Our Sad News

My oldest sister Jody passed away Saturday night in the American Fork Hospital surrounded by her family. She leaves behind four children, my nephews and niece, Jason, Jordan, James, and Jana. It has been a heartbreaking experience, as they also lost their father just 2 months ago. I just want to thank so many of you for your prayers, thoughts, calls, and loving support throughout this experience. Her viewing will be Wednesday evening from 6-8pm, and the funeral will be Thursday morning at 11am at the stake center across the street from my mom's house (sorry I don't know the address).

This is a picture of Jody and Deegan on Halloween 2 years ago, he absolutely loves her and has had a really special relationship with her. Every time we go to my mom's he is sneaking over to her house to get a Popsicle. It has been really hard to explain that he can't anymore because he doesn't understand. She will be dearly missed by all of us, but I couldn't be more grateful for a testimony of the plan of salvation and the comfort that it brings.

Test your Ultrasound Skills?

So this isn't the best picture, but I got to have a sneak peak ultrasound today to see if we could find out the sex of our baby. And we definitely did! Can you tell? If you already know, you that do know who I am talking about, don't spoil my fun! :)

Happy Birthday Auni Boo!

Auni is officially 1 year old. She got to have two parties this year because much to her detriment her birthday fell on the opener of the deer hunt (archery), heaven forbid! Those of you whose husbands hunt you'll understand, so don't have babies in August or September(which is when Auni and Deegan's birthdays are). So her Daddy, Grandpa, and all of her uncles on my side were not there. So we had a party with just us girls and all her cousins. But so Clint didn't miss everything we also did cake the night before he left. She was such a sweetheart the whole time she couldn't have been any cuter. Except she wasn't all that interested in opening her presents because they were mostly clothes (which I asked for so i was excited!).

Auni eating her Birthday dinner, we had Lop and she loved it. For those of you who haven't been around my family a lot its a sticky rice and chicken dish that my brother learned to make from one of the families in his mission who were Laotian.

K i'm really embarrassed about my re-growth in this picture, I told my sis (who does my hair) that this is all her fault for being too busy to do it! I mean seriously how hard is it to get your kids ready to go back to school? ;)

One Year Ago Today

Happy Birthday Auni Jule! This is where we were one year ago today, I went in for an induction at 7am and Auni was born at 1638 or 4:38pm. It all went really well except that she had shoulder dystocia so she ended up with a really bruised face. She weighed 8lbs 14oz and was 19in long.

Definitely NOT one of my favorite pictures but today is all about Auni!




This was after she had gotten her first bath (which her aunt taunya did) and came back to my room.
Deeg holding his new sister for the first time. He was so cute with her and she absolutely loves him. She is NOT a snuggley baby but he gets more hugs that clint and I do!
This was her hospital picture, (thank you tawna and ellen for making sure it was better than her first one!) and the outfit we took her home in. She has been such a sweet girl clint and I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute with her. We are having her Birthday party tonight so I'll post the cake devouring pictures later.

Our 5 Year Anniversary

Clint and I were married August 8, 2003 in the Mt Timpanogos Temple. In a lot of ways it seems like we've been together much longer than 5 years, especially now that we are going to be having our 3rd child! We have had a lot of fun together and the kids have made things even better. I got to marry my best friend that day and I love that I get to spend all Eternity with him!

We've had this little tradition of going to OUTBACK for most of our anniversaries. We usually go with my Mom and Dad and my sister Jenica and her husband Jon, because our anniversaries are the 8,9 and 12th of August. It makes it really fun for all of us. We had just finished eating in this picture and I was sickeningly full, so its not a very good picture, and Clint said if he had known I was going to take a picture he wouldn't have worn a hat. We would also like to say Happy Anniversary to some of our Very Best Friends John and Loreli Caldwell. We were married the same day and year in the same temple. I know kind of crazy huh. You know that lots of people were married the same day as you in the same temple but how often do you really know one? And our crazy in sync-ness doesn't end there but that's a long story.

Our Various Summer Activities

We've done a few fun things in the last couple weeks but I haven't been very good with taking pictures so here are a few of things that we've done. For the weekend of the 24th went and did an ovenighter with Clint's family at my family's cabin in Timberlakes. We had a lot of fun and will need to do it again sometime. I only got a couple of tub pictures that had the cousins in them, (the baby girls) but someones, as Lori would say, "unmetionables" were visible so that wasn't really appropriate. We also went to Seven Peaks again last week with my family and had a great time.

Deegan, Dalton, and Jexton
I also decided to rent a cabana this time and it was SO worth it. This was actually as we were cleaning up to go. And I just have to vent for a minute about these gutty little teenagers that stole OUR paid for chairs to sit on and moved all there stuff into OUR paid for shade! I couldn't believe it, they were oblivious to all my dirty looks and comments made loud enough for them to hear. But of course I didn't say anything right too them because I chickened out. What I wanted to say was hey if your going to take advantage of the chairs and shade maybe you should contribute some money since I had to pay for it. It just really bugged me because I would never do something like that, it would really embarrass me. Anyway sorry to vent, the rest was great!
This is Deeg, Auni, and Wyatt playing with the "crappies". I had asked Clint if he would get under the cabin and get the crappy bikes out for the kids to play with and Deegan heard me and said, " yeah i want to play with the crappies!" Just another one of the moments where you didn't know they were listening so well.