I love the temple!!!

Conner has been asking, for a long time, to go to the temple after church to take pictures. It has been sooo cold that we haven't been able to go. Today was so beautiful and sunny after church so we had to go and take pictures. Conner was so happy that he even made up his own little song as we walked to the car, he was saying, I love the temple, I love the temple, I love the temple...............

A gift for Brinley

My friend Diana made this beautiful outfit for Brinley. She doesn't even know Brittany but she wanted to make her a gift. She did a wonderful job. She said it only took her a couple of days to make it. She is so talented.

My new Passion

I have always wanted to take up jogging, but everytime I tried it, my legs and feet just hurt too much. Now that Brittany is having her baby, Brent has asked me to work for about a month an a half until Alison gets here and starts working for him. I don't want to give up my exercise (doctor's orders), but my dance classes are not at a convenient time, and by the time I get done it's too late to make it to the office. I can only stay there until 2:00 PM since I have to go and get Conner from school. Now that my physical therapist taught me how to make an insert for my left shoe the pain from dancing is gone. I thought maybe running won't hurt so much and I can do that early in the morning and still be able to make it to the office. Well, I started with baby steps, jogging a little and walking a little. I LOVE it, my feet and legs don't hurt me at all. Today for the first time I was able to run 2 1/4 mile, that might not seem like a lot, but considering my left foot is weird and that I have not been able to do it, I think that is GREAT. I won't give up my dancing though, I will do that on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Next week I have an appointment at Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics where they are going to make me an insert for my shoe, so I don't have to make a homemade insert anymore. I am so excited to have one made. A good thing about running is that it helps increase your HDL (good cholesterol) which is a big problem for me. Less than 40 mg/dl is very low, mine has gone up from 30 to 38 after 2 years of medication and exercise. So I am hoping that running will help it. My doctor is very concern about heart desease, (after menopause your chances of heart desease increase), that is why we are trying hard to increase it.

New church building

The new church building is so nice. I really hope that we get to meet there. It is only 5 minutes from our house. Nothing has been said yet about us moving to that building but I am still hoping we do.

Brittany's Baby Shower

Last night we had Brittany's baby shower at my house, we had a lot of fun and a lot of people came. She got lots of great gifts and now we just need Brinley to come.

Award ceremony and the 100th day of school

Today we went to Parker's school for the first Semester's award ceremony. We are very proud of Parker, he got 5 awards. He got the Principal Honor roll award for having a grade point average of 95.7, he got the Geography bee award for placing third place in the school wide geography bee, He got the perfect attendance certificate, he got the High Achievement Award which is the highest overall grade point average for 8th grade, and he got the American Mathematics Competitions First Place award, for getting first place in the American mathematics contest for 8th grade. He has crutches because he was playing football at mutual on Wednesday and fell on his hip. He could not walk on it on Thursday so I took him to the doctor and they had x-rays done. The doctor said he had a contusion.

Today was the 100th day of school and in Conner's class they had a little celebration with fun activities.

On a side note, today in the mail we got a letter addressed to Ken Griffey Jr. We did not realize that he has the same house number. Tomorrow we are going to take him his letter.

Brittany at 35 weeks

We are getting so excited to see the baby. Here is Brittany looking beautiful at 35 weeks.