It has been a while! So I thought I'd pick up where I left off.
Over Christmas we had tickets to go on the real live Polar Express in northern Arizona. Unfortunately, a terrible accident caused our highway to be cut off. So instead of a train ride we had a fun sleepover at a hotel.
Jadie's first Christmas! Here we are opening presents.
Three of my absolute favorite girls ever-aren't they gorgeous!
We took some family pictures, here are two of our favorite of the bunch.
The Adams family in our ward had us and several other young families over to their beautiful home to dye eggs on Saturday evening, and then come over Sunday morning for brunch and the big egg hunt. It was a ton of fun. Jadie is seen here collecting Easter eggs in her bucket.
These are all of the other Easter egg hunt participants. Fun crowd, not to mention adorable!
ELDER KYLE DAVIS RETURNS! We're elated and Jadie and I were so happy to be able to be there.
Jadie with Grandma Lynn and Grandpa Dix-yay!
Jadie turns 1! I can't really believe it. I had a lot of fun making her birthday cake and throwing a party for her. Thanks to the Needs for letting us use their basement as the party house-it was perfect.
Jadie is dressed up here for a Mother's Day Tea Party themed play group. All the kids had a great time dressing up and making cute crafts.
Jadie received several gorgeous Sunday dresses and really cute outfits-thanks so much everyone!
Jadie has recently begun to respond to our request that she smile for a photo, I love it! She also enjoys wearing very girly things like crowns and will bring them over to me so I can put them on her.
Life is really good and we are so happy.
Three of my absolute favorite girls ever-aren't they gorgeous!
We took some family pictures, here are two of our favorite of the bunch.
The Adams family in our ward had us and several other young families over to their beautiful home to dye eggs on Saturday evening, and then come over Sunday morning for brunch and the big egg hunt. It was a ton of fun. Jadie is seen here collecting Easter eggs in her bucket.
These are all of the other Easter egg hunt participants. Fun crowd, not to mention adorable!
ELDER KYLE DAVIS RETURNS! We're elated and Jadie and I were so happy to be able to be there.
Jadie with Grandma Lynn and Grandpa Dix-yay!
Jadie turns 1! I can't really believe it. I had a lot of fun making her birthday cake and throwing a party for her. Thanks to the Needs for letting us use their basement as the party house-it was perfect.
Jadie is dressed up here for a Mother's Day Tea Party themed play group. All the kids had a great time dressing up and making cute crafts.
Jadie has recently begun to respond to our request that she smile for a photo, I love it! She also enjoys wearing very girly things like crowns and will bring them over to me so I can put them on her.
Life is really good and we are so happy. As far as what's happening with us, Rusty has changed jobs and is working for a Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives named Rocky Raczkowski. If you want to know more about him his site is www.rockyworksforus.com. A new website is coming out soon :).
I am enjoying lots of different things. Some of my greater successes as of late include:
-Baking some really yummy four-grain bread that the whole family loves.
-Working on genealogy and finding a link in Rusty's line that was truly amazing. I got in contact with the person working on the files who is a member in Salt Lake City and found out that Rusty's great grandmother is the sister of this guy's grandma. Anyways, he was kind enough to offer to send us the cards for Rusty's great grandparents so we can go do the temple work and we're really excited. What's amazing is that this one link has information going back to ancestors living in the 1100's. It's really cool stuff and you really feel the Spirit when working on it.
-I just crocheted some little slippers for Jadie that are pretty cute, no pictures yet :).
-Because I am the Laurel advisor I decided I want to do Personal Progress again for various reasons. I'm having a great time doing it. I decided to do the virtue project in 1 month (reading the Book of Mormon) and I beat my goal. I got a lot of new insights this read, so that was great too.
