Andy has been exercising his story telling skills.  Tonight, after reading him "oki-oki" (Pinocchio),

he requested Bambi.  I asked him to tell me a story (usually I get, "Once upon a time, BUZZ!"{the end}.  Tonight had a little more story development.  Here is how it went:

 

"Once upon time, a shark.  Shark is Anchor.  He have an owie. 

Shark is angry.  And went BOOM!  Then a shot a deer. 

Deer is hungry. Buffalo is hungry.  Big spider hungry. 

Strong spider on top of the world!  Go asleep, Mom."

 

We are clearly raising a little man! Thanks for the bedtime story, Andy!  Love, Mom



Our beautiful and spunky niece, Hannah, was baptized this month.  We were able to go celebrate her special day with her and while we were there we took the chance to tour the place where the story of us all began in the frigidly cold little town of Rexburg, ID!  It was the perfect place to fall in love, really, lots of hot chocolate and cozying up by the fire.

  So many good memories came flooding back as we visited our old apartments of freshmen year and the mansion Shannon and Jory were house sitting where we spent so much of our time with them while we were dating.  That is where we became best friends.

 Back then we would drive out to potato fields and lay in the bed of my Toyota truck to star gaze and dream about the life we could one day have together.  Those dreams are coming true with our growing family and are so much bigger than we could have ever imagined back in those magical early days.  

While we were in Ammon, ID, Kevin took me back to the top of the mountain where he brought me on the back of Jory's motorcycle to propose.  I remember it like it was yesterday.  He promised to make me laugh everyday and then put a horribly huge and hideous ring on my finger.  I said yes anyway.  As we started to drive away he turned around and gave me the ring I wear today.  He was such a stinker then and still is today, but he has lived up to his promise and always makes me laugh.

{2013}

This year will always be one to remember for our family!  We made the big and exciting move back to the family farm.  I decided we should have a family theme for this year so that we could always look back and commemorate the year we moved our family to what would always be home.  This is what we picked:

We have loved many places along the way on our journey back.

Here's to building years of happy memories in the country we will forever call "home".