Louisiana

I cannot believe that we have been in Louisiana for almost 6 weeks now. I LOVE LOVE it. It's been such a great move for our family. We are very happy!

JC's job is going perfectly. We get to see him every night AND he gets 2 weeks off a month. Can't beat that!

The kids and I are adjusting well. We have met some GREAT people. The people here are so nice and caring. Everyone introduces themselves and are so willing to help. It has been sooooo different from AZ because we have a small ward that covers hundreds of miles...but it's still the Gospel. I actually love our ward. I couldn't be happier with our choice of house, ward, town, school, etc.

The kids school wears uniforms, ALL of Louisiana schools do! So, I had to go buy ALL NEW clothes for the kids when we got here. That was fun...NOT! Hopefully it will save me $ in the long run, but it sure hasn't so far!!! The uniform thing is nice though in the mornings because there's no choice on what to wear. It's just the same ole same ole!!!

LIfE IS GOOD!!!!

Playing games

While we were in Joseph City, we played TONS AND TONS of Dominoes. The kids thought it was AWESOME. It was fun to see how much better they got the more we played. Gavin was the dominoe KING!!!
Stetson wanted to build the "Tower of Terror". So we built this massive lego tower. STetson LOVED to knock it over so we could build it again. It was his way of getting LOTS of mommy's attention!!!

Breaking Dawn

Me and my mom went to Breaking Dawn in Flagstaff the day it came out. We were in the theater for an hour and a half before the movie started. Needless to say, things got a little CRAZY!!!!

I REALLY really liked the movie. I didn't expect much because I thought the previous movies could have been better. But I would definitely say this was BY FAR the best Twilight movie!!!! I thought it was SUPER GOOD!

So Stetson!!!!

This picture says it all!

SO STETSON ;)

Sheeesh!!!

Three out of the Six times JC has flown home from working for 14 days....

his flights have been DELAYED ALL DAY!!!

That's 50%.

Holy ANNOYING!

Today JC was suppose to be home by 2pm...and he will be lucky to be home by 6pm (he's currently on "stand-by").

Last time he flew home he was suppose to be home by noon and didnt get home til 8:45pm.

I'M DONE.

So when people ask me why? we are moving...

NOW YOU KNOW!!!

p.s. Can you tell I miss my Husband??? ;)

Nectarine Jam

Since nectarine's are $.77/lb at Safeway I decided to make some nectarine jam. Looks yummy. It was super simple and my FIRST time canning by myself.

add 6 cups of chopped nectarines.

3 cups of sugar

4 Tbsp of lemon juice

1 tsp of your choice of spice (i did cinnamon)

Medium boil for 30 minutes

skim off foamy stuff

put into pint jars

put into hot bather

hot bathe for 10 minutes

WAALAH...the finished product. I hope it tastes yummy! We will try some tomorrow :)

Disneyland Trip

We just got back from Disneyland. Had TONS of fun. We went with Justin & Jill + their 3 kids, my mom, Nephi, and our little family. Our older two kids were at the perfect age to really enjoy it and have a great time! We got 3 day hopper passes and went every other day. On the off days we just chilled at the hotel pool and ate yummy food and watched football (every girls favorite thing to do on vacation, right?)

JC, Jaxon, Mom (have no idea what ride that was)

The clan waiting in line for ToyStory Mania (probably my favorite ride)

The pictures are backwards but look closely at the kids, they are crying from the Tower of Terror. This was the "after" picture.

And this was our before picture, everyone was happy and excited. I got to say that i did NOT like this ride!!!

all the kiddos with their "bug" eyes on waiting for "It's tough to be a bug" movie!

Nana with the grandkids at Disneyland

Madison and Jalee striking a pose! (while i had to get my phone from lost and found)

funnnny faces!

Monsters Inc....Boo's door! LOVE THIS RIDE

We decided that we are going to do a Disneyland trip every TWO years. That way we don't over kill, but go enough to enjoy the rides and see the new ones!!! Can't wait for the Car's Land in CA Adventure to open! That should be cool.

The show at CA Adventure was awesome too. How amazing technology is!