New year's Eve!

I can't eblieve it's the end of the year already! But dont we always say that every year? Yes, it seems that it goes by much quicker than the last, and is only to go quicker the next year. We have been blessed with so many blessings and blessings in disguise this year, that we are simply in awe a lot of time. Things are going well, no enws to report really.
We went and saw the lights in spanaway, where we drove through miles of lights put up everywhere! They had millions of them it seemed and had everything from a big bradley shooting showballs to make a snowman, to santa doing flips across the road, and giant bears and pirate ships! Here are a few pics, though they didnt turn out too great, you will get the idea :)




this is the big military type thing shooting
the snowballs across to make a snowman across the lawn

a pretty cool looking truck

a thank you to all military

a giant poinsetta archway

It's the Most wonderful time of the year!!!!

Merry christmas everyone! We had a very relaxing and quiet christmas this year, with Andrew's parent's, and brothers Adam and Jacob. It was really nice and was great to be around family. We have had tons of snow the past few weeks and it is totally NOT like the seattle area to have this much! seattle has also refused to to put de-icer and salt on the sidewalks and roads downtown because of the enviroment, so we can hardly get anywhere when we go into seattle. Can you believe it?!?!

We almost didn't even get up to Andrew's parents house yesterday either, a few trees had fallen but Andrew being the redneck he is, just got a chainsaw real quick and fixed it for us! haha

All in all, we had a wonderful christmas today and am excited for the new year to come! We will be putting up some more pictures soon, but today, here are a few :) We love you all!

The first one!

Hello there everyone! I finally got on the bandwagon and started a family blog.
For those of you who dont know the recent history, I will go ahead and share our story.
Andrew and I met online of all places (ldsplanet.com, you should really try it if you're single).

We met online in 2006, in April, and met the following week in person. He took me to a small carnival in Port Orchard for our first date and spent a ton of money trying to get me a bear. It was funny.

During our dating period his younger brother passed away while trying to recover from an ied bomb while driving his bradley over in Iraq. I was lucky enough to meet him while in Texas, and spend some good quality time getting to know his family in this precious and hard time. All in all, it made my bond with andrew and his family strong from the beginning.

Andrew proposed to me on his birthday, August 7th, 2006, just over 3 months after we had met. He even wrote it on a kids coloring paper and asked me and than drew two boxes that said yes or no,check one. haha.
We actually went and got married at the Hitching post in Post Falls, ID, with only my parents there as witnesses. We decided to do that because we wanted to be married, but did not want to wait a long time. We decided with Devon passing away so recently it would only be right to wait an appropriate amount of time before we wanted to have a big celebration of a wedding. We had our big wedding over a year later, in October of 2007, in Spokane.

We moved to Kennewick for 3 months immediately after we got married, and than moved back home to port orchard, wa. We have been living here for the past two years now. We are expecting our first child this coming summer. yeaa! :)