Matt a Priest

So, just a month after Matt's Baptism to the Mormon Religion, he was ordained a Priest in the Aaronic Priesthood (Someone who knows church vocabulary better than us, please tell us if we spelled Aaronic correctly.)

The Aaronic Priesthood is a preparatory Priesthood before reaching the Melchezidak Priesthood in which you are able to basically do anything within the church. As a Priest, I am able to Prepare and Bless the Sacrament and also I am able to baptize new members if need be as well, I just have to wait until I get the Melchezidak Priesthood before I would be able to Confirm, give blessings or annointments, and before I can ordain members to a new level of Priesthood.

We are pretty excited about the new way we are living our lives and Matt is very happy with the decision he has made.

Surgery for Matt

I know, shocking it isn't Julia that is out of work for surgery. Last Tuesday, Matt had a tonsilectomy and gets to be out of work until Monday. Thankfully, he is starting to feel much better and is not in very much pain anymore. For those of you who don't know, he had to have his tonsils out for 3 reasons: 1. Sleep Apnea (he stopped breathing 7 times for 30 seconds or more within a 5 hour period) 2. Allergies were making him sick in the morning, 3. He could not train properly for the police department Physical Tests because he would be out of breath after running just around the block and he needs to be able to do 1.5 miles without stopping.

Hopefully, this will all help and he can get back to being his normal eventful self again very soon. Thank You for your Prayers from everyone who knew about the surgery, they were definitely very helpful

Snow, and lots of it

So we are in the midst of our first snowstorm here in Colorado, and if this is any sign of how the winter is going to go, we are in for quite the season. It started snowing less than 24 hours ago and there is probably close to a foot of snow on the ground at our house. October 28th, and we have more snow on the ground than we got all season last year up until March. However, at least our boss is being nice and letting us work in Louisville when it snows so we don't have to drive quite so far, that is nice, except it makes us essential personnel, so WE HAVE TO BE THERE!!! Blah. Oh well, guess it gets Matt ready to be a police officer where he will work whether it snows or not. Anyways, here is a cute picture of Bear, Molly and Liberty enjoying our first snowstorm of the season!!!!

Matt's Birthday and the "Big Surprise"

Ok, so we realized that we have not posted since we announced that we had an announcement and we are sorry. For those of you who do not already know, which should not be very many of you, the big announcement is that Julia is........... NOT pregnant. In fact the big announcement was all about Matt, Matt got baptized Mormon on September 23. What a way to celebrate his 24th birthday. Yes the 23rd was also his birthday. It was really an awesome experience for all involved. Here are some pictures.