Let's be Honest

I (Wendy) haven't updated this blog for so long because I like logging on and seeing the sweet things Scott had to say about me :) But Grandma needs some new pictures! 

 We went to a production of "Beauty and and Beast" Ains was terrified of the beast but she LOVED the music and sang along most of the time.

 Playing at the pool with Auntie Kim

 Summer pictures: Ains playing in the back yard

 Golfing for our anniversary.  5 years! Crazy!  

 Playing baseball with Daddy

 Rainy family reunion

 Cousin's blessing

 Car up a pole! Bad day for someone

 Watching softball with Shelley

Scott's birthday

We got to spend time with our good friends the Egberts.  Ains loves Cami and wanted to do everything she was doing

Playing at the pool with cousins

First big boo boo

We got to spend a lot of time with our good friends the Webbers this summer.  Their daddy was gone too.

On our way home from the zoo we got a flat tire.  Never been so glad to see an Idaho State Police in my life:) he saved us. Anyway after Webbers had there baby in August they moved :( Ains asks to play with Abby everyday still.  I don't know if she misses them more or me.  They lived in the next apartment building and we spent a lot of time together these last 2 years.  It was so hard to watch them go.

Grandpa and Grandma Great came to visit one afternoon 

 Ains first krispy kream!

Scott did an internship in Provo this summer.  Ains and I stayed here so I could work.  It was hard but we made it.  We were back and forth for 8 weeks

And I had a birthday in there

And we had mothers day in Provo

This picture is older but Ains has finally gotten used to the horses

Also old pictures but this is what Ains does with the ipod: self portraits!

These pictures were all off the ipod.  I'll get more of the camera later.  Scott is in his last semester of classes here.  Next semester is all clinical.  He has turned in his second draft of his capstone (= dissertation) hopefully he will have that all done this semester.  I'm working 20 hours a week.  I canned 29 bottles of applesauce and 18 bottles of tomatoes last week.  Ains is almost 3! crazy! She is learning so much and is so fun.  She wants to do everything herself and that is hard for me but we are learning. 

My Wife, Mrs. Incredible!

So I (Scott) don't post on here much but I need to brag about my wife.  2 years ago Wendy saw a sign for a 5K on her way home from work and told me when she got home that she would like to run one someday.  A few days later she ran 1 mile on the treadmill and said she could hardly breath.  Yesterday, Wendy and I ran the Utah Valley Half Marathon (that's 13.1 miles) in Provo, the second half marathon that we have done together.  She has also run multiple 5k's, a 10k, and participated on a team doing a 200 mile relay.  She has told me multiple times that she never thought she would ever be able to do something so difficult as a half marathon, but yesterday at the end of the race she was sprinting and said she could have run more.  She is pretty amazing. Wendy, I just want you to know how much I love you. You are such a strong and amazing woman.  I am so proud to have you as my wife.  I know you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. I love you!

This is Wendy and me after the race. Isn't she beautiful!

6 Months in Pictures

We are alive!

And we are doing well.

Ainsley at story time with her cousins in november.

Ainsley turned 2 in December! Holy Moly!

Love the cake? I did well thank you very much!

And we had a Merry Christmas. We ate too much. Stayed up too late.

And loved it.

We also got to skype with my brother on a mission.

He will be home in 3 months!

Again: Holy Moly!

Scott is now half way through grad school.

I'm working about 20 hours a week.

Ainsley gets to hang out with Grandma while I work. She loves it!

She also loves going to nursery on Sunday and asks all week to go to church.

She is learning new things every day and currently wants to play duck, duck, goose at any opportunity. She talks more all the time and is starting to use 4 word sentences consistently.

There's your update! It may be 3 months till you hear from us again:)

Good Things to Come

Scott and I watched this and I cried! When life get hard remember that good things are to come! Remember: keep your fork, the best is yet to come.

My goal:

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dancing Queen

I was listening to Christmas music last night when Scott got home. Ainsley was dancing in the living room. Scott comes in and dances with her. I come to dance too.... Ainsley pushes me back into the kitchen. I was not allowed to dance with them. I stay there for a few minutes and then try to dance with them again. This time she sits me on the couch and tells me to stay. How did I get cut out by my own child?