Friday Night - Date Night

Since Ryan got a new job (don't think I have mentioned that) he has to ride trax to work. Wilson has been dying to ride on trax (he calls it the train).

Finally Friday I was feeling pretty good (didn't last) so we decided to take the train. We got on at about 1300 south and rode down to gateway to have dinner and see Ryan's new work.

This is Wilson so excited to get on the train!
Finally on the train and he is literally speechless. He loved it!


This is his quizzical look...



As soon as we got there he spotted the fountain and well we didn't hear the end of it during dinner until we took him to play. He loved it!



After the fountain we took a trip to Ryan's new office. Wilson thought it was so cool!



Then the trip home!


The whole trip was a success! It wont be Wilson's last trip on the train for sure!

A post a long time in the making

Not even sure where to start. A little over a year ago Ryan and I decided it was time to try to have another baby. Well to make a long story short, last year we had three miscarriages. I have debated for a year if I should post this or not, but I came to the conclusion that I should. Telling the world (or the short list of people who read my blog) helps me to feel more understood and maybe I could help someone else through the same struggles.

Two of the three happened on their own (which I am thankful for) and the other I had to have a D and C (while Ryan was out of town). Not a fun thing to go through, but was so blessed by family and friends during a hard time.

It was needless to say a hard year, but a year that made our family closer together. In January we were able to see a specialist who told us that as far as he could tell nothing was wrong with us, but bad timing between pregnancies and a 1 in 4 chance of everyone loosing a baby. He told us we needed to wait 6 months before trying again. And well, we are pregnant again!!!

We have had two ultrasounds so far and after the last one they told me we only had about a 1 to 2% chance of the same type of miscarriage. We are feeling really good about things. I am about 12 weeks along and sicker than a dog.

I have yet again been so blessed by family and friends to take care of me and my family during this hard time. Poor Wilson is bored out of his mind and doesn't really understand why I want to spend most of my time in bed. But people have been generous and have taken Wilson to their house to play. He loves it and it gives me time to rest. I am crossing my fingers that the sickness will get bearable soon.

I am so truly grateful to my Heavenly Father for the opportunity we have again to welcome another spirit into our family! I also know that sometimes we don't know or understand the trials we have to go through, but that they are his way of making us stronger people.

That being said February can not get here soon enough.

Wow! A month, really?

Does anyone else feel bad when they realize it has been more than a month since they blogged?
Totally feel bad. Life has been crazy lately. And of course I don't have photographic proof of it.

My dear friend Lisa asked me to take her family pictures
and 2 year old pictures of her daughter.
We had so much fun and they turned out great!

Grateful for nap time

Nap time = me time. Grateful for most days I get to spend sometime with myself. And sometimes catch a glimpse of this.

365 Grateful

Yesterday I was reading through a photography newsletter I get and came across a documentary that is being done called 365 Grateful. Essentially it was a photographer who was down on life and decided to do a project. She took one picture a day of something that she was grateful for and put it in a book with a caption. The idea took off and many people started to do it. Now she is making a documentary about it. You can ready more about it here.

Needless to say I loved the idea. I loved how she said it not only made her life happy and have more meaning, but she saw things in the world she had never seen before.

I know life is full of wonderful things that I don't always see. I want to take time out of everyday to find and recognize something I am grateful for.

I hope to have the strength and desire to do for a full year.

Here goes nothing.

Home Improvements

I thought about waiting to do this post until I had all the pictures, but then realized that I probably wouldn't do it. So here goes.

We have been doing some home improvements lastly that I wanted to document.

Yesterday for Memorial day Ryan and I put in a new kitchen sink! I don't know if it matters that we had the sink for a good two years sitting in our basements, but we did it! We still have a few kinks to work out, but it works and it looks good!

Before...

After...

Another Before...

After...

A few weeks ago with the help of some friends we took out this ugly bush in our front bed.

With the help of them and their handy truck.


The set up...
Its going, going...
Gone!
Here is the after!
In it's place we now have a new tree. The name I don't have in front of me and of course this is the picture I am missing. But once it blooms I will show you!

All these changes got me thinking about all the changes we have done to our house since moving in.

Here they are:

Painted the Kitchen
New windows for the whole house
New carpet in 4 bedrooms and one hall
Painted the downstairs
Painted the kitchen cupboards
New lawn in front and back
New roof
Painted the office
Painted our bedroom
Decorated kitchen/downstairs living room
Fixing the deck
New sink
Fixed leaky pipe
Made sprinklers automatic

We hope to keep adding to the list.

Next project - The bathroom

Picnic in the Park with Daddy

This last week Ryan was able to get Friday off as well and Monday for Memorial day. I wanted to make Friday a fun and special day for Wilson so after doing lots of yard work we decided to have a picnic in the park!So I packed us a big comfy blank and the random est lunch you have ever seen and we were off.

We headed to Veterans park in West Jordan. With several places to choose from we decided on the quietest place for our picnic.

Here are Wilson and Ryan enjoying their lunch

I love watching him eat sandwiches. Of course as I am sure most kids are he will not eat crust!

It is a good thing my boys love PB and J cause that is all we had in the house...

After eating Ryan and I were able to cuddle up on the blanket while Wilson went off and played.


And of course we had to spend some time on the swings before leaving.



It was a beautiful day! We should picnic more often!

Family Photos

This past week I had the chance to take my Aunt's family pictures. We had so much fun up at the capitol. I was also able to take my cousins engagements the same night (a post for another day). I am loving all of the opportunities to do what I love and help others out!

The Great Salt Lake

A friend of mine and I have been wanting to go to the Great Salt Lake and take pictures for a while. And Friday we decided to do it. It was an adventure from the beginning since we were not sure how to get there and especially not where we could take pictures. But we made it. Once we got there we found a good spot to park and walk out. After trenching though a swamp like area we made it to try land. Minus the harsh sunlight and dead birds that were scattered about. We had lots of fun and our boys had even more fun! I think I found a new sport for pictures! Anyone interested?

Connor

This past week I had the opportunity to take pictures or the son or our good friends. This is sweet little Connor and he is one!
Happy Birthday Connor!!!