Family Photo By The Beach --last one:(

Right before we moved we decided to get a {Family Picture} on the beach.... I thought I would just bring my tripod and remote- HA... So not as easy as I thought to take your own family picture: #1 WIND #2 if i'm not behind the camera mase has no one to look at. Oh well at least we got two semi-decent ones:)

Happy 4th {Bear Lake}

The weekend we got here from Cali the {B} Family {Mason's birth-father's Fam, now their just: family:} invited us up to Bear Lake so we unpacked all of our stuff, then packed again and took off. It was such a fun and relaxing weekend. It was neat to be able to get to know them better and have mase spend time with them. They became family!

Grannie Annie brought mase and liddy matching shirts for the 4th!

Mrs. Anne Marie Kenison

My beautiful step mom (well ex, step-mom, now friend) got married last month- I had the pleasure of taking some pictures for her:) She looked so HaPpY! Congrats Annie Bell!

Miss Marlee Rhetta

Hi jame, here's your sneak peek... More coming soon- PROMISE:)

{My newest niece... isn't she a beauty}

Staying W/Cass

While Seth went back to Cali to finish his two weeks I got to stay with my sister Cass. She lives right by Jamie we were all able to hang out:) Us girls always have so much fun. It's SO weird to see my family regularly and attend events.. I LOVE IT!

His cousin Teag is so awsome with him. Their quite the buddies!

Meeting Marley for the first time.. not so sure about holding a baby- ha ha

His swimsuit pose!
BATH TIME- Mya loves mase too, just a little too much at times :) ha ha

Amaiya 2nd Birthday Party

It was so fun to be able to celebrate Mya's 2nd birthday with her:) Being in Cali we've missed nearly all the birthday party's in the family so this was a such a neat thing for us to be home for. Mase certainly enjoyed the water party... especially when it was time for cupcakes:)

***Birthday GIRL!!! ***

Unitas 09'

Every summer the McVea Family heads up to Moosehorn Lake in the Unitas... Our trips up there have been so memorable and it's one the traditions that I've loved joining. This year was our first year taking Mase- & His FIRST time fishing with DAD:)

Fishing is 'hard work;)'

Offer accepted!!!!

picture update {Catch-Up} coming soon.. Promise...

In the mean time our big news is we found a HOME. We found it, saw it and made an offer all in one day. They accepted our offer the next day and so the process has begun. We saw it again yesterday and I'm still just as in love with it as I was the first time {good thing right?!}. We've looked for months online and I've even seen some since being here but nothing felt right. I was getting a wee bit frustrated until I cried and prayed and then this little beauty showed up in my lap. I absolutely fell in love right when we turned down the street. It's in Springville.. and yes it was my first time being in Springville-EVER! But I had such great feeling, it felt like home. It's smaller, but in great, move-in ready condition and it has little details that sold me right when I walked in the door. It has a beautiful backyard with a garden and swing set. It's incredibly scary but SOO exciting. I'll get photo's of it soon. I forgot how busy summers are when you have FAMILY:) HEE HEE

long... no pictures... but hey it's an update:)

