Layers Discount!!

I am putting in a plug for Layers, as I do from time to time! I know this is short notice, but if you make an order now through Sunday through me, you'll get a 10% discount off your entire order! So give me a call or email me in the next few days if you are interested in ordering anything.

Also, they have new summer styles in! If you go to www.layersclothing.com, you can look at the pictures on their main page to see some of the new styles! You will notice little arrows pointing right and left, just click on those to see the next pictures. I think they have some really, really cute things! There are 4 new ones that you can even order now and get the 10% off if you call me and order by Sunday (the 10% is through a stylist only fyi, so you can't get the discount if you order online). So in case you see some cute ones and want to know which ones are available now to order with the 10% discount before Sunday, they are images 4, 5, 7, and 10 if you go through the pictures on the main page.

With the new summer stuff, there is plenty of time for a party! Kati did a party at the beginning of June, but Karen was the only one of our friends who came :( so we could definitely have a summer one and Karen is the only one who could say she's already been to one!! lol :) Anyway, if anyone is interested in hosting one, you can earn free shirts, so give me a call! Also, let me know of any questions.

Nicole

Hey everyone! It has been a long time since I have been on so I am a little suprised with some of the fun news! It is so good to see what everyone is up to.
Well I am not up to much, it is after all 1:00 am which is a very unusual time for me to be up but I wanted to check emails without Drew helping out so here I am.
We haven't been up to much no wild trips like everyone else we just hangout. We did however go on a cattle drive which was suprisingly fun. Drew has been saying yehaw ever since it is so cute. He loved the horses, he fell asleep riding a horse (must have been so exciting)!
Besides that we are just good, andy is chugging along in lab like usual and Drew and I spend lots of time at my parents. I know we are so exciting!!!
Well I love you all and will hopefully be on a bit more but I won't promise a thing!
Oh I did finally figure out how to add pictures so I put a few in of drew of course and since I haven't been on forever there are some old pics too.

Vail, Colorado

Hey everyone! Justin and I just got back from a week long trip to Vail, Colorado. We went with my family and stayed in the Marriott timeshare condos. We had a great time! Vail is absolutely beautiful, very green with lots of trees. There is so much to do there. Some of the things we did were go swimming, shopping, the boys golfed, we went to Denver for a day and saw the Colorado Rockies play the Yankees, went to a rodeo, saw the Betty Ford Gardens, went to an outdoor market, and relaxed!

Our new car!

Well, we finally found a car that suits our needs and our budget! We are really excited and the Lord has really blessed us! It is a 2005 Toyota Corolla with 31,000 miles on it. Here is a pic

Sawadee Kaa (hello) from Thailand!!

Hi guys,
So, I'm writing this from an internet cafe in Chiang Mai, in northern thailand. Everything on this website is in Thai, so I had to click on every link to figure out how to read the blog, and then how to post!
Today we got back from a trek in the Jungle. It was a three day, two night deal, where we walked a few hours each day and then slept in a village each night. It was so interesting! The villages we stayed in don't really have access roads, and so the only outsiders they see are trekkers. the first night we stayed in a village that was REALLY poor. the kids don't usually have a teacher, because the teacher has to hike in and stay for weeks. It was so incredible to see how they lived!! We all stayed in a bamboo hut ( there were 9 people on the trek), and all night long we could hear dogs fighting, roosters crowing, pigs squealing, and cows mooing. Not exactly a five star hotel! (:

It was such an amazing experience! To end the trek, we took an elephant ride. It was so cool! I got to sit on its neck. I couldn't believe how rough the skin was and how coarse the hair was!

In a few days we'll leave thailand for Northern Laos. We'll travel down Laos by bus, then into cambodia, visit northern Vietnam, climb in Southern Thailand, and then possible head to Indonesia to surf, if there are no waves in Thailand. Hopefully we will be able to handle the heat!!! Bangkok was suffocating, so hopefully the other cities won't be as bad!!

Despite the few discomforts of traveling, we're having a wonderful time. It is so fascinating to see how different Asian culture is. The people are so amazingly kind. And the food has been wonderful!

Congrats to all the new babies, houses, and everything else exciting that's happening!


Nanette

house for rent....

Hey everyone! My parents own the house that Karen has been living in....and since she is moving into her new sweet house, it is going to be for rent again. If anyone is interested let me know...
Em

Post-Op

Welcome to the blog Jacee! It's good to hear from you! It's been a LONG time!!! I just wanted to let everyone know that Jake's surgery went great! It took about 2 hours for them to go in and reattach his retina. He was down for a few days, which was tough because boys are babies when it comes to pain, but he's good now. The doctor said that they need to touch up his other eye in about 2 weeks. Luckily with that one, they can do it with a laser, so it won't be a major surgery. I'm just glad they caught it and didn't go blind. Anyway, that's all I've got. I just wanted to update you with our situation.

