Introducing

5.23.12

The day our life changed forever.

We are so blessed and loving every minute of it.

May

These days I'm playing the waiting game.

What am I wait for?  The month of May to roll around.

May will bring us:

Graduation

Charmac's newest {full-time} employee

Mama Hall's arrival

Our first move

New house

and .  .  .

Baby C!

Trimester #3 is in full swing.  Let the countdown begin.

Two Thousand Eleven in Review

Dear 2011, 


You've marked the craziest year of our lives. Here's to our top moments of 2011.


January


One class closer to an elementary teaching license for me.  Another hill skied for Justin.

February


Randi and I hosted the first bunco night.  We were too excited/busy that we didn't take a single photo, but here we are prepping for the big night.  Thanks to our new Our Best Bites purchase, we were set for a great Valentine's Day theme.

March


Cat skiing in British Columbia for the original Casperson crew, ski school for the new one.

April


Weekend getaway to the Grand

May


Couples trip to Park City

June


Celebrated our one year anniversary

July


Skied on the fourth of July.

We flew to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for my best friend's wedding.

August


Hall/Casperson reunion in the Sawtooths

September


LOTOJA.  206 miles, 3 states, 10,000 feet gained, 13 hours...check!

We flew to Lubbock, Texas to visit our best friends for my birthday weekend.

October


Ran the Ragnar Relay with friends in Vegas...Riley and Tyson pretty much sum up our feelings on the last leg of the race.

November


Casperson thanksgiving trip to Kauai.

We announced that baby Casperson would be joining us in May!

December


Dallin left on his mission to Salta, Argentina.

2012, you have some pretty big shoes to fill.

Baby Cakes

My 25th birthday was one that I will never forget because on that day we got a big {surprise} that a stork will be delivering us a {very} special present around May 26, 2012. 

That's right,  Grand baby #1 is baking in the oven!

We are all SO excited

nervous/shocked,

and thrilled

for our little baby cakes to join our family.  We are already so in love with that little peach!

Sweater Weather

It's official, the flip flops are now packed up and the boots are out.  Welcome to Logan, autumn.  We thoroughly appreciate your stay with us this year.  We're grateful for your gradual decline in weather so that the trees can show us their colorful glory.  Please stay a little longer.

This weekend we started getting in the mood and drove the apple orchard/pumpkin patch for some classic autumn activities.

Paradise, Utah--truly country paradise

Kate didn't care much about the pumpkins, she was too concentrated on getting as many grasshoppers as she could.

We went home and carved pumpkins, baked pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, drank hot chocolate, and watched the Nightmare Before Christmas.

Thank you, Fall, for letting us enjoy your glory.

Excitement

I think I was once at this kind of excitement level--12 years old, first concert: N'Sync.  I seriously pray that our future children will become this excited about something because if they do, I will give them whatever they want {within reason} just to see this kind of excitement.  This little girl is SO cute!  

http://tv.yahoo.com/daytime/video/tiny-fans-huge-reaction-meeting-nicki-minaj/26768598/

Redfish Family Reunion: Hall Edition

My family was able to experience Redfish for the first time at the beginning of August.  It was the first time since Christmas that were all together.  It was very fun being able to spend a couple of days together in the Sawtooths with the Casperson clan.  I am so grateful that our families get a long and that we didn't have any "Meet the Fockers" moments.  Here are some pictures from our trip.

Church in Stanley

 Hot Pots on the Salmon River

 Loving the American outdoors

Troopers

 Hiking Trail

 Water break

Redfish Lake--Christmas card photo op