Visiting Rachel

Rachel and I have gone to the same school since 2nd Grade (she was in Hebrew school before that). We first met in Brownie Scouts and were best friends by 6th grade. Her house was just 2 short blocks from mine. She moved out to Baltimore in late 2000 for medical school. We came and visited her in the summer of 2001. We didn't know that the following spring we would me moving to Virginia, just 2 1/2 hours away. We both had our first born out here. Rachel helped me unpack our house and I helped her paint hers. It's been great being out here together.

Now Rachel is getting ready to move to San Diego and I won't be able to see her as much. We got together one last time before her move. Here's Emma and Maya

Ice Skating

Emma loves ice skating! She was invited to a birthday party at the ice rink about a year ago. Now she always asks to go skating and wants to take lessons too.

Oh Deer!!

Don't you wish you looked this cute when having a bad hair day!!

We were just finishing our family hug & prayer when I glanced out the window and saw a fawn and her mother. We knew they were in the woods by our house b/c they keep eating all my plants, but we hardly ever see them. We watched for quite a while from inside, then Clay snuck outside and took some pictures.

And yes, our lawn is very dead right now. We were gone for 5 weeks and there apparently wasn't any rain during that time.

Hat Girl

Grandma Deanie sent this cute hat for Rebekah last year. Rebekah is now into hats and spent almost all day walking around with it on!

Family Canning

The Prophet has counseled us to keep a years supply of food in case of emergency or loss of job or other financial stress. So we rented a #10 can sealer and spend the day canning beans, rice, sugar, wheat, powdered milk, macaroni, and oats.

When we were done we had 70 cans stacked in boxes on our couch!

Mystery Pictures

Rebekah must have found the camera today. There are about 15 photos that look a lot like this on the camera. Silly girl!

Welcome to my blog.

I am now entering the world of blogs. I thought this would be a fun way to share what we did on vacation. Hope this works, let me know what you think.

For those of you who want to see more pictures, I will be uploading them to snapfish shortly.