The Latest Happenings

I sat down to update our blog and realized that we have almost no new pictures. I really need to be better about keeping the camera out and using it! I'll go ahead and update today though because I am going to be out of town for the next little while. We are going up to Idaho this weekend to visit my family and then Tuesday Emma and I are going to visit my sister and her family in Ohio. I am SO excited! I just really hope Emma does okay on the airplane. I have a feeling it's going to be a really long day. But it should be a fun trip and I will take lots of pictures.
Emma discovered a new talent last weekend...the ring toss. We went to the Wymount opening social. She played this game twice where she had to throw rings on rubber ducks. I helped her the first time and she totally missed. When I stopped helping her she totally scored. For her amazing skills she won a slinky and a sweet pair of yellow sunglasses. She LOVES the glasses. She puts them on, pushes them up on her head and then rocks out on her Winnie the Pooh rocker. The picture I got isn't the best, but you get the idea. It's hilarious. Emma also learned where her belly button is this week. She will pull up her shirt (and anyone elses she can reach) to point to it. We love her! It's hard to believe how fast she's growing up.
We have been loving the fall weather here, though it is still pretty hot. We are grateful though and spend most of the day outside. Emma takes after her dad and could spend all day outside. So, we are taking advantage of the nice weather and are praying for it to continue. Maybe we can skip winter all together this year...
Well, here are a couple pictures. There will be a lot more after next week.

Emma rocking out on her Pooh rocker. Good times!

We drove up Provo Canyon last weekend. It is gorgeous this time of year.

I thought this was so funny. She got my shoes and worked so hard to get them on.

She was smiling and laughing until I pulled the camera out :)

Blessings!

We have been busy this last week that we've been back in Provo. We had to find a job and get Jon's school schedule all sorted out. It all seemed so daunting. But it has been SO amazing how everything has worked out. Jon applied for a job on Monday, interviewed, and was offered the job on Tuesday. They offered to pay him the exact amount of money we had decided we needed to be able to live off of. He will be working on campus doing animations for different departments on campus. He loves his job and it will give him lots of practice for future job experience.
I also got a job babysitting an 18 month old boy 3 days a week. He and Emma play really well together which is really nice. There are the ups and downs but I am grateful to have this opportunity and it will definitely help us financially.
The most exciting news though was that Jon was able to work his school schedule out so that he can finish this semester. He is going to interview with all the studios that come to BYU in October and if he gets a job offer, we will be done with school in December. He would have some general courses to do online winter semester and then would officially graduate in April, but it would be so nice to be out in the real world making a real income and for him to be able to be doing what he really wants to do. Please keep him in your prayers! If that doesn't work out, then we'll just be grateful for the few extra months here.
We have really seen the Lord's hand in our lives and are so grateful for the way everything has worked out for us.

Dishwasher in training!
Emma's new fashion statement

Celebrity Look Alike

I saw this on someone's blog and thought it was so funny. Try it...you can get some REALLY funny matches.

Emma's Halloween Costume and Other Pics

I feel like I haven't updated our blog in so long. So, here are a couple pictures from the last few weeks. I posted some of our trip pictures in the next blog. Enjoy.

We went to the Jelly Belly factory in California. It is SO cool. Emma loved driving the Jelly Belly truck.

Ya gotta love trampoline hair. Holy cow!

This is Emma's Halloween costume. I think it is SO funny. And the pose cracks me up too.

Trip Pictures

We are back in Utah finally. It is so good to be home again. We loved being in California this summer and we had so much fun but it really is good to be back. We really enjoyed our trip to Mexico/Southern California. It was so nice to have a little vacation. We started out going to Tijuana where Jon served his mission. We went to a ward and a stake conference on Sunday hoping to find people but almost everyone he knew was gone...mostly to "the other side" (the U.S.). But it was fun for him to go see all the places he served and to see a couple people. We were also going to go to Mexicali, which was another one of his areas, but our air conditioning died (BIG bummer) and it was 130 degrees there. Maybe next time. After Tijuana we went to San Diego. We had some extra time so we explored some of the parks near the zoo. There is so much cool stuff there. The next day we went to the San Diego Zoo, the temple, and stopped by the beach before we drove up to Anaheim. As luck would have it, Southern California had record highs the couple days we were there and we had no AC...I thought I was going to die. The next day we went to Disneyland. Thank goodness for water rides! It was hot. But it was so much fun. We drove home the next morning and finally got to see Emma. We really missed her. Anyway, everybody's been asking for pictures of our trip so here are a few. For some reason it put them out of order and I don't know how to move them around. So, I hope it all makes sense. Here goes...

This was a really funny poster at the San Diego Zoo. If you can't see it, it's a zebra getting a piggyback on a giraffe.

We stopped at the San Diego Temple coming back from Tijuana. It is Beautiful!

A quick stop at the beach after the temple. This was in Del Mar, north of San Diego.

Outside of California Adventure (Disneyland). The letters spell California. It is huge!

This picture is also in California Adventure. They painted this backdrop to look like the street continues.

