Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Underwater Pictures







Ben got a dicapac for his birthday. It is a little case that you put your digital camera in and you can take your camera out in the water with you to take pictures! We are excited to have it! Anyway, here are a few of the pictures we took the afternoon of Ben's birthday, while we were snorkeling. It takes pretty good pictures!Now we just need to find time to go to snorkeling
more so we can take more pictures!!!

Friday, June 22, 2007

Happy Birthday BEN!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!

Happy Birthday to the best daddy
and husband in the world!!!
Thanks for making us soo Happy!! We sure hope you have a wonderful and
happy birthday today (between studying)!!!
WE LOVE YOU!!!
-Jill and Holdyn

Ben and I have had to spread out
celebrating his birthday this week, due to
an intense study schedule (Welcome to Med-School)

We were able to slip out one night and go have a quiet

dinner on the bay. Then we took a romantical walk along the beach.

It was VERY nice!! We have plans to go

snorkeling this afternoon. Should be fun!!

Anyway, Happy Birthday to BEN!!!

















Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Fun with Friends!!!


Quite a few kids here are pretty close to Holdyn's same age. She was able to get out and play with two of them today.


Since she can't be around all of her cousins, it is good to have family-like friends here! This is Holdyn and Jack.
It is soo good for her to be around other kids. Here she is with Aubrey.

This is a shot of me with Debbie Joseph. She is a member of the branch and is also going to cosmetology school. She gave me some great highlights and a trim. I was the first actual person she did highlights on...she did a good job! She'd only practiced on the mannequins. Funny thing, I've heard my friends who are hairdressers back home....Kandice and Andee..... say that it is hard to work on black people's hair. Well, I was in this salon on Front Street with 3 black hair stylists and they all were saying the same thing about white people's hair. It was great! Anyway, it was fun letting her practice!



Sunday, June 17, 2007

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

We Sure love our DAD'S!!! Today is Ben's first Father's Day as a Daddy!! Holdyn woke him up early with a smile and gave him this "WORLD'S BEST DAD" Ribbon...that she made!!! We didn't have time to make him much of a breakfast.....I teach a few of the branch members piano early, before church...so we had a quick morning. But we are trying to spoil him the rest of the day :)

We also want to wish our wonderful dad's a very Happy Father's Day!! GRAMP CARR

Dad Palmer

Dad Cluff

Dad Baker

WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!

Friday, June 15, 2007

Jack's Birthday Party!!

Holdyn and I just got back from Jack's 1st Birthday! They had his party at the Kissing Fish Pool.
This is a picture of Jack with his beautiful mom Natalie.
Here is Holdyn with her Party hat on! We had a good time getting together with the other gals and kiddo's!
Here is one of Holdyn and her buddy Aubrey.


Then this other is of Hillary and Aubrey, Natalie and Jack, and Holdyn in the tube. These three kids are within about 2 months of eachother. Anyway, we definitely had a good time at the party!!



Here are a few other pictures I took last night and this morning. While Ben was home on his dinner break last night there was about a 5 inch lizard that ran across the floor. We caught it and introduced it to Holdyn......of course, just like anything else new she wanted to put it in her mouth...YUMMY!
Holdyn also loves to work out with mom.
"One and Two and one...."

This is one last shot of her first thing this morning......she is such a morning person. She definitely gets that from her daddy!!

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Quick Update

We've been running like crazy the past couple weeks! Ben's schedule has pretty much been....studying from 8am-11:30pm everyday but Sunday. He does take time to come home for an hour lunch and an hour dinner...which we are very grateful to see him, and try to make the best of it!! This has been a pretty demanding semester soo far...but he is pulling through! Yesterday he took a badly needed break from the books and we went and spent the afternoon with our great friends the Brox's. Ben and Justin went snorkeling and brought back some pretty cool shell's. Here is a conch that Ben brought back. We're working on getting the conch out of the shell. It is pretty tricky but I think he's going to get it. It's been soaking in a bleach/water mixture to hide the stink. Soo far soo good.


Here is a shot of Holdyn with her new doll. We discovered she didn't own a doll....so we had to change that. She has all sorts of stuffed bears, dogs etc, but no doll. She absolutely loves it and carries her around by the braids. I guess they are easy to hold on to.
Here is another random shot of Holdyn and Ben.
She absolutely loves to brush her teeth! It is hillarious. Whenever Ben or I start up the toothbrush she comes full speed to get hers brushed too! I guess she likes the "crest" fully clean mouth too!!!
That's a quick update on the last couple of weeks!

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

CONGRATS JASON AND HEIDI ON THE NEW ADDITION!!!!

We are SOOO excited to welcome another new member to our family! My brother and sister-in-law just picked up their new baby girl!!! They have been waiting for quite awhile to adopt her and she is HERE!! Weighing in at a mere 5 lbs!! They've decided to name her Brielle, I LOVE IT!! She'll be well taken care of by her three older brothers...Baxter, Bridger and Boston!! Congrats on the sister boys!! We sure love you guys and once again...CONGRATS! We are soooo happy for you!!! Can't wait to see her in August!!! She is beautiful! Love, Ben, Jill and Holdyn!!!