Edwards Family

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Zachary's Newborn Photos

ZACHARY

I'm finally catching up a year later! It helps that I now have a working computer. Thanks to my awesome brother-in-law who gave me one of his older computers.

My amazingly talented, brilliant, and beautiful friend Aubrey took these beautiful pictures!

Just found this old draft that's almost 3 years old. I'm obviously never going to finish, but I'm going to post what I did. It's hard to believe that as I finally post this that it has almost been 10 years! It highlights our first 3 years of marriage.

Highlights of Each Year

The First Year

Wedding Day

BYU Games

Lake Powell

Working in the Hospital Together

San Diego

New York City

Particularly playing frisbee in Central Park

Skiing

Blue Bayou at Disneyland

Going to Carly and Jimmie's Wedding on your 24th Birthday!

John Graduating from BYU in Microbiology

Vegas

Major League Baseball Games

San Diego Zoo

Sea World San Diego

Boating, Camping, Waterskiing, Wake Boarding with My Family In Bear Lake

and with Your Family at Lake Powell

The Second Year

Just Being Together

Beginning our Journey to Medical School

Making it Through Together an Extremely Hard Pregnancy

Riding the Bus Every Morning Together to the U of I Campus so John Could Go to the Medical School and for Me to Go Work in the Operating Room

Biggest Highlight of the Year

Brining our First Born Son into the World

Both Families Together for Josh's Blessing

Visiting Rick's College/BYU-Idaho

Waterskiing at American Falls Reservoir

Bringing Josh to Lake Powell

After a Really Tough Pregnancy and Still Having a Difficult Recovery from Having Josh, The Beached Whale Actually got up to Waterski at Lake Powell and Bear Lake

University of Iowa

Josh's First Halloween

Our First Christmas with Josh

Tree Room at Sundance with John's Family

Josh Was the Highlight of our Second Year

Josh was Always Happy and Laughed More than Any Baby We Have Ever Known

Going on Walks as a Family

The Third Year

FAVORITE QUOTES

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let out own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

-Marianne Williamson

We must become the change we want to see

-Ghandi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

-Ghandi

The secret to having it all, is knowing that you already do.

Your journal is your autobiography, so it should be kept carefully. You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life... What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved?

-President Spencer W. Kimball

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

-Marjorie Pay Hinckley

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

-Sam Levenson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey is the reward.