A few more shoots I took.

our new place

 
 
 
 

Yearly update

I meant to send this out to everyone and even had Easter cards all made up. But things got to busy so here it is and hopefully you'll get your adorable card and my next yearly update next Easter.

Dear Friends and Family,

Most people send out cards to keep in touch at Christmas, we have decided to send such a card at Easter. This will make Christmas less stressful for us and spread out the joy of receiving mail for you.

This year has brought a lot of learning for Dave and I. Both of us are building business. My business idea originated, in college, but I was too busy, so I let it sit. After graduation Dave and I enjoyed watching the show BIG IDEA. It inspired me to pick my idea up and run with it. We launched my product last summer and have done a few craft boutique shows that have been very successful as well as a TV show in Arizona that went extremely well. This summer I’m hoping to really grow the business. I hope this crazy economy doesn’t hold me back to much.
The rest of my time I spend teaching dance, which I love, and doing my other hobbies. I have been doing a lot of cooking and have fallen in love with homemade freezer meals and plan on building them to create my short term food storage. These have made our meal times so much smoother. I’ve spend a lot of time thinking and planning my flower beds and pots. We shall see if they turn out as magnificent as I envisioned.

Dave spends most of his day sitting in front of a computer. He is designing and developing a software management system for small business. I have loved his help building my business and couldn’t have done it without him. To help speed the process of programming his system he has hired 2 private programming tutors. He is quickly learning a little of the complex confusing language of PHP. Dave has high hopes for his business even in this crazy economy. He hopes to start marketing his product this summer/fall time. He also has committed to finish his college degree by 2010. I am very excited about this.
In Dave’s free time he loves spending time with his family especially his niece and nephew. We both anxiously await the day we will have our own little one. Until then we are trying to develop patience.

I love spring so much. I enjoy watching things grow and come back to life after a long winter. I watch my little planted seeds begin to search and reach for the light. I can’t help but think of my Savior and the wonderful gifts of the Atonement and Resurrection. I desire to try more diligently to continually seek the light like my little plants. To bend my life in a way that draws me closer to HIM. I want to nourish my little growing seeds of faith, hope and charity with diligent prayer, scripture study, temple attendance and service. I know the blessing of true joy and happiness will come even in times of challenge and frustration.
I know my Savior lives. That on that glorious 3rd day he arose and conquered death. I know that he took upon himself my sins. That through his pain, and his gospel, I can repent and come unto him, and together we can all live forever. What joy should fill our souls to posses such treasures of knowledge.

We love you all and know the importance of keeping relationships alive and want to do our part. Thank you all for the impact and influence you have been in our lives. You are all very special people and we would love to keep in contact.


Dave and Brigette

Trying New Things

Dave and I enjoyed a wonderful day skiing and then went out to dinner at a buffet, that had a wide variety of food. Here are list of some of the new things I tried.

Frog Legs
King Crab legs
Crab claws
Octopus
Sushi
and Some other food I can't remember the name of and I didn't like.

It was a fun adventure. I would defiantly do the Crab legs again. I also enjoyed several different dishes of shrimp.

saint patricks day

 
 

Accomplishing something

I'm in that pathetic mode were I fell like I'm accomplishing nothing of value in my life and wasting away my probation. I know I'm not and I know Satan is just getting in my head. So here are a few of the things I have accomplished.

I have been doing a lot of thinking a planning about my food storage and creating goals. by 2010 I'd like to have 3 months supply of ready made meals and a years supply of grains and beans and their complementary ingredients along with the tools and skills to make them into edible meals. I'd like to fine tune my bread, biscuit, dried beans skills.

I'm also hoping to reach our baby fund goal by my birthday so we can start saving for a down payment on a home and a trip to Italy next summer.

I created three beautiful dances that the girls loved and seemed to be enjoyed by the audience. And I hope that I turned a few more thoughts to the Savior as one piece was all about him. I was so grateful for the loving support of my family who came. I put a lot of work into these dances and it was nice to share it with people I love. Thank you Sabina, Brecklyn, and Talia for making the trip down and the sugar cookie kit I'm way excited to use it. Thanks to my Mother and Father in Law for coming and bringing me gorgeous roses and my sister in law Becky and for Dave. It meant a lot to have you their.

I have also been working on my garden and have seeds growing on my kitchen table I hope I can keep them growing until after the last frost. The weather has been so great here.

little boy!

This is not Dave

Through out our lives we need to keep up activities that revert us back to when we were little. Dave and I have done several activities like that lately. Well they where ones that brought the youth out of Dave. We went to a world cup mogul skiing competition and Dave was so excited and had his adrenalin going and wishing he was the one up at the top waiting for the go to race down the mountain.

Then for Valentines day we went to the ski resort that Dave learned to ski at. He proceeded to show me all of the memorable runs, rumps, cliffs and secret stashes of powder. It snowed the whole time we where their creating challenging white out conditions where you can see no depth, never knowing how steep things where and where the bumps are situated. The snow created continual fresh powder the made for Dave's favorite kind of skiing. It sprays up around you and watching in fly down from above him all I could see where his head and shoulders and the rest hidden my the spraying snow. He was in Heaven.

It was fun but very challenging to me their was a time when I was thigh deep in snow and had a hard time getting out.