Happiness

 Birthday Lunch!   Elizabeth's birthday heart attack- she loved it!   The Highlight of September this year was Elizabeth's 12th birthday! She has been looking forward to turning 12 this whole year! When she turned 11, she said "I'm almost 12!" In our Church the youth begin attending Youth classes and activities when they turn 12. The class of 12 and 13 year old girls were so sweet! They made hearts and I put them all over her room for her to see when she got home. Then, they kidnapped her on Mutual night which was also her birthday and had cake and ice cream and games. That was a little hard since we knew they coming to get her and we couldn't do cake and ice cream as well. Luckily, we celebrated her birthday the Sunday before with the family. She requested a pink swirly cake with hot pink and teal cake mix. It was fun! For her birthday she got a new jewelry box (hers was getting old), a necklace with the Gilbert Temple on it,another necklace, a ...

While we were in California over the break, we stayed with my brother and his family in their new home. We loved seeing them and spent some time hiking in the High Desert! Elizabeth was so happy to play with one of her few girl cousins- Kalea! Elizabeth and the High Desert. I spent a lot of my free time growing up exploring in the desert, chasing lizards and picking sage brush to make my own perfumes so it brought back good memories! Good thing some of my family still lives in my home town!   The Abbotts, some Kleinmans and the Andersons For the rest of our vacation, we stayed with Gma and Gradndad Abbott in Paso Robles and visited with cousins. The kids had a blast playing with their cousins and their new Christmas toys! We, of course, made a trip to the beach (although I went home early) and on a hike in the Elfin Forrest. There are very old trees here and it is a really cool place. At one point, a lady came up to us and asked us not to climb on the trees s...

So far this week, I have locked my car keys in the car in the parking lot of Wal-mart (only to discover the fact after I did a weeks worth of shopping) and tripped off the curb in front of the library and twisted my ankle. Yep, pregnancy does great things to my brain and my sense of balance! Whenever I sub at the school lately, people ask me how I am feeling. Fine, I tell them! Which is true- thankfully! I still get a lot of comments on how small my belly is. Last night at the PTSO meeting, I got these "I look like you when I am 2 months along!" and "I look like you right now!"My shirt was pretty baggy, so I think I'll have to wear something more form fitting from now on! Two things that I wanted to share on this post. 1) A Few Pics of the Year. My netbook died, causing all pictures to be loaded onto disc keys and so I won't do any long, end of the year Review Posts this year.  Last Year- 2013 - was Amazing ! We found out that we are expecting a Li...