Family Christmas Picture

We had our ward Christmas party a week or so ago and they took family pictures at it. I really like how ours turned out. I tried to get Andrew to go get family pictures taken before I got pregnant but that was like trying to pull teeth! So we haven't had nice pictures taken since our wedding..... 2 years ago! For some reason he hates getting them done so I MADE him take this one with me. He told me "only ONE! We aren't going to look and see if you like it or not and keep taking them" so i told him "then lets take a good one and we won't have to!" Well it turned out pretty good and we didn't have to take several. So hopefully some day when the baby is here I can drag him to go get them done! Hope everyone has a great Christmas!!!!

Its a ........

BOY!!! We went to the doctor yesterday and found out that "it" is a "HE"!!!!! We are so excited to finally know. Everything is going great. The ultrasound was fun to see. She showed his profile and we could see his little lips moving. Oh it made it so real that there really is a baby in there! Then she showed the bottom of his feet and we could see all 10 cute itty bitty toes. I told Andrew that I wanted to get an ultrasound machine (I don't know what its called) so that we could be able to see him when ever we want. Oh that would be fun! Well thats all my exciting news!

Lots to Post!

This never happens! I have alot to blog about!

Our Shed:
We finally have a shed! A few weeks ago we had a "barn raising" is what we called it, and of course it was on the day that we had winds blowing 70 mph! Well I don't really know how fast it was but it was a BAD and NASTY day! My dad was planning on finishing it that day because we had lots of help..... but plans changed and they only got the walls up. I felt bad for them to have to be working out in the nasty wind so I'm glad they quit when they did. Well my dad has been coming over every other day or so and finishing it up! And I can finally put all our stuff in it!!!!!! Yay!!!! He did a great job on it and I'm so thankful for him doing it for us.


New Carpet!
We have been waiting and saving for carpet and we finally were able to get it! And oh how nice it is! The entire house before was all wood floors. They were nice, they just really needed to be refinished. They are the original wood floors from the 40's (i'm guessing) which means that they weren't any good for insulating and it sure showed last winter in our gas bill. So our goal was to get carpet by this winter and we did it! It is so nice and the house seems so much more homey(is that a word?) It also doesn't get quite as dusty which is great. I think just about every night when we are home and just relaxing one of us has to mention how much we love the carpet! Its great and so comfortable. It will also be so much better for a baby. Just one thing to say.... Vacuuming is way better than sweeping in my opinion!

FHE Halloween Party
Every year we have a family FHE halloween party. It's lots of fun getting together with everyone. We sing our usual halloween songs, carve pumpkins, and eat the gross halloween food that everyone brought. Here's a few pics of it...

Mummy Dogs & Eye balls

Black Bat Wings & Worms

Our Pumpkins

Andrew's & Jackie's

Baby Update!
Everything is going great! I'm 18 1/2 weeks. We find out what it is going to be here in a few weeks and we are so excited!!!! I just want to be able to call it he or she instead of it. Also I felt it move last week!!! I felt a little twitching feeling and I keep feeling it more and more as the days go by. I was really unsure if it was the baby at first but now i'm pretty darn sure thats what it is. It's so exciting to be able to feel it and i'm excited to feel the large movements!

Unbeatable Deals!!!!!

So yesterday I had a Dr. appointment in flag. Everything was great but that wasn't the high light of the day. We went to Old Navy and they had a sale on shirts. Nothing great for women's but TONS of polo shirts for men! They were all $1.99 each! I had to double check with the lady there so that I wouldn't get my hopes up and it be the wrong shirts or something, beacuse I always do that. Well they really were $1.99 and I couldn't pass it up! I think I bought like 11 shirts for Andrew.... all the shirts they had that I knew he would like. I figured... For $1.99 why not!!!! When I got home I told him to sit down that I had a suprise for him. I started pulling shirts and more shirts out of the bag and he told me "Uh I think you spent to much I don't need that many more shirts." So I made him guess how much I got them all for and he thought I got them on sale for like $6....... NOPE!!!!!!!!!!! $1.99 each!!!!!!!!!! I only spent $23.00 on 11 shirts! Usually one shirt costs that much! Anyways if you are around an Old Navy anytime this week stop by and see if they have there sale! I don't know how long the sale lasts!

