Christmas Vacation

I loved being able to see all of my family!  Y'all are fantastic. Thanks for making it a great week.

Tis the season

I love the gospel and I love my savior. This time of year is perfect for sharing it with others! Today as I was with the sister missionaries they were teaching and we came across this scripture. (Its in the picture)

We can do this with any scripture really but put your name in for Jacob's name. It makes it so much more personal and we should all be trying to live the commandments and helping others around us to live and want to live the commandments. And to have the gospel in our lives. We all need to take it upon ourselves to share it with others. I just love this scripture and the gospel we are all so lucky to be apart of. Love you all soo much!! And can't wait to see you soon!!

Family pictures from August

Christmas Cheer

Our ward had an awesome ugly sweater party! I even wore antlers made from ballons. I'm a six point :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving y'all! Spent today with my work family. Started out watching the parade then going to Eric's family for lunch and family time. Where I met his extended family and played games with the little girls that loved me. Food was very interesting. I ate it but did not enjoy it. Haha. Then we went to Amanda's sister's house for the afternoon and we watched the cowboys play a horrible football game. HORRIBLE. And Amanda's sister made us this delicious shrimp/sausage/spicy soup which was FANTASTIC. So yummy! We plan on Christmas decorating tomorrow! :)

These are some pictures I snapped randomly today. We were in the countryside and trees are everywhere kind of looking fall like. Hahah. The trees line almost every road you take here. Especially once you leave the city. But when the leaves start falling off it looks pretty ugly because there is no snow to make it look better or different. 

Interesting fun fact. Eric's family is of Italian decent. So they all drink a ton of wine and salute glasses. Aka cheers. With everyone in the room which is super awkward. Especially when its out of nowhere and no rhyme or reason to it. Haha. So I had sparkling cider with the kids that were to young for the wine which is children under like ten. Crazy I know. So it was pretty interesting to be apart of that and see others family traditions.

3 Months

I've hit the three month mark. Crazy! I love all of y'all and thank you for your support, prayers, conversations, comments, etc. It brightens my days. Its still going good out here. Staying busy and making quite a few memories. I love having shawn and mindys cd here. Its like having a peice of home. Its really comforting! And my wonderful mother sent me a picture frame with our family in it and stuff to make puff rice balls:) so no worries I will just eat the batch by my self. And enjoy every single bite. Haha! Here is a picture of tiger stadium and the river as you go across the bridge. It may have been sunny but it was a very cold brisk morning!