Coolest Mohawk I have ever seen...

Here it is the coolest Mohawk I have ever seen!


(double click on the photo to see it closer)

The Great Outdoors...

Cory and I went snowshoeing a couple of weeks ago. We went with some friends of ours and had such a great time! It has been quite awhile since we have gone, and it was so refreshing to be outdoors again! We also packed a sled, so after our ascents, we would hop on the sled and take a ride down. It was a blast, I can't believe I haven't ever packed a sled with me before!





Don't you love aspen tree's? We hiked up to this little, quite, grove of aspen's that was soo picturesque. The snow was untouched and it was just beautiful!



Black and Whites are the way to photo aspen's.






Last weekend, I went up to Ogden and did a three full day certification, to become a Personal Trainer. It was way intense but a lot of fun. While I was up there, I saw a guy on the side of the road, who had the coolest green mohawk that I have ever seen. Oh don't worry I totally took a picture with my friends camera, and she is emailing it over today. I will post it as soon as I get it!! Check back!

Oh and Happy Valentine's Day. Ya know, I have heard people complain about this day, saying things such as "why do I need special day to remember my spouse? I tell him/her I love her everyday, what is one more day?"

To those who think similarly my thought's are this;

To me it is a fabulous opportunity to spend precious time together. It is a day when it is perfectly acceptable and expected, to be unusually romantic and actually make a statement to your significant other. A statement of; I Love you forever without condition, and you are the one for me. No one else can fill your shoes, no one else fills me up the way you do, and on Valentine's Day we get to celebrate all of the hard work that we spend everyday to make this relationship work.

So I may embarrass my husband a little, but on a past Valentine's Day, I walked into our house and all over the walls I saw these little pink hearts stuck everywhere. As I looked closer on every heart he had personally written a reason that he loves me. Then on the floor there was a trail of roses leading up to my favorite dinner (gardenburger with yummy fries). What a guy!

So right now, stop and get creative and start thinking of something special you can do to suprise your lover! Even if you read this after Valentine's Day, get out of your box and do something special!

Blogger's Block, and fun pictures...

Yes I have a bit of blogger's block lately. Everytime I sit down to type something I never end up finishing my post, or I get interrupted, or if I do get a minute at the computer I prefer to research something, plus I have gotten quite busy.
I have started teaching spin twice a week (Wednesday nights at 8:30pm and Saturday mornings at 8:15am if you want to come!) I am teaching my Pump class on Monday and Thursday morning's at 6:30am and I have 3 people that I meet with every week for fitness constultations, which is a lot of fun. But with the fun takes a lot of research and prep so my spare time is usually spent creating spin classes, finding good music, or something else fitness related.
I also am addicted to a new blog http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/ and have been spending a lot of my late night time there!
Anyway what is a post without pictures right?! So here are some updated pictures of My Beautiful Lily.


You can't see the shirt very well, but it does say "Daddy's Girl". Even though she is quite attached to me, I love this shirt and got quite a few pictures of Cory holding her with this shirt on that are cute...



Yes look closely at this picture and you will see Lily's first tooth poping out of her gums!


Oh man I love bath shots! This is the day she figured out that she could splash!


Lily isn't much for sitting down anymore. She is obsessed with walking (with help) and loves this little spot at the end of Bensen's bed.


This is classic Lily! She is always grinning and such a happy girl - The room lights up when she is in it - ok so I'm a proud mom :)


Hope your having a fabulous January so far -

-Jill

Holiday Highlights...

We had a great Christmas Holiday this year. It was great having everyone off school and work (even though I was a little nervous about me really enjoying this) and enjoying a whole bunch of time together!

This year Christmas was special to me. We took time to learn as a family the true meaning of Christmas and talked a lot about the Savior and how Christmas is special because He was born on that day. And because of Him we are all able to become better people. It is very sacred when you see the click in a child's eye's of that wonderful blessing and I know Asher is more aware of Him now.
We read in the bible, and tried to give the kiddos a real life account of the nativity story. All in all, there was definetly a special spirit hanging out at my house over the holiday.

Shaner, me and Lily


I made a special Christmas Eve dinner. We had ham, sweet potatoes
corn, spinach salad and apple pie (for Cory), oreo pudding pie (for Asher),
and Dairy Free and Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie for Bens and I. (Yes it sounds
bad but turned out great!)

The Sunday before Christmas we went over to my mom's
and had a Christmas Party. Asher loves space and was totally
excited about this moon that lights up and shows the lunar phases...


