Just because ....

Because the world needs more spontaneous singing and dancing....

Rachel & Darrin's Wedding

My baby sister got married this weekend! They were sealed in the Idaho Falls Temple on Friday, the 24th of April. Jesse and I were able to come, which I was glad for. Here are a few pictures from the days spent up in (cold!) Idaho Falls.

Angela's girls- Hannah & Hailey being silly

Angela & I threw Rachel a bridal shower the day before she got married.
Here is the invitation:

... and the dessert we made... mmmm

Angela reading a quiz about "How well do you know Rachel & Darrin?"

An embarrassed Rachel... I had to get her something...

My mom, Rachel, & Eileen Heath

Darrin & Rachel coming out of the temple

Rachel & Darrin

Rachel looked beautiful!

My handsome Jesse :)

My brother Jeff with Angela's 2 girls Hailey & Hannah

The Idaho Falls Temple

And the Reception...

Jesse holding Matthew (Angela's baby ~9 months)

Hailey feeling like a princess got her own flowers!

Cutting the cake

Throwing the bouquet... The lady in red, Melanie, who caught Rachel's bouquet is engaged to marry Darrin's dad. You can see Darrin's dad in the background pretty excited that Melanie caught it!

Connie did an amazing job with the flowers - she is a high school friend of my dad's and they have kept in touch throughout the years. She is the one sitting down clapping (white shirt, green skirt).

Congratulations, Rachel & Darrin!

Dixie Kite Festival

Last Saturday was the annual Dixie Escalante Kite Festival at the Sun River golf course. We had never been.. so I somehow convinced Jesse to come out and enjoy some time in the beautiful weather!! It has finally warmed up down here (last Thursday I was hiking while it was snowing! Snow & St. George & April do not go together...)

Here are some pictures of the Kite Festival:

It wasn't very windy, but plenty of kites were flying.

Here's Lily enjoying her treat her 2 aunts got her

Adam & Lily

Here I am trying to show Lily how to hold the kite string

Lily had more fun playing with the string than anything to do with the kite

Audrey was having a hard time getting her kite to fly..

Nate got it up for a little while..

Here's Audrey with Ella

Matt & Lindsay brought a Dora kite and a Spiderman kite... Matt had a fun time flying them! Their kids... not so much. They had more fun in the bounce houses you can see in the distance.

Here's Matt

Nate (left), Lindsay & Kash (middle), and Jesse

Jesse had a fun time flying the Spiderman kite, too. The kite I got (on accident) was a stunt kite... which requires good wind (that we didn't have) and it takes a while to get used to.

Here's Jesse flying the Spiderman kite and Ella flying her Dora kite

Jackson seemed to feel better today - he had been pretty sick. He sure loves to smile for you when you get his attention!

Here's Jesse trying to get Lily to fly a kite..

..but she was more interested in treat #2!
This is Adam, Sabrina, and Lily.

The winds picked up for 5-10 minutes, so Jesse was finally able to get our stunt kite to stay in the air for a little bit!

I thought the kite festival was pretty fun - it definitely would have been better with more wind. And it probably would have been more fun if Jesse and I had a few kids of our own! But it was fun to hang out with friends and family. :)

Baby Clothes

So if you read this post... I'll know you are pretty bored because you're reading it in spite of the title. I went shopping with Jenn today because we had some extra time... and it is always more fun to shop when you are with someone! I was already in town, so I thought I'd look.. and of course I found some really cute things for our future baby boy!

0-3 months

3-6 months

6-12 months

Everything I bought can be returned, so if he's a big baby... no worries. I have to say though... the little girl section looks like a lot more fun to shop through. But it was still fun to finally buy something for the little guy. All the clothes kind of remind me of what I would buy for Jesse... except maybe the crab & piranha shirts... and the pj's. :)

How To Make Your Man Happy

1. Let him go out with a bunch of other guys paintballing/jeeping.
   
2. Don't be upset when he spends money on a paintball gun & supplies.
3. He comes home hungry but holds Cafe Rio in his hands.
4. He's dirty from rolling around in the dirt pretending he is a character in a video game all day.

