Happy Memorial Day...

Memorial Day is always nice because it allows you to take time to remember those who have gone before. This Memorial Day we spent up in Honeyville. It was great to be with family and have an extra day where Jed didn't have to work!! We had a great time visiting with my cousing Jessica and her husband Bryan and their cute little family, Harleigh, Connor & Riatta. They stayed the night at my parents house on Friday. They currently live in Vernal and we don't get to see them that often. On Saturday, Jed, me, Tawnya, Landon & Nappy decided to go golfing...despite the forecast for rain. It ended up raining quite hard, but we had a great time. We were all froze by the end and one golf club lighter, but it was worth it! On the only hole with water, Jed decided to toss his pitching wedge right into the water. It's a good thing he has a sense of humor, because the rest of us thought it was pretty darn funny. His hands were wet and it just slipped right out. Monday turned out to be a beautiful day and we had a BBQ at my grandparents house. My dad was lucky to have all of his siblings here this year. We had a great time visiting with aunts, uncles & cousins we don't get to see that often.
I am leaving for Arizona on Saturday morning to go visit my grandparents. I'm excited to be able to see some of my family I don't get to see that often. My mom and Nappy are flying down on Friday and then Lucas and I will fly Saturday. I found so pretty cheap tickets.
These are some pictures that Tawnya took out in our yard. We were trying to keep Lucas cooled off during the hot spell. He sure had a blast playing with the hose.

Update...

I was looking at our blog today and realized it's been over a week since I wrote anything. I thought I would do an update and I then I realized there isn't much to update you on. Jed's diploma came in the mail today... I guess that means it's official. The school has obviously decided to save money by elimiating the nice display folders that they use to come in. All he got was the piece of cardstock. Thank goodness the piece of paper means something!! We'll have to go pick out frame to display it in.
Since Tawnya has not been working, we have done quite a bit of stuff together. She went with me today to run a few errands. Last week we did the frame project. I think they turned out dang cute! I want to make some more, but I don't have any more room! It makes it fun when the picture/person is cute too.
Lucas has been wearing me out! He is so full of energy and just goes and goes and goes. I just get one room cleaned and he's off destroying another one. He's so funny. If you tell him you are going to spank his bum, he spanks it himself. I can't help but laugh. He's going to be awfully hard to discipline because he thinks everything is funny. We took him to nursery on Sunday for a little bit. He just seems so young. He hit one of the other boys in the face. It's his way of greeting people I guess... He'll go into nursery in three weeks. It'll be interesting to see how they handle him. He doesn't sit still and the whole time we were in there they wanted the kids to do puzzles!
On Sunday we had a BBQ at Tawnya and Landon's. It was a lot of fun. We have such good friends. I hope that when we move, we can still get together. We are really lucky. One of the games that we play a lot is Scum, which is quite fun when we have 10 people.
Jed and I are truly blessed to have such great people in our lives. I really believe that the Lord gives us trials and challenges only to make us stronger and better. They can definetly bring people closer together and I feel that with our family.


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Curve Balls...

Just when you think things are going good and life couldn't get any better, something always seems to happen. Well that something happened to us this past week. May 9th was our first visit to the doctor for the pregnancy, and of course we were excited. We didn't leave the doctor's office as excited though. Dr. Glenn couldn't find a heartbeat so he sent us for an ultrasound. It turned out that it was not a viable pregancy. I should have been 11 weeks along, but the baby had stopped growing about 6 weeks. Dr. Glenn scheduled me for surgery and I had that done the next day. I could have waited it out, but I probably would have still had to have the D&C. I justed wanted to be done with it. My mom came down and stayed with us for a couple of days. She was a huge help with Lucas. 25% percent of pregnancies end with a miscarriage. I didn't realize how high it was. Dr. Glenn is a wonderful doctor and I'm grateful for his help with all of this.
Mother's Day was not the easiest for me this year. I am truly blessed to have Jed and Lucas in my life. They mean so much to me. I am also thankful for our own mothers. They are wonderful moms and we appreciate everything they do for us. We are very blessed to have such a wonderful family. We love you all and appreciate all the love that has been shown to us this past week. It means a lot to us.

Junior/Senior Pictures

Jed and I took my sister Jessica's Junior/Senior pictures. She didn't have any taken this year and since senior pictures are taken in a couple of months we figured we could do it now. They turned out pretty cute. She's really pretty, especially when she's not scowling!!! Here are a few of them. My mom came and got me and Lucas on Wednesday and we went to Jessi's softball game in Tooele, which they lost, and then we went up to Honeyville. Jed came up on Friday afternoon. We had a great time. We went to Ice Age 2, which is really funny. For Jed it was really relaxing since he didn't have to hurry and get back home to write papers. Jessica's dog Mickey also had puppies a little while ago so we tried to get Lucas to like them. He's scared to death of them. They are so cute. If they would stay little, I would bring one home with me.

He did it...

Jed GRADUATED yesterday. It made for pretty busy day, but it was worth it. Jed's parents and my mom were able to be here for it. It almost feels like a dream. I'm so proud of him though. He worked really hard for this. Hopefully now Lucas and I will get to see him more!! After graduation we took his parents out to see the model home we are building and the dirt that we now own!! Then we went back to the motel they were staying and went swimming. Lucas loved it. He floated around in his little blow up tube.

