Happy Birthday Honey!

The big 2-4, whoopie! So we are actually right now in Orlando Florida to celebrate Thanksgiving with the whole Jackson clan! Because today is Ry's birthday, his golden birthday, I decided to throw him a surprise party Saturday, the night before we left. I ran into his friend Devin on Thursday so he basically contacted all of Ry's friends, Jen got a pumpkin cheesecake, and after a tragic loss, I distracted Ry for 1 1/2 hours until we went home for the big surprise. He had never had a surprise party before, so it was fabulous.

We flew in late last night, so we spent all day just 'chillaxin'. We slept in, went for a run, then played with babies for a few hours. We got to meet Ella, James and Angela's new addition....

and we got to go on the paddle boats around the lake...

Notice one of Ry's presents...can you guess we are big 'Office' fans?

All the Jackson girls (minus Julie, Grace, and Viv)

Come Thursday, Rob and Julie will bring another two little girls and a baby boy to play with. We have many more adventures to come this week, so stay tuned!

Brownies and Blue Bell ice cream...it doesn't get much better. I love you honey, you are the man of my dreams! I can't wait to spend the rest of my life plus with you! Thanks for always making me laugh and keeping me happy!

Family Picture Time!

Like I said, we took some awesome family pictures last Saturday for our Christmas Card. So I guess it techinically defeats the purpose of posting the picture I'm using for the card, but I just love the pictures and wanted to share them. These are the only pictures that Lizzy has posted, but here's the jist of what we did. She did an awesome job, she was so fun to work with and she was willing to do anything and go anywhere to take them, even climbing in trees! Check out her blog for a bit more of her work at lizzyjeanphotography.blogspot.com. Thanks Lizzy!

If you haven't done the survey below, please do so! And thank you so much for all of those who have done the survey and emailed me your results, you're the best!

A Survey Favor!

So it's crunch time between now and finals with several papers, projects and presentations. The week after Thanksgiving I have 3 presentations...hmm...ya we'll see how they go. With each of those presentations we have papers due along with them that are at least 10 pages. Ok, so here is why I am telling you my life story...I have a favor to ask of you.

We are helping a girl start her own Customized Framing Business and she is trying to figure out what to price her frames at and how she can maximize her profits and all that jazz. So if you wouldn't mind taking a minute and answering these questions it would mean so much to me!!!

1. How much would you be willing to pay for a 16’’ x 20’’ custom wood frame?
a. Less then $50
b. $50-$70
c. $70-$100
d. $100-$130
e. $130-$160
f. $160-$200
g. More than $200

2. Would you be willing to pay more for a frame if you could custom design it?

3. If so, how much more would you be willing to pay for a custom frame then a premade frame?

4. How often do you buy a new frame?

5. Where did you buy your last frame?

6. What was the size and purchase price of your last frame?

7. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, how important is it to you to have a nice frame that is customized specifically for you picture?

8. How much would you pay for a 16” x 20” professional grade print of your choice?

If you've taken this survey, I love you and you're a life saver. Next time you come to my house I will make you freshly baked cookies, or something. You can either post a comment, or you can email me at rebeccafjackson@gmail.com.

Thank you thank you!

Congrats!

So, this a congratulations post. First of all to one of my bestest best friends ever, Lindsey Hall Swan, congrats to you and your beautiful baby Bailey Swan. She is a very adorable little girl with lots of blonde hair and I can't wait to watch her grow up and be just like her crazy mommy!

Second, congrats to Rosie Jackson on her engagement to be married next month. I went to her bridal shower earlier today, and she is a beautfiul bride to be. We are so excited for her!

Third, congrats to Ellery Baum and her engagement as well! I also went to her bridal shower today, and I just absolutely love the girl and am so excited for her to get married!

I love marriage, I love weddings, and I just love love. I just love weddings so much that we decided to take wedding pictures again yesterday. Hmm...well kind of. A guy that Ryan works with is starting his photography business and needed some bridal and couple shots to jump start his business and show off his work. So we spent 3 1/2 hours yesterday on a cold but sunny morning taking some awesome pictures. We were able to take some pictures that we didn't do when we really were married (2 years ago), and I can't wait to see how they turned out.

Then we thought that taking lots of pictures was fun, so we took some more today for our Christmas Card. We didn't do a card last year, so we'll see how successful it is, and if we get it out before Christmas even comes. My sister's friend, Lizzy, took some way cute pictures today of Ry, Sarge and me today. Once again, I can't wait to see how they turned out.

One more week of class and, then Thanksgiving break! Thank goodness!

