we love in vancouver.

We had a lovely Valentine's date with some amazing views of our favorite city.

Evelynn is really into jewelry right now.

She's such a girl!

Well, the Olympic Torch was coming through Langley. So, what's a good faithful Canadian family to do? Get dressed up in some red and white and go watch the man carry the torch of course! Although we mostly went for the post-torch carrying events, seeing the actual flame right in front of me was a very cool experience.

Here's our little Canadian:

THE Torch!

One thing about coming home that we were excited about, was seeing Evelynn get to spend time with her cousins. Here she is bathing and bonding with her sweet cousin Elizabeth.

Earlier this week I got to drive down to Seattle to visit my sister and her son Rooke, and I finally got to meet my beautiful new niece Gretchen! I really love the Payne family =)

Four days ago, we, along with all of our possessions we brought to and acquired in London, boarded a plane and flew back to Vancouver. Home sweet Home.

It is hard to summarize our experience in London. Our 6 months living in the UK have been memorable in so many ways.

We had the opportunity to live with my parents and get to know them on a deeper level. We learned a lot from living with them. Mom and Dad - you are amazing grandparents, you are completely committed to following Jesus, you and crazy competitive game players, and you are a great example to us.

We had the opportunity to travel to France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Cyprus, and Scotland. Wow. I cannot believe we were able to see so much of the world in such a little time. We feel so blessed.

Scott and I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with each other and with our beautiful daughter. The quality time we were able to spend with each other cannot be measured, but it's definitely impacted our family.

Overall, our experience has been a huge blessing to us.

And now, for your viewing pleasure.....
The joy of our lives:

(Warning! The following video contains nudity)

I am very sad to tell all of you this news...

A few days ago, I had a miscarriage and we lost our baby.

Although Scott and I are both feeling such sadness and loss, we have also experienced God's comfort and faithfulness like never before.

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."

We are thankful that this verse is true for us right now.

It will definitely take some time for us to heal from this, but we trust in God's plan for our lives. We know that our baby is with Jesus now, and that He is loving the baby more than we ever could.

We really appreciate all of your prayers and please, keep them coming.

Scott and I just celebrated 5 amazing years of marriage. I am so thankful that God has given me a faithful, loving and supportive husband. We've decided that we would like to celebrate our anniversary at least 55 more times.

Every year, we go away for our anniversary. Even if we are super poor (which we usually are!) we just make it happen. It's usually just one night, but it has been so good to do this. This year we took a bus to Oxford and stayed in a lovely little bed and breakfast just outside of the city. It had just snowed a TON, so the city was beautiful.

We had a great time, and I've decided that next year I really want to go somewhere hot! I guess that's what we get for getting married in the winter.

We strolled around The Ashmolean Museum for quite a while.....because there were some very cool things to see (paintings by Monet!), but also because it was freezing outside.

On New Year's Day we went into the city to watch a parade. Evelynn really liked all of the music and dancing.