2007 Family Photos

These are some of our fall family pictures. My friend Rachel took them and did an awesome job! John thought it was hilarious to put Josh on the top of a sign. Josh thought it was funny too, but I was scared that Josh would fall. He did jump off one time and I screamed and ran a caught him, Josh was laughing so hard, though of course I did not think it was funny.

Here's the picture of him about to jump off, he thinks he is so funny.

Trip to Utah (continued)

So, I'm really behind in this blogging thing. I hope to catch up soon. We did so much and took way too many pictures this summer.

Visiting Josh's Great Grandma Edwards in Salt Lake City!

John, John(John's dad), Gary(John's brother)

They finished the entire race 110 miles. It took them pretty much the entire day. John did this race with his dad last year, maybe it will become a tradition.

John and I at the Ulcer Bike Race. I rode 33 miles. I started at Thanksgiving Point rode along Utah Lake for most of it and finished in Springville. It was a beautiful ride, I miss the mountains. It wasn't easy especially since I hadn't been on a bike since before I had Josh.

Reunited with Josh after Lake Powell. I missed him so much!

So, if you can't tell I'm way behind in my blogging, we've been out of town so much lately. My Grandma passed away in August, we went to Lake Powell, Idaho, and Utah to visit family. In September we went to Indianapolis to visit John, Melanie, Halie, and Kate Hiener, and we just got back a week ago from Utah again. John's Grandfather passed away and we flew out for the week to the funeral and to be with family. I'm trying to catch up. It is fun to reminisce about the summer! I love summer, I can't believe it's already gone. It been a fun summer, but very sad to loose our Grandparents. We miss them so much!

LAKE POWELL

August 2007

Playing Frisby on the Beach

Hanging out on the House Boat

John's Dad(John). Thank you so much for making it possible to go to Lake Powell! We look foreward to it all year long!
Shawna(John's Mom) lovin Lake Powell. Shawna is the life of the party.
Scotty and Becca

This is the cutest picture. They are practically twins being 11 months apart.
Alison(Becca and Scotty's friend) is so cute and fun!

Scotty and Gary ready to clean-up the scouts left-over poop, yes I said poop (gross). They were brave souls.

What a Cute Couple
Front to Back: Becca, Johnny, Scotty, Nate, and Gary

They love the water wieney!

Lake Powell August 2007

Ahhhh Lake Powell! It is our favorite place in the whole world. Isn't it beautiful. We only had a day and a half at Lake Powell when we were supposed to have three days originally. It was one of our funnest trips probably because we lived it up the whole trip and we didn't have to worry about Josh(he was with my family in Idaho). Our plans changed when my grandmother (who is the most amazing woman) passed away the day before we flew out to Utah, so we were in Idaho for her viewing instead of Lake Powell. I miss her sooooo much!!!!!! It has been hard, but I'm grateful to have the gospel and know that she is happy right now and that she can now be with her husband and other family members that have passed on.

My HOT Husband!!!

Lake Powell and the Water Weiney(sp)

I like the water weiney, but I'm afraid to get hurt because every time I get really hurt. So, if I'm on a tube it has to go really slow. My passion is slalom waterskiing, there is no better feeling as gliding on the water and I love that it is hard work!

It's so fun to watch John and his brothers (Gary, Nate, & Scotty) and sister(Becca) on the water weinie. They have so much fun and are the biggest goof balls, it's hilarious. They do all sorts of tricks like doing flips off the weinie to playing leap frog. This is a picture of me (Marie) waterskiing, can't you tell :). John took several pictures and all of them were blurry. Take a look at the pictures of John waterskiing, they're actually in focus, well at least you can tell that it is John.

Visiting Grandma December 2006

Grandma Christmas 2006

July 15th, 2006 Grandma holding Joshua for the First Time

Grandma Stephens Christmas Eve 2005

Grandma Stephens Always Smiling and Laughing!

Grandma Stephens visiting us soon after we were married in Provo

John Canooing at Lake McBride

Our Friends, the Thomas's watched Joshua for us for our Anniversary. John got home from the hospital around 3pm on Saturday, July 28th. Our Date began with dropping Josh off at the Thomas's and then John and I went drove to Lake McBride where we went canooing, swimming, and played frisby on the beach! It was so much fun. Afterwards we went to dinner at Mondos(it was so good) and rushed to the movie theater for the 10:00 showing of "No Reservations." It was a blast!

Our 3rd Wedding Anniversary (July 29th, 2007)

John and I have been married for 3 years now! He is the greatest blessing in my life and these last 3 years have been the happiest years of my life!

Josh

John and Joshua at Nauvoo Temple

Josh had a blast with his dad. He loved playing "chase" at the Temple grounds. John had just caught Josh. He's harder to catch then you would think. Josh is becoming quite skilled at running. It's so cute!

We went down to the Nauvoo Pagent on July 21. Josh thought it was so fun, he actually sat through and watched the whole performance. He did think that the stage lights were the coolest thing about the pagent. He kept pointing to them and saying "light," which is his favorite word.

Josh loved the flowers at the Nauvoo Temple. They are always beautiful. Within minutes of discovering the flowers he realized that he could pick them and pull them apart. Josh thought that it was the funest thing.