Emily got baptized the first week in January. This was the first niece's baptism that I got to see because I had strep for Katelyn’s. I really enjoyed the program! All the little girls sang a song that was really beautiful. Katelyn and Emily’s aunt on her dad’s side, Haley, gave a talk. After the baptism we went to Amanda and Dave’s for lunch.
Emily looked beautiful in a dress her mother knitted.
All the little girls wore the dresses my mom made them for Christmas.
What an amazing year to end. It has been wonderful to have another year with my wonderful husband. To have our first anniversary. I cannot wait to see what next year entails for us.
For our New Year celebrations, we spent the night at Jake’s sister Tiffany’s house. Almost his entire family was there. All we were missing was Mom, Travis and Oriana. We had food, laughs and fun. We did some Karaoke which I thoroughly enjoyed. Played some games and watched the ball drop in Times Square. Although Jake and I have not been feeling well so we decided to home soon after midnight and went to bed.
Yay! I am finally caught up on my posts! I have even got everything for this year in before tomorrow.
So another funny thing Cash does is act like a Parrot. He loves to sit on my shoulder. I will often put him on my lap at which point he crawls up me and sits on my shoulder. Every time he does it Jake calls him a parrot.
Since Alicia was in town for Christmas we decided all us sisters would go to the Temple for the first time together. Since I got endowed we haven’t been able to get everyone together and someone to watch the kids long enough for use to go to the Temple. We planned it in advanced and made sure the dad’s watched the kids.
Mom, Andrea, Alicia and I went to dinner first then we picked up everyone and went to Jordan River. After the temple we went to Amanda’s house and made a silly video. That’s also where we got the group photo. It was a fun and spiritual night.
This Christmas was good one even though Jake had to go through some scary things in order to be home. Originally Jake was supposed to work over Christmas. However, when at work the medical person on site saw some strange things with his heart and sent him to Fairbanks to get a better opinion. Well in Fairbanks they gave him an EKG which they thought showed WPW (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome) and wanted him to see a cardiologist. It turns out that he did so Jake had to have microscopic heart surgery and with the recovery time allowed him to be home for Christmas. We had a little extra money this year so we had some nice presents and were able to spoil each other. Jake got me a Nook which I am loving. I got Jake an office chair, a watch and some clothes.
Since Christmas was on Sunday we went to Church and 9:00 so we could make it to my Grandma’s traditional Christmas morning breakfast. Since Jake and I are not morning people we decided to open our presents Christmas eve. We went to Church at Shelly and Jason’s, partly because it was at 9:00 and also because Jason was speaking. It was a great talk. Abby was funny during it, Shelly lifted her up so she could see Daddy and she kept saying Daddy loud enough so Jason would hear her. She kept saying it over and over again so Jason finally responded. “Hey baby girl” it was too cute. When he was done Shelly let Abby go and she ran up to daddy who was sitting up on the chairs behind the podium.
After church we went to Grandma’s for breakfast. Jake’s parents were not in town so we hung out at Grandma Burns’ for awhile then went home and relaxed the rest of the day.
Happy 1 year Anniversary to me and Jake. Yes I know it was a month and 1/2 ago, but I still wanted to say it. Jake was actually in Alaska on the actual Anniversary date, but we still celebrated. We ended up going to the Desert Star dinner Theater. They were playing It’s a Wonderful Life in the normal Desert Star way, a spoof on the real It’s a Wonderful Life. It was pretty good. The dinner was good as well. Although I had expected that we would eat and watch the show at the same time, but it turns out that you eat then once everyone has finished eating they will start the play.
So I have learned the Cash is a sunbather. He loves to lay in the area where the sun is shining. He even moves with the sun.
