Hope

Sometimes she is just a pill when taking her picture. She has a tendency to over pose. But when you are as cute as she is it's easy to get away with it. I wish I would have had a Book of Mormon available when we took her baptism pictures.

Tymber

girls picts

Rich and I picts.

We actually took about 1000 pictures total with everyone and these are the ones she picked out to give us. Hope was a riot,Autumn was helping her change her clothes while Rich and I were doing our pictures. Pretty soon Hope couldn't stand it and had to run over and get in a few pictures with us. I wish I had them to share.

Family picts

We went to a really cool 18 acre private park and did some family pictures with Mikey. I was pretty happy with the way they turned out. It was a lot of fun, just ask Rich he will tell you how much he enjoyed it (not).

Diploma

I graduated with my Associates of Arts Degree on September 16, 2012 was my last day of class. What a long two years it has been. I have worked my tail off and graduated with a 3.52 GPA. 60 credits and 20 classes later. I had one C in math, seven  B's, and 12 A's.

It took so much time away from my family but I feel a sense of accomplishment. Too bad not much changes with just an associates degree. Now I need to decide if I will continue with my bachelors degree. For now I am staying with my job working at home so I can be here for my kids, especially Hope when she gets home each day.

Baptisim

Hope was baptized on Oct 13. It was a great day. Aunt Sondra bought her beautiful white dress for her birthday and came down for her baptism. Zoey Michelle played the piano for us and Autumn was the chorister. Tymber said the opening prayer and Autumn gave a talk on baptism. Richard was able to baptize her. This was wonderful because he was not able to with Tymber and Autumn. My dad and Rick were witnesses. Rich had to do it twice because he forgot to say her name the first time. After she was baptized KennaDee sang a song and Sondra gave a talk on confirmation. Then her dad confirmed her a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and gave her the gift of the Holy Ghost. The spirit was very strong and we could feel Bishop Adams and Grant in the room with us. Caralyn gave the closing prayer and Bishop Chapman said a few closing remarks. What a special day, one Hope had been looking forward to for a very long time. I am so proud of her and love the sweet spirit she brings into our home.