Charles has a cousin!

This weekend Aunt Salem and Craig brought their newborn baby, Brigham Craig, to visit. Charles met him, his first cousin(!) for the first time and the entire weekend was a blast!

Us Dating, Engaged, Wedding Day

Just a few more pics. This is the most compact Readers Digest version of us yet!! =D

Just a few things about Charles...we have a lot to catch up on =) Charles is 5 1/2 months. He is sitting, laughing, playing, communicating more, and just being sweet and fun. His calm, wise, and thoughtful personality plus his charming smile and sweet nature make him so handsome! We are so grateful to be parents and to have this wonderful little boy. These are some more recent pics

- us as a family, Charles sitting, checking out the mail with Dad, ready to go out to lunch with Mom and Dad (Chas came home and surprised us - it was awesome!!!) and just relaxing. =)

We have a blog! Yay! A little about us - Chas and I met at BYU when we were both in a student ward there. Our story - basically we were really good friends. I thought the world of him; I hadn't met a more interesting, genuine, intelligent, fun man, and I loved doing things with him. One night I had a dream that we wrote a song together, and the tune was awesome!! I like to write music as a hobby, and so when I woke up and couldn't remember the tune, I was bummed! That night I told him about it, and he joked that we really should. After talking a little more, we started to get excited and decided to really try. We went and played around on a piano near our apt. complex and decided to write a love song. It was so fun! He asked me on our first date that night. =) He first held my hand at a Bells on Temple Square Christmas concert. We became engaged March 27, 2008, and were married June 6, 2008 in the Medford, OR temple. At our wedding reception in Caliente, NV a couple weeks later (his home town), we performed the song we DID end up writing, finishing, and even recording =D, ironically called, "I Have a Dream." Two months after we were married we went to China for 7 1/2 months where Chas studied Chinese and completed an internship with a law firm and I taught English. About a month after we arrived, we took a pregnancy test that turned out positive! I'd been having "trouble with the food" for longer than normal...ha ha. It was a wonderful experience. Now we're in Provo, UT where Chas is finishing school and I am too...slowly =) We have a wonderfully sweet and handsome 5 1/2 month old baby boy (Charles Michael) and life is just about as good as it gets... Our adventure continues =)