Newest Member of the Jackson Family

Friday, April 16, 2010

Meet Bella... more pictures to come!! She is either always sleeping, or bouncing around like crazy. It has been hard to get a good picture of her. HAHA She is 10 weeks old and is a Tortie colored Lynx Point kitten. We love her so much already and her and Keoke have already started to be close buddies. They play together everyday, eat each others food, chase each other around, and are just so funny together. Keoke has never been around other animals and he has been really good with her so far. He plays a little rough sometimes, and tends to put her entire head in his mouth at once... but he is learning. He's about 3x's her size, but he is barely only a year old... so he is still a baby too.

Easter Weekend @ the Binghams

We spent Easter weekend in Vernal with Jamie and Jake and thier family and everyone had such a good time! The kids got along great and we only had one tiny pants wetting incident. WAHOO!!! I huge improvement from when we were there six months ago and the girls wet through every pair of pants we bight. SIGH. But this weekend was great! On Saturday we took the kids to the Dinosaur Mueseam for an Easter Egg hunt and they had a ton of fun. We stuffed all 10 of us into Josh's car since Jamie's was having trouble. We did pretty darn good! The kids got lots of eggs and then cashed them in at the end for prizes. Afterwards we went to the park for another Easter Egg hunt. There were thousands and thousands of real dyed eggs all over. There were also tons of kids. I was with Shaylee and Josh was with Spencer. The rest of the kids were at thier own start lines according to age. When they finally said GO! it was madness!!!! we ran so fast and ended up getting just three eggs. Spencer and Josh got two, Baylie and Jaxon got two or three each and Kimberlee got just one. She was quite upset until we let her know everyone got just abuot the same amount. This hunt seemed like it would be fun, but didn't turn out quite that way. It didn't seem too well orchestrated. HAHA. But all well! This weekend was also General Conference and so we got the chance to listen to our prophets and teachers. There were some great talks and some very inpiring testimonies. We all enjoyed it very much. Heidi and Jordan drove down Saturday afternoon and it was really fun to have a bunch of us there together. We missed Dad, Darin, Chandra, Camille, and of course McKay. On Easter morning the kids had a fun time doing an Easter hunt we put together at the house. Jake got everyone together for some very meaningful scriptures and a video about Easter and what it means. The kids seemed to enjoy it a lot, and I thought it was a great Easter morning message. We went to Scott and Debbie's house for lunch, all 13 of us! They prepared an amazing Easter meal and it was just wonderful! The potato salad was amazing. Shaylee discovered she likes cooked cabbage and artichokes. She was eating them like crazy! And Josh tried asparagus and liked it. YAY. We watched the last session of General Conference there and it was great. Afterwards we put the pinata Jamie made up and the kids took turns hitting it. They love pinatas! Sadly, we did have to head home. So after a few more minutes of playing on the four wheelers, we said goodbye and got packed back in our car. We really did have a great time. Thanks to Jamie and Jake for having us over!

A Song for Josh

Friday, April 2, 2010

This song has kinda been haunting me for the last few days... it has been running through my head, though I couldn't understand some of the words. Today I finally made myself look up the lyrics and I had to add it here. It is a song that reminds me of Josh, and I want to make sure he knows how much I love and appreciate him and am thankful for him everyday. Thanks baby!

"When I Look at You"
Miley Cyrus

Everybody needs inspiration
Everybody needs a song
A beautiful melody
When the nights are long

'cause there is no guarantee
That this life is easy

Yea when my world is falling apart
When there's no light
To break up the dark
That's when I
I look at you

When the waves are flooding the shore
And I can't find my way home any more
That's when I
I look at you

When I look at you
I see forgiveness
I see the truth
You love me for who I am
Like the stars hold the moon
Right there where they belong
And I know I'm not alone

Yeah when my world is falling apart
When there's no light
To break up the dark
That's when I
I look at you

When the waves are flooding the shore
And I can't find my way home any more
That's when I
I look at you

You appear just like a dream to me
Just like kaleidoscope colors that cover me
All I need
Every breath that I breathe
Don't you know you're beautiful
Yeah yeah

When the waves are flooding the shore
And I can't find my way home any more
That's when I
I look at you

I look at you
Yeah
Whoa-oh
You appear just like dream to me