New Blog

This blog ran out of space AND blogger.com is requiring anyone that wants to read my blog to have a gmail account. Not cool! So I have moved over to a wordpress blog. Here is the address:  http://jaredandmarcie.wordpress.com/ I have updated it from May through yesterday.


UPDATE: I was getting frustrated that I had no way to make my word press blog private. So I started another blogger blog. It has been up since December of 2013.

 http://marcieandjared.blogspot.com/ 

Announcing...Austin Baby #3

That's right...we are having a BABY!!! We are so excited!!!! Baby #3 is due September 1st. I am through my first trimester tomorrow and am a little over three months along (13 weeks). Everything looked great at the first ultrasound and I went in for a second appointment yesterday and heard the heartbeat again. We are on cloud nine and are so thankful for this pregnancy and baby. Time to buy a bigger car!!! :)


Baby Trivia:
Ethan was due on November 1st and was born on October 27th.
Cameron was due on June 1st and was born on May 27th.
See a pattern?
This baby is due September 1st...any guesses on a possible due date???? :)

We are moving to...

Idaho!!! Yep. That's right. We are moving back to southwestern Idaho at the end of May. It will be so good to be back home. I have LOVED living in Arizona (we have been here for six years) but a piece of my heart has always been back in Idaho.  IDAHO here we come!

Christmas 2012

I am a couple months behind here. I am going to attempt to post about our 2012 Christmas adventures. We had 12 kids and 14 adults (all of Jared's siblings, their spouses, and children & Jared's mom and step dad) at our home for Christmas. Some very good friends of ours (that live right across the street) were gone for all of December and were very generous in letting us use their house to accommodate our large group.  We had family from 5 different states in Arizona for 10 days. We celebrated christmas and executed a wedding. It was crazy, fun, and busy! 

I am going to start out with a few pictures of the boys on Christmas morning. We had all the Austin family in our tiny front room opening Christmas presents. 12 kids and and 14 adults. It was a big party! :) Ethan's big present was a bike. Cameron's big present was a Thomas the Train train set. It was so fun to watch the boys get so excited about Christmas. Having children brings all the Christmas magic back into the holidays.  

Here are the boys right after we woke them up...

Here are more pictures of Christmas Break.

Cousins!!! Devin, Austyn & Jaycie

Time with Grandpa Ed and Grandma Jean

 Grandma Jean and Granpa Ed put on a Magic and Tricks Show for all the grandkids. 

They loved it!

Talent Show Time...

Cameron ate marshmallows like a machine for his talent. He made sound effects to lift up and put the marshmallow in his mouth. It was so cute!

 Ethan jumped off different chair sizes into a pile of pillows for his talent. Go Ethan!

 After family pictures one evening the kids jumped in leaves.

Ninja Wars!!! Everyone dressed like Ninjas and we went to the church and made up a few games. It was a blast. My favorite activity of the break.

Jessica's Bridal Shower 

Some of my amazing sister-in-laws

 Bridal Shower guests

Jessica's Wedding

The Beautiful Bride 

More Family Pictures- March 2012

We got our family pictures taken this last spring by a good friend and I never posted them. I found them today and thought it was a shame that I never put them up on the blog. So here they are...my favorites.

The Austin Family Photo Shoot

The ENTIRE Austin Family! 

Jenna, David, Jacob, Heather, Marcie, Cameron, Jared, Ethan, Ed, Mom (Jean), Jamison, Janae, Amber

Kensington, Kade, Ryder, Linclon, Russell, Jessica, Austyn, April, Jamin, Devin, & Jaycie

The Austin Siblings: Janae, Jenna, Jessica, Jared, Jacob, Jamin 

Our Family! :)

Grandpa Ed and Grandma Jean with all the grandkids.