Bryce Canyon

For my birthday Justin and I went up to Ruby's Inn and Bryce Canyon. This time we stayed the night at Ruby's and got to drive through Bryce Canyon National Park. Justin is doing a big project on Ruby's Inn for school and was able to get us a great deal on one of their suite's which is normally like $200 a night and we got it for $39.99...he's a pretty good talker! This isn't the greatest picture of my growing belly but I am 17wks in this picture.


View of the whole park from the top

...the BIG announcement...

So I've decided I'm really not very good at this whole blogging thing. Every time I try to do a post, I just end up looking at everyone elses blogs and thinking how cute they are and how I wish I could be as good as them at staying up to date with my blog. I guess sometimes I just feel like my life isn't exciting enough to display to the world. But there is one exciting thing that has happened to us! Most of you probably already know, but I guess I will finally make it official...Justin and I are having a baby!! We are both so excited to become parents! We have been so blessed to have had such good examples of great parents in our lives, that we are thrilled, and of course nervous, to become parents ourselves. This week starts my 14th week and the beginning of my second trimester. I feel even more blessed to have made it this far after the miscarriage last time. Thank you all again for the love and support! I will try to be better about keeping this thing updated as the baby and I grow! :) For now all I have is just this one ulrasound picture of the baby at around 10 wks...

It was so much fun to go to my 10 wk appointment! Since I miscarried last time my OB wanted to see me at 6wks and then again at 10wks this time. At our second appointment he was so nice and gave us a quick ultrasound "on the house," so that we could see the baby moving and hear the heartbeat (which was Justin's favorite part), because my doctor knew how nervous I was going into this second pregancy. We couldn't be more thrilled to have this little one join our family!

5 years

Justin and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on July 19th. Wow! Kind of crazy. Time goes by so fast. It's amazing how our love has grown so much over the last 5 years, you think back to the day you were married and you think you loved each other so much then...but it doesn't even compare to now! Every day it grows more and more through the good times and the tough times and because of those times it gets stronger. We didn't have a whole lot of time or money this year so we just started driving, we ended up going to Duck Creek Days and then kept driving up to Bryce Canyon where we had dinner at the famous Ruby's Inn. It was so nice to just have the day to spend together! I love you Jut!!

Lava Hot Springs 2008

Yuba Lake

For Justin's family camping trip this year we went to Yuba Lake. We decided it would be fun this year to do more of a boating trip. We all had a great time with the wake boards and the tubes. I couldn't get in the water because I had eye surgery like 2 days before this, so I could ride in the boat as long as I put drops in my eyes every ten minutes and kept my sunnies on!

The Big Wheel Race

Justin had this great idea that when all the borthers got together for his graduation that they would have this big wheel race. So of course he got everyone excieted and commited. Next comes all the planning and the rules...Jut and I went out driving one day to find the perfect hill for the race, we start driving up this steep mountain road with lots of turns...and the whole time Justin is saying, "this is great, it will be perfect..." one mile passes, and I say, "ok this looks like a good place to start" but Jut keeps on going, so two miles pass, and then three miles...finally at 3.8 miles Justin stops and is satisfied. He wanted to make usre the race wasn't over too quick...needless to say the first big wheel fell apart maybe 30 feet from the starting line, and the rest shortly there after...TJ made it the farthest, but I think Sam got going the fastest. Tom and Lynn were in the front of the race with the car and I thin kthey said they were going 35 mph and he was coming up on them. Each one of them were bound and determined to win, they were holding the wheels onto their bikes with their hands trying to get just a little bit further. It was a pretty funny sight, but since I was following the race in the truck picking up each of them one by one as their big wheels wouldn't stay together any more I wasn't able to get any pictures of the actual race so these ones will have to do.