Beautiful Jess

The lighting for these pictures was perfect!! I love them all but picked my favorites!

Jessica & Dan

Here are some of their cute engagements! They made it so easy for me since they look so good together!! Love them!

My first time using my new camera!!

My friend Tiffany wanted some 6 month pictures of her adorable baby girl Addy! I of course jumped on the opportunity to use my new camera! Oh, I love my new camera! I just now need to learn how to use all the sweet features!! Thanks for being so cute Addy and Cameron!

Life update!

We have been crazy busy is an UNDERSTATEMENT!

Our life update of this winter and spring! 

We have been very busy making a baby! Yeah for baby BOY! He will grace us with his cute little bum in July. I'm due the 27th which really I'm hoping for like the 16th or some time sooner than the 27th.  I'm sure he will come in August.

We are so excited to have a little baby join our family. Its kinda crazy to think that we are having a baby! I'm not sure if we are ready but baby will come anyways! 

My pregnancy has been super easy! I have been so lucky.  I never got sick! Not even once. I had to eat alot of food to make that possible!  I pop Tums like candy.  I need them everyday!

I can feel him move everyday, which is so COOL! I keep telling sterling that I think an Allen lives inside me! Its so weird and amazing at the same time. 

I can't wait till baby boy comes and I can't wait until I can be skinny again!! I'm not sure if its just me but being pregnant has been tough on the body image. I know its amazing that we can grow a baby and I would do it again any day but man its tough seeing my body change so much! Its been hard.  I love baby but I'm not sure how much I love being pregnant. I can't complain though. Baby is healthy and so am I.  I feel so blessed to have the opportunity to be pregnant and have this little guy join our family! We are doing great and feel so lucky!

We spent a few weekends in Utah helping with the Cat-ski business.  It was a hard and weird winter. Not enough SNOW!  It made it tough on the business but we are hoping that next year will be better. This winter was more of a learning experience. It was super fun even though it didn't turn out as we hoped.

We are hopeful for next year.  Its a great idea and an amazing mountain.  All we need is good weather!!!!!  These pictures where from January. I was a little over 3 months preggers and man could I tell! I climbed half the mountain and it took  all day! The cat was stuck at a certain spot so the boys worked so hard all day to get it to the top.  It was a success!!

 

I have also been spending alot of time helping this lovely couple plan their wedding. They are getting married April 21st in the Logan Temple. Weddings are so much fun but I think I prefer just going to them, eating yummy cake and then going home! Its super fun but crazy stressful on everyone!  

I still love it though. Weddings are so happy! I got the opportunity to take the lovely couples engagements and make their announcements.  It was so much FUN!  I got a new camera for Christmas! Its my 3rd baby.....(1st baby boy 2nd Jackson and 3rd camera 4th ster hah).  Ster is an amazing husband! He got me a way better camera then I ever thought I could get! I love my Nikon D700!! 

This weekend is their weeding!! I'm excited for fun stressful family time! Aren't they so cute together?!

We have also had lots of time for fun! Fun at the ranch on conference weekend on the slack line!

The best part of this spring had to be spending time with these cuties!!!  I miss these little girls so MUCH!

I got to spend a week in Ohio for spring break.  My mom and sister threw me a baby shower.  I got so many cute things and lots of the necessities!  The best part though was being able to just hang out with my family!

I love my sister so much and I miss her!  I miss her kids! It was a much needed trip to see them.  Plus they had to see the preggo belly! Don't I just have the cutest nieces! I love my gabby and Natty!

Our other big news besides baby Boy is that we have moved to UTAH! Crazy! Within 2 weeks we found out ster got a job at the hospital in Park city, quit our jobs and moved.  We have now been here a week and we our loving it!! Its so nice to be close to stores and life necessities.  We lived 150 miles in every direction from the nearest city in Salmon. We're loving that we still get beautiful mountains and big cities 20 minutes away.  
 Yeah to new life changes and lots of blessings!!!

Summer/fall recap....

In July we went to Utah with Katie and Jedd.  We spent an entire week making this beauty below. Well, the boys! Katie and I went on supplies runs, we where the eyes from afar, we dug and filled the wholes, we sat in camping chairs just watching and went on a bike ride that almost killed us!

