It's a GIRL!!!

We are so excited to be having our first baby and that it is a girl. We feel that this baby is the best gift that we could get for Christmas. So, we went to the doctor a week before Christmas and asked him to put the results in an envelope and then we would open it on Christmas morning. We were so excited to open the envelope so we slept by the tree!

Joslyn woke me up at about 5:30 a.m. and asked if I had been having dreams about the envelope, to which I answered 'yes.' She said, "I can't take it anymore!" So we opened it.

FLASHBACK: We announced our prenancy on Halloween in this fashion....

Christmas Tree

This year, we went for a Christmas tree hunt. We drove down to Fish Lake and hiked around in the mountains for the perfect Christmas tree to take home. We followed a trail of good-looking trees up the mountain until we found this 9-foot beauty!

Timber!!!

I carried it back to the car....

While, Joslyn played in the snow with the girls.

The finished product. Isn't it a beauty!

BYU Football

This year and last year, we have been fortunate enough to own season tickets to the BYU football games. Last year, we had mono, but it was still fun. However, this year, it was much more enjoyable. We had to include some pictures from the best game of the year, the Utah-BYU game. It was nail-biter. This game alone would have made our season tickets worth it!

Of course, the fact that BYU won the game made it so enjoyable.

The crowd rushed the field after Andrew George made the game winning, catch, run and TOUCHDOWN!!! We were so high up. It took us a while to get down there, but we made it!

Devin was so drunk with excitiment and delight that he got to go mingle with the players after the game on the field!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Last year, we didn't even think about making a Christmas card. This year, we took a picture but didn't make a Christmas card. Maybe next year, we'll get over the hump and make the Christmas card. Anyhow, we just wanted to wish all our friends and family a Merry Christmas and at least you can see our picture that we took (see above). We love you and wish you the happiest new year!

Farwell to Summer

Hey, It's me, Devin. Summer is official over and my nose is back in the books all day, again. I decided I wanted to do one last hurrah for summer. So, My Cousin Shane and I climbed Mt. Nebo. It's the tallest mountian on the wasatch front, standing at 11,928 ft. The hike was short (5 miles one-way), but steep. The picture above is the second to last ascent and the one below is the final ascent. During the final ascent, the trail disappeared and we had to scramble up boulders.
We did it! Check out the beautiful view. There was a cool hiker's log at the top that everybody wrote in. The best entry went something like this: "I rode a cattle bare back all the way to the top. Then I chucked it off the ridge and ate beef jerky."

Joslyn went the huge '912 Project' rally in South Jordan. It was part of large rallies around the nation. In D.C., they had almost 80,000 gathered. The rally largely focused on unifying together to remove the corruption from the government. If you want a real report on it, you'll have to talk to Joslyn. She's become quite politically active lately.

Motley Summer

We've been really bad at blogging the past few months and here is a motley of pictures giving a brief summary of the past couple of months. We're working hard and playing hard.
We moved to South Provo to try to escape the mainstream BYU Provo. We love our new neighborhood and our new place is growing on us. We've spent a lot of time fixing up the interior and we've had a lot of yard work to do. Devin has turned our yard from an "F" to at least a C+. Here he is killing the hornets. He was only stung once.

Here we are playing around in little Bryce Canyon

Here is our dreamy 1 year anniversary (above) We had family reunions all week and were so happy to be home after being sandy, sunburned and around huge crowds.

Bear Lake exploration on the ATV's

Devin got 2nd place in the Long jump contest at the Rappleye Family Reunion. These guys were jumping at least 25 feet (wink wink). It was really impressive to be honest.

4th of July balloon festival in Provo. I was such a little kid here because I've never been to one and it was so awesome to see them take off like that.

Lake Powell is still the dream trip of each summer... Ever since I was little it's been the hot spot in the Airhart Fam
Battle of the Sexes and i guess the Beck's team wins cause she always had the biggest hair.

Rappleye Family bike ride up the Provo Canyon

We've been camping several times this summer at several different places. However, we only participated in the Olympic games one time... as demonstrated on the movies.

Guess who's back?

It's been a long time since I participated in the blogging world, So here's a little catch up:

I went from looking like something out of a horror movie to....something in a pumpkin patch- something interesting to show kids, and everyone's ok to eat lunch afterwards. I wore the boot cast for 9 weeks. I compare it to getting an extremely drastic hair cut- every time you look in the mirror or run your fingers through your hair, it surprised you and you freak out a little. But after a while you get used to it. That's how the boot and crutches were to me and going up and down stairs with one hover craft foot and two extra extremities on either side of me were pretty normal (except the sleeping part! Who has ever slept with ONE snow boot on??? I would recomend sleeping in glue over that).

