HAPPY 4th of JULY! Time is Flying!

Celebrating Independence day has always been a fun one for me. I remember being a little girl and sitting out of the back of our van just oohing and aahing over the fireworks display. Here there are so many different shows to go see. Tempe has always been a favorite, a fireworks display that will Forever live in my memory as the best we have ever seen. Hopefully wherever you all are, you find yourself traveling safe. May we always remember the soldiers that fought to give us this freedom and lost their lives.

So This isn't a picture of Fireworks, but Arizona has it's own kind of fireworks that you can see for miles called Monsoons. When the 4th of July comes around, you know it's the start of the Creator's most awesome work here in Arizona. The squals can be seen for miles away, its a huge wall of dirt coming your way that is miles high, and when it hits you can't see 10 feet in front of you. SO COOL! I remember when we first moved here, I was driving out in the rain and all of a sudden it was like driving through a waterfall. I had to pull over to the side of the road since my windshield wipers couldn't move fast enough. Crazy!

Just recently Tyler and I have planted some citrus trees along with grape vines in our yard. (Plants here survive like the California climate) Our Limes, Cocktail Vodka Grapefruit, and Tangelos won't be ready until this winter around Christmas. We just pulled about 5 clusters of grapes off of our vine and oh they were delicious. So good right off the vine. :)

Celebrating 6 Years of Marriage at the 22 Week mark

On June 22 Tyler and I celebrated our unity of marriage in Christ for 6 years. Wow, how we have really realized how lucky we are to have had these 6 years without kids... to get to know eachother extremely well and become the very best of friends. Neither of us had any idea that our love could grow so deep. We have grown so much in these 6 years together, with a focus on Christ and His love for us we have been able to overcome so much and have highly exceeded where we had planned to be when we first got married. With so many fun things ahead of us, we celebrated US, as we know that next year there will be US plus one. :) We went to the Pointe South Mountain Resort for our 6 year. (Arizona Grand Resort) See below.

Me at the Resort at 22 weeks, in a bathing suit. We had so much fun in the lazy river and the wave pool. It was just nice to relax with each other, and not have to have the baby's weight hanging on me while I was in the water. Here's Tyler below headed to the Cabana.

Our Little Boy's Name Has Been Guessed Again!

Okay so here's the deal :)

We picked a name for our kid, and decided not to give it away... and that was way too hard because we are just too excited. So we decided to give away 10 clues to lead you to the name. After 2 clues James Gardner (At Lindsey's work) got it, with a tank and MC Hammer. The 2nd person to get it right was Dolores with 4 clues (at Tyler's work) yet, neither one of them had posted anything on the blog. Tyler's mom had it at clue #8 (which I deleted, because we hadn't posted nearly all clues yet). And Lesli, Lindsey's sister had it at the final set of clues. Rumor has it too that Bracken (Linds Nephew) had it at clue #9. WAY TO GO EVERYBODY.

So the name came about...

One day I (Lindsey) had been thinking that I really wanted to share Tyler's background relation to his 8th great grandpa John Hancock with the baby's name, (since I love U.S. history). Well I figured that if we named the kid Hancock that for obvious reasons, the kid would be teased forever... So I thought that before I presented my thought for a name to Tyler that I should shorten it (since we couldn't seem to agree). Well we just love baseball and Hank Aaron has always been one of my allstar heroes, next to Lou Gehrig and Jackie Robinson.

So I figured that I would present Hank Aaron Labrum to Tyler as a name.

At first, Tyler didn't seem to like it and we had made a decision to name the baby something else. We walked into the ultrasound room with a boy and girl name in mind, it was a solid decision. When we came out of the ultrasound, Tyler and I looked at each other, thinking the same thing and Tyler said that he didn't really care to name this baby the name that we had both decided on. And at that point I said "What about Hank Aaron Labrum?" And Tyler said that "That's it." We both felt like that was what this baby was suppose to be called.

And that's the whole story!

Here are pictures of Hank's new room:

Baby Name Game: ALL CLUES

TANK

HAMMER

BRAVE

30315

BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

HANDKERCHIEF

BRAVE

755

BASEBALL

THESE CLUES TOGETHER ARE THE EASIEST WAY TO COMPLETE THE PUZZLE.

GOOD LUCK, WE WILL TRY TO POST THE NAME ASAP.

IF THE NAME IS POSTED AS A GUESS, WE WILL LEAVE IT.

Baby Name Game: Clue #9

Baby Name Game: Clue #8

7 multiplied by 100, add 60 subtract 5 =Answer to the Clue

Baby Name Game: Clue #7

No correct answer posted so far, yet 7 good clues ;) Here we go I really hope this helps: