Family Pics

We went down over conference weekend and stayed with my sister Sarah. She has this cool new camera! She took some cute pictures of our family. Here is a sneak peak of our Christmas pics.

Lilly's One!

I can't believe Lilly is one already! We just did a simple little celebration for her. We sang "Happy Birthday" to her and gave her a little dessert. Then later we got her a few presents. She has such a cute personality. Here are some pictures of her at her big party and her with her new doll that Grandma & Grandpa sent money for.

A whole lot of apricots

When we went home to Wes's parents house his mom and I picked a ton of apricots. I decided to make some apricot preserves. You just basically cook the apricots on the stove until the right consistency. Then I put it in yogurt containers and froze a lot of it. It was a little tart, so I added a bit of sugar.
I dried some as well.

Coca-Cola Classic

When I was about 5 months pregnant with Byron we went to a family reunion for my side of the family. We stayed at a hotel and I think it was connected to a JB's. In the morning my Dad treated us all to breakfast. Being pregnant I was hungry. So we were some of the first ones down there. We ate and then later that day we were feeling it. We evidently got food poisoning. A few of our other siblings got it, but not as bad. We were so sick, throwing up every probably half hour. The whole night. Strangely enough, it brought Wes and I even closer together. We were suffering together. How sad. We finally started to feel better after drinking Coca-Cola classic. I guess it just eats it all up. We aren't too fond of buffets anymore.
Ever since then if we start feeling sick, like I have been feeling last night and today, we drink Coca-Cola Classic. It's amazing how it makes us feel so much better.

It's Official!

I have officially decided to do a preschool next fall from my home. I am so excited! It will be a lot of work, but I think the joy I will get out of it will outweigh the hard work. A while ago I went and observed this ladies preschool's afternoon session. I met her at this church meeting I went to. She mentioned she was thinking about retiring. Otherwise I would have never thought of it on my own. It's funny how some things happen in life. Huh? Anyway I learned a lot just from that one class observation.
I am starting to plan out a lot of ideas I have for the room, my lesson plans, etc. I think I will start out teaching in the mornings four days a week. We will see how things go. In the meantime I've got a lot of work to do. I have to get a fire inspection, business license, liability insurance, and a few things to get started.
I will teach Ethan and Lilly. Byron will be in 1st grade. It will be nice to be able to work from home and do something that I love, work with kids.
The pictures I displayed are of the room I will use for the teaching part and then part of our other room will be used for "play time".
The guy that built our house is going to build this little invention I came up with. They are these tables attached to the wall that will fold down against the wall so when we are not doing craft time or snack we will have that extra space for other things. Does anyone know of a place I can buy kids chairs (like they have in the nursery) for a good price?