A lot has happened in 3 years!

It all began 3 years ago, the best decision of our life. Its been a great 3 years starting with

Our Wedding Oct. 5, 2007 at the San Diego Temple

an amazing honeymoon in Tahiti!!! Making several moves into our newlywed apartment and then after a generous offer from Dan and Debbie we moved into a house in La Mirada. We were sad to leave our friends in HB but happy to have a place to start our family and make new friends.

La Mirada House 2008 - 2010

We had so many wonderful memories at this house, the first being the birth of our first son Austin - March 18, 2009

He also turned one, what a big boy

Then we were faced with some tough choices. One was were was Paul going to continue his career, where were we going to buy a house. Well we came to the conclusion after much prayer and thought that Heavenly Father wanted us in Washington, so we moved.

and we bought a house

and after the loss of our second baby 10/2009 we got news that we were pregnant again!!! Baby #2 due to make its debut March 2010!!!

3 years of ups and downs

3 years of much laughter and some tears

3 years of us growing closer as a family and leaning on one another

3 years to know making the choice to make this marriage eternal was the best decision we have ever made!

Point Defiance, Tacoma

At Point Defiance Park they not only have a zoo, but a ton of trails. We explored one of them, a 5 mile loop! enjoying our surroundings
here we go!

Austin playing the drums on the logs

We had a great family day!

All in a days work!

We work hard! and eat hard!

Boy or Girl?

Baby willing October 12th is the big day! Chinese Calendar = Boy

Ring Test = Girl

Doctor (after hearing the heartbeat) = Boy

Magic 8 Ball = Girl

What do you think we will have???

River Walk Trail

Saturday was such a nice day that we thought we would explore some of the trails. We found one just along the riverbed. There were many people fishing, but I am not sure if they caught anything
Austin loved finding and picking up the biggest rocks he could find

Austin and mommy and if you look closely you can get a peek of baby #2 at 17 weeks!

exploring

Horsing around with his dad

It was a great day to spend a Saturday!

Austin's New Toy!!!

A rare occastion

For those of you who know Austin, know that he moves all day. Never sits, is always playing, climbing and moving. Yesterday that all changed. I was showing Paul a part in a movie that reminded me of him. So we turned on the t.v. and Austin got on the ground and relaxed for 10 minutes!!! It was so weird, we weren't even sure if he was awake or not :-)

What baby wants, baby gets

Since I am pregnant for most it means, its time to eat! For me its about finding something that won't make me sick. I have had a few cravings here and there...peanut butter, ice cream but the one I couldn't get out of my head of the Japanese Steak House. So we went... Austin was amazed the whole time
The loved all of the tricks

and I loved the food, even finished the whole plate which is rare because I haven't had a full lunch or dinner in 4 months. So Japanese steak house it is!

Who needs a whole bed

we you can fit your feet through the bars Went to put a blanket on Austin before we went to bed and this is what we found.

When daddy comes home...

Austin loves to rough house with him

Boys will be boys

He is an adventerous one

Austin loves to climbon everything, you can also see the Cheerios on his butt from his previous climbing expereince on the table just minutes ago

playing peek-a-boo with daddy's t.v.

He is so courious and loves to get into everything. My house has never been more disorganized and messy and we are loving every minute of it!

But it wasn't all fun and games

My parent's also came over to help us with a "few" things around the house.

My dad single handily installed our garage door opener and it works like a dream

Paul busily painted the ceilings white (that's right they were beige) and the trim white as well
My mom painted the room. This will be Austin's new big boy room
More pictures to follow upon completion

They also:

* installed 3 fans with his trusty helper Paul

* Fixed some electric problems

* added and checked all of our smoke alarms

We are very grateful for all of there help and I am sure they are at their home in California resting from all of their hard work here.

When grandpa and grandma come it's always fun!

Opa and Oma came to visit Austin and it was a lot of fun. They did so many things together and here a few pictures to show some of their adventures.

Austin and Oma spent a lot of time in the backyard playing in Austin's pool

They took him to fun places
Bought him some very cool clothes, daddy was very happy!

He went on bike rides

They made him laugh a lot

They took him to the park

and even played in the forest

and they also fed the ducks, although Austin mostly chased them and tried to get into the water

Thanks mom and dad for visiting!

Let's go fly a kite!

We bought a kite the other day and we wanted to try it out last Saturday. Paul ran up and own the field, but unfortunately there wasn't enough wind. We will try again next weekend.
Austin's cool new dragon kiteAustin loved the long tail too!

Although our kite never took off we had a lot of fun

Block Party

Every year our community throws a party, we even have a fancy ride to pick us up and drop us off at the club house.

There were local businesses handing out information, bounce houses and games.

Austin loved the train ride the best
We also got to ride with our neighbors MaKayla and Hailey

Our boy gets INTO lots of stuff

He likes to play in the dirt and it usually makes it into his mouth

he likes to take a look at every single one of his wipes

he has recently learned to climb on the table

and when I went to make Paul's lunch and grab a bag of chips I found this...

Austin is a boy who likes to figure things out and doesn't stop until he does. We love how curious our little boy is. We love him!