Thanksgiving plus a little extra

Finally I have sometime to post about Thanksgiving. First I want to start with a few random pictures






As you can tell this is Jamie! For BYUSA Jamie took a bunch of pictures with tons of other students, and what would you know they chose a picture of Jamie to be placed at one of the busiest areas of Campus! You can tell he is not to happy that they blew up his face for all to see, but I think it is great, and just had to take a picture. Rumor has it that there is a life-size body picture of Jamie on campus as well, when I find it I will take a picture and post it for all to see!

Thanksgiving was amazing. Jamie and I jumped in our car and drove 10 hours to Arizona to see Jamie's older brother, Curbris, sister-in law, Ronna, and their two adorable girls, Karma and Sadie. The drive was long and we had some car problems with our cruise control, but we made it safely and I was thankful for that.

We went to Arizona to spend time with family, get out of Utah, and celebrate our anniversary. We really enjoyed the 4 days we were there. Thanksgiving was huge and more food than I could imagine. Curbris fried a turkey, which I had never tried before, and it was really good. Jamie and I had a blast playing with the girls and just relaxing. Ronna is almost 9 months pregnant, and still was an amazing host, cooking for us, and opening her home.

We also took a trip to Glendale to check out Thunderbird school. It was a lot smaller than you would think for the number one global management school, but campus was nice. The surrounding area is nice as well. It is the desert so the landscape would be a change, but it was nice. Jamie's comment was "There sure is a lot of dirt" So we would have to get use to desert landscape to say the least.

Overall it was a really fun trip. Jamie and I are so thankful for family near and far, and cant wait to spend more holidays together



This is the weather we left Wednesday morning



And this is what we ended in, what a difference.




Sadie and Karma, they kept us busy, we had a blast!






I had to go through all of these...



Just to get THIS! Even then Jamie didn't want to cooperate! Brotherly Love!



Managed to get one of us. Thanksgiving day!



Beautiful Karma



LOVE Sadies hair, and yes it is RED!! Fits her personality, what a ball of fire that little one!




Getting ready for Church!



Playing with Uncle Jamie

How Time Flies

It has been a very fun, but busy past week! I have much to cover and tons of pictures to share from thanksgiving, but I will just start with a post about last Monday, November 23! Later I will post about Thanksgiving and all the fun there


( Jamie and I ready to leave for our honeymoon in Park City)

Two years ago that day, Jamie and I were sealed for all time an eternity! It was an amazing (but freezing) day in November. I really enjoyed our wedding and all those who came to celebrate with us! I am so thankful for Jamie and all he does for me.

We have been saving up money for our trip to Arizona for thanksgiving and decided to kinda count that as our anniversary as well. However for the actual day Jamie gave me a beautiful necklace with matching earrings. I gave Jamie a hunk of dark chocolate fudge and a sweet card. We both skipped school early and went to a movie (our favorite thing to do!) We saw "The Blind Side" Amazing Movie, I highly recommend it! Then we went for a quick bite to eat. All in all in was a nice relaxing day with my hubby! I love you babe

Super Saturday

Wow two post in just a couple of days! Today was Super Saturday for Relief Society. Once a year we have a large get together with all the women from the ward and do crafts/projects and have a yummy lunch. There are several projects to sign up for and participate in. I just did three, but they were a lot of fun.

The first Project was etching on your casserole dish! Basically a cool way to put your name on your dishes so if you loan in out for some reason people will know that it is yours! It was really easy and quite fun!




This is a mason jar full of ideas for dates or Sunday activities, things to do with your kids etc... Another simple but nice idea. I cut out the strips of paper and the put then in the jar then added the cloth and ribbon!




This one I am not quite finished with, but I took a picture anyway. It is going to be a bracelet made out of buttons and elastic. They had all these really cool vintage buttons to choose from.



I am glad for these opportunities to hang out with women, talk and test myself a bit with crafts. I am already excited for next year!

Random

Just some random highlights from this past week!

Last night we got to watch our friends little girl! Jamie has a ball and loved playing with her and even changed a diaper! In a few weeks we will be going to Arizona for Thanksgiving to spend time with my brother and sister in law and their adorable girls! We are very excited and while we are there we will take time to visit Thunderbird and the surrounding area to see how we like it there! This will be our first "real" road trip together, just the two of us, so it should be entertaining to say the least!



Jamie and the little girl we watched last night!

I got a new job!!! I have mentioned before that I have been doing an internship at a senior daycare every Friday. The other day I got a call from the owner asking me if I wanted to add more hours and be an actual employee! I am so excited, I really enjoy working there, and he told me that I am doing a really good job and I am good at it, so we would like me there more often! This is great news beyond the fact that I love it there, because money has been a little tight lately, and next semester all my classes are offered only as evening classes, so I didn't know what I was going to do, or was afraid I wouldn't find a job that would work with crazy evening school class hours, but this is perfect I work from 10am to 5 most days so perfect timing! Definitely a blessing!I will keep the early morning custodial job and will work both and go to school, but I will have nights off except for the three classes I am taking next semester so not too bad!


Any way that's the weekly update for now!

Halloween 2009

Jamie and I had a fun Halloween! First our ward had a trunk or treat where we gathered at the church building with our cars, dressed up our trunks and self's and passed out candy to the little children. After wards we headed up to alpine to join our friends for a great dinner and some not-so-scary movie, actually a really weird movie jamie picked out called "Big Trouble in a Little China" Definitely a Jamie movie!

Jamie was a Martial arts Master, he had a lot of fun with his costume and all the kids loved it!



I wasn't really anything I just wore a cape



Since I don't have my own kids to dress up I enjoyed taking pictures of the kids we teach primary! They also had a cookie walk and Jamie joined in!