Cutest kids ever!!

These are 2 of my sister jenny's kids evie and stratton. I was over there the other night and i decided i needed to start taking more pictures with my neices and nephews. Evie is 15 months old and she is the cutest thing ever chunky and all!!! she has the funnest personality she is always talking and giggling. Stratton is 4 and he has to be the funniest kid ever we have so much fun together. I love all the neices and nephews, but stratton has always been my little buddy i am like his second mom i have watched him alot over the years and i just feel so attached to him. After you look at the the pictures you will see why. He also loves brett whenever brett comes to play he is way over me and wants t playwith brett. Stratton is going to be a stand up comedian one day he is always making everyone laugh when you are around him you can't help but smile!!

hiking!!!

Here we are again hiking this time my uncle wayne came with us. We went to a hiking trail in ogden canyon it was so beautiful, but my uncle wasn't loving hiking so we only stayed a little bit. I was kinda disappointed because i wanted to hike the whole thing, but oh well brett and i can go back another day. We have been trying to go hiking once a week to get annie out to get some exercise and we need it to, we need to get off all the winter weight!!!!

Adoption- What a blessing

Now that we have finally started our blog i think its time i write about our adoption, i know some of you already know, but i have few people that i haven't talked to in awhile that don't know about this wonderful journey we are about to embark on.
Our little girl is due on August 19th and we are so excited!!!!! Brett and i decided in january that we would get the paperwork going for adoption and this was about the middle of january when we decided. One weekend brett and i took a trip to st. george to check out the school because we were thinking of moving there, but as we were driving home i got a call from my mom she wanted to talk both of us about some exciting news. She had got a call from a girl from virginia her name is samantha and she was in my dad's institute class down there. She had called my mom to tell her she was pregnant and that she wanted to place her baby with a good family that could give her child a better life than she could. My mom took the oppurtunity to let her know she has a daughter that has been unable to get pregnant and that we wanted to put our papers in for adoption, my mom wasn't telling her to choose us but she said she felt that she needed to tell her about us.
That drive home was so neat brett and I just had a peaceful feeling something we hadn't felt in awhile. Brett and i felt like this time would never come to have a family and here was our answer. From this point we started talking to her every other week and pretty much from the beginning we were told that she wanted us to be the parents. So we have been pretty much going through the whole pregnancy with her. Samantha is such a special person to us and she is doing the most selfless thing that anyone could do. Samantha is our superhero!!! we love her so much and without her we would not be able to start our family. We feel so blessed and we thank our heavenly father every day for this blessing. I believe things happen for a reason and that one of the reasons my parents went to virginia is to meet samantha.
Brett is so cute he loves shopping for all her stuff he even picks out her clothes and suprisinly he does a great job. He is so excited and that little girl will have him wrapped around her finger so fast!!!! I just want to thank all of our friends and family for there support in this time everyone has been so great and she already has so many people that love her. I will keep everyone updated on the progress its coming soon yahoo!!!!!

Antelope Island

We went to antelope island on monday and went for a hike. We just moved to layton about a month ago and we decided it was time to see what layton has to offer. We have always wanted to go to antelope island, so thats what we did. We had so much fun we both love being outdoors and especially hiking i have come to love it and so whenever we get a chance we go. Annie especially loves hiking she runs up the hills and its hard keeping up with her she is so happy when she is outside. We took our time on the hike enjoying the beautiful scenery and taking tons of pictures. We got annie way tired and we were too, so we stopped at dairy queen after my favorite thing to eat ice cream!!! We hope we can go back and go on more hikes.