Just A Post

Well not a whole lot has been going on lately. I guess thats why I haven't posted in over a month! We did paint our living room on saturday while watching conference. It was fun and the room desperatly needed it. I really want to get things done before we have the baby which I know seems a ways away but I have a feeling that it is going to come alot quicker than we think. We are working on building a shed this weekend in our back yard. All I can say is YAY!!!!!!!!! Our poor baby won't have a room if we don't. Maybe we just have too much stuff. Oh well I'm just SOOO excited to have a shed!!! If I get some pictures I'll post them, hopefully next week.

Everything is going good with the pregnancy. I'll be 16 weeks on saturday!! I'm glad that the "being sick" stage is pretty much over. I wasn't ever really sick and I never threw up, but I just felt yucky which is still not fun. And also I am very excited to get out of this looking fat stage and finally look like I really am pregnant. So that means I probably won't post any pictures of me until I am actually looking pregnant. It seems like it is going by pretty fast but yet at the same time pretty slow. When I see how much farther I have to go it seems like forever but when I look back on the whole thing, It has just flown by! We get to find out what we are having in about 4 weeks and we can't hardly wait. We are so excited!!!!!

Well thats about it. I say this just about everytime I post but hopefully I'll get another post on here soon!

Guess what!

I'm Pregnant! You don't know how good it feels to finally be able to tell everyone! We wanted to wait until we had our first ultrasound to tell everyone. It's been a very hard secret to keep! We are VERY excited!! I am about 9 1/2 weeks (I'll be 10 weeks on saturday). The due date is March 28th. I want to put up a baby ticker but I've decided to wait until it looks more like a baby than a little tad pole.

Being able to see the baby on the ultrasound was so neat. We could see the little heart beating and little stubby legs and arms moving. Seeing it helped make it feel a little more real that we really are going to be having a baby! As for me there isn't one I want more than the other. A girl will be fun to dress up but I hear boys are much easier... so what ever we have will be wonderful no matter what! And as for Andrew, he says it doesn't really matter to him either but I know he is secretly rooting for a boy.

Everything has been going good. A little sick but nothing unbearable. Brushing my teeth is the worst!!! I feel like I could gag just thinking about it! I can't complain because I know it could be worse.

Well thats all the exciting news I have for now. I do have a question for any of the expert bloggers about how to put the cute headers on my blog.... I can't figure it out. I'm sure it's pretty easy and thats why I can't do it. So if any of you would like to help me I would love it! Just leave me a comment. Thanks!

2008 Softball Champs!

What a fun summer we've had getting to play softball! At the beginning of the summer Steph and Tim asked us if we want to play on a co-ed softball team. And of course we said "SURE!" They asked a whole bunch of others to play and we had a team. RT Rentals was our team name and of course we had shirts made for our "uniform". We really did pretty well at all our games with some wins and losses. It was a good team to have. No complianers and no fights. I think everyone was just out there to have fun.

Well the summer flew by and the next thing we knew we were in the championship game! We played good and we won! I think everyone decided that we had to win so we didn't have to play again right after that at 9:30 which was too late to be playing softball.

We had a fun time playing a maybe we'll get to do it again next summer!

Girls Camp

My calling in our ward is with the Young Women. When they first asked me to be in there I thought "ugh!! I just got out like 2 years ago!" But since I have been in there I have had alot of fun and have learned so much. I love the girls and ladies I work with. They are awesome! One of the fun parts of being in YW is getting to go to girls camp. We went about 2 weeks ago and it was so much fun. Its alot different as a leader than when I went as a girl. Some good things and some not as good, but still tons of FUN! This year Stephanie, my mom , my dad, and I all got to go which made it even more fun. I was with the 4th level girls. We went down a day early and did our over night hike. They all went repelling and had lots of fun. Such a fun group to be with. We were out there in a sunday which was really cool. We had all our meetings out there which was a pretty neat experience. I could go on forever about the whole week but I won't. I'll just say it was a really fun week!

Just a few pictures

Tagged Twice!

