Dress Up Jewelry

This necklace felt like it weighed about a ton! It was really pretty but I have no idea what I would ever wear it with or what I would wear it to!

Another brooch that I absolutely loved!

This belonged to my great-grandma too. This one just made me happy. It is also another one that I would love to own someday.

And another brooch. I just like looking at them.

Another sparkly brooch. Gorgeousness!

Another one that I just loved. It was a light blue-ish color, and it sparkles and it's beautiful.

Pretty in pink! I can't remember who it belonged to, but I know that I liked it a lot.

The brooch with matching earrings.

This brooch was so gorgeous! It sort of reminded me of the brooch on Ever After that Marguerite wears to try and improve her....self.

This is a bracelet. It was SO elaborate! It matched my sweater though...so...I kinda wanted it. Maybe I'll get it some day.

I also loved these earrings!! I thought they were so beautiful!

Earrings!!! My grandma would wear these to church when my dad was growing up in San Antonio. They are clip on earrings, but still beautiful none the less!

These were some of the earrings that I ended up getting from Grandma. They make me feel like a princess!

Several pairs of earrings.

Boxes and Boxes of Jewelry

The magenta flower belonged to my great-grandma. I love old stuff like this.

For Thanksgiving I went down to Cedar City to visit my grandparents. While I was there, my grandma showed me some amazing pieces of jewelry that used to belong to her, her mother and my grandpa's mother. They were SO beautiful!!! She gave me a couple of pieces for my own. I was so excited. I felt like a little child in a candy store. It was amazing!!

Ring or Sing....le??

BYU. No one comes here with the intent to just "get an education." There is an ulterior motive for everyone being in Provo, Mormon-central...yep. Marriage. Mawwidge is wat bwings us togefar today...Or at least what brings us to Provo. So naturally, you would expect a lot of people to be married and have that little sparkle on their left hand. Now anyone who has ever been to BYU, taken a tour of it or anything can tell you that it is a big campus. Big. Yes. And walking from one end to the other can sometimes get a little tedious. Good thing I love watching people. Now you are probably thinking "Jamie, what does a big campus have to do with people getting married?" And I'm about to tell you. My new favorite pasttime when I walk pretty much anywhere on campus is to look at people. Just look at them. And then decide in my mind whether I think they are married or single. And then I look at their left hand. Is there a ring there on their fourth finger? If I guess right, I win!! If not, well, I just keep playing until I win. It keeps me occupied throughout my long walk from the HFAC to the Marb and back again. It's really funny because there are some people who you can just tell are married. They just look married, even they aren't with anyone else at the moment. And then there are those that are most definitely single, even though it may just be them and someone of the opposite sex walking to or from class. It kind of makes me wonder what people think when they look at me.....

Baptisms with Erin

Erin and I decided that we wanted to go and do baptisms at least once a week. So here are some of the pictures from our first temple trip this past Wednesday, the 24th. This was the view from the parking lot. It was kind of blurry, but it is still beautiful. I especially love it when it is lit up at night. It is such a source of strength for me.

A picture of me in front of the temple...I think it looks fantastico!!

This is me. Sitting in front of one of the fountains at the Provo Temple after doing baptisms with Erin. It was wunderbar.

Erin. Again....yes.

The fountains!! It is beautiful.

No makeup, wet hair...we are beautiful.

Isn't it a beautiful picture?

Erin owes Ice Cream!!!!

ERIN OWES US ICE CREAM!!!!! So, long story short. Basically right before we got to the Canadian border on our trip up to Canada, Erin calls me (it's like 1:30 am) and says, "Guess what. He kissed me!!" (He being J.J. Despain). You know what that means girlie....ICE CREAM!!! So I got back on Monday night, and we had our girls night with ice cream on Tuesday night. We practically had to pull her away from J.J. though....9:30 does not equal 9:31. Sorry love, it doesn't. I'm pretty sure she was annoyed with us, but whatever. She got to see him again that night anyhow. And I told her that there was a good chance that these pictures would end up on facebook (but note, I said "good chance." That doesn't mean they will.) She asked me not to put them up though, which I suppose is understandable. She never said anything though about not putting them up on my blog. Besides, a whole lot less people look at my blog than facebook (like my grammar?) So that's the story. At least in a nutshell : )

If I know Erin (and I do....REALLY WELL), I will get crap about putting this picture on my blog.

