Our Baby Bear

Or Sweet Pea or P as we call her. Here's just a few recent photos of her, I can't get enough of her!

Dental School...and so it begins

Well we've officially submitted our AADSAS application!!!! Now we are working (we meaning ME) on the supplemental application fees and applications that are required right now! It's time consuming and expensive! AND worth it! We are so excited to be moving toward Jake's goal of being a dentist. Pray for us that we will do everything right the first time around and he will be accepted to at least one of the 9 dental schools we are applying too!

4th of July!

Here's a lot of pictures of a great few days we spent out in O'Brien at Reggie's ranch for the fourth of July! Paisley had a lot of firsts, she tried pretzels (minus the salt), carrots, bananas, swimming pool, lake, and pet the dogs which she LOVED, she giggled a lot at them. And Jake got to go on an Ultralite ride! Here's the pics!

This is Natalie cheering on Paisley for getting into the water and Collin is looking on!

This is right after Paisley got knocked over by Collin who fell down himself, look at Collin's diaper, they both handled it like champs!

I love this one of Collin, he was such a ham!

See what a mean, the lake in the background is Reggie's lake "Costalot" it is a beautiful place!

Here is Collin again

Paisley was holding herself up like this against the pool, it was so cute!

This is when she finally took a nap, she was super tired!

Foutz Grandkids

These guys are so cute! Here are some pictures from our "photo shoot" in the park :)

Kendall and Natalie (Paisley I'm sure will look something like these two), They are 2 months apart, just like Collin and Paisley!

Paisley and Collin

L to R: Natalie, Collin, Benjamin, Kendall and Paisley

Paisley and Kendall (Kendall was so nice to Paisley)

I'll have to post more pics later, I'm still getting myself and the house back together from our vacation week! It was a blast!

I admire

Jake for being the wonderful, dedicated man that he is, he tirelessly works toward his education and our future with very little complaint and finds time to spend with P and I too. He is a wonderful father and P just adores him. I fall in love with him more each day.

Marsha for being a wonderful Mom, always being so positive about everything and being such a great example to me of compassion and kindness. She's fantastic about keeping in touch with everybody and everybody likes her, I envy that often. (in a good way. I want to be more like her). She figured out who she was early on in life and she's comfortable in her own skin, I love that!

Tyler for being a Dad, even when it's hard. For overcoming hurdles in his life and coming out on top.

Warren for being such a cool guy, he's a great father and I love just talking with him. He's knowledgeable in just about anything and he's self taught in many things, I'm so impressed by him.

Darrell for being so adventurous, it's obvious his kids love him and he's got such a free spirit, he'll try just about anything, I am envious of that too, I'm quite a scaredy cat. He works hard for his family and makes the most of his time with them and that's a big deal.

Katelyn for trying to be herself. She hasn't met Paisley, but I know she'll be a great Auntie. She has a true desire to make people happy and most often is very conscious of how other people feel which is a truly wonderful thing.

That's just my immediate family, I also admire in a nutshell, Suzy Grannis, for being a super mom! I can't believe the things she is able to do with her 2 boys even and I hope she knows she's so much like Barry in her kind spirit, I love her. Suzy Foutz, for being my friend, I know it's not that easy I'm kind of a pain sometimes :) and for being a super mom too, I love watching her play with her kids. Gel for being such an inspiration in so many truly important aspects of life, food storage and coupons are just her recent things, she's also very devoted to being the kind of parent she wants to be and she's good at it. Amber also just makes me laugh, I know that even though I hardly get to see her, she will always be up for a chat on the phone and we can talk about just anything. She's raising 3 beautiful daughters and she's dedicated to doing the best by them, I enjoy talking "kids" with her. Crystal Foutz has got to be one of the most patient mothers I've ever watched! Heather Cammisa is an amazing woman who has lived through everything that's been thrown at her and I am grateful she is my friend. Carol Nielson, my friend no matter how long it's been since we've talked. Sarah Shelman, she's such a cool woman and I always enjoy being around her and we can just talk and talk and she's a great Mom!

This hasn't even touched on all the people who have impacted me and I haven't even delved into parents and grandparents or anything else.

I'm blessed and I just feel like appreciating that today.

My first coupon adventure!

Okay Gel, I hope you are proud, I'm not as good as you are, but I think I did pretty good!

I had $1 off coupons for the huggies and johnsons bath products and wipes and desitin, 3 of those items were doubled by an albertsons coupon! The ground beef was on sale for $5 and the steaks were buy one get one free (there are 2 there, can't really see them in the picture). Bagelfuls (yes Gel you got me into these!) 2/$6 not a screamin deal, buta deal and then coupons to make the salad and cream cheese $.88 each. Not bad...all this for $36.97

Mother's Day

My first Mother's Day! We drove out to Cave Junction to be with Jake's Mom Laurie at her boyfriends ranch. The first picture is of us in front of the house out there and the 2nd is of "Bob" Laurie with her Mother's necklace on.

Good times. I got a great gift from my husband, he got me the Samsung Instinct Cell Phone I wanted. Fun Fun...I felt very cool!