A new cousin!

My aunt just gave birth to a little boy, named Benson Roy. Both family names . . . and we're so excited for them! I'm not sure what number he is in our family. We don't have pictures yet, but we'll go up and visit sometime this week and post some!

The Best Belated Valentines Day

Well James and I didn't do very much on the real Valentine's Day because we had a late one already planned. We don't have very good pictures to show, because they were taken with our phones, but it was AMAZING!!!


So we went to a Rascal Flatts concert. It was incredible. Jessica Simpson opened for them, she was pretty good . . . but Rascal Flatts- were fantastic. That was better than the Tim McGraw concert that I went to. It was really the best concert that I could go to because there isn't a song of theirs that I don't love! We were belting out the songs, and they were very entertaining. We had an LDS dad with three of his teenage and pre-teen daughters sitting in front of us. It was fun because it was totally a concert that was family appropriate. And it was really fun to see a dad enjoying the music along with his three girls. That's probably one concert that I'll want to go to again. Thanks babe, that was the best present!

What is IIAC?

Well I don't have a lot of contact with my dads family, but my aunt Alese just had I guess a still birth. She was almost eight months along and they found out that the baby had died so they had to induce labor and she had to deliver this baby. And we had a funeral for the baby last Tuesday. We found out that it was Idiopathic Infantile Arterial Calcification which was even more sad to find out. It is a really rare disease and both parents have to be carriers of this disease in order for the child to have it. But the veins and the arteries start to calcify and the heart basically explodes. It was really sad for them since they've already had a lot of heartache this year. We're praying for them as they're starting a research foundation for this disease the website is
dmefoundation.org

Primary

I don't know if I've mentioned on here before, but James and I are primary teachers in our ward. It's pretty fun, we teach the only primary kids in our ward which are a couple of boys. It is unpredictable because one of them is three and the other is four. It's amazing sometimes how much they know, and sometimes what they say. Today for instance, I was trying to give the lesson, while James was trying to keep them in their seats. The four year old came up to James and grabbed his finger with two of his and said "Skidoosh" for those who haven't seen Kung Fu Panda, I definitely recommend it, because it makes the actions and words of this four year old seem so much more meaningful. We love our calling, since kids really do say the darnedest things!

My Christmas Project

Well here is my first real sewing project other than the curtains. I took different fabrics and cut them into strips and sewed those strips together. Then I made my own template of a stocking and cut them out and back them with flannel fabric so they would hold, and then I sewed another piece of flannel to the back of that and TA DA! Our Christmas stockings. I love it, because I can make them unique and switch up patterns, or colors, but this is what I've done so far.

Horse Back Riding

I love this picture just for Ashley's face. I think she must have been sneezing, but when I looked at it I just cracked up and couldn't figure out what she was doing.

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We went horseback riding while we were in Arizona, it was really fun, but really cold! Our horses were trained to follow the horse in front of them, so basically we walked the whole time. Here are some of the fun pictures I took.

Thanksgiving in AZ

Well for those of you who read my blog from Salem, we went to Tucson for Thanksgiving, and Elder (Don) Johnson was there, he had met James' aunt and uncle, and they found out he was from Salem, so he dropped by for Thanksgiving dinner. That was kind of a fun surprise. And James and I had a blast with all of his little cousins. I'm stealing this picture from James' mom, but I think it's really cute!

On our drive back to Utah we took a detour through the Grand Canyon with Mike and Ashley. And here is the series of pictures.