Christmas Fun in Albuqerque

It's been tons of fun with the Rushton Family. Hyrum's been able to hang out with his cousins, Aunts, Uncles, and Desert (Scott and Michelle's dog). We've mostly just hung out and watched movies, but we did go bowling this morning. FUN!

Jimkeepers Christmas Exchange

We had so much fun having a gift exchange with everyone. There was caroling, hot chocolate, brownies, hotsauce, and talking until midnight. One of the best parts was when everyone got on their phones and called all of the other guys that are out of state for a massive conference call. So much fun!! It will be a sad as we all begin goin our seperate ways.

'Tis the Season

I LOVE CHRISTMAS! I love the feeling I get when I see Christmas lights and hear Christmas music. I love hot chocolate and eggnog. I love the way snow glitters when the sun hits it. I love caroling and exchanging gifts. I love time with family. I love not having to go to work or school. . . I could go on forever. Tonight Brett and I watched the Polar Express after Hyrum fell asleep and drank hot chocolate with vanilla ice cream in it. If only every night could be so wonderful! We're reading a book called "A Christmas Treasury" by Lloyd and Karmel Newell. Both of us highly recommend it to get into the mood of the season. It has short stories, scriptures, and quotes for everyday of the month of December. We hope you all are getting the Christmas 'bug'.

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FEET!

Hyrum wanted to show you all that he has feet. It's been so cute for the past couple of weeks watching him be fascinated by his toes and socks. We catch him sucking on his big toe every now and then as if it were his thumb. . . wow! It's amazing to think we were all that flexible at one point!

I love Memory Mixer

Daddy Time

The Cutest men in my life!

First Swim and Our Cutie

Random Update

Aloha all!!! Hey, I know that I haven't updated this for a long time, but I was reminded today that I had a blog. It's amazing how having a little person around will make you forget a lot of basic things. Life has been a little . . . or maybe a lot crazy lately. Brett was just called into the Bishopric and with school, work, and Hyrum it doesn't seem like we have much time together. We cherish the little times that we get to go out to dinner or a treat. Hyrum is geting bigger and smarter everyday. He loves to smile and suck his thumb. Sometimes I take his thumb out of his hand just to find it all shriveled and 'raisined'. I'm strongly against the 'Thumb Suckers of America' but I must say it's the cutest thing to watch, and it keeps him entertained forever. Oh, completely not related: there's a new wholesale home decorating store in Provo. It's on 9th East just after it turns into old state street, on the left side of the road a little bit after the cemetary. Look for the sign that says Wholesale Decor. Sadly though, I think they're only open daytime hours, as Jaclyn and I discovered. Well, hope everyone's doing well. We'll talk to you later.

Blessing Day

Hyrum was blessed on September 2nd.

Our Happy little boy

Hyrum is very curious. He sometimes spends minutes just contemplating life and how to accomplish world peace. He also enjoys just 'hanging' around and being a monkey man.

Hyrum was born on the 5th of July
Weight: 7lbs. 4oz.
Height: 19 inches
Appearance: Stinkin' adorable
Parents: Super happy

HYRUM'S HERE!!!

Gamers

Sunday Night was filled with games of all kinds. It started out with Lee and Jaclyn playing Jenga. They got it up to 37 STORIES!!! Amazing!

Later that night we added Travis and Kami and played a wicked games of Cleopatra and Shadows over Camelot.

Rushton Family Reunion! YEAH!

We had a lot of fun getting together over Memorial Day Weekend to celebrate Grandpa's 90th Birthday.

Jimkeepers in Disneyland!!!

Jimkeepers getaway to the happiest place on earth. April/May 07

Just Another Manic Monday

I'm not a big blogger, but I'll try to keep this updated and informative so you can all know what's going on with Brett and I. This weekend has been pretty fun. Brett is the new Stake Young Mens 1st Councelor, and with that comes some fun opportunities. There was a Stake Mini Mission and so we got to spend some time with the youth. It was really fun and we were so impressed with the youth. They had an MTC experience all day on Friday and then Saturday and Sunday was spent with full time missionaries. They took it seriously and you could tell that even in three days they had grown a lot.
We also went up to Mt. Green and got to see my nephew get baptized. That was a really neat experience. It's nice having some family close again. I love having Saturday's off. There's a whole life I feel like I've been missing out on :) My work schedule moved to Tuesday-Thursday from 2-7. This will be a great relief on my body.
Hyrum is as active as ever. He moves around a lot! Sometimes if I look down at my stomach I can actually see him moving around in there. We're so excited for his coming. I'm in my 33rd week, which means there's only 6-7 weeks left! Hopefully, we'll be able to induce early too. We'll keep you posted on what's going on.