3 years ago today...

What a great three years!. We have had a lot of fun, excitement, change, and growth in the past three years. After our honeymoon on a Carribean Cruise, we started our marriage by moving to North Carolina to live at a waterski school. Chad taught waterskiing and participated in many tournaments, and I did travel nursing. It was such a fun way to start off our marriage by getting away and having fun doing what we love. Next we moved back home to Utah and bought our first house. Chad worked for his family's business doing excavation and I resumed my job in the ER and eventually the OR at Mckay Dee Hospital. We had an exciting surprise in the fall of '07 and found out we were pregnant. Carmyn came in '08 and changed our lives completely....for the good:). Now here we are in Kansas City, MO with a new job for Chad and a completely new life to start again. As hard as change can be, it has completely strengthened our marriage and made us realize that we are in this together......for eternity! Every ending leads to a new beginning. I love you Chad....... and I know I'm in for a lifetime of new beginnings......I'm so happy to start them all with you!

(those pictures are really bad quality- I know. I had to take a picture of a picture. My CD of wedding pictures is probably packed away in some box- I wouldn't know the first place to look)



These are pictures of the day we got engaged. We were on a snowmobile trip with my family in West Yellowstone. Chad took me on a night hike at midnight and proposed in the moonlight on a bridge over the river. Pretty romantic huh! The best part was that I was totally surprised! I was sweating because I thought I was on this hike to get a workout, Chad was dragging behind me trying to get me to stop at the right spot so he could pop the question. It turned out great. He bought me a diamond and just put it on a regular band- then later he took me to the jewelry store to pick out the ring I wanted (that way he could keep it all a surprise). Chad laughs when he look back on this night because he was trying to make it romantic and I wanted to pack our guns with us in case we ran into any wild animals on our hike. How was I supposed to know?

Its a good feeling

I just wanted to take a moment to remember this time in my life because I know it won't last very long......

Chad and I are officially 100% debt free!!!


However, we live in an apartment and only have one car....but really that's besides the point!

We'd like to thank Dave Ramsey and his encouraging words of wisdom in his book
"Total Money Makeover"

Washington Trip

Carmyn and I took a fun little trip to Washington last week! Chad had to go to Vegas for the week on a business trip (rough huh), so we decided to spend the week at my bro and sis-in-laws house in Tacoma. It worked out well because my cousin was having her wedding reception in Seattle last weekend (her real wedding was in Hawaii a couple of weeks ago- I was sad I had to miss that), so my parents flew up to go to the reception and we got to celebrate my dads b-day and mothers day! A fun trip with lots of events.This is me and Kristin my sis-in-law. I had so much fun spending the week with her and my adorable nephew Elijah who is just a couple months younger than Carmyn.

We had lots of rain the first half of the week but that didn't stop us from going out!

We spent a lot of time working on sharing toys

Grandma Kimmie was in heaven with her two grandbabies all weekend!


This is my gorgeous cousin Aimee. She grew up in Seattle then moved to Hawaii 10 years ago for college. She married a Hawaiian guy named Kekumu (actually his name is like 10 names long but call Kumu for short). Check out her dress!! My aunt made it for her! It was so unique and Aimee looked amazing!


Happy 52 Big "T"


Happy Mothers Day to my mom. My best friend. My ultimate example of a woman and a mother. I love you!