2nd quarter field trip

We went to the capital and then to the planetarium it was a ton of fun! These are the people in charge...kind of scary huh! Oh, but so much fun! You have to be crazy to hang out with Jr. High students!

They were selling these Air Zookas and guess who is on the box? My brother!! isn't that funny! He did a photo shoot for a company like 10 yrs ago and sold them the rights, they still use the pictures...isn't that crazy. you walk into a store, see a weird air blowing product and your brother's picture is on it!! Crazy huh!!

PE time

so this year i teach PE and it has been a blast! Here's a few previews! i've learned how to shoot a bow much better than i learned in junior high and this is me trying to movtivate

the children to run the tires in boot camp!

Lights at Temple Square

There's our little glow worm! I just wanted to squeeze her until her head lit up! Not safe or an option said her daddy!

Christmas Day

I had to dress the kids in my clothes cause that's all I had for them. It was totally funny, cause well, they're really small and little compared to me. They had a good time in the snow. It was so deep! It was awesome!

Christmas day was fun! One of the best Christmases I've had in a long time! After our night of coughing and sleeplessness, we woke up and Mommy and Daddy came back from their date night and we had breakfast! Then we unwrapped presents and of course guitar hero! That was fun! It was a day of cooking, playing, playing in the snow and then dinner at Mike and Shaunae's. It ended with all of us kids doing dishes together! We haven't all been together since John's funeral. It was a lot of fun to be together. We know we are all brothers and sistes. That is for sure! We tend to end up fighting like that! Amazing how it doesn't magically wear off when you get older!!! It should, but doesn't! Guess it's in the blood!

Anyway, it was a great Christmas!

Christmas Eve

The age catogories!

Our blessed pizza from Little Ceasar's, last one of the night!

Coloring contest.

Miss Tamee, Katherine and me at the hospital...what a day to be in the hospital.

What a busy day! So it started out with us going to the mall to meet Liz for just one more "Bath and Body" run (new year's resolution #13 no going to bath and body for like a year! Well, at least 6 months!). Then I went to visit my friend Katherine who had a hip surgery. Tamee and I went to visit her. Then I went to the school and tried to deliver the rest of the toys for tots gifts, but ran out of time, so i loaded my car up with them and met Melissa and Mark at my house to take the kids. I told them that since they never get to go on dates I would take the kids Christmas Eve so they could go on a date and spend the night at mom's and then just come to my house (since I had a tree) for Christmas morning and breakfast. So I loaded the kids in the car and we searched all around Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs for the houses to deliver gifts to. We got stuck in the snow, prayed our way out of that, thank goodness for heaven! The kids kept saying can we just go home? I said, "If these kids don't get their gifts, then you don't get yours. Do you really want to go home?" The answer was a resounding, "No." So after finding all of the houses except one, we were on our way to Little Ceaser's, request of the children! We got there at 7:59pm and they close at 8, but due to it being Christmas Eve they were already to go, well, I saw people in there and I knocked and begged. They gave me their last cheese pizza and i added breadsticks on and they were kind enough to put those in as a Christmas bonus! So while i got the pizzas ready, we had a coloring contest, 4 age categories, Matthew's idea: ages 3, 5, 7 and 28. Needless to say we all won our age category! The prize were the toppings of our gingerbread houses! What a fun aunt!!! So we made gingerbread creations...they weren't necessarily houses, although mine had a garage and a wood pile out back! That was fun! We ended up going to sleep to a movie and then another movie and then...a lot of coughing and crying and more coughing...and wow, what a night...I'm glad I'm not a mom yet! But we made it through and onward to Christmas day! At least Mark and Melissa had a good night at the Cheesecake factory!! I'm jealous, but happy they could enjoy the night without kids! They deserve a break.

When in Utah Kneader's is a must

So Melissa and her family love Kneader's so we went there like 3 times while they were here. Then we went and did last min. Christmas Shopping. I spent the night at Grandma's with Melissa and her family on the way home early in the frozen morning I saw these most beautiful sights so even though I was running behind like usual, I stopped to take a few pictures!

Mom's wedding December 19, 2008

I don't have very many pictures, cause everyone else was taking pictures so why add another camera to the mix? But for those who are freaking out at me, because i haven't updated in so long (sister anderson!) this is what i have! Brother and sister jackson! serving another mission. This time on Temple Square. they are amazing!

The ring moment. They were having trouble getting it on! You know how that goes!

The cake! my friend Kevin made the cake! He'll make mine too! (Whenever that blessed day arrives...keep praying)

All the girls after mom was married.

All the girls the night before she was married. This was her sudo bachelorette party a quick run to Target to get last minute stuff!