Well friends, it sounds like things are going great! This blog thing is pretty cool!! It is so awesome to hear from everyone! Thanks again Karen. Okay so things have been great lately. I have some news, well first, I don't know if I have told you guys already, but we are building a house in Syracuse!! We are really excited! Things are going great and we plan to move at the end of the summer! The new house has four bedrooms, which should be perfect for the new addition to the family! I'm Prego!! I'm due in December and I don't know what it is yet! It will be crazy because Bode will only be one and a half! However, I can't wait! It will be so fun! Well that's the latest in the Pedersen Family. Besides that Bode just turned one on Sunday, Karri Sheppard moved into my ward in Roy and we hangout about everyday, Clint has been working on finishing the basement, and I clean and clean and still can't keep the house clean! So that is about all! Hope all is well! Love ya

Hey amigas!

Well, better a late blogger than never . . . right? Well, I wish I had some pictures to share right now, but we can't find our camera. We're still looking though.

Congrats to the Firths and Kathryn!

I guess I should give an update on what's going on in my life. So, I'm going to summer school right now at UVSC. I work there too in the Aviation Marketing department as a Marketing Representative. I guess one cool thing about work is that I'm going on a business trip to Wisconsin at the end of July. We're going to market our online degree program at the biggest air show in the world. It's going to be hot, but it will be fun.

I'm planning to graduate in April next year. Kris should be done in 2 years. Something exciting about UVSC, for those of you who don't know, is that it's becoming a University next year. Kris has been involved with a lot of the transition committees. He was elected student body president and gets to associate with a lot of neat people. It's an exciting time to be here and see all the changes.

We just moved to Orem on May 22nd. We live on 1200 W. in between the Orem, Center st. exit and UVSC. You can see our apartment from the freeway. We like it so far. It's been nice to be so close to work and school and not have to drive 45 min. to get there.

That's about it for now! I hope everything is going well with all of you!

Surgery

Hey guys! I have some news.. not exciting! But news anyway! Yesterday Jake found out that he has a particially detached retina. We are going into emergency surgery this afternoon! I'll keep you posted!

More good news!

Well, the Firths have decided we like to make life crazy...I got engaged last night! I am marrying Roger Gardner on October 3rd. Yes, I'm getting married three weeks after Meg and yes, my mom has been in tears for a week. :) Just a little bit about him... we were a blind date back before Christmas, he's turning 26 in a couple months, he just graduated in Business Management, and he's perfect. Okay, okay so I'm biased. Anyway, I wanted to tell everyone the fun news! Here is a picture of him and I on Easter. I hope you all can make it to both weddings!

2 Months of building

2 months ago tomorrow I posted a picture of my BEAUTIFUL hole that our house would eventually be built in! Well...here's the update on what's happened in 2 months! A LOT!!! Bryce and I go there about 2 or 3 times a week just to see how much has changed! It really has been a neat experience watching it change from day to day. You will see from the picture that a window is missing! The window was ordered wrong so we had to order a new one! Our 2 garage doors were also ordered wrong! Pretty stupid I know, but not much we can do about it! We now have 3 extra windows (2 were ordered and then we decided against them). So if anyone needs a window just let me know! :) Also...the front door will not stay that stark white! It will change to a color (red maybe?!) Our projected move in date is the beginning of August. So 4 months to build...not too bad! It really has been awesome! I'll definitely have to have an ending of summer party or something! Our next adventure is in about 2 weeks where we'll be having an amazing time at Lake Powell (my very favorite vacation spot). I'm excited to just be with my fam for a week! Other than that not much is new! (I guess building a house is new every day though huh?! My life isn't as dull as I think it is!) YAY!!!!!

Family in Vegas

Well, this last week, my family made the trip to come visit. My mom and dad, sister, brother-in-law and two nieces. It was a blast. We went to the Celine Dion concert for my birthday and it was a blast. It was so artistic and visually stimulating. It was way better than I expected. Claire sure had fun with her cousins! She gets along great with them and it is so cute.

Exciting news...

Hey everyone! I've been so bad at checking this becuase we didn't have the internet all last semester. When I finally checked it I couldn't believe all the new babies, engagements and fun news! Also I forgot my password so I had to have Karen help me figure out how to log in again. OLIVIA! You are an amazing artist, where do you live, what are you doing??

So I finally finished dental hygiene school and this summer I am finishing my last 2 classes to get my degree from the U. I'm going to work as a hygienist, so I'll never need my degree from the U- but since I just had 2 classes left, I thought I might as well. Ty just finished law school from BYU and has a job with a firm called Latham and Watkins. We were going to move to California to work at the office in Los Angeles, but a month ago we got an email saying that they were going to hire some new people to start at offices in Europe and we applied and are moving to LONDON!! I'm so excited! We didn't think we'd get it, but we found out yesterday so we'll be moving there at the end of the summer. We committed to work there for at least 2 years. So, if anyone wants to take a trip over there- you have a free place to stay with us. I'm not kidding- PLEASE, I would love for anyone to come. I've only been to Europe once, but not to London. So if anyone's been there and has any fun ideas of things to do/see, let me know.

