Baby Number 3!!!

Well, we are excited to announce our future little arrival. We are pregnant with number three! It is quite a story too. I have learned from this experience that the Lord is truly mindful of us and he is intricately involved with our lives. It was so easy to get pregnant with Katelyn and Brayden that I think it was the first time we tried with both of them. So... I just assumed that would be how it was with all of them. We have been trying since last October and I told Sean if we weren't pregnant by February than I would want to be extra careful through March and April. I just never really wanted a baby in December. Well, we were, but ironically enough I don't know how, but we got pregnant anyway. I can just see the Lord smiling down at us saying that we think we have control of our lives, but I guess we don't. Anyway, I am happy and grateful to have another special spirit in our home. It will be great! Here is our first picture of him or her. Our current due date is Jan. 2nd. and we are 12 weeks exactly!

"Busy Bees"

So while mommy was making dinner and daddy was mowing the lawn, "Pocahontas and John Smith" decided to make a home of their own on our back deck. It was so cute I couldn't resist capturing the moment. Kids are so fun and so creative. It is so cute to watch them work together to create things and use their imagination. Katelyn and Brayden play so well together. I am so glad they have each other.

Boating

We had a fun boating trip at the beginning of June. My brother's birthday is June 6th so we decided to have some fun at the lake. Our Bishop has a ski boat so their family and my brother's and mine had a great day in the water. The temperature was great in and out of the water. Sean got to ski solemn for a while, then we did some tubing with the kids and of course the banana boat was a hit for everyone. Its always fun having something that a lot of people can enjoy at the same time. We didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked since our battery was dying, but we had a lot of fun!

Family Photos

We decided to take some pictures as a family since Brayden was so little last time...
Here are some of my personal favorites!







Daddy did some adjusting on these...
This one is my favorite!







These are just too cute!

Playing in the Mud!

So this is what happens when we get a lot of rain! The kids decide to make some mud puddles and dig in. It did not take long to get messy and Daddy joined in the fun after he got home from work!

Baby Goats

So I took the kids with me to go visiting teaching at the Smith's home. They moved here from Vegas about a year ago. They are a really neat family. Anyway, they always seem to have so many animals around and this time we went and visited, they shared with us their new baby goats only a few days old. They brought them in for us to hold. I just thought it was so cute! The kids told their daddy all about it when he got home that night.



At first, they asked Brayden if he wanted to hold one and he said, "How about if I not hold it." Then he saw Katelyn and mommy holding one and decided that he would give it a try. He was nervous, but giggled about it...




Katelyn was just loving it!