Blanca and Guillermo(sp?). Jon baptized Blanca and her oldest daughter on his mission. We visited with them while we were in Tijuana. In true Mexican style she insisted on feeding us (even though we really weren't hungry) a huge meal...half a cantaloupe, chicken cordon bleu, corn, cactus, beans, tortillas, quesadillas, and a huge glass of homemade limeonade. We were stuffed but it was so worth it. She was SO happy to see her Elder Farrell.

This was the view from our hotel room in Tijuana.

There were several parks by our hotel in San Diego. This is Jon in the desert garden. It was huge. I had no idea so many things could grow in the desert.

Giraffes at the San Diego Zoo. The baby was 140 pounds when he was born...I am SO glad I'm not a giraffe!

I've Been Tagged

Jobs I've Held:

1- server at a kid's pizza restaurant (and occasionally the bear mascot)
2-phone surveyer
3-Audiovisual technician at Idaho State University
4-Customer service rep at Melaleuca
4-Sandwich maker at BYU
5-MTC cafeteria worker
6-Worked on a genealogy project at BYU

Movies I can watch over and over:

I don't know that I have any. I really don't like watching movies more than once, unless it's been a really long time.

Guilty pleasures:

1. Eating ice cream
2. Spending way too much time on the computer doing nothing
3. Staying in my pajamas until I HAVE to get dressed

Places I have lived:

1. Oklahoma City, OK
2. El Paso, TX
3. Roberts, ID
4. Idaho Falls, ID
5. Rexburg, ID
   
6. Provo, Utah
7. San Ramon, CA
   

Shows I Enjoy:

1-Almost any game show (Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy)

2-American Idol

I can't remember any others...we haven't had a tv all summer...

What were likely the 1st things you thought when you saw your significant other for the first time?

1-I thought he was really cute. We were in a really crowded apartment and I kept trying to go talk to him but people kept getting in the way.

2-I thought he looked like the kind of guy I wanted to marry. When I talked to him I liked who he was.

Places I've Been on Vacation (Other than the U.S.):

1-Yukon Territory, Canada

2-border Mexico

3-Cuenca, Ecuador ( I don't know that it was much of a vacation, but I worked in orphanages for 3 months there) and the jungle in Ecuador

Favorite Foods:

1-Homemade chicken noodle soup

2-Beef and brocolli

3-Ice cream

4-Chocolate

Websites I visit (almost) Daily:

1. gmail
2. everyones blogs
3. craigslist

Nicknames I've been called:

1-Sarah bear (Only when I was really young)

So that's me in a nutshell...it's been fun to read everybody else's. If you haven't done this yet, feel free to consider yourself tagged.

Home at Last

So I got to spend the last week playing mom to Jon's little sisters while his mom was at girls camp. They are 7 and 10 so I wasn't really worried about doing it and in the end, the week was better than I could have hoped. Okay, so it was great. I had a dishwasher!!! I haven't used a dishwasher since we got married. I forgot how nice they are. I also had a washer and dryer that were in the house and that I didn't have to pay for. Wow, what a luxury! I also had built in 24 hour entertainment for Emma. She loves playing with her aunts and they are so good with her. So, it was a good week but it's nice to be back home....for another week and a half. We have to be out of our apartment by the 17th and Jon's internship ends the 24th so we're going to stay with his parents for a week. So, I need to force myself to start packing and cleaning so I don't have to do it all last minute. Ahh...the joys of moving. We are sad to leave California but are excited for the next year...our last year in Provo!!! We love Provo and the friends we've made there. It has become home but we are ready to move on, and Jon is ready to be done with school.
Before we head back to Provo Jon and I are going to take a vacation alone! Since I babysat for Jon's mom while she was at camp, she is going to watch Emma while we go to Tijuana and Southern California for 5 days. We are going to Tijuana for 2 days to visit Jon's mission, then we'll spend a day in San Diego. We're going to go to the temple and then the zoo. The next day we're going to go to Disneyland. We got free tickets courtesy of Pixar! It is going to be a packed trip. I am so excited and am trying not to worry about leaving Emma for that long. We have never left her for more than 3 or 4 hours so this is pretty big. But I know they will take good care of her and it will be fine.
Anyway, here are some pictures from the last few weeks...

My first attempt at cutting Jon's hair. I was tired of paying for haircuts and figured how hard could it be? The answer...harder than it looks, at least for me. Jon was scared but in the end it turned out good.

I found Emma leaning up against the bed like this. It was so funny. She just stood there drinking her bottle for quite awhile.

Ahh...the joys of Kleenex. Unfortunately this activity only provides a few minutes of entertainment and it is impossible to get all the tissue back in the box.

Emma discovered swings this week and LOVES them. She will sit there swinging and laughing forever. It is great. If only Wymount had swings.

I took Jon's sisters and Emma to have lunch with Jon at Pixar. We FINALLY got our pictures with Sully and Mike. We also played pool, ping pong, and air hockey while we were there. It was a blast!