As you sit down to sip this hot chocolate, open the Book of Mormon and drink deeply from the "Living Waters". May you taste the sweet message that JESUS CHRIST LIVES.
Because He lives, we too will live again one day with Him eternally.

-Pebbles in my Pocket

Darling....

For a Relief Society activity I learned how to sew this darling kid skirt. The lady in charge asked me who I was making this for, and I told her no one, I just wanted to learn a new sewing project and keep it for my future daughter. Everyone asked, "what if you don't get a girl?" Then I responded, "well I hope so because I want at least 12 kids," and they laughed.
I absolutely think this skirt is so darn cute and I plan to make at least one more soon.
I can't wait to have a little girl wearing them.

Giving Thanks....

26 things we are GRATEFUL for...

1. A warm apartment
2. A good education
3. The Gospel
4. Our testimonies
5. Loving and supportive families
6. Hot Chocolate on a cold winter morning
7. Good health
8. A working and reliable car
9. Our Freedom
10. Modern advances in technology
11. For my jobs where I can work with sweet children and Pebbles in my pocket
12. Warm clothes on our backs
13. Trials in our lives that make us stronger
14. Good books and authors (The Book of Mormon, Anita Stansfield)
15. Yummy Cheesecakes made by us
16. The 4 seasons
17. My husband,who makes me laugh every day
18. For Good Entertainment (Star Trek, House, 18 kids and counting, Jon and Kate +8, and Shark Tank)
19. Temples (where families can be together forever)
20. My hands so I can scrapbook, cook, make fabric flowers, onesies, and clean
21. My husbands Hugs and Kisses
22. Warm rolls just out of the oven
23. Stacies cuddle time
24. Great friends
25. A modern day prophet (Thomas S. Monson)
26. Washer and Dyer

Happy Thanksgiving

{Family Pictures}

Dave and I haven't had family pictures since we got married 3 1/2 years ago, so it was time to have some taken and we had our dear cousin Julie take our pictures. My family came a had theirs taken also. You might be noticing that my brother and my brother-in-law aren't in these photos. Well there is a reason: 1. Brian is on an LDS mission and 2. Jason was at an Air Force air condition school in Texas.

**New Hobby**

I started a new hobby making Fabric Flowers and now I am addicted to making them.
If you are interested in buying any please call or email me @ magooie@hotmail.com. I can do them in any colors and you can pick from all one color or mix fabrics.
They are fun on: bags, beanies or toques, headbands, or in hair.

{Happy Haloween}

(Picture by Spencer, Age 3)
Hope your day was filled with Goblins, Witches, The Incredibles, Lions, Monkeys, The Joker, Princesses, Army Boys, Clowns, Hook, and lots of candy like ours was.
HaPpY HaLloWeEn!!

Check it out

My sweet husband and I started mormon-message.blogspot.com. It is a wonderful site full of inspirational videos. Go and check it out! You can click on the right hand side of our blog on the link.
Enjoy:)

{Fall Time}

For Canada's Thanksgiving my mom, dad, Dave and I celebrated by having sweet and sour chicken, honey glazed carrots and a yummy pecan pie. I know its not your traditional Thanksgiving dinner but that is what Dave wanted.






What I love about FALL..
Crisp air
Cool days and nights
Changing leaves
Warm pumpkin pie
Pumpkins
Sweaters
Leaves falling
Hearing the crunching of the leaves under my feet
Cuddling under a warm blanket
The mountains look like they are on fire
Jack - o - lanterns glowing bright!

Together

Dave and I went to the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake City. We ate at this amazing Southwestern Grill.

We then spent the afternoon walking around and shopping.

These are the days that we will never forget; spending time with one another and doing what we both love..Shopping.

{artist}

My sweet little nephew was drawing with his mom the other day when he drew this very cute picture. He told his mom it's a "good guy".

Happy Days

I just have to say thank-you Karalee for fixing my hair!! All it took was a nice good color and cut. I can now say that I can wear my hair down! Happy days have begun again.

Girls Day Out

Britnie,Spencer, mom and I went to Springville to the

It was so cute. There are so many creative people in this world.
We then went to the Corn Wagon Quilt Co. Oh do they have just the most darling quilting and stitchery ideas and products!
Afterwords we went to a home decor store called THE PORCH ON MAIN in Springville.
It is a really cute old home with 2 stories packed full of unique home decor goods.
I absolutely loved the opportunity to spend the day with my sister, mom and nephew, enjoying what we love to do most.

Relief Society Broadcast

I am so blessed to have had the opportunity to go to the R.S. Broadcast with my sister.
The R.S. presidency talked about how we can do better in attending Relief Society and doing our Visiting Teaching.
As we sang How Firm a Foundation, the last verse touched me in a way that it has never touched me before.

Fear not, I am with thee; oh, be not dismayed,
For I am thy God and will still give thee aid.
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,
up-held by my righteous, up-held by my righteous,
Up-held by my righteous, omnipotent hand.

Once again....

