The Acketts

Trying to catch up

Ok, this will be the last back-to-back post. I noticed I hadn't written in a while and was trying to catch up, and now I am (after this). First off I want to say "Yeah" to Jay. He received a new position in the America First Credit Union Company. He no longer is a manager for one of the branches, he works in the marketing department coming up with commercials, billboards, and promotions for America First (along with the other 5 on the team). He was selected out of 40 or so other people for this position. I am so proud of him for getting this position. One of the nice things about this new job is he no longer has to drive from Ogden to Heber everyday for work, he now drives around 5 min. to work. So much better and now I don't have to worry about the bad snow days or all the deer and moose on the roads. Anyway, two weekends ago (October 4th) Jay and I were invited by his work to attend an Operation Kids gala in honor of John Walsh. He was receiving the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award for all his 25 years of fighting crime against children. It was a very exciting night. The gala was a black tie event so everyone there was dressed to the max, tuxes and fancy dresses. Before the event even started there was a VIP room where we got to meet and get our pictures taken with;

John Walsh himself, if your not sure who he is, he is the host of America's Most Wanted.

Jim Brickman, an amazing pianist, he also performed. Let me tell you he is even better looking in real life.

Dennis Haysbert, 24's (the TV show) president of the US, if you don't know him from there you might know him as the All State Insurance commercial guy. He was hosting for the night.

Also, Colin Raye, country singer, who was the main performer at the end of the gala. We had an amazing 3 course meal and a gift bag full of goodies for everyone who attended. It was really a fun night. I never get to dress up so every once and a while it's fun to do.

Anniversary Week

September 25th was Jay's and my wedding anniversary. It has been 4 years since we were married. I can't believe how fast time goes by. I have been enjoying every minuet of it though. Jay is such a great man. He is so supportive of all my crazy ideas, spoils me, and lets me just be myself. I could go on and on but I might get carpel tunnel in my hands. I just want to say that I am so thankful to have Jay in my life and am blessed that we get to be together forever. I couldn't ask for a better husband. I love you Jay!

Ok enough mushy, mushy. For our anniversary we actually got to celebrate it for most of that week... On the 24th (which is actually our Temple anniversary) we got an ultrasound of our baby and found out that we are having a baby girl! We are so excited!! A lot of people thought we were having a boy and so did I. I'm not disappointed though, I want both a girl and boy and I really didn't care which one came first. Here are the model shots of our girl Ava. (Hope you can see the images)

Side Profile

Ava's Feet

On thursday we got to go to the Zermott Resort in Midway for the rest of the weekend. It is such a beautiful hotel and the leaves on the trees were changing and amazing. We went there actually for a management seminar for Jays work. This, I thought, was perfect. Free hotel room for the weekend, free food, and activities to entertain us, well mostly me, Jay had meetings a lot of the days. The spouses of the managers get to come to the seminar and while they were at learning meetings we got to, shoot rifles, take golf lessons, make a cute craft, and have really great speakers. One of the speakers I really enjoyed, everyone got to listen to him, was a captain of the Blue Angels, John Foley. If you don't know who the Blue Angels are they are an amazing group of pilots that fly stunts for groups. They fly 18" from each other going 400 knots upside down. We got to see video from his perspective and all there amazing skills. If it couldn't have gotten any better we found out that John was one of the main pilots for the movie Top Gun! He was such a great speaker and my heart was racing every time I saw the footage of the flights. Man I would love to try that.

Arts and Crafts day. Yes I made these.

My 5 mo. belly

Also, while we were gone the builders were still working on our house. This picture below was taken during that time. Now we have garage doors, soffit and facia, painted inside, tile all laid, cabinets in the process, marble done, lighting almost done, and wood floor in the process. We were told that we will be able to move in around the first of Nov. now! YES!!!

All in all it was a great Anniversary!

Birthday Presant

For my birthday (a while back in September) I was on my family river trip (see pics below). I figured that was a great present but apparently Jay didn't think it was good enough. The night we got home from out trip Jay gave me another present. A way nice digital camera, I mean way nice. It is a Nikon D60 with two zoom lenses, a bag for all the different attachments, two dvds on how to work the camera, and classes to better my skills. (man does he spoil me.) I absolutely love the camera but I am still trying to figure all the buttons out. I thought for this blog I would show off my very amateurish pictures from the camera. Most of my pics are of Emma because she is such a good model and the funny thing is she really likes getting her picture taken. Plus she is way cute! Here they are...

In September my family and I went on our family river trip to the Gates of Ladore. I was lucky enough to also celebrate my 26th birthday out there on the river (not a bad way to party if you ask me). We had a great time and always look foward to the next trip.

Sept. Family River Trip. Always a blast!

Girls Trip to Mexico...

July 25 my sister and I went to Mexico with 5 other girls for our yearly girls trip. We went to the Riveria Maya for a week. It was so much fun. Such a beautiful area to visit.

Our hotel, Aventura Spa Palace.

Stacey and me at Xel-Ha.

Zip lining in the rain forest...

with crocodiles below.

Stacey and I, repelling into the Jaguar Cenote. It was so beautiful inside.

Snorkeling at Akumal. I saw sea turtles, rays, and tons of fish.

(Sorry it's sideways) Me on top of the Coba ruin doing some yoga. Later we found out where I am standing is where the Mayans would do their sacrifices.

Me at the top of the Coba ruin.

Coba ruin, one of the tallest ruins in Mexico. Quite a hike to the top.

Tulum, home to the Mayans.

Tulum Temple.

This is Heleman, our LDS tour guide for the Tulum visit. If you ever take a tour through any of these places try and get an LDS guide. I found they know more facts and details that the other guides don't know because of the Scriptures. I would recommend him over and over again.

You can visit his website to see all the tours he and his family does at www.helamantours.com.

There are more pictures in my photo album to the right.

Or you can check out one of the scrapbooks made.

www.heritagemakers.com

September 5th my family and I went on a 5 day river trip down the Green River at the Gates of Ladore section. It was so nice, and needed. I don't have pictures yet but they will be coming soon. The last day on the river was my birthday. The night before the cooks made pineapple upside down cake, my favorite, and sang happy b-day to me.

We got home the night of the 10th. (b-day) and Jay gave me my present. An amazing new digital camera. It is so nice. It has two zooming lenses to see up close and personal, and has so many buttons that there are two dvd's two help me learn everything. I also get to go to 10 photo classes for free to improve my skills (the little that I have). I am so excited! So maybe now there will be cool pictures for you all to see.

Our House

Ok, again, it has been a while. My sister, some girls, and I went to Mexico for our girls trip the end of July. So I have been waiting for all our pictures to come back so I could post them. However it is taking a little longer. So I will save the excitment for another post. For this post I want to show how our Morgan house is coming along. I have been taking pictures of the progression. And let me say the crew is FAST! This will be a pic. by pic. with the date I took the pics so you can see what I mean.