Because you can never have enough pictures of a Ballerina

As you all know, we just couldn’t be 100% sure this baby’s name was Blake until after he was born. But we didn’t really have many more options that were jumping out at us. Just a week or two ago I was reading in a baby name book and came across the name “Bennett.” I…

Dear Blake, Today is your first birthday! I know it’s cliché, but it seems like just yesterday you were a squishy, red-faced newborn laying in my arms. From the moment you were born you have brought such joy and happiness into my life. When you were a newborn, I loved just holding you close and…

At the end of May Rusty had the awesome opportunity to be the keynote speaker at the Casual Bloggers Conference in SLC. His speech was awesome, and I couldn’t be more proud. Read about it on his blog.

Halle’s first day of Preschool 2008 was today!! She was so excited to get back in her preschool routine and reconnect with friends we hadn’t seen all summer. When I asked her what her favorite part of preschool was she said, “We looked at real bugs with a magnifying glass.” WOW. Halle is doing so…

Josh was very unsure that he wanted to ski on Christmas Eve.  I floated the idea of him taking a lesson, and after MUCH coaxing, Rusty agreed to give it a try.  We showed Josh some videos of lessons and of the magic carpet on YouTube and pretty soon he agreed to go.  After we…

Per usual, we celebrated the 4th of July a little early. For some reason our neighborhood always does it’s big celebration a day early. The festivities started with a Firecracker 5K run. Kami always inspires me with the stories of her races, so I had to try it out. I was lucky enough to take…