Big News, Edgar--

We spent the last four weeks visiting family in Utah and Idaho during school break. We loved it!

It was SO great to spend time with old friends. Look at these cuties! Four kiddo teeter totter.We went to St. George with David's old roommates and hiked the narrows--we got a group shot but mine was a video so I need pictures everyone! The water was a lot higher and colder than I remember when we did it two years ago.Eating one of many banana creamsicles with Grandma. They felt really good on his teeth since he had around 3 or 4 teeth (including one molar) come in during the four weeks.Going boating on the Snake RiverHelping Grandpa make homemade vanilla ice cream.

Giving Mason a break to play with the fountains outside the Deseret Book store while we were visiting downtown SLC & temple square.

Utah's state capital building from the top of the LDS church headquarters

Getting haircuts outside while also swimming.

Some favorite things of mine that I just couldn't get enough of while we were there:
Leatherby's Ice Cream parlor. I haven't gone for years for one reason or another, and it was everything I've been dreaming of. Angie's Almond Joy (or Isaiah's Almond Joy) is a delight.
Along the same lines . . . BYU's Creamery Ice cream. Love it.
And while we were at BYU, we just HAD to get a J-Dawg. MMMmmMMMmm!
Cafe Rio. I so wish they could put one in Omaha . . . I've tried Chipotle and it's just not the same . . .
And just seeing family and friends. I got to see quite a few of my cousins and extended family, friends from high school, new babies, etc. We love you all and miss you! We were excited to come back to Omaha though to our little home and see all our friends and neighbors here.

And our big news is . . . . we're pregnant with a new little munchkin and we found out today she's a GIRL! She will arrive around December 16th and we can't wait to see her :)

Life of late

David had his birthday on Monday, June 27. We ate french toast for breakfast (his favorite), then that day Mason and I went shopping for some good presents :) We celebrated with all our friends that evening with a chocolate cake and rootbeer floats. To top off the night, we had a Transformers pinata that was a favorite with all the kids. Our camera was out of commission so we need to steal some from our friends.

Eating noodles. You can't see very well in this picture, but Mason got about 4 or 5 mosquito bites around his eyes, where we didn't plaster the bug spray, and his eyes got all swollen and purple. The mosquitos were very bad this summer.

Michelle, David's sister, came out to visit Omaha! We loved having her and it was SOOO fun to see family. Here are some pictures of fun things we did. We also showed her the pedestrian bridge, the Union Pacific museum, Winter Quarters temple and visitors center, and the botanical gardens down the street. And the ConAgra park with fountains. We also all love movies, and we saw three good ones: Company Men (it's really good if you have language filters), The King's Speech (same--it's a fabulous movie but is rated R for a few scenes of language), and The Next Three Days (I think this one had a language problem too. Thank goodness for Clearplay :).

going swimming

going to the zoo

Happy Fourth of July! We had a big patriotic breakfast with waffles, berries and cream with some friends and then had a barbeque with our RDEP class that evening. Mason was afraid of the loud fireworks and went to bed rather early for the holiday.

It'll grow back . . .

This is what I would tell myself when I would lose the guts to chop my hair. I've been wanting to cut it short for quite a while, and I finally followed through with it last night! Here's before and after pictures:

I'm actually liking this new 'do so much that I don't know if I can ever go back to long hair! It's a fun change.

Happy Easter!

A few weekends ago I did a 10K hosted by the school's pharmacy program. I finished under an hour, and it was a beautiful day!
For Easter weekend, David's parents were able to come visit us--we loved it! We went to the zoo, went to the Winter Quarter's visitor center and temple, and saw some other historic sites. David and his dad also went skeet shooting, and mom and I made some yummy sugar cookies. It was so fun for Mason to see his grandparents--we miss that.

Visiting the beautiful Lauritzen Gardens and meeting the Easter bunny!
Getting a close look at a fishy.


Winter Quarters Temple
Visitors Center--I think Mason was doing a quick scary face. He loved turning the big wagon wheel.
Mason and Grandpa with their matching hoods. And faces :)

Thank you so much Mom and Dad for coming out--we LOVE YOU! Can't wait to see you all in less than two months :)

Happy Mother's Day!

My wonderful wonderful neighbor Catherine offered to take some pictures of Mason. I can't believe I get to be this little boy's momma. He is the best.

I feel very blessed to be in such an unbelievable line of amazing, inspiring women on both my dad and mom's side of the family. I love you all,

Another great video

Two days ago I started praying for lunch for Mason and me and out of the corner of my eye I saw Mason fold his arms and close his eyes and bow his head!! Hahaha I've always kind of tried to help him fold his arms for the prayer, but he always resists. So afterwards I told him good job and hoped he would do the motions again for dinner with David, but he was just his normal self. But yesterday morning I got him to pose a few praying shots--here you go!

Laugh :D

Thanks Aunt Brooke and Uncle Brighton for this fabulous birthday gift!!

If you look close you can see his two upper teeth that have come through! Some other bottom teeth are on their way,