Hello World!

We thought we'd make our posting debut in style...by announcing to everyone that we recently had our baby! Now some of you may think that this is some sort of April Fools' joke, but as much as I'd like to pull it off, too many people already know the truth. Weighing in at 6 lbs., 13oz., Robert Grant Folkman was born on Friday, March 30, 2007 at 2:53pm. Named after his grandfathers Robert Folkman and Grant Robertson, our precious Robert came to us unexpectedly 10 days early. Thanks to the gifts and hand-me-downs from my dear sisters and in-laws, we didn't look too unprepared when we brought him home from the hospital today. Abbie (2) is glad to have her mom back and her baby brother at home.

Just to catch everyone up on the rest of our lives (as it has been a long time since we sent out an email, not to mention posting on the family blog), I graduated from BYU with a degree in Construction Management in April of 2006. I now work for ArrowStar Construction out of Orem, UT. ArrowStar has three divisions: ArrowStar Commercial, ArrowStar Communities, and Arthur Lewis Fine Homes. While I work with all three divisions developing and implementing business systems, I primarily work as a project manager in our custom home division (Arthur Lewis Fine Homes). As we are not yet a large company, I am also the IT manager. Shala graduated in December of 2006 with a degree in Geology and will be participating in graduation ceremonies later this month. She is happy to be done with school and looking forward to being a full-time mom. She's also excited to be able to spend time scrapbooking. Abbie is a beautiful, happy, strawberry blonde, blue-eyed, 2-year old girl that has spring fever and an Energizer battery. She keeps going, and going, and going....