One More Pic...

More Pictures...

Okay... since the weather has had its ups and downs, we have to take advantage of every minute we can get outside. Yesterday I decided to take the camera and take pictures of Lucas. Here are just a few of them. You'll have to scroll down to the second post to see the rest of them. They didn't turn out too bad. He hates to have his feet touch the grass so it makes it pretty funny to watch him. Especially because the grass is quite long right now. Lucas thought he was pretty cool with his backpack on . He's so funny.
Last night was went to dinner with Shane and Talease (Jed's sister) to P.F. Changs. It's one of our favorite places to eat. They are leaving for California within the next couple of weeks. They'll be gone for the summer. It's fun to see them, we sure love them. We hope they have a great time in California. Jed's parents are coming tomorrow for his graduation on Friday. We are excited to see them.

Pictures...

This is Lucas's face eveytime the dogs bark! It makes me laugh.

2 days and counting...

Jed has finals today and tomorrow and then he is officially done!!! He'll graduate this Friday. We are so excited. He just told me last week that he finally could see a light at the end of the tunnel. He's been so busy with papers that he thought this day would never come.
On Saturday we finalized all of the options for the home we are building in Spanish Fork. I hope we remembered everything. If not, oh well because it costs to much money to do a change order. Hopefully they'll be able to give us some kind of time frame in the next little bit.
We had an offer on our home this weekend. We counter-offered back to them. We'll see if they accept either today or tomorrow. They have written into the agreement that they would rent back to us, which would be really nice. It makes me sad to sale, but we don't really want the hassel of renting it out.
We has a BBQ with some friends yesterday. It was fun to hang out with them again. We haven't really done anything for along time. We've all been so busy, but with summer right around the corner, I think we'll be doing a lot more!!
Sorry I don't have any pictures to post today. I need to take some. I forgot to recharge the batteries so my camera is dead.

Happy Easter

Kenna & Lucas

This year we spent Easter in St. George with Jed's family. It was a lot of fun. We went out to the family ranch in Arizona. The first part of the day was a little bit chilly, but it ended up being really nice. All of the cousins hunted for easter eggs, and of course, Lucas found his share. Jed's aunt and uncle are the foster parents to the little girl in the picture above. Her name is Kenna and she's only a week older than Lucas. They hope to adopt her and we definetly want them too. She's adorable. It was fun to hang out with all the family. Lucas loves to spend time with his Grandma & Grandpa and we do too.

Easter Pictures

Lucas Hunting for Easter Eggs.

Crazy Life...

Once we decided to build a home, our lives have been come even more crazier. Jed has only 17 more days till he graduates, but has been bombarded with papers. He's a little stress out. I was doing okay until we put our home up for sale. The realtor called yesterday at 10:45 and wanted to show the home at 11:00. Of course I panicked and needless to say, they didn't come! That was okay though...I'm not sure I'm ready to sell. We've been cleaning out closets and trying to get the house ready. The photographer came today and took pictures of the outside and inside. Hopefully they won't be too bad. We have our final appointment for our new home on April 22nd. We have to have everything picked out. It's a little bit nerve racking, but I'm sure it will all work out. I'm going to go up there one more time before we finalize just so I can be sure of the colors, etc. I'm adding some pictures of Lucas from this weekend. Now that we are moving, we finally get to use the swing set that's in our backyard. He loves it. I also tried to get a picture with him since I'm usually the one behind the camera. As you can see, he didn't want to show his face!!!

Lucas & Max...

This past week we got to watch Max Parry for a couple of hours. It was so much fun to have him. He'll turn one in June. He's the son of Jordan and Ashlee Parry. Ashlee is actually Jed's first cousin. They live in Saratoga Springs. We love having them down here. He's the closest cousin Lucas has right now. We hope one day he has some more cousins!!
On Sunday after General Conference we decided to take Lucas on his first actual walk with out a stroller. He did pretty well. He pushed his little walker around the block. Notice his cute little sunglasses. He loves to wear them. He would get side tracked a lot of the time, but it was still fun to see him do it and he thought he was pretty big!

Prom...

This is my sister "Nappy" and her date "Spud"!!!
(aka Jessica & Alex)

New Home...

Lynsee Germaine(cousin), Jessica, The Bride, Shara & Katie

Look who caught the garter!!

What a week this has turned into. We've been looking at building a new home. Last Saturday after we got back from Tawnya and Landon's Holden reception, we went looking at another subdivision. This one is in Spanish Fork. We really like them and by the time we left we had signed papers to build. Of course that is all dependent on what the loan guy has to say! We are extremely excited though. We are completely out of room in the one we are in. We hope everything works out.
Lucas has been a little under the weather lately. We can't get him to shake this cold that he has. I've tried every medication under the sun. Hopefully he'll start to feel better soon. He's not always his happy self when he's sick. He's been so healthy for the last month that I almost forgot what it was like when he's sick!

Gangsta Lucas...

Playing in his box...best toy ever!

Happy Birthday to my stressed out mom!

Dad relaxing after the wedding!