Total Eclipse

August 21, 2017

Blaine took his finals last week!  I am so proud of him for finishing his first semester of the PTA program!

To celebrate, we headed to Idaho for the Total Solar Eclipse.  It is so cool that "the band of totality" went right through our stomping grounds!

We camped in Grandma Munns backyard. I always love being there.  Something about being in farm country is such good medicine for my soul.  Plus I love Grandma Munns with all my heart!  She is the only living grandma I have had in my adult life.  I feel like we are good friends.  I hope I can be buddies with my grandkids someday!

We also got to see some other family and friends that we love.  All in all it was a good trip.

On a side note, the total eclipse was amazing.  Some of my favorite parts of the event were the sudden dropping of the temperature, the sunset that wrapped around the entire sky (like 360 degrees) and the diamond ring effect.  It was phenomenal and it felt like time stopped for a few minutes.

 ^Blaine go the essentials, in case a fire happened during the eclipse.  He was ready :)




 ^Grandma Munns is a little whipper snapper and is so young at heart.  She is the funnest host and is such a party animal!



 ^My nephews were so funny and made aliens helmets out of tin foil just so...ya know, they could communicate with the aliens that might show up.... :)





 ^The lighting was so weird leading up the the eclipse.  When the sun got totally covered, it looked like someone turned the lights down on the whole earth at once!


 ^This doesn't touch the majesty of it...but this is the 360 degree sunset!


^Solar Eclipse Mask we made for Eliza :)

Eliza's Blessing

July 2, 2017

Eliza Jane was blessed today.  Did we tell you we changed her name to Eliza Jane?  We started calling her that after she was born and now it's her name (as opposed to just Eliza).

Today was one of those magical days that you want to last forever.  Surrounded by family and friends and sweet memories of babies that have brought heaven with them.



























Welcome Summer

June 2017

Summer means sundresses, Mary Jane shoes and oatmeal with strawberries and blueberries!
On another high note, I got a calling to be a sunbeam teacher.  The hugest blessing happened the day I was sustained in church....Eliza started sleeping through the night.  She fell asleep on Saturday night at 11:30 pm and I woken her up for church at 8:30 am.  Nothing like some sunshine and sleep to a Mama's heart!

Another thing that has made me happy lately is eating outside in our backyard.  It isn't big, and nothing grand, but it's our happy little world.  It's green and has a beautiful view of the majestic mountains.  I am glad summer is here!






Eliza at 2 1/2 months and Benson at 1 and 11/12

June 20, 2017

My sister-in-law gave me these cute little dress up clothes for E.  The morning was a good one, so I decided to get a little photo shoot of her.  Then B wandered in and joined in.  I always love to see how in love my kids are with their siblings.  It warms my heart.