Here we go again....

Mark and I are happy to announce that we are having another baby. Today we went and found out the sex of the baby and it is a BOY! SO here comes our little Jonathan, we are very excited and everything looks good. It is a big baby, they even moved my due date up a week! Which I am very excited about, now the due date is Jan. 17th. I know it will be very busy for the first couple of years but I am very excited to have another little friend for Anastasia.

2 Years.....

Now it is my turn. Just over three years ago I met Julie while working as an intern at a firm where she was the secretary. She had a boyfriend, and I had a girlfriend. As we started to get to know each other we hung out and eventually both moved on from our previous relationship and started dating each other. While away at school we had a rocky relationship for a while. After we smoothed things out we decided to get married. We have now been married for two years. While we, as all couples do, have had our ups an downs, I am happy to say there have been many more ups than downs.

Two years ago I thought Julie was my best friend. I promised to love her no matter what. I promised to support her despite her mood swings, stubborn times and occasional blond moments. As I have worked to do this to the best of my ability, I have realized that Julie is much more than my friend. She is my match. My partner. My equal. After fifteen months of marriage Julie gave birth to Anastasia. I had another deepening of my understanding of what she meant to me. The sacrifices that she made for our family amazed me. I love her so much. This video describes even more what Julie, and now Anastasia mean to me. I am so grateful to a merciful Father in Heaven who has seen past my weaknesses to bless me so deeply. I am even more so forever in His debt for the blessings of the women in my life.






I love you hun. Happy Anniversary.

I can't believe it

Today is our Anniversary, It still just boggles my mind that we have been married for two years! It really just seams like yesterday that we were doing the whole wedding day stuff. Looking back on the two years, there has been a lot of ups and a lot of downs. Out of all those ups and downs I am still really glad and happy for where we are and what has changed in our life. I couldn't be happier with where I am today, Mark is my best friend and I would die without having him in my life. I am very grateful for all the crap he has put up with especially all my lovely mood swings. So thanks Mark for all the stuff you put up with and always sticking by me, I love you.

Our Very Eventful Vacation

This past weekend the Hirst family rented out a townhouse in Wolfcreek and we all were together. All 27 of us in one house. It started out as a very good vacation. It was an amazing place to stay. It had a home theater in it, rooms just full with bunk beds, amazing bathrooms, our very own hot tub on the patio and a game room. It was a pretty amazing place.

Come Friday night we were up with Anastasia in the middle of the night with her just screaming. She was thirsty so we made her a bottle and she would drink a little bit of it and then just scream some more. So we knew right away that she had a sore throat and probably needed to go to the doctor to make sure it wasn't anything serious. Saturday morning we drive back to SLC to her pediatrician and they checked her out and she had a rash all over her body and a very bad sore throat and just told us it was viral bug and it will go away in 2-3 days. So we went back up to wolfcreek and continued our vacation. Well, come Saturday night she still wasn't drinking or eating ANYTHING! So we called the on-call doctor and he said if she doesn't have a wet diaper by 7 in the morning you will probably need to take her to the ER to get an IV. All night we just used a syringe to put as much liquid as we could down her, but by 7 am she still had a dry diaper. So she had then gone 36 hours without anything to drink or eat and 12 hours without a wet diaper. To make this story short, we took her to back to SLC to primary childrens hospital to get an IV and we were there from 10-3. IT WAS A LONG DAY, it was very hard to sit there and hold down Anastasia while they put the IV in her.
After they were done with the IV they wanted her to drink some liquid before she could go home, and of course she still wouldn't drink anything. So we went with the option of leaving the IV in her (in case she didn't drink anything and we had to take her back for more fluids) and having it taken out the next day. Monday was a long day also. Waiting until our 3pm doctors appointment was not very fun because it hurt her to crawl and to do anything. So she was very fussy all day. Now she is all healthy and back to normal which is WONDERFUL!!!!
Sorry that was such a long story, and if there are alot of errors.


Here are a couple of the pictures that I got a chance to take while we were up there.

Fun day at the Zoo

This past weekend we went to the Zoo with Nicole, Daniel and Liz. Anastasia loved all the animals and watching all the kids run around. We also got to see the new baby Giraffe, he was two days old! It was so cute and so little. We had a lot of fun but by the time noon came around it was so HOT, we decided it was time to go home. I am glad we went right when it opened because it was the perfect temperature. When we were leaving there were no parking spaces and people were walking long distances to get to the zoo, just to see the new giraffe.