Ready or not, here comes Elder Bushman!!

Yahoo for Elder Bushman, he is an offical missionary!

Matt reported to the MTC yesterday, and I must say that the MTC is rad! I had never been inside and I just loved it!

He was set apart Tuesday night -- such an incredible experience! And then off we went Wednesday morning to the MTC. Our family was very touched by the presentation, the Spirit was so strong! Seriously, part of me just wanted to jump up and offer to leave on a mission that very day!

We tried to make our goodbyes short and sweet, and we all did pretty good.....except poor Bradley, who was so upset! But Matt was SO ready to go! He told us all he loved us and said, "See ya in two years!"

Matt's Farewell!!

Yahoo for Matt's Farewell! We missed all you family from out of state and hope you enjoy these pictures since you couldn't be there!!

Hannah's Birthday Pictures!!

Thought you might all enjoy a few of Hannah's most recent pictures!!!

Birthday and Easter Fun!!

Okay, everyone hold tight. I know there are a lot of pictures here but please bear with us! We had a great weekend and want to show many fun pictures of Hannah the birthday girl!

This first one is of Hannah at Olive Garden. On her actually birthdate, she got her pictures taken and had a special dinner with Mommy and Daddy. She loved the pasta!



Here is the beginning of Hannah's birthday party! We had our families over to celebrate and the weather was so good we put up the trampoline. Hannah is a big fan. I believe her cousin Maleia thought it was average. Thanks to Grandpa Bushman for giving us the old tramp!





Here is Aunt Whitney, Uncle Ryan, and Cousin Lily.












This is Aunt Lydia with cousin Madison.









Here are cousins Kaylynn and Cameron. They are sporting the birthday hats I could not get Hannah to wear.






Guess who this is??! ME!! I am displaying the homemade birthday cake for Hannah!












Now, is this incredible or what! My sister in law Whitney made this. She has always had the creating cooking talent in the family!










Here is my brother Matt and our neighbor Mitchell. Mitchell took a strong liking to Matt that night, I thought it was pretty cute.









Here is the birthday girl gettting just a little tired. She is sporting a tu tu that Aunt Whitney made. Can you tell Aunt Whitney is SUPER creative!










Here is a better picture of Hannah's birthday cake. My neighbors have a cake decorating book so I borrowed it and tried the easier looking cake. And tah dah, here is what we have! I must admit that it turned out better than I thought it would. It has four layers and LOTS of frosting!





Hannah enjoyed her birthday cake a lot! She didn't shovel the cake in, but slowly enjoyed it. We haven't given her much sugar in the past year so I think this was a real treat! We did give her some ice cream but she didn't care much for it.



And here is cute Hannah on Easter morning in her Easter dress. (Thanks Aunt LYdia!) We had a full Easter weekend. I would have had more pictures but I forgot to bring my camera to the Easter Egg Hunt and Egg Dyeing Party we went too. Hannah didn't like the Easter Egg Hunt because it was too cold and I don't even think she noticed we dyed eggs. But it was a great birthday and EAster weekend! Thanks to all our fun family that came to Hannah' party, we appreicate your thoughtfullness!! Happy late Easter!!

Happy Birthday Hannah!

Random Happenings!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! Here are a few pictures from our random happenings over the last few weeks!

Here is my little Hannah! Is her hair crazy or what? I tell ya, I really cannot control it sometimes. People always give me these fun suggestions on how to do her hair, but actually doing it and having it stay in are two very big accomplishments.


I love this picture! Our neighbor came over for lunch because her husband was out of town. After lunch her son, Mitchell, annouced that he had a dance to show us. We put on some Disney music and he proceeded to dance through the living room doing this body wave type of thing. It was hilarious! The best part was when I suggested that Hannah could be his dance partner. He informed me that she wouldn't work because he needed a little girl to dance with. I thought, "Wow! Is Hannah a large girl?!!" Apparently to Michell she is.




This is Hannah's new favorite place to play, our empty fire log holder. I caught her in it last week and now she sits there each time we play downstairs.










Here is Hannah playing with her boyfriend, Caleb.






This is a little glimpse of what Hannah likes to do ALL day! Seriously! This little girl loves books! She loves to eat them, carry them around, look through them, and have them read to her. It is very typical in our house to have a trail of books that go between Hannah's room and into the living room and kitchen. I have read to her since she was about 8 months old and she really likes it. It's getting more entertaining to read to her because she has started repeating little words from the books -- like Cheese and Kitty.
And stay posted -- it is Hannah' birthday this week and we are super excited!!!!

Important Corrections!!!

Hello...this is Keven Wall. It is important that several key errors are corrected as quickly as possible. Therefore, I step out of my normal role of overseer and sit down at the computer. Here goes.

First of all, although Cary did win the last game of Risk that we played, this singular event, though rare and beautiful in its own right, does not erase innumerable previous defeats (She's never beaten me before, and I doubt it'll happen again)

Cary is looking over my shoulder right now trying to tell me that I'm mistaken. "I don't think so dear..." anyway, since I'm here, I ought to let the world in on the happenings of Keven Wall. Life is not to terrible. In fact, it's pretty good. We are counting down the days until we go on our cruise. I think we are at 61 right now! It's great! We're slowly buying cabana wear and saving pennies for tips. I've been boning up on my Texas Hold'em. Do they play that in Mexico?

Work is good. Not working is better. Today we bought Super Smash Bros Brawl, and it already is pretty awesome. I am excited to wail on my brother's in law next time they come over.

Hannah is adorable. Cary is beautiful. I'm pretty lucky. Don't ask me how or why.

There. I have left you with but a mere sampling of the thoughts in my brain. Now everyone knows why Cary is the only one who edits this ____ blog. I just want to end by giving a shout out to Megan Hilton, only because I know she is always the first to read these blogs. HI MEGAN!