Local Businesses From: Our Home To: Yours and Amber Lyn Chocolates

I love local businesses, especially in this economic environment. I cannot tell you how many times I have lost bids on jobs because of someone overseas. I believe people outside of this country are extremely talented and perform great work. It is nice though to see work done in our home country because it helps the economy!

That being said I have found 2 AMAZING companies:



From: Our Home To: Yours is a super cute website for home decor. It has all the cool LDS products as well, like Families Are Forever Sign, Follow The Prophet, I am Child of God, etc. Plus you can do those cool personalized signs with your last name and established date and they will have vinyl designs soon where you can easily place cool sayings on your walls without having to ruin the paint or leave nail marks. From: Our Home To: Yours was started in Springville, UT. One of my favorite cities! I love the people in Springville.


Next is Amber Lyn Chocolates. They are located in St. George, UT. Let me just say.....THIS IS THE BEST HEALTHIEST CHOCOLATE I have ever tasted. I was floored when I took a bite into this sugar free chocolate! It was amazing, and the best part is, it's natural. It does not have all that aspartame/splendid junk that is so horrible for your body. It uses maltitol which is derived from wheat. I love chocolate, but I know it can pack on the calories so I wanted to try a healthier chocolate and I was expecting it to taste disgusting, but honestly it was the best chocolate I have ever tasted. Plus I have so many friends that are diabetic and cannot have gluten, so this was a pleasant surprise to know they can enjoy this chocolate! I'm telling you now this awesome product and I'm sure this would be a pleasant gift for mother's day!

April Bliss

April has been a beautiful and fun month. One day the weather is perfect and the next day it will snow. Either way we have been playing outside. Jackson has been falling asleep on our walks.



Jackson loves his new wheels! We love craigslist for finding second hand toys!

Here's El Guapo. I say this is Jackson's version of the "Edward Cullen" stare.

We had a BLAST coloring eggs. I kept telling Jackson be soft when you put the egg in the bowl and he would drop it like an atom bomb! I couldn't help but laugh. All of the eggs cracked, but they were still delicious! Jackson LOVES eggs and so do I. However we are not huge fans of the tute smell you get from hard boiled eggs :)




This is Bentley!!! This is Jon & Laura's adorable little boy. He is only 2 days on in this picture. He is such a cute little guy and a great baby!

Josh Shooting his Rifle

Josh Shooting his Rifle

Here is Josh shooting his rifle last year. He decided to have a little fun with the picture

J3 Photo Shoot by Baci Photography

Isn't Angelique amazing!!! You may be wondering who is Angelique?!? She is one of the most talented photographers on the planet and she took our family photos last week! Angelique owns her own business Baci Photography. We love Angelique so much and consider her family. Thank you for the most memorable photo shoot we have ever had. Many of you who know Josh will know he HATES taking pictures! Now when we say taking pictures we mean going to one of the studios like you see in the mall or even a business location. The way Angelique shot our photos was awesome! Josh loved every moment because it was relaxed and natural. We can't wait to do it again! Thank you again Angelique for these priceless photos that we will cherish forever!

Sorry long time no post...The REASONS why pasted below

Josh and I officially became an LLC early this year, Jen and Josh Media Design LLC. We have been blessed to be very busy with work and in our free time when we would normally keep up on the blog we have been majorly distracted by all these cool shows! I wish they would spread some of these shows out into the summer, but the networks would never let that happen.

Fun Times in the Winter of 2009!

This is a super cute picture of Alexis from my mother-in-law's camera. I wish we could have been there with her when she took this picture. We can't believe how fast Alexis is growing up and she looks beautiful!

We went to the Draper Temple open house when Lori came to town. It was so fun. It was so neat for Jackson to see the temple. He loved every moment especially the bus ride :) Jackson now has a picture of the Draper temple in his room. He says, "Look Mommy, that's the temple, that's where Santa Claus lives." I have no idea where that came from, but it is very cute.











Rod, Wendy, Indy, R2 and baby Rocket came up to UT for the LDS film festival. I was very lucky to watch Indy and R2 one of the nights. We had a blast! It was heartbreaking for them to leave, but we know we will see them again. We love you guys!

President Barack Obama

Yeah!!! You can't help, but get emotional when you think we have our first African American President. We support Barack Obama and are excited to have him as our President!

Uncle Carter comes to visit!

We love Carter, we consider him our Brother! We miss him and hope he comes back soon! We were also pleasantly surprised with Gabby's coming into town too! It was so fun to hang out all together.

Christmas Events!

As you can tell we have been busy, sorry for the lack of posts. Jackson was presently surprised on Christmas morning to see presents under the tree.







We had so much fun hanging out with Bob & Elaine's family! We went sledding right by their house. It was Jackson's first time. Jackson didn't like going down the hills by himself, but he loved going with Jaron! Jackson and Jaron are best buds, it's super cool.






This was cute little Jax's first Christmas.

Josh and I made our very first Apple pie from scratch! We of course got the recipe from the Food Nanny! It is now a tradition!





Jackson licked every cookie to make sure it passed the taste quality test!


We picked up the cutest Christmas Tree this year. We were lucky to have a Christmas Tree Lot close by our house. So we walked to the lot, ran around looking at the trees and then found the perfect one. Josh then carried the tree all the way back to our house. It was a little over a half mile!