Tag Time

Ok, so I'm not a huge "tagger", but you can get to know me a little better here I guess

Things I was doing 10 years ago:
1. Being the tallest girl in my 6th grade class at Rock Canyon, and not liking the fact that no boys liked me.
2. Preparing some Festive Jingle for my Christmas Piano Recital
3. Counting down the days until I FINALLY left primary and went to Young Womens
4. Getting past the "fat" stage...well that's debatable
5. Just getting my braces on!

5 things on my "To Do" list for today:
1. Take wedding pictures again...There will be more on that story later
2. Send a package to my cute pregnant sister-in-law
3. Go to work and most likely do...nothing
4. Write a research paper sometime by tomorrow night
5. Go out to dinner with the Jackson clan!

5 snacks I enjoy:
1. grapes, try them frozen, they're fabulous
2. cookies/cookie dough
3. apples/pears
4. pretzels
5. I drink lots of water, does that count as a snack?

5 things I'd do if I was a millionaire:
1. Pay lots of tithing
2. Buy a modest, but Sweet home with all stainless steel appliances
3. Go to Spain and visit my parents over and over again
4. Not have to work and spend lots of time with Sargie and my honey
5. Donate a bunch of cash to BYU for all that they've given me!

5 places I've lived:
1. Taylorsville
2. Laie, Oahu
3. Provo (with parents)
4. Provo (with roomies)
5. Provo (with my honey!)

5 jobs I've had:
1. Working at a corn stand on Canyon Road when I was 15
2. Day's Market as an awesome bagger
3. BYU Bookstore Cashier
4. BYU Bookstore Student Manager
5. I'm trying to find something for the winter semester...any ideas? an internship would be ideal, know of anything looking for a fabulous intern in marketing? Any part-time job would be nice too!

5 people I tag:
1. Melissa Grow
2. Brittany Perdue
3. Mommy
4. Lindsey Swan and new baby! Congrats Linds!
5. Erin Packard

Healthy Competition

It is essential to have another life other than school and work...so that's why we play intramurals! Given there aren't the most high-class ref's...but we solve that problem by complaining and yelling and getting all of our stress and anger out while we're out on the field, haha, just kidding...but seriously. Ry played flag-football this fall with his high school buddies again, and I put together a soccer team with a bunch of girls from high school, plus Brittany, as well. Due to unfortunate circumstances and a single elimination tournament, we regretfully played our last games this past week. Hmm...sad day, it's hard to be competitive and lose.

And what would intramurals be without those darn supervisors...I mean...we love you Britt and Tristan!

I definitely missed my calling in life, look at the high kick...

I'm not very good at the action shots, so here's a good close up...

It was fun to have Dave on Ry's football team too!

This is at Ry's FREEZING game (the day of the first snow fall here in P-Town)...

Go Team Booya!

But on the other hand, we are also playing coed volleyball with some different people from high school and the whole Farnsworth Clan: Dave, Crissi, Jen, Ry and me (plus friends)! And after some losses, we actually won our first game tonight! It was quite exciting. Either our team is getting better, or the team we played just struggled, either way I'll take the Big 'ole W!

Halloween Time!

So like a month ago I decided I was not just going to sit home, with no costume, and do nothing for Halloween, I wanted to do something a bit more memorable! So I went through an array of ideas for costumes: Pocahontas and John Smith, Barbie and Ken, Jock and Cheerleader...anyway, until I came up with the idea to be the Ninja Turtles! Yes, I had finally found it! So Brittany and I went to a bunch of different stores to come up with the costumes, and $15 later we had the sweetest costumes EVER.

Ry even sewed on his tummy to his shirt all by himself, I was very impressed, nice work honey! We went to visit Jen because she had to see her nephew's costume, Sarge the Pumpkin. I went the day of Halloween to get him a costume, so needless to say it's a little big for him because of the picked over selection. But as I was walking into PetSmart she was putting up the 50% off signs, I love my luck sometimes!

He's a cute little Pumpkin!

We came home from a long day of school and work, after already seeing Harry Potter to Batman to the Big Bad Wolf, we were ready to put our costumes to the test.

We first went to see our neices, cute Gracie, and Viv, as well as our new nephew Sammy. Then our neighbors the Hills, were having a party so we got to see everyone's costumes, and their cute little kids! There were yummy treats too!

Then we went to dinner with the Perdues and the Packards to the Pizza Factory, Yummy! 2 X-Large pizzas later, we were ready to hit the town.

I needed to get my groove on, so we found a dance at one of the apartment complexes (we were probably the only married people there), and did our thang! It was fun, we definitely enjoyed ourselves! (I'll have to steal some pics from Britt)

After all that, we were SO tuckered out, so we just went home and chilled on the couch. The night was probably only beginning for every other 21 and 23 year old in Provo, but we had had our fun. Halloween marked a success and memorable...

(eventhough Sargie looks like he hates me...)