Saturday, January 3, 2009

The Little Year That Could


January

I knocked on doors a a special census worker for the city of Bella Vista, I was the youngest employee they had!

February
Jeff's sister Sarah came to Arkansas for the second time. Other then Sarah and Aunt Marty the rest of you Larkins are on notice to get out here for a visit!

March
I got called to teach the valiant 12 class in primary. This has been such an amazing opportunity! The class I got was so well behaved and spiritual. These kids taught me new insights into the Scriptures and were such good examples to me. I love primary! I feel like this is where I am meant to be. I always assumed that callings always got worse until you became a better person or something. I never knew you could enjoy the calling you had without suddenly becoming spiritually perfect!

April
We painted the living room, removed the carpet and tile, and laid down wood laminate in the living room and entry way.



May

We went to Dallas with our friends the Messicks. The temple was beautiful and made the trip well worth the price of gas.


June
5 years of marriage and no regrets (except maybe my wedding hair-do)

July

the sad passing of my grandpa allowed us to see both our families in Utah. I will miss him very much.


August
They say that the best way to make the Lord laugh is to make plans, well I kinda feel that that's what happened to Jeff and I this summer. We went to so much trouble to decide the perfect time to have baby # 2, and yet had an ectopic pregnancy anyway. I love that all the info they gave me said that having an ectopic pregnancy in no way means you'll have another, yet have listed under possible ways of detecting if your having one, "have had one before."

September
Max started Mom's Day Out once a week. I got a nice break, did some cleaning, relaxing and service.






October

We got a new addition to the family, the 32 inch flat screen!




November
Jeff switched teams and is so happy to be appreciated and valued

December

I got a lovely visit from my Grandmother, my Aunt Mardie, and my cousin Liz. It was fun to show off all my hard work. Jeff and I are so happy in our little house in Northwest Arkansas.

7 comments:

Kasey said...

I love this post. What a great way to chronicle the year.

Emily Larkin said...

Thanks. It actually brightened my evening to make the list. I need to give a special thanks to Jeff for helping me finanlly figure out how to space my pictures.

Lara said...

Oh, I love reading your post. It's fun to look back and see how far you have gone.

Sarah R said...

I feel so important that I made the list! One of these days I'll come out in the summer instead of in the dead of winter...

Courtney said...

Emily, I didn't know about your pregnancy. You poor thing. That must've been very difficult. I'm so sorry. I enjoyed reading about your year. By the way, I think I know your family, the Toblers. Weren't they in the Little Rock Stake? If so, I knew them when I was in Young Womens. Jacob and I served on the Stake Youth Committee together and he's still in my family's stake now. I'm assuming we're talking about the same Toblers. Small world.

Emily Larkin said...

Sarah, we would love to have you in a month where the state was not butt ugly.

Emily Larkin said...

Jacob is my cousin. Very small Mormon world.