New niece #3

You guessed it....another new niece for us! My brother Jon and his wife Heather just had their first baby on the 15th. My family is super excited to have another grand baby in the family. I'm so excited for my brother, its so crazy that he's a daddy now, I can't get over it. I'm sad I wasn't right there when she was born but I will get to see her in a couple weeks, I can't wait!







Isabella Rae (Bella)
Sept. 15, 2008
7lbs
I think she looks so adorable and I want to give her lots of kisses!



My cute brother Jon and his sweet wife Heather

Lewis & Clark Caverns

Brock and I decided to make a trip to the nearby Lewis and Clark Caverns last weekend. We again were amazed by the beautiful scenery on our 40 minute drive to the cave. I seriously can't get over the super neat mountain ranges here!

Once we got to the cave we were able to catch a guided tour through the caverns. We learned a lot about the history of the cave and the surrounding areas. The biggest fact I learned was that Lewis and Clark actually had nothing to do with the caverns and didn't even discover them!

It was really neat to go through the caverns and I think that we will make it a yearly visitation spot!


Here are some of our pics we took while we were in the cave.

What were you doing September 11, 2001?

As I woke this morning to faint light leaking through my blinds, I heard my alarm playing and song that took me back to where I was 7 years ago today. As I think about today and everything that it represents my heart is full of mixed emotions. I know that I will never forget where I was, what I was doing, who I was around and what I was feeling.

Seven years ago today, I was attending my first few weeks of classes of my freshman year at Snow College. I had enjoyed my early morning walk to my math class through the large mature shady trees and remember the fresh cool autumn air.

My class was in a cold dark basement room filled to the brim of tired math students. As the professor came in to start the lecture, a friend of mine raised her and announced that an airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center. She had not caught any details or the nature of the situation. Our first thought was that it must have been a private plane, and did not realize the severity.

After class I made my way home and my roommates had the news on and it was at that point I realized the devastation of the crash. We sat together and watched the footage and witnessed the second plane crashing into the second building as well as hearing about the other two planes. The shock and horror rang through when we realized we were under attack. As we shared tears and fears of what had happened and what would come, we comforted each other with our faith in God.

That night fear and heartache broke out across our country as well as our little college town. My family was far away and I remember calling home in shear panic. As I listened to the comforting words from my parents it soothed my heart and I knelt and prayed for the families who were directly hurt from the attack.

We came together as a country, town, ward, family and roommates and mourned for those who were suffering. Still all these years later, as I blog this entry my eyes are full of tears in remembrance of that day. However, my faith in God and our country provides me with assurance that we are okay.

At this time when the world is so confusing and everyone has different views and ideas of how things should be, I hope that we can remember how important it is to stand together in faith in God and our country. I believe that ultimately it is us as individuals who decide how it's going to be by who we decide to be. Our country will break apart if we do not stand together always, no matter what our differences may be. We need to be smart in our choices because it will be us who will reap the consequences.

I love my country and it is my faith in God and in Jesus Christ that strengthens me through the rough times in my life. I will never forget that day in September, 7 years ago, or the people who lost their lives. It is burnt into my memory forever.


Snow College Campus

Late Labor Day News

I wasn't going to post our Labor Day Weekend pics because it was a pretty "regular" weekend here for us. I changed my mind because I decided that blogs don't always have to be a report of something shocking or incredibly exciting!

We had BIG plans for our long weekend which was somewhat dampened by poor weather. Friday night we went to one of our favorite restaurants, Old Chicago and gorged ourselves with yummy food.

Saturday we headed up one of our favorite canyons here, Hyalite Canyon, for some fly fishing. It was beautiful fishing weather and the scenery was great. Brock caught 7 fishies and I caught 0, needless to say I was bummed.
Later that night I hosted a Bridal Shower for my friend Etosha and Brock went on a gnarly mountain bike ride with the boys.

Monday we were going to go on a long hike with our friends but it was cold and rainy so we hung out downtown with them instead. While we were out we hit up an Ashley Furniture close out sell and scored some new tables!

Nothing too exciting but it was relaxing to stay around the area and spend time with our great friends!


Hyalite Creek



Boog and Brock fished on the rock together. Boog jumped into the river due to curiosity of the swift moving water, luckily he was hooked to a leash and Brock towed him back in. I don't think he'll do that again any time soon.




Kim, Carla & Etosha at Etosha's Bridal Shower



I was too excited about my tables, so I had to post them. We got three table for $90 at the close out sell and I thought it was a "Steal of a Deal". We got the one for the entry and two night stands. One night stand is in the hall and the other is in our room.