whiney little me

So much has been happening and sadly I can't post any pictures. As I've said before we only have internet on jakes phone so pictures are a no go, not to mention how long this takes because a blackberry's key board is tiny. So I'll just briefly list some things and hope that one day we'll have internet again. May 16 jake and I were sealed for all of time and eternity in the mt timpanogos temple. It was a fantastic day!! May 20 bobby and emily had their adorable baby boy, landon craig cohoon. Wish I had pics! May 24 our first day teaching nursery. If you haven't heard already yes, we just got called to be in the nursery. It was so much fun! (At least I thought so). Just so happened that it was memorial day weekened so we had visitors! Let's just say 2 hours goes by a lot slower with 13 two year olds! Well, that's all for now but cross your fingers that I'll have real internet soon so I can post all of the fun things coming up this summer!

Waiting for May

I can't wait for the month of May. So many exciting things to look forward to. First of all it will be summer which means nice warm weather and no more snow. Warm weather means people will come out of their houses and we can start doing fun stuff again with the family cuz I've missed that lately. Speaking of family bobby and emily's baby is due in may which means a new nephew (and a cure for my baby hungry-ness). And on the 16 Jake and I will be sealed for all of eternity. I am so excited that I get the privlage of spending forever with the man of my dreams. And lastly May is the month before June and in June we are going to Cabo and I can't wait! So hurry up April showers cuz I can't wait for May flowers!

mini post

So our internet is not working and hasn't been working for almost 2 months. It is driving me crazy but since our renter in st george is over 2000 dollars behind in rent we can't afford internet right now. Therefore I am stuck using jakes blackberry. Which means no pictures for my blog. However I can post a few updates. First off we are happy to announce that we will be getting sealed on may 16. We are very excited. Second: remember those lovely perfect weather days last week? Well we got excited and got to work on our yard. We built a pond in the backyard. Its not too big (its not a swimming pool) but it does have a waterfall and lights and a fountain and maybe later some fish. As soon as our internet starts working again I'll put up lots of pictures. Well I think that's all for now.

Another Finished Project!

This week we decided to remodel our fire place. I found some ideas in magazines, used my imagination and drew up the plans for our perfect fire place. After that Jake got to work and made my idea come to life and it is beautiful!

The "before" picture. And in case you're thinking "Why remodel? That's a beautiful fire place!" Let me show you some up-close pictures.

As you can see it's not that pretty.

Covered in paint, crayon, and whatever else was on it, not to mention some chips in the brick that wasn't so pretty.

This is a little more than half finished. We painted the brick step and what surrounds the fire place, covered the bottom in wood, added to the mantel piece, and put sheet rock on the top. Jake does a wonderful job!The finished project!

And the final look...still missing some decor but that's pretty much it. It looks better up-close and personal so come over and take a look! We love visitors!

CRUISE!!

Jake's 5th, Our 2nd, Dad and Cece's 3rd, and our family's FIRST CRUISE! And we had a BLAST! On Saturday, Jan. 24 we left the hotel in LA and went down to the port to board the big cruise ship. This picture is us waiting for dad to catch up from parking the car and as William would say "We're off!"This is a picture of our cruise ship when we were in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Two Handsome boys who are happy to be on the cruise ship and in 80 degree weather!
Mason is SO ready for this vacation. Our first port Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We didn't do much here except shop because lucky us we are coming back in June to stay for a week!! Can't wait!

The famous arch (in the first Pirates of the Carribian movie)

Another view. We got lot's of beautiful pictures because we took off durning sunset.
Still Cabo. The ship above my head is a pirate ship and the beach to the right is Lover's Beach.
A pretty picture of a Cathedral in Puerto Vallerta, which was my favortie place even though we didn't get many pictures. Not that I'm not grateful to be going back to Cabo, I wish we were going to Puerto Vallerta. I wish we could have seen more. I really want to live there, I loved it.And last but not least the ship Jake wishes he would have been on....
Yay for Cruising! We are so lucky that we got to enjoy this awesome vacation with our family. As soon as I can figure out how I will put the videos we took on here too so check back soon!

Kitchen Update

For Christmas we were very lucky to get a new kitchen sink and 2 new faucets (I guess everyone realized how bad our old one was). We installed the sink and a faucet and took the other faucet back and bought kitchen hardwear. We also got new light fixtures and under-cabinet lighting. We're not done yet but I had to show off how good it looks with all the new stuff.

Money, money, Money!

Since August of 2007 (when we got married) we have been...ok, mostly Jake has been....collecting change in a 3 litter bottle. We are proud to say that we finally filled it to the top (or pretty close). After dumping it out and then sorting for maybe 20 min and then counting for about 45 min and then rolling for another 30 min we are glad to say we are a whole $326.47 richer! I took some pictures but it turns out they were all fuzzy (and really not that interesting) so I decided not to post them.