Welcome Cade!!!

We are so excited to announce that Kacie had her baby yesterday....Cade David Callens is his name. We are so proud of her, she only had to push a couple of times (lucky girl, hopefully its genetic :)  And we are so excited to have a new little nephew in our family! 

check out their blog for some pictures..

www.adamandkacie.blogspot.com

Congrats Callens!!

The Rumors are true!!

Yes, I am finally officially announcing it...I'm Pregnant!!  I'm about 13 weeks now, and due Feb. 28. I already can feel myself getting fatter, but I am trying to embrace it and enjoy eating things I haven't in a while. Lance is super excited, I have my days. I've been really sick, so it really hasn't been a great experience for me so far. Hopefully the sickness will start wearing off soon. Everyone promises me that the second trimester is "so much better" so we will see. 

So Long, Farewell...

 It is official, my home residence will no longer be in Kingwood. My family is officially moving from our home of 12 years to a place far away...Switzerland! They will be leaving for Geneva next week :(  

They've been working super hard to get the house ready for sale (so if anyone is looking for a house in Kingwood...) 

I'm pretty sad about them leaving the country, but we are so excited for their new adventure and since we now LOVE Europe, we are overjoyed with the fact the we will get to go visit all the time!

New York

A few weeks ago, ok I guess like I month ago, I went on a trip with the girls in Lance's family. We went up to Ohio, and New York and got go to an Amish town, and then we went around and saw all the Church history sites. Also, the Hill Camorah pagent was going on so we got a see that too. It was a great trip, I'm so glad I finally got to see all the church sites that we only read about. It makes the scriptures come alive and helps you to really understand all that was went through to restore the church to the earth today.

The Sacred Grove

Getting ready for the ferry ride at Niagra falls

Niagra falls

Our hotel room in Ohio

Our cute hotel in the Amish Town

An Amish parking lot (yes, it was a little strange)

The Newel K. Whitney Store, in Ohio

Finally in New York

Crazy 8's

I know I'm a little behind with keeping up with our life, but better late than never right :) 

I'm always trying to get Lance to go running and I've found the easiest way to get him to go is to sign us up for a race. Then he at least has to come with me and do it. Something about the competition helps us run faster and faster, we hate to have people pass us. So a couple of weeks ago we ran in the Kingsport Crazy 8's race. It is the fastest 8k in the world they say, and they give out a lot of money to the people who break all the records. Unfortunately, we didn't break any records, but we had a great time running it. The race started at 9:58 pm, and it was neat because we ran through the town, and people came out and sat on their lawns to cheer us all on.

It was way fun,  so if anyone wants to join us next year come on over :)

Beus's Visit

Some of Lance's family decided they wanted to see what Tennessee had to offer and decided to rent an 18 passenger van and make the very long drive out from Idaho to Tennessee. I can't believe they survived the 40+ hour drive, but they seemed to have enjoyed it and we were sure happy to actually have some visitors to our new home.

They only stayed the weekend, and then decided to go all over and see this part of the country. But while they were here we went to the Rhododendron festival at Roan Mountain State Park. The Rhododendron is a flower that only blooms like right now and then the flowers go away, and I guess at this state park hold the largest rhododendron garden in the western hemisphere. Needless to say, they have a festival every year at this time (when the flowers are at their peak bloom) and there is all kinds of music going on, and tons of little booths with all sorts of goodies, and the best junk food. So we spent the day at the festival, and here are just a few pictures from it 

And I've been getting a few questions about how big our dog Ace is getting. So we finally took a picture to show that he really is getting huge. He now weighs almost 10 pounds, so he's really big to us, but everybody still thinks he's just so small. I think he's getting a complex about it now actually :)

A few more pictures from the festival... Lance with his Dad and brother

And me and Lance, oh and that is what those flowers look like. They are actually pretty cool. I don't know about a whole festival for them, but hey..whatever, it made for a fun day.

And we want more visitors, so come on people, we miss you!!!

Vacation part 2

We finally got our internet working at our house so I will be able to keep our posts more up to date :)  So finally I am able to put the a few pictures from the other half our our vacation. After Costa Rica we flew to Texas for a week to spend some time with the family, it was really fun because my whole family was there and we had many events going on throughout the week to keep us very very busy!

First, we had Alivias first birthday!!! To celebrate she had a pool party, that included a small slide for her and all of her little baby friends. It was so cute and I think she loved it, even if she did have no idea it was her birthday :)

Becca and Alivia, ready to party!

Haley, Zach, Lance and Myself getting our party on!

Next we had Kacies babyshower. She and Adam are expecting their first baby boy in August. I think she had a lot of fun, and got lots of gifts that I hear come in handy when you have kids.

This was Kacies cake for the shower

All of us Capra girls, (+2 more little ones on the way, and by that I mean Kacie and Becca are expecting :) 

Then finally it was graduation day!! The girls spent the morning getting our nails done, of course, and just hanging out all together.

Mom, Haley, Ariel

Becca and Alivia

Kacie, Zachary, Lance

Lance and Ariel

(We both got our hair cut in Texas... Lance hates paying to get a haircut so my brother Zach said he would do....it was going well till Zach nicked his head, Lance decided he couldn't go to work with spots in his head so he decided to just shave the whole thing...the rest is clear. But the funny thing is when we got home and went to church every single person in our ward said something about it, the most common questions were "did you join the army" and "did you loose a bet?")

Ariel and Haley

YEAH HALEY!!! We are SOOO proud of you and all you have accomplished!! Haley will be starting BYU this summer and we are very excited , so everyone look for her and invite her over for dinner:)

We had such a great trip, 2 weeks really seemed like 2 months but it was so fun,  we are grateful everyday for all the we are able to do and see, and we can't wait for our next adventure!!