On Christmas Eve we went sledding. Cory was fabulous and sat in the truck with
Lily so I could ride with the boys...we had a blast (even if our sled was broken)


Santa gave Asher this Star Wars Lego set. He also got the cowboy
hat and guns. He's so funny...


Asher put the hat on Lily and she was actually quite happy with it on...


On Christmas Day after opening presents we spent the rest of the day with Cory's
Family opening presents and of course eating! We have such a great time together -
I love his family!


And Last but not least Cory's favorite present! He bought (2) 4-wheelers for Christmas.
One to fit Asher and one a little bigger that he can ride. They have had so much fun on
them and Asher is really good and driving his. It fits him perfect as you can see from the picture
and he loves the helmet! (Good Thing)



I hope you all had a fab. Christmas and enjoyed some down-time.
-Jill

The magical 6, and the Christmas Spirit...

Lily is 6 months old!
We are so excited (and of course a little sad at how fast time flies).
She has blessed our lives in so many ways, and of course we couldn't imagine
our lives without her.






To celebrate we went to Build A Bear to get her, her very own Teddy (in this case Bunny).
My boys LOVE their Teddy's. In fact, I have thought before about the "what if we left Bensen's Teddy somewhere, or what if Asher's just fell apart someday (its quite old) etc" and I have to stop my thinking immediately because life would not go on for my boys if that did happen. (Of course it would it would just be me that would have to deal with them). Anyways, we ALWAYS know where "Teddy" is at my house.

This Picture is of the boys each kissing Bunny's heart before they put it in Bunny. (They each put a heart in Lily's Bunny). It was pretty cute...they kissed it and hugged it and rubbed it on their heart and said a whole bunch of cute things so that Bunny would be super special for Lily.


Then Bensen got Bunny all washed up and scrubbed her clean for Lily.



Last Friday was Asher's Christmas Devotional. He was the cutest Shepherd around!
This pic makes me smile. Asher's hat is making his cute ears stick out and Abby is missing her two front teeth! I love it! They both did such a good job!


Asher during his part. His part was "The angels sang for joy at Jesus' birth".



Asher and Abby with their teacher Mrs. Strong. She is such a great teacher and is so patient with my ever social Asher!



As always, in a hurry tonight. Cory took the kids to the library so I could have 30 min. of peace tonight, so I have some music I need to get together for my spin class tonight!
Lots of Love -Jill

Tag...

I haven't forgot! I have been tagged so here it goes...

5 things I was doing 10 year ago:

- dating my hot hubby

- going to USU

- getting certified to teach fitness classes

- trying to make hard, life decisions!!

- playing the guitar (doesn't happen much anymore!)

5 Things on my to do list in no special order:

- Go to Paris

- Get my scrapbooks up to date

- Hike the mountain to the east of my house

- Spend more time loving my kiddos

- Go back to school, when my kids are older

5 favorite snacks:

Snacks right now are alot different for me then when my diet is normal so here goes! don't get jealous!

-Sweet potatoes with canola butter (really good...honestly!)

- dark chocolate chips, marshmallows, and brown rice crispies (gluten free of course) melted in the microwave (rice crispy treat)

- Starbursts

- Potato Chips

- Brown Rice Tortillas with lunch meat and spinach

5 Jobs I've had:

- Greenhouse worker (I love flowers!)

- Call center (for about 2 weeks, I hate sitting down!)

- Front desk at a Gym (Body by Banks, downtown SL)

- Realtor

-Group Exercise Instructor

5 Things I would do with a million dollars:

- Pay off the mortgage

- put lots in the bank

- give some to family

- put some in the kids college fund

- TRAVEL!

5 Things that made me laugh this week:

- Cory's dancing

- Bensen's giggle

- Lily's all gum's smile

- an email I received about a baby latching on through her mom's shirt (graphic sorry!)

- ummm...I need to laugh more apparently!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm thankful for all of you!

Sewing project...

Lily loves textures i've noticed as of late. She grabs anything and everything and wants to touch and feel everything. (This is way different from my boys!) So one day when I was carrying her and letting her drag her hand against the wall as I walked (our walls are texturized) I decided to make her a "texture blanket". So I headed to Wal-Mart and bought 5 different fabrics and cut them into squares, added some ribbons around the border to hook toys on to, added some soft mink fabric to the back and presto! I also made one for my good friend Chandy who just had a baby. Hers had a different pattern and turned out really cute. (I didn't post the picture cause I haven't given it to her yet!!)


Here is Lily loving her texture blanket! I love this age...so much life and personality!