Good -Bye Hershey

Today I went running on my favorite trail here in Hershey for the last time. It is so pretty here and I am really going to miss it. I have run this trail so many times running past the duck pond, and up through the nature trail past Shank park. This is my time to think and also to pray. It is running on this trail where my best ideas come. Running has always been an outlet for me and the pretty scenery was an added bonus. Yesterday was my last day at church. It was a really sad day for me. I did really well until relief society. I was standing in the back of the room holding Aaron and I looked around at all the women sitting in the room and I thought about how each of them had taught me, inspired me, helped me, and been my friend. Some of them I have come to love very much. I was grateful for the many hugs I recieved and for all the sweet sisters who cried with me as I said my good-byes. It is so hard to leave knowing that many of these people I won't see again. Yesterday I also spent a lot of time reflecting on the last four years here. So much has happend and we have changed and grown in so many different ways. When we moved here Laura was four months old. She is now four years old and Steven and Aaron were both born while we lived here. It has been a wonderful, difficult, trying, and fun four years. Hershey PA we will miss you.

Chris's graduation

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Yes it is another long slide show posted by me but I am having so much fun making them. We had a such a fun weekend with Chris's parents this weekend. They spoiled us as always. We really loved having them here.

Vacation in the Poconos

This last week we rented a house on a lake with some of our friends in Chris's class. Before we went to the house we stoped at my Uncle and Aunt's house in the Poconos. We had fun visiting them and my cousins family who also stopped by. While we were at their house we went on a short hike to see some waterfalls in the Delaware Water Gap. The falls were really impressive and the hike was just the right length for our kids about one mile round trip. Then we went to the house on the lake and spent a few days there. We went on a hike, played at the beach, went mini golfing, went out on a boat, ate lots of good food, played games late into the night and enjoyed awesome company with some of our friends. It was great trip!

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Blessing Day

Aaron's blessing day was a special one for me. Chris gave him a wonderful blessing and we both had the opportunity to share our testimonies. I am feeling so blessed to have three wondeful children. They have taught me so much and brought so much joy in my life. I am especially enjoying our little Aaron right now. He is such a good baby he always seems to have a smile for his mama. There is nothing like having a sweet baby to cuddle and hold. He is an espcially cuddly baby and I really love that. I find I have a hard time getting things done because I sit and hold him to much. I am also so grateful for Chris. He has been home the last month and a half and I have loved every minute of it. It's nice to know that after six and half years we still enjoy being around each other. He is more then just my lover he is my best friend and a wondeful daddy to his three kids.

My ever amazing mother was the creator of this darling blessing suit. She even knited the sweater! I don't think I will live long enough to aspire to her creative level. We love and appreciate all that she does for us and wish she could have seen him in person on his blessing day.

A Party for Aaron

When Laura was born we lived in Utah and we had lots of family come for her blessing day. We weren't able to have any family come so I decided to invite friends to a campfire at a park. We had such a wonderful time with our friends. We will miss them so much when we move. They truly have been our family. There was always someone to help us whether it was moving furniture, rides to the airport, watching our kids, inviting us over for games or giving us blessings when we were sick someone was always there when we were in need. I feel so blessed and so grateful for all the wonderful people who have enriched our lives while we lived here. The day we drive away will be an emotional one for me.

We have always enjoyed Shank park but it isn't until just recently that I found out about the fire pit there. I'm glad we got to enjoy it at least a few times before we had to move.