The Tree Bloomed!

Our tree bloomed last week! Most of the white flowers have blown off so I'll have to wait until next year to see it again!

Isabella Mary Frances

Savannah Lynn

Our Anniversary Weekend!

Trevor took this of us last night-I told him to put a shirt on, but I guess he didn't want to!!

Trevor and I celebrated our first year wedding anniversary yesterday, May 26th! It seems like yesterday we celebrated with our family and friends on our wedding day!!! It has gone so fast! Last week on Wednesday, my mom and dad took us out to eat at Liberty's for pasta bar night for our anniversary. It was awesome as usual!! This past weekend we had a good time celebrating with some of our family and friends. Saturday night we went to Monte's Steakhouse in Faribault with Chad, Andrea, Seth, and Lisa. That place was awesome!! On Sunday, we went fishing with Chris and Christi. We also took our nephew Justin with us as well. He caught 13 fish in an hour before he had to go! The four of us stayed, fished and chatted. Christi is 37 weeks pregnant and I wanted a belly shot, but she wouldn't let me! I think she looks good, but she doesn't allow "belly shots when pregnant." We then went to Dressen's for supper. The campground appeared to be very busy for the Memorial Day weekend. Monday, we went to see some more of our nieces and nephews, ate lunch with them, played kickball, and then headed home At home, we played some more kickball with Trevor's niece and nephew. We grilled, chatted, and played cards. Trevor's dad finally beat us! So that is our summary of our first year anniversary celebration.

Find the Wonderful in Today!

The title of this entry is a phrase my cousin Abbie refers to periodically. So I did so yesterday. I absolutely love this tree in our front yard. Every year it blooms into a beautiful white flower, but it does so over the course of a week or so. I love the light pink and dark pink flowers that are on it right now. I had to take a picture of it to share my wonderful in today!

Natalie's Baptism

Here are some more pictures from Natalie's Baptism day. Her parents, Jerod and Tammy, Natalie, myself, Ellie, and Joe. Justin and Emma are standing in the front. Ellie, Joe, and I were her sponsors.

My friend Courtney painted her a chair so I could give it to her for a gift. It turned out awesome. Everyone thought it was really cool. They thought Trevor and I painted it!! I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I almost failed art in school. Mrs. Saass thought I was terrible at everything I tried to do artistically.

This is Natalie after eating, taking a nap, and changing out of her gown. She looks content to me!!

Justin

Justin and his uncle Trevor posed for a picture after half-time was done.
Justin and his buddies were able to show off their basketball skills during half-time.

Justin had a birthday on April 6th! We celebrated at Godfather's Pizza in Rochester with his second cousin.

Kids!!!!

This was attempt to take a picture of seven children!! As you can tell, they were hard to capture all at the right time. I tryed!! Hopefully, I can buy a new camera sooner than later, that it much faster.

Cookies

This post is for Luci and Dana. I'd have to say these cookies look pretty darn good, don't they girls? I took the pictures especially for them as evidence. When Luci and Dana lived with me in Rochester, they kicked me out of the kitchen when they baked. I literally was not allowed. My baking skills were not up to par at that time. Now, from time to time, I try to bake. These chocolate chip cookies actually turned out! And they even met my dad's approval. Sometimes he won't eat what I bake. And that means the end results are bad, because he's a garbage can and loves to eat!! So here's to baking more often!!!

Nolan and Jacob

Nolan!! I love this picture! It captures his smile so well!! I stole it from his blog, but I couldn't resist posting it here as well!

I'm really behind with my blogging; that is for sure!!! Nolan was born on March 6th. His proud parents are Jason and Venessa. A while ago we had a shower for Nolan and Venessa. In the picture, both Tiffany and Renae are pregnant!

This is Jacob Jeffrey. Tiffany and Jeff are the new parents to this little one. He was born May 12th. Isn't that picture just precious! So handsome!

I do have more pictures to upload from my camera from various events, but life has been busy. Weddings, showers, bachelorette parties, Mother's day, working, going to my nephews baseball games, and finishing my 2nd year of graduate school have kept me very busy!! I'm glad to be done with school for the summer. 4 months off until I start again at the end of August. Then 2 more semesters!! I will actually graduate next spring with my Master's in Nurse Education if all goes as planned. I plan to blog more often now that school is done!