From Sneezes to Central America - and Super Cute Baby!

Lots has happened in the past couple of weeks! After our camping trip, Paisley and I both got sick and spent the next few days in bed. No pictures of those days, thank goodness.

Meanwhile, David left on Tuesday for an interview with a company in Austin, Texas. His lifelong dream of dwelling in the same city as the Longhorns is about to come true! He came home Wednesday, and flew out early the next morning to go to Dallas for an interview with another company. He came back the next evening, and got to stay with us for the weekend before heading off to Austin again to interview with another company!! All three firms made him an offer, and now we're in the middle of our most dreaded task: deciding between the three. But in the meantime, we're enjoying the souvenirs David brought back from Austin - my new longhorns jacket and a decoration for the car!

While David was gone, I dealt with a flood in the bathroom! It's been an unusually rainy Utah spring, and water started leaking in through the foundation of the house. Unfortunately, most of our bathroom is carpeted (strange, I know), and so the bathroom smelled like a turtle tank for a few days. (Ah, childhood memories). It's been under construction ever since, so we've been spending a lot of time at Mom and Dad Douma's house while they put in a new floor. The good news is, they're putting in tile!!

Michael got his mission call!! Wednesday, May 18, we all gathered around at the Doumas to see Michael open his call. We even had Samantha on Skype (on and off, due to poor reception) all the way in Belgium! Michael has been called by the Lord to serve in the Comayaguela, Honduras mission! Well, it's not a city of French fries and BMW's like he was not so secretly hoping, but he's super excited, and we're all excited for him.

On the baby front, Paisley rolled over!! She's growing up so fast, I can hardly believe it! some pictures of her latest habits. I've added a video of her rolling over, along with some pictures of her latest habits.

We went for our first walk in her stroller without the car seat inside it! She's got great posture, and a great smile! Personally, I think this is one of the few pictures where she looks as much like me as she does like David!

This is her favorite sleeping position - arms out, head to the side and pointed upwards. This is a mild version.

She loves her binky. But she also loves her fingers. Sometimes she can't decide between the two and it ends up looking like this!

This one is just plain cute!

Camping in Moab!

This past weekend was a momentous one. It was our first family camping trip! We went to Moab with our good friends Scott and Falisha. We were a little nervous because we had never been camping with Paisley before, and she's still so young. But she did great! The picture above is of the three of us first thing in the morning, sitting in our tent. You can tell it's first thing in the morning because if it were any other time of day, I wouldn't be able to bear wearing a hoodie.

Pancakes for breakfast... yumm!

Below are me and Paisley at Dead Horse Point. Despite the name, it was beautiful there!! We even ran into a group of senior citizens from Vancouver, one of which was sporting a Canucks' Kesler jersey. I don't know who was more excited to see him, David or me. As you can see, Paisley didn't see much of anything up there. She was fast asleep!

Paisley and Dad, chillin' under the umbrella. It was too hot to go in the tent, but no trees to offer any shade. Thank goodness for our giant umbrella!

That's my man, fanning the fire! Between Scott and David, they got a good fire going and we had the best burgers I've ever had!

Paisley never looks so content as when her dad holds her. I was so glad to capture these!

Me and the Paiser again, looking out over Dead Horse Point.

The next day, we checked out Arches. More pictures to come!

The Tulips

Last weekend, David, Paisley and I went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. I have never seen so many beautiful flowers in one place! And we got some good family pictures there too!

The Beginning

One year, 19 days and 2 hours ago, David and I officially became a family. I can't believe how quickly time has passed. Since then, David has started and survived BYU's Accounting Junior Core, maintained a 4.0 GPA, and worked part time to support a family. I completed a full-time internship while going to school full-time, graduated from BYU, and experienced my first pregnancy. But best of all, David and I received the best Valentine's Day gift ever in the form of a new addition to our small family. Paisley was born at 9:31 a.m. on Valentine's day.Exactly on time, according to the due date, and perfectly wonderful, according to us.

Experiencing pregnancy and childbirth opened my eyes to what a miracle this life really is. And now that Paisley is here, it's incredible to me that God has trusted us with such a precious little child. Never have I felt such a need to rely on the Lord as I do in raising his tiny little daughter. And never have I seen his hand more in my life.