Farewell to Great Friends

Living in Boise was such a great experience for us, we'll never forget the friendships we made there. I just want you all to know how special you are to us and we sincerely hope to always keep in touch with every one of you!

Noelle and Russell

Too much fun and sarcasm for one room when Susan and Russ get together! I hope you'll keep sporting the Timberlands with pride! Noelle, you're such a great mom to Josie, thanks for all the great advice and encouragement! We really are going to miss being able to talk about anything and feel so comfortable around great friends!

Spencer, Nikki, and Kelan

This isn't goodbye, but see you REAL soon! We love you so much!.... and even if we didn't we're stuck with you forever! Hah....But I can't imagine it any other way. And although Kelan is a monster sometimes, he's the tutest little monster ever!

Garrett and Audrey

Thanks for studying with Stephen and being a great support to him.....and thanks for getting him back in to gaming....by thanks I mean I want to kill you! Sorry we didn't get to hang out more.

Bekah, Travis, Hunter and baby Tristan

What an amazing little family! Bekah, I've never felt so close and comfortable with someone so quickly. You were such a great strength and support to me from the minute I met you, our conversations really lifted me when I needed it the most. I'll always treasure that and all the time we spent together (especially the much needed girls nights!). I know we'll keep in touch....we better, I need your advice and encouragement more than ever with Brooks on the way!

Thanks for all the memories, we hope you come to visit if you get the chance!

Office Baby Shower

Look at this amazing cake a lady in my office made...she is very artistic and talented as you can see. She even went to the trouble of using Brooks's colors on the "platter". This is me with all the loot, I swear there were a lot of people there but NO ONE would let me take a picture of them....except Kim (seen w/me below)

I can't believe I only have one more week of work left until who knows when, I have really enjoyed working at the AG's office and with all the great people here, I'm really going to miss it!

Temple Square

This angel Moroni is 2 feet SHORTER than the one placed on the Salt Lake Temple, amazing.

Temple lights....sort of. We were too late to see the temple grounds so this is outside of the conference center across the street.

A replica of the podium used in the conference center at the Pres. Hinckley display at the Church History Museum.

Christmas tree at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

This is me at 29 weeks.....only 11 more to go!

Thanksgiving Extravaganza!

Thanksgiving Eve we went to the Jazz game with Stephen's parents, Merilee, Nikki, Spencer, and cousins Clinton and Alicia.

Korver wasn't playing that night due to a wrist injury....but he was looking dang good in that suit!

This is my cousin Tava and her adorable son Anderson....what a solid name!

Of course all the girls hanging out around the table....grazing on all the amazing goodies.

Of course the boys sitting on the couch watching football.


Me with some of my aunts and uncles.

This was the end of the Black Friday marathon at 6:00am.....it started at midnight at the outlet mall in Park City.

"SURPRISE" Baby Shower for Brooks!

So this past weekend Stephen and I headed over to Blackfoot to hang out with Ryan and Carrie and the fam while they were visiting for the weekend, we went up to Rexburg on Saturday for what I thought was a family luncheon at Ansley and TJ's....but when we showed up it was actually a surprise baby shower for me and Brooks! So shocked....I had no idea! EVERYONE was in on it, even my mom and no-one let it slip, AmaZing! It was awesome and we got a lot of really great things!

Beautiful table of goodies! I have such talented sisters-in-law! (You can see them hard at work in the kitchen)
Me and Donnalin- thanks for the baseball outfit!
This is me with an amazing quilt made by Merilee, Ansley, and Carly I believe....(sorry if I left someone out) and I'm about to open a basket of fun from Robyn- THANK YOU!

This is me with a gorgeous "diaper bag" from Carrie- THANK YOU!

Cute little booties from Melissa and her girls!

Sisters- Thank you so much for all your time and hard work, it was a great shower, fun was had by all!

Thanks mom for the cute stuff and the pack-n-play!

Stephen wanted me to be sure and tell everyone THANK YOU from him too!

We couldn't ask for more love and generosity from all of our family and friends!

We LOVE sushi!

Stephen and I went on a date on Friday night, just the two of us! I've really been wanting to spend some quality time with Stephen because he's been studying so much for the CPA and school that we really don't sit down together and hang out as much as we want to. We tried a new sushi place and we were a little nervous when we walked in and were the ONLY people in the restaurant and all the cooks were white guys. But the food was actually really good....don't worry I ate veggie rolls, but I was really jealous of Stephen's "raw roll", it looked amazing! After dinner we went to a Halloween party for some free dessert and then we went to the movies and saw "Hancock", not bad. Thanks for spending the night out with me it was really fun, I love you Stephen!

Happy Halloween

I love that Nikki and I always want to carve pumpkins for Halloween, but the boys really end up doing most if not all of the work.....what good troopers they are, thanks boys!
Nikki and I are just in charge of picking out the designs to carve, mine is the spider, Nikki went with "Boo" this year.

Here are the boys and their finished work, yes we let Kelan eat spiders.

the belly

Here are a couple of recent prego shots.....in this one I'm 23 weeks and I feel like I've just shot out like a blimp.

I think I'm almost 22 weeks in these pictures

Gettin crafty

This is my first project with my new sewing machine (my first sewing project EVER)!

-A crib blanket for the upcoming arrival of my baby boy.

In case you're wondering what the B is for- Stephen chose the name Brooks for our first son!

Hopefully the next project will be a little neater and the lines a little straighter, but not too bad for my first try!

Courtney and Mom came to visit!

I got Stephen to Line Dance!! Miracles do happen.....good times at the ward activity!

Courtney went through the temple for the first time on Saturday! She came all the way to Boise so that I could be there with her, it was so fun watching her and being a part of it! Love you Court!

Mom took us all out to the Melting Pot for my birthday/Courtney's special day....it was so fun..but next time we're going to bring a bag full of treats to dip in the chocolate, MMMMM!

Stephen surprised me with the sewing machine I've been wanting- Project Runway Editon!!

Check back soon for some crafty masterpieces......haha, I couldn't even thread the dang thing by myself!

Stephen is so creative, we didn't have wrapping paper so he cut up my glamour magazine- so cute! Thanks for all you do for me, I LOVE YOU BUD!