Well, that's it for me, I don't know how to post pictures, but one of these days I'm going to figure it out and put some on here. I hope everyone is doing wel!!!
Emily

Alaska and Murray

Hey everybody! Congrats on everyone's new engagements, pregnancies, marriages, and births! Man we are really doing a good job of multiplying and repleneshing the earth, aren't we? I haven't checked this for a couple months and I can't believe how much I missed! As for Adam and I, we just got back from and Alaskan cruise last week, and it was such a blast. It was beautiful and actually not that cold. We saw lots of beautiful glaciers and wildlife. It was a good break for us.

Marjorie Glacier in Glacier Bay

Standing on a huge snowbank in a tiny Klondike town. Population: nine

I'm sure this would be much taller in the winter!

Three bald eagles on Panic Island in Ketchikan. We saw like fifteen of them there.

Next week we are closing and moving into a twin home! We are so excited. It's small but really cute and just the perfect starter home for us. It's just around the corner from where we live right now (in Murray) so we'll be able to stay in the same ward, which we love! I can't wait. I'll have to post pictures of it after we move in.

Adam was unfortunately hospitalized on Saturday! He had extreme pain in his abdomen and was throwing up! It turned out he had a kidney stone. When he finally passed it yesterday, I coudn't believe how big it was...about the size of a grape nut. The poor boy was in so much pain and throwing up constantly for a couple of days, but he's fine now, luckily. I was just glad it wasn't anything serious!

I must brag that we also have two new additions to our family. Their names are Angel and Coco, and they are adorable little girls. Here's some pictures.

Lol, ok so maybe they're not as exciting as a baby, but we weren't allowed to have pets any bigger than that where we're living, so we got mice. All animals are fun! (don't worry, they do live in a cage.)

So we have had a lot of changes lately and it's been a crazy few weeks! Hope everybody is doing well!

Hawaii

Hi all. Well we just got back from Hawaii and it was a blast. We went with the whole Vance clan and Seth and I stayed at my brother in-law and sister in-law's house. I got to meet my nephew for the first time and that was fun. He was blessed while we were there. Claire was a trooper. The flight was a nightmare (both ways) but she adapted pretty well once there. It was fun to be there with some natives because they really knew some fun things to do. I went snorkeling, boogie boarding, jumping of cliffs in pouring rain, to Pearl Harbor, to the Polynesian Cultural Center and much more! I am really happy to be home though. Here are some pictures (some of Claire with her cousin)

Meet Colt!

Colt K Lancaster was born Monday, May 14th at 11:16 a.m. He was 7 lbs 13.3 oz and 20.5 inches long. We are obsessed with this new member of our family!!

The brief version of my story is that contractions began Sunday night. After 13 hours of labor, it was time to push. After pushing for almost three hours (which it usually takes about one), I was exhausted and had torn a bit. Colt was stuck sideways in what's called tranverse arrest, and he couldn't move through my narrow bones. The only option was a c-section. I am so happy we made it through! My recovery is going quite well; it's been very helpful to have Adam around and to have his mom here to help. My parents get home a week from today on the 28th. Life is really great!!!

Enjoy these cute pics.

SURPRISE!!!

well kids... i know you're all shitting your pants because the one and only Olivia Winn has joined the brilliance of the blog group. you're sitting on the edge of your seat right now, gripping the mouse, hanging onto every word... some of you are even reading aloud because you can't believe this miraculous event is occuring. Oh come on... you've missed me. So the first time i was invited to this blog thingy i was special ed and didnt' follow the directions correctly and i failed to join. but karen caught me online today and told me she'd send me an invite yet again... so you can all thank karen cause i know you've missed me... especially you nicole, don't deny it. well. life is good. i don't have an official job right now... i'm just oil painting.. which is a good time...

so yeah... that's a little bit of my work... and i went from this

to .... this

so until next time.. hope all is well with you kids. and i can't believe you're all having babies... good times.

It's a ...

It's a girl! We went in yesterday for my ultrasound and we are having a baby girl! I am soooo excited! Justin really wanted a boy, but before we walked in I asked if he would be mad if we had a girl. He said no....and good thing! (After all, he's the one who determined the gender!) No, he is really excited actually! At work the other day he saw his manager's three year old daughter and decided little girls can be quite adorable! :) She'll have him wrapped around her finger!

The ultrasound was seriously the neatest thing ever! Just ask anyone who's had one! It was so fun to see her little body! Right now she weighs eleven ounces. She was really cute...she was waving her little hands in front of her face and she had her feet crossed at her ankles. It is seriously so amazing to see them moving around inside of you! Anyway, the good news is that she is healthy and it all seems more real now!

Read this!

I am reading a really good book right now and I think you all should read it! It is Smart Women Finish Rich by David Bach. He also has one called Smart Couples Finish Rich. It is great! It is really easy to read and has really practical, valuable tips and instructions on financial matters. It covers everything from budgeting, investment, insurance, home-buying, and lots else to help you understand how to be financially secure. It's just so important because these are the things that affect everyone. So please read! You will be happy you did.

I'm also reading The Poisonwood Bible which is my favorite book. I read it every summer and I'm making Jeff read it with me. Haha. It's more of a girl's kind of book.

I hope you are all doing well! Congratulations to Becky with her new little baby Colt! He is so adorable!