Our News

As you have probably heard, our family is moving to Oregon. We are boxing everything we own and moving to my hometown in the end of September or early October. We are trusting in the Lord to find a good job for John or me. We will be living with my family. My parents and sister's family live on 26 acres in Pleasant Hill and have invited us to join them. They have a nice little two room apartment that we will stay in until we find a job and a house to rent. That is two rooms total. Matthew and Izzie will be sleeping in the main room with the couch and tiny kitchen (fridge and sink). John and I will have the bedroom. We will be spending a lot of time in the "main house" as they call it, however I am excited to hang out with my sister, who is my best friend, and my nieces and nephews (5 total). The kids will be able to run wild and spend time with cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents on a daily basis. I just hope John doesn't go crazy with to much interaction or the RAIN!!!

You thought you needed a bra.

I had to post this. I found it on a blog I follow. It is to good to be true and makes me feel better about myself! This new mama gorilla loving her baby is beautiful. But MAN does she need a BRA! I guess it's reassuring that even in the animal kingdom, gravity takes it's toll.

Young Men and Women Temple Trip

What a wonderful day! It was spiritual and fun - we have the best young women and men and leaders!

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society or I call the GLPPPS book. I just finished reading it today and LOVED IT - go out and read it NOW! You will love the characters, cry and laugh. It is one of my top 10 now.

Happy 33rd Bday!

John is the 'HOTTIE' in sunglasses

Happy Birthday John! You are the best husband a girl could ever ask for.

Izzie Update

I feel like I haven't taken a lot of pictures lately and I will hate myself if I don't take pictures of my kids! Matthew has hundred of pictures of him and Izzie gets slided. So here is to more pictures. Iz is finally getting hair enough to put in two pig tails and she looks so cute. Half the time she doesn't want her picture taken and I have to take whatever I can get (as you can tell on some of the pics). But she is darling in most.

We just cold turkeyed her on her bottles. 15 months tomorrow and bottle free (that is the same age we cut Matthew from the bottle too) but she is taking it harder. She loved her bottle and now has fits when she can't get it. She has also been such an awful night sleeper (waking twice a night is ridiculous when you are over the age of 1) So I quit giver her anything to drink at night(see why I got rid of the bottle) and just let her cry a little. If she get to her 'IF YOU DON'T COME IN HERE' scream, I will go in and hold her for a little. She will still cry but not so bad and I am hoping this will help her at nights. So far so good.

We cut Matthew's hair. (Click on pic to enlarge it) That is such a chore! He fights us, cries, sweats and screams and I really hate doing it. The end result is always finding long hairs and cutting his hair to short - but at least he looks better than we started.

New Moon

New Moon Fans! Check this out (thanks Holly!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJXV1-ww0v8

You know you will be screaming too (Kate!)