Goal 2 Project life

I can not belive that there are only 4 weeks left of this year. I have really enjoyed doing project life digital. It will be so fun to get this book printed and to have. I just need to print out 2009. What a great way to remember our lives.

Cook new recipes

I made 3 things this month all from the girl who eats everything.

First Turtle Cheesecake. 2nd Double Layer Pumpkin Pie. 3rd Ruth and Chris sweet potatoes. I loved the turtle cheesecake it turned out perfectly. The sweet potatoes were my favorite this thanksgiving. The pumpkin pie not so great.

Service

I think I put this as to broad of a goal. While this week I gave my time to Drew's class and listened to them read. They are so excited to read to someone. I got through the whole class. It is fun to get to know the children in Drew's class . I am glad I have the chance to be with them better.

Stake Primary Calling.

My calling in the Primary has been such a blessing to me. I love going to Stake Baptism each month the children are so excited to be baptized what a wonderful spirit they bring. Lately we have had meeting one introducing the new handbook. Which I think was great how much love and care the church has for its children. I love that the answers will be found in our handbook.
Also we just had Sister Stevenson down from the Primary General President. She gave a great message how we are to serve and to love and to help the children get back to our Heavenly Father. It was a great meeting.
Also coming up is Priesthood Preview the boys are so excited to be moving on. They all sure grow up so fast. Lots of meetings but they are also good to learn new things and help us grow.

Visit Teach for the month of november

I got this cute thing from www.simpsonizedandthensomeblogspot.com I thought it was cute from a quote from President Monson and then a fun recipe. I got a new partner and I think it is going to be just great. I still have the same people which I am grateful for I think they are wonderful people and then teach me something each time I visit them. I do love to go visitng teaching if we can help the Lord out with his children then I will gladly serve.

Date Night with Jonathan

For Date night since it was Jonathan bday we invited some friends to go to Costa Vida with us and then got to our home and play apples to apples with us we had a great time together and enjoyed each other's company. I enjoy playing games with Jonathan and our friends it helps us to get to really know each other better and apples to apples is a perfect game for that .

I just love how you try to get the person to want your card. Love it.

Reading with Jacob

We also just finished this book and now he is re reading this book.

Jacob and I just finished this book. It was quite funny and Jacob is doing better and better with his reading. And he loves school. Which is always a good thing.

Go on a date

J and I were able to go to chilis the other week and I forgot to write about it. But it was very yummy and we had a good time being together. And I even tried something new.

Roman Holiday

What a great cast. Gregory Peck looks so good.

I think a lot of movies. Use some sort of scare. I know National Treasure 2 does.

Thanks Kour for letting me borrow your movie. I finally got a minute to sit down and watch it. And loved it. I loved it. Because this could have gone two ways. And the men actually took a higher road. I loved that they did this because they did not have to. And that should such great respect. And she trully needed a break. I loved how light and fun this movie was. I think this might have been one of her first. Because in the openning credits it says introducing Aubrey Hepburn. She is so pretty and long hair.

Go on a date with my hubby

We knew this weekend was going to be busy so we meet up for a lunch for friday and went to The Great harvest. We had yummy sandwiches and had a good time talking with each other. I have a very kind husband. I am so grateful for him.

Reading with Jacob

Jacob and I just finished this great book. We had a good time reading it. Actually we even had Emma read a few pages plus Drew. This book was so much fun. I love when we can find a good book to read with each other. This book made him want to join Karate even more.

Write in a gratitude journal

I started this for the month of november. So i will take a picture tonight.

Reading books

I found this great book at the lib. I have read it an it was a good quick read.

Emma needed to read this book for school so I read it with her and then listened to it on a tape with my boys. Quite a different book. The tape song of the rats was really creepy. But it was a good read.

Go on a date with Jonathan

Jonathan and I were able to go down to St. George for the day and he got to play golf with his Dad and Uncles and I got to go shopping with his mom and the aunts. Then we meet up and lunch at the Painted Ponny and then we got to go to the temple and then we meet up again and went to dinner at Cracker Barrel. Jonathan loves the mac and cheese and the fried apples and then we headed over to Tuchann and saw Crazy for You. It was a busy day but we had a great time. The kids had a great time over with the Burr family.

This is where we went to lunch down in St. George it is so very yummy. I love to drink out of the old steel mugs.

This is where we ate dinner. Jonathan was excited. Then we went to Tuchann and saw Crazy for You. It was a great play. And we had a great time being with Mom and Dad Stathis and Jonathan Aunts and Uncles.

Go to the Temple for October

I love when Jonathan and I can go to the temple together. The only bad thing is that we have to take individual pictures of each other. I am very blessed to have such a great guy. He is very good to me and I am so happy that I married him in the temple. It was a very beautiful day.

Field Trip with Jacob

It is always so much fun to go on the field trip with the kids you learn a lot about the teachers and also how your child interacts with the children at school. Today we went up to Cedar Breaks and to Woods Ranch. about 1 week ago they got about 10 inches of snow. So the hike was fun

but it was a beautful day. I am so glad that I had the chance to go with Jacob and the 2nd graders we had a great time.

Sugar Cookie Bars

I got these recipe from the girlwhoeatseverything. And it was so yummy. I made this for Jylinn baptism. Once again they were so yummy.

