Oprah Giveaway!

Oprah had a really great show on today and she gave a bunch of ideas for fun, inexpensive, thoughtful Christmas gifts. So if you're interested, you better check it out http://www.oprah.com. The best part of the show was a giveaway of 8 Christmas songs from this year. I love love Christmas music, so I was thrilled. Here's the list of the songs:
Faith Hill, "Joy to the World" from the album Joy to the World
Tony Bennett, "I'll be Home for Christmas" from the album A Swingin' Christmas
Il Divo, "O Holy Night" from the album The Christmas Collection
Josh Groban, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" from the album Noel
Brian McKnight, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" from the album I'll Be Home for Christmas
Amy Grant, "O Come All Ye Faithful" from the album The Christms Collection
Harry Connick Jr., "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" from the album What a Night! A Christmas Album
Aretha Franklin, "Silent Night" from the album This Christmas

Now go to the link above to download.
P.S. This giveway is only available for the next 48 hours, so hurry hurry!

Monkey Boy

I feel like I haven't had much to post about lately, but I have been working on this scrapbook page of Jacoby today. This is our little monkey boy on Halloween this year, it's only been a month, but he has already changed so much. I love these monkey jammies he's wearing, I will be bummed when they don't fit him anymore. The journaling reads: Jacoby, you looked so cute in your monkey jammies and hat on Halloween. Because you were only 2 months old, we didn’t take you trick-or-treating, but we still got you all dressed up! You were the cutest monkey we’d ever seen!

Festival of Trees

The last couple years, my mom and some of her sisters have been over decorating the Christmas trees for the Festival of Trees. It's so much fun to pick a theme and find all these decorations that you love to decorate a tree with. On Saturday we went to the Red Lion to decorate and had a blast. I did my tree with my sister, Olivia, and we had a lot of fun. Our tree is called Christmas Cheer and it's pretty much all red, with a little lime green and plum. I wasn't sure about the plum, but Olivia was dead set on it and now I'm really glad we added it in. It's always so fun to see the trees, so if you get a chance go to the Red Lion sometime this week, it goes until Friday night.

Lyndsi Got Hitched

Yesterday my good friends Lyndsi Struhs and Taylor Morrow got married. It was fun to be able to go to the wedding and reception. She looked so pretty, I loved her sash so much. They have been dating ever since we were in high school and are the cutest couple. I got some pictures as they came out of the temple, but this one was a little blurry. Oh well, it's the first picture of the married couple and they look happy as can be. It was a good day! Jessica, Lyndsi Morrow, Katelyn, and me.
Katelyn, Lynds, and me just outside the temple. Lyndsi was a gorgeous bride!

Jacoby is Talking! Ha ha

This is the sweetest video ever. Jacoby has started cooing like crazy. This video is pretty cute, so turn that volume on your computer way up! :)

Check Out These Sexy Red Shoes! Ha ha

So I've been working on our wedding scrapbook and I'm just loving it. Digital scrapbooking is so much fun, if you haven't tried it, you've got to get into it. Our wedding colors were robin egg blue and red. So I decided that I wanted to wear these red shoes instead of the usual white shoes. Ha ha. Here I am showing them off.

My Cute Bridesmaids

Finally I'm starting my wedding scrapbook, and it's been so fun. This is a page of my good friends, Jess and Katelyn, who were my bridesmaids. They're the best. I dunno if you can read the journaling so it reads: Jess and Kate were my bridesmaids, and they looked gorgeous that day. They were there for every event of the wedding: the dinner, waiting at the temple, and staying at the reception all night. It meant so much to have them there. They have always been there for me. I hope that I have been as good of a friend to them as they have been to me.
I loved my wedding so much, I do have one regret though, I didn't have one of my friends, Lyndsi be one of my bridesmaids. At the time I didn't feel like we were very close, but we are so close now. I will always feel bad about that. She's getting married this Friday and I'm so excited for her and Taylor. She's the best example to me, I just love her.

Good Times

Yesterday was my good friend, Jason's mission report. He did such an awesome job. It's so amazing to see how much he has changed and the strong testimony he has. I know that he was a great missionary and that he touched so many lives. It was really fun to see my group of friends again and be together. It's crazy to think how much can happen in two years, my friends keep saying I'm a perfect example of that. Ha ha. I have some great friends from highschool that I know I will always be close to. Good times! I've been dying to have this done so that I could hang it up in Jacoby's room. I'm all about doing things cheap, and this was. Woo hoo! My mom came up with the cute idea and did it for my sisters, and I loved it so I decided to do one for Jacoby's room. It is definitely hard for me to decorate for a boy, and I didn't want it to look to girly, so I stayed pretty basic on the fonts. I really like how it turned out. Thanks Mom!

Our Little Monkey

Happy Halloween everyone! Awhile ago I was trying to figure out what Jacoby should be for Halloween and I hadn't decided yet, but then we got this cute outfit and monkey hat from some of Tyler's friends. I was so excited and decided he was definitely going to be a monkey for Halloween. We didn't really do too much tonight because Tyler isn't feeling well, so me and Jacoby watched some movies and took care of Dad. We love our little monkey boy. Hope everyone had a fun night! Check out these pictures! What a cutie!

All Ready for Dad's Game Tonight

We have been trying this Jordan outfit on Jacoby for a long long time, and finally it fits. Tyler's parents bought this for Jacoby right after I found out I was pregnant. It's a pretty sweet outfit huh? Even if it is Hillcrest colors! BOO! I guess I need to grow up and get over it, I married a Hillcrest boy. :) So we put this on Jacoby today for Tyler's game.

Tyler is playing on an intramural team with my brother Thomas, Jordan Keck, Josh Peterson, Dustin Elliott, and Josh Curtis. It has been so fun to watch them play together. It worked out good for me too because then I have people to talk to at the games like Thomas' girlfriend, Katie, Jordan's wife, Krystal, and Lindsey Curtis. Going to Tyler's game is the highlight of my week.

Proud Mom

I guess I'm just a proud Mom, I can't quit taking pictures of Jacoby. He has started smiling and cooing, so here are a few of him smiling and others from the last week or so.

He's 2 months today!

Jacoby and Johnny at the reunion, they're so sweet. They both weigh 14 lbs.

Watching ESPN together...oh no! This is just the beginning, now it will never end. ha ha
Smiles

Jacoby's Blessing

Today Jacoby was blessed! He looked so handsome in his little tuxedo outfit his Grandma Roe made. Tyler did a great job on his blessing, I was so proud of him. Tyler is such a great Dad, it has been so fun to watch him with our little boy. I'm so glad that all of our family could be there, we love them so much. We blessed him in Tyler's parent's ward and we went over to their house afterword. We had homemade cinnamon rolls and fruit, it was tasty. Here are some pictures of our sweet guy! !

REUNION...good times

Last night and today was our first Long reunion, it has been so fun.  We all came over to my parents and took pictures for Christmas cards, ate Chinese food, and played games all night. It has been so much fun, I love my family so much, I wish we could do this all the time.  Here is a picture from last  night, and more to come later.  Good times, good times.  

Johnny and Jacoby

Yesterday my sisters, mom, and I went down to Pocatello to see Becca and her kids. It was so fun to see how much Johnny has grown in the last couple weeks. We hung out at Becca's for while and went to a park and had a picnic while the kids played.

I made sure and got a picture with the two boys...they're going to be buds!

Eden and Jacoby

Eden is so adorable around Jacoby, she comes up right next to him and points and says, "Baby, baby."

She is trying to hold him in this picture. Precious!