My favorite time of the day

Is checking on Steven while he's sleeping. Sometimes as we are going to bed Jacob and I race to be the first one to see this little boy's new sleeping position. We always put him down the same way each night, but notice how he is often turned a different way and usually has removed one or both socks. I don't know why I keep putting them on him!

St. George

Last week we went on a family vacation to St. George. We used Priceline to get an amazing deal on a Marriott. We had such a great time! It was fun to have a list of things to do, but have the flexibility to enjoy anything that looked interesting on the way.

These are a few of our favorite things:

We thought it would be fun since we were going down south to check out the couple of D.I.'s that we haven't been too yet. (It's our goal to go to every D.I., only 2 more in Utah!) Our first stop was in Delta, Utah...and boy was it worth the wait! We pulled up and saw this house that had a door on the side where the garage should have been. And this is the D.I.? I couldn't stop giggling, it was so funny to me. But we found some really great stuff that we were looking for. Definitely worth the extra hour drive. We also enjoyed the Cedar City D.I. and coming in third place is the St. George D.I. If you were wondering.

Steven LOVED swimming. When he gets excited he kicks he little legs, so he loved kicking his way around the swimming pool. They had an inside and outside swimming pool, which we mostly had to ourselves. I can't wait until summer, to get him back in the water. Seriously so cute! I wish I could put a video of it on here but it won't let me.

I loved eating out. We usually don't go to sit down restaurants, so I enjoyed every minute. Plus it was fun to have Steven up and eating with us. Our best idea was this celery, he had it for most of the time we ate.
We loved just walking around and seeing what St. George has to offer us. We found this sign and it fit Jacob perfectly!

We couldn't get a good shot of this, the sign said "Life is Good" I couldn't say it better myself!
This is the view from our hotel room. We really enjoyed touring the LDS tabernacle, Brigham Young's winter home, and of course the beautiful LDS St. George Temple visiting center.


On the way home we stopped at Kolob's canyon in Zion's National Park. It was beautiful especially with my beautiful family.

Notice that we are all matching with our plaid shorts.

Aren't my boys adorable?

New Game

So Monday when Jacob came home from work, I desperately needed to get out of the house. Usually I'm good to stay home all day with Steven for a couple of days even, but Monday was not the case. It was raining, so going on a walk was out of the question; and I didn't want to go to a store because I knew we'd spend money. Thus we invented a new game...or Jacob did and I helped modify it. It's a fun new way to get some where!
1. Before leaving randomly choose when you'll turn right or left between 10 or 20 times, for example. LRLLLLRLRRRLLRLR (We chose 18)
2. Choose a destination to try and get to. (We chose Walmart)
3. Cover all of the directions except your next move, that way you can't mentally map out how you'll get there. It keeps you guessing.
4. Enjoy!!!
5. Get yourself a treat at Walmart while your there. We found an easter bunny for 25 cents and some egg dye for 10 cents. Well worth it!

My Hero

This morning I woke up and found around 15 to 20 ants crawling all over the computer. Yes I know they were small, but they give me the creeps! I think it stems from those dreams where the whole floor is covered in insects and there's nothing you can do. You know the ones. Well that was me this morning. I hurried and squished all of them and composed myself to continue my morning news update, when 5 more came out of no where! That's when I had it and shut the computer and did not open it until Jacob got up. And boy did he come to my rescue. He caulked the window where we think they were coming from and then pulled the love seat out and cleaned behind it to make sure and kill the ants that were still alive. It's times like these I'm glad we're moving in 2 weeks.

Other random facts about our week,

Monday: Our car suffered a break down on I-15 on my way to an eye appointment in Draper. To make a long story short, we're grateful some firemen who stopped and helped me get to safety. Now after $600 we are back on the road!

Tuesday: Jacob received an e-mail saying that he was accepted to the Business program at BYU. So now he is officially accepted to the Product Development program! I'm so proud of him.

Wednesday: When getting our oil changed at Walmart we managed to buy Jacob 3 pants, shorts, and 6 shirts for $20. Amazing!

Recent Pictures

Lounging with Daddy

Happy Pie Day!! 3.14...2010

Cuddling with CorduroyDeep in Thought...
Such a cute boy!

Lucky

Yesterday was quite a lucky day. Steven took a 3 hour nap! That has never happened; it was heaven. I took a nap, cleaned, and had a chance to read while he was napping. I also made this great banana bread. For some reason I have the hardest time making a good banana bread or cinnamon bread that doesn't come out gooey in the middle. And....we found an apartment! We actually found it a week ago, but we found out that we will be able to move in when we wanted to. So we are moving in on April 24th, and Jacob starts school on the 27th. We are just thrilled to be in there before school, he was going to commute for the first week. And I don't know what it is, but once I know we are moving and have seen where we are moving, all I want to do is move. My day is filled with thinking how we are going to put the furniture and what ways we are going to organize all of our "treasures".

We are moving into a condo about 500 E and 500 N. It is a two bedroom, one bathroom. The kitchen isn't much bigger than our one now, but it has a bar and is open to the living room which makes it seem a lot bigger. And of course it has a regular fridge with a full size freezer. Jacob was ecstatic about that one. Are you ready for my favorite part? A washer and dryer of my very own in the apartment. Amazing! The second bedroom is actually a loft. And it is huge! It covers the space of the kitchen, bathroom, and Steven's room. The condo is also fully equipped with lots of storage, another great bonus! Anyway we are just really excited to move. Let me rephrase that, we are excited to be there and unpacked; we're not so thrilled about the whole moving process.

That's Life

I think life is funny. We've been looking for housing in Provo for a while now, we are moving in April. Last week I found this apartment with a position to manage men's housing. They would pay for our rent and utilities and would even pay $15 an hour for any cleaning or maintenance work we did. Sounds great? We thought so. We went to the first interview and of course blew her out of the water, so we were accepted to the next round of interviews and to see the apartment itself. We were both really quite excited about this for the whole week, until Tuesday. I started to have my doubts and it so happened that I found what seemed to be the perfect condo located right next to campus. So from that point I was more for the condo and Jacob was for the managing position. Tuesday we went to Provo and first went to the condo. The people were incredibly nice and told us we'd have a good shot getting it because we are staying for 3 years. Unfortunately the apartment was VERY small. So we went to the next place thinking we'd for sure take that one now. Little did we know it was going to be smaller and noisier! So much that we couldn't even think of living in there, it was making me claustrophobic. So now we are back to square one, we have some we're going to look at, but are open to suggestions if anyone knows of any.

Then tonight we got in the car to go to Walmart when the car doesn't start. Jacob tried many things, none of which worked. He finally concluded that we needed a new battery; too bad that is our only car. Luckily we have good friends, who drove him to get a new one. Now our car is fixed and my heart is full. I feel so blessed to have a wonderful husband, who knows how to fix our car, or anything else that breaks. I know that I have a Heavenly Father who loves me and takes care of my life. I'm grateful to have the Holy Ghost in my life and the comfort that I feel when my life takes uncertain turns. Boy, life is crazy and great all at the same time! But I guess that's life.
Oh and I'm putting pictures of my two boys with their red hair. Jacob wanted to show that Steven gets some of his red hair from his daddy.