New Beginnings

We had an Emma's Awards Show for our Young Women's New Beginnings this year. We all had to come dressed in fancy dresses and the dads wore suits. We stayed late the night before decorating the room. We put white lights around the room and hung up plastic sheets of paper to make it look like they were drapes all around the room. It looked wonderful! We came early to set up the tables and put on the centerpieces. We gave awards for each of the 8 values of the Young Women Recognition Award.

Laura and I were in charge of introducing the new Beehives. We made personalized Magazine Covers for them that showed their interests and talents.

Here are the new beehives with their magazines.

The current Beehives made a video to accept their award of our trip to Utah last year. I filmed it and edited it for that evening.

Curlers

Riley Jo let me put curlers in her hair so her hair would be curly. She sat still for the 30 minutes it took to put them in, but when it was time to lay down and go to sleep she had me take them out! They are sponge curlers what's the deal? Oh well, maybe someday she'll sleep with them in and we'll see what she looks like with curly hair! She looked so cute with them in though.

Riley Jo

Riley Jo was star of the week for her school. We had to put together a poster of all her favorites. This is her poster of all her favorite things. Of course, MOM is her #1 favorite!

The pictures are Cinderella, Belle, Family, School, Trampoline (favorite toy), her thumb (and bellybutton), Disneyland, and swimming.

Valentines Day

We celebrated Valentines Day with the Jacobs family. We had a Wii game night, we made homemade personal pizzas for dinner, and dipped yummy fruit and dessert in chocolate fondue. The kids all had fun making their own pizzas and dipping into the chocolate. The kids also had fun hanging out with each other and we introduced Jeremy to Rock Band. It was a fun time! Riley Jo even got out her guitar and jammed along.

Painting and Redecorating Projects

We painted the boys room and bought them a new bed. We didn't realize how dark the blue was until we started painting. Now the room needs a floor lamp. Oh well, I love the bedroom with the new bed. The boys are able to keep it clean too.

So we gave Riley Jo the boys old bed which works great in her room. We are storing the bottom bunk and were able to put her toys under her bed so she is able to keep her room clean now too. We love it.

After having our bathroom "ready to paint" for the last 2 years, we finally had Journey come over to paint it. The fixtures were off our walls for the entire 2 years so it was great to finally have them up again! The pictures don't give it much justice, the walls are a medium beige and the towels are light blue and dark brown. We are loving having our bathroom functional again!

Our Anniversary!!!

On January 30th Chris and I celebrated our 5 year Sealing Anniversary. I can't believe how fast that went. My mom went on her last mission in June of 2004 and she wanted to make sure Chris and I were sealed before she left. We wanted to have our Sealing date on our Wedding date, but our Wedding date was on a Monday in 2004 so we settled for the Friday before. We celebrated our 8th Wedding Anniversary on February 2nd. Chris and I have been together a decade now. For our Anniversary we went out to dinner. As we were getting ready to leave my brother called and asked what we were doing that night. I told him we were going out to dinner, he asked where and I told him Back Forty. I asked if they wanted to come and he said yes. I told him we were going out for our anniversary and he said, well never mind then we aren't going to intrude on your anniversary. I told him it was totally fine if they came, it's 8 years now and there will be another one next year. He laughed and they came with us. He and Jeannine were so sweet, they actually bought us dinner! They said "You gave us a week vacation at your time share, the least we could do was buy you dinner." My brother and I haven't always gotten a long so for him to do that for us was very special and meant a lot to me.

Blog Vacation

It has been a crazy couple of months so I haven't had the time to sit down and blog about it. Here is what has kept me so busy. Starting with January. My mom came home (She is in Utah on a Family History mission) for a 3 day trip so we could take Tyler to the Temple for the first time. That was an awesome experience. We had to go to the Sacramento Temple because the Oakland Temple was closed for cleaning. I didn't complain because I had never been to that temple before. The Burrs from church came with us, Jeremy Jacobs, my sister Sheri, Chris' Uncle Michael and Aunt Setsuko, and some friends who moved up there the McAnellys met us there. We hope to be able to go back again a couple of times before the end of the year.
Then Kyle had Baseball tryouts. He will be playing on the Giants coach pitch team again this year. This is his 3rd year playing with the Giants. He is excited for baseball to start.