Mika at Easter in 2001

I love these pictures of her she loved the camera. 

Some more pictures

Here is Mika and Papa in Vegas

Mika at Christmas with Ellie and Papa. I love the look on Ellie's face! Sammy and Heather! Look at those sweet eyes 

Sisters I found these while organizing my office

 

Original Steelers Cheerleader

As promised from my email about me! Now that is a lifetime dedication to a team. 

Mika at cheer camp

here is Mika with her coaches
Coaches and best friends Katy

 

The lilies

This was a nice surprise for us. On monday most of the landscape will be finished! 

Update on the questionable plant

It has earned the right to stay in our yard with it pretty huge red blooms! 

Updates on the pond and landscape

Much cleaner then before we have added little fish to the pond as testers before we spend mega bucks on Koi.

 

Our questionable plant

Trent likes the flowers that have begun to bloom on this plant I think it looks like an overgrown source of income or entertainment from a previous owner. 

Our little stream.

Here are some more pictures of the monster. There are four water falls that I have been able to find and lights all around in the rocks to light it up at night. Hopefully we can get the thing fully functional soon. 

Our cement pond!

We have finally undergone a massive renovation on the backyard to get it up and running. We have this massive water feature that runs longer then the length of our house and runs off four pumps it is gorgeous but we have given up trying to get it working ourselves. We finally called in help and have torn out most of the landscaping (which was being choked to death by massive blackberry bushes) and our starting over some did survive and look quite nice now that they are trimmed. I forgot to take a before picture to show how overgrown everything was. But will keep updating the progress. Tomorrow they are draining the pond and are going to try to get it up and running and put edging it all around the thing and the yard. 

Trent's more sucessful fishing trop

Trent went fishing in the Columbia River Gorge a few weeks ago and he caught this one who was just half an inch shy of keeping if you can believe it.

Towel Boy

Pax man only made it so far when he was crawling to me while I was blow drying my hair at the hotel that we stopped at on the way to Utah. Poor little man! 

Warrior, Crazy man and Temple

here is my little warrior who was supposed to help T.J. cut off the men arms who were attacking the sheep.
I have no idea who Trent is supposed to be, but I know that he is someone from the Book of Mormon. I will ask him later.

Here he is preaching to everyone to repent. Still unsure of who he is.
Here is a picture that we got of the temple after we were done with our session. I love the way it looks at night! 

Manti Temple

Trent and I also had the opportunity to go to the Manti temple when we were in Utah. It was the first time that we have been since we were married there so it was really nice to go. That is were his mission renunion wanted to meet to do a session. 

Pearl of Great Price

On our trip to Utah we went and visited my Aunt Chris up in Ogden. We had a great time visiting with here and my cousin Michelle and her adorable girls and husband. We were talking about oru recent trips and my Aunt had been to Egypt recently and while she was there had a man take the pictures from the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price and put them onto Parchement paper in color. She had an extra set and was so kind to give it to us. It was her birthday that day and she was giving us presents. I am just so thrilled by them I had to post them on my blog they are gorgeous and I can't wait to frame them and hang them up. They are going in our family room as to be a good conversation piece and missionary tool.
Once they are hanging up I will post more pictures of how I framed them!