Happy Five Years To Us!

It is funny how old I feel by being married five years, like that is such a long time or something! I feel really lucky to be married to my man and realize that he is just such a perfect fit for me. Love you lots Babe!

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All Aboard

Sadie is 9 1/2 months now and is growing up so fast (it seems everyone says that, but it is SO true!) Sadie rode the neighbor girl's scooter today (with a little help from her mom) and had a HUGE smile on her face and so I thought I would see how she does walking with her train and she did awesome for her first time!

And while I am posting videos I thought this was a fun one of Sadie, her cousin Caleb and Brenanny down in Utah.

I did this paraffin wax thing on my hands last night and I've got two words for ya: SUPER SMOOTH!

Spring Is In The Air

Last weekend my youngest sister got sealed in the the Timpanogos Temple. Here is cute sister shot Brian took!

(My oldest sister Katie, youngest Julianne, Me and Lisa)

I posted a bunch of shots of the happy couple on the Thurman Family blog. You can check it out here.

One more picture from the weekend: Sadie enjoying the view off of my parent's deck.

Here are more Easter pictures...(they will never end!) This is of Brian and Sadie enjoying their Easter baskets and some morning sun.

The Easter brought Sadie some water capsules that turn into sponges, a springtime outfit, peeps and a hand clapper.

More to Come

I have so many pictures I want to post! My little sister was sealed in the Timpanogos Temple this last weekend and I got to take their wedding pictures which was so fun for me. I also just got Photoshop and here is my official first layout (below). I was already addicted to digi scrapping, but my heck, Photoshop makes it THAT much more fun! If anyone knows of any Photoshop websites with free stuff like actions and brushes please let me know!

Sadie just learned to crawl, pull herself up onto everything, and cruise a little, so between that, recovering from the stomach flu and trying to enjoy this beautiful weather, life is keeping us very busy. Hope everyone had a fun Easter!

We had a happy Easter in the Stewart home. Sadie and I put broccoli out for the Easter bunny the night before (we didn’t have any carrots...oops). The next morning Sadie was really worried that the broccoli had been eaten and scattered around the front pork. The Easter bunny hid our baskets around the house and Sadie thought it was funny that hers ended up in the dryer. She loves her magnadoodle and our candy door is stocked to the brim. My friend Amber made Sadie and Emmy these adorable bee hairclips which I was so grateful for because it is hard to find stuff to put in a two-month-olds basket!

On Saturday I had to wake Sadie up from her afternoon nap to make it to the ward Easter Egg Hunt. We were the last one’s into the nursery room so Sadie was having a hard time locating any eggs. We found a corner with three eggs and thought we hit the jackpot, but before we could get them this little girl swooped in and started grabbing them all as fast as she could. I quickly got one egg and threw it in Sadie’s basket so it wasn’t all in vain. Her one egg was looking so sad that a nice person decided to throw a few more eggs in there which Sadie was grateful for ;) This cute bunny bow was also made by Amber.

Emmy is still staying super sweet and loves to cuddle with us. We all took turns napping this conference weekend!

April Fools

Brian made this picture into a mosaic. It's a little hard to see, but he used all the Hawaii pictures to make it.

Every year Brian has got me pretty good on April Fools Day. There was the time that he told me he had a brain tumor (not really funny I know :), the time he told me our house was broken into and my scooter was stolen and the time he wrote an official looking letter from BYU saying he was a peeping tom, so I was kind of expecting something yesterday. I thought this was a pretty good one. If only...

Kelly,

Hi Kelly, let me first introduce myself. My name is Richard Stengal with Time Magazine. I am currently the managing editor of Time Magazine.

We at Time are always looking for new, interesting writers so we dabble a bit in investigating local newspapers, magazines and other types of writings from around the country to see what is out there in terms of unique writing styles and innovations in the journalist field.

We came across a piece you had done a while back (I don't recall the title right now, but it was about the home building process in which you did a background on a family living in the Idaho Falls area). As intriguing as that article was, we wanted to wait and see what else you could do before we made first contact.

After a couple of articles and an apparent hiatus (unless you were writing for another publisher), we recently came across your most recent article regarding a sub-development project in your area. We enjoyed the tone and artistry of that article along with your other articles so much, that we felt you would be a perfect fit for a series of "Lifestyle" pieces we intend to do over a 4 month period starting in June.

Your involvement will be strictly free lance (unless we feel your relationship with Time merits an extension). Our current rate for free lance writers is $4,500 per article and we would have to discuss the number of articles we would like you to do at a future date.

If this is something you would be interested in, please respond. We at Time Magazine look forward to your reply and any possible future relationships.

Sincerely,

Richard Stengel
Time Magazine Managing Editor