My first Father's Day card. Pretty clever i'd say. thanks Jessica. i love you...and Daveney

Our Girl Daveney Nichole

A few weeks back Robert and I had the opportunity to see our baby for the first time. As soon as we were told that we were going to have a girl, I couldnt help but burst into love with her. She is beautiful! As they did the ultrasound they did a bunch of measurements and they told us that she was measuring 7 days bigger than what we were traking. Our midwife told us that we would keep the same due date though, October 2nd.

Beach House

We love the beach house in Lincoln City Oregon! It was a blast being with Mom and Alisa, the Rogers and of course Gammie and Grandad. We dug and built a fire pit to roast hot dogs and smores its was a pretty amazing pit. Everyone pitched in on intalling wind-proof walls with huge logs and seaweed. We enjoyed our walks each day, which was great exercise. Going north to the rocks and caves we saw a ton of starfish and crabs. On our way to Corvallis we stopped by the Newport lighthouse. We learned a lot about the lifestyle of a lighthouse keeper. We couldnt have asked for better weather!

More Beach House Fun

Disneyland

In the car on our way to Disneyland!

We just had to do the Small World ride. I never realized or remembered that at the end

of the ride all the dolls/children from all over the world are dressed in white together!

The gospel is true...even at Disneyland.

We got to see Mr. Incredible the kids around him couldnt get enough.

Robert and I are copying the Beast and Belle which are actually made out of legos!

Disneyland turned out to be so much fun that Robert wants to go back...can you blieve it? The weather couldnt have been more perfect. Robert and Dad had a blast with using the fastpasses. We were extra clever, my mom and I didnt go on all the rides so we would get fastpasses for Robert and Dad on top of the fastpasses they had checked out.  Robert went on so many rides consecutavely that he got a little vertigo. He told me that trying to fall asleep that night was a tiny bit difficult as his body would sway in bed. haha. oh and Robert gave Buzz Lightyear a high five at California adventure.

Graduation 2012!

Robert completed his time at BYU successfully. It was wonderful to have so much family here to join us.  We are now headed to UNMC in Omaha, Nebraska for Physical Therapy school.

My Mountain Man

Robert cant keep away from the slopes. This is from Snowbird.

California for Christmas

23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

This is a video that Robert's exercise physiology teacher showed in class!!

Finally finished!

I have been working on making a dress for a while and I finally finished it!

So yesterday I wore it to the temple.

All I have to say is that it was a great learning experience......

however I think I will be buying my new dresses from now on ;)

First Presidency Devotional

We have been given a great gift from the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...go check it out!

Bible Videos

Christmas Time

My mom surprised me by sending a box home with BYU student that was in Bakersfield for Thanksgiving break. In the box was my dream nativity set..the willow tree set!!! There are more pieces but this is the main set and I just about screamed for joy when I opened the surprise special delivery mail ;) It is so wonderful to have in our home to remind us of the true meaning of christmas...Thank you mom!!

So this is our (fake) christmas tree and with some furniture arranging it fits our little apartment perfectly. The christmas spirit is a powerful thing, especially in the home. If only we could have an added touch of snow in the valley...today it feels like summer outside....I had to close all the blinds and turn off all the lights to take this picture and it is still so bright.

Wreath

It is simple but I love it and it only cost a grand total of 7$...thank you pinterest.

Also...

i really need to learn how to make it so that the music does NOT automatically start when you look at our blog...sorry everyone.

Pinterest

IM HOOKED...i know that we need to be careful about spending time on the internet wasting away our lives, but i think that everyone sharing their talents and ideas with each other is so great! I cant wait to actually start doing some of the crafts for our home decor. I think I'm going to make the wreath first so it can hang on our door during December. I so excited :)

Laughter

so while i was sick Robert was explaining to me that if i laugh while im sick that i will get better faster...so he played so "wipeout" on youtube for me and it totally got me to laugh.

Oh the joys of being sick....i just hope that Robert doesn't catch what i have.

Country math

Robert just found out who had been teaching him math all these years.

Kings Peak Continued

Yes, we did see a moose! and he was BIG. We ended up seeing him two days in a row. The view at times was so breath taking and peaceful that we often wanted to stop and take it all in, but we were racing against a storm to get to the top. It took us a while to get there, we were fatigued and tired, but determined to see the view. We reached a point where there was no longer a trail so we climbed up to the very top...a sea of boulders...jumping from one to the next. Greg and Robert were the first to the top, I was just behind them, and from where I was I couldn't see Ryan or Kami but i knew they were not far. The clouds were getting thick and dark, the wind was picking up slightly. Robert was coming back down to check on me, Ryan and Kami. I told him I would still work my way up. He went to look for Ryan and Kami to help them the rest of the way. When I reached the top Greg was gazing into the distance while enjoying an apple. I was eager to join him and sit down to watch the storm around us. As we were watching the storm the lightning was never ending. I saw one that was so big I got excited and stretched my hand out to point at where it was to show Greg..."did you see that?!" I quickly noticed as strange crackling, sparking, popping noise on my ring finger, i pulled it in quickly. Out of curiosity I stuck my hand back out, again it made that noise..I said to Greg "can you hear this?" once more my ring made those noises. Greg's facial expression made me worry a little..then he said "woah there is a lot of static electricity up here" as he was looking at his arm hair standing straight up, just seconds after he said that Roberts head popped up out of the sea of boulders and he urged us to get down from the mountain top fast! Unfortunately we were unable to get pictures from the top. We made our way back to our camp site, to our much dismay it seemed a much longer hike back in than it did on our way out....we calculated the miles for that day....20! We were exhausted! but very grateful to be back at camp, especially since it started pouring rain right as we got into our tents. The next morning as we hiked back to the trailhead, Robert told me he already missed the mountains and didn't want to go home (staring longingly at the peak we had summited only the day before)....Thats my mountain man! :) We had a safe and wonderful trip.

Kings Peak

It started out rainy, so on with the panchos, but it cleared up about half way to our camp site. It ended up being about 7 miles in until we arrived to bear lake...beautiful! We divided and conquered..Ryan and Kami set up their tent, Robert and I sent up our tent, and greg was the fire master! In no time we were eating our cup of noodles, mountain houses, and tin foil dinners. We kept the fire going for a while as we shared funny memories of each other. It got dark fast so we went to bed fast so we could rest for our long hike the next day. We woke up early, earlier than Ryan would have preferred haha, and ate our oatmeal breakfast and headed on the trail. Our first photo was on the boulder "now that is a nice boulder" (name that movie). There were some other boulders that reminded us of Trenton, because the boulders had tiger stripes.