At the end of April I was slowly taken off crutches and I got a taste of what I'd been missing out on. Last week I went to the physical therapist walking in without my boot on (my appt was at 7 am and I knew I'd be strapping myself into the boot for 3 minutes so I could take it off for 1 1/2 hours). My physical therapist's jaw dropped and he was pretty impressed that I was healing so quickly. He talked to my Doc and they let me out of the boot 3 1/2 weeks early!! I still have a slight limp, but I'm hoping to be water skiing at Powell on June 22!

At the end of the day I have Elephantitis ankle and I have to coax the blood out of my foot. How the heck do you teach your body to circulate blood better???

I was so blessed to have so many people step up and take care of me. Thank you to all of you that have prayed for me, called me when I was bored out of my mind, and/or served me in any way. I couldn't have done it on my own!! Here are just a couple of acts of service caught on camera:

Every night Devin stocked my night stand with my pills, a snack to take my pills with, a drink, a flash light, and a charged phone

Shortly after surgery, I was staying at my mom's house and I made a valiant effort to take a bath. I was so exhausted afterwards, I curled up on the couch and tried to get warm under blankets. I was so tired and so cold and so miserable. The Beck saw me, left for a second, and next thing I knew she was blow drying my hair.

During the March cold spells my toes were always little popsicles and there was no sock fat enough to fit over my cast... let's be honest- my cast was so big because of my super fat foot. I woke up one time and had this sweet beanie duct taped to my foot keeping my foot warm like chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

My toe nails were pretty ragged and chipped. Devin volunteered to do his first attempt at painting toe nails. When he was painting them, his tonge was out to the side like a true 5 year old artist. When he finished he was so frustrated saying, "I'm no good at being a girl! I painted your whole foot! I even painted your bandage! Let me get something to clean this up." I had him leave it because it was so fantastic and reminded me to be grateful for what people are doing to sacrifice for me.

While I was down and out, my siblings Jessica and Jordan and I took a road trip to visit our Grandparents in Boise, Idaho. When you have to be resting anyway, why not wake up in a different state? We were spoiled rotten while we stayed in G and G Airhart's home. I guess that's what grandparents do best! We did a little family history and interviewed Grandpa Ben all about childhood, adult life, and later years. Apparently we learned things our dad didn't even know.

You know you're in an incredible place when you happen to come across a sign like this!

While we were there we played a card game called Bonanza for 4 intense hours!! I've never known anyone outside of the Airharts that has even heard of this game. For all I know, my grandpa made it up!

We took a little detour to sight see and almost got blown away at the temple grounds!

Here are some things I've done while I've been disabled (speaking of which, I definitely got a parking pass to allow me to park in all those empty handicapped stalls at the front of every parking lot- Being broken has a perk here and there).

On a picnic with just my husband, my boot, and my scooter. People rubbernecked pretty good when I'd roll by on that- I tried to think I was like a celebrity and not a freak show.

My little Bro Jamey came home from his mission. This picture makes it look like a regular home coming right? The fam is down at the bottom of the stairs cheering as their elder comes down the escalator. In actuality this was round 2 of him coming down the escalator and us actually being there. What were we doing instead?

We were in a cramped car, being smothered by balloons, breathing in second hand smoke from the car next to us, waiting in the parking lot looking at the words "DELAYED" on Jamey's flight plans. We called Delta and they said his plane would land 30 minutes later than when it really did. So Jamey gets to the bottom of the escalator and Grandma Ber is there all by herself. The whole time Jamey is looking around corners and saying, "I know they're here somewhere- they're playing tricks on me. They're going to jump out any time now." Oh boy... Jamey's a good sport and gave us a second chance.

And here we are the Elder Airhart gifts!

Here's the Frampton Family Egg roll! I have never heard of more trash talking and hype over hard boiled eggs! I played my cousin Austin the first round. He gave me the stink eye across the table and dirty looks I thought could only come from the high school drama queen. Austin ended up taking the trophy home... needless to say he got me out in the first round.

My sister graduated from the U of U in social work. Congrats Jess! My dad took about 6 of these photos- always someone taking a nap. Apparently Airharts have a really hard time keeping their eyes open in pictures, and right before we're about to blink, we fight the blink as long as possible by breaching maximum stretch (as demonstrated by Jessica).