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!!

Adventure...

You gotta love the timing of life. Always an adventure. Everything has been perfect since we've been married, we are so blessed, so I guess it was our turn for a little change. Ha.
So Jon's car, the Polka Dotted Wonder, has seen better days. The paint alone is a sight to see, but the sun roof doesn't work, there's an oil leak, the windows in the back don't stay up, and the newest thing is that there was a leak in the radiator. No worries, last time Jon took the car in they said to just keep up on adding the oil and coolant and we'd be ok. Woot.

So Saturday was going to be a long day, but we were ready for it... or so we thought. We were helping out with Governor's Day up at Rice Eccles for Argosy (Jon's work). It would have been annoying for Jon to work another Saturday, but I got to go with him. (I even got an Argosy shirt to look official!) We had to be there at 7:00 AM. Woot. All the stuff was in Jon's car so we took it with out thinking about it. We have a fun time playing games with the kiddos, making snow cones, and handing out balloons. We left at noon to be down to Provo by 2:00. We couldn't get into our car because of the car next to us, so Jon took the opportunity to fill up the car with the needed oil and coolant. All filled up we were good to go...

We got to lunch and come out and there is a puddle of coolant in the parking lot coming out of Jon's car. Oops. But we had to hurry and figured we would be ok. We thought about trading cars, but again, no time. So we head to Provo. Note: this was a very hot day!

Almost to BYU where we're excited to see "World of Dance" we're on University Parkway, so close, then the light comes on... we're overheating... no big deal... we're almost there... then the smoke... just a little on one side... then a lot out of both sides! Luckily we were right by a gas station so we pull in. We park, Jon gets out to scope out the situation and this little old man looks at me and says "That can't be good" and he was right. Jon opens the hood and coolant is spuing out of the radiator!!! No joke, it was everywhere. There's a huge crack in the radiator and we're stuck. The cute old man comes over and he just happens to be a mechanic. He looks at the car and talks to Jon about options. The only option really is to find a ride home and get a new radiator on Monday. Awesome. Since we would have to wait for a ride anyway the man offers to drive us to BYU so we can see the rest of the dance show. He was sweet. So at least we got to see some dancing and some folk dance friends as we waited.


To understand the awesome timing... both of our Dads are out of town, Jimmy is going to Homecoming so Mom is helping him, and Cami is doing his date's hair, My mom has a quilt show and none of my brothers can help. So we have to wait a few hours before any help can come. And we're buying house, we close next week, so we can't do anything big with money untill all that is done. Woot.

Luckily Tom and Mom come down with the truck and a tow rope. Both Jon and Tom have seen Dad do this before but have never done it themselves. Mom and I just laugh as we're freaking out about it all. The boys figure it out. Jon's car is a Saturn and most of the front and frame is made out of plastic, ok, basically I think we're going to die! Ha. So we get ready to go and I decide to ride with Jon in the car... if anything happened I didn't want him to be alone! So we start off... being towed. It was SO Jerky! I get car sick so I'm thinking the whole time I'm either going to throw up, or we're going to rip off the bottom of the car! The first 3 minutes were horrible!! I knew this was going to be the longest drive home in my life!! But luckily Tom and Jon are amazing and they figure it out and it's smooth sailing. But as we're riding home the car starts making all sorts of noises... ha... everything is breaking. All we can do is laugh!!



















We make it home safe... laughing all the way. Mom and I are texting the whole time because she can see the look of panic on my face in the rear view mirror. Ha. We park the car at the Bay's and say goodbye for awhile.
We're still deciding what to do, whether we should fix the radiator or just buy a new car. Of course we would need to buy a new car when we're buying a new house! But with our new longer commute who knows how long the car would have lasted anyway!

You gotta love adventures in life!

SOLD!

I think it may have finally hit me... we're buying a house, for real. It's not that I didn't realize it before but you know when you have that moment when you realize something is really happening and it's more than just a nice thought... yep, that what happened when I saw the "SOLD" sign in front of our house! I was giddy! So giddy in fact I couldn't help but embrace my cute husband and force him to be in a picture with me! (My Mom says this picture should be in a commercial) It was so fun to look through the house and think of really living there! We have such a to-do list! We LOVE the house, but of course we want to make it our own. Paint a little there, build a little there. It'll be so fun! We'll definately have a house warming party... eventually. Then y'all can come and see how cute it is... if you are willing to make the drive. Lol.

My favorite part of the house is the fireplace (Even though it's not finished yet). I LOVE fireplaces, they are just so cozy! I'm so excited to be able to have our stockings hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon will be there! One day... hopefully soon we'll finish a nice family room to house the fireplace and it will be the cool place to hang out for sure! Woot. This house just has personality which I love! I can't wait to decorate it! Tai Pan and IKEA here I come!

(One day I'll figure out how to add the pictures and things better, but until that day... don't judge me and my lack of skills!)