GO USA!!!

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

Temple Picture Party!

My Sister is putting on a party to make these!!  And I am hoping to be there to help!

These are the temple pics that we are going to make on March 19th at 6:30 pm! Here are the facts about it! Let me know if you want to come join us! I made one before Christmas and I just love it!!! It is fabulous! Pictures this size of the temple are usually hundreds! You don't have to bring anything to the class. They provide everything. I was so nervous before my class...but it was so easy! They raised the price on their temples since the last class, so if you are interested...you may want to do it soon before they keep raising the price. I made the Logan Temple pic but they have others as well.

$53 with Tax and Everything!
26" x 32" - HUGE! 

I will need to get the money to them weeks before the class. So, I would need you to contact me and mail me a check by the end of this week; so that I can send them on to her. So fun!

 

What's better then two?

I am due Aug 28th

We are excited and can't wait to add another sweet heart to the mix!

I just added my self to the 7 prego's in my ward!! There's going to be lots of big belly's, and sweet baby's!

Now there are 10 of us...

happy lovey dovey day!!

Valentines day is fun- I have always enjoyed it, not only to get gifts but to come up with gifts!  This year I came up with a gift for Erik that I was so excited about. I have wanted to do for the last 5 years, but never have! So this year I said to my self OK 5 year mark I need to get this done. (its kinda like how we have all of our little camera's from off our table from our reception that still need to be developed... I hope they still will develop!) Note to self -DO THAT!!!

So....... what I did was......

I put together our little Love Notes, which where the emails we wrote back and forth from when we met when he was in Texas and I was in Preston. It is so funny reading them, telling each other about ourselves and me asking him for advice on the guy I was dating at the time. If you know how fast Erik and I met and got married you know those Email must have said a lot!

It was fun, he didn't know I had them and he was blown away with how I got them because they were both on our BYU-I accounts which are now non exsisting!  But I had printed them off years ago, probably right after we got married.So he loved it, and I loved it, and it has been so long since I have played with any of my scrapbook stuff- I miss it! I only got 3 pages done so I still have time to play!  It was just a fun weekend, and ended with a great meal that from Erik! 

Undaunted

I am reading  The Undaunted.  800 pages-  Well worth it.

In fact, I couldn't put the book down. 

It starts with a 6-year-old boy working in coal mines in England.  It follows him as he emigrates to Utah as a teenager.  When he is in his early 20s, he begins a challenging pioneer journey in southern Utah.

In the late 1870s, a group of missionaries/pioneers set out to find a shorter route from Escalante, Utah to the southeastern corner of Utah, near what is now Bluff, Utah.  These families set out on what they thought would be a 6 week trek.  It took 6 months, because they had to build wagon roads through challenging terrain.

It’s a fabulous book filled with historical facts and people woven into the story with the fictional characters, faith, perseverance, and love.

The author has a great website with photos of the pioneer route landmarks at:  http://www.undaunted-thenovel.com/

~Best fieldtrip ever

We went to the Candy Basket and took a tour for preschool. It was very well anticipated by Ethan and I all week.  When you walk in you see this chocolate waterfall, and there is like 2,800 lbs of chocolate flowing through it. It's crazy all I wanted to do was jump in and open my mouth and take a shower in chocolate, but that wasn't aloud... darn it- so we just managed to watch the ton of chocolate fall.

We made it into the tour with our hair nets on which I prept Ethan with, we have been to a few tours where he has had to wear hair nets so he was good with it. In the tour he was WOWed that they made chocolate EVERYTHING, tools, guitars, golf balls, even poop. They also make taffy and that was so fun to watch. We had samples all along the way, by they time it was done I was stuffed with chocolate and taffy! 

  

Gotta love um

This is what Ethan just said to me 2 minutes ago:

Mom, can I feel you muscles?

wow, mom your stronger then a super hero!

I say well its because moms are heroes..

No your not mom, your angles!!

Yesterday Sadie came over to where I was putting some pictures away and saw Ethan at Sadie's age and she said,

Oh Ethan, I love Ethan so much!

I thought it was so cute and so out of the blue.

Then she told me today that she loves cookie moster, big bird and elmo who are on her toilet seat. So lots of love out of her right now!

Last week craziness!

This is what happens when 17-18 year olds think they can drive 100 miles an hour.

This happend last Thursday around 2 o' clock, they came flying down our road hit a dip or somthing and took the car air born hitting the first bricks and spinnin garound a few times and driving backwards into most of the pillars crashing through 4 of them. Sending the bricks flying far into the yard, I found his garage door opener halfway in our yard.

They  both walked out the passenger had a brick in his head, "He was Stoned".. hahaha

This is how far the bricks came into our yard, I found a few even further.

So going through 4 of these I really cant believe they are alive!

Sadie and Ethan's b-day "way late"

Her cake is so sad to me but I ran out of time. She enjoyed it just as much, but we had just

a little get together with the inlaws for both Ethan and Sadie this year. Sadies b-day was on the 13th and Ethan's the 30th of Nov. so yes I am late. Its because I dont have a working computer!!! ggrrrr

Ethan told me how to make his cake and it was so fun to try fondant for the first time, it was so easy and very easy to make as well!

Ethan got my most favorite book of all time "Little Black Sambo"

He loves it just as much as I do and did!

and he got some more David Shannon books that I love as well.

Girlfriends Christmas Party 09

 Every year my friend Emily and Alisha plan this Christmas party and it is something I look forward to all year. It is sooo much fun and the best food EVER! As you can see in the pictures!

 These were the invitations we received. And this is a little craft/favor that everyone made and went home with. It's a recipe book with several of the favorite recipes complete with pics from the party over the years. I cant wait to try the Cajun Candied Salmon, it was soooo amazing!


Appetizers:

• Frothy Pink Grapefruit Strawberry Drink
• Tomato, Mozzerella & Basil Skewers drizzled with Balsamic Dressing
• Roasted Red Pepper Dip on a Crusty Baguette

Dinner:

• Christmas Salad
• Cajun Candied Salmon
• Lemon Rice
• New Wave Green Beans
• Fruit Salad with Cherries
• Orange Rolls

Dessert:

• Mini Cheesecakes & Brownie Tarts with Carmel Frosting

Everything was AMAZING!!

The traditional dessert exchange which is always fun and exciting. Everyone goes home with a fun holiday dessert for their family and a cute new serving tray. This year we had a banana cake with carmel and burnt butter frosting, peppermint bark popcorn, chocolate covered oreos, adorable pretzel rod snowmen, homemade oreo cookies with peppermint, peanut butter and jelly bars and fudge, red velvet cupcakes, and a chocolate cheesecake cake.

I took home the banana cake with the Carmel and burnt butter frosting!! Oh it was heavenly!!! I had to give half of it to the missionary because I knew I would eat it all! 

It was so fun I will miss this the most when we move away from here!