Welcome to the World.

    I'm late on this post but oh well. We've had a really busy month. While Jason and I were in England My brother, Corey's, daughter was born. The timing of this was horrible but what can ya do. I'm so sad that I missed the big moment of this little girl coming into the world. I know everyone is probably biased with their own kids or nieces and nephews. Everyone says theirs are the cutest and ours really are. Haha. Jason and I have darling nieces and nephews. We love them all to pieces and Audrey was such a great addition. She is the first grandchild on the Marsh side so we're all pretty smitten with her. But she really is so wonderful. She never makes a peep and is so pleasant to have around. I could just hold her all day and look at her. I love her so much already. I'm so happy to be her aunt and I can't wait to watch her grow up. It's so fun to see Corey and Dayna become parents. They are so great with her and I'm so happy for them. I love my family.

Audrey Mayumi Marsh, born October 10th, 2011 at 1:09 am. 6 lbs. 11oz. and 18 inches.

Welcome to the world little one!

Halloween

   I love Halloween time. I think it's so much fun. People get clever and dress up as crazy things, there is candy everywhere, and baked goods are always pumpkin flavor. I just love it. I'm obsessed with Fall. When Jason and I wanted to get married there was no doubt about it that it was going to be during the fall season. There's nothing better than driving through the canyon looking at all of the red, orange, and yellow leaves, it's beautiful. It could be fall all year long and I would be happy. Unfortunately, this can't be and we have to shovel snow for the next 6 months of our lives :( Well anyways, think we made our fall great for the little time that we had it around. I'm a fan of haunted houses and corn mazes but Jason and most of my friends are not..so we compromised and did a non-haunted corn maze with the Featherstones and had a blast. I was just glad to be out doing something festive. For the next weekend we had a party with all of our friends to celebrate Halloween. It was so fun to see everyone's costumes and to spend some time together. Then on the sunday before Halloween we were at my parents house for dinner and we carved pumpkins. This has become a fun tradition that I always look forward to. The next day was Halloween and we had school and work all day long so at night we decided to dress up poor Max in his costume and go visit our families.

 For some reason we were really struggling to get a good picture at the corn maze. Yup Jason and I look pretty creepy in this one. 

We went as Hippies this year ;)

 The Girls

 Here are our pumpkins...Yup Corey's takes the cake on the carving. He did his free hand. Drew it on the pumpkin then cut it out. Every year we all have our patterns and try to make ours look cool then he tops it...every year. I'm jealous. Corey's is from V for Vendetta.

 Max was turtle this year. It came with a head piece with cute turtle eyes but he refused to wear it after a while and of course I didn't get a picture with him in it. He didn't seem to mind the turtle shell though. 

Max trick-or-treating. (We have no children so poor Max gets tortured. Give us a break ;)

 Refusing the head piece.

 The is my pumpkin...A Kitty-Bat

 Jason's pumpkin is on the right and my mom's is on the left.

This is baby Audrey. I love her. She is the sweetest baby and I just can't get enough of her. She is like this all the time, never cries or gets upset and occasionally opens her eyes. I could hold her forever.

Happy Halloween!

Year One...Check.

   Well it looks like Jason and I have made it to our one year mark of Marriage. Go us! This post is a little late because we were in England on our actual anniversary. For good luck it is a tradition to save the top tier of your wedding cake and eat it on your one year anniversary. So tonight we got out our cake and ate a slice while watching our wedding video. It's so crazy to think that it was a whole year ago that we were married. Some days it seems just like yesterday, others seem like it was so long ago. It was so fun to watch our video and relive such a wonderful day. The one day that started everything for us. We became our own family. So many things have happened in just a year. We have so much ahead of us. Our new life together has just begun and there are so many wonderful things to look forward to. I could not have chosen a better partner to help me through the journey. We've had ups and downs in our first year but we are stronger than we've ever been. I love Jason with all my heart and I'm so blessed that he chose to marry me. One year down, and to many more to come! I can't wait!

Things that happened in our first year....

1. Bought a condo

2. Jason started his job

3. Traded my car :(

4. Bought Jason a car

5. Had a new nephew Ryder

6. Went to Dominican Republic

7. Jason was called as 2nd Counselor in YM's

8. I was called as the sunbeams teacher

9. Left The Children's Center

10. Started a new job

11. Adopted Maximus

12. Went to Mexico

13. Cruised the Carribean

14. Ran my first 5k

15. Had a new nephew Zachary

16. Went to England 

17. Went to France

18. Had a new niece Audrey

19. Attempted to cook more

and...20. Celebrated our one year Anniversary!!

"They asked me what I love most about life, and I smiled and said you."

Paris

    While in England we had the opportunity to fly to Paris. We were so happy that we chose to do this. Paris was unbelievable! It was beautiful and so much fun to walk the streets. We saw everything we could in a short amount of time but we didn't miss a thing!

 The most amazing crepe ever!

 I was in heaven

 First glimpse of the Eiffle Tower

 The Gardens of Versailles are beautiful and huge!

 The Eiffle Tower

We hope to back again some day in the future!