busy busy

we have been so crazy busy!
here are some pics:

nova gave her first talk in church today: sidenote: i am so proud of her. she has been so excited to do it. she practiced all week and drew pictures and colored pictures to hold up as she gave her talk. she practically wrote the whole thing and she did so awesome. i love that she is so brave. here is a copy of her talk. i will post a video of her doing it at home.

Heavenly Father and Jesus have asked us to pay our tithing.
Tithing is a good thing to do.
When we get money we pay 10% to Heavenly Father
We put our tithing in an envelope and give it to the Bishop.
I feel happy when I do that.

There once was a girl named Nova.
She did a job for her mom.
Her mom gave her 10 coins.
Nova counted 1 coin and put it in an envelope.
On Sunday she gave it to the Bishop.
Nova felt happy.
Heavenly Father felt happy.
Satan wasn't happy.
Nova's tithing will help temples and churches be built.
Tithing is a good thing to do.

we switched it up a little---but she was assigned the topic of tithing, and so we talked to her about it and asked her to teach us back and that is what she came up with, with a little bit of prompting from us. but we asked her to tell a story about someone who payed their tithing and that was the story that she came up with. (my favorite part is the satan line---we took that out though...)

 

 she graduated from preschool:

 went to a birthday party with her friends

 we went to idaho and visited the farm. and family in jerome and rigby--we also stopped in utah. and saw our new nephew camden---but i have no pics!! what? and she saw a cow give birth---and thought it was awesome.

 had a sleepover with her girl cousins

 and took some silly pictures

 went on her first airplane ride

 with her very own ticket. we also had our own emergency landing on the way home with a 5 hour lay-over.....she was a trooper though and we made it home to see our dad finally. hooray!

 nova finished dance class

 and loved it. she can't wait to do another one.

 dan and i went on a real live date. it was awesome. we went to a movie. it has been forever--we even had the theater to ourselves. gotta love jerome! :)

 we went to happy hollow for memorial day---my crew loved the roller coaster.

 i can't believe how fast the last couple months have gone. and its just going to stay crazy i think. just pray that among the crazy-ness we can come up with a name for our little guy before he gets here. AH!