Wednesday, February 27

Young Womens


I have just started a new calling as 1st counselor in the Young Womens. I'm very excited! I get to work with the Miamaids and I now have a priority that gets me out of the house a couple of times a week! Yeah! I get to attend mutual activities and I get to go to Girl's Camp!!! I love girl's camp. I can't wait. I've started reading all of my old journals from my Young Women years and it's very hilarious. I was sure that at that age I was more mature than my journal is implying! I also get to do Personal Progress again. I'm actually excited because it provides a wonderful way of studying the gospel! Anyway, I'm so grateful for this opportunity to get involved and to meet more people in my ward. What a blessing to finally get out and to feel fellowshipped!

Sunday, February 17

Quarantine, Hair Cut, and World Records!

QUARANTINE: Maggie has been quarantined since Mid-September and will finally be free in June! RSV season has been extra terrible this year, according to Maggie's pediatrician, and so we feel so blessed that Maggie has been so healthy the entire winter. Our lives have been affected a lot by her quarantine and our social involvement extremely limited. I can probably count on one hand the number of times Maggie has been outside of our home this winter, but she has been such a trooper and she and I have had so much fun together indoors! Chris and I take turns going to church meetings, I have become a frequent night-time shopper while Maggie is asleep and Chris is working on his business, and Chris runs all of our errands during his lunch breaks from work. Because Maggie can't be around any children or sick adults we have missed a few family gatherings but usually take turns attending those as well. What a blessing that all of these precautions have kept Maggie healthy! We are looking forward to summer when we can take Maggie out and introduce her to all of her wonderful relatives, especially her young cousins.


HAIR CUT: I have needed a haircut for months and I finally got it done! You can't really tell in the picture, but it's actually quite different from my past haircuts. When I came home from the salon I looked just like the Brady Bunch mom! Really. I'm trying to figure out how to do it though, and I'm so happy to finally have it cut again! Every time I go I try out a new short hairstyle. It's way fun.


WORLD RECORDS: I Just thought you would all like to know that I hold the World Record in rowing, hammer throw, javelin throw, and high jump. I am so cool!! Ha ha. Chris and I have a Nintendo Wii and we recently got the Mario & Sonic Olympic Games. It's so much fun! We played with Chris' mom the other night and I was on fire beating records all over the place! Hee hee. My arms are sore from rowing. Funny, huh? If anyone hasn't played the Wii you should try it out sometime. It's a lot of fun!

Friday, February 15

Knit crazy for my family!





I am still loving knitting so I made Maggie a hat and scarf, and I made Chris a Harry Potter scarf! It's so fun. Maggie is so cute and she is such a good walker! The rooster hat Maggie is wearing is from Guatemala. It's so adorable on her and she can put it on herself and she wears it every day!

My new nephew!


My sister Kim just had her second child, a little boy named Jacob Tanner Perkins! I'm so excited for her! She went in overnight ready to get induced the next morning but she went into labor and delivered in the middle of the night! Here's the hospital picture of her sweet little boy. Jacob is my parent's 30th grandchild!

Monday, February 11

Buried in Snow!






I just received these pictures from home. Boy is it beautiful! I wish I could be there to make snow forts and go sledding! Hopefully we'll visit soon and make a snow sculpture on the roof to rival the Shrek we made a few years ago.

Thursday, February 7

Loom Knitting!



I must say I'm pretty amazed at myself! Just two weeks ago I picked up loom knitting! Our stake is doing a big project of knitting 2800 hats for homeless shelters, and so my Relief Society president came over and showed me how to do it and I started loom knitting! After a couple of days I was enjoying it so much that I called and asked for more yarn, and she brought me a huge bag full! I'm so excited. I'm amazed that I've fallen in love with loom knitting, but I really enjoy doing it! My goal is to make more than one hat a day and when the deadline comes I'll have made over 100 hats! I also went out and bought myself my very own looms and I'm making myself a scarf and hat and I made Maggie a little hat as well. What fun to have a new hobby!

Monday, February 4

Missing Home



One of my favorite things about home is all of the snow! I miss it terribly. Here the snow just doesn't stay on the ground like it does at home. I miss jumping off of the roof into 3 feet of snow, making snow sculptures on the Mowers roof, hookie-bobbing on the back of a 4-wheeler or car and sliding down the road in your tennis shoes, playing "King of the Hill", making snow forts, and most of all standing outside in a thick snowfall and hearing nothing but snowflakes falling to the ground.









I really need to get some better photos, but for now these will have to do! They're beautiful because they're home.