Slivers and Silver Linings

Mark and me won a free photo shoot from one of my long time, high school best-friends, who is now a professional Photographer.  Amy, at Amyeliseallen Photography ( http://amyeliseallenphotography.com/ ) does such good work, and we've loved all the pictures she has done for us in the past, so I was more than thrilled when we won the give away! plus, we skipped a 2 year family photo, and this year has been really good to us, the only one missing in the pictures is Lincoln, but maybe we can get him in the Christmas card for this year!  As usual, I love, love, love the pictures! We went up Hobble Creek Canyon in Springville and took advantage of the beautiful fall colors. It was so fun, we pretty much laughed the whole time.  These pictures are extra meaningful to me, because I was 6 weeks pregnant in them. These are some of my favorites from the photo shoot!  Isn't my husband so cute?! Amy also t...

3 years of marriage is just around the corner. March, 2016 will be here and gone before we know it. Seems like time just comes and goes as it pleases, and regardless of how slow or fast it feels, it's always consistent. It seems that these 3 years have flew by. So much has happened for us in just 3 short years, and we've been incredibly blessed to spend them together.  So here's a recap, and my thoughts on a few of the things that have happened. First, I want to start with something that happened a long time ago, but I feel I have finally made peace with it, and I think both Mark and me are in a really good place in regards to our marriage and sealing in the temple. I don't regret being sealed, since I think we may have had some guilt if we hadn't gone through. Of course, there was a lot of guilt afterwards too when we completely didn't understand, or feel that the temple was right for us. Eventually we made our piece with the temple, and have since...