A wedding!

Lance's sister got married on May 9th! We all absolutely LOVE her husband Mike! He is such a great addition to the family. :) Mike and McCall are such a cute couple and we are very happy for them! Here are some pictures from the wedding!

Mike and McCall with the grandmas and mom & dad

with the siblings

me (at 35 weeks) and Lance

of course Lance needed a handstand picture!

me and Mary

 Lance's toe touch

 Austin's toe touch

 the brothers and their 'toe touches'

 dive rolling over the bride

the groom waiting patiently

Austin and Brooklyn 

 while waiting for the bride and groom to arrive at the luncheon...Brooklyn and Austin took a snooze

(you can tell they are related!)

 with my mom

 Austin and Grandma Yellow... and crazy eyed Tyce

 my family

 the newlyweds

Lance loves to tease all the little cousins 

Baby Shower

One of my friends hosted a baby shower for me the other day! It was so much fun! I loved being able to see so many of my friends! We ate some really yummy food (I had to have Korean food and lots of fruit-especially pineapple-because that's what ALWAYS sounds good to me), we played some fun games, and had a great time visiting. :)

 Is this little guy not the cutest thing ever??

Graduation!

On Friday, May 4th Lance and I did the whole graduation ceremony thing. I graduated from the University of Utah in December and Lance will officially be done in August. :) We have the same degree...Human Development and Family Studies!

We both have student id's from the U of U, UVU, SLCC, and Westminster College. We've been all over the place taking classes and changing our majors.

A moment to brag about myself...ahem. Despite transferring schools and majors a ridiculous number of times and taking a semester of college off while living in China (much to the dismay of some family members) I finished my bachelor's degree in 7 semesters! Booyah! I don't know how it happened, but somehow everything worked out perfectly. :)

I am stoked to begin my full time career as a stay at home mom! Our baby girl is due to come June 7th and we are so excited to begin this next stage of our life!

 We thought our robes looked like Harry Potter robes so we got out our wands and had a wizard's duel.

a pic with my parents, brother, and grandparents

Called to Serve....

Daniel got his mission call! He will be serving in the Cape Verde Praia Mission!! And...he will be speaking Portuguese!!

Before Daniel opened his call, he was telling us that one of his roommates just got his call to a place called Praia, Cape Verde. We were all surprised when he found out...same mission!

I thought for sure Dan was going to some kind of Korean speaking mission. I definitely had not considered he'd be going to Africa and speaking Portuguese!

We are all super excited for him! I am also very excited because Lance and I are planning to teach our children Portuguese (Lance speaks it and so does his dad). Now we are all even more motivated to learn the language. :)

 Daniel getting ready to open the call...notice all the Korean dumplings we were making?

 I thought he'd be going somewhere where they use chopsticks...

 Daniel with Daniel, Josh and Trevor

We had to get out the map!

I'm so proud of my little brother!! :)

(How Stuff Works, Inc., 2012)

Westminster Chamber Orchestra

Lance and I got to play in the Westminster Chamber Orchestra as community members. It was a lot of fun to go to rehearsals together and we really liked the conductor, Brandon Derfler. I played the violin, and Lance played the trumpet. (his BLUE trumpet!) Here are some pics from our concert on Monday night! If anyone is interested in joining the orchestra for fall semester, let me know and I 'll get you the info you need! :)

32 weeks pregnant!!

My mom was really excited that I was on the posters/programs. (That picture was from my first year playing in the orchestra back in 2009!)

Getting Back into the Blogging World...

Alrighty, it looks like it has been over a year since we have been on our blog! I think it's about time to change that! We started this blog while we were living in China as a way to keep our family updated (not that we really kept on top of it there either...) and now that we have a little baby girl on the way....we think it's time to get the blog back up and running!

Our Florida Vacation

When we returned to the U.S. from China, we had a chance to go on a little vacation!

We started out in Orlando where we saw a dinner show called Arabian Nights. We also went to a place where Lance could practice some high dives. After Orlando we went on a short cruise to the Bahamas! The weather was cold, but we still swam and relaxed on the beach. After the cruise we stayed i

n Fort Lauderdale where we played on the beach and saw Tangled in theaters (awesome movie!!). We drove down to Miami to see a Cirque du Soleil show called Kooza, which was so sweet! We made friends with an elderly man named Joe who had been on the same cruise as us and was staying in the same hotel. He was really nice and he had some cool stories to share with us.





Our trip was a lot of fun, but the entire time we were really excited to go home to Utah! It had been months since we'd seen our family and friends...so we were anxious to get home!