My legs are gross

I've tried a couple of new outdoor activities these past couple of months. New sport #1: Skim boarding. The point is to slide across the shore on a very thin wooden board. My Result: Never achieving any balance, falling off, and sliding over a layer of broken shells.


New sport #2: Mountain Biking...who says there are no hills in Florida?! A mountain bikercist (thats what they SHOULD be called) friend took me out near Brandon to a Bike Trail where we biked about 4 hours on crazy hills and ridges. I only fell about five times. My legs were pretty bruised up and I was left with this nice scratch...

Did I tell you?...

Lilly turned 2...3 months ago.

Lilly is a talker just like her brother was/is. She loves pink and insists all girls love pink and boys love blue. She loves to take care of her baby dolls and at least once a day I catch her in the sink washing her hands. She also loves to swing on the big kid swings and go "super high". She loves to be spun around, thrown up to the sky and to be tickled. Lilly adores her big brother and will do anything to get his attention and will try to do anything and everything he does. Happy Birthday to our "Lilly Badilly", or as Papa likes to call her, "our little dikeeny (sp?) baby"!

Where have I been?

It's been over 3 months since I last posted. Lame. I've been going to school and other time monopolizing things.

"Ya Know Why I'm Shivering?"

My favorite part of December

The first half of December

I think it's all over. I'm hoping I never have to live through another month like it. Here's the first update:

Jackson had his school Christmas program. I was so proud of my "star". I love that he goes to a Christian based school and so they actually call it their Christmas program, not Winter or Holiday program. Looking back it was my favorite event of December.

We went to Utah for two reasons - 1) Kenny's wedding in Rexburg, ID and 2) The kids hadn't seen Jason in 7 months.
So we spent a weekend in Idaho for Kenny's wedding which was accompanied with mucho snow, actually blizzard conditions. I was able to go inside the temple for the sealing while Jason watched the kids. I was surprised by the temple's size - it was HUGE! I would love to go back there but it would have to be in the middle of summer.
The rest of the week the kids were able to bond with Jason. We went to the Dinosaur Museum, Jump On It, Temple Square, Ice Skating, Sledding ...the kids had a blast! We also got to spend an evening with our friends the White's. And oddly enough, while in Temple Square I ran into my friend, Ashli, who I knew from Florida and she's now living in Wisconsin but she was visiting family. And at the same time I ran into my best friend, Jami's, family. CRAZY!
Of course, there are many friends I wish I had more time to see but I'm sure we'll visit Utah again next year and this time I will definitely rent a car.

Prayers are answered

I no longer have to push Jackson on the swing. This just happened days after his 4th birthday.