Cake

Another new hobby of mine has been cake decorating.  Again, I'm just a beginner and I'm not very good but I'm loving the process and the things I'm learning.  The first one is a cake I made for Darren's friend Dean as his birthday present from us.  And the second cake is one a girl in the ward asked me to make for a baby shower she was throwing with the colors black, blue and white. 

Camera

 We made it home!  We're finally here in Colorado and I'm even more in awe of my mom who moved all of us 17 times!  It was a lot of work but we're happy to be here in phase 1 of our move across the country to PA. These last few weeks, when I wasn't packing, I've been trying to learn my way around my new camera. There is a lot to learn but I'm slowly getting there.  Grayson and Darren are getting sick of having their picture taken! :) Luckily  my sisters are all home for the summer so I have some new subjects.  But in the meantime here are some pictures of my favorite subject.

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I'm really excited to learn more about my camera.  I felt really overwhelmed by it at first (there's a lot to learn). I'm still not very good but it's something I've always had a desire to know so I'm jumping in!

Things have been pretty quiet around our house lately.  The reality that we are moving in a month is just beginning to sink in and I've already started my list of things I want to do before we leave Utah.

I want to go to Kennecott copper mine.
I want to visit a few more of Utah's temples.  We went to the Jordan River temple last week and it was wonderful! (thanks to Emily and Scott for watching Grayson)
I have this fuzzy memory of visiting a candy cane factory sometime when my family lived here about 15 years ago.  I want to check that out.....
And a few more things I can't think of right now.


Darren is still busy with school.  I try to convince him that he already got into medical school and therefore doesn't need to study so hard anymore! But he continues to get his excellent grades and I continue to be so proud of him.  He's graduating next month and I think I'm more thrilled by that prospect than he is.

Grayson is the cutest baby alive.  He has come out of his colic phase and his momma is happy about that.  No signs that he's going to roll over anytime soon, but as the Pediatrician reassured me "could you roll over with all that weight?" My boy is definitely chubby and happy.

I still enjoy my jobs as maid and chef de cuisine  in the Hill household.  I've recently tried my hand at cake decorating which has been a love, hate relationship.  I will admit that I threw away an entire cake simply because it fell apart and I was frustrated.  However I have finished some that turned out ok.  I've also recently taken up swimming.  My good friend Becca has started showing me the ropes so I can start looking like I'm moving in the water and not just drowning.  It's been a lot of fun  and I'm really enjoying this new area of exercise.

Other than that I get to look at my cute little boy all day long!  I know I've said it before, but I'm a lucky girl!

Grayson

I've been wanting to have some pictures taken of Grayson.  Today my good friend Sarah from our ward was so sweet and took some darling pictures of my little man... so I thought I'd share!

 (thank you Sarah!)

Happy Love Day!

Today I woke up to surprises all over the house. This has been a wonderful day!

On my brain

So lately I've been thinking about this....

Beautiful green forests

And this.....

apple cider

And this....


                                                        


And this......

 Whoopie pies

But mostly this.........

And why you may ask? Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to say that my studly husband was accepted to Penn State Medical School! YAY! So that means we are moving to Hershey, Pennsylvania and we couldn't be more thrilled.  We get to enjoy the beautiful trees, real apple cider, Amish country, Whoopie pies, and of course the chocolate capital of the world.  I went to high school in Pennsylvania so that means we will be back in the same ward I was in 7 years ago!

 We feel so grateful and so blessed that he was accepted.  We have been working toward this for almost 2 years now. There have been many times these last few months that we just didn't know what was going to happen to our little family.  But now we know the next step and we feel really lucky! 

Sideburns.........

Elvis had them............

Darren has them.........

And my  2  month old has them................

SO........Grayson had his first hair cut at 2 months old....


Before.....

And After....

It really doesn't matter what I do to it, it sticks straight up!