finish line, my mom was there to hand out our medals. It turned out to be really fun and I was very pleased with my time (29:15)!

It was so much fun that Jason felt left out so we ran in a city fun run today and the course ended up being a little bit harder than the previous race. I just knew that my time wouldn't be as good but in the end, I did better than expected(28:19). Jason also did really well. He placed 3rd in his age group and ran right around 24:00 minutes. It was really fun to run with Jase even though he left me in the dust. He ended up being my cheerleader at the finish line. All in all, it was fun running in a couple of races and fun to run with Jase. Who knows, next year I might get ambitious and run the 10K.

Summer Fun

Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to this summer. It is going by so fast that before you know it the leaves will be falling.

Most of our days have been spent with neighbors, watching our kids play. Avery has been playing every day with her friends and loving every minute. She has a few friends that she loves to be with. They love to play house, have tea parties, and ride their scooters.

Avery also took dance with summer with another best friend, Payton. They were in the Chubbuck Day parade with their dance group, Danceology. Avery had a blast throwing candy and dancing! She definitely likes dance a lot more than soccer. I think she is going to be a girly girl!

We also had a family reunion in West Piney with Jason's extended family. I was really horrible about taking pictures but I did get this one of the family wearing our fancy bandanas, which were totally ugly! We had fun going white water rafting and hanging out with family.

The Freedom To...

Happy 4th of July family and friends! I hope you have had time to reflect on our privileges of living in this great country and what freedom means to you. I am so thankful to all the men and women of the past and of today who sacrifice for our freedom, especially our freedom to worship our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Our country was founded on freedom to worship as we please. I am so blessed to live in this country!

My Niece

This is my newest niece: Katelin Sydnie. My sister was nice enough to let me borrow her to practice photography. And thanks Karalee for helping me!

Happy 30th Birthday Jase!!!

Singing Happy Birthday to him. He is totally embarrassed!

He is such a weirdo!

Jason turned the big 30 on May 31st! And to his utter surprise I threw a surprise birthday party for him. It was stressful keeping it a secret for so long and having Avery keep it a secret also. From the invitations to the way we got him there, everything had to be planned perfectly. We had dinner with our whole family at a local pizza restaurant. It was a lot of fun and it surprised Jason. I had to do something big for him. He also got a new mountain bike to go with his new helmet. Hope you had a super duper birthday Jason, WE LOVE YOU BEYOND MEASURE!!!