Back to school..

Above are just random pictures taken throughout the past year. Many great things have happened over the past months. Canada won the Olympic Hockey game, Bronson kept his 4.0 at UCSD, I am still loving work, we have a new nephew and niece, Hayden and Coen, who are so healthy and beautiful, Bronson was able to meet my Grandpa and we went on a fun trip to D.C. in April and then to Canada in July where the Harker boys brought home the Raymond b-ball championship, we are getting much closer to people in our ward and re connecting with old friends:) But now its back to school Bronson goes:) Bronson has been studying like crazy for the LSAT on October 9th. Things are wonderful as ever and I am glad to report that I love my husband with all my heart and I know he is going to do awesome on the LSAT! We are so blessed to have each other and this has been another wonderful summer..now we are getting excited for the Holidays again...wow..time flys:)

Just playin around with the camera

Mom and Dads annual Christmas party

What Christmas means to us....

Watching These

Singing These

Baking and Eating These

And not Worrying About This

Believing

And ALWAYS Remembering the Reason for the Season

Carving Pumpkins

This is a fun tradition we have kept up each year. Halloween movies, hot apple cider, and carving pumpkins.

Random self pics

The final product. I really liked this small white pumpkin!

Im a witch and abbey is a vampire...shes the cutest vampire I have ever seen!


Payson and his friend Jeremy..Payson really gets into character;)

Ivory and Payson made us Halloween cookies...even the hair color is accurate;)

Im still not sure what Bron was supposed to be...any guesses?

October Festivities!

Well its been awhile since our last post. I am working 3 days a week and am hoping to move to 4 ten hour days in January because my dentist is bringing on an associate to work on Thursdays and Fridays. Bron is doing so awesome in school. He works really hard and is waaay smarter than he gives himself credit for. We are really enjoying our holiday's together and we are having a lot of fun. For October we went to Bate's Nut Farm..or some like to call it Nate's Butt Farm...he he. Its free to go and we didnt spend one penny while we were there but had a bunch of fun. We looked at all the big pumpkins, the various animals, and we went inside the shop and looked around at all the christmas trees and ornaments. A great place to take your kids..oh wait our kids have four...well one has three legs...lol...and fur all over...hmmm..well you all know whats on my mind;) Human children or not it was a great way to spend a Saturday together especially on a budget;)

Cool Peacock!!

Bron attempting to look very stoic;)

In this pic on the rock behind Bron there is a big goat just standing there.

2009 so far....

We had such a great year so far. A little catch up: Spring 2009 was my last semester in hygiene school, in April we went to vegas for Bron's birthday, national boards: I PASSED!! next....grad party then actual graduation from hygiene school, Bronson got accepted into UCSD for a political science major, then a cruise to Catalina and Mexico from my mom and dad, countless days going to Huntington and Manhattan Beach and fun nights together at our beach apartment, an unforgettable trip to Seattle to see Skou play, passing State Boards, landing my first real job at an awesome place, and a sweet trip to Utah to see Payton and Keelia, and then Bron started school so our fun vacations had to end. But im sure there is much more fun in store for us over the next few months to finish up this awesome year!
Now here come our favourite months: Oct, Nov, Dec!! Hopefully by the end of this year we wil have bought our own place!

Seattle

Pikes Market!! Sooo crowded but sooo worth it! We did the 2 things my mom and dad told us to do
1) Eat at Piroshky Piroshky..pastries filled with all different kinds of meats or sweets, it was a 20 minute line and sooo worth it!
2) Buy a fresh piece of fruit, the biggest juiciest one you can find and eat it over a trash can and if it doesnt get all over the place then you arent eating it right. Bron and I had nectarines...best piece of fuit I have ever tasted

Bron being well...Bron

A wall just COVERED in gum. We didnt have any on us so sadly we could not contibute but it made for great pics and great times. People even spelled words out in gum..it was down a dark alley in the middle of nowhere. It was great! We were just walking down a back alley to get to the water and we stumbled upon it!

Bron got this great shot! The fish flyin through the air. Tons of people were gathered around. One of those fish were like 50 bucks or something crazy so it doesnt happen every second you have to wait for someone to buy one.

The most amazing seafood!

Bron and Skou just in some in depth convo...actually im not sure what they were talkin bout i just thought it was a sweet pic

How did we do this?? Well however we did it made us laugh pretty hard.

The boys gettin ready for their on a TOTAL whim midnight 5k Seattle space needle run. Yes bron is wearing skater shoes. And yes they took themselves very seriously. they stretched out and did warm ups.

Skou with his game face on. This was hysterical

This one was for Payson

VERY SERIOUS!

Thousands of people do this awesome run! We should make it a tradition except I dont want to be leaving on a plane the next day at 5 in the morning!

Skou was killin it!

This was our trip to Seattle. July 1-4th. This was a crazy whirlind trip. We flew on buddy passes and were in the Oakland airport for 8 hours but we finally got to Seattle. We stayed at Ben and Jason's sweet apartment. They were out of town we wish they could have been there. We went to Skou's game (he's super awesome), the famous Pike's Market, site seeing with Skou, of course a stop at Ross stores where we found some awesome moo moo's, next the space needle with Skou, and oh why not run in a 5k at midnight on the morning of the 4th when we have to be at the airport at 5 in the morning. Yes..Bron and Skou ran a 5k on a whim starting at midnight at the Space Needle on the 4th. I didnt have running shoes...well neither did either of them really..and they didnt sign up they just crashed it...well...someone had to take the pictures right? They finished their run and all the festivities around 2, we then slept in the car outside of Skous hotel and we all drove to the airport at 4 in the morning! Then Bron and I went straight to 4th of July festivities at Coronado Island with family and friends. We had a great story to tell but we didnt look so good;)

In the 'start' video on the right you can see Bron and Skou run by around the 20 sec mark.