Ok well Amber tagged me a while ago and I just never did it. Then I got introuble for not doing it. Now I see that Tiffanye tagged me to do the same tag so I guess I might as well do it since I have a minute!

How to play this game: Post these rules on your blog: List 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names.

3 joys:
~I love being around family wether is mine or Andrews
~It may be weird but I love when Andrew walks in the door after work and seeing Roxy get so excited to see him that she almost pees all over the floor (she doesn't but thats how excited she gets. We don't let Roxy inside when Steph comes over because everytime she does, she does pee!.... But only for Steph no one else)
~I love being an aunt and seeing Austin and Lana run to me yelling "JACKIE!!" It just makes me happy and so excited to have kids of my own some day.

3 fears:
~I don't like being home alone much, especially at night. Roxy isn't much of a guard to go make me feel better either.
~MICE!!!! I hate mice. I guess I'm not so much afraid of them, they just gross me out!
~Not being a very good teacher to my kids someday.

3 goals:
~Get back into shape, like I was in High School. And along with that, Lose a little weight.
~Do better at not being such a chicken at things.
~Do better at reading my scriptures.... I really need to work on that one.

3 current obsessions/collections:
~It's not current but watching SURVIVOR!! I can't wait til it comes on again!
~I have a very LARGE collection of dust at my house! I get tired of having to dust every other day!
~DVR. I hate watching TV with out it now. We shouldn't have ever got it in the first place then I wouldn't have this dumb problem!

3 random things about yourself:
~Most people already know but I'm leagally blind in one eye.
~I LOVE going camping and fishing!
~I like to clean..... when I'm in the mood. My mom would say thats a lie, but now that I have a house of my own I enjoy seeing the end result. Plus I'm just a grump when I know that the house is a mess and thats no fun for Andrew.

I tag...Stephanie, Traci, Corri, Paula, and Kamarie

Twins........ Born 6 Years Apart!

Most of you who know us both are probably wondering..... Twins?? You don't even look like twins! Thats what we think! But for some reason since Andrew and I have moved back people always think I'm Stephanie and sometimes they think Stephanie is me. AT LEAST once or twice a week when we are out and about in town people always tell me things like "Hi Stephanie" , " Stephanie I need you to sign here" , "Mom's out without the kids huh?", or "So you aren't working at Farmers anymore?" it goes on and on! Stephanie gets it too like the other day someone that I had been talking to earlier asked her "So did you get it all figured out" and she was like "uh....... yeah???" The lady finally realized that it was Stephanie and not me and told her "nevermind.... I think I'm losing it". It's too funny! One of the funny ones was when Stephanie was at Wal-Mart, someone that I graduated with saw her and stood infront of her, didn't say it but was kinda like "uh hi!" then they realized it wasn't me and kept walking. So funny! We just can't see how people can get us that mixed up? Sometimes when I have to tell them "no I'm Jackie, Stephanie is my sister" they ask "Oh my goodness are you TWINS????" Yeah I guess so, just born 6 years apart!!! We really don't think we look THAT much alike ... do we? I'm about 4 inches taller than her, she has dark brown hair and I have blonde. I guess its the cheeks that confuses everyone.

Well this month has gone by pretty fast. As you can see it has been one month since my last post. Its pretty sad, but I really don't have anything to post. No kids yet and i'm pretty sure that no one wants to hear about how our dog is doing. Anyways, over the past weekend we went to Safford to see Andrew's family. That was alot of fun. We got to see his, I guess OUR new nephew. He's a cutie! For some reason I just can't put it in my head that his neices and nephews are mine too. We had a family picnic at Roper lake and that was fun. We played horse shoes, ate lunch, and Andrew tried to fish, but no luck. What a fun weekend. Then on monday his other sister stopped by on their way through town to see us. It was a lot of fun! Well not much more has been going on. Mostly just working. I'm pretty excited for this next up coming month! Alot is going on. We get to go camping, start planting some grass, and just have the nice weather. I'm so excited! Hopefully i'll have more to say here in the next couple weeks.

