Drew Adam Pierson!!

We are so excited about our newest nephew who was born on Wednesday, Drew Adam Pierson. We haven't seen him yet but are going to spend time with him after our cruise. We are so excited to see him and our sweet niece Abby. My sister-in-law, Cassie, had a C-section and is doing great (as can be seen in the pictures). He looks just as perfect as can be and his family feels so blessed to have him here. His older sister is just in love with him, everyday "I love you baby Drew, I love you." He is one very lucky baby.

Cookie Deliciousness

Hey all I've had a few requests for this AMAZING cookie recipe that I found. Seriously it is so, so, so good. You will love it, I promise. I made them on Monday and am making them again tonight, we can not stop eating them!! (Jalei, feel better that you guys aren't the only ones :) I originally planned on sharing some with my brother-in-law but couldn't bare to part with them (how horrible am I?). So I'm making more tonight to see if I can recover some of my sharing genes. Enjoy! and my pregnant friends Enjoy twice as much!

Snickers Cookies

½ c. sugar
½ c. firmly packed brown sugar
½ c. butter, room temperature
½ c. creamy peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 ½ c. flour
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
30 mini sized Snickers candy bars (about one bag)

In large bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar, butter, and peanut butter. Add vanilla and egg. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and add to peanut butter mixture. Shape dough smoothly around each candy bar, making sure the bar is completely covered, without having a lot of excess dough. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 350°, check at 12 minutes, and take out when they are slightly golden. Cool a minute or so and remove from cookie sheets. Delicious served warm.

*My changes: I only had enough dough for 24 cookies not 30...I tend to eat a lot of dough before they make it in the oven and we like big cookies.

Salt Lake City Half Marathon

On Saturday I ran in the Salt Lake City half marathon. It was my first time to run in this particular race and it was so beautiful. I got to see so many parts of the area that I haven't really seen before. The weather was perfect and the hills weren't too bad (which for Utah is great) and I came in 9 minutes under my goal time! I had so much fun, I always love all the random people lining the streets to cheer you on. Aaron just followed me around and met me every few miles where I would run by give him a high five and keep on going. He was so great. Then we partied at the finish line with more food than you can imagine. I felt like a wimp when we split from the marathon runners but then at the finish line couldn't of been happier that I didn't have another 13.1 miles to go!

Here we are at the post-run party. (Notice the chocolate milk in our hands and Aaron's stuffed pockets with cookies, granola bars, etc. )

This is right after I crossed the finish line and found Aaron.

Flava Flav!

Yes the rumors are true. We did win our final inner tube waterpolo game last night to take the championship. It was an intense final game but in the end we were victorious. Everyone played really well and we had so much fun. It was the perfect way to finish Aaron's last day of classes at BYU ever. I can't believe he is done with classes, just a week of finals and we are done, yay! Let the summer fun begin. I keep talking like I'm still a student saying, Oh this summer I am going to work on this...or this summer we can...when in actuality my life doesn't change anymore with the seasons. I have been begging Aaron to let me just work part time for the summer. I'm like me at part time and you at part time = one full time job. That would work, right? :)

A little obsessed...

In case you haven't noticed yet, Aaron and I are a little obsessed with out new nephew. I just got these pictures today and had to put them up. The first is my new favorite picture of Scott and Blake, love it; and the second is my sister in law, Marcie, right after she had the baby- I know she's amazing. I told Aaron he can forget about me looking anywhere near that right after I have a baby. Especially if I am up all night having it like she was.

How Ironic

Take the Quiz here!

So funny because I am currently reading this novel, it probably swayed my answers but she is one of my favorites!

Blake Kent Pierson!!

On Thursday April the 3rd, our newest nephew was born, Blake Kent Pierson. We are so excited!! We went to the hospital on Friday and mom and baby were doing great. Marcie seriously looked just like she does any other day and Blake is as calm a baby as it gets. He just let all of us hold him, take pictures of him, and he never cried. I could not believe how small he is, he is so tiny. We were in love with him the instant we entered the room. He has a full head of long hair and is just the cutest baby we've ever seen. We went and saw him again on Saturday but now won't see him again for two weeks. His brothers are so excited about him, Scott got worried every time he made a noise - "mom, the Blake needs you, something is wrong." It was so cute and Tyler kept telling Scott that now he has a younger brother he can boss around and he's not the baby anymore. There is just something so sweet about a brand new baby, I love it!