Luke and Bball

Luke found Alan's Jazz cap when we were packing up, he put it on and pretended he was watching basketball from the bleachers.

New Pictures

Samantha is 13 pounds now and has the cutest smile and laugh. She was sick and throwing up again this week, I think she might have allergies or it's this nasty apartment, but she is doing better now. She is sleeping 6-8 hours a night, knock on wood that she continues. I don't remember the schedule for the well baby check ups so if some one could let me know that would be great.

Need some help in the Church Department?

I got this e-mail from my mom this morning, I thought it was too funny. I got to tell you though sometimes a really wish there was services like this.

ZION VISITING TEACHING SERVICE
' We Care Because You Don't Have Time To'

* Visiting teaching getting you down?
* Can't get that annoying Relief Society President off your back?
* Visiting teaching interfering with your valuable television and craft time?
WE CAN HELP!
At Zion 's Visiting Teaching Service, we'll do your visiting teaching for you.
For a small monthly fee, we will send one of our representatives to the homes of your sisters.
* For $10.00 per sister, we will provide a visit. * For $15.00 per sister, we will provide a spiritual message. * For $20.00 per sister, we will remember birthdays and anniversaries. $20 isn't too much to pay for Peace of Mind. So give us a call at:

1-800-462-2879 - That's 1-800-IM-2-BUSY
Because of high volume an extra $15.00 will be added to all services required on the last day of the month.

Check Out Our New Services!!!

Meetings: We will send a representative to the appropriate meeting to take notes for you and report back.
Ward Council Meeting $30
Ward Council Meeting w/ written report $50
Presidency Meetings $20
PEC $25
Sacrament Meeting $20
Sunday School $20
Priesthood $20
3-hour Sunday Block (best value) $50
PLEASE NOTE: Surcharge of 10% for stake meetings

***Talks and Lessons***
Did a bishopric member call and assign you a talk? Tired of wasting Saturday night preparing a lesson? Well, free up your time and just read one of our professionally prepared talks and lessons. No need to spend countless hours poring through books, writing and praying. We'll do it for you!
Basic Talk (any subject assigned) $20
Scripture Talk (basic + 5 scriptures) $30
Deluxe Talk (scrip ture + 1 poem + 2 G.A. quotes) $40
All talks are guaranteed to last 15 minutes. Add $1 for each additional minute
Basic Lesson (40 minutes) $25
Deluxe (Basic + visual aides) $35
Super Deluxe (Deluxe + Handouts) $45

Due to high expectations, centerpieces and floral arrangements, Relief Society lessons are slightly higher. Call for quote.
Due to lower expectations, priesthood lessons receive a 10% discount.
Call us at 1-822-752-2537. That's 1-822-Slacker .

Introducing our Bundle Buys and Frequent Shopper Plan
Bundle any 3 services and receive a 20% discount. Receive one free Basic talk or lesson with any 10 purchases.
There you have it! We take all the work off of your shoulders and put ours to the wheel just for you.

Introducing our new:
Casserole Service

If you just can't possibly throw together food for various Ward occasions,
WE CAN!
Our basic services include:
a.. Funeral Potatoes
b.. Green Bean/Mushroom Soup with Crunchy Onions
c.. Green Jell-O with Carrots
d.. Spinach Dip in a Bread Bowl
e.. CheezWiz/Tater Tot Surprise

For only $15 (plus deposit) each delivered to your house with Corningware marked with your name! They'll never know you didn't make 'em!

Remember our number: 1-822-S-L-A-C-K-E-R

Growing big

Samantha

Samantha slept for 6 hours straight on Wednesday night, yay, I don't think Luke every did that till he was much, much older. She is now laughing and smiling for real now. I'm so blessed to be the mother of Luke and Samantha.

Taking the plunge

We are taking the plunge and buying a house Yay! Not just a house, but a brand new house Yay! It's a little further away from Alan's work then we really wanted it to be, but we know that this is the house for us. The house is 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bath and 2500 square ft. It has a big back yard for Luke to play in, a community pool in the shape of Texas, a big play ground, picnic areas and a basketball court. It's a long story of how we came to find this house and how we are able to buy it and I'll tell you some time if you want me too, but we feel so bless to be able to afford to buy this house. We have been blessed it so many ways since we moved here to Texas especially in being able to buy this house, that we hope to make into our home for a long time.

Blog title

A while back my mom made the comment to me that for being a reluctant blogger, I sure am good at updating it, so I thought it was about time to change our title because we are no longer reluctant and haven't been for a while. Our blog, well I guess it's more my blog has become like a journal for me. It has helped me capture moments in our life that I probably wouldn't remember other wise. I wish we had one when Luke was born (they weren't around even just a couple of years ago or at least I didn't know about them) because it has given me a place to write down everything about Samantha so I can always remember.

The title actually comes from Alan and mine's song, Beautiful Mess by Diamond Rio. I put the words from the chorus on the sidebar. You can look up all the words to the song on http://lyrics.com/. I love my little family and life is so much better when Alan is home.