BYU Mint Brownies and Owl Cookies

Yummy Brownies

Owl Cookies

I was craving chocolate so what came to mind. BYU mint brownies . I colored them orange because we are in October. They turned out so good. So my craving is almost gone. Because the pan is almost gone. I had to share some with my byu women's conf friend. First I made them try them and guess what it reminded them of and they each guessed the right answer.

I actually made the Owl Cookies before the brownies I got the recipe from Oopsey Daisy and the kids helped me out. Then we did a math problem so that we could give some to the people that I needed to say thanks and give out baby gifts to. They also are very good.

Rootbeer Cookies

I got this recipe in the taste of home best cookies. I hade some of these cookies up at Greg homecoming. So I thought I would try them. But these were not the same ones. So I took them up to the church when we did service and to Amy for her Birthday. They were good. I think we will try these again.

Service

We had the chance to help clean up the church. We have done this many times. But now more families come with us and then we clean the whole building for the month and then have a break for 2 months. We had a good time here is Emma with the Messer girls they love to mop. They had a good time. And where great helpers.

Tonight Date

Jand I went to Golden Spoon it is new in town . We both had a mango tart. It was so good. Before I had to try a few different flavors. It is always so good to go out with my sweet husband. I am so grateful for how good he is to me.

Cinnamon Roll Cake

Once again a new recipe from the girl who ate everything. This was so yummy and good. The kids loved it and even the hometeachers loved it. I love when I found good things that the kids will eat and love. Yes we found a keeper. We will have to make this some more.

Saturday Day Date

After going to the temple. J and I had lunch at Redlobster which was so yummy and good. I just love going to yummy places to eat. We had a great time together and then we went over to Eddie Bauer outlet. J has found that he loves these jeans for work. And he needs some new jeans. I tried on a few outfits myself. As we were leaving I saw some jeans hanging outside for $10.00 I thought no they must be in the wrong place but hey I am going to go try them on. And sure enough they fit and they were just $10.00 so I got a brand new pair of jeans two. Got to love that kind of date. J and I had a great talk on the way home. I am so blessed to marry such a great man.

Chicken and Spinach in Shells

I got this recipe from the Girl who ate everything. My sister Sarah found this blog so I thought I would give her a try. This receipe actually came from Paula Deen. I grabbed the picture of the girl who ate everything. Because I could not find my camera. Everyone liked this except for Jacob. So I do not think that we will have it that often. It was very rich. But very good. I am glad they were all willing to give it a try. The only long part was putting the stuff in the shells because I did not to want to wait any longer. The family was getting hungry.

Date Night

J and I were able to go to Stake Conference which we went with the Kastances. I loved all the talks. Sister Whitter spoke and Sister Einfeldt talked about Family history and Sister Winn spoke about temples and being sealed with her family and Pres. Whitter spoke how important it is to go to the temple. It was a great night sessions. I always learn something new and have a great feeling at this meeting.

Afterwards we meet up with the Mcdonalds and Sister Grover and went to J new place. Denny's. I had biscuits and gravy and a big chocolate cake. It was great fun. We usually only ask those people that go this session to go with us. We asked a few more people but they were to tired to go. But we had a good time with the people that came with us. I am glad that people are willing to come and share thier feelings.

Reading

Drew has had a hard time reading latley by himself. So I made it a point to read with him this week. And the book he had to read was the Best Christmas Pageant ever. We had a good time reading this book together. I even cried at the end. I forgot how funny and simple this book really is. Drew was glad that he knows about the Christmas Story. I think he is even more glad that he has a family that cares about him. And that we teach him right from wrong. He does get himself into trouble with Jacob but he knows how much we love him. This was a great thing for Drew and I to do together. I think the next book he is going to bring home is Red Badge of Courage I hope he lets me read this with him.

Going on a date

Jonathan and I went on a date night with the Kastanes and the Burrs. We had a good time. We went to Denny's. We had never been to the one in Cedar City before. The service was good. And the friends and being with Jonthan was the best part.

Temple Date St. George Temple

(picture from the church website)

I was so happy to go this beautiful place. It was so nice to have my mother in town so she could watch the kids. I have been wanting to go for such a long time. But other things just seem to get in the way. We were going to go in August we even planned on having a babysitter. And then the babysitter mom called and told us the temple was closed that week for its annual cleaning time.

We were once again reminded to go to the temple in our Stake Conference. So it was a beautiful time to go and we actually went. We were even asked to be the witness couple. In 13 years of marriage we have never done this. So it was a great honor. I love J so much he is such a blessing in my life. I am so glad that we can go to the temple together. What a beautiful day to be in the temple.

September Visting Teaching

I just love a Little Tispy she always makes the cutest handouts. So far I have visited 2 of my sisters and get to visit one tomorrow. I just found out that I have a new partner. So hopefully all will work out for the best. They always say change is good. So here is to visting teaching.

More Books I read

The glass castle book. Drove me crazy.

What a difference we can make in the lives of others.

Forever Me

You will not find this book at any store. Because it is about my sweet wonderful daughter. She wrote it and it is about her life. She did this while she was in the 6th grade. It is just so Emma and I love it. It has pictures and stories about her life. I am so glad that she made this. It is so great and I loved that I read it. I read it on the 2nd day of school starting. I was missing all of the kids being at home. But I love that they have the chance to learn new things this year. By far the best book I have ever read.