Two Beautiful Blessings

Just thought I would take a moment to thank my Heavenly Father for these two beautiful children in our lives. They are so sweet and they do look like cousins. Love you all.

Tired but Happy

Well we finally welcomed McKenna Oldham into our family this morning at 7:33 am. Megan went to the hospital twice yesterday and was sent home. The third time she went they let her stay. We had a little scare when she got a little stressed in the womb, but Megan was able to have her naturally and we are grateful for all of our blessings. She weighed 8 lbs 7 oz and was 20.5 inches long. She is beautiful and everyone has fallen in love with her already, especially mommy and daddy. Sorry we don't have any good pictures of daddy, but we will get them on here soon.

A Good Visit

It's been a long time since I last wrote but a lot has been happening. Some of our family came to visit us for a week in March. We got to have my sister and her whole family out here and my dad and little sister got to be here too. We were only missing my mom. Our new nephew Ian, is a beautiful boy who is very sweet. I loved holding him and took every chance I got to do so. Our nephew Brody seems to love having uncles. When everyone came over to our house for the first time, it was chaos with the two hooligans. Brody wanted to color and since Gracee has to do everything he does, she wanted to color as well. We got a few new marks on our coffee table. So after I took the colors away she commenced to pull out all of my movies. So the next time they came I put a movie in. This was the effect. It was so nice. It was sad when everyone left, but we did love every minute of it. If only we could all live close enough to visit often. Love to all.

Stake Conference

Last night and today we had stake conference. Because of our Stake Presidency being released and a new presidency being called we had the great opportunity of having Elder L. Tom Perry at our conference. For the Sunday session we decided we wanted to be there early in order to be close enough to see well. We were very glad of our decision when we saw Elder Perry walking around shaking hands with those already there. We were one of the lucky couples who got to shake his hand and got to speak with him for just a moment. It was a special experience for us both. Especially me since it is the first time I've had the opportunity to shake an apostle's hand. We had a great conference too.

Can't Believe It

On Saturday and Sunday we had beautiful weather. It was somewhere in the 50's and the sun was out shining. Then on Monday morning we awoke to this. What a turn around.

A New Family Member

Todd and I found out that we have a new nephew on Thursday night. We got a call a little after 11 our time from my sister Alisha. Ian Clark Thompson was born at 11:51 on February 15th. The top picture is the whole family. Brody and Gracee are growing up so much. I can't believe how different they look since the last time I saw them. I can't wait until I get to see everyone again. Loves and Kisses to all of you.

Gigi

So here is our weekend pet. He is actually my classroom pet, but for various reasons, I brought him home this weekend. He was given to the class from one of my students and he's been pretty fun. But I think I'm going to have to give him back because he isn't doing so well in the classroom environment. I don't think turtles this size are supposed to be in an aquarium anyway.