Baby gurl - growin' like a weed

I can't wait to post my birthday surprise...but until I wrangle up the video...I'm going to post a few of my favorites pictures that I've gotten this summer.  Can't wait til their back from CA.

 

Pierced Ears!

"SAFE!!!"

This summer my hubby and I have enjoyed going to four Salt Lake Bees Baseball games.  All free tickets and all really good games (and surprisingly very fun to watch!)  In fact, we've even gotten 2 FREE Grand Slam breakfasts from Denney's out of it. But the best news of all came last week when I felt like I'd got on base and the call was made..."SAFE!!!" by the smallest fraction.  After a very emotional July due to a bad mammogram, a bad re-call mammogram, an ultrasound and a biopsy...I am"SAFE!"  I will be up to bat again next July and pray again that I make it on base and hear that call "SAFE"!

No More Teenagers

Today is another milestone in my life.  I have no more teenagers!
I became a teenagers mom on Feb 17, 2002 and I ended being a teenagers mom on June 5, 2013.  It's been an awesome 11 years! By the way...Happy Birthday Jentry! (my baby)

Our little angel has arrived!

 

Callie Jane Harper

April 19, 2013

9:27 pm

7 lb. 6 oz.

19 inches

 

A little piece of heaven just arrived in the form of a perfectly healthy baby. 

I have a new title now: "Grandma" and I love it!

I think of the words of a special blessing: "you shall have joy in your posterity".

 

A very special Thank you to jillapontephotography.com

or should we call her "the baby whisperer" for her TLC and amazing pics of Callie at just 5 days old!

 

 

Movin' in

Here she is!  Our new house as of Thursday, March 28th.  We first spotted her on February 27th.  Truly one short month before she became ours. So after almost 1 year of apartment life, we moved in on Thursday, March 28, 2013.  It was a one-month whirl wind and we're so happy that we've finally landed.  Here are the answers to A LOT OF QUESTIONS everyone seems to ask:
Nope, not brand new 
Nope, not old fixer-upper
Nope, not in the ritzy part of town (I guess that's the East side of State Street)
Nope, not in Sandy, Sugarhouse, Millcreek, Murray or Day Break
Nope, not one level
Nope, no cute yard...yet (but lots of potential)
Nope, I don't have a bus route yet, may have to drive
Nope, I don't know the name of the area
Nope, not keeping the Christmas lights that are still up all over
Yep! it's on the West side
Yep!  I know all about the crime - sadly, it's ALL over the valley
Yep! it's about 18 years old
Yep!  it's a complete flip on the inside and it smells new
Yep! there are a few things we will change inside
Yep! we have a lot of yard work to do
Yep! the dogs LUV their new backyard
Yep! it's off of Redwood Road
Yep! we'll be in a another ward/stake
Yep! it's just the perfect size nest for two old birds
Yep! it's got stairs all over the place and some crazy ones in the kitchen/living room
Yep! I'm gonna paint sometime (how well you know me)
Yep! I have multi-cultural neighbors but I had that in the apartment too
Yep! it's only 15-20 minutes if I drive to work, 40-60 minutes on the train & bus
Yep! I can hear trains and airplanes sometimes
Yep! It's SO super quiet at night, no one walking on the ceiling all the time!
Yep! I am so glad to be out of the apartment!
Yep! We got in on the great interest rates
Yep! This is a huge blessing for us!!
We feel so blessed and we felt guided to this house by Heavenly Father.  We gratefully thank him for his tender, loving, watchful care. We are so thankful he is in the details of our daily lives as we know he truly answered our prayers and knows what's best for us.
Please come see us anytime!  We have a bed for you and I'll even make you a huckleberry muffin!

My baby gurl's having a baby gurl

25 Year Anniversary

25 years ago today my world was turned completely upside down, rocked and shaken.  It was definitely an earthquake in my life. I couldn't say it then, but I am better for it. Joseph Smith said that someday we will get the answer to our "why?"

 In Memory

Jade Roy Nelson

October 27, 1987 - January 30, 1988

If tears could build a stairway, 

and memories a lane, 

I'd walk right up to Heaven 

and bring you home again.
-Unknown