My ABC's

A - Attached or single: Attached

B - Best friend: Andrew

C - Cake or pie: Definately Cake, although my mother-in-law makes really good pies!

D - Day of choice: Probably Friday just because it means a weekend.

E - Essential item: I hate to say it, but my cell phone. It goes everywhere with me.

F - Favorite color: Dark Red

G - Gummy bears or worms: Gummy bears, you can pick the flavor you want.

H - Hometown: Winslow, AZ

I - Indulgence(s): I LOVE CHOCOLATE!!!! But what girl doesn't?

J - January or July: I guess July but in July i'm usually ready for January and in January i'm ready for July.

K - Kids: I don't have any.....................not yet anyways!

L - Life is incomplete without: My husband Andrew

M - Marriage date: March 2, 2007

N - Number of siblings: I have 2, Stephanie and Jesse

O - Oranges or apples: Oranges

P - Phobias or fears: Mice..... I HATE mice!

Q - Quotes: I dont have a favorite quote.

R - Reason to smile: I know its dumb but Roxy makes me laugh everyday she is just a wild puppy and its funny to watch her.

S - Season of choice: Its a tie, Fall or Spring. I just like the nice weather!

T - Tag three friends: Tiffanye, Corri, and Kamarie

U - Unknown fact about me: Some may already know but I have one legally blind eye.

V - Very favorite store: American Eagle

W - Worst habit: Not cleaning up after my self.......... It just makes it harder to clean later.

X - X-ray or ultrasound: I've never had either............. but I guess ultrasound?

Y - Your favorite food: Fettuccine Alfredo YUM!!!!

Z - Zodiac sign: Scorpio

Sorry Steph I didn't know that you tagged me.

Book Tag

The Rules...

1. Pick up the nearest book (at least 123 pages).
2. Turn to page 123
3. Find the 5th sentence
4. Post the 5th sentence on your blog
5. Tag 5 people

Ok, Paula tagged me to do a book tag. I don't have very many books here at my house but the closest one to me I about died when I saw what it was. We got it for our wedding from one of Andrew's mission companions. Its called "The Action Hero's Handbook." Its a weird book but when I looked at the 5th sentence I thought is was funny. The 5th sentence is "Getting hit with a chair from behind, or from any side by a metal chair, will inflict a significant amount of pain and injury." I don't know why but Andrew thinks this book is hilarious.

I tag Amber, Kamarie, Traci, Tiffanye, and my mom.

Our Valentines Day!

What a great Valentines day it was! Andrew wanted to buy me a new set of scriptures for Valentines day. I have been wanting some for a while now. Some that have my new name on them. He was affraid that I was going to think it was dumb to get scriptures for Valentines Day, but of course I didn't I was excited. I haven't gotten them yet but they are on there way and I'm so excited!! He also gave me flowers.... not roses, red tulips! They are so pretty! I love them! He is such a sweet boy! Anyways, I wanted to make Andrew a cake that said I love you on it, so I did. After a few hours I was finally done with it, I put it on the counter and went to go do a few other things in the room. I came back in the kitchen and there I see Roxy tucking her tail and running out as I walk in (knowing she was already in trouble)......... oh and I can't forget to mention her licking all the white frosting thats all over her black lips as she is running away! Oh I wanted to beat that dog!!!!!! She made me so mad I wanted to cry!!! After a while I thought oh well, I guess life wouldn't be any fun with out stories like that to look back on and laugh. This Valentines Day was great!

Well not a whole lot has been going on lately. Just working! Andrew and I have recently gotten new callings. Andrew was called to be the new scout master and likes it so far and I am the first counselor in the Young Women. It been lots of fun being in there with all the girls and it has been a good experience too.

Wow! I think that it is way past time to change my blog. We had a great Christmas! We were able to go to Andrew's parents house for a few days before and then came home and had Christmas here in Winslow. Its always fun to go see them. Since then we have just been really busy. We are now managing RT Rentals here that my dad recently bought. It has been lots of fun learning how to run it and it will be even more fun when we can run it with ease and make it grow. Not much more has happened lately and we don't have kids yet to tell about, although we do have Roxy and she is just growing bigger and bigger (I'm sure you all want to know about her!).