Hazel's Blessing

Sunday Mike gave Hazel a beautiful blessing. All of our family came to support us and meet our sweet girl. Since she is the first grandchild on both sides of the family everyone was excited:) All and all it was a wonderful weekend that made me immensely grateful for eternal families and especially for my beautiful daughter.

Mike's Family

My Family

Hazel doing what she does best - puking on Grandpa Ballard:)

Playing with Uncle TJ

Ward Campout

Friday night was our ward campout. Since Jamie, Gabby, and Jake were in town for Hazel's blessing, they and my parents joined us. We had a blast! Hazel slept 6 hours through the night which made me tempted to go camping every night!

Mike's sister Jamie with Hazel.

My dad cooking breakfast.

Sweet Little Hazel

She likes to sleep with her hands behind her head like this.

From a photo shoot we did at home. We only got a few good shots, but we consider that a success:)

Hail Damage Saves Us Big

Everyone knows hail and cars don't mix well, but for us hail turned out to be a great thing....

We have been considering trading in our Ford Focus for a while now. It's getting to the point where it will start costing us a lot of money in repairs to keep it running plus it's AWFUL in the snow (not a good thing when you live in Colorado).

Well, there was a terrible hail storm in Denver last week and several dealerships were having "Hail Sales." We stopped in just to see what we could get for a trade in and look what we found.....

It's a 2008 Suzuki Grand Vitra with only 6,700 miles on it!
Normally we would never be able to afford such a new car, but with the hail damage it was priced right in our budget. The hail damage really isn't bad either - just some pitting on the hood.

We know this was the Lord's way of blessing us with a car that will be reliable and safe for our family. We are so grateful!