Time for Christmas!!!!

The Christmas season is officially here! We took the time to put up our tree today! It looks beautiful, and makes everything so merry and bright! We had a good Thanksgiving holiday with the family at Uncle Jeff's house. We played a great game of Mad Gab! Such a funny game to play. It had dad going nuts. This holiday season is going to be different, as mom is not here with us. At the same time, this Christmas is going to serve as an extra reminder of those things that are truly important, and as a family we will be looking for more ways to create and preserve more precious memories.

May we all remember this Christmas season those things that are truly important. Let us remember the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Let us remember the blessings we have at His hands. We know this sounds so cliche and trite, but there are to many times we find ourselves with regrets for not taking advantage of the times we have with those we love.

Merry Christmas all, and may we truly have more Christ in our lives.

Anniversary in Midway!!!

Believe it or not, Josh and Anna have now been married over two years! This past October, we celebrated our anniversary with a little getaway to Midway, Utah! We had a wonderful time. Nothing better than a little rest and relaxation with your eternal companion! We stayed at the Worldmark Resort, and both of us really fell for this little town! Enjoy some pics.

It has been a long time

Here we are again, and it is the day after Thanksgiving, 2009. I think it is time we try our hand at blogging again. Today, we were watching some home movies, and I could not help but think how sad it is that we have not done much in the way of home videos the last few years. I think blogging is one of those things we can do to make sure we remember the good times. I cannot promise a daily update, but my hope is that we can find something to put up here weekly. So, go ahead and come back to the Cookie Jar! We have a lot of things coming up!

End of Summer Fun!

We have had a great Summer, and now we are coming up on fall! Of course, we all needed to have a little Summer fun at Lake Powell and at the fair! Enjoy the pics and the videos!

Josh is doing REALLY well on the wake board!!

We are SO proud of him and love to watch him!!

Then there was Anna, who got to
enjoy her first wakeboarding experience!
She even got up for a couple seconds!
She conquered fear and had a great time!

While we were at lake powell over Labor Day

weekend Brianna found a frog. At first you she

was incredibly scared, as you can tell by the

picture. But after a while she got really excited

and didn't want to let it go.

We Went to the Utah State Fair with Grandma

Rosalie and Grandpa Nick. After we saw the

animals we passed the pony ride and Brianna

had to ride since she had never been on a

horse before. I'm not sure if she enjoyed the

ride more or just being able to be so close to

a horse and pet it.

Anna and Josh said goodbye to Summer to the tunes
of their favorite band, "COLORS" it ROCKED of course!
They played an entirely new set of songs, that included
some new tunes we really enjoyed!

Welcome to the COOKIE JAR!!!

So here we are, getting involved in this whole blogging thing just for the sake of being able to say that we here at The Cookie Jar have a blog. No, really, it's just something new that we wanted to try just to give ourselves our own space to put our comings and goings, then share them with everyone else! It's been one wild Summer, and already, going into fall, we have had some great and grand adventures! So, hang on to your hats folks! In this cookie jar you are going to find all sorts, even macadamia NUTS!!!!! What, with a wild six year old coming into her own, you never know what you are gonna get. Then there is mama and dada, as they strike out on the old road through school. Life is good, and boy, the ingredients in these cookies make them HOT, MOIST, and GOOEY!!!!