New Calling

I have been in the primary ever since Ben and I moved to Alaska in June of 2006. I have been teaching the same age group even. I know all of the kids in our ward, their siblings, and they all know me. When I was first put in primary, I hated it. I have finally started really liking it. Over the past six months or so I have really felt in my element. But of course, that is when it happens...
Our bishop called and asked if he could come see me and Ben. He came over, sat down, and asked, "Sister Overacker, are you ready for a new calling?"
Relief Society Enrichment Counselor.
The only time I have ever even spent in Relief Society is the brief stint right after Cloe was born. I am really nervous about my new calling and I am really going to miss primary, but I know that there is something that I need to learn and being in this calling will teach me new things. I have learned and grown as much as I could have teaching my CTR 8 class and now it's time for something new.

Cloe's One Year Pictures

We took Cloe took get her one year pictures taken last week. They are so cute, I just love them. As soon as we get the prints back, we'll get them sent out to all of you.

Taekwon-Do Test

I had my first test for Taekwon-Do a couple of weeks ago. It was really fun. I passed to the next belt and got "Best Test" of my group. Ben and Cloe came to cheer me on, it was really great to have them there. Here are a couple of pictures and a video of me breaking a board.

"We Got to Pray Just to Make It Today!"

Recently, we have been working hard on teaching Cloe to fold her arms and be quiet when a prayer is being said. She has been folding her arms for a couple of weeks, but I haven't gotten around to posting anything lately. Here is a video of her.

Talkin' Cloe

Cloe has been talking SO much lately I just had to say something about it. She can say Dada, Mama, Gus, yeah, night-night, hello, hi, bye-bye, and ball. It is so cute!! I was getting her ready to go to bed tonight and said "Night-night Dada." She looked at Ben, smiled and said "Ni-ni Dada" and waved at him. It was the sweetest thing. She is growing so fast and we can't hardly believe that she is almost one. She is getting so big!

Our Utterly Refined Debutant of a Baby Girl

Sweet Little Girl

Just wanted to give an update on our tiny baby, who really isn't THAT tiny, but we still think so. She is so much fun, but she has been REALLY clingy lately! Her new favorite things to do are to turn on and off the lights, she thinks that she is just the coolest thing when she does it and expects applause from Ben and me. She also loves giving hugs and will do it on demand, I love it!! There is nothing quite like having such a sweet, little thing lean her head on you and make an "aaah" sound (its almost like she is sighing or something.)
Even though she knows how to and has before, Cloe doesn't walk much. She takes a few steps here and there, but I think that she thinks it's a waste of time. She know that she is much faster crawling so it's hard to get her to walk more. She climbs though, over EVERYTHING!! We have to block her off in the livingroom so that she doesn't get into anything that she shouldn't, but she figured out how to climb on top of the large tupperware tub that we had blocking the way out, she fell headfirst onto the hardwood--I was so sad... She climbed on top of her walker when I wasn't in the room and then started to cry because she got stuck up there. She is quite a handful at this stage, but she is so much fun to be with.
Other than that, everything is fine. I am still studying Taekwon-Do diligently and I love it. I'm almost to my next belt and I test for it at the end of this month. I'm really nervous, but excited too.
Ben is doing well and seems to really be thriving in his new calling as Young Men's President. The young men really like him and they really look up to him (they even nick-named him Brother Cool Guy.)
We miss you all!!