introducing...

Hello, it's me!!

Anyone got any unsolicited advice for Jaci?

Since Jaci and Rob have been busy the past several months with buying, selling and re-finishing homes, they haven't had a lot of time to consider names for the little girl coming in TWO WEEKS!!...so I thought we could all pitch in and help with some suggestions.

I put the names Sarah, Elizabeth, Halle, Kate and Jacilyn into nameberry and here are some of the suggestions it gave:

Abigail

Addison (for a girl? wierd.)

Adelaide

Aubrey

Audrey

Avery

Charlotte

Claire

Claudia

Evangeline

Eve

Felicity

Gabriella

Gwenyth

Hannah

Hadley

Juliet

Layla

Lily

Maeve

Matilda

Olivia

Paige

Priscilla

Savannah

Skye

Tabitha

Zoey

I guess these are a little better than the ones mom found on the family tree: Phylora, Arseneth, Ursula, Medora and Seythia.
Anyone else have any helpful suggestions?

Here is another fun website for baby name searching: BabyNameWizard

Jubilee of Trees

Our little tree was called Jingle Bell Junction and turned out pretty cute. Ang had pretty much everything done so all I had to do was wire the stuff on. nothing too tuff. Dustin made the cute little houses, and not one of them was in foreclosure. . . . so the sale went through pretty easily. I heard it went for about $2800, some crazy person in Stone Cliff. But hey, if you have to pay that much- it was good that it was ours. I noticed some of the trees only actioned for $600 -800, and others didn't even sell. not sure what they do with those. I was glad for the break from all the stress, and it was good to visit with Ang, Whitnee and Holly. I won't send you a picture of our tree, I'm pretty sure it will be just a normal everyday tree. But feel free to post pictures of your cute trees so I can see what I'm missing. Oh, and make sure there are some cute little kids next to them.

okay, so obviously I have no idea HOW to put a video from youtube on here . . . so just go to the link and watch these fantastic quints, ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIoSTbPt_PI ) it's amazing how much they look and act alike!

PS22

When Josh and Lauren and I had a Glee marathon last weekend I was telling them about this group of 5th graders in New York. They have a talented and dedicated teacher that has taught them to sing and MAN! Can they sing. There are a hundreds of videos of them on YouTube but these some of my favorites:



or go here.

Growing up too fast!

GQ Tanner sporting his new stylin hat and ultra cool
pocket watch. It's hard to believe he's now 12,
a newly ordained Deacon and going to Jr. High.

And then there's Sarah, who at 15 is our adventuresome
and beautiful style setter,eclectic though it may be.



The girls, Halle & Sarah
and the whole gang: Tait
(totally put out about having
to put his Sunday clothes back on),
Garrett, Tanner,
Sar Bear and Halle Kate.

Hereeeeee's Halle! Dancing her way into our hearts. She's so cute, I know Jaci didn't mind getting the grass stains out of her new tights . . . . I hope. whispered 'I love you Jaci.'