Elf Yourself is back

Look at the side bar and there's some amazing links to watch me and my roommates, my home teacher and my sister's family and soon my bishopric dance as elves...it's seriously funny!

The last days with mom as a single woman

So my mom is getting married on Friday. My dad passed away last year in August and it was a really hard time. Then mom re-met our old stake pres from Tehachapi, President Christensen. His wife passed away earlier this year in January. They met up in June and the rest is history. Kind of an intersting thing to have my mom get remarried again, but it's good for her. She is the happiest I think I've ever seen her (possibly, becuase I never really saw her in those beginning stages of LOVE, all twitterpated etc), but if she's happy, I'm happy for her. It's going to be fun to see the new adventures they'll be able to go on together...for example, mom's never been on a cruise before and off she goes for her honeymoon with her new dancing dress!

It's amazing to me how life can seem so much in despair and then all of a sudden it changes and everything works out the way it should. Just gotta keep the faith. In the meantime, I'll say I've had a great time hanging out with mom in a different closeness that comes when you know life is about to change. I love her a lot and only wish her the best! Of course she'll be farther away in distance, but thank goodness for cell phones and the fact that I can still call her and have her walk me through a recipe!!!

Live Nativity Coolest thing yet!

Look how real that looks, yet fake at the same time!!! It's my first, but definitely not my last time being in a live nativity cause it was so cool! We had a blast. Jen and I were the wisemen, Dayton and Erin were the kings and Kelsey was Mary and Richard was her husband Joseph. The baby was fake...I was hoping for a real baby.

Thanks to all the dress up opportunities, Erin decided that she for sure wants to be a gyspy next Halloween. Look at her, do you blame her? I don't, she pulls it off well.

Girl's Night Out

Amy is moving and I'm so glad she had the brilliant idea to have girl's night, white elephant gift exchange, because it was really fun and a sad, but great opportunity to say adios, even though I have to see her, cause who else can take my honesty with such bravery? She is my special out of the country/contitental US twin...you get it right Amy??? Well we had a blast and 3 cheers for China Isle's Walnut shrimp! I finished it off today...delicious and amazing, celestial in fact!!! Amy we need to hang out and frankly talk all the time...hope my furniture is still safe!! PS you're beautiful with whatever color hair you choose to have...but you know my preference blondie! And to think the whole friendship started becuase I thought your watch was cool! LIFE REALLY IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES AT THE PARK, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET!

Amy is moving and I'm so glad she had the brilliant idea to have girl's night, white elephant gift exchange, because it was really fun and a sad, but great opportunity to say adios, even though I have to see her, cause who else can take my honesty with such bravery? She is my special out of the country/contitental US twin...you get it right Amy??? Well we had a blast and 3 cheers for China Isle's Walnut shrimp! I finished it off today...delicious and amazing, celestial in fact!!! Amy we need to hang out and frankly talk all the time...hope my furniture is still safe!!

Dancing Princes

I was really excited to get to go watch Ashbey perform her dance. Oh the crazy activities we fill our lives with and at the busiest time of year. I really had a blast sitting by my 10 year old nephew and making up random names to yell out in the audience. He loved it and frankly I did too. Shaunae said I should be a professional crowd cheerer...you know like random people they place in the audience to laugh or applaud so the rest of the audience thinks it's funny or great!!! liek they did in finding neverland...i'm game...in fact i used to get in free to comedy sports (no need to insert the detail that i was on a date with one of the players) so i could do just that, laugh and then other people would laugh...the crazy thing:I was sincerely laughing...doesn't take much to make me happy!

Betting at Bowling

So I went on a double date with my friend Tyson and Kynslie. Tyson set me up with his brother Nate. At one point Nate and I were tied (or so I thought) and so we made a deal that whoever lost between us owed the other one ice cream. Can you guess who owes who ice cream? Well, I lost badly and decided to say "Double or nothing"...well, I guess that means I owe double ice cream...apparentl chocolate with brownie chunks...so i guess we're figuring out the details of when and how that will happen.

Me and Nate enjoying the thrill of competition...little did i know I would lose...cause usually I'm not much of a good loser...times change, people change, I guess...


Me and my lucky 8 pound red ball that fits my fingers. All the other balls have the hugest finger holes and the ball goes flying out of your hand. I wish they made heavier balls with closer together and smaller holes. I would win then for sure!



Coach Bushman racking up 5 strikes in a row...no idea where that came from, cause he only won the first game with luck! But nonetheless i still owe him ice cream.

Kynslie was a really good sport to come and join us even though she was sick.

Tyson and his bad self.

The winner of each game...drum roll please....COACH!!! I'm paying for that!