Babies

What an exciting time of life... I am surrounded by babies and don't actually have to go through labor myself (at this point). :-) Life doesn't get much better!

My cousin Shari and my dear friend Robin both had baby girls on Monday Feb 22nd. Little Persephone and Laura Olivia "Livy" are very welcome additions to our family! I love being an aunt!!! I also have many friends and 1 sister that are pregnant as well. I'm so excited for Tammy, Nichole, Marshanne and Fiona to have their sweet babies so I have even more to play with. Here are pictures of Little Livy. Shari has cute pictures of Persephone on her blog site.

Flying

Nic has been flying quite a bit lately for the CAP (Civil Air Patrol - for those that don't know he's one of their Maintenance Officers). Their maintenance facility is down in SLC so anytime he has to fly a plane down there he guarenteed at least 4-5 hours of flight time that day, which is awesome! Here's a picture of just why Nic loves to fly so much...

It is so peaceful up there and absolutely gorgeous! Our niece Amber has also started with the CAP as a cadet, so you can imagine how proud Nic especially is of her. She wants to be a pilot which we're quite tickled about. He's been teaching her how to shine her boots, do a proper salute and about-face, etc. It's been so much fun!

Do red-heads have more fun or do blondes?

Well, I'm not sure the answer to the more fun question yet, but I'm certainly enjoying finding out. I finally got around to fixing my hair since I colored it and took a few pictures to post. (Nic is flying cadets around right now, so you get the fun of the "self-taking" angle in the pictures.) :-) The more I get used to it the more I love it. I kept a streak of blonde in it for fun and love the effect.

2010 Has Begun

It's hard to believe we're finishing the first week of February already! Where does the time go?

Christmas was a wonderful, fun-filled, family-centered crazy time of year for us. We got to see just about all of our family which was so cool! Rhyll flew up for Christmas, Dad & Gang came down from Washington with Gma & Gpa, Kailey flew up from St George and of course we got to see all of the local family as well. There was lots of laughter, presents, games, dinners and catching up. The highlight for me was getting to join Rhyll going through the temple. The downfall was that Whitney and Ben didn't get to make it up this year. :-( Kailey's flying squirrels were definitely an unexpected fun addition to the group this year!

I have vascilated back and forth about setting goals this year but after being inspired by reading some of my family and friend's goals, I finally sat down and wrote some up. (Now I just need to print them out so I actually look at them and work toward them!)

I got a wild hair the other night and decided I was ready for a change... So I decided to become a red-head! I don't have very good pictures yet, but here's a start...

Christmas Spirit

Christmas is just around the corner and we're finally starting to get the Christmas Spirit. It's been hard for me to find that excitement this year because we're so busy all the time. Thank goodness we were able to get a Christmas tree, put up decorations and play Christmas music... Now the spirit is here! Kenzie helped us put up the first few decorations on our tree and then Nic and I finished it a couple days later. I LOVE our first official Christmas tree! Nic & Abe did such a terrific job picking it out. It's absolutely perfect.

Another annual tradition is for Nic's mom, sister and I to go to the annual Christmas Tea at the Vineyard church. They have a breakfast, games, devotional and gift raffle. It's so much fun. This year Aunt Lara got to join us as well which was a blast.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

October at the Marsh Home

October is always a very busy month in the Marsh household and this year was no exception.

Nic was one of the people in charge of the annual Haunted Woods that the Eagle Volunteers Fire Fighters host which kept him busy every weekend for the entire month. He was also busy going to the elementary schools teaching the kids about fire prevention. The ff'ers would often stay to play with the kids and so Nic (my very in-shape fire fighter husband) would come home exhausted and complaining about how much energy kids have and how they'd beaten up on him. Lol. Who knew recess was dangerous for your health?! :-)

I've been very busy with work (as always), family and friends. I hosted a Halloween Birthday party for my sister-in-law Heather's 30th b-day. It was so fun to get everyone together. Fiona headed to a costume party from my house that night so we got to help her dress up. Kenzie helped Nana with her costumer earlier that day as well. What a fun time of year! Jake's birthday is that same time so we got to celebrate with him as well. Mom made a wonderful family dinner and little Brayden impressed everyone by walking around (trying to run) everywhere since he started walking a week before. I can't believe how quickly kids grow!

Mom and I flew to Texas last week to spend Halloween with Ben and Whitney. It was so much fun to see them and my friend Anela! We went to the Natural Science Museum (parts of it that we wanted to see were closed) and then headed to the Dallas World Aquarium - arguably the coolest Aquarium/Zoo in the world. The next day we went to the Botanical Gardens to enjoy the beauty there. It was breathtaking. Halloween was a blast - we all dressed up and passed out candy to kids (sometimes with W & B's pet rat in the bowl to scare the kids) and watched movies. All in all, a wonderful time to hang out with family and just be together.

I love this time of year. We're heading in to all of the holidays, Christmas cheer is around the corner and fluffy sweatshirts and fuzzy socks are coming out. :-)

New House & Softball

Nic and I love our house so much! It's been fun this spring and summer to see what plants and flowers were already planted and blooming. I've got roses & irises! We've enjoyed decorating, planning, mowing, etc. Our neighborhood is terrific, filled with kids and very friendly neighbors. We have 1 kid in particular who loves to come over and hang out with us. I took him with me to the fire station one day to see Nic and I think Jacob thought he'd died and gone to heaven. :-) He now wants to be a fire fighter. Lol.

Nic and I have also been playing on a softball team through the fire dept this spring. It's been a lot of fun, altho I could do without the 9 pm games that we sometimes have. I started off playing right field but the past several games have started playing catcher. I really enjoy that a lot (except the burning of my thigh muscles for the next 4 days after). Nic hasn't been able to play the past couple games due to his surgery or work. :-( I got to play against two of my best friends a few weeks ago which was a lot of fun. I think they creamed us. :-)