Celebrating 2008!

This year Jared hosted the New Year's party. We had lots of fun and lots of food to receive 2008! Amazingly, everyone was home by 1:30am. A new development since previous years were a lot later...or should I say earlier?? I guess some of us are settling down a bit!

Ryu celebrated the New Year too!

Ode to...

Highlights of 2007

2007 was a remarkable year for Chris and I. We kept ourselves very busy while managing to make lots of entertaining memories together. No doubt will this year go down in the history books!






Chris is keeping busy with helicopter school. He has been working hard these last few months on his instrument rated license. Next will be his CFI license, which he will attain when graduating in April. He is doing very well and loves to Fly. I...well, I have gotten use to the idea of him flying. I am very proud of him and how hard he works towards his goals. Besides, he is a cute pilot!


I was lucky to be accepted into dental hygiene school last August. It is lots of fun and keeps me very busy. I have had the last three weeks off for Christmas vacation. School starts again on Monday. I am ready to go back but sad to leave Ryu. I have had so much fun with him and I love to spend all of my energy and time with Ryu and Chris. School will be a little harder this semester leaving Ryu behind.

Last March we decided to get a puppy. After looking at many puppies, we were lucky to find Lucy. She was a dang cute puppy, don't ya think?

About one month after we got Lucy, to our SURPRISE, we found out we were going to have Ryu. Since I had just been accepted to school, Chris is in school, and we were not planning to have any babies for a long time, it took us awhile to get use to the idea. Even though our lives have flipped completely around, we are having so much fun with him and love him so much!!

Flaming Gorge


Every summer we take a trip to Lake Powell. This last summer we decided to try something new and ventured the other direction to Flaming Gorge. It was so much FUN and it was beautiful! The water was a little cooler that Lake Powell but, it felt good to my pregnant body!

Doesn't Adam look cute!?

In August we celebrated Linda's birthday at our house. This birthday was very thrilling because this is when we found out that Nikki and Jeff were going to have a baby! They are having a girl who is expected to arrive in March! We are all very excited to have a baby girl in the family!


Welcome Ryu!

Perhaps the most exciting, terrifying, and any other emotion you could think of, would be the birth of our son. How crazy is parenthood? This has been the most unique experience of our lives yet. Ryu was a magnificent, grand finale to end 2007 and to welcome many great years to come!