Back Online in Arizona

This is going to be a fairly random posting.... so be prepared. We got to our new house in Arizona on Sat. May 17th and have been working on settling in ever since. Christian had to fly back to Utah to work for one week, from the 19-23rd. My very best friend, Jenn came from California to stay with the girls and I which was such a blessing. More to come on that visit in a future posting. We love our new house... here are a few pics.

The backyard is one of our FAVORITE parts of the house! Eliana is having SO much fun playing outside. In fact the first day we got here, the sprinklers were on in the backyard and before I knew it Eliana was completely naked in the backyard running in the sprinklers. Here are a few pics of her doing the same thing but clothed a bit.
There are 2 nice parks within a few mins. walk. One has sand and Eliana is in LOVE with playing in the sand... we are prob. going to get a sandbox for the backyard... although I might curse it if we end up with gritty floors!


Julia was 3 months on the 24th of May and on the 28th started rolling from her front to her back!! I took some "action" photos...

I absolutely LOVE the kitchen! It's beautiful and has lots of room and even has a pantry! Yeah!

Makayla Zullo is My Best Friend

You have probably heard Eliana say the statement which is the title of this post. Eliana and Makayla met last spring a few times before we moved to Washington but became best friends this last summer in Washington. They played together just about EVERY day! They are REALLY going to miss each other. I took their pictures yesterday, as you can see, they have A LOT of fun together. There are a LOT of pics.... couldn't pick just a few, so I posted a bunch! We love you Makayla and will miss you! We can't wait for you to visit us in Arizona!

Ryoko's Wedding

About 8 years ago... (ekk, now I feel old) I met Ryoko. I was serving my mission in the GREAT Utah Provo Mission in the BYU Asian area. Ryoko was new to the US (from Japan) studying English at the BYU English Language Center. Ryoko took the discussions but didn't get baptized while I was there. We developed a great friendship and she came to visit me in Maine after my mission. In the fall of 2001 she got baptized and I was living in CA at the time and got to come up to Utah for her baptism, I even spoke at it. Then later she decided to serve a mission. She served in Japan. She got married on Saturday in the Salt Lake Temple to Nobuto Oshima. I not only got to go to the sealing (which was in Japanese), I got to be her wedding photographer. I have posted just a few pics on here, check out my photography blog in a few days and I will have more posted there. I feel so blessed to know Ryoko, she is one of the most loving, kind and humble people that I know.
Eliana loves Ryoko and has added her to her list of best friends.
The flowers at temple square were so amazing!

Look at the air they got in the picture below!
Congratulations Ryoko and Nobu!
Love You Ryoko!

May Flowers

I LOVE spring! The other day I took some pics of Eliana with some pretty blossoms from one of the trees outside of our house. I love flowers they are almost as beautiful as my 2 little ones!

On Saturday I took pics at a wedding... I got a couple of cute shots of Julia while I was at it! Isn't she adorable!!!!!!!!