I brought back Smarties from our Canada trip. That's right. Smarties. These are Canadian Smarties, better than M&Ms. They are filled with chocolate..and pretty much amazing!! Just for the record, what we call smarties down here, they call "rockets" up there. Whatev. It all works out.

Michelle and Ilarene laughing about something. I'm not quite sure what, but I think it was pretty funny. Maybe it was me....

Michelle, Ilarene and Erin. Erin thinks she looks gross. I think she looks beautiful.

This was the second picture we took because Erin did not like the first one. Too bad both of them are ending up on here anyways!! I'm pretty sure I'll hear about too as soon as she is done reading this.

She is an amazing ice scooperuper. It was good.

Oh Canada!!!

Ben and Shay Court, coming out of the temple as a newly wedded couple. They look so happy!! We went up to Canada on Sept 18, and then they got married on the 20th. It was so fun to see everyone again!! I love my family so much and I am so glad that I get to be with them forever! It was such a good trip.

Gotta love the little princesses!

Shay and her new nephew, Jackson. He was soo adorable in his little suit!

I absolutely LOVED Shay's dress!!! I thought it was so beautiful, and I especially loved the back and how it laced up. I'm pretty sure that's something I'm gonna be goin for when I get married. I loved it.

It's the fam!!!

This is the Cardston, Alberta Temple. My parents were married there, as well as almost everyone else on my mom's side of the family that has gotten married. We've had a couple of cousins get married in other places like San Diego, Edmonton, and soon to be Salt Lake. It's such a pretty place though, and I love it.

The front of the Cardston Temple. It says "The House of the Lord, Holiness to the Lord."

This is my cousin Lindsey's daughter Abigail (Abby, for short). She is the cutest little thing. I'm pretty sure she's 3 going on 30....okay not really. But she's super cute and I love her tons! She looked like a princess!!

This is my cousin Justin's son, Zach. He is also way adorable!! He is such a cute little boy.

After the family dinner, we had to get the hall ready for the reception, so we put chair covers on all the chairs and then tied these sashes around them. It was a super good workout...squat...tie the bow...use the quads to stand back up. It was awesome, and it looks really nice.

Mini-Golfing....yep!

It's us!!! We decided to go mini-golfing to "celebrate" the fact that Ammon graduated, and then to have a little going away shindig, because Ammon decided to join the National Guard. That means a lot of time at Basic Training in Oklahoma, and then a lot more time in Arizona doing training for whatever it is he is going to do as his job in the Guard. I think he's going to fly remote controlled airplanes, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyways, we aren't going to really see him at all until next summer, I think, when he gets ready to go on his mission, and then he'll be gone another two years!! Dang I'm gonna miss that kid for sure........

Yep...we're good. And then there's Ammon.... : )
But we love him anyways.

There we go...the beautiful girls!! Aren't we just amazing??

Okay, so once we done with golfing, Rachael and Ammon decided they wanted to ride this pelican thing. So they put a quarter in, and then they rode it, and Cameron and I rode it, and Emily rode it...it was a dang good ride for just a quarter.

Siblings!! Cameron really is amazing. I love him sooo much!!

Emily and her adorableness. Her pants are stellar too!

Emily and her amazing golfer-face stuff....yeah.

Rachael's pretty much amazing!! I love her!

And then there's me, the silver medalist in this the Mini Golf Olympics at Liberty Land.

Oh Ammon....gotta love it.

And then here' s Cameron. He's a pretty awesome little bro, and I love him tons!