When in situations of stress we wonder if there is anymore to give. We can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail. Let us remember that we were measured before and were found equal to our tasks. When we feel overwhelmed, let us recall the assurance that God will not over-program us; he will not press upon us more than we can bear.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Relay for Life and Family Reunion

We had a great weekend last weekend. We started it off being part of a relay for life team with Todd's cousins. They are amazing and we love their family! This is Kiana and Nish, two beautiful sisters! They are a very strong family who have shown me how to be so strong! I hope one day I'm half as strong as they are!
Todd doing his laps! We were there for about three hours friday night and we each walked about 4.5 miles! By the end of the night, the team walked WAY over 300 miles! Isn't that CRAZY?!
Saturday morning we drove to Wayne County for the Fordham Family reunion. It was such a fun and relaxing day for us! This was the very intense game of volleyball that was going on! hehe
Lily with some of her favorite cousins! They love her too!
Lily spent most of the day in the swing... and all of her cousins kept pushing her so she was in heaven! It really was a lot of fun!
Lily with her grandma! She just loves her grandma, and I'm pretty sure that her grandma loves her back! They are really good friends! It's fun to watch them together! :) Overall, it was a lot of fun! I wish we had weekends like this every weekend!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

The Past Two Weeks!

Lily seeing the ocean for the first time! The warf in Monterey!
Lily's first amusement ride! :) She screamed when we took her out of the boat!
Lily and I touching starfish and sea urchins.
The family sitting in a life-size clam :)
Lily saying hello to the turtle!
Eating some delicious mexican food, we gotta represent!
Lily playing with our friend Barb... they are life long buds now! :)
Camping at Yankee Meadows!
Lily gone camping! Does she look dirty to you too? hehe
We were so happy to be up in the hills!

The past two weeks have been crazy busy! It started out on the 5th when we left for Salinas, CA for a whole week! While we were there we went to MANY beaches, had a bonfire with old friends, visited old ward members for Todd, went to the Aquarium which is always fun, helped his sister move her classroom, enjoyed a week with each other! It was a busy week full of lots of laughs and good times! Todd and I also got to go on a date and watched the sunset over the WINDY beach! The waves were CRAZY though!

We came home on the 12th and brought with us Todd's sister, April, and her daughter, Taylor. When we got home, his other sister, Rachel, as also here with her family. We went camping up above Cedar City, did some scrapbooking, made lots of delicious and healthy food, plus watched some really good movies! It was so fun to see everyone while they were here. They will all be definitely missed! Now our lives are back to their mundane day to day things, but that's fine too. It'll be nice to actually clean my house instead of pile everything around....

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

In case you haven't heard yet...

I haven't exactly been keeping this a secret, but we're expecting again! I'm due Christmas Eve... haha! That's my least favorite part of this pregnancy so far! I've been pretty sick but I'm making due! Lily still doesn't get that she's going to be a big sister, but that's fine! I'm just about 13 weeks! Officially over the first trimester!