What I am grateful for this year.....

My new little baby boy
My amazing husband
My Job
Family (both sides of it)
Sisters and Sisters-in-law
Good, abundant, easily accessible Food.
The gospel in my life.
Our new calling in the ward.
Pictures
My baby boy's happy, friendly personality.
Modern Medicine.
Technology.
Sup-pumps, fans, insurance, and people willing to lend a helping hand.
Cell phones....
The internet
Blogging
My Health
My patient, smart, loving, positive husband
An awesome washer and dryer
My days off
All the modern baby supplies like: breast pumps, diapers, bottles, binkies, bumbos, bouncers, swings, carseats, toys, etc.
Baby Showers
Health Insurance
My Mom and Dad
My Mother in law and Father in law
Grandparents
Our new home
My glasses
Friends
I could go on but those are the few that come immediately to mind.
This has been a really hard but at the same time a really good year for Tj and I and the best part about it was our new sweet baby boy who we love so much... for him we are most grateful... he is our biggest joy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year we had Thanksgiving with Tj's Family. Thanksgiving morning Tj went and played football with all of his cousins. (This is a tradition they do it almost every year.) Then after that we all met at Tj's Mom's house for yummy Thanksgiving Dinner! It was so good! Lots of Cousins, Lots of Babies, Lots of really yummy food, and Lots of Fun!! That weekend Tj and I debated about taking part in Black Friday but decided that we could use the money in more "responsible" ways. All in all it was a fun Thanksgiving! I have worked the last few so it was awesome for me to enjoy homemade food and family!

Birthday Surprise!

The night of my birthday we had a little surprise or unexpected adventure as you might say..... we went to Tj's Aunts house to pick up some baby stuff.

When we got there they invited us to go with them on a little adventure? They were headed out to the Pah Tempe Mineral Hot Springs in the Virgin River Canyon in Laverkin.

It was so fun! I had never been there although I had heard about these hot springs my whole life. The water was so warm it felt like a hot tub.... but it also was full of minerals and smelt very strongly of Sulpher?
It was so fun we climbed down into the canyon in the dark and crossed the river and climbed up into these huge warm pools of hot mineral water. It was so relaxing and we just hung out and talked for awhile.
Thanks Tyler and Natalie for inviting us on your little adventure, especially since it was my birthday! Oh and Thanks Shauna and Brad for watching Orvil!

Happy Birthday to Me!! (and Ani)

That's right Happy Birthday to Me!!!

And for those of you who don't know also Happy Birthday to Ani!!
That's right I am a twin and so I have always shared my Birthday!!!

Our Birthday is November 9th this year we turned 24 years old!
I had a pretty fun day... we just did a ton of things that I wanted to do: I had a long bubble bath, Tj made yummy breakfast, we played tennis, went to lunch, and that night we went to dinner with my family to Texas Roadhouse and then we went back home and had fabulous Better than Sex cake again. Yes it was so good again!

Included are pictures of my big present from TJ.... he asked the gift wrappers at Christensen's if they could put a big heart on it! Cute huh!

Time Out For Women!!

So my mom invited all the girls in our family to this awesome women's conference done by Desert Book. The conference is called Time Out for Women. It was so good! We were able to take two days out of our hectic lives and get together (without kids) and enjoy much needed spritually uplifting music and spoken word! I throughly enjoyed it and I think we should do it again next year (in Vegas)! Thanks for taking us MOM it was really good!




Only picture I took....Aunt Lisha with Bailey and Orvil!!

Happy Halloween !!!!

So this was our first Halloween with a kid.... and boy was it fun! Having a kid just makes the holidays that much better. Orvil was a lion.... my plan orginally was that I was going to be Dorothy, Tj was going to be a scarecrow, and Orvil a lion but as you can see from these pictures we just didn't get it together. It was still way fun!

Our Little Lion




Orvil had so much fun in his lion costume he loved it!!!



Orvil with his new cousin Ian who was a Monkey!



So Cute!!

Tj's Birthday......

So Tj's birthday was October 30th! He turned twenty-five. It was a fun day. We both had the day off so we just enjoyed hanging out together all day. That evening we enjoyed dinner with a bunch of our friends at The Brick Oven. Then we went back to our house and enjoyed the Stout's family version of Better than Sex cake. Then that evening Grandma Shauna watched Orvil and Tj and I went to the Michael Jackson Movie. It was really interesting.... Michael Jackson (as weird as he got at the end) was a pretty amazing guy? Yeah so all in all it turned out to be a pretty fun day! Happy Birthday Tj! Love your Babe!!