things are still a little crazy... okay ALOT crazy with the move. stayed with my sister for two wks, met my beautiful new niece, played in the water at some awsome swimming place, did four hrs of yard work with my two crazy sisters in the middle of the stinkin day when it was over a hundred degrees (YES, WE ARE CRAZY) for sister #1 whose yard had become a freaking jungle... sweat dripping from every pore does not even describe it, woke up EVERY night at midnight and 4 am since arriving here two and half weeks ago for a baby who seems to enjoy getting up randomly now at 9 months old, had a newborn shoot, had pillow fights with my niece and nephews, saw a movie with my sister who oinked a WHOLE bad of M&M's by herself (ha ha, love you), went to a neighborhood BBQ when it wasn't my neighborhood, had a small family reunion:), stayed up late and watched movies while eating cold stones @ 11 pm like the good old days with my sister, missed my husband terribly, looked for houses daily online, wondered if the huge life change we just made was right {hope so;}, went to bear lake with the {B} family (mase's amazing birth family, now just know as family) had an awsome time, visited with my mom on her way through to Yellowstone, survived the worst day in history yesterday: three hours in instacare, losing my prescription card right when I needed to pick up Mase's prescription, backing my car into a pole shaddering my side mirror, going to my important doctor visit that I made arrangements for forever ago knowing I would lose our health insurance the following only for them to tell me I wasn't in the system and it didn't have I had an appt... WOW- really! What a day!! ha ha...now I'm in provo taking care of my baby who has in baby ear infection and my little sis (in-law) who got her wisdom teeth out and whose parents are on vaca celebrating the 30 anniversary (isn't the awsome, LOVE IT) it's been fun, we're just watching chick flick after chick flick!!!... and getting so giddy for my husband to fly into tonight after 2 1/2 wks apart (even though he didn't make it on standby so we had to pay out the bum for a last minute ticket(- still I'm so excited I almost feel like a little girl:) a husband who still loves her when she's takin nearly everything out on him over the phone and gone completely bi-polar on because of all the stress of this move and this completely insane last year of our lives (guess all the emotion and stress is now coming out... such fun. ha ha) and in the end when he should be staying "wow I'm staying away for another 3 wks" He texts "I love you, You love me. Aside from all this stress lets not forget that" lOvE HiM- he brings me right back down to earth and reminds me to breath. Been a crazy few wks but great few wks. I've really loved being back. being with fam has been AWSOME! I can just drive over to my sisters... how cool is that. The only thing that sucked is Chelly wasn't with us, however I'll be living closer to her so we'll make up for it:) HOWEVER there is some things I that I'm certain have changed over the four years I've been gone that or I certainly don't remember them... #1 being the bloody heat. Excuse my french but seriously people. I'm dieing. My sister's kept looking at me like I was crazy but wow outside is like a death trap. The air is HOT. Yes, I'm not retarded Southern Cali can be extremely warm as well, but the air doesn't move here... there's NO breeze! no movement! I've almost passed out on several occasions! :) and I was worried about the snow?! Um, not offensively but everybody looks the same here. It's weird. There's a common hair-do here, a common look. Thumps up for the people but I hope I hold on the that Cali part of me:) Oh and I was in the doctors yesterday and there was a picture of our Savior! What! How cool is that! Then today at the pharmacy there was church books for sale all over!!! Again.. What! That's crazy cool. Those so aren't church places (clearly) It was a neat feeling! In Cali you only see that stuff in Church building and Seagull Book and even than it's an hour drive away (the store not church). anyways... yes a another long post with no photo's- i know- boring!!! my computer is still in a box but i will be digging it out shortly so I can load my pictures;) Enjoy my friends. Oh and I would LOVE to see any of you now that I back... :)

... a new direction

I haven't been able to blog about the biggest thing that has been happening in our lives for the past couple of months but last Wednesday it became official and today Seth finalized it... We MOVED HOME TO UTAH... (that's what happened last Wednesday but I had to wait for today to post cause Seth finalized it by putting his two weeks notice in) CRAZY, I know! It was a huge decision and it was not made lightly. It was sort of a long process... hearing about the job possibility, interviewing (45 minutes after they called and offered him the job), then deciding if we really want to accept it and make this huge move. Seth LOVES his job with Toyota and leaving his career was so scary and something we had to weigh all the pros and cons over and over about. We prayed, fasted and prayed and fasted some more and we knew in our hearts, especially with now having Mason is was the right move at the right time. We accepted, booked the moving truck, cried sad tears and happy tears, moved our stuff home... i'm here & Seth is in Cali finishing his two weeks. So many emotions. We loved our four yrs in Cali. It was definitely the biggest transition of my life, it wasn't always easy that's for sure, but it was also the best thing for me, Seth and our marriage. I love who I became there. I love what I experienced & learned. I found my footing as a wife there & became a mom. Two of the things that have forever changed my life. And because I had to do that on my own (away from family) it gave me strength I don't think I could have gotten if I were to have never moved away. I tear up just writing this, I left GREAT friends, that will FOREVER be my friends, a great ward that was our family for those four yrs that supported us in everything, especially our journey in getting Mason:) We'll miss so many things, driving along the coast to reach our Stake Center, Monday night tin foil dinners on the beach, hearing the seals out our bedroom window at night, lunch with the ladies at Rex's, having major tourist spots be in our backyard to visit on any given weekend, the diversity (i fell in love with that), attending baptisms that are for members that aren't always 8 (missionary work there is incredible), the weather, our insanely awsome landlords, our friends, our Independence, being different, smelling the ocean, living somewhere out of your comfort zone and making it home. SO MANY GOOD THINGS, however there are somethings Cali just couldn't replace and even though that list isn't as long it's more important to us in the long run and that's what made our decision. Giving Mason what we had growing up: FAMILY, a home, good schools, and a yard. Simple but not as easy as you would think. It's a change of direction but I know we can do it and as sad as we are to leave, we're even more excited to be home again with our family. I know it's the best thing for Mason. We're excited for Seth's new career and me building my photography business here. It's scary but I think it's going to be great. We're looking at houses and can't wait to finally buy a home of our own.. Here's to the next chapter of our lives:) wish us luck***