My Allie Goes Through the Temple

On Saturday, December 12, Allie went through the temple. She had decided a couple of months back to take out her endowment. It was a great day. Allie had gone to temple preparation classes and had bought longer skirts. She was really excited to go to the temple and was well prepared. At the time, she was dating Connor Findlay and he came, too. She's a great girl and enjoyed the session.

Grandpa and Grandma Hunter, Allie, me, Kamiko and Keenan

Allie and Connor. No longer dating, but still friends.

She spent lots of time in December and January going to sessions, sealings, doing initiatories, etc. She's a light in our lives for sure.

Wow, It's Been Forever

I haven't posted since before Christmas. Shame on me. What have I been up to? Well, I've been developing another blog with my friend Annie Oswald. We launch our blog tomorrow, on March 15. We've been working on it since November when Annie hatched the idea. It's called 2 Women of a Certain Age and it's for people who aren't interested in solely looking at all the mommy bloggers that exist. It's taken a lot of time and effort. I've learned tons. This Blogger interface is very simple to use. We used Wordpress instead because serious bloggers tend to use it. It has been quite the learning experience, but we're getting there and we're ready to launch. It's taken a lot of my time and energy. I'll now try to get caught up on our happenings since mid-December.

Christmas: 

Everyone loved their pj's. Even Keenan got "Elf" ones and Kamiko is a stormtrooper from Star Wars

Mel got a selfie stick from Keenan. That was fun. Check out Keen's Spam shirt. 

Christmas PJ's

A new shirt from the Russells. I love it!

After Christmas "minus 2 days til Christmas" (Mel got creative)

Mel got a tripod

Derek and Rachel and kids came to town

Um, we woke up to lots of snow that Keenan got to shovel

Derek also got Star Wars pj's. He's Darth Vader to Kamiko's Stormtrooper

Evidently everyone thinks mom needs to relax. My Christmas haul.

The SNOW

January:

1. Kamiko goes back to BYU

2. Allie starts work on her associate's degree at SLCC

3. Mel begins her last semester as a high school student

4. I begin a new semester at BYU

5. Snow

6. High Fitness

7. Keenan gets released from Bishopric and serves in nursery

8. Unconventional visiting teaching, getting steamers at Starbucks

Me, Carrie Gibson, and Amy Christensen. Carrie taught us the ropes on my first ever visit to Starbucks

9. I work on my new blog

10. We have 5 cars in the family after Kamiko finds a cute Honda Civic

A cool quote I found on someone's fridge at a YW activity:

February:

1. Allie turns 20!

two yummy mini bundt cakes

2. Mel finds out she got accepted to BYU! She'll be a cougar in the fall.

3. Mel goes on a cruise with her high school friends, affectionately known as "The Street Youths."

Brooke, Isabelle, Levi, Meghan (front row)
Kobi, Kaleb, Mel, Makei (back row)

4. Kamiko gets a nasty cold

5. Kamiko goes on a cruise with his summer sales team at Moxie

6. I go on NO cruise

7. I keep working on the blog and cook a lot to post recipes with pictures

post cooking kitchen looks like this.

One of my many aprons. I do like this one a lot.

8. Mel goes to school dance with friends dressed as astronaut

How cute is this jetpack!?

9. Start work on our taxes. We owe money, so there's no rush to file.

10. Mel makes an amazing replica of her bedroom for interior design class.

This seriously looks EXACTLY like her bedroom, except it's usually messy