The Result:

Real Financial Heroes

The world needs a few more Real Financial Heroes!

I caved... Jesse was right...

I had another prenatal appointment today... and it was the one they do an ultrasound for and measure everything to make sure baby is growing like he is supposed to... THAT'S RIGHT! We're having a baby boy!! I thought I could do it and wait until delivery day, but I had been thinking about the appointment all week and all day and.. I decided last minute I couldn't wait!

Everything still looks really good and baby is doing great! Heartbeat was 140 bpm. Now we just need to come up with a few boy names.

Here is a 4D ultrasound picture -
you can see his face, his fist up by his face, the umbilical cord
up around his head and down by his neck, and that's all I know.

(I've always thought these ultrasound pictures look a little weird...)

A Garden!

My favorite food is home-grown tomatoes... so you may see why I am excited about my [lame] potted garden. True, it is only a few plants, but I can't wait for Jesse and I to buy a house and plant a garden there. Who knows when/where that will be...

From left to right:
cherry tomatoes, early girl (medium-sized) tomatoes, and cilantro

Also, not pictured are sugar snap peas and beans. I'm not sure if they will make it through all the wind we have been having lately... and so a picture of them would only show you how much they are struggling. If you look closely you can already see a bunch of cherry tomatoes already growing! :)

I've never grown cilantro, peas, or beans before... so if you have any pointers, let me know!

Red Mountain Trail

Last Saturday Nate & Audrey and Jesse & I all went on a hike called Red Mountain Trail. It leads up to a really pretty overlook of Snow Canyon State Park. I was definitely the slowest of the 4 of us... but Jesse was nice and hiked with me anyways.

Here we are at the top
(look closely and you can see a baby bump..)

and Nate & Audrey

Visit with the Jones'

Emily (a friend from high school) & Christian came to visit us in St. George. They came for the sun, not for us. :) Just kidding. We went on a hike called Slots in Snow Canyon State Park, played some tennis, and some games. It was fun and I'm glad we could spend time with them. :)

Emily & Christian

Jesse proving he could crawl into the slot and "climb out if I want to."

Emily & Christian in the slot

Emily & Christian in the slot canyon

Wedding Rock - Jesse loves to scare me here... he loves the face I make I think...

All of us at Newspaper Rock - petroglyphs in the background

On our way out, we came across a small little snake - YIKES!

Thanks for coming to visit us and come back soon!

O Canada

Last week Jesse and I got back from a 6 day trip to Vancouver Island (British Columbia). It was beautiful, but cold! Jesse actually had a business meeting on the 26th (Feb) in Victoria... which I tagged along for the trip. So I had a day to myself, but we also got a nice little vacation out of it. Jesse's Aunt & Granny live a couple hours from Victoria, so we stopped in and spent the night before coming home. It was a nice trip and I'm glad I got to come!

Here is Jesse in front of the pier

My attempt at a picture of the both of us

Ogden Point - I love beaches, even if they are cold!

A picture of me in front of the Pacific Ocean

Jesse holding a dead fish...

...to feed the sea lions at Fisherman's Wharf

Fisherman's Wharf - cool how the houses float on the river, eh?

Undersea Gardens - you actually come to the pier and walk a full flight of stairs down. It is pretty much an aquarium in the pier. They have fish and other creatures native to the area.

Giant octopus and a dungeness crab

The Legislative Building at night...

...and during the day

We also went to the BC Museum.
Here is Jesse... always finds a computer somewhere...

Jesse in front of Craigdorroch Castle

We drove alongside some of the beaches and stopped to get a picture. :)

The highlight of the trip for both Jesse and I was visiting Butchart Gardens. World famous and crowded in the summer, less flowers but very peaceful (and still very beautiful) in the winter. Supposedly they have been in bloom for over a hundred years.

This section of the gardens used to be a quarry - called the Sunken Garden. They covered the quarry walls with tons of ivy - so pretty.

Another attempt at a picture of the two of us

I thought the staircase in the middle was nice.

Jesse's Aunt Darlene, Granny, and Jesse

And [of course] we visited a Tim Horton's (donut shop) on our way out.