it's christmas. it's christmas time.

We got a tree!!! Pictures later. We haven't finished decorating it. How fun though, we got a real one so our house smells like delicious pine. We are stringing popcorn today and going to make home-made ornaments tomorrow! Also today I donated plasma and once again was told that I have good veins. I always get compliments on my veins. I know, everyone is jealous. I should really stop bragging. I am also going to embark on another one of my cooking adventures today. Mexican shredded chicken! I'm sorry that I only cook/eat mexican food. I just like it better than anything else. I really think I somewhere far back have some hispanic ancestors.. or something. There is no explanation as to why I have always been so drawn to the culture but I always have and always will be. We spent thanksgiving with my mom/her side and will be spending christmas eve with my dad/his side and christmas day with Jacobs side of the family. It is going to be fun and best of all a new little baby girl (my 1st neice) will be there with us! This is our first holiday season together. We are grateful for a lot of things but on the top of the list is the amount of time we get to spend together. It is the best and we know that not everyone has that opportunity and that we won't always either so we cherish it! I don't know if I can even name any more because if I keep going this will never end. I have not been good at taking pictures lately but I do have one for you. This is our only picture of our first thanksgiving. Taken by my mom (thanks mom!) of us napping after the feast.

Should this be our christmas card? Happy holidays from the Skaggs' and our adopted child julia! xoxo

sharing time.

for those of you who don't know or don't get jill's weekly e-mails. look!!! hermana jill daniels and elder gavin rice. missionaries in love! elder bednar brought them together for two minutes. it's the best.

babble.

attendance at our new ward IS birth control. (loud babies EVERYWHERE. i don't care if they are cute.)

marriage is the bombtrack. those who say "the first year is the hardest" should not have gotten married... or something. i shouldn't say that. but really it is bliss.

i don't like thanksgiving food, but i love thanksgiving anyway. this year, all i want to do over thanksgiving is eat at Garcia's fresh mexican, please.

i am temporarily on strike from looking at my favorite daily blogs. no, not yours friends! you know- wedding, decor, fashion, and otherwise. all they do is make me jealous and want things that i really don't need. they are making me more worldly! (and what girl needs that?) i hate it. and so, i cease.

i have enough stuff in my closet at my mom's house that i could have my own garage sale. maybe i should.

i want to interact with friends face-to-face more and screen-to-screen less. i am sick of screens. (ha, as i blog)

i miss cameron. i miss jill and gavin together. (i am happy that when she is home, he will be too.)

i trotted to school today and as always at uvu ran into some alta friends. its nice to always see friendly faces there even if it does feel like hike school.

anyone have any delicious recipes they want to share? cooking is becoming a great joy. i am always planning my next endeavor.

dear ban.do,

i want to look cute for church and for going out! i want cute headbands like these. but please forgive me, ban.do if i do not think that i should ever in 18 million years pay a cent over $10 for a headband. that would even be pushing it. i know that you are handmade, so they are worth a lot to you. but i have hands too, and i happen to love doing crafts. you'll see! i can do anything you can do better. no offense. love,

sarah jane

crafts anyone? i really REALLY want to make some. (and i think they would be a great gift idea if you have any cute girls to buy for for christmas!)

pretty please with sugar and cinnamon on top

i have pretty much kicked any urges to shop lately but you guys! i want this so much....isn't it so cute?

excuse me while i go learn how to knit.

there aint no rust on the happiness bus.

So, this week has been a doozy! As in GREAT.... if anyone is wondering what we are up to these days it's pretty much this:

• working part time, trying to work extra hours to make a full time amounts of money


• going to awesome concerts all the time-more about this coming.


• going to see movies at the dollar theater using only spare change.

jacob is in school and playing the music. we are going to get him some business cards made and pass them around to see if we can't get him some more studio work because he is awesome at it and making money that way is his favorite. (yes i like to brag about things my husband is good at! it's allowed...right?)

Okay so this weekend pretty much started on Wednesday when I got paid not to work thanks to all of the Veterans in the country (no I do not take this holiday lightly I really am grateful to them for their service to the USA as well!) and so we partied all day on wednesday, saw the movie I posted about below which must not be named... and then we went to Velour to watch PAUL JACOBSON who was incredible. Definately one of those local artists that is WAY too good to be local. You know what i mean? We need more music like his/theirs in the world.

Thursday night was the huge sold out Vibrant Sound, Can't Stop Won't Stop, and Love You Long Time show... The first two acts were of course amazing and the third... welll, they are just silly. There were thirteen year olds wearing neon colors in abundance. Courtney and Trista joined me for this show and it was lovely I hope they come to more because it was fun!

Friday Jacob was supposed to pull off playing two shows at two different places but the peeps at the snowboard premiere that the VS were going to play turned out to be totally disorganized and I could use some other choice words to describe them but I won't for the sake of not acting like an impulsive teenager. So we were glad that that show didn't end up happening because you don't treat people the way they treated the boys. But the Cory Mon show at Velour was rad and super fun so the night was not ruined!

If I was a good blogger I would have pictures from these events to put here to add interest but... I don't. Oh well!

So this brings me to last night. MASON JENNINGS. One of my absolute favorite artists came to town! And we got to go for free! (*well, it was free but the $35 parking ticket kinda undid that...still worth it) so he was absolutely amazing. Every bit of his set was gripping... I love his songwriting, his lyrics, how simple everything is. He isn't caught up in the indie "I should make my songs as weird as possible so that people think i'm different" he just writes them the way songs should be written. Complex messages in simple language- Bob Dylan style! Love him love him love him. It was such a great show.

have a listen if you are so inclined.

So I am just a happy camper and pretty sure the luckiest girl in the world. It is amazing how well Jacob and I fit together. We are a perfect match....this is the life that I have dreamed of for a long time!

gentlemen broncos

New Jared Hess film. Wanted to see it so badly, who doesn't love Nacho Libre or Napoleon? So.... we saw it.

s p e e c h l e s s

not in a good way... in an "oh boy.... i don't know what to think about this" sort of way.