Good neighbors

I love our old neighbors, Bobbi Graham and her husband... She is one of my favorite people and reminds me so much of my own sweet grandma.  They left two years ago to serve a mission in Jerusalem. What a neat place and how exciting. They're back now but have decided to down grade into a smaller home.  Before moving, they reported to the ward on their mission.  The theme of her talk was "Wherever we are is a holy place if we make it one.". It was very good... Then Bro Graham got up and said, "The best part of going was that I got to be with this sweet lady 24/7." I thought  that that was so sweet, and it made me really excited to serve a mission with my husband. 

Sam's first talk in church

I have to say, with Ada's first talk in church, we talked with her, wrote down what she said and practiced. With Sam, we completely forgot. Jer and Sam were brilliant though. It was supposed to be on how getting baptized is following God's Plan. Jer just stood by him while Sam recited the fourth article of faith.
We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the gospel are first, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, second repentance, third baptism by immersion for the remission of sins, fourth the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
I'm sooooooo glad that we've been practicing these so that Sam had something to say instead of mom or dad giving their testimonies through Sam to the Primary.  He was so cute up there and seemed more pleased than nervous.

This one's for you dad

Since I can remember, my dad has worn suspenders everyday... Five days a week for his teaching job, Sundays for church, and pretty much every night while he accomplished his ecclesiastical duties.... Well I saw these and had to buy them for Sam. Love them.

They got a baby!

My good friend from the good old days has been trying to adopt for quite some time and they got their new baby about 5 weeks ago.  He's so cute! Little dimple and all. I know they'll be amazing parents, and if you they don't feel like they're doing so great it's because they're so tired from being pure awesomeness...  Today I got to meet him at their baby shower.  So sweet!

Fun trip to Bridal Veil Falls

Thanks Marg! I really needed to go do something like this...

Scripture study

Last night Ada told us during scripture study that she was really tired as that she was going to go to sleep while we were reading and leave her ears ,"turned on."

cuties

Evelyn like Blue Man Group... she has even imitated them... nice.

Sam tells me that he loves me all the time.

Ada loves playing... and playing... and playing.... if we lived on a farm, she'd be the happiest girl alive.

Treatments

So just a note about fertility treatments...

They said Clomid would make me moody... it made me tired and happy.

We did the IUI yesterday, we'll see if it works... now just to be patient and find out.

The hardest part of the whole process so far was having to give myself a shot.  I just couldn't do it, so I visited my resident nurse... THANKS MOM!

I highly recommend IUI... it's a little expensive... so far it's been about $1500... but if it works, it's so worth it.  And it's cheaper than IVF for $10,000.

There is a chance for multiples, I doubt we will have them, but if we do... here are my thoughts.  It will be a hard 3 years, but wouldn't it be hard to have to go through fertility treatments again two years from now when we decide that we want another baby?

The doctor said that everything looked great and went well, but we've heard that sometimes it takes 3-4 times doing the treatment to get pregnant so I'm trying not to get too excited just yet.  At least I know the whole process now... and if we end up doing it again it will be easier.

If we end up not being able to get pregnant, at least I'll know by the end of the year and be able to just keep going without the guessing.  I'd also double up my effort to lose weight again.  Dieting sucks, just saying.

Father's day

This man is amazing.  I didn't post on Father's Day, but this is one of the most amazing and humble men in the world.  He never gets mad, I swear... or if he does, he doesn't show it.  He's done wonders for my patience and also with my self esteem.  He's made me look and value me for me and not for my body.  He loves and plays with the three wonderful kids that we've made together.  He supports us all in our ups and downs.  And for Father's Day, guess what he wanted?  He wanted to hang out with family, so we did.  We hung out with my family for a little and then just us for a little and then his family while his dad made deliciously sinful chocolate cake.  We didn't get to sing to him in church, but the kids have been practicing a song for him and we'll catch him unawares sometime.  Jer wanted a chop saw, so he got it.  Here's to many happy years, and many wood working projects to come.

Bear Lake Work Weekend

We are so lucky to have a place to play and stay during the summer.  My Great-Grandpa's cabin is old but it feels like a second home to me.  Because I want my kids to love and enjoy it too, we want to participate in the family maintenance and cleaning times.  We went this last Friday and Saturday to cut down three trees, rake prickly bushes, fix the canoe, debate about the boat house, watch Troy fix the water heater, and let the kids swim and play.  I'm so glad that we have a fun place to go.  It's worth the time it takes to take care of it.

Because it's a family cabin, we get to meet up with all sorts of extended family at any given time.  Ada made friends with Boston and Brooks... my mom's cousins' daughters. I think we figured out that it makes them 2nd cousins once removed or something... 

Living life

Do you ever just want to push the pause button so that you can just breath and enjoy what's going on before moving on to the next thing?  Last week, Marg and her kids came into town to stay for a while.  We got to go and see them at the airport and listen to Eli's happy chatter and Joseph and Ada's jokes all the way home.     I got to have Jason come and play for a few days while his mom was at girl's camp with Carrie, and we got to go play in the irrigation on Thursday.

Evelyn and Maisy

Ada's game... buckets of water+jumping= wet trampoline

Slip n' slide into the irrigation

Jason and Evelyn