Awesome video of Christ

I just happened to find this on youtube the other day. This is my favorite hymn, I've always only liked it with a full choir and orchestra because it delivers so much more power but I really like this version and the pictures are amazing! They are all photos taken, you can go to reflectionsofchrist.org to learn more and see some behind the scenes stuff, they show how they took the picture of the angels. You can even buy the pictures. So watch the video and enjoy but get ready to feel the spirit, I'm just telling you. My favorite picture is the picture of Christ in white at about 4 mins. What do you think has anyone seen these pictures before? I guess they do traveling exhibits.

~{ Summer Time is Here }~

Summer is here and we have had wonderful weather here in Vancouver the past two weeks. The zoo does a Two Dollar Tuesday once a month where adults get in for only $2.00, so we took advantage of the fine weather and went with some other friends only to find that everybody else thought it was a good day to go to see the animals too~ so it was literally a "zoo"! Because there were so many people we had to park a few miles away and take a shuttle bus back to the front gates and then wait in a long line. I know, a little crazy but Katelynn loved the bus ride and we got to see a tiger, giraffe, penguins, polar bear, elephants, and a bald eagle with an eight foot wing span!It was loads of fun but we were ready to head home after a few hours.

The zoo was just the kick off to the summer. Katelynn is now taking swimming lessons and doing good, she had one day where she didn't want to get into the water but the next was better and now she loves playing in the water.

Katelyn is just a cutie!!

Here are some pictures taken on Father's Day. What a hunk of a man I have :) He has been working out a lot and getting big muscles...I'm not complaining.

These are my two little darlings. Katelynn is almost three and a half although she acts like a four year old and is a "little mama" to Lauren and keeps her out of stuff.

"Lou Bug" as we call her, is almost eight months old, has four teeth and is all over the place. Her favorite thing is to pull herself up to a standing position and is now learning to travel around things while standing. Yeah, I'm in trouble. She has teeth and is almost walking at only eight months. Ahhhhhhh....

Robinson Crusoe and New Card for 2S4Y

After some long stressful months of having my honey jobless, it is about time for me to get back to some normal things in life such as creating beautiful cards and reading good books. Thankfully Jon got a job a few weeks ago and little by little the stress is unwinding. I am finding a renewed thankfulness for what I have and what I continue to be blessed with. I am reading "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe and enjoying it very much and there is something about the character of the shipwrecked "Robin" ~ that's what he calls himself ~ that changes as he spends years and years in solitude not knowing what lies ahead for him. He comes to appreciate what he has and recognize the mercies from a higher power that had spared his life and provided for his basic needs. I'm in the middle of the book and have still to find out how it all ends.



I bring up my reading adventure because while Jon was jobless we didn't know how long it would be until we were rescued from our struggles. The past few months have shown me that when I am thankful, truly thankful for what I have, no matter how difficult my situation, the more I am able to see the bigger picture and realize just how blessed I am, even in hard times.



Now that I can enjoy some "me" time, I started making cards again. This card is for Laura's sketch #26













This was fun to make. Hope you enjoy!!

Ok, Ok here are the much wanted pictures!!

This was a funny site. She loves to play with her wipes, she likes the crunchy sound the plastic makes and they were just outside her reach and really wanted them so she tried reaching out her hand.

She's only just turned 6 months and this is already starting! She likes to work out like her Daddy.
Please pardon the gratuitous nudity but it's just too cute. She is so close to crawling and she hasn't yet even mastered sitting up.

We went to Chuck E Cheese. We got some gift cards from my sister and brother-in-law and Katelynn loved it. She rode the rides and played the games and got a lot of tickets for some really cheap stuff that she no longer plays with. We went twice and she had fun, except for the time she got lost in the crawling tubes and couldn't find the way out. All of a sudden I look up at the tubes to see her bawling and scared. It is so loud in there that she couldn't her me telling her where to go. When she got out she never wanted to go back in those again!


This is at Vancouver Lake. It's a pretty big lake outside the west side of Vancouver. Katelynn enjoyed digging in the sand with her sticks and was having fun until she went to the bathroom right there on the beach. That was the end of the lake trip! We were only there for maybe a half hour. Oh well now we know where it is and we'll go back again, next time we'll bring a change of underwear though.

Back Again :)

We have taken a little break from our family blog because of life but now that we seem to have a few things under control, we are back at it again.

Most of you know from our previous posts about Jon's unemployment. We have had some really hard and amazing past three months but it is nice to say that it has all come to an end. HE GOT A JOB!!! He is working for Intelitech Group as an associate business analyst and has a great opportunity to grow and learn a lot of skills that will help him in future jobs. I was also just hired and work for CDM Services as a caregiver to elderly and disabled people in their homes and I am enjoying that.

It was a rough time while Jon didn't have a job but we were spiritually strengthened in ways I can't even describe, we were blessed in our finances and were able to pay all our bills and still had enough for all of our needs. Heavenly Father has been watching over us and we feel this is where He wants us to be reght now so I guess we will be staying in Vancouver for a while. Summers here are nice :) and I am looking forward to that!

We are all happy and healthy, Lauren just turned 6 months and now has two teeth and is starting to crawl. Katelynn is a smart little 3 year old, her new favorite things are playing pretend (I usually get to be some fairy tale character and she gets to be the princess) and asking me how to say things in Spanish (she now wants to say her prayers at night in Spanish and it's pretty cute to hear her pronounce the words).

We love you all and are so thankful for your prayers in our behalf, we have felt your love and concern for us. We post more soon.

Love ya Sarah

AMICA's looking really good!!

So I am feeling really good about the possibilities of getting a job with AMICA, and I'll tell you why. Since my last update I had an interview with a manager and two supervisors in Seattle and that went really good! On the way to the interview I felt the spirit come over me very strongly and testifiy that "This was it", this was the job. Bytheway the job is an Associate Adjuster, Claims. It starts off paying really good and they even provide a relocation package and will pay to move us wherever we end up going, plus Iwill also get a company car I can use for anything.
So after I felt those feelings going to the interview I got really excited about the interview and it went great. There is only one more step, if they like me they fly me out to Rhode Island and do a day of interviews, after that I'll know. I should be hearing back about that any day.
I just spent the past three days in Seattle attending a Claims Conference that over 2000 people attended from all over the counrty from many different companies. It was really interesting and good for me to go. I ran into one of the supervisors I had an interview with and she was very positive about my chance in getting this job, again I felt the spirit strongly after talking to her telling me it was all going to work out.
Last week was a very different story. After my interview although I felt really good about it after a few days of not hearing back, fear and doubt took over. The whole week I was miserable. I have been rejected for many jobs before so I slipped into that mode. Late in the week I prayed one night to know if what I felt before the interview was real. After the pray I opened up the scriptures to D&C 63 where it talks about having faith and not asking for signs. Sarah then shared a scripture that she had just come across in D&C 6, "have I not spoke peace to your mind concerning the matter, what better witness have you than this?" I felt I was being told something. I really feel that Satan saw something good about to happen and was trying to destroy it with fear and doubt. Well that's not going to happen anymore! We have learned so much during all this. Our Heavenly Father really does have a plan for us and is waiting to bless us with what we need as long as we show the faith needed and are humble and trust in Him.