Merry, Merry Christmas!

We hope you're all having a wonderful Christmas! We're spending the holidays in Utah with many of our family members and friends. Our daughter is witnessing her first blizzards, and loves all of the wrapping paper and the ribbons more than her actual gifts. We have so much to be grateful for this year, especially for an understanding of the true meaning of this holiday! Merry CHRISTmas, all!

7 months old!

We probably say this every month, but it's crazy to believe she's growing up so quickly! Our sweet, little daughter is 7 months old! Check out her first 2 teeth!

Counting the days until Christmas . . .

With our tree up, the house decorated, and the weather finally starting to cool off a little, we're just getting excited about the upcoming holiday season! Here's a picture of our daughter checking out the Christmas tree. We actually took the picture in the dark, but the flash made it much lighter, and we're not technologically advanced enough to make it look like it did in reality. Oh well! It's still a cute picture!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Okay, so it's only a week late, but we hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Day! We have so much to be grateful for, and had a great time with Grandpa Behling and the Parker's visiting us for the weekend! I'm sure we'll be posting some pictures soon!

Happy Halloween!!!

"Our Pretty Princess " had a pretty exciting Halloween (or at least the hour she lasted in her costume)! Greeting a few trick-or-treaters at home, her "royal appearance" at a party, and that was enough! Hope you all had a happy and safe Halloween (and Nevada day)!

Visiting Grandpa Behling

While in California for Rochelle's high school reunion (GO MUSTANGS!), we got to spend a lot of time with Grandpa Behling. Our daughter loved exploring in his garden!

Making friends

We recently went out to dinner with our friends the Holotiks and our daughter and Greg got some time to "bond" as friends over some Italian food : )

She's 5 months old now!

It seems impossible for us to even imagine our lives before our little doll joined us, but she just turned 5 months old! Here she is in all of her beautiful glory!

Our history so far . . .

Since we're about to send this out for others to see, we decided to add a little section about our history as a family so far . . . ENJOY! This first picture is one of our engagement pictures. We were engaged in September 2006. If you haven't heard the story about me dropping the ring in the parking lot at Del Sol High School where we were both working at the time, you may want to ask!

The big day!

December 16, 2006: After a blizzard the night before, the freshly fallen snow was a perfect background for our wedding day in Bountiful, Utah. Rochelle's grandfather performed the ceremony, and after an Italian style luncheon for family and friends, we celebrated with many others at our reception in Lindon.

Aloha!

After a couple of days in Salt Lake City, we left a winter wonderland for tropical paradise! A week in Kauai was everything we'd hoped for and more! We returned to the mainland on Christmas Eve, just in time to celebrate our first Christmas together with family and friends before heading back to Las Vegas for our New Year's Day open house, and then back to school!

Cuernavaca, Mexico!

In June 2007 we traveled down to central Mexico so Rochelle could take part in a 2-week language immersion program. We had an amazing time in Cuernavaca ("the land of eternal spring") and made some great friends down there, and Rochelle learned a lot.

San Antonio

In August 2007, we decided to explore our options for the future and visited San Antonio, Texas so Rochelle could see what it was like. We loved it! Maybe we'll move there someday . . .

Then we found out we'd become 3!

In September of 2007, we first found out that Rochelle was expecting! Needless to say, we were excited and felt very blessed. Later that fall, we found out we were having a little girl!

Ringing in 2008!

With the pending arrival of our little girl, we decided to take one last trip as a couple and headed south of the boarder on a wonderful cruise to start 2008 and celebrate our 1st anniversary.

Our daughter joins us

May 4, 2008 . . . the little light of our life joins our family and changes us forever!

Meeting more cousins!

This past week, our daughter got to meet her Uncle Brandt, Aunt Lori and her cousins Madalyn and Gabrielle. These 3 little women were a lot of fun to see together!

I am just trying things out here to see how it works. Here is a picture of our beautiful daughter.