Greetings from Texas!

Hello Everyone!  Our computer recently got a virus (blah), and as I was restoring everything I went through old pictures of the trip that Grandma, Sarah and I had in Brazil - thought it would be fun to share one of my favorites!  Well, we had a great visit here earlier this year when Grandma Peggy and Ken came out, and again with my mom just a couple of weeks ago.  Hopefully everyone will be able to come see us at some point!  I know we are looking forward to getting more established so that we can travel more to see family.  Other than that, we both love our jobs - Jessie at a great company called Zachry doing estimating for really big steel engineering stuff, me in an art gallery downtown - and are hoping to expand our family in the near future.  We have been so blessed here, and are loving life in San Antonio, but miss everyone in California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, etc... Hope everyone is well, and if you want to know more about what we're up to, explore the stuff below! :)

http://jessandjesshardy.shutterfly.com/

http://www.zachry.com/

http://www.jrmooneygalleries.com/

Grandma Peggy

Hello all,
We are still in Provo and today we are spending some time at BYU Family History Center. Ken is doing FH and I'm catching up on stuff. It is tuff being without internet. Friday we will probably be going to Heber and Sarah and Chloie may join us. Hope the weather is good, but it looks like it may rain.
Oh yes!! Saturday we have tickets for the BYU football game against Wyoming. We have umbrellas.
Love you all.

Slide Show

Chloie is 5 1/2 months old

Chloie rolled over for the first time yesterday!! It was an accident and she cried but she did it all on her own. In fact I didn't even see said roll over. I just heard her crying and she was on her back, when I had put her on her stomach. I am so proud. :) I was getting worried that she only wanted to walk. I thought maybe crawling and being on the floor was too far beneath her. She loves to stand and she will walk around when I hold her hands and start walking forward. It's so cute. So to get everyone up to date on the status of Chloie: she has started to sit up and roll over (saying that sounds like she's a dog), she holds her own bottle, she started eating solid foods a few days before she turned 4 months old and she loves it (see video on the Rock's blog to the right ----->), she loves to make lots of noise every morning when she wakes up (noises ranging from growls, to screams, to laughing, to raspberries, to babbling), she sleeps really well through the night, and she is a good baby. She has her many precious moments when I would like to get away from her, but mostly she is a good girl.
Brandon and I are enjoying parenting. We like to pretend she can understand us and practice congratulating her and scolding her for the little things she does or doesn't do. She just smiles or raspberries us. Today she started sticking her tongue out while she raspberried us instead of just with her lips. It was very effective. Brandon is doing well and loves his job and I am working to keep this house in order and taking care of Chloie. We have callings in our ward as the Valiant 10 teachers. We like teaching together. We have about twelve 10 year olds that we are in charge of and they are good kids. It truly is the simple principles of the gospel that are important and help us to grow and become like our Heavenly Father. The key is to concentrate on making ourselves better and thinking about what we can do each day to become more like who we know we can be.
Brandon and I took Chloie on her first campout last weekend. It was from Friday night to Saturday afternoon. She slept right through the night from 8:30pm to 6:30am. It was perfect. We played cards all night and Chloie slept. We should take advantage of this while we can, before she is mobil and crazy. I have about a bazzillion pictures of Chloie that I would love to share on here but I don't have much time before Chloie starts getting restless after her nap. She is awake but laying on the couch sucking on her arm. Yummy! Talk to you again soon.

It's Started! Everyone Join!

Hello Everyone,
I tried to start this blog at Christmas time last year but I forgot the little detail of inviting everyone to participate. I will start with the first post. This is a really cool way to stay in touch and know what is going on with everyone. What you do is write a post about something that happened or somewhere you went and if you want to, add a picture or video or slide show, and then everyone in the family can read about it and leave you a comment. It's really fun. I have a blog and the link is on the right side. over there called "Rock's" ------------->
The main picture can be changed but I think I need to do it because I'm the blog administrator. If you have a different picture that has everyone in it or you just think it's a cool picture send it to my email and I will put it as the main picture. If you look into blogs and you find out some gadget that you want to add to our blog like favorites list or music or anything let me know and I will add it. If you start your own blog let me know and I will link it to this blog and we can all look at it. This is a cool way to stay close so I hope everyone participates but even if you don't want to post anything you can leave comments about other family members posts. There it is. Let's start blogging.
Love Sarah