dan is goin to the windy city!!!

Every summer, Grover Wray, the Head of the Social Work Program, chooses 12 hand selects 12 students to go to Chicago. This program is called the Chicago Urban City Youth Program. The group flies to Chicago and meets with 15 troubled LDS youth. They stay in Chicago for 5 days and get to know these boys. They also do some site seeing, and attend therapy seminars. Then they fly to Yellowstone Park with the youth where they stay at a Boy Scout Camp for 10 days. Each counselor (Social Work student) teaches classes to the youth similiar to merit badge classes, but more directed towards behavior modification. Daniel heard about the program and really wanted to go, but there is a stipulation that you have to be officially in the Social Work program to go. Daniel went to Grover Wray expressing the desire to go, and Grover said he's never made an exception before, but he loves Daniel, and so he invited Daniel to go. So this summer he will be leaving me for 15 days. Daniel is really good with youth so I think he will do a great job. I'm so proud of him, but i'm going to miss him a ton. Since we've been married we haven't been apart for more than 2 days! i'mHAPPY & SAD!!!!!!!!!!

american idol girls

Out of the girls we love Carly Smithson and Ramiele Malubay. They are both excellent.

american idol

WOW... American Idol is amazing this season, but we definitley have a few favorites! Our favorite after tonights performance was JASON CASTRO (kid with the dreds), he is amazing. I would buy his cd right now if I could. We also like DAVID ARCHULETA ( he's also really good). And we really like all of the rocker dudes!!HEHE Micheal Johns & David Cook! These are our 4 fav.'s so far!

VAMPIRE BOOKS!!!!

For the last few months I've been hearing a lot of people talk about the Vampire books. It seemed like everyone had read it, so I decided I would give it a try. I LOVE it!!!! Everyone needs to read the Vampire books by Stephenie Meyer! They are so good. I read all 3 books in 4 days and each book is 500 or more pages. The first book is called "Twilight", the second is "New Moon", and the third is "Eclipse". The 4th book doesn't come out until august, but they are making a movie of the book as well. The movie has the kid from Harry Potter that Plays Cedric Diggory. Stephenie graduted from BYU, but her book is a top seller and very popular! EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ IT.

EMMA UPDATE!

6 random facts about me

ok tiffany...now that you've twisted my arm j/k :) Actually I was also tagged a few times last year and never ended up doing it. so here we go....6 Random facts

1. I have a new found passion; I LOVE to rEaD. I've always really liked to read, but recently have found a lot of joy in it. I will read just about anything and everything. Last week I read 3 books and I'm hoping I will get 10 in this month. Daniel has always been a big reader and he kind of pushed me which is why I started reading! Daniel makes fun of me because I'm a slow reader, but none the less I still LOVE it!

2. In high school I found out that I love to Jog OUTSIDE! There is no better feeling then being out for a jog & pushing yourself as hard as you can. The Endorphines are wonderful. That is a big reason why I can't wait to leave Rexurg. With this weather the jogging season is only about half the year and it is hard for me to make it through a day without jogging. I miss Nevada!

3. I'm a hIcK! I grew up doing 4-H and I loved every minute of it. My Dad was very competitive and he loved doing it with my siblings and I. This gave me some great memories of spending time with my dad. In 4-H I won Reserve @ the Nevada State Fair. I also won Grand Champion a couple of times in Fallon. I won Reserve champion in Reno. I was in Round Robin for showmanship a few times. (Not that anyone has any idea what that is!) The best part of this is that I did pig (swine) 4-H

4. I was in the bAg OlYmPiCs. In high school I worked at Grocery store called Raleys where I was the Best bagger in my store. I went to reno for finals and got really nervous. I think I was the slowest bagger there. But I can say for 2003 I was in the Bag Olympics!

5. I absolutly LOVE HOT TOMALES! It is my favorite candy. Anytime I go to the theatre I have to have HOT TOMALES. This is something I got from my mom. These were her favorite candies when I was a girl and I wanted to be just like her!!!

6. I'm a pErFeCtIoNiSt! if you do it, I will want to redo it! Something I need to work on.

The FUN part....I tag...
Angela Bingham, Ashley Babcock (a good reason to get your blog started), Dulcie Clayton, Amy Denney, my sister Kristan & MAGGIE

my favorite quote

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

a return to love - marianne williamson

YES WE ARE STILL ALIVE

WOW, THE LAST FEW WEEKS HAVE BEEN GREAT. I WILL TELL YOU WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO IN DETAIL.
It all started the weekend before christmas. We helped our friends, Donald & Tiffany jack, move out of their apartment :( After we finished I guess they just didn't want to say goodbye yet (j/k), so they invited us to tiffany's home in Burley Idaho. After hearing so much about Burley, We finally got to experience it (including the Lee's furniture store)! Tiffany has a wonderful family, they welcomed us into their home as if we were part of the fam. We had great fun. We even got Tiff to take some family photos of us, in their back yard, by the Snake River.


Emma met a nephew and we learned that she is not very shy. As Hall & Oates would sing she's a maneater.J/K


Christmas Eve was a lot of fun. We spent the time here in rexburg. It was a little sad to be by ourselves, but we didn't spend all of it alone.
Christmas day we went over to the Jensen's (Beau's in-laws), we had dinner with them and daniel played WII golf all day long. Beau made Cinnamon Rolls that were wonderful, they were very close to being as good as dads! just joking beau, they were great (just like Pa's). Christmas night we played Sequence (by the way I highly recommend this game to everyone) with Beau and Shantel until 2 a.m. in the morning. This was the start of many nights of Sequence with my family. Somehow a rivalry was started and we played this game about every other night over the holiday's.
Emma got a jumper for christmas and Daniel and I got a lot of fun stuff too.




The BEST THING THING TO HAPPEN BY FAR THIS CHRISTMAS WAS WHEN KRISTAN HAD THEIR LITTLE BOY, LINCOLN A WEEK BEFORE HER DUE DATE AND A DAY BEFORE HER SCHEDULED CESAREAN. We went to see them in Provo a few days after he was born. He is so cute. We could tell that Lincoln's Daddy was so excited to have a boy.



Mom and Dad Jardine came to stay with us last weekend. We went to see August Rush which was Very Good! We also did some shopping and best of all we went to the Rexburg Temple Open house. It is as beautiful inside as it is out. One of my teachers painted a couple of the rooms in the Temple. It was a neat experience to take Emma with us.
That weekend was a blast.

tHaNkSgIvInG

girls girls girls & a boy in the oven

left- mylee, maggie and emma

right-brinlee, Isabelle, Audrie, and emma

Left-Reid cousins Right- Jardine cousins
We have three girls on my side of the fam and one boy on the way! In the jardine family we have all girls. Emma's going to have a lot of best friends. almost all of the girls are within a 2 and a half year span. it was so cute how all the jardine girls gathered around emma our first morning in Fallon. it was her first time meeting all of her cousins on that side of the family.