5 Year Anniversary

Keith and I have been married for FIVE YEARS! Ok I know that to some of you that is nothing but to me I can't believe that five years has already come and gone. It seem like yesterday that Keith and I just got married. I guess the saying is really true that time does fly when you are having fun! I know for me that these past five years have been the best years of my life and that only makes me hopeful for the future to know that the best is yet to come.

Ok enough mush! I will tell you a little about the fun that Keith planed for our anniversary trip for the weekend. We were able to drop our kids off at Judy and Bob's house on Friday and then headed out to a great cabin in Dubois that Keith found to stay in that was very nice and so cozy. Then he and our friends from church, Noah and Holly let us borrow their snowmobiles and we spent all Saturday playing and having fun in the snow with them. It was great! The really nice thing was that they took it easy on us since we were beginners and they are old pros. By the end of the day though they did have us doing some fun tricks and that is were my problem lies. I forgot to pack a camera! How silly was that! So I was going to try and wait to write about this fun trip after our friends got us the pictures and video they took. What I will do is as soon as I get that I will post it and tell a little more about the day we had. For now though the pictures I am going to share are some of our wedding photos. Enjoy!

So Fashionable

I know, I know I am posting ANOTHER blog! I have a lot of pictures that I took a few weeks ago that I am trying to catch up on. These pictures I had to post because they are so cute. This outfit was given to us from my Mom and Dad who are serving a mission in France right now. So Mckenna is now all up to date on the latest French style!

She got away from me with only the first half of her outfit on but look at that smile. She is really proud of herself.

Eating her hair bow. So much for that idea.

Pirate Mckenna

Do French kids really ware these?

That's better.

Eli's Songs

So I have been singing some primary songs to Eli and Mckenna because really those are the only songs I know. Eli has learned a few of them but there are two songs I am so proud of him learning. They are songs that are part of the primary program this year so when I learned them I started teaching them to him. One day I heard him singing them to himself and my heart just melted! So of course I had to get him on video because he sounds so cute and I wanted to share it with all of you. Sorry about the camera moving Mckenna was trying to help.

Britney's Good News

Most of my family knows my high school friend Britney but for those of you who don't or may not know her story let me tell you a bit about her. She was married not soon after high school to a great guy named Brett Knight. What is really crazy to think about is that was about 11 years ago. So for about 8 of those years she and her husband have been trying to have a baby. Sadly she has had a few miscarriages and one that happened in her third trimester. That was a really hard time for them and talking to her was a hard thing to do knowing that I had one kid at the time and another on the way. She was so strong though and every time made my faith stronger by her testimony through it all.
So the next step for them was to get serious about adoption. As anyone who has gone through with that knows that after you fill out all the paper work it is just a waiting game from there. I am happy to say that the waiting paid off. In November they talked to a girl who wanted them to adopt her baby. So on Friday the 27th of February she brought home a beautiful baby girl that they named Haiden. When I talked to her on the phone I could feel her joy at having something so wonderful and precious in her life that she has wanted for a very long time. I also wanted to share with all of you what she said to me on the phone that really impressed me. She told me that through everything that they have gone through she has felt the Lord's hand in it all. With every person they have meet and then having them place her new baby in her arms she said she could feel the spirit so strong. I am so impressed with her unwavering faith and I am also so happy for her and her husband because now the best is yet to come!