Happy Halloween

Happy (late) Halloween everyone!!!  Hope everyone had a good time.  Ours was a good one.  Owen got to dress up for school and the kindergarteners had a carnival.  He was Dash from the Incredibles, but we couldn't find a Dash costume, so Mr. Incredible had to do. When I asked what he did at his carnival, he just said, "We did fun stuff".  That's about all I can get out of him--no specifics.   No one else could get anything else out of him either, so the kindergarten carnival is a mystery.  I tried all day to get Aidan to put his Thomas the Train costume on so we could go to the store, but he wouldn't do it.  They still gave him candy.  I wanted to get some picts of the boys, so before we went to our neighbors, I fought Aidan to keep his costume on so I could get his picture.  It was a lot of effort, but we got some good pictures.  It's a good thing we went to the neighbors, because no one else came to our neighborhood that night.  They were happy to see the boys. We went to the 'trunk or treat' at our ward building Jared's sister, Tailona, and her stepson, Drake, and thank goodness for that.  Owen was off with his friend and Aidan, I and Drake made our way around while Tai handed out candy.  About halfway through, Aidan figured out what he was supposed to do and he was off.  We had to hurry to keep up.  He had a sucker in one hand and his bucket of candy in the other and he just made his way around to everyone, some two or three times.  They had fun and were excited about all their candy.  Then after we got home, to our suprise, Jared came home shortly after.  It was nice to have him home even if it was for just a short time.  We're glad he made the trek.  He had been in Florida all week for a conference and flew to Vegas that morning and stopped in St. George for about and hour and then was off to see us.   Then later that night we were graced with the presence of my brother, Matthew and his girlfriend, Sheena in their costumes.  They wore these to the USU Basketball game.  They got quite a few stares, but I have to agree, they were pretty good costumes.  Brave, they were.  And that was our Halloween!!  We're doing pretty good with the candy stash and the boys have been pretty good about getting a little here and there and I'm grateful for that.  So here are some picts of everyone for you to enjoy.  Hope your haunting was happy and hope your ready for Thanksgiving soon!!!

Sunny St. George

We made it here to St. George--just to visit though. It's been nice to see Jared, friends and enjoy the sun! Thanks to Janet & Savannah Walker who have so graciously let us stay with them. We sure appreciate you guys. I am so excited to move back and excited to be able to see all of my St. George friends again... on a regular basis--I've missed you guys!!!! We'll now miss all you northern people too :( ...man, I just can't have it all, can I?

Our house is still on the market. We're still doing all we can to get it sold. Soon, right? I sure hope so. Take care ya'll and thanks for all your comments and thoughts! LOVE U!!

7 Years!!!

Jared and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary this past (Conference) weekend.  We were so glad that we could be together and celebrated it with a night at the Anniversary Inn.  It was LUXURIOUS!  We stayed in the room called Juliet's Balcony.  It was  beautiful and took you back in time to Romeo and Juliet.  They had a huge tub, beautiful, soft bed, cool shower with a drip head and a couple other shower heads, cheesecake and just quietness!!  It was nice to just be the two of us.  Thanks Tiff and Matt for your help!!!  I am so happy to be married to Jared.  He is always so good to me and loves me no matter what.  We've been through a lot since we were married and I'm glad that it was with him.  Thanks babe, I love you.

We will be coming down to St. George over UEA, so we'll have to stop by and say Hi!  Take care!

Thanks a bunch!

I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for your love, support, prayers and fasting in our behalf. Thanks to Tiff and Matt for being willing to help, babysit, shop or just talk to me when I need it. My neighbors are so good to let the kids play and to visit with me too. I sure need an adult to chat with or I seem really desperate for conversation. Jared is loving his job and grateful to be back. I am glad to have him happy, but sad that we're so far apart. It's very different not having him around and as always, I took that for granted. Me and the boys are doing good. We have our good and bad days. Aidan tracked mud through the carpet last week--great for house showings! But LUCKILY, it dried, I brushed it, vacuumed it and you can't tell ( or at least I can't see any footprints!) I am learning to love my boys more each day. They are good kids, so different from each other, but I've realized what kind of love they need and how I can better take care of them. It's been a great experience. We've learned to work better together instead of always seeming to butt heads. I love it!

Keep praying for us. We really want to be together and start establishing some roots. I think we will again fast this next Sunday to see if we can't be down there before the holidays start. Who knows, we seem to like to move in November (every time we've moved it's been in November). So maybe this time will be the same.

Take care and LOVE you all!

Jared's last day, Owen's first day

We've been a bit busy with life.  We had many happy travels in August (as listed below) and then after that we began getting ready for Owen to go to Kindergarten.  August 28th was his first day.  He was pretty happy to be able to go to school.  We (I mean, I) had problems trying to find which bus he rode and what times.  It took us until after Labor Day to get it all figured out, plus we even got the buses to stop outside of our neighborhood (a big pat on the back to me) for him and another boy.  He loves to ride the bus with his friends to and from school.  He has a really nice teacher, Ms. Chris and is getting to know the kids in his class fast.  He's learning to write his letters and this week he'll have homework!!  I didn't seem too excited when I told him about it.  He said that it was boring :(  We'll see.  Me and Aidan have been hanging out while he's been gone.  I've been reading books (Sisterhood of the traveling pants series & now I'm on the last book of the Twilight series!!) like crazy.  It's been fun.

Last Friday was Jared's last day at USU.  I think he would have jumped for joy if he really wanted too.  There was so much drama last week that he was so glad to get out.  He's pretty giddy to get to St. George, but sad to leave us to sell the house.  We had a fast yesterday with our families to sell our house.  Thanks for those who participated on our behalf.  Please continue to pray for us, we need your faith!  We've had a couple of showing and tomorrow the realtors in the valley will be coming to preview it.  So we really hope that this will get us some showings.  He will be home this week with us and we hope to get many things done and to spend some time together before he goes.

We are happy for our time here in Logan.  I've learned many things and my testimony has grown.  Our ward has been so friendly and our neighbors great.  We will be sad to leave them.  We are excited to see our friends from St. George and to finally be able to plant our roots.

Thanks for all your love and prayers.  We really do love you and thank you for your support!!  We have the best family and friends in the whole world!!!

Much kisses and hugs!