{brett, whitney, lincoln & griffin}

 Lincoln loves to be outside and makes the sweetest sounds...

 And of course he loves playtime with daddy...

 (The outfits were not planned by the way ha ha)

 He is seriously my pal!! 

We had a really fun night together.

1. Yummy picnic.

2. Nature.

3. Really fun night together.

Last week my family and I went up to Park City for a day of shopping and sliding.  Dad, Mom, Trev, Jansen, Holly, Lucy, Mia, Lincoln and I first stopped at the outlet stores for some very fun shopping and found some great finds.  Then we ventured up to the Park City resort for some delicious mexican food and then, of course, went to the Alpine Slides!!  Lucy and Mia first went up with the boys while us girls watched Lincoln and then we went up with them after.  Mia went with my dad and after kept saying, "I laughed!" She is so adorable.

 Us on the lift...

 Hols and her gals....

 Mom and Mia...

 Hols and all the luggage...

 Me and Lu....

 I took pictures the whole way down and Lucy couldn't have been more fun to go with.  We raced Holly and Lu yelled and screamed the whole way down.  She is so cute! 

 She LOVED it :)

And she took very good care of my sunglasses ha ha...

1. My cute nieces!

2. Holly is coming down right now to paint with me!

3. Brett and his brilliant brains :)

Every couple months I find bagillions of pictures of things that I love/adore.  Sometimes I post them, other times I set them as my desktop, and at times I just stare at them and dream of living inside them.  Here are some things I have found lately that make my heart swell with gladness and goodness. :)

Check out all that...so pretty... 

 Goal: Learn how to reapholster furniture.  I have read lots of tutorials on it and I think I could do it!!  I just need a subject to practice on....

 Oh.My.Goodness. 

For reals, this takes my breathe away. 

 LOVE me some red brick fireplaces...

 Teal couch? sign me up.

 Wow!!  I wish I would have gone to the Parade of Homes and seen this beauty.  She is absolutely fabulous.

 Quite an entrance.

 My grey couch with these pillows=perfection.

 So quaint and sweet for a small apartment...

 I'm usually not the biggest fan of pure white kitchens but this one is done so well!!!  Gorgeous.

 Pull out bed from the window seat? Sure :)

 Along with reapholstering furniture I would love to learn to re-finish furniture.  Yum...

 Will you be my guest?? 

 Rad. So hot right now.

Green: You have never looked so hot.

1. Summer!!!

2. Fun lunch with trev and dad

3. Sweet Lincoln just awoke and is talking to himself :) bye!

 Lincoln loved being at Grandma Claire's!

 We're so thankful for Bob and the great example he is to us.  Lincoln is so blessed to have such a wonderful grandpa!  We love him so much.

 Saturday night we went over to my parents and enjoyed a fun night with them.  It's so nice that our families live so close to each other so we can celebrate holidays with both our families.  

Happy Father's day to Brett!!!  Lincoln loves his daddy so much.  Thanks so much for being such an incredible husband and dad Brett!!  We love you SO much!!!!

On Sunday we went to church with my parents and after enjoyed another fabulous meal with my family.  I'm so grateful for my dad.  He is such an inspiration to me and I love him so much.  He is so sweet with Lincoln and Lincoln loves him so much too.  What a blessed little boy to have two amazing grandpas and a fabulous daddy!!!  

 We had such a great time playing in the backyard after.  My parents installed a new swing and Lincoln loved it!  He had the biggest smile on his face the entire time.  

1. fabulous weekend.

2. the fathers in our lives.

3. holly is in town!! 

Well, I have come to a decision and I wanted to share it.

I am happy now.

Life is so crazy and I have a few thoughts.  I have been thinking a lot about the talk by Thomas S. Monson a few years ago called, Finding Joy in the Journey.  I am at an incredible point in my life right now.  I have a beautiful baby boy sitting next to me playing with his toys and making the cutest sounds in the world.  I have a hard-working husband who is at school still working on his dissertation so that we can graduate someday.  I have a wonderful family that I got to spend time with this last weekend.  I have a great apartment and a wonderful life.  But, sometimes I find myself saying, "Oh, when we are in a real job making money life will be so good" or "It will be so nice to be able to buy a new car" or "won't it be wonderful to buy groceries and be able to buy those expensive pretzels".  

These lines run through my mind often.  

When I was pregnant I even thought to myself, "Oh, life will be so much easier when I don't feel like a huge whale"...and you know what?  Life is easier, in the fact that I have my body back, but life is not easier when you have to think about feeding, sleeping, burping, and play time with my darling little one.  It's still not easier.  But, it's absolutely wonderful and I wouldn't trade it for anything.  There will always be "things" that are wrong.  Whether it be money or being pregnant or illness or whatever.  I want to stop looking forward to the future so I don't miss what is happening today.  So what if we are poor.  So what if we won't be done with school for a long time.  Life is so good now and that is what I need to focus on, and look for the good in every day and not worry about anything else.  It's fun to be poor :)  It's fun to go to the WIC clinic and see our cute friends there getting the same government assistance as us :)  Life is so awesome and I wouldn't trade it for a thing.  Now, I'm going to go pick up my cute Brettie and have a wonderful night together playing games and having family home evening. 

"This is our one and only chance at mortal life—here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey—now." -Thomas S. Monson   

1. Jungle Jumperoo

2. Linc's little laugh.

3. It's friday!

 Lincoln loves cheering for his Uncle Trev!

"Go Monarchs!"

 He is always in awe at how great Trevor is.

 Trevor is a pitcher and is so good.  At the game he pitched an inning with 3 up, 3 down.  I can't believe how fast he pitches!  

 Andrea was so nice to feed Lincoln and give me and Brett a break.

 Mom and dad have games weekly with Trevor and love it!  

 GO 24!!!!!

Brett and Dev observing and cheering on our Monarchs!  After the game we went and enjoyed some very yummy Texas Roadhouse.

Trevor asked me to send this picture to Josh.  He got a pretty bad black eye at the beginning of the first game  that day.  One of his teammates threw the ball to him when he was catching a ball from someone else.  He is pretty fantastic though, after this he pitched 60-something balls and had some really great hits.  

Way to go Trev!!!!

1.  Good weather!

2. Holly got to see Lincoln!

3. Getting to watch Lu and Mia this week!