Farewells and Fresh Beginnings

My husband and I decided we would both post today concerning what's been going on. So since Kevin's point of view is below, I'll try not to repeat what was already said!

First off, it is goodbye to the lovely Washington and hello to... uh... Provo. August was a fulfilling month for me and Kevin. I was called to be the Young Women's Instructor for that month, and I loved every lesson that I was able to teach! I think that by the time I actually became decent at giving lessons was the last week I was able to teach them. The last week, a girl actually came up to me and told me she didn't want me to leave. Can I just say... the Lord definitely knows what an individual needs to begin feeling good about themselves again.

Throughout the entire course of the summer, I have been struggling to come up with a name for my photography business. All I knew was that I wanted to include my baby boy's name in it somehow. Eden Garth was just too special to not be included. I had come up with "Tailoring Eden" and "Eden's Tailor", but none sat well with me. Finally last week, I concreted my name... I now run and operate "Eden & Me Photography", and I couldn't be happier. I even got my first little photo shoot as Eden & Me! Amber and Brett let me do a little photo shoot of their newest family member, Hannah Dawn. She endured my pictures well (: And now I'm happy to say, I've done my first infant photo shoot as well!

Anywho, we are back in Utah with mixed feelings but hopeful optimism. I'm a lucky girl this year, and I now get to enjoy the company of my kid sister, Savannah, here. I definitely have been enjoying classes, work, and freetime with her.

So, story time! First week of school and, of course, there's a big ol' football game. Kevin and his best friend, Jon, decided that they wanted front seats for the BYU vs. Texas game. So Kevin woke up at seven in the morning to go stand in line for it, leaving me and Savy to run the errands. Four o'clock rolls around, and I receive a text that reads, "We won't be able to hold the seats for much longer, the sooner you get down here the better". So we run down there. And just as we meet up with Kevin in his front seats, it downpours. Like, I mean DOWNPOUR. I thought I was in the shower or something. We ended up getting kicked out of our seats for lightning, running back to our seats, and, eventually, Jon went and grabbed trash bags for us. We became the Trash Bag Team, and it was great. We ended up watching a huge victory for BYU against a ranking team. It was glorious.

This weekend we have been redecorating our living room. We want to have a new feeling to our apartment, because last year was a hard one. So... here are the results thus far.

So far, so good.

Back to School

Dear Dedicated Readers,
Well I know that I'm not as good a writer as my very articulated wife, but here is my blog post for this month. First on my mind however is that I've decided that everyone besides Jana, and maybe Bryan and Brett's family, is really bad at writing on the blog. So maybe we need to step it up everyone!

So I will give mostly my side of the events of the last couple of weeks as I expect my wife will write her accounts. August was a fast passing, busy month as Taylor and I were finishing up our time in Seattle. We had a visitor, Lisa one of Taylor's friends, come and visit us. I had to put in some time to get work done but was able to complete almost everything that my team had wanted me to complete in my internship time frame. Taylor headed back to Provo to meet up with her family as they brought Savannah down to college. This left me with my last week at Microsoft trying to finish everything up and make sure I get the return offer. Mom and Dad were very kind to fly Kyler up and I spent my last day at Microsoft with him as well. I was told that they wanted to extend me an offer and I ended my internship on a good note. Going along with that, as many of you have heard, I have accepted the offer to return to Microsoft next summer. Kyler and I proceeded to drive the fun way back down to Provo and made it Saturday evening, the Saturday before school started. We meet up with Taylor and Savannah and spent some fun time with the family for Hannah's baby blessing on Sunday.

School has been a fun adjustment, getting back to the rhythm of work and assignments has been fun. I am taking 3 computer science classes, 1 Portuguese class, and 1 religion class. Work has been nice to return to my friends there as well as a couple of new coworkers. Taylor and I are doing pretty well otherwise, just keeping up with work and adjusting to the new schedule. My flag football team won our first game, 21 to 20, stopping our opponents would-have-been-the-win 2 point conversion with about 30 seconds left to play. Other wise things have been great. Hope to hear from everyone else shortly as well!

Love,
Kevin and Taylor

Our Little Miracle Arrives

Well world, little Eden Garth made his appearance into the world at 9:55 pm on June 26th, 2013! He's officially number ONE for grandbabies on the Sarvey side, and number TWENTY for grandbabies on the Hinton side!! Oh, I know, I know... I created a perfect and beautiful little boy. I'd take all the credit, if Kevin would let me. Haha.

A delivery unlike most, Kevin was a pale trooper through it all and I didn't do too bad myself. Upon his arrival, Eden was quickly wrapped in a blanket and given to Kevin and I to hold. He was beautiful. A perfect little boy, and the smallest little piece of Heaven I have ever seen. Overall, Kevin said that Eden looked a lot like his mother. Something I'm quite proud of in my little man. His little hands were just a little bigger than Kevin's fingernail. We took turns holding him and loving him, and eventually let the rest of our family in to see Eden as well. They all agreed, he was perfect and beautiful. We called him our little "Who", like from Dr. Seuss' novels, because he just was so small and cute.