Once again Dave and I tried to go camping. After work I went to my Dads work and traded the car for his truck. Went home and picked up Dave and packed the truck. As we were on State Steeet heading to Timpanogous (Granite Flat Campgrounds), we looked over and saw some dark clouds as they started to roll in pretty fast. By then it was 5pm and we made up our minds to park ourselves at my parents house. We sat on the back patio and set up our dinner which was a dutch oven beef stew and rolls. As we waited for our dinner, Spencer and Britnie came home and helped us set up my parents fire pit. By 7:30 we were starving and our potatoes and carrots were hard as a rock and our rolls were not rising, but we decided to cook the rolls anyways. They were suppose to cook for 15mins but it took 45. If we actually went camping we would have ended up just eating rolls and s'mores for dinner. My sweet mom went inside and cooked us something to eat. Mom, Dave and I sat around the fire and ate dinner and s'mores. We rechecked our beef stew around 9pm and it still wasn't done. By then we were both tired and put the stew in containers to be cook at home the next day.
We now KNOW that if we are going to be going camping for one night we wont be making dutch oven dinners. I will precook our dinner and just warm it over the fire.
Even though we didn't make it into the mountains, tt turned out to be a good fun anyways. It was fun to practice our dutch oven cooking and learning what to do and what not to do.

Oops....

Well, you might be wondering why Stacie always wears her hair up on the right side of her head, like in the photo above. This is really embarrassing, but one morning I believe in May, I was blow drying my hair and smelled something burning so I pulled the brush out of my hair and a huge clump came out. Oh my gosh, I couldn't believe it, I just burnt my hair and now it is 1/2 inch long! It is finally growing back but all it wants to do is stand straight out and I have long strands of hair that is uneven and lays funny. I am sick and tired of having my hair up all the time, Oh how I wish I could just let it down. Maybe in about a month or 2, my hair grows really slow.

Weekend Getaway

On Sunday the 6th, we decided to go camping for the Labor Day long weekend. We left Sunday morning around 11 and headed to Hope campground, but once we arrived all of the campsites were occupied. We went back down the mountain to the other side of Mt. Timpanougos to the Granite Flats Campground. Once again everything was full; just as we had expected but thought we'd keep looking around anyways. We drove around to other camp areas with no luck. We ended up stopping at a picnic area and hung out there for 6 hours. We enjoyed each others company, taking a short walk, reading, all with the sound of the rushing river. Well, we tried to make a dutch oven dinner with corn as the side dish. Well, it was a disaster. The fire pit didn't have any wire racks so we could put food over the fire. Our corn was lukewarm, but we ate it any ways. The dinner on the other hand cooked over 2 hours and it was really runny and the potatoes were has hard as a rock. Not sure what we did wrong since it worked out great the last time we made it. We ended up eating s'mores for dinner and throwing away the other food and packed up, and ended up arriving around 8 pm. I think we learned our lesson: reserve a campground before the big holiday, have a back up dinner plan, make sure we have enough fire wood (if we actually stayed over night we wouldn't have had enough fire wood and paper to get the fire started), and be better prepared with more cookware.
It was a really fun and relaxing Sunday anyway.

Jon Schmidt

On Sat. the 5th, Britnie, Dave, and I went to Jon Schmidt in Concert at the Thanksgiving Point Gardens. It was the best concert I've ever attended. He was hilarious, incredibly entertaining, and an amazing performer. Steven Sharp Nelson's amazing cello along with prerecorded accompaniment left the audience screaming for an encore by the end of the night. I never expected the place to errupt like it did after their performance of Love Story Meets Viva La Vida. Everyone loves the music video and we all sure hope Jon gets the rights from Cold Play so the song will be available again.




Britnie and I came out of the bathrooms and we saw this cool looking bird.

What have we been up to...

I got a second job working at East Shore High School. This school is not a traditional school. It is where teenagers go who were pregnant, trouble teen and students who need to do packets to make up credits. I will be working in their daycare where the oldest kid is 4 years old and we should be having about 5 newborns coming in. I will also be working at Pebbles on Monday Nights and my required weekends.
Dave is going to school full time at UVU to become an accountant and he is also working for his dad from home.
We are both doing well and busy this school year.

Since Jon is having difficulty getting permission from Coldplay to use Jon'sss arrangement of "Love Story (Taylor Swift) meet Viva la Vida (Coldplay)" he has rewritten the song and has now come out with a new music video where he has taken out Coldplays Viva La Vida. We like it but hopefully the permissions will come back so we can purchase the other arrangement.
Due to the video options on youtube, this is as small as I can download the video to the blog. Oh well, it almost fits.

2 bucks Tuesdays

Thanksgiving Point offers people to go visit the Gardens, Museum of Ancient Life, and Farm Country for only $2, so Britnie, Spencer and I took advantage and headed to the Gardens. We had fun walking around and smelling the fragrances of all the different flowers. Spencer had fun pushing the stroller and then out of no where he lets go and away the stroller went rolling right through the flowers.
Britnie and I really wanted to see the Secret Garden. Oh and it sure is a secret. It took us forever to find the garden, however, once we did it was worth it. I am so blessed with a wonderful sister and my sweet nephew to go and view the pretty landscapes.