60 Years

While shopping for a wedding card for my friend, I noticed an old man reading anniversary cards. He carefully picked them up and put them back down as he tried to decide which one to get. He caught me looking and asked if I would mind helping him pick out a card. He had one that he liked but he wasnt really set on. So I read it and told him that it was beautiful and that his wife would be touched by how sweet it was. I noticed a card that I grabbed and read and placed on top of the wedding card I had picked. He looked at the card I had placed in my hands and he asked me how long we had been together. I told him it would be a year on the 25th. He smiled and looked at me and said it'll be 60 years on the 14th for me. We made it a few more years then you.

As I watched him talking about his anniversary and his wife it touched me to see that after all those years he still had so much love for her. He couldnt pick just any card for this woman who stole his heart. He needed the perfect card and with my help he found it.

I hope in 59 years around the time of our anniversary, someone ask us how long we have been married and like this man I hope that with love in our eyes we can proudly say we have been together 60 years and we plan to be together forever more!

Love like that is so hard to find and I am so glad that I found the one person I want to spend the rest of eternity with. Everytime I feel our baby move all I can do is think about how lucky she is to have Steve as her daddy and what an amazing man he is. Through all my crying and crazy pregnancy hormones he still comes home each night, kisses me, and tells me how much he loves me. He has truly blessed my life and this past year being married to him has been one of the best I have had and cannot wait for the many many many more years to spend with him.

Dearest Great Grandpa

Today we lost you. We know that you arent gone but it still is sad to know you will not be around anymore. You were so much and more to a lot of people on this earth and we know that in Heaven it is the same way for you. We all miss you so much and your memory will live forever. We will never forget the songs you'd sing about Cinderella falling apart after the ball or the elephant who jumped over the fence. Your story as you talked about Christ and his life or how you'd light up for the love of your life. Your laugh as you teased each one of use dearly. The gleam in your eyes as you plotted against us. The feel of your hands so comforting and worn, from all those days that you worked hard. The thought of knowing you'd be there when we called. Never looked at the bad side to anything at all. The fact that you were a husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather. How you loved each of your children with no problem at all. The humor you had as you called us by name. Or even when you made up our nicknames. The stories you'd tell of things near and far. Of how you hometeached or watched football. Some questions we have for you today. Were you welcomed by God? Did you see his face? Did your family open up their arms as you arrived? Did you look down and know that we missed you? Did you tell stories with God? Bright up the sky?
Did you know that your missed ever so much. In saying that we all know this, you were welcomed by God with wide open arms. He greeted you with a hug and a kiss. He said, "welcome my son, I've been waiting for you."
Dearest great-grandpa I just wanted to say, that we miss you so dearly but we know we'll be with you someday. When we think of you, it will always be good. Like how you'd get us in the knees with your cane. Every memory that plays in our minds with you, will remind us of good times and things that were right.
Thank you dear grandpa for being here. We love you and miss you and cant wait to see you again!

Baby update

Wednesday we went to get another ultrasound of the baby. The doctor wanted to make sure she was growing right. We got in there and it was the first time Steve got to see the baby on the screen. He stared at it for awhile. I could see how much he loved this lil girl. We got some good pictures. We found out that she is growing. She is a lil on the big side but she is still growing just right :) Here are some pictures of her.




I am also just realizing that I do not have pictures of my belly. So here are a few. They are a lil old but they should do :)



Here is a couple of the things that I have done for my baby :) I love these blankets.

One last Camping Trip

This last weekend we went camping with my brother-in-law and his kids. It was so much fun! We had a blast.

There was a creek by where we stayed and we took the kids and walked up and down the creek. It was loads of fun!






After we got done walking in the creek, Steve and his brother decided to build a fire. The first attempt was a no go after Steve threw a hot dog bun on top of the little flame that had gotten started. After an exchange of mean looks they got another fire started. It was a very nice fire!



The next day we went fishing. Steve caught a fish but the dog stole it from him and played with it. Luckily though the kids caught some fish. They just kept catching them.




It was a fun trip. We were all so tired when we got home but we had lots of fun hanging out with those guys.

Crazy Camping Trip

On July 25th it was our one year anniversary :) It was such a good day for us. We left on the 24th to go camping. It was a huge adventure. We took our dog with us and she was being crazy.




We stopped by Mesa Falls. Such a beautiful place!!


We found out that our campsite was known to have bears come through it so to make sure ALL food items where put into the car away from our tent. Not even a minute after the camp host told us and had taken off our dog came walking up with food she found by our tent. I was freaking out.


Later after we had gone to bed the dog kept freaking out and so we were trying to calm her down. We got to hear wolf or coyote howls. It was so crazy to hear those and after those sounds the dog stopped freaking out some.

We finally got to bed at 2 and when I woke up around 5 I looked out the tent and saw the tree that was less then 3 feet away had BIG ol' chunks taken out of it. It was crazy.



We finally got up and going around 8. We headed to Yellowstone for an anniversary date. The first place we saw had 2 large elk standing in the water. People were standing there watching them.



We had such an amazing time! Here are a few more pics of some of the things we saw and did!