Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The Path is Set

Its been a long 6 months waiting to find out where we were going to be for the next 3 years of our lives and for the most intense part of my schooling. We had heard back from all of the schools we had applied to months ago but we had ended up getting wait listed at BYU. We have been planning on heading to Baylor for a month or two now but there was always the potential of getting into BYU. Well, today we got an email from BYU saying they are all filled up. Its a blessing to finally know where we are headed. We would have loved to stay around here but we are really excited to head out on an adventure as well. Baylor is in Waco, Texas (Yep, know for this guy, but that really happened 30 miles outside of Waco). One of Liz's cousins went there for grad school and they loved it so we are excited. We are both looking forward to not freezing to death during the winter as well. We will be moving out on August 1st and taking 3 days to drive the 21 hours to Waco (if anyone has any experience or advice on how to handle a one year old on that long of a drive it would be MUCH appreciated). We have loved our time in Provo and will miss it a ton. It will also be a new experience not being 3 hours away from both our families but we are blessed to live in a time of Skype and cell phones. Waco looks like a beautiful place, as well as the law school since it sits right on a river. Here are a few pictures:

We'll be sure to let everyone know what our address is when we get everything finalized. We know we are going to be living in a place called Royalton Village but we don't know which specific unit yet. Wish us luck!

The Grotto

We went on a sweet little hike the other day down by Payson called the Grotto. It was short and easy and very pretty! So in other words perfect for our little family!

Idaho Trip...

I know it is a lot of pictures, I am a little camera happy and I just have such a hard time picking. We had a great trip to Idaho last weekend over Father's Day and It was so good to be with family!
We went on a bike ride on the greenbelt with JD's parents and these are some of the sweet pictures we took.

We had to take a break and feed Cami, she was getting grumpy. She gets super distracted when she eats so sometimes it is tricky to feed her. She certainly did not inherit my love for food.

I am so grateful that Families Can Be Together Forever!
Yep we took this... I love it!
Playing golf in the backyard. So much fun...only I really stink at that game.
Cami watching the game. She really hates the grass. She wouldn't even move....grass has to be the best containment for Cami.
We had lots of wars with these bazooka foam ball guns...Cami wanted to play too. She wasn't so sure she could see the fascination with the gun part, but she sure loved the balls!

We had a Redd family reunion on Saturday and we had dinner and some fun games at the church in the evening and had fun in Lava earlier in the day. Here are some pictures of the games. We were glad Andrew was there as he had taken a nasty fall off the high dive at Lava, thank goodness he was ok and feeling sore but better by the evening.
Magic Carpet Race
Hanky Panky
Stacking Ding Dongs

At Lava with the great-grandkids
Benjamin-Sarah and Spencer's little guy that is a month younger than Cami.
Cami looking cool!

More pictures at Lava, just taking a walk. We went to a little museum and saw some things from their first hospital. They even had an old baby incubator, boy am I glad they have come a long way in medicine from then, those things looked scary!

Playing at Grandma and Grandpa Redd's

Packing for the trip, we certainly cannot forget the binkies can we Cami? She wants plenty!
And if Dad is packing I certainly need to be making a mess huh.
Cami learned high five on our trip!

Happy Father's Day

I know this is late but I just wanted to wish all the father's in my life a Happy Father's Day! I am so grateful for my father for his dedication to the gospel, his example of hard work, a love for learning, and a love for laughing and having fun. I am grateful for JD for being an amazing father for Cami. He is patient with her when I am at the end of my rope, and he is so cute and fun with her. I am grateful for my grandfathers that raised my parents. I am grateful for my father-in-law who raised a wonderful son and is so good to us! I am so lucky!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Eleven Months and Other Stuff

Cami is now 11 months! Almost a year! She is walking a bunch now although she can't stand up without using something to get up and is still pretty unsteady...probably why it is called toddling! She is eating more and starting to get more of a personality. The other day JD and I were playing with her having us walk between us and she would laugh and try to walk the other direction. I think she is going to be a tease. She learned how to climb up stairs today...probably shouldn't have encouraged that one :) She is standing up usually when we get her out of bed but she will lay down quick and pretend like she was just waking up when you go get her. She is cutting more teeth...not sure how many, for sure at least one. We sure love her happy fun personality. She is such a good baby, just super energetic and curious!
JD got his Father's Day present early. Happy almost Father's Day JD! WE sure love you.
At the beginning of the month we went for a bike ride to Bridal Veil Falls. It was tough since I was still recovering from working 3 nights in a row...and lets face it, I am just out of shape. It was perfect weather and just beautiful outside.
Cami touching the water

Other than that we are just hanging out. Still working on selling our condo, finding me a job, and finding us a place to live in Texas. We have some busy big changes looming on the horizon, but we are grateful for the time we have these next several weeks to just relax and spend time together and with family.