The cat is out of the bag..

So Jared and I are excited to finally announce that we are having a baby! We had been talking about when we were going to have kids and we decided we needed to wait until I was done with school. Well I was having a hard time convincing Jared that it was time until his sister Darcie said they were going to start trying for another. After I heard that this was my conversation with Jared:
Me: "Jare, Darcie and Mont are going to have another kid so if we want our kids to have cousins the same age then we need to start trying."
Jared: "Ok."
Me: (seriously it was that easy the whole time??)
We found out the beginning of November that we were expecting but wanted to tell our families after our first doctors appointment. I had my first appointment and then graduated the next day. We made little cards for our parents with a picture of our ultrasound that said: "Card $0.36, envelope $0.05, the look on your face when you see your grandbaby for the first time...PRICELESS! Baby Stokes arriving July 2012." We gave these cards to our moms as we were leaving the Dee events center. My mom stopped to open hers and Billie kept walking. Jared finally had to stop his mom and tell her to open it and when they did we were all in tears. Everyone probably thought we were being ridiculous bawling at a graduation.
Everything has been going great! I haven't been too sick and my doctor says the baby is looking great. She told us today that we were having a little girl. Jared suspected it all along but I thought it was a boy. We are so excited! A little girl is going to be so fun! We thought we were 16 weeks today but our doctor said she is measuring 17 weeks- which is awesome! Anyways we cannot wait for this phase in our lives! I know it will be hard and a complete change but we welcome change!

End of the year happenings!

November we threw a shower for my sister in law Ali and her little guy.




Jared turned 24. For his birthday he wanted to go out and shoot his swan. He took his pup and had a great time.

Jared loves his Wige!

We went to Wendover on the fun bus with the Buehlers and the Boultons. I was some drunk guys good luck charm and he gave me $100 and then I won another 60 so we came out ahead!

We had cake and ice cream to celebrate.

All of the sisters at Abby's madrigal dinner

I graduated with my RN. My parents, in laws, little sisters and husband went to my graduation and then I snuck out early to go Maddox.


We went down and saw the lights at temple square with some friends from the ward The Webb's. We went to dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory and then walked around. It was such a fun night!


We hosted our second annual ugly sweater party. We had our families over for pizza, games and the ugly sweater contest.


Cami just had her wisdom teeth out so she was trying to not look so swollen!

Christmas eve Jared and I both worked at the hospital. Christmas morning we got up opened some presents and went over to grandma Stokes'. We had breakfast and opened presents. We then went out to my parents for dinner and presents. I was supposed to work Christmas night but was so sick and had to call in. My sweet husband was so good to me! I just love him!!



December 29th we got a new nephew. He is the first grandkid on the Thornley side so my parents were super excited. He is so so cute and has got tons of reddish hair!

Vegas Ragnar

Jared's aunt Shelley invited us to run the Vegas Ragnar in October. It was the best relay that we ran this year because it was all family on our team! The race started at Lake Mead and went to a park in Vegas. Jared, me, Darcie, Mont, Angie and Aunt Shelley were in our burb. It was a fun relay but so hot! It was awesome to meet up at the major exchanges and hang out with the family. When we ran our last leg Jared's parents met up with us and followed. We had a great time and had an amzing outcome at the end of the race ;)

Jared's cousin Matt conquering the hill

Van 2

Van 1

Jared out on his first leg.

Where we slept..

The dance crew of our group

All the girls in our burb

Mont headed out for his last leg

Me running my last leg.

So glad to be done with my last leg!

Jared's aunt Shelley was having a hard time with her last leg so Billie came out and walked with her!

There were burrows along the side of the road. They were so friendly!!

Mike ran part of the race! We had a weed sprayer that we filled with water to cool us down so anytime Jared ran past Mike would run with him and cool him down!

Jared finishing his last leg

Angie passing off to Darcie for the last time!

The stokes' at the finish line