catching up on old events

Happy Halloween 2008!!!

We did not have many good pictures of Halloween this year. The good ones I would have to scan into the computer....so maybe someday. Our little girl was a cute monkey complete with banana!


Here is a picture of our little monkey with her Uncle Jeremy and Auntie Becca.

Getting ready for baby....

While I was going through my photo discs, I realized that there were a few things that I forgot to include in our events leading up to the baby. It was getting closer to my due date and we hadn't really done a whole lot as far as his room and all that stuff. So when we picked up the mattress, of course, Taylie wanted to help clean it. She is the best little helper!

This is a picture of Luke's room when it was almost ready. Since this was taken we have hung up a curtain and it is a little more organized. Of course now that I have my little boy I HAD to go with a sports theme!

This is the cute crib with such a little manly sports pattern and it also gives you a look at the wall that Jacob did such a good job painting, with Taylie help of course.

So one of the few times in our almost 5 year marriage that Jacob decides to put his foot down is on decorations for his son's room. He fought tooth and nail to get this Notre Dame sign for Luke's room while I of course was going for BYU. My argument was that it would not match the colors that I picked out because I was convinced it would be green, but no! It had to match! He would flat out not buy the BYU one, so I gave in and let him hang this. Don't you worry honey.....the time will come when I will get what I want....this will come back to haunt you someday!!! Maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will come!!

The Baby Shower

Another thing was the great baby shower that one of my good friends, Brianne, and my visiting teachers threw for me. They did an awesome job and it was so nice. We had a potato bar for lunch and a really awesome strawberry cake for dessert. It was open house style so people could come and go and it was so nice to visit with everybody. It got especially lively when I started having some contractions and everybody thought that I was going to go into labor, but since it had been going on for a few weeks I was not concerned, but it kept everyone else on their toes!


Brianne made a cute diaper cake and had envelopes for everybody to write their return address on so I could send them a thank you note for their gifts and made little party favors and came up with a drawing for anybody who brought a pack of diapers could enter the drawing for a date night which included discount movie tickets and some gift certificates to go to dinner. What and awesome hostess huh?!

I ended up with so many diapers from her brilliant idea, which are almost gone by now! This is one of probably 6 packs of diapers.

inside this huge bag is a case of about 200 diapers!!!



This beautiful blanket was made by Jacob's step-mom Karen. She made one for Taylie too. I called her to see if she could teach me how to make one and she said that maybe I should wait because who knows what I may get later.....I am so thankful she gave me the hint because I tried to have her teach me anyway and to make a long story short, we all know that I am domestically challenged. I will leave it at that, those of you that know me well are laughing now and understand what I mean by that. Thanks for the blanket Karen, I love it tons!!