Christmas in Hawaii!!!

This year we had Christmas with the Swensons in Hawaii!! Scott and Sherri were so generous to bring all 21 family members!! You can imagine the skeptical we were walking around all together. It was such an amazing trip! We got to do SO much thanks to Matt. He had fun planning for hours so that we could get the most out of our island hopping trip. We hopped from Maui to The Big Island to Kauai all in 8 days! It was a blast! Our favorite experience was definitely the Giant Manta Ray dive/snorkel in Kona. Some dived and some snorkeled up top. It was a night dive so everyone had lights on that attracted to manta ray food. The manta were very friendly and a few of us even got little manta ray bumps : )
Back tracking a bit, since we were in Hawaii on Christmas we decided to do Christmas dinner on the Sunday before we left. So Matt and I had our first Christmas with our little family in our home and then we went over to the Swenson's for a Christmas dinner. It was fun having all of the siblings home from school.

Devan's 2nd Birthday!!

Devan is getting so old! I feel like he is still my little baby!! Last week he turned two years-old and it seems like just yesterday that we were driving to the hospital to have him. I remember right after the c-section being so anxious to see him while the nurses were cleaning him. Seeing him for the first time was one of the best moments of my life : )
So much happened since then, he even became a big brother!! He is learning something new every day. I love watching him grow and progress. We love him more and more all the time.
We went to the pumpkin patch on his birthday with Grandma Swenson and the Blankenfelds. Then, we had cake with Dad and Elizabeth at home. That Saturday we threw a little baseball birthday party for Dev so that he could have some fun with his friends. Several of them came. It was a good time : )
I Love You, Devan!!

Three Year Anniversary

It's hard to believe it has only been three years since Matt and I were sealed in the Mesa, AZ Temple three years ago. So many great things have happened that it seems like it has been several more years. Matt and I both graduated from BYU-I with our Bachelor's Degrees, his in Accounting mine in nursing. We moved to Lincoln, CA for Matt's Internship. We gave birth to our first child, Devan Scott Swenson. Matt was given an accounting position at Gallina LLP. We purchased our first house in Lincoln, CA. We gave birth to our second little one, Elizabeth Kate Swenson. The most recent achievement is that Matt passed the last of his CPA exams and now he is a Certified Public Accountant! We are so proud of him for studying this last year almost every night in order to get this certification.

We are excited for the new challenges and experiences ahead of us!