My kids

Wow!! Has it really been 3 months since I've posted anything.......I better get back on board. I'll start off slow and then maybe I can gain some momentum in posting more often. I guess I'll post a picture I took of my three cuties a couple days ago. I love these little ones so much it makes my heart hurt.

What we're up to now.

Ahh! It's been 3 months since I've put anything on the blog! To let all of you know, we are doing great! We are enjoying being back in Utah around our sweet family again. I stay busy with my little ones, our home, finding the time to read and to work out. Leah is a speed reader and finds time everyday to draw me a piece of art work that expresses her admiration for me. She tells me she loves me soooooo much about three times a day or more. =) William just got his Kindergarten shots yesterday. He is a tough little dude. He was excited to get the shots until the fourth one out of six. He is so animated about eveything. I love his bright blue eyes. He is a little masculine one through and through. Stanley is showing interest in the potty. He is afraid he will fall in though, so we have to get him a toilet to suit his mini bumbum. His eyes are full of wonder for the world and he is into eveything with a spirit of discovery. He loves his dad and immitates his every move. I found him yesterday putting Gold Bond powder on his little feet and all over the carpet. =) Jeff is working his hynee off at the shop. They should be ready with the skeletal structure of the place this week and after that the exciting cosmetics come! I will be helping with paint and they have asked me to paint thier logo on the wall. You all are welcome to come see it soon! They are planning on opening their doors on March 8th!!!!!!!!
I have to say that I am soooo proud of my Jeffie! He is so brilliant. He has helped me be the person that I am today. I see his business really taking off and being successful here in the valley....in fact in all of Utah. Go Blackball Performance Cycle!!

High on Candy!

This is after the kids went trick or treating for 3 hours. We got one huge bowl full of candy, plus their pumpkins were all half way full after that. I have been eating all of the chocolate. =) The Lion, the Witch and the Pirate met other monsters and ghosts in the neighborhood. There is one house here where a handicapped child lives. Halloween is his favorite holiday and so his parents dec out their house with at least a dozen BIG, blow up figures. Visiting that house was the highlight of their Halloween night. Thanks to Andrea from William for sending him a pirate patch. He is not wearing it in this pic, but he was so happy to have it. =)

Lion and mommy

I love my little lion cub!

Happy Halloween from the Pope kids

Happy Halloween! We had fun at our yearly party and got lots and lots of candy! We sure miss everyone back home though. The kids had fun this year and it is good seeing how happy it makes them.

Vocabulary Day at school

For Leah's school Halloween party they had the kids dress up in costumes. They all wore signs with vocabulary words describing what they were or something about their costumes. This year Leah was a duck or less expressed, "a fowl." She was quacking all day. =)

Life and Times in Saudi Arabia

I was so happy to have my parents come down to help me with one of our quarterly Relief Society meetings. Mom helped me make Tabouli (a Saudi type salad), Umm Ali (a Saudi bread pudding) and other Arab dishes. They brought all of their Saudi keepsakes and we displayed them in the RS room. Dad gave the most interesting presentation on their life's experience in Saudi Arabia, as well as Lehi's trail through the wilderness. Dad looked very handsome with his suit on and I was so proud of him. I will make this an official THANK YOU to them for going out of their way for doing that for me. Thanks so much dad and mom!

Love, Julie