My Birthday Surprise

This picture didn't make it into the slide show and it is one of my favorites - just wanted to add this one on there too.

We have some exciting stuff coming up this week - stay tuned!

Family Photos!

I LOVE these photos!! Sasha is in such a fun phase. She loves to smile and laugh - I can't even handle it sometimes!

Kourtney and Ben's Wedding!

We just got back from our incredibly short trip to Idaho - where we got to attend my little sisters wedding. She received her endowments at the Rexburg temple before the wedding, and it was my first time through that temple! It is small, but beautiful! Then on Saturday she got married in the Idaho Falls Temple - which is where I got married, so it was a lot of fun to visit there again!

Her reception was a blast! They did a movie theme, so there was a consession stand where you could get your popcorn, candy, and soda - then there were desserts you could eat also! Their cake was adorable, and all I can say is my mom, Kira, and their group of helpers did a GREAT job!! You looked beautiful Kourtney!!

P.S. She got snowed in on their honeymoon and have had to eat Ramen for the last two days...poor things....

Back it up or publish it!

http://www.bloggled.com/

I read about this website where you can back up your blog (for FREE) and if you use your blog as your "journal" you can actually have it published in book form so you can have it has a journal!! How great is that?!?!

Enjoy!

Word Clouds!!

I LOVE word clouds! You can scrapbook them,frame them, blog them, print them, share them - whatever the occasion - they are the best! My favorite word cloud site is called wordle.net

Here is one that I made for my day planner!

This Christmas...

I stole this of off my sisters blog. When I read it, it just made me happy inside!!

This Christmas, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love and then speak it again.

Pres. Howard W. Hunter, Dec. 1994

My little sister, Kourtney, is getting married in just a few weeks! (YEAH!) This is the dress that Sasha and my niece Emma will be wearing. I took a few pictures of her in it today while we were waiting for Mark to come home from his church meetings! I didn't know it was possible to love something so much! I am so thankful that she is part of my life.

Does this need a title?

I took this picture this morning!!!

I was teasing Mark the other day about how he can't curl down his bottom lip! I don't know why he can't do it (I shouldn't say anything - I can only wink with one eye....) But I sometimes make this face at Sasha and she laughs... I think it makes me look NASTY. Note to self: Don't ever do that face in public!!!!


Marks attempt....

Elder Joseph B. Worthlin

We lost a beloved apostle. He sure will be missed, and what a great service he did while on the earth. I sure loved listening to him during conference. He was one of my favorites! From Lds.org:

"Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has passed away at the age of 91. See the Newsroom for the latest official information."

Thanksgiving

We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving!! Shannon and Brian are always so fun to hang out with, and we are grateful that they made the long journey down here! :) I really enjoy taking pictures, so on Friday we went out and I played photographer - here are some of our shots!

I couldn't ask for more!

Gilbert Days Parade

Yesterday was so fun! We met some of our friends (Sonia, Jason, and baby Korban) at the Gilbert Days parade! Sasha is such a big girl - she sat front-facing in her stroller and played with her cow toy (thanks MOM!! :) You can't really see it in the picture because it is hanging in her lay - but she loves it!!






















Sasha and Korban! Isn't he adorable!?






















This is Sonia! Sonia, Mark, and I all went to highschool together. Mark and Sonia were close friends because they were both in choir, but I didn't reall become close with her until college when I was in the architecture program and she was doing interior design!
















Where can I get one of these?

FREE Snapfish Book

My friend Susan and I were chatting tonight and she told me about this great deal that was on Oprah today!! They are giving away a free Snapfish book for the rest of today and tomorrow. Go to this link:

http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20081029_tows_messyhouse/7

Hope you enjoy!!!
THANKS SUSAN!!!

17 Days till Thanksgiving

17 days and counting....
17 is my lucky number.
It was the store number of Inkley's when my dad was the manager.
I was the 17th student (by last name) in my 3rd grade class, when we were required to turn our work in by number order. Which I found out I was 17th in 5th, and 6th grade also...coincidence? I think NOT! :)
My birthday is the 17th.
"1776" is one of the funniest musicals I have ever seen.
17 is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18.
17 is the 7th prime number.
17 is the sum of the first 4 primes.
17 is a mild swear word in Swedish. It can roughly be translated to "Darn!". It is of course also used for the number 17.
17 is the number of Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Webb.
In the Harry Potter universe, 17 is the coming of age for wizards.
"Seventeen" was the original name of The Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There"..
The atomic number of chlorine.
Year 17 A.D. was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar....I like Fridays!!

My wonderful friends S and B are coming from Vegas for Thanksgiving, and we can't wait to see them!

My silly little girl

Sasha and I really like to go on walks. It is our little mommy/daughter dates that we go on several times a week. Last week we were walking and she was making the funniest faces - so I grabbed my camera - and this is what I got!

Trunk-or-treating

Sasha was awake for about 15 minutes before she started getting tired...

Kylee tried to console her....

But she was the cutest sleeping chicken ever!!

We went with the Svancara family and the Zemp family!

Hazel and Jack(-O-Lantern) looked great in their costumes!!

My eye twitch

So I used to have this eye twitch....a REALLY BAD eye twitch. It got so bad I thought I might have it for the rest of my life. Just kidding. Well, the optometrist said it was stress induced - and to take a bubble bath! WHAT!?!? Well, it went away earlier this year after we moved into our new house. I actually didn't have it the entire time I was pregnant nor did I have it after Sasha was born....but it came back last week....


The same time I went back to work.....


Any good recommendations on bubble bath?!?

Sasha has so many Halloween outfits (not including her costume!) So I put one of them on her the other day since I was going to an appointment with her - and she looked so cute I had to take some pictures! Here are the few I got of her on Saturday! I'll post some more soon!