Do you like my new look?

So, I have been reading a lot of blogs lately, mostly of old friends from high school and my freshman year at BYU. I have noticed that almost everyone has really cute blogs. And I was still using the boring template that I got from blogger. So, I decided it was time to update. I saw the link to Leelou blogs on a couple of peoples pages so I went there and looked. She has really cute stuff, and it was totally easy to do. I highly recommend it. The hardest part was choosing which design I wanted. Click on the link on my side bar to go and check it out.

Primary Program

Today was our ward's Primary Program. My little Sunbeam, Jacob, had a part. He did so good. I was so proud of him. I have seen a lot of Primary Programs in my life, and I have participated in a lot of programs, seeing as how I have been a primary teacher for more years of my marriage than I have not. On a side note, I was released as a primary teacher today after almost three years. Anyway, the program is so much funner to watch when it is your child up there. Here is a video of him saying his part.


If you didn't catch that it is, "I am a Child of God, and I lived with him in the premortal world." Isn't he cute. He had a hard time saying "premortal" we had to work on that a little. He wanted to say "premobil".

Here is a picture of cute Adam sitting up. I wouldn't leave him alone on a hard surface yet, but he is doing really good.

Farewell Summer

We went for a hike yesterday evening and I realized that it is truly fall. The leaves in the canyon are changing colors already, and it was cold enough for sweatshirts. I have been holding on, not quite ready for it to be fall. Really, I am not ready for it to be winter. I know that we don't have the worst winters in the world, but they seriously seem to last forever here. So, here is a look back at some of the fun things we did this summer.

We went to parades and came home with lots of salt water taffy.








We had lots of outdoor adventures, including hiking, camping, fishing, and boating on three different kinds of boats, a sail boat, a motor boat, and a raft with paddles.






We went on a Wardle Family vacation to Bear Lake


We went to museums. The Thanksgiving Point dinosaur museum with cousins, and The Hill Air Force Base museum.


We played with farm animals at Wheeler Farm and Thanksgiving Point.


We played with friends. Jacob loves playing with our next door neighbor Lexi. I got to reunite with some of my old high school friends/college roommates. We have a lot of kids between the four of us now.


We played at the park a lot. We mostly went to the splash park by our house. We had a cousins play group there once a week. These pictures are from Copperton Park.


I drug Adam along on all of these trips. He is the best baby, he never complained. He is five months old now. He has learned to roll, and he is working on sitting.


We had a great summer. We had a lot of adventures without going very far from home. In fact, the furthest place we went was Bear Lake, just a couple of hours north of here. I am sad to see the summer end. But at lease fall has some fun things in store too, like BYU football, cooler weather, preschool for Jacob, pumpkins, and fall leaves. All topics for another post.

Young at heart, if not in body

This weekend I had the opportunity to do something I haven't done in a long time. I went water skiing. I love to water ski. Every time I get on a speed boat I have pleasant memories from my youth. My family never owned a boat, but every summer we had youth activities that included boating on the Columbia River. I wouldn't say that I was ever a good water skier, but I did get to the point where I could get up every time and venture out over the wake if I was feeling really brave. Since I have been married I have had very little opportunity to go skiing. The last time was about six years ago, before I had kids. I had a lot of fun that time, I still had my old skills. Well, this Saturday some friends in our neighborhood organized a neighborhood day at the lake. We went and hitched a ride in our neighbors boat. It was so much fun. My kids loved the ride. We had quite and adventure on the tube. They had this giant tube that fit three people. Randy, our friend Rob (who owns the boat), and his son, Steven, went for ride on the tube. I was next to ride on the tube with Steven. I thought about letting Jacob ride, but I was really glad that I didn't when Steven and I found ourselves abruptly in the water. We were speeding along, having a great time, when all of the sudden the ride stopped, it felt like we were sucked of the tube and pulled into the water. We popped out of the water sputtering, and saw the tube in two pieces. The top part ripped and the whole thing fell apart. It was only their second time using the thing. I hope Rob can get a refund. Well, since I was already wet I decided to try my hand a skiing. It took me several tries, but I did eventually get up on the skis. I didn't last for long because the water was very choppy. I tried again and got up a second time, the water was still choppy and this time I fell hard. It hurt. I decided I was done. I was proud of myself for doing it though. Today I am so sore. I am even sore in places you wouldn't expect, like my chin, I must have hit the water with my chin. My forearms are sore, it hurts to squeeze anything, you would be surprised how many things you squeeze, I guess that is from holding onto the rope for dear life. Every muscle in my shoulders hurts, my thighs hurt. I have had a hard time moving around today. Every time I feel my sore muscles all I can think is "I am not as young as I used to be." Despite all the aches and pains, I would do it again. I love it, we had a great day.

I love Weight Watchers!

(I have been meaning to write this post since Monday, but I was a little busy reading Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer. I didn't have time for anything else.)
I seriously love Weight Watchers. Thank you, thank you Kristin, for talking me into doing it after I had Nathan. It is the best thing that I ever did for myself. It is so easy to loose weight when you follow their plan. While I was pregnant with my second baby all of my sisters-in-law, except Erika who is already skinny (I know what you are thinking, but give yourself some credit, you are 8 months pregnant right now), started WW. After I had the baby Kristin started telling me how great the program is. I resisted, I didn't really think that I needed that much help loosing the weight, but then she reminded me that it took me over a year to loose all of my baby weight after my first baby. And I admitted to her that my ideal weight was about 20 lbs less than my pre-pregnancy weight. She told me that I would be able to loose all of my baby weight and be at my goal weight by Thanksgiving, this was in June. I decided to give it a try. And, she was right. By Thanksgiving I was at my goal weight and by Christmas I was a WW Lifetime Member, which means that I as long as I go once a month and stay at my goal I don't have to pay. Well, I just had baby number three and made a goal be back to my pre-pregnancy weight by Labor Day. I did it! On Monday I slipped into my favorite pair of size 4 pants and went out to lunch with my sisters-in-law. It feels great. I am so happy and proud of myself for meeting my goal. Oh, and I have to say that we all look pretty hot now that we are so thin. We seriously need a new family picture now.