Spring is almost here!

My beautiful daffodill garden! The tulips are soon to be on their way!

Back yard barbecuing. Yum, delicious shiskabobs...peppers, onions, pineapple, tomatoes, and chicken. My poor starving dogs are on looking for a piece to hopefully fall off.

I've ventured in to the world of bread making. I never thought this work be my thing but I totally loved it. I first, ground my own wheat into 16 cups of flour, (whew, got a little stronger muscles from that:), and then it was history from there. All fresh, natural ingredients, and to top it off... I also made cinnamon rolls with the same dough. Ian gave his stamp of approval!

My cute dogs... Hinkley and Cooper!

Our fun Valentines dinner... rock lobster tail, New York steak, asparagus, sauteed mushrooms, & edamame

I've started my seeds for my spring garden... wallawalla onions, basil, peppers, and all my tulips and daffodills are coming up. I'm so excited for SPRING! I'll be planting tomatoes, cucumbers, and pumpkins. I love growing a garden. So you may know by now that I had a miscarriage :( I have to at least set the record straight so you're not wondering why I'm not getting a prego belly. It's ok though, I'll be excited when it happens again. I didn't know that I would be so affected by this emotionally, but my good husband has been the best friend and support. I'm excited to move forward and start a family.

We recently decided we wanted to start writing things down that are memorable, funny, etc. to document our life together... so here is our attempt to do so. So many moments have already passed that leave us with nothing else but our memory to rely on, and as most people know, memory constantly fails you. In December of 2007 for Christmas, we went to Costa Rica to visit Weet and Larkin on their mission and at the end of our trip not only were we robbed, but our camera was stolen too. As a result, that trip is only a memory in our minds. When telling stories of Costa Rica, some of the events that happened end up being maybe a little more embellished than they deserve. Our most recent trip was home to Texas, for Christmas, and ended up being both of our favorite trips home. Everything from a crazy green card wife running a very nice truck into a lake, fireworks, family, good barbeque, blue bell, breaking a colt, seeing Tim after 7 years, shooting guns, and getting bucked off the horse were among some of the most memorable of events that happened. But with all that excitement happening, it still doesn't supersede our most recent experience. We are going to be parents. Wow! We are both excited like kids on Christmas. I'm about 5 weeks along and will be expecting sometime in late September. Ian is busy finishing his bachelors degree and working at Zion's Bank and I'm staying busy at The Lighthouse, doing all types of fun lighting for residential and commercial and we're both studying to take big tests... Ian is taking the GMAT and I'm preparing for the NCIDQ. We are doing great and love our new old home (1923ish), have 2 dogs, Hinkley and Cooper, and love riding our motorcycle and scooter. Life is good.