Joy to the World!

Gloria Susan is born! We're sorry we haven't posted for so long. Here is our little joy. She is so fun to be with all day! I love watching her change through all her faces: distraught, then smile, then surprised O-shaped mouth!... We have been blessed to have both our mothers Jan and Susan come out and stay with us. They were such a HUGE help and we really miss them. Happy New Years everyone!

Bike trip? no. Southern Hemisphere? yes.

So in case you haven't figured it out yet, we are unexpectedly expecting! All plans to bike across the United States have been put on hold for now. But when God sends a baby, he also gives you a free trip to Australia! Here we are "down under" and enjoying a fast forward view of family life. We are helping Andy and Natalie Goddard (Andy is Patrick's cousin) with their five children while they are here building a DoTERRA following here in Australia. We have been here a ten days and learned heaps about our Heavenly Father's incredible creations as well as parenting.

Cortowa 2010 Bike tour, we are serious.

As the Spring approaches we are getting to the nitty gritty of the planning process. We are looking for places to crash, primarily through the mid-west of this map.

Please let us know if you know anyone or have any extraordinary ideas about staying clean and well rested.

Cheers,

Patrick and Abby

Rexburg Valentines II

Sunday we were able to just take it easy with the cousins. We made Cafe Rio Pork Salads and Valentines themed cupcakes. Later we were favored with hilarity of Danny Kaye in the Court Jester. I still don't know if Seth is convinced of how awesome that movie really is.

Monday we were able to enjoy beautiful Idaho snowshoe style. We didn't quite make it to Mesa Falls, but we felt accomplished and very pleased with our surroundings. Patrick is trying very hard to maintain his masculine role, being very macho and very much the only guy for the majority of the trip. Bless you my dear husband!















We were all very proud of Maddy who came along to take photos and didn't really know what she was getting into. To be fair none of us did. I hope some turned out, we can't wait to see them. Maddy is a very talented photographer. It was really fun to see her doing what she loves. I love my family!

















You can see the river through the trees. It was so beautiful, we greatly misjudged the length of the hike. Near the end we were all pretty tired so we decided to take a shorter route back for the taqueria in Ashton, muy bueno! It was wonderful to spend time with family and see more of that Idaho sky. I'm really grateful for the great people in our lives and so many great wonders to enjoy so close. Thanks again to Maddy and Seth, Katie, Annie and Mom and Dad for the gas money home! We are so blessed. Valentines was definitely full of love this year!