Jonah was a Prophet

I made some pictures for the story of Jonah a couple of years ago for my Sunbeam class and the other week for family night decited to pull them out and give a lesson. Nini LOVED it. Every night she begs to hear the story of Jonah. The first couple of days she kept asking to hear the Johnas story :) She loves the song Follow the Prophet and has the Jonah verse memorized. She now loves to hear and tell the story several times a day. For family night tonight she wanted to tell Iya the story. She is so cute and I love that she can now tell it all by herself.

Enjoy the Nini version of Jonah (sorry its so dark-our living room is SO dark at night)

Fun in Oklahoma

Two weekends ago we went down to oklahoma to visit for the weekend. On Friday we went to Preston's game in Perry, OK (about half way between our house and my parents). It was fun to watch him play. He starts on the JV team. Then on Saturday we were able to go to the temple. It was so nice to be able to go, Monte and I both really enjoyed it.
Ok, so here is a little history.....read at your own risk :)
February 6, 2005 was the first day I met Monte. I cannot believe it has been five years. He came home from his mission on January 20th and we met at church just 3 1/2 weeks later. He came to chruch with his brother McKay and sister-in-law Andrea who were in the same ward as me. Andrea was my laurel advisor and wanted to set us up. When he walked into church that day I thought I was going to die he was so hot! :) I even remember the tie he was wearing. They sat 2 rows in front of us and to the side so I stared at him during all of sacrament meeting! After the meeting we talked for a little bit. After church I was SO scared to talk to him. Everytime I looked at him (or even thought about it) I would blush....which knowing me isn't much of a suprise. So we didn't talk again until he called me a week later to hang out and play games at Mckay's house. For the weeks and months to follow there were many memorable times spent together.....

Here is a picture we took after we got back from the temple

Here is a picture of us 5 years ago at our favorite place......Big Willow
Moving on...
Here is a pic of Preston in his game on Friday (Feb 5) in Perry



So call us crazy but we went down the next weekend as well to see Granny. My mom got a new car in Idaho so she flew down to get it and Granny drove back to Oklahoma with her. On Friday night we got to all go out to dinner together and hang out at the Christensens. Then on Saturday we went on a horse ride at "The Double D" (dad's land)
Here is Emma and Nini sitting on Spur waiting for us to finish up saddling up the horses.
Nini threw a fit because she wanted to ride BY HERSELF so Emma rode behind me and dad lead Nini!! She looked so big yet so little. I could not believe my little girl was big enough to ride alone but she looked so little on such a huge horse!

Havin FUN! The weather was so nice-It was in the high 50's and just perfect!

We drove the truck down so we could take some pictures of Dad and Monte for the website I am making for All Star Pest Control. This is one of my favorites that we took.