The sweet gate....it now also has a cool sign in iron hanging down

We built this gate just for FUN!

Ah, not! We built this sweet gate for our up coming family business. We our starting a cat skiing business in Provo canyon.  It's a family affair!  Sterling's dad decided to start it and it was a dream of his, so of course we all love skiing/snowboarding and jump on the bandwagon!  

Morgan's (my father in-law) parents own land in Provo canyon.  We have a perfect mountain and its so PRETTY!  We have gone up to Utah a handful of times to clear trail and cut down trees. I now know how to use a chainsaw! Its so fun! I feel bad about cutting down those pretty trees but its so cool to see all the open space you just cleared up! 

If you live in Utah and love fresh powder check out our website for more info- www.catskiing.biz

Walsburg  Mountain--- This is after the dam on the left going up the canyon towards Park City

I made this for a company that puts up fliers all over Utah and in stores.  I changed the font a little to make it easier to read and changed a few other things but ster deleted it.

For labor day we went to Yellowstone! It was so fun to just relax, see the sights and hang out! We haven't been able to do a lot of fun stuff with the family.  We have been working on the cat skiing stuff all summer so this was a perfect retreat!!

The beautiful Emma

Fam bam

sweet hike we went on....i was terrified we would see a bear! I mean it is Yellowstone!

This picture makes me laugh!

Of course we went to the South eastern Idaho Fair! It wouldn't be fall if we didn't! I love love love love love the fair! The people...food....tiger ears.....rv's......art...photography and the animals! I love it all!  I just get so happy even thinking about it! The fair has to be one of my most favorite things in life! I just love it! You can't go to the fair and not smile the entire time! Its just good old American fun!  It's one of my most favorite things about Idaho!

For the last few years they always have a hypnotist show.  I always die laughing in this show and forsure thought it was fake.  Well this year I decided when he was calling for volunteers that I would find out if it was real or fake.  I got picked!

He told us to close our eyes and they we couldn't even open them if we wanted too.  He then just kept talking and talking making us get deeper into "the sleep".  He says sleep but you still know whats going on.  When he kept going deeper into it, my body just kept getting heavier and heavier.  Like so heavy that I feel over on the person next to me! It was so weird but it just felt impossible to hold it up! I just wanted to lay there and never get up!

Other than that, its all just a show.  When they make you do all the funny stuff, you know whats going on and what you are doing.  The relaxing part and sleeping part really did work.  It worked with me alteast.  It was a fun memory but I think it's better to sit in the audience and laugh!

I'm in the pink

Look at that hot mama

 For conference weekend we went to the ranch in Provo canyon. Oh, this is the best time of year at the ranch! The leaves are just perfect! All the colors! I just look in aww! I love fall and I miss Ohio in the fall! I love the crunch, the smell and wearing a sweatshirt!  We had fun family time but it was way too short! The weekend seemed like a day!

the house at the ranch.....so many good memories!

Family walk on Sunday

Two weeks after conference weekend we went up to Utah again to clear trail.  We got to stay at the ranch again.  Ster and I decided since it's so far for us to travel to Utah, we wanted to enjoy it for a few days. 

After church on sunday we headed back up to the ranch. We went on a four wheeler ride just before dusk.  I love the loop around the ranch.  I love all the aspens. Anywho, on our way back down, search and rescue stopped us and asked us to show them how to get to this girl that was lost.  We showed them the way which took like an hour. Long ride but it was fun and exciting.  I was hoping the whole time that it was something crazy. I know I'm horrible wishing bad on others.  But it was just a dumb girl who decided to go dirt biking by herself, with no food, in an area she didn't know! Yeah she fell and twisted her ankle, she was to hungry to keep going and on the top of that she was lost! I felt bad for her but also a little confused why someone would do that!

 

 It was an amazing summer and fall!  Its going to be an ever better winter! 

Today it SNOWED! We celebrated by watching Sters new ski movie! I just want to live in poweder when I watch those movies!  They just make it look so sick and perfect! 

I'm so excited to go in two weeks. We our going to Big Sky, Montana for their 20 dollar day and my birthday!  Oh, its just going to be so FUN! My sugar....snow and hotel fun!