Mary Poppins

Jared surprised me with Mary Poppins tickets for surviving my first busy season! We had a wonderful time together! We only got one picture that night...and I know I look sick in this picture! It really was just a bad picture, I'm just not very photogenic! Jared and I had a fun night together we went to dinner at Setebellos and had amazing pizza. The show was amazing. If you didn't get to see it while it was here you really missed a great show! Thank you Jared for making it such a special night!

Family Baby Shower

My amazing sister-in-laws threw an beautiful baby shower for me in August, it was perfect timing because they were all in town! The theme was, "B is for Baby," the decorations were incredible! They had a yummy crepe bar and don't you worry I tried every flavor! It was absolutely the sweetest gift my sister-in-laws could have given me. The time and effort they each took in putting it together was phenomenal! The pictures don't give it justice!

Crepe Bar Refreshment Table

My sister in-law Kara made this incredible bee hive cake. Have you ever seen anything cuter?! She has quite the talent!

My nieces wanted to be front and center while I opened all the gifts. They were great assistants in picking out what gift I should open next! They were so sweet. I just wish I would have gotten a picture of all of them sitting right in front of me with their eyes so big as each present was opened. This baby is going to be given lots of love by these sweet girls.

Thank you so much for an amazing shower! I promise the pictures do not do it justice! I'm one blessed girl. I could ask for better sisters! We are excited that this little boy will have 2 cousins to follow him. One in December, and one in January. We are also excited to have another second cousin coming in February. Lots of babies!! Oh so much fun!!

Finally...Our Trip to Washington D.C.

I have tried 3 times to get these pictures on our Blog and I keep getting interrupted before I finish...so here it is for real this time! In June we had an awesome opportunity to go to Washington D.C. to visit Cam, Sarah and Lucy for a week! We had a blast and we appreciated Cam and Sarah for letting us stay with them. It really was an amazing trip. It was our first trip Jared and I took just ourselves since our Honeymoon. We had a blast. Here are a series of pictures!

Arlington Cemetery. Our first stop!

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers. We were able to see the change of the guard while we were there. It was really neat. They have someone guarding this tomb 24/7!

Here we are in the capitol building in the spot that is right in the middle of Washington D.C.

This was a cool shot of the capitol from inside, we were able to take a tour of the capitol building. It was really neat, and it was really fun to learn about all the history behind it.

Here we are in front of the capitol building.

Here is Jared at the WWII Monument. He served his mission in South Dakota so we had to take a picture!

Here we are in front of the Washington Monument. This was one our favorite stops. We were able to go to the top and see the amazing view.

Lincoln Monument

This was another fun day, we drove up to a beach in Delaware! It was worth the drive we had a great time playing in the sand and the waves! We even had a fun picnic! Thanks for taking us Cam and Sarah!

Cute Lucy playing in the waves! She is such a funny girl! We loved every minute with her!

Cam and Lucy love to play Scrabble together. Lucy decides what she want to spell and they sound the word out together and find the letters to make the words. She is so smart!

We celebrated Lucy's 3rd Birthday a few days early, with yummy cupcakes! We had so much fun with that girl...she was always making us laugh.

We gave Lucy a princess backpack for her birthday to carry her pink computer in. We had so much fun celebrating with her!

This is Jared's first subway ride!

On our last day in Washington D.C. we rented a paddle boat and rowed around the tidal basin. While we were out we saw the president fly above in his helicopter. See the picture below.

Thank you so much Cam, Sarah and Lucy! We had the best time with you guys!!

September 11, 2011

Today has been a day of reflection for many of us. I thought this picture was appropriate for today. We took a picture of one of the beams from one of the World Trade Center buildings, in the American History Museum in Washington D.C.. When we saw this beam we were reminded of the great freedom that we have living in this country and how easily it was threatened to be taken away from us. I remember on the day of September 11, 2001 I was curling my hair for school when my mom called from the other room in utter shock at what she had seen on the news. I don't think at that point I really realized what had happened and the impact it would have on our country and the lives of so many people. I remember going to school that day and feeling a great sense of unity with everyone in the country. Suddenly it was as if we recognized how something so wonderful we called Freedom had been threatened. I remember feeling a sense of pride to be and American and that all Americans were united together in protecting our Freedom. As we approached the 10th anniversary I feel that we as a country haver slipped back into some complacency regarding what has been fought for so many times. We needed to step up and remember what a blessing freedom really is.

A Taste of "Busy Season"

We found out we were expecting right in the middle of Jared's internship with Deloitte. It was a bit of a shock to us but we are super excited. Jared really enjoyed his experience with Deloitte and he learned a lot. He was really busy from January to April but it was good to see what "Busy Season" is really like. He had to go to a client out in Vernal Monday-Friday and then he would come home for the weekend and go again he did that for four weeks! It was a long few weeks but we got through it. We are both grateful we got a real taste of what lies ahead for us. Jared will start with Deloitte in September 2012 after he finishes his masters in the Spring!

Here is Jared going to a recruiting event for Deloitte. You can tell he loves his picture being taken. I think he grateful we are having a baby so all my pictures won't have to be of him!

An Update is needed and an Update is here!

We are excited to welcome an addition to our family of two!

It's a Boy!! Coming October 18th!

Here is Jared right after we found out!

You could say he's pretty excited and maybe a little in shock!

I Remembered our E-mail Address!

Okay now some of you that actually look at this blog might have noticed that it has been 5 months since we have updated! I do have an explanation for this but I will have to be honest and say that it's pretty lame. I couldn't remember our e-mail address that we have linked to this blog and then it finally just came to me today! Hooray! So now I can update our blog a little more often. New updates coming soon! Now that we can actually sign in!