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Monday, March 31, 2014

Know Your Neighbor ~ Novaks



Aaron and Brin Novak moved into our neighborhood last month. They bought the Koford’s home on Willow Wood Dr. Before moving to Centerville, they lived for eight years in Orem, UT. They moved to Centerville to be closer to Aaron’s work as he works in downtown Salt Lake.



Aaron was born in Oregon. He is the youngest child in his family and has two brothers and two sisters. He served his mission in the Sydney South, Australia mission. He currently works at Rumor Advertising as the Director of Online Marketing. He enjoys four-wheeling, spending time with his son, and camping. He is a Real Salt Lake fan, a Jazz fan, and a foodie.



Brin was born in Salt Lake City, but grew up in Holbrook, Idaho. She is the fourth child of seven and has five brothers and one sister. She is a convert to the church and was baptized at the age of 19. Brin studied business management at Utah Valley University and works part-time from home writing for a marketing company called Orange soda. She likes to bike, camp, and participate in triathlons, but hasn’t gotten to in a while as she is now busy being a stay at home mom. She is looking forward to decorating her new home and trying her hand at gardening in the big garden the Koford’s left behind.



Aaron and Brin aren’t the type of people who work out at a gym to meet people, but that is exactly where they met. They were both living in Orem and met at the Orem Rec Center. At first, they kind of ignored each other because of the no picking people up at the gym philosophy. But, one day Aaron kept walking by the treadmill Brin was on waiting for her to finish up her workout and Brin kept walking on the treadmill hoping he’d come up and talk to her. Finally she got off the treadmill and they met. They dated for two years and were married in the Salt Lake Temple. They have been married for eight years.



Kai is 20 months. He likes getting into everything he can, climbing, four-wheeling, and watering the chickens they inherited from the Kofords.



As a family, the Novaks like to go four-wheeling, go to the park, and take walks. Brin and Aaron have a couple of websites that sell natural energy and herbal products.



Welcome to the Willow Wood Ward Novak family! We are so happy to have you in our neighborhood.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Neighborhood Progressive Dinner

What a Great Night!!
Great food and even better company!


We all met at Leila's house for appetizers.


Some delicious yumminess was set out 
waiting for us!


These little sausage rolls looked kind of strange on a bed of carmely nut goodness
but OH MY!!! SO TASTY!!! 
Some of us said we would like to eat the whole pan full!!


There were even awesome edemame beans!



After the appetizers, we pulled a number from a jar to see which house you were to go to for dinner.

 
A Big Thank you to all our house host! 

This was the beautiful table setting 
at Sue G.'s house.
We had creamy chicken over rice with 
steamed veggies.

We don't have pictures of the other host houses but want to thank;
 Sherri R., Karen P., Sharon G. and Karen E. 
for being dinner hosts.

We then drew another paper to tell us our assigned house for desert.

Thanks goes to;
 Jenny N. who served us a yummy Neilsons sundae bar, Linda A. had delicious pear tarts and Terry S. and Tina B. who served awesome pie!

Everyone had such a great time visiting we didn't want to go home!! 

Thank you to our wonderful Relief Society Meeting Committee for organizing this fun activity!



Thursday, March 20, 2014

Mitten Strings to God ~ Family Journal

Do your kids say funny things? Do their ideas and likes change from year to year? Do you like to talk about "remember when"?

It's fun to see how life changes as we move forward. 
If you have trouble keeping a journal or you want to help encourage your kids to learn the joy of keeping a journal here's an idea -

Place a notebook or journal on your kitchen counter or somewhere visually accessible. Once a day you can ask your kids if they have something they would like to write in the journal. Give them starter questions to get them going.
        
In the morning-
  • Ask them if they had a dream they remember
  • What is their favorite cereal and why?
  • Are they excited for school today?
After school-
  • Did anything happen at school you would like to write about?
  • Who did you eat lunch with?
  • How did you do on your test?
  • Do you like your teacher?
  • Are there any cute boys/girls in your class?
  • What are your concerns at school?
  • What was the best part about your day?
Evening or anytime-
  • What's your favorite thing to do?
  • What are you grateful for?
  • What is your favorite song?
  • What do you want to be when you grow up?
  • Who is your best friend?
  • What is your favorite game to play?
  • What is your favorite sport?