recently we decided to

 in NO particular order...

go camping with some of our favorite people

sell my 1999 College Honda!  Oh the memories!

let my dad take care of Heaton while I took a nap!!

let Aunt Bekah get jumped on repeatedly while hearing "giddyup!"  so I could have an adult conversation with my grandma. 

grow a ponytail and take a picture for posterity.  is this why Heaton is often called a girl!?

"swim" in buckets in the backyard since the community pool so rudely closed for the year

look all handsome and walk to church

watch the tractors in front of our house "fix the road" and "put dirt down"

see great friends at another great friend's wedding!

hang out at the zoo with grandma and grandpa

watch a bird show

grow a baby

say hi to the baby and call her "baby time"  you know--from baby signing times?  cant quite pronounce Valentine.

read Ender's Game to the baby 

(where her name comes from)

buy a piano




















learn to play the piano

and take trips to the park 
(I did not take Heaton to the park the entire month of August-
--it's TOO hot out there for a pregnant lady!!)

you're not going to believe this but....

 our new baby Valentine is totally 3 dimensional!  

I can't wait to meet her and actually see her cause these pictures creep me out a little bit--just a little. 

married summer

Marsha and Emily got married this summer (not to each other)!  It has been wonderful to get to see these women more often than usual and see how giddy and silly in love they are. Thanks for getting married this summer so I could have an excuse to see you and our wonderful friends.

 Marsha married Clint in March

 so Michelle created this amazing quilt that we stitched together at Marsha's bridal shower

 We made gobs of pinwheels for wedding favors---the sticks were pencils that said Marsha & Clint

 yes, that is totally a pirate boat chandelier 

 three adorable boys playing.  they could pass for triplets (two are twins)

 Clint and Jed

 Marsha  Clint   Jed   Suzanne

 Marsha  Clint  Michelle  baby Scarlet  Ryan

 cuteness

 we are in love too

 totally

 I love seeing my friends!

 Emily married Adam in July

 We had a girls day when Marsha and Emily were in town.  Of course it mostly involved the mall, of course. 

We had to fuel our mall girls day with a hearty breakfast

And then things like this happen.  They always do and that what makes these girls so great.  I get a work out from laughing so hard. 

The best Mormon-Jewish ceremony you could imagine, Mazel Tov!

Then this little princess got married in a beautiful back yard.  Emily looked amazing.  Just ask Jed.

 Me, Michelle, Sage

 Brighton, Jed

 adorable niece dancing

 Emily's married!

 Epic Cake.  Oh man.  and she made it her self. 

Me, Elin, Nicole, Michelle.  I love seeing these ladies!