My personality ... All in one

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You are Elizabeth Bennet of Pride & Prejudice! You are intelligent, witty, and tremendously attractive. You have a good head on your shoulders, and oftentimes find yourself the lone beacon of reason in a sea of silliness. You take great pleasure in many things. You are proficient in nearly all of them, though you will never own it. Lest you seem too perfect, you have a tendency toward prejudgement that serves you very ill indeed.


Your personality is as friendly and appealing as strawberry ice cream (especially the kind with chunky bits of real fruit). You've got a slightly sarcastic sense of humor, and you rarely stress out or take things too seriously. You are cute and sweet, but with a mischievous side. You are a bit of a troublemaker, but only because you're determined to avoid a plain vanilla life.

Quiet Book Layout

You will need 6x6 sheet protectors and 6x6 scrapbook paper. Ribbon to put around the temple, and ribbon to hold the pages together (or use a 6x6 album). A dime to put on the tithing page. Glue dots. Regular adhesive.

Here is what you need to order from http://www.ldscatalog.com/
Latter-day Prophets, 11″ x 17″ $1.00

New Era post card set 1
New Era post card set 4
New Era post card set 7 .50 cents each.

A 5x7 picture of a Temple of your choice: .75 cents

Also I have the write up of the prophets saved on my computer if you want them.

Livin' in fast forward ---->

I have been extremely busy and extremely tired the last 3 weeks or so.
Here is a quick rundown of what has been on my calendar:

October 1: I got a new job! I started watching our friend Sophie McKissick from 6:30 to 1:30 everyday! She is exactly a month younger than Alexandra. We usually hang out, go shopping once in awhile, take naps and change lots of diapers. Every time I go out with them everyone asks me if they are twins. They look nothing alike, but I think I am just going to start saying yes.

October 9: My mom flew in from Utah to hang out with us and help me our with Midnight Madness. She taught a dried flower arrangement class for me. While she was here we went to the Clayton Valley Pumpkin Farm. We also ran a ton of errands while she was here. Don't know if that is much of a vacation for her, but I am glad she was here.
October 12: Midnight Madness!! The evening went good. No huge problems that I can think of. Here is a list of projects that we did: dried flower arrangements, small Christmas boxes (which took a lot longer to make than anyone expected), picture frames decorated with scrapbooking paper and other embellishments, a quiet book (that I designed), a welcome sign with vinyl lettering and and Family Home Evening board with vinyl lettering, glass etching and a free candy making class. (I think that is more to remind me what we did. I went to another wards Midnight madness last weekend and got some good ideas for next year.) I am sick of looking at the projects that have been sitting at my house for the last 2 months.
Did I mention that it POURED rain that day. My mom and I were taking all the supplies into the church and got drenched. Then I picked up Miles from school that afternoon. He didn't have a jacket and I didn't have my umbrella, so we were soaked when we got into the car. Plus Caden and Alexandra were not on their best/cooperative behavior that day. It was a long day.

October 16: My mom went home. The week she was here went by so fast. We ate out a lot because we were out doing stuff the whole time she was here. We had Costco Pizza twice and McDonald's twice. Plus we went to Digger's with the Rossi's. (My mom and Chris are good "buddies" so we try to get together once while she is out here.)

October 17-20: Our annual girls "scrapbooking" trip. We congregated at Jen's new/huge house in Brentwood. I was unable to spend the night on Wednesday or Thursday nights, but I spent as much time as I could in the evenings with my good friends. I know I missed out on some "juicy" conversations, but I still had fun hanging out and talking, and I did get a few small projects done. Cadi flew out from Arizona and Naomi came from Utah. Valorie couldn't make it from Idaho because her little boy is due in 3 weeks! April J. and Tara made every ones scrapbook pages from last year, that turned out great. Jen and I were picked to make the pages for this year.

So those were the major things that has happened the last few weeks not to mention the smaller things like Dr. appointments, baseball practices, meetings, stamp club, Tim's softball games, Halloween party at the Jacobs', I volunteered at the school Book Fair last night and daily tasks such as laundry, cooking dinner and clean up! Wow! I am tired just writing this!

Alexandra at 7 months

Here are some recent photots of Alexandra: She has the best facial expressions!

Right now she is still unsure of sitting up by herself. She has no butt to anchor her! She usually falls over within seconds.

Up on her hands and knees: Getting ready to crawl. Right now I call it the worm. She can get around by pulling herself forward.
Getting into scrapbooking!
Our cuddly little girl!

She loves her fingers!

I Survived!!!

I just got home from our ward's Midnight Madness, which I was in charge of . My legs are sore and I am tired, but I did survive the ordeal. I think it turned out good (at least that's what everyone says to me). Now maybe I can get back to my more "normal" life.

Alexandra's 6 Month Appointment

I know! Next Friday, Alexandra will be 7 months old. But we went yesterday for her 6 month check up. She weighed in at: (drum roll please...) 13 lbs. 2 oz. That's right. She has gained 4 oz. in the last 2 1/2 months. But she has added 2 inches to her height, now standing at 27" tall. She is healthy and strong. And eats a lot too. Just tiny. However, I was the same way when I was little. I think she is going to be wearing her 3-6 months clothes for a while. We are going back in 6 weeks the the Dr. for a weight check. So also had immunizations yesterday and last night she was not a happy camper. She also started to babble last week, saying" ba-ba-ba", and "ohhh" a lot. I just love this little girl of mine.
What a cheeser!
I like this picture, partly because you can see her 2 bottom teeth so well (along with the drool).