Donations.

Hello friends,

A year and a half ago, Jared and I moved into our first house. We have absolutely loved living where we do. We love this house that is now our home and we have been truly blessed with the people we've met. We love the many wonderful neighbors and dear friends that we have found here.

A few months after moving in, we met our neighbors, Allen and Jill. They have become dear friends who we love very much. We quickly learned that they had been trying to have a baby for sometime and we have been praying for this to happen ever since.

Recently, they found out that without In Vitro Fertilization, they have a very slim chance of getting pregnant. So, this is the next path to venture on for our friends except, this path comes at a high cost. $12, 000.

There will be a yard sale fundraiser held for our friends on Saturday, November 6th.
(Location will be announced at a later date.) I write this to ask for donations of any kind to sell at the yard sale for Allen & Jill. If you have anything that you would be willing to donate, please let me know and I would be happy to pick it up from your house.

Thank you.

See Jill's blog about their journey here.

The Weekend Song

We stayed with friends, Rob & Mckenzie, in their family cabin and admired the most amazing yellow leaves, played games until the early hours of the morning, and slept in until the morning hours were almost over.

When we pulled out of Maple Lane, I wished we could stay the entire week. Oh, weekends are wonderful aren't they?

While I eat my lunch..

Life right now.. it's oh so busy.
..and.. I could really cut out all of the fun things that we do but.. I don't want to. :)
This weekend I have 3 photoshoots, double date night, grocery shopping with my newly clipped coupons, and pumpkin carving.

I have a lot to edit and a lot to blog so, stay close by. Hopefully another post will be coming soon.

(p.s. this is for you, Cami.) :)

We love you

This is my family.

I love them, so much.
In Oregon, I started this project for my (dear, sweet) cousin Austin. He is serving an LDS mission in Santa Rosa, California. I hope this brings a smile on his face when I send this to him next week. He comes home in 9 months! :) I've already planned out balloons and signs and pictures for his airport homecoming.. Ah, can't wait!

(cousin Jeremy, me, aunt Deanne, grandma Bev, Mommy, Mister, Daddy, uncle Jon, aunt Joleen)

I climbed a tree to see the world..

Yesterday morning, I ventured into the mountains and saw the most wonderful colors. I turned on my new favorite song, sighed, and soaked it all in. I am wondering if my poor sick mister will accept an invitation to go back with me today on a Sunday drive. (He is so under the weather..)

Under Pressure

During the very beginning hours of this week, I got a call from Jared telling me that he ran out of gas.. on the freeway. When I finally arrived on the side of I-15. We quickly (let's get OFF of this dang FREEWAY!) filled up the tank with the one gallon I had just filled up. We got back in our cars and.. sat.

I called him to ask why it wasn't starting, to which he replied, "The battery is dead." I may have over-reacted but, my goodness, I was scared of being on this dang freeway! Yes, I started to cry. I'm hoping maybe some of you "cry-ers" out there can relate because Jared was beyond confused with this reaction. "Go buy the longest jumper cables you can find! No matter the cost!", I said. And so he did and yes, my life IS worth $40.

When we made it back to his abandoned car, here on this dang freeway, I was ordered to close my eyes. Oh, wonderful. Somehow, my talented husband jumped his car without the cars being "hood to hood", if you will. Which meant, we didn't have to attempt maneuvering our car backwards, on the dang freeway.

When we arrived on safe ground, at the Chevron down the street, he gave me a big hug, asked if I wanted breakfast, and life was good again.

Needless to say, I am happy it's the weekend.

Today, is Saturday for me. (I have two) I am so happy to have my weekend here. Here are some plans I have:

-visiting teaching
-lunch with my mom, aunt, and Mr.
-going to Stewart Falls
-photo shoot in the mountains
-an early Halloween dinner at a friends house
-watching the full moon from a ski lift in the mountains

Happy weekend!

sweet bliss

Hello, dear Autumn. I am so excited you're here. I can't wait for Halloween, pumpkin cookies, sweaters, leaves, hot chocolate, haunted houses, parties, pumpkins, and costumes. Jared wants us to be Popeye and Olive Oil... I am dying to be mummies. :) It's such a dilemma, isn't it?