My name is Bob

This is my new hair cut.  I like it a lot, except that I can't wear it back in a ponytail when I'm too lazy (which is quite frequently) to style it.  I was just getting so dang bored of my long hair so this is a nice change.  Johnny says he misses my long hair, but thinks my new style is pretty cute.  He says that I look like a mom haha!  That's okay, I was going for a more mature look :)  I keep telling him to just wait--soon it's going to be a pixie cut like Hali Berry's.  He has forbidden me and I just laugh at him.  Seriously though, that's next on my list in the hair department-- boy hair short.  So excited ;)  What do you think? 

CTR: Choose The Right

Today at church we taught the CTR 6's.  We were asked to subsitute for another couple in our ward that was going to be out of town.  I told Johnny that this sister in our ward had asked me if we could cover for them and I said that we'd love to.  Johnny was so worried at first and kept telling me that he had never taught little kids before.  I still find his anxiety quite humerous because he and I have a million nieces and nephews that worship the ground he walks on!  Kids absolutley LOVE Johnny.  He is great with them and they just think he is the most fun and exciting guy on the planet. 

We went to "Sharing Time"  first-- it was awesome.  I really admire all of our primary teachers and leaders--  they do such a great job catching the kid's interest and getting them excited to participate.  One of the leaders is a sister that I visit teach and it was fun seeing her in action : )  We learned a song about Jesus visiting the Americas and blessing all the little children.  Then we played a puzzle game with questions about the message of the song.
 
Next, we went to our classrooms and Johnny and I taught the lesson: "I am a child of God." We had three boys and three girls in attendance.  We had a ball!  It made me wish that we'd be called to team teach in primary together. We sang, we played a game of tossing "Cosmo" the stuffed Cougar around and answering questions about the lesson, we drew pictures of things that helped us to know that our Heavenly Father and Savior love us and then shared them with the class.   All shared a story about a time that they had lost something and prayed for help to find it and then miracously found it!  We concluded with a quick round of head, shoulders, knees and toes and a closing prayer. They totally forgot about the bathroom/water break they always take half way through class. Success!! P.S. Johnny was an excellent teacher and the kids thought he was the coolest guy they'd ever met.


From the whole experience, we were all entertained, uplifted and edified.  Teaching and interacting with these little ones warmed my heart so much because I got the same feeling that I'd get when teaching investigators of the LDS church on my mission.  That wonderful feeling is the pure love of God and of Christ .  You can feel how pleased our Heavenly Father and Savior are with these young learners.  They are coming to know the very basic and beautiful truths of our Heavenly Father's plan for us and the happiness that comes from following the gospel of Jesus Christ. When asked a gospel question, their replies are simple and pure.  It is a blessing to be able to witness their sweet and humble prayers and  feel of their growing testimonies.

Oh, and on the subject of teaching--who LOVEs the new Gospel Principles manual?! I DO! So simple and clear, yet engaging and profound.  This dandy little book makes teaching and learning in Reliefe Society a joy.  Love it.

Christmas 2009

                                                 

Our apt. in San Jose and our first little tree :)

 Christmas was wonderful.  Johnny and I had about 1 1/2 weeks off of work for the holidays and we spent that time with our families.  We drove down the day before Christmas Eve and stayed until the 3rd of Jan.  It was so nice-- we loved loved loved it :)  I also flew to UT and went to my good friend Jody's wedding!  This is what happened in a nutshell:

 Our nephews and nieces were adorable as always and so fun : D

Johnny and I hope that our babies are just like Chubs.  Fat and Jolly.  He is the cutest, most easy going and happy baby we've ever seen.  And he's a cuddler :) Oh so cute!  Here he is modeling his new jogging suit.           

             
                 Santa Came to town!  Christmas Eve:

Shane and Santa are BFFs.  He wouldn't stop talking about Santa and what he was doing at the North Pole these days--it's so hilarious and cute.


                             We got new jammies

We opened presents

It was Golden

We had a delicious Christmas ham and turkey dinner, and then my brother took us all to see the Sherlock Holmes the movie.  We had a a great time!

AND, a couple days after Christmas we visited with SEAN, ERIN and RILEY Williams!!! We haven't seen them in a while and had never met Riley so that was happy.  Riley is a beautiful and chubby baby. I'm sad that I didn't take a picture :(

I made a very quick trip to UT to be with this cute couple on their wedding day.  Congrats to the new Mr. and  Mrs. Sitati!!  They are adorable.

While in UT, I got to see Larkie! This is the day before she had her baby boy! 

It was so fun to see her and her family for a night :)

I got back from UT and we did more of the same.  We ate good food, played lots of games, drank hot cocoa, lounged around and talked with fam and saw 2 more movies... good times. 

It was a great break and we miss you all!!!

Cheers to 2010!  Woohoo!

Our Time Has Come...

Johnny has been telling me for months and months that I'd better be prepared because he is going to have to put in a ton of hours at EY pretty soon. He explained that some nights he'd be working until as late as 3 a.m. I kept trying to brace myself for the feeling of a completely absent Johnny husband, but week after week, and the month after month went by and he was always home by 6:00 p.m. everyday. I'd ask him when he was going to start the crazy hours and he would respond, "pretty soon."Many of our "couple friends" would vent to us about the suckiness of the insanely long hours the husbands were working at EY. I would listen and say, "Oh yaaaa... that must be so hard,” feeling sorry for them, but so happy and a bit confused as to how Johnny always escaped under the radar. I honestly thought Johnny was some kinda crazy man that would flee out of the Apple headquarters at lightning speed so that nobody would be able to make him stay (he is very sneaky and speedy), and when the hefes realized they would just let it slide because he is such a stellar and efficient worker (because he really is). Thus, he could do his work in half the time it took everyone else and deserved to go home to his little wife at a decent hour. Sadly, the truth is that his time had simply not come yet. Now it has and it stinks. "Oh well, everyone must put in their time if they want to be successful," Johnny says. I say, booooo :( Oh well, I guess it could be worse.  Now, he works at work until 9pm or 10pm and then comes home and works until 2am.  Such is life....but only for a short time I hope. 

Bloggin'

We are now blogging. Yes, for the sake of memories and keeping in touch with our family and friends. I've been postponing this day long enough.  As I have never successfully kept a journal in my life, "blogging" seems so hard to me and very time consuming. However, a friend was telling me that she makes her blog into a memory scrapbook at the end of each year. I LOVE looking at old memory books of my family! It's really neat to see the different stages of life the person or family was in, how they were and what they were doing. So, I have made up my mind and we are going to do it to it. Children, you can thank me later.  Hopefeully Johnny boy will post too : ) Ha!  Ojala!  So add us friends and family or whatever you're supposed to do!! I seriously have no idea what I am doing.