Lots of pics....

Every year we put all of Bubba's reimbursable expenses for work on a Costco credit card and then we end up getting a gift card to Costco every February. This year we decided to use part of it to buy a nice camera and ended up getting a DSLR (Canon Rebel). We (mostly Bubba) have been having lots of fun testing it out on the kids and as a result we have thousands of pictures from the last month even though we really haven't been doing anything too exciting! I just picked out a few to torture you with...I literally had hundreds to choose from! I am loving the fact that the camera has virtually no delay so I actually get the picture I was intending on taking! With our other camera, the kids would move before the picture would actually take and so we never could quite capture the actual moment we were trying to capture!

These first two pics of are of my cute nephew Austin...my brother Landon and his wife Melissa came up from Arizona to Utah as a surprise to all of us on their Spring Break and we had so much fun with them!

A couple of weeks ago we went to Zions National Park and had a great time thanks to Platinum! We stayed in a super nice cabin and got to do lots of fun stuff...it was so nice to get away and have a little break for a few days...we just forgot the camera and didn't take any pictures!

On a less exciting note, the last few months have been a little bit rough. I found out I was pregnant at the beginning of January and thought everything was going well as I was super tired, nauseous, etc. However, at my first doctor's appointment at almost 9 weeks I found out through an ultrasound that I would be having a miscarriage. I decided to just wait it out and let it happen naturally, assuming it wouldn't take too long, and it ended up taking a very long time and I finally just miscarried this last weekend (at 16 weeks). I'm doing fine now and am relieved that it is finally over, but obviously a little concerned since this is the 4th miscarriage that I have experienced. As hard as this has been, I am grateful for the perspective I have gained-I am so grateful for my two little girls and know that everything does work out somehow-just not necessarily when and how we may have planned!

Bubba is getting busier and busier at work as the summer approaches-we're just hoping that he is around a little more than last summer! He really does enjoy his job though and we are grateful that he has such a good job with such a great company-even if it means he is super busy most of the time!