Family Pictures

So we wanted to get some Christmas pictures this year to send out Christmas cards and stuff. We just thought the pictures of James were so dang cute! But he didn't like it very much. He smiled for the first little while but by the time we got half way through, he was crying and had no more smiles for the woman with the big black object that kept flashing bright lights in his eyes.

Halloween and Homecoming

So we had a great time in October with BYU's homecoming and Halloween. Ryan surprised me and asked me to the homecoming dance. We went to the formal dance at a really nice reception center in Spanish Fork. It was decorated beautifully and we had such a fun time! But it was really funny cause all the people there seemed to know how to ballroom dance and Ryan and I didn't have a clue. :S We just didn't fit in with all the professional dancers there. So we just pretended! :)

I surprised Ryan with tickets to the Homecoming football game. He has been wanting to go to a home game all year. We went out in the cold and bundled James up nice and warm and went to cheer on the Cougars! It turned out to be a pretty sad game: we lost really bad to TCU. But we had fun anyway!

We dressed up for our ward Halloween party. I was a princess and James was my frog prince. :) Ryan was my prince charming after the magic kiss. We had lots of fun. Then on Halloween night, we dressed baby up in his tiger costume that Grandma Purnell got him and drew whiskers on his little face. He didn't really like it much, but he was so cute that we had to keep him in his costume to take lots of pictures and then we took him out.

Our little tiger


The Princess and the Frog Prince

The Homecoming Football Game

The Homecoming Dance

James Ryan Heap

So here is baby James! He was born on September 20 at 1:17pm. He was 6lbs, 7oz and 18 and a half inches long. He is super cute and we love him so much! He mostly looks like Ryan, we think. Anyway, he is doing well and adjusting to life at home. He thinks that night is day though, and likes to keep us awake during the night but sleep all day. :) So cute. We are very excited that he is finally here!

Bear Lake

We went to Bear Lake for Raspberry Days! It was so much fun. Even though I am 8 months pregnant. We enjoyed swimming, hiking, fishing, and (of course) fresh raspberry shakes!


The sand was black, which was surprising to us. Also, there were millions of seashells on the beach! It was crazy. We don't really know where they came from. Don't mind my super swollen feet. They are like huge marshmallows. Gross.Our amazing tent we were given for a wedding gift. First time we used it! We actually fit a queen-sized air mattress in the tent. It was super comfy! Not really much space though.
Here is Ryan being the man and building a fire. He singed probably half of his arm hair off during the course of the weekend. Poor kid.

Our yummy dutch oven breakfast.

We went fishing one night and Ryan was so excited to catch a really big fish. Sadly, he didn't catch anything. But we still had fun.

Ryan let me cast once, but I got the line caught on a rock. :( He didn't let me try again.

I read Harry Potter to Ryan while he was fishing.

I just thought this was a really cool picture.

We went hiking up to Bloomington Lake. It is a glacier-fed lake that is supposedly 180 feet deep out in the center. The water didn't feel super cold to me but that's probably because I am just so dang hot all the time now! It was beautiful and probably my favorite part of the trip.

Ryan picked me some wildflowers while we were hiking back down.

Isn't he cute?

Soaking the swollen feet.

We stopped at a scenic lookout point on the drive back to Logan. A nice man offered to take our picture, but I guess he didn't push the button down far enough because we only had this one that I took of us. We had a really fun trip and I am so glad we went!

Ryan's Birthday

So it was Ryan's 24th birthday on the 19th and we had a lot of fun celebrating!

This is the most amazing breakfast in bed that I made for him. :)

So his birthday cake was interesting. I made the cake that is a tradition in his family. . . a yummy chocolate cake from scratch! But it was the first time I've ever tried to make it, and knowing how I cook I was sure I would mess it up. But it actually turned out pretty nicely and I was so proud of it! Then the tragedy. We took the cake up to Bountiful with us to celebrate at Ryan's parents house. Take a look at what happened:

Before

After

So I guess this just shows how fast Ryan drives. Lol. The poor cake. But it still tasted great and in the end, I guess that's all that matters, right? Anyway, Ryan is now 24! That was the whole point of the story.

Baby Heap

So this is baby boy Heap. He seems to be growing and he is moving around A LOT! We are excited and scared to death to be parents, but September still feels like a long time from now. I am now 30 weeks along and will soon be going to the doctor every other week. Crazy how time flies! We love this baby boy so much.

Here is his leg and an arm too!