Graduation is here!!

Ryan and I are both graduating within the next two weeks! Yay!!

BYU commencement is April 24th and USU is May 2nd.

We decided last week at Disneyland that we wanted to make graduation announcements for ourselves! We came up with this yesterday in about an hour!

I love it! Not many people get to do one together with their spouse! We love it!

First Easter!

Kamryn's first Easter compromised of 2 different "parties"...both NOT on Easter! :)

We were going to be driving to California on Easter Sunday this year and my parents were going to be in China over Easter Sunday...so we had to celebrate early!

So, the Sunday before Easter, we spent the day with my family. My family's Easter Bunny makes finding baskets difficult some years....he strings different colors of yarn around the house and the kids have to follow their color to find their basket! Here's what the front room looks like in the morning! :)



Kamryn was able to crawl underneath all of it! Didn't affect her much...

...till she saw it from above!! :)

The Easter Bunny brought Mommy and Daddy big bowls of candy....

and brought Kamryn a soft pink bunny! She wasn't so sure about it at first!


This green dress was also a gift from Grammy...kinda 'Eastery' so I wanted to take more pictures of her in it. This is what I got!








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She kept moving and moving and moving! :) It was so funny! Some of them turned out kinda cute though! :) She dove for my camera a couple times too! Such an electronic guru already!

The other Easter celebration we had was with Ryan's family... Saturday before Easter Sunday. (They were also all going out of town on Easter Sunday! haha)

Kamryn got a Little Einstein Toy Piano that she LOVES! It's a little old for her to understand it all but she loves pushing all the buttons and making it light up. Grandma and Grandpa also got her a Peter Cottontail book that sings when you open it. She also loves that! She played with both on our trip to California this past week!

Ryan and I gave Kamryn a Winnie the Pooh toy for Easter. It spins and talks and has lights and colors. She loved it at the store so we thought we'd get it for her for Easter!

(And I just realized I don't have any pictures of either toy with her! Yikes! I'll have to get some and come back and edit this post! oops!! I think I had forgotten my camera that night. I wonder if Grandma Linda got any pictures that night.)

Anyway, Happy Easter Kamryn! We love you!

We're back

So, I think I need to take off my ticker for Disneyland now that we're back...what do you think!?

BUT it was SO so so much fun! I needed that trip! I'm ready now to finish up my last two weeks of Student teaching! Bring it on! :)

(I'll blog more about Cali...beautiful warm Cali...when I get pictures up and I'm not so tired! Drove home ALL day today...sitting in the car for hours and hours really wears it out of you!!) :)

Ryan is DONE!!

Ryan attended his last day of college classes today!! I'm so proud of him and excited for him.

I love you sweetie!

Graduation is April 24th!

A struggle mixed with happiness!

This week has been tough. I have started to feel actual burn-out with student teaching and just wanting and wishing for the end to come faster!

BUT ... among these hardships and stresses of life, a few good things have happened or are happening this week!

My parents left for China this morning! (good thing for them! I'm jealous!!) :)

Ryan bought us an early anniversary gift on Tuesday--- a California King size bed! (Got a GREAT deal on it --a real steal actually!!) I'm SO excited! Not only is it a BIG bed, but it is also a Tempr-pedic mattress! (Like I said...great deal! We don't have the finances to pay for a $2,000 mattress!)

Tomorrow is FRIDAY! And it is spring break this week! We are going to Disneyland!! :) The happiest place on earth! I can get rid of all our worries for a few days! Sounds wonderful! :)

Amidst trials...there are always good things happening in life as well.