Emmaus' Dedication

We had already "dedicated" Emmaus to God...well before he entered this world.

However, we wanted to "formally" do it at church with our congregation, and family (those that could make it.)

Here are a few pics.


This was also Erin and Corey's last sunday with us here in Salt Lake, and we had never taken a picture of the 5 of us...It turned out really cute.
 The idea of giving Emmaus to God seems so obvious to me. We wouldn't have this baby without God. Without God, Jake and I are nothing. I'm not finding all the words I want to express what I mean here...(jake, step in at any time please.)


Point being: Emmaus is God's and we just get to be a part of it. We are soo blessed and honored to be his parents. Thank you everyone that loves and wants to be involved with our family.

just taken

I can't help it. I just took this, and had to get it on my blog. haven't edited it, or any of the other ones, it was just so cute!

spiral jetty

yea! I finally went. I heard about this place a couple of years ago, and wanted to go ....but kept putting it off.


this past sunday I finally drove up there.

we drove up there.
jake,

a friend, alissa
 mom,

dad, and emmaus and me.

we stopped at the golden spike national historic site and saw where the transcontinental railroad met up. they had a wood burning train car and a coal buring train as well.    we weren't going to pay to go into the site BUT the coal train had the number 119 painted on it!!! i had to go in.  so we did. and we got some cute pics. i thought it was fun.

then we drove down a bumpy gravel road that lead us to a bumpier dirt road with some very large rocks in the way.  i drove cause jake's back was having some problems. (not everyone can say i hurt my back while having a light saber fight!) 

i did a good job manuvering through the big bumps.  we drove and then...the jetty came into view! we chose to park the car a little ways out, cause we didn't want the car to get stuck.  we were  lucky it was a beautiful day and there hadn't been any rain....a muddy road would have really been unfortunate.  so we walked, and i took pics then made our way down to the jetty.  for those of you who don't know, its a rock formation that an artist did back in 1959 on the great salt lake.  in the 70's the water level of the lake rose and the jetty was submerged in the water. the level has subsided now, and voila...the spiral jetty. (and it didn't smell!)

new post background...

I changed my background in honor of my friends erin and corey moving to seattle.

I miss you already.

Living in the now

(no pics this time, I keep puting them on FB and dont' seem interested in putting them on both sites....eventually I'll update the blog...promise.)

I love it when I have some big trip coming up.  I love the planning, packing, organizing, and counting down.  Life right now doesn't have a HUGE trip coming up. 

We are planning a weekend jaunt to Page, Arizona with my parents, and some friends from church.  That's in 2 weeks. 

Next weekend we are going to deditcate Emmaus at e-Vin. 

This Sunday we might drive up to the Spiral Jetty. 

In  August, Jake's family is driving up to Yellowstone, and we'll be meeting them up there for a few days. 
 

Right now things that are going on aren't "on the radar" but we're having a good life still.  Jake has been in the Star Ward at the Off Broadway Theater for the past 5 weeks or so.  Emmaus and I have gone 12 times, with 2 more to go.  The cast loves seeing the baby there.

We just finished watching the series finale of Lost.  There went our Tuesday night funness.

Arts group that we head at our church is probably going to be put on hold for the summer.  We're having one more Art Night the first Sat. of June, should be a good time.  (If you are reading and will be in the area, I hope you come and check it out...local artists, and probably a local improv troop.)

Other than that, eating, sleeping, feeding emmaus, changing diapers, playing with emmaus,  playing games with Jake (mostly dominion), working, dr. appointment for Emmaus' 4 months, studying for my national certification performance test that I'll be taking later in the fall, spending time with my family on sundays and Bible study on sunday nights,...now that I write everything out, I guess I do have plenty of things going on.  Gotta love perspective. 

I'm just really thankful for my life. For the provision that God has giving our family.  For the love I have with my amazing husband and the support we have for one another.  I couldn't do it without him, and could do NOTHING without God. 

I Praise you Lord.

driving etiquette

Jake and I have this discussion about driving etiquette often.

Here's the scenario:  You are driving on the freeway.  You are in the right lane cause you will be exiting at the next exit.  There is an on ramp merging just ahead.  You see a car approaching from the on ramp.  It looks like you are going about the same speed and when the merge is complete will be at the same spot. 

Do you A: get into the lefter lane and allow the oncoming car to merge effortlessly, then resume your drive, getting into the right lane again once the other car has gotten over, OR
B: stay at your same speed in the right lane and expect the merging car to adjust their speed accordingly to successfully merge?

I always get over and resume my drive, Jake however feels its the merging cars responsibility.  We have agreed to disagree.  But I keep bringing the issue up.

 I wanted to know what other people think, and or prefer.  One of Jake's complaints, if I can say it right, is that when someone like me gets over for the merger...if he was the person merging, he is gauging his speed to get on the freeway to avoid the car in the right lane, however when people like me move over,  sometimes they wind up driving in his blind spot, and that it's actually causing more harm than good.

And my thought is that an onramp is there for the oncoming car to get up to freeway speed, so if I'm up to speed on the on ramp and there's a car in my oncoming lane, why don't they just move over so I can get onto the freeway and then I can get myself to a middle lane  and they can have their spot back, it seems more like a naturaly dance flow, than having to slow down or speed up because someone is blocking my entrance...

Your thoughts?

torture:aka mother's day

look, no strings!I really never wanted to be one of those moms that tried to get their kid to do something cool, like stupid pet tricks or whatever. but really, Emmaus has been wanting to stand since...well, as long as we can remember.  so, Jake started seeing if he'd stand without us holding on to him.  He did, we've only done it like 3 times..and only for a moment, but long enough to grab a pic...here it is...this one was taken at the theater where jake has been the parody, Star Ward.

Mother's day, I wanted a pic with my reason for being a mom. Many of you know, that I'm somewhat picky when it comes to pics of me.  So, after a short photo shoot outside didn't work (wind and background problems...) I decided to take these myslef..Emmaus fell asleep shortly after these were taken.  You can't see it, but the shirt I'm wearing says New Mom 2010.  My sister, Angelina, gave it to me. I love it! Yeah for being  a new mom.  Again, to all you mom's out there, I'm proud to join your ranks.