Holiday Post

This post will not include any pictures but I feel impressed to write! I have always absolutely loved the holiday season. Yes, as we all know, I love shopping! But even bigger than that is the feeling of this time of year. This year more than ever I have been able to reflect on the true meaning of these holidays (possibly because I cannot go shopping!) But I am thankful for it. I feel closer to my little family, and I feel a love from my savior more than every before. I feel a warmth in my heart that I have not allowed myself to feel for quite sometime.

I am not sure if any of you have felt this way before, but for probably the last six months I have felt a little bit shut down. Not that I haven't been happy, but I don't feel emotions that I am used to feeling. You know that I am quite an emotional gal, but that has been gone. I never thought that I would miss that feeling but I realized that I was blessed with that tenderness for a reason. I believe it is a blessing that allows me to truly care for others and there happiness. Just 1.5 weeks ago I was able to sing with Brittany at her Relief Society Christmas program and we watched a slide show called "Reflections of Jesus Christ." In that moment I was able to feel the spirit more strongly than I have felt for a long time, and since then I have been overwhelmed with emotion and I am glad to have it back.

I feel as though I can "feel" again! I love you all and hope that you have a wonderful holiday and that you are able to spend time reflecting on the true meaning.

Merry Christmas,

Sarah

LATE HALLOWEEN!

I am finally putting my girls halloween pictures up! Taylor wanted to be a rock star so then we all decided to be rock stars! Here we are Rockin out on Halloween!

As you can see in this picture, piglet has a costume on too! That was Taylor's doing!!!
And yes....Macie walks now! like crazy! She is still a generally happy baby as long as we are home! I think she is going to be a home body cause the minute we go anywhere else, she is not quite the same! But CUTE as ever!!!

Taylor and I had fake eyelashes and she looked awesome with them! People kept asking if she was supposed to be Hannah Montana and I guess she is on her shirt but she just went along with it! So now she always asks about Hannah Montana as if they are best friends!! Awesome!

Taylor and her cousin Lexi ended up combining costumes by the end of the night and playing with eachothers stuff and this is what we ended up with! A RockStar tinkerbell and A Violent tinkerbell!

My Sister Allison was a Barrel or Monkeys! I loved it and the kids loved it! And Lindsay and mark and brinley were the Flinstones. Yes, I do get to take credit for there costumes! I made them! I thought they turned out very cute!

A DAY AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH!

This week, we took a neighborhood fieldtrip to the pumpkin patch out by our house! The kids had a blast! Taylor and her cousins got to pick there very own pumpkin, see animals, go on a hay ride, and play...play...play! While Macie ate Dirt and rocks and everything else!

We are really loving our new area and hope that we will be here for a while! It is nice and peaceful out here! Close enough, yet far enough away...if you know what I mean! Taylor and Macie are finally making some friends out here and so are we! It is fun to learn how many people we know that live out here! It is a small world!

For those of you who don't know (because I never update my Blog anymore!) Macie is now 1! She turned 1 on October 1 and we had a fun birthday for her! I don't have all the pictures with me so I will, yet again, have to post them later, but she definately got into her birthday cake and had a great time!

Babies, Babies, Babies!

So this week is baby week! My sweet friend Windy had her baby boy this week and named him Landon Curtis! Precious little thing!

Then my cousin Rachel had her baby on Tuedsay and named him Jackson Dean...

And today my brother Steve and his wife Shelley had a baby boy! He was 6 13 and 20 inches long! They named him Tevin James! He was born a little bit early and may spend a few days in the NICU, but he is a healthly baby boy and so precious!

Also, Jaime's cousin Bruna is blessing her sweet baby girl Sophia tomorrow! She is about 1 month old!

I love all these babies but it sure doesn't tempt me to have another one real soon!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU!

WE'RE HERE!

Well, we are officially moved in to our home in Syracuse! I will admit I did shed a few tears before leaving my friends and young women in Provo. However, I am excited for a fresh start! Our lawn is about half-way green now and things are pretty clean so I feel much better about the place! It is starting to slowly feel like home!

We do not have internet yet and may not for a few more weeks so bare with me friends! I will become a blogger again soon!

Taylor loves our new house and says very frequently, "But mom, I will just miss our old house so much!" She had many little friends in Provo that she mentions all of the time and we will hopefully get to see them from time to time!

It has been fun seeing some of you who live up North already and hope to see more of you! Love you all and I will blog to you soon!

Chow!

SO IT'S OFFICIAL

Well.............we are making the leap! (Erica sorry if this is the first time you hear this!!!) We are moving into our house in Syracuse! If you are wondering, YES, this was a very sudden decision but we are extremely excited! It will be a little bit of a process! I went there the other day to clean it up from the renters, who apparently forgot that someone owns that house! Our lawn is dead and full of dog poop, I don't think they vacuumed once in the 6 months that they lived their! I have filled the vacuum many times with dog hair and I haven't even gotten to downstairs yet!

Anyway, we are getting it all cleaned up and will be moving in 1-2 weeks! Super excited to be close to family and friends. We are also very sad to leave the great friends we have made in Provo! It has been a truly wonderful experience! We have learned a lot and have loved living so close to my brother Roger and his cute family!

Jaime and I have had many spritual and growing experiences in the last few months and are very grateful for them! I will definately post pictures when we get all of our stuff moved in!

Stay tuned........

Long time-No write!

Hey ya'll! Just wanted to give you an update! Things have been pretty crazy for a while! We are trying to prepare our house here in Provo to put it on the market. (excited and sad at the same time!) The hard part is that all of the homes around us have been for sale for over 1 year, so it is hard to get too excited about it! Also we really love our friends and ward here in Provo! However, we are excited to eventually make our way to O-Town!

I have been working doing computer network stuff for Jaime's Dad's law office! And Jaime has been working in Ogden a few days a week as well so we have been back and forth quite a bit!

I have also been super busy with young women's! We just had girls camp about 1 1/2 weeks ago and it went really well! It just took a lot of preparation, but it is all over!

I also competed in the Provo Vocal competition, and didn't do very well, but it was a great experience! Between that and the Jenny Phillips workshop, I realize how much work I have cut out for me if I want to be in the music business! But it won't stop me, I will keep moving forward!

Macie is almost 10 months old now and she is probably the cutest, biggest chunk you have ever seen! She weights 23 pounds and that is more than taylor weighed when she turned 1! I always say, as long as they come out small, I don't care how big they get after that! Plus she is just so fun to squeez so I love it!

Taylor is still definately 3! Still asking why and argues with everything I say............ and I mean everything! But she is very sweet to her baby sister and sometimes to me so that makes up for it!

ANYWAY...LONG STORY LONG! Life has been a little crazy so sorry if I have been a bad friend to anyone, but I don't mean to be! Just need to focus a little more on our little family at the moment!

Well, now that we are up to speed, I will see what I can do about being better at this Blogging thing! Love you all and I will post pictures soon!