Jessica aka...

I saw this on my cousin Dayna's blog and thought it was so funny.

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) Koko Accord
2. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR'S NAME: ("The" + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”) The Digital Thounderstorm Tour
3. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) Cheesecake Samoa
4. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
J-Hil
5. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Metallic Blue Baby (I love all baby animals so I guess it could be elephant, giraffe, deer, etc.)
6. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Dawn Idaho Falls (that is kinda dorkie)
7. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) Wilje (It just sounds like E-bonics to me)
8. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The" + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) Red A &W
9. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) Keith Byron
10. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy) Flirtatious Bliss
11. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) Jo Paul
12. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) Hansen Hubbard
13. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower) Autum Tulip
14. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) Mango Sweatie
15. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) Banana Acorn (hmmmm)

Well aren't you the quirky one.....

My sister tagged me and I am suppose to list 6 of my biggest quirks. Of course I have many but when I tried to think of them all I could think of was perfection!! :) But I was able to think really hard and here is what I came up with:

1) When I brush my teeth I gag. Everytime!!! When Ben and I first got married he would always run into the bathroom to see if I was okay. Now he is so used to it, it doesn't phase him.

2) This is her husband: in order to get a true appreciation for her quirks, it is necessary to be brutally honest. She has the weirdest dreams and then she feels the need to explain every detail to me. They are so weird that I have to share them with someone. I totally get it from my mom. My sister has the same problem.

3) She waits until after she is done eating to drink her whole glass of milk. I don't like to get done eating and have to get yet another drink because I drank it all during my meal.

4) She has to have a 2 pieces of toast with her oatmeal or else she can't eat oatmeal. It is too slimy to eat all alone.

5) She has to have whipped cream on her jello or else she can't eat jello. Again too slimy to eat all alone!!

6) She has to have her bed made before she gets into it, even if it hasn't been made all day. I like my bed a certain way and Ben is such a crazy sleeper that I practically have to re-make my bed everyday.

7) I LOVE to make lists!!! I make them all day long and have a ton of notebooks scattered throughout my house full of lists.

Alright, that is enough of picking on me, I now want to pick on someone else. I tag Elisa, Tracy and Heather.

Caleb is 6 months old and growing fast!!

My little baby is 6 months old already! I can't believe it! He grew up too fast. I took some pictures of him doing some of his favorite things (okay so maybe dressing up like a yellow duckie isn't one of his favorite things, but it was one of mine, he looked so cute! I had to dress him up pre-halloween because I knew it wouldn't fit him in a month.)

NEXT...

Emily decided to put together Mr. Potato Head "all by herself" and this is the outcome. I laughed because she thought she was so cool and so big to do it alone.

Okay so I haven't blogged in awhile so here are some other fun pictures: I got a new camera and I am having so much fun with it! Can you tell???

Emily wearing my new glasses...

Can you say cute???

Emily with her Great Great Grandma Mecham.

A little R & R

So yesterday I stressed and today Ben is working so I am relaxing and doing a little digi scrappin'. I also found a cute picture of Caleb from the fair so here is some news for today.

Insurance Companies Bite!

I am just wanting to complain!! I hate insurance companies I think they are such a scam! I pay so much to them only to pay more to my doctors. I hate having C-sections but what choice do I have???? So I called my insurance and talked with them when I got pregnant. I totally understood from her that my OB account would cover my WHOLE pregnancy...WRONG. She never once mention any kind of fiscal year crud! So we paid and paid in 2007 and here we are still paying and paying in 2008. Don't get me wrong, Caleb is worth any amount that any doctor wants to bill me!!! But I get irritated when something isn't explained correctly and I end up calling them back because I am freaking out over a $900.00 medical bill that shows up from Mr. Postman. Then I just feel like a dummy and feel like insurance is a rip off. So then I was doing a stinkin cartwheel to please my sweet little 2 year old and I landed and that was about the end of the cartwheel...no walking, running barely even making it to a standing position. We go to the ER because I was scared...thinking that I had met my deductible (the lady on the phone said I only has 129.00 until I met it....so ER and $$$$ sign went through my head and I thought easy enough it will be met.) Now comes another large bill. I called again to get and explanation (yes, I am totally dumb when it comes to these kind of things) and only 20% of that very large bill went toward that deductible and I STILL HAVE $22 dollars to go...ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? Anyway I guess such is life and I will deal with it. I just have to voice my frustration because I HATE being in debt more than anything. But I have such a strong testimony of tithing and I know that if we continue to pay a full tithe we can enjoy so many blessings. Sorry for my little soapbox for the day, boy do I feel better!!!

