Elijah

Ready for the pounce

he nurses this blanket

sleeping

Precious

I love my kitty

he's getting bigger

He loves to play in the laundry basket

Too cute!

sleeping

loves to play with straws.

I think I have too much fun with our kitty. He is like our little baby.

Memorial Day!

Jaymee Lynn- My new niece

Spokane Falls/river

Shane and I had a wonderful Memorial Day. First we went to see Star Trek, which was way better then I expected. I highly recommend seeing the movie. It was great! Then we went to River Front Park to see the falls. It is so pretty. It's very high and runs very fast. After walking around the park we went to dinner at Olive Garden. The food was so good! It was nice to have a day together of fun.

I also found out some very exciting news that my brother Andy's baby girl was born. Her name is Jaymee Lynn. She weighed 6lbs 18 inches long.

kitty and update

Here are some more pictures of our Kitten. He is now about 10 weeks old. He gets into mischief. He likes to jump on whatever he can climb/jump on. He is very fun and keeps me company. He broke the toy in this video already.

Shane and I both just got callings last week. I was called as the Relief Society Chorister. Shane was called as physical facility assistant. I enjoy my calling.

Shane was accepted into his master program at EWU studying Urban Planning. He will start in the fall. It is a 2 year program. I am very proud of him!

Mother's Day!!!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's especially the ones that have touched my life the most. I am grateful for having a loving mother, great grandmothers, aunts, sisters and so many other Women in my life that have touched me and made me who I am today.

I had a nice mother's day. Shane surprised me with my favorite flowers Gerber daisies. Church was really good we had nice musical numbers in sacrament and talks. I was able to talk to my mom and most my siblings. I made Shane call his mom. I talked to my mother in law too.

I have been thinking a lot today about my mom of course but also about the soon to be mom's. There are a lot in the family that are expecting. I can't wait to be a mom, but I think that is a few years down the road. I've also thought about the women who struggle to have children and how hard today must be for them. I'm so glad I was able to bless one Women to be able to be a Mother. I have grown so much over the last 5 years. I miss Spencer and my heart goes out to the Women that are struggling to have children and the Women that are missing the children they could have raised but chose to give him/her more than they could give them.

new addition to our famly

INTRODUCING ELIJAH!!!

HE LOVES THE COUCH.

JEN AND ELIJAH

DRINKING

SLEEPING

HE IS 8 WEEKS OLD.

KITTEN CRY.

IN THE BOX WE GOT HIM IN.

ELIJAH CUDDLING WITH SHANE.

1 year anniversary

Banks Lake

Roosevelt lake (created by the Grand Coulee Dam)

Cute Animal in park

Grand Coulee Dam

Steam Boat Rock- I loved it!

Dry Falls

Dry Falls

Dray Falls- I was nervous to walk out on this.

Dry Falls

It was a Beautiful Day!

Steam Boat Rock

Steam boat Rock

Sitting in park by dam

Grand Coule Dam

Bridge over Dam- we walked both sides to read all the historical facts.

Bridge

View from bridge

posing on bridge over dam

Grand Coule Dam

Grand Coulee Area

Other side of Deck

Jen on Deck of Motel

Banks Lake by motel

Banks Lake

(view from motel, Banks Lake)

Shane and I just celebrated our One Year Anniversary this last weekend. We stayed at a motel right over Banks Lake. We were in the Grand Coulee Dam area. It was so pretty. It was a nice relaxing weekend. We were able to have some alone time in the hot tub. I love hot tubs they are so relaxing! We had some nice food at the cafe's in the area. It's a very small area and things shut down basically by 8 or 9pm. I thought that was a little odd. We walked on the bridge over the Dam and read all the historical things along the way. We then walked through the park near there. We drove a bit to see Dry falls. It use one of the biggest water falls until it dried up. It is still a beautiful place to visit though. We also went bowling. We had never played together but had always wanted to. We each won a game but we both are not very good. We still had fun though. We went to the Grand Coulee Dam visitor center and then went to a walking trail that ran by banks lake. it was a great time and a beautiful area.