FAMILY PICTURES

Yay for family pictures! We went to Wheeler Farm and it was fun as always. I was pretty excited to get a nice picture taken of Jon and I that wasn't from the wedding. Although I love the wedding pics, we needed some change! :) My mom wanted fall colors and i think they turned out really nice! What can I say?! We are a good lookin family!

The Sibling picture of amazingness!! We decided to break away from the normal face smoosh and try some acrobactics! Luckily it worked for a second, and the photographer had good timing. I thought I was going to die if they all fell, but luckily we all survived and got an amazing picture out of it! My favorite things are the faces! Classic.

The complete family as of now. The last family pic we had was before my mission and left out some cute boys: Brycson, Michael, and Jon. We'll see how long this lasts as a complete pic... Do you think we can go 3 years again? (I'm thinking not)

Christmas Time!
I love Christmas and have been waiting months to decorate our new house. Luckily my cute husband humors me mostly shares in the excitement.
He woke up early one morning and I found him playing on the roof, putting up lights on our house! They are SO cute!
Here's the final product! Green, red, and snowflakes!!!!! Very Festive.

Other than lights my favorite thing about Christmas is the Christmas tree! They make me so happy! We inherited this tree from my Aunt Lisa and it's fiber optic! It actually looks really cool. We come from families of much tradition so we are still trying to figure out what traditions we will have as a new family! So for now, here is our simple starter tree! Ornaments from IKEA, bow from Walmart, and...

Our homemade tree topper! We didn't have a star or an angel, but I had this cool coke bottle so it became our topper! I love it, and Jon's a good sport. :) It's perfect until we are able to add more to our holiday decor.

This is my favorite time of year! I love the music, the snow, the spirit of it all! It just makes my heart happy! And I'm SO excited to share Christmas this year with my little family of Jon and I.

My first hat!

So after a few hours of re-teaching myself how to crochet I finally got a beanie done!! It's so cute and little! :) I'm so excited to make beanies like crazy for those little babies in Jordan! It just makes my heart happy.

Baby Hats

Baby Hats for Jordan

A small mission to make a big difference

The Plan: We (Jon & Anna Bay) are traveling to Jordan in February and want to take as many baby hats with us as we can fit in a suitcase. We will personally deliver them to a hospital and the babies in need.

What we need: We need baby hats!! Crocheted or knitted. Sized to fit newborns. Done by February 1, 2010 so we can pack them up for their special delivery.

Elder Erich W. Kopischke of the Seventy recounted in the September 2009 Ensign:

“Recently I attended a conference of Church humanitarian missionaries in Jordan. As I met with them, I saw two sisters knitting. They told me they were knitting little caps for newborns. In the northern part of the capital city of Amman is a hospital that delivers 50 babies a day. The people there are very poor. After delivery, mothers and babies are sent back to their homes, where there is no heating. Many of these babies suffer from disease and die because of a loss of body heat.”

“We made about 2,000 newborn kits this year, but only had about 500 hats to put in them, so the additional kits went without. We hope that the ones with hats in them, go to the right people.” -Sister Donna Colson, Jordan Humanitarian Missionary

If you are interested just start crocheting!! I have patterns if you need them!

And please let me know so that I can get an idea of the size suitcase I need!

Any questions please let me know!

Anna Bay

annban213@gmail.com

Home Sweet Home!

I know, it's about time right? We've had our house since the end of September and have been living here for 3 weeks-ish. I should let ya'll see it... well, now that it's more put together and more presentable here are a few pictures!

Kitchen

Area of dining!

The other side of the living room

Living room ispired by the Draper temple... just a little bit. ;)

Office

Frogs!!! They just make you happy!!

The kiddos' room! (Kolby/Jimmy/future bambinos)

well... since I'm still blogger-challenged, that's all folks! Until next time!

Eagle Mountainites!

Eagle Mountianites!!
To celebrate our move we decided to dress up as Eagle Mountainites for Halloween! Everyone gives us a hard time about living in the boonies, so we dressed for the occasion. (Disclaimer: We mean no offense to anyone living in Eagle Mountain, this is just a funny interpretation!)

October was crazy and I'm not going to lie; I'm glad it's November.
We repainted the house, refinished the floors, and got new carpet, while packing, moving, working, and finishing up the term with homework galore! Add church and family things and to say the least it was a busy month. In true Anna fashion I did to much, wore myself out and have been sick for the past 2 weeks! :) But Novemeber will prove to be less stressfull... or else! Right now we're not very busy, but we'll see how long that lasts.... HA.

Happy side note: Now that Halloween is over, Jon will let me bring out more Christmas decor! Woot!

3 Months of Bliss

Wow! We've been married 3 months! It seems like so much longer... in a really good way. It's amazing how you can live without someone for your whole life, then in just a few months time they become your everything and it seems like you have known them forever! I think that's what they call soul-mates, and that's definitely what we are!! We like celebrating our life together everyday, but especially on occasions such as this; so we went to Hale Center Theater and saw "Curtains" last night and it was awesome! We would recommend it for sure!
We are still ridiculously in love and extremely happy! Eternity is going to be so fun, bring it on!!