Needless to say, there were countless moments in the Evergreen hospital that Kev and I will never forget and the biggest one is holding our first child. A baby that is both his and mine, that I nurtured and protected in my body for seven short months.

I guess the secret is out... our baby, Eden, will not be with us in this life. If you followed my other posts, you can probably figure out that this was the news we received at our five month ultrasound. We have known this for the last two months... and were as prepared as we could be (which still wasn't very prepared) when the day came that he left us for his calling above.

Now, I'll explain Kevin and my's mentality about being positive and 'secretive' through this difficult time. We are happy, and we wanted others to be happy about him too. Not happy that he's gone, but happy that he's our son. He is special and perfect... just like we said. He is so special that he didn't have to go through this hard life to return to Heavenly Father's presence. He is so valiant that he already proved himself worthy of that kind of glory. Kevin and I are honored parents to such a being. And we can't wait to raise him in the next life.

Not many people get to go through this experience themselves, and even fewer have to go through it at Kevin's and I's age... but together we're pulling through. It's weird, but there has been a lot of comfort found after having Eden. Like now that he's returned above, he's making sure we're taken care of as well. We still have our bad days, but there's a peace to be found that wasn't there before. Our summer is turning out to have more miracles and blessings than either of us expected. Something we attribute to little Eden.


Look at that brand new Daddy!

Tay's a Mommy? What?!

We are so unbelievably blessed!

A Year to Remember

It's hard to really believe that it has been over a year since the day that I looked across the alter at Kevin and was promised an eternity with him. I guess it's one of those times in your life where you realize time doesn't stop and will pass you by if you don't bear it in mind.

Well in celebration of our one year of being happily married, Kevin decided to take me to the Space Needle in Seattle... that was an expensive, but worth while adventure! You can see everything from clear up there! Absolutely beautiful! They even take your picture before you go up... Not our best smiles, but hey it came with the ticket so we took it!


We then walked (ran) to Pike's Fish Market... passing a bunch of scary looking and smelly hobos... only to see that the Fish Market was closed! What?! This pregnant woman about died trying to keep up with her husband in order to see this place, imagine the disappointment! Haha jk, we just laughed and ended up sitting on a little patch of grass overlooking the bay. We then made our trek back through the scary downtown area to our parked car that was running out of time to be parked.

After debating about whether we wanted a movie or fancy dinner for a bit, we decided we'd rather talk and reflect about the last year. In other words, Olive Garden won out. We had an amazing day... I was spoiled rotten by Kevin, but then again I'm always spoiled rotten with this guy by my side.

This last year has been a year of growth and change for Kevin and I. We have fought, we have laughed, we have cried, we have traveled, we have survived... and will slowly begin to thrive again.

We decided our little boy's name on earth will be Eden Garth Hinton. He is and will forever be the "keeper of our perfect place", which is what his name means. And although he's different and wasn't what we were preparing for, we love him. I think this year has been hard already, and I know another hard day is approaching, but I can't help but say that I've loved the ride so far.

Eden and us are a family built for forever. A family that started a little over a year ago, and a family that is promised for the outreaches of eternity and beyond!


Gosh, I have the man of my dreams and a perfect son... indeed... I am spoiled rotten.

A New Kind of Package

I know this may seem like a random thing to post after just barely talking about being a newlywed in my last post, but I'M PREGNANT!

Silliness in me, I never have blogged since my first post, but I'm actually 5 months along. This semester of school can honestly be categorized as my hardest semester thus far... I've endured morning sickness and hot flashes a lot. Kevin has been a trooper thoughout all of this though and has continued spoiling me throughout.

You would think that since I'm finally done with classes as well as my first trimester most of my worries and pain are gone. However, 5 months along and you get this thing called an ultrasound. Normally it's a happy go lucky ultrasound as it normally tells you the gender of the baby. Ours didn't turn out that way...

After two hours of just hearing that something was abnormal with our baby, we finally got the diagnosis. I would share it, but we love our baby... and so Kevin and I have decided to keep it private to most and to just leave it with people that we are having a very special baby. It's still a happy time, right? I mean... I'M HAVING A BABY!! With the diagnosis or not, this baby is mine and Kevin's and we are eternally thankful for our little one.

Anywho, we never got the gender that day... but after an amniocentesis and three days, we got the news that we are having a SON. We already have a name for him, and are so proud of this little guy. He's a strong one says the doctor, but we already knew that.

Now it's all a matter of time and faith. Faith that there is someone that cares upstairs and that will help Kevin and me along. I guess my religion teacher was right, "If Family is the most important thing to you, you can bet that the Family is where the Adversary will try to hurt you the most."

I just got to keep the head held high and a smile on my face, right?! Right. Kevin and I are doing great... although I know that I have a lot more breakdowns these days, Kevin always is there to help and encourage me. We know we are loved by so many, and are so blessed by those individuals. Sweet mercies, indeed.

This is just one of those moments in life, where you can either go backwards or leap forwards... Kevin is going for the leap and he's holding my hand, so I guess I'm going to go for it too!