What do you think?

After going through some baby pictures of Jeffrey we've discovered he looks just like my nephew Andrew!

Just wondering what you think?

Birthday & Job News

November 11th was my 26th birthday. I spent the day driving in our motor home with my family and got home around 6:00 to finally see my cute husband who took me out to a fantastic dinner and bowling with his family. After not seeing him for a week, it was great to finally be reunited! My nephew Benson sang me a birthday song, I thought it was cute enough to post here....

We heard from Amazon.com which was sad news for us, Amazon.com didn't hire Jeffrey because they are dumb (but thats just what they said, not what I think!) so we're still on the look out for where in the world we'll go come May. We fly to Wisconsin December 21st for a job interview there, we're not holding our breath for that one Wisconsin is just as cold as Detroit was and we don't particularly love ice storms.

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving proved to be a time well spent with family. Such as the photo above where my dad tickled those kids so much their tummy hurt! We started out with dinner at Grandma Knights on the High side of the family and then drove to Provo where we had dinner with the Barrus family. We then went to watch New Moon with Jeffreys sister and her husband- (our first date was exactly one year ago to the movie twilight so it seemed appropriate even though we didn't really enjoy the show.) We had a lot of fun being around family and enjoying the holiday. We had a plan to wake up really early and go shopping because we wanted a TV so we drove to Salt Lake that night and on our way off the freeway I suggested to Jeffrey that we simply stop at Wal Mart and check out the store before we show up at 4:00am so we walked in to find they only had 8 TVs (in the kind we wanted) and 8 dots on the floor for those TVs, there were already 3 people sitting on dots so we did what we had to do... we slept in the childrens shoe isle of walmart, protecting our precious dot so that we could get a TV. Unfortunate for you I was too tired to take a picture of Jeffrey full out sleeping in the isle with sleeping bag, pillow and all. However I did get a shot of us nestled in the little area we stayed at. Six hours later, we got the TV but not as easy as it sounded, we were tired and the credit card machine broke for the person right in front of me. The humor in all of this, I think we saved 400.00 on the TV but Jeffrey found it online for 50.00 more--- totally worth the 50.00 to have gotten a goods night sleep, but the experience- priceless!

Oregon Travels

Grandpa Hughs funeral was as always a chance to spend time with family. I am lucky to have the family that I do- we all piled in our motor home and took the trip up to Portland Oregon. Wes topped off at some beautiful waterfalls and then went on our way to my aunts house. on the way ome we had mom, dad, Kimball, Erica, Benson (2) Andrew (1), Nathan, Andrea, Carter (1), and me. it was quite the packed motor home! dad with his ear plugs in and the rest of us with all sorts of things to do while dirivng down the road, it was a blast! some of my life fondest memories are that of driving down the road in our family motor home. This trip brought back so many of those fantastic memories.

This is all of us sleeping in the motor home. The babies slept all day so come bed time- they weren't tired!

Benson driving the motor home, he did great! watch out mom and dad, 16 isn't that far!

Jeffrey and I by the waterfall sporting our BYU and Utah jackets, of course people couldn't tell this motor home full of crazy people was from Utah!

Kimball didn't have his family with him yet, so here he is holding his son Andrew in his left arm while his wife holds on to their two year old in his right arm. We missed them too!

My brother Nathan and his wife Andrea, their son was sleeping so we could go sightseeing.

The falls were beautiful, especially in the fall- go figure!

Grandpa Hughs Funeral

This past few weeks has been some very crazy weeks! To start out - I got a call from my dad the first week of November saying that my grandpa (his dad) had suffered a stroke and was on life support and that we needed to leave right away to Oregon to say good-bye/have a funeral for grandpa. Jeffrey was gone to Seattle for his interview so I was on my own to pack everything up and drive up Oregon with my family in their motor home - lucklily we didn't leave till Jeffrey's flight landed so he was able to literally get off the plane and into the Motor home so he could drive the 12 hours with us.

Grandpa Hugh Wayne High was a mystery to me. I didn't know him as well as I would have liked to because he was so distant from my life, yet he still made an impact in my life in so many ways. My father has based a lot of his decisions in life off of his upbringing and his desire to break the cycles that followed generations before him. I am blessed to have the father I do and for his desire to continue to show love to his family because he didn't have a lot of love shown to him through his father. Death is always an interesting thing for me, I often think about what that person is going through and how they feel about being in a completely different place. I am grateful for my belief in the Atonement which is central to the Plan of Salvation and the knowledge that I have that I can be with my family again, but more than that, because of this plan we can accomplish a great work by binding our families for eternity. In my extended families case, this part of the plan is all I have to rely on because many have chosen other paths.

Where in the world?!

So I probably shouldn't post anything yet, but I'm going to anyway! Jeffrey has had 3 interviews with Amazon.com over the phone and this Thursday they are flying him up to a very beautiful city where they will do interviews all day and then propose an offer for a full time job after graduation. We are so excited about the possibilities and I really can't help myself from smiling every time I think about how much I would love to live in this beautiful city!

Can you guess where it is?

I'll fill you in later this week with the results!

Bridal Veil Falls

We took a hike in the fall

Where the water was tall

The trees were yellow

The mood far from mellow

The trip was quick

I kinda felt like a hick