Our Family Trip to the Aquarium

This is our Saturday spent at the aquarium. Aaron decided we needed a little activity as a family, and I am happy he wanted to go. The girls loved going and we all had a good time.

Here I am with the two girls. Well and the one inside me, which we think is a girl.



Belle and Ella didn't like the look of the frogs and toads, but this one was OK since he wasn't moving.

Smiling for the camera was almost too much at this point.

The penguins were really fun to see, but the tank was so crowded with people it was madness trying to get close enough to see them. But, I managed to snag us a space.

We decided to buy the year membership, so it will be fun to go back and see everything again. Hopefully on a day that isn't quite as busy.

Taking Pictures of Amberdaun and Austins Wedding

Here we are out in the cold and rain, taking pics on the little sisters big day. I think I lost feeling in my hands for a while. But at least the worst of it held off for us to get some good ones.


There is nothing like getting pictures in front of the Temple and Amber looked Beautiful!


Herb and Barb were there enjoying the cold and rain the whole time. What an exciting time. They are now empty nesters.

Look at this hansome man. What is he on? A scooter. Wow! can I get one of those?

It was actually kind of handy with him on a scooter doing the video.

Aaron's Ankle

At the end of February, Aaron had his ankle worked on. He had some dead bone cut out and replaced with a bone graft from his heal. They tightened his ligaments, and got rid of the bone spurs. Overall a successful surgery.



Aaron has been scooting around on this special scooter and the kids love it. They get all sorts of fun out of the rides he gives. At least someone is enjoying his misfortune:)

A typical day finds the girls on Dads scooter. A fun toy? It is for them.

Our little bun in the Oven

This is our little one. I am currently about 17 weeks along. This picture was done at 11 weeks. When this picture was taken we were sure it was a boy, now we are not sure. But, I tell you what, if this is a girl I will be very surprised. This pregnancy has been so different from my other two, I thought for sure it was a different gender. But, either way it is a baby and we are happy.

We are expecting

Most of you know by now that Aaron and I are expecting our third little bundle of joy. We are so excited! To have another little one join our family, is amazing. Each little one brings so much joy and different gifts. Every child is wonderful and I can't help feeling the desire to protect and love those children I see suffering in the world where they are having natural disasters and wars and other things like it.
Since about Christmas time I have been very sick with this pregnancy. I don't think I have ever felt this entirely sick before, for so long. After a while it is difficult to remember that I can be normal and accomplish the stuff I need to and want to. All I remember is that I don't have the ability to do much. In a way I feel worthless. I can barely take care of myself and my girls. In fact, sometimes, I can't take care of us. I have come to feel a greater understanding of those who are sick or unwell. Compassion, I have come to realize comes to us through our own times of weakness. There are many people who don't understand others weaknesses, and cannot tolerate them, in fact we all are probably guilty of that to some degree. My mother keeps telling me, you can have a clean house or a baby, which do you want? I know that is very wise and I need to keep that in mind, but it is still difficult to not be able to do something. In fact the worst part of that is the huge lack of desire to do a lot. And when I do do a lot of work it makes me very ill.
Well, that is just my way of trying to explain the way I have felt through this pregnancy so far, and to tell those of you who are sick with every pregnancy the entire time, I now have a greater sympathy.

Christmas time

Here are just a few pics of our Christmas Holidays. I am behind on my blogging obviously so I am just going to quickly skim through this stuff. We enjoyed time with our families. Aaron's youngest sister Amberdaun got engaged to Austin. So that was exciting for everyone. Aaron spent a lot of time working on finishing our basement but took time to have some fun. We had a good time and the girls love Christmas.

Halloween Witches! BOO!

We had a good time with our little witches for Halloween. Even though the girls were sick the week before, we still pulled together a fun night.

We went to Witches Night at Gardner Village. It was really really crowded, but we were able to salvage the night with a yummy dinner at Mimi's.

The two littlest witches were buddies, I couldn't get over the cuteness factor.

All the little witches hoping for a treat.

I am not a big scary fan. Ghosts, goblins, haunted stuff, unless it is all cartoony and fun. I like pumpkins, fun decorations, but if I see a skeleton, it just makes me cringe. I am sorry all you scary fans out there, but no, I just don't like it unless it is cute.