Random events

Where to begin?? Well, a-blogging we will go. we'll start small (mostly because I'll forget those faster) and then we'll do events one at a time.

Saryn in a prayer: "Thank you that I look so cute in a pony-tail."

Last night she was asleep and I gave her a hug and whispered in her ear: "Good night sweet little girl." She rolled over and mumbled, "Big girl" and fell right back asleep.

Kaia lost her 2 front teeth this summer.....she looks SO cute. It literally took until her big tooth came in before she'd let her other one be pushed out. I finally was able to convince her that I could pull her second front tooth out when it was completely hanging down and bleeding. She literally screamed for 5 minutes at the top of her lungs and then was glad it was over... check her out.


Jaymeson surprised us with how fast he got all his teeth in. This picture was taken in July when his third tooth popped through his gum. He actually just got his 6th this past week and hopefully we'll have no more for a little while. Teething is quite horrid....but doesn't he look super cute??

Jarett and I had a great opportunity to go to the Canada Day football game between the Stampeders and the Alouettes. Ben Cahoon is a slotback with the Montreal Alouettes. He won the award for the Most Outstanding Canadian in the CFL two years in a row in 2002 and 2003. He is currently 7th overall pass receiver in the history of the CFL......he's also Jarett's 2nd cousin. Ben had given some tickets to his first cousin who is in my parents ward. They couldn't attend, so they passed them on to the second cousins. I couldn't BELIEVE the seats. It was AWESOME. Front row seats in McMahon Stadium right at the end line. It was a phenomenal game - even though the stampeders won. It was really fun to have people around us wearing an Alouette jersey with CAHOON written across the back yelling out, "Bring out Cahoon". It was also great to be out without the kids and do something different than dinner and/or a movie! Check out these seats!

This is what they made us do. We told them Ben Cahoon was a cousin and they were all excited when we walked by. One guy even said, "Hey move over - that's Cahoon's cousin". It was really funny. I had no idea he was THAT big. I was also totally hit on by a couple of really drunk huge idiots. It was great. What more could you want from a football game?

The view from our seats while sitting down...

Brooklyn went to grad a couple times when we first got here. One time she got to go in an AMAZING car. Check this baby out.....

She looked so gorgeous and it was so much fun to see her all growed up...

Our "brother" (who has adopted himself into our family) went on his mission in May. He is going Hmong speaking and it's crazy that he's going to be gone for so long. My sister Kim and her friend Melissa hosted a party and we made a Book of Mormon cake in Hmong. I did the writing and was very proud of how little I could write. It was really fun to challenge myself.
Alanna, my older sister, and I used to compete in speech competitions doing poems, stories, solo scenes and duologues. We had MANY a great times in the process, but one of Alanna's favorites (she actually was invited to provincials to compete with this piece) was called "Quilters". It was about a young Tom Boy who was just sick about her older sister who made a whole bunch of Sunbonnet Sue Quilts. To please her mother, this poor girl decides to make her own Sunbonnet Sue Quilt and calls it the 'Demise of Sunbonnet Sue'. It's hilarious and we often go back and remember it.
Ironically, Alanna has turned into that older sister who is the big quilter. She does phenomenal work, and I was lucky enough to be a recipient of one of her quilts this summer. It is adorable and sweet little Jaymeson loves it too...


Even I have been motivated to finish a quilt that my mother-in-law had made the top for. She worked crazy hard on the top while Jarett was on his mission so that she could get it all the way done when he got home, but then she worried that his wife (me) might not like the material she chose as a backing, so she left it for until he was married. I've known about this quilt since we got married (um, about 8 years ago) and we're FINALLY getting it done - I'm SO EXCITED!! This was a LOT of work (and isn't quite finished yet), but I have learned a lot and I'm SO excited for it to be done.

Very typical scene while quilting.
This quilt has already been used quite a few times and it's not even done yet....haha.

Well, I'll have to do more updates later, but those are a bunch of small events that we did through the summer. So many more that I could do. We'll see what ends up being on here. Can't wait to get caught up. It's fun to go back and see all that we did over the last 4 months. I can't believe we fit it all in...