Okay so this story gets better...my BFF Elisa called and I was complaing to her and she (because she is so smart) told me that what I was told is CRAZY and I need to call them back. So I did and the rep said "Hmmm, it looks like we haven't recieved all the charges because your total should only be $78.83. WHAT??? That is almost a $400 dollar difference! What was the rep before thinking??? Ugh, well after being put on hold the charges are figured out and the final $78.83. MUCH BETTER than what it was before.

On that note have a great weekend. :)

Busy as a Mom can be......

I am finally getting around to posting something new. Life has been oh so busy and tiring! Of course because I live in Blackfoot we attended the fair a couple of times. Mainly for Emily, but we also enjoy fair food way too much!! We loved bringing Emily on the rides and through the animal barns, she talks about it every day. I am glad she had so much fun! I also enjoyed seeing her have fun and enjoyed filling my tummy with Yummy food. I had a Prime Rib sandwich which was SOOOO yummy! A keeper for next year!

Last weekend Ben and Emily were outside practicing their golf swing. Emily loves Ben and wants to be just like him. It is cute!!

This year I also decided to freeze some corn. I was able to freeze 8 quart bags of corn. I should have used pint bags but didn't have any. Oh well. It is fun to have some food storage.

Other than that we have just been hanging out. Caleb has been sick this past week and we took him to the doctor. I am glad my Mom was able to come down and help me. I don't know what I would have done without her!! Love ya Mom!

Caleb's New Do

On Saturday one of my cousins got married and I wanted to Caleb to look like a handsome boy (not hard to do, he is so cute), so my Mom and I gave him a cute hair cut. He was so good and sat still and smiled at my Dad thw whole time. We cut 1 1/2 inches off the top, it was amazing! So here are his most recent model pictures. :) and some of Emily being Emily (silly as always and blurry because she is always on the move!).

I want to ride my bicycle.....I want to ride my bike!

Last night for FHE we decided it would be fun to go on our first bike ride as a family. For my birthday Ben bought my a bike stroller but Caleb was too little to sit in it and it has sat in our garage ever since. So we broke it out and we were off. We rode our bikes to Ben's grandparents house and back. Maybe 5 miles...??? It was a beautiful night...perfect for a bike ride! It was especially funny to see little baby Caleb bouncing with every bump. He enjoyed it though and even fell asleep on the way home. Yay for bikerides!

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Our trip to Nauvoo

This was Caleb's first ride on any airplane. He did great, he slept on both flights! We were living on fumes from only 3 hours of sleep the night before, so we were very grateful.

The first sight-seeing adventure we went on was to the Carthage Jail. The sister missionaries took us on a great tour and told lots of stories I had never heard before. If only I can remember them all though.

On Friday we attended the Nauvoo temple with Ben's parents! It was awesome!! The spirit was so strong and everything about the temple inside and out was majestic!

One night we attended the Nauvoo Pagent. It was just a reinactment of what occured while the saints lived in Nauvoo. The actors were great and made me have a new appreciate for all the sacrifices they made. The actors made it so realistic!! we even participated in some pre-show games. We stunk at the stilts!! Ben rocked in the potato sack races!!

At the Visitor's Center they have a Memorial for Women. There is somethinf like 18 different statues dedicated to women. So "The Women" took a lovely picture.


The Jospeh, Hyrum and Emma Smith memorials.




At the end of our Nauvoo visit, we did Hinckley suggested and took a walk down The Trail of Hope or trail of tears on Parley Street (The path the saints took as they left Nauvoo) and read the journal entries of those early Saints on the signs posted along the way. It was sad to turn back and look at the beautiful white Temple, standing on the hill, and imagine how those Saints must have felt. I tear up just rethinking it in my mind.

I have also posted a slide with more pictures (at bottom of page). Our visit was so much fun and I am glad we went. I would love to go back again and spend more time in that beautiful and sacred city!!!

New Pictures of my babies...