Friday, May 14th: You can just see Mark walking out right by the security podium.
Mark, holding his Stetson and hugging both parents.
Elder Carey! So handsome in his hat!
My Brother-in-law Scott, Mark, and my Sister Sue. Yay! We're so glad he's home! He served in the Texas, San Antonio Mission (Spanish Speaking) which happened to be the same mission my Scott served in! They've already had some fun conversations about Texas and the areas they both served in.
Chewy hates it when I'm on the computer. Having his head on my hand is better than normal; usually he flops his whole body on the keyboard so I'm unable to do anything.
This is Chewy wanting to play Ticket to Ride with us. He was so frustrated at being ignored that he jumped up on my mom's chair. He is such a riot! We love him to death! He's a really good boy too.We have gone back and forth a LOT about getting a dog. After the miscarriage we started talking about it even more. Scott took the day off today so we went golfing and decided to stop in at the Humane Society to look around. We had no intention of bringing one home today! But we saw this little guy first off and fell in love with him immediately. We took him outside and played with him, and decided we had to have him. He's part dachshund and something else - not sure. But he's house trained, neutered and micro chipped so we don't have much to do! There's a few things we need to work on, but he's a very good boy. Frodo and Samwise just scowled at him and then went back to their own little world. Chewy has noticed them, but so far hasn't bothered with them. We got him so balls and he LOVES chasing them. So hopefully he'll stay occupied with balls and not with the birds. We've been chanting "birds are friends, not food" :) 
P.S. While driving the golf cart we hit a really cool bump and caught SERIOUS air! Scott about flew out the front. We laughed SO hard!Sometimes I just need a little Josh!
Mel and Ryan had a great idea to go get hitched in San Diego! Our dear friends Courtney and Ben and Ava let us stay with them and I miss them already. We also got to stop by and see Alissa and her most fabulous babies. Enjoy the pics!
Mom and Dad Shoell, Ryan and Melanie Biddulph in front of the San Diego Temple. The ceremony was beautiful! We were so happy that we were able to be there.
The happy and gorgeous couple: Ryan and Melanie
Me and Auntie Sara J.
Me and my handsome hubby.
The San Diego Temple is beautiful! 
Nate and Missy
Me and Scott on the Bobsleds ride at Disneyland.
Scott showing off his awesome 3D glasses before the Muppet show.
Green beans anyone?
Neither of us could remember the last time we'd been on "It's a Small World" so we decided to give it a go since it'd been redone. Now I can wait another 15 or so years to go on it again... it may look different, but those dolls are still out to kill me.
Below: Splash Mountain!
My first skirt! I'm so very proud of myself :) My mother-in-law ended up doing the zipper because I messed it up, but hey. I'm learning! 
Sometimes life is just crazy. You can go from smooth, calm, normal sailing to bursts of elation to feeling just plain rotten. Right now I'm feeling calm, so I thought I could finally share with my girlfriends what's been going on.
In January we did an IUI at the Reproductive Care Center in Draper, UT. (If you don't know what that is, you can google/bing it). The whole experience was easier than we thought, but rather discouraging because the success rate is only 11%. But hey -that's better odds than we've had so we decided to give it a go. Then the unthinkable happened: I was pregnant! It was the most surreal thing. We'd tried and prayed so long and then we just stood in the bathroom and stared at the test in disbelief. No jumping up and down and screaming, no tears of joy (that all came later), just dumb stares. We thought it was too good to be true!
Then after 5 weeks, apparently it was too good to be true because the Doctor's office called and said my levels had tanked and I'd be miscarrying any day. Awesome. I was hysterical.
That night I just "happened" to be reading in the book of Mosiah in the Book of Mormon. I read chapter 22, kept going to 23, and then "something" told me to keep reading. Chapter 24 is where the people are in bondage and suffering and the Lord says that He will make their burdens light. Not take them away just yet, but make them easier to bare. I had the most calming feeling come over me, and suddenly I knew that everything would be ok. I was still losing the baby, but I was going to be ok. When I started to bleed and pass everything I was still calm. I don't share all this so you feel sorry for me or to sound self righteous. But I share it because the Lord really does know us! It's still rough and I do get sad, but I'm not in bed completely depressed like I thought I would be. It's hard to explain; I guess you have to know me and my history with serious depression to really get it. But I know I've had angels around me lifing me up and getting me out of bed in the morning. And my favorite angel of all, Scott, has been here to make me smile and laugh even when I almost felt guilty for doing so. I know that with the Lord and with Scott I can get through anything.
