We're alive!

Wow, can I just say we are never moving again! Floyd and Barbara were so nice to take the kids for a couple of days so we could pack everything up, which was huge, I would have gone NUTS if they would have been there. Monday, the 15th we went and picked up the 6X12' trailer and I about cried when I saw that everything we owned was going to have to fit into it. Well we got the most important things in first then tried to get everything else we could. Alot had to stay behind for Floyd and Barbara to take to their house (huge thanks to them!). In the car everyone's legs were all out horizontal since we had the car loaded to the fullest. By the time we were done loading everything up, it was 10p.m. Then we woke up at 3a.m to finish the last minute things and then headed out at 4a.m. We couldn't go over 40mph or else the trailer would fishtale. So I spent the next 22 hours staring at my mirror looking at the trailer, making sure it was going straight (most stressful trip ever). But we finally arrived at my parents house at 2a.m the next day! We are staying at my grandpa's house, since he's living at my parents. And his house was still full of a lot of his stuff, so we've been spending the last week and a half deep cleaning and lots of trips to the Goodwill. But I'm finally feeling somewhat settled. The weather is amazing!

Recent news...

Well for those of you who don't know yet, we're expecting again! We find out what it is the first week of March, so I'll be sure to let everyone know. My due date is July 10th. Andee keeps telling everyone, "My mommy has a baby girl in her belly". So we're definiely in for it if it's a boy. Also, we are moving to Arizona in a week or two! We are really excited for the change. We'll be going from 40 degree weather to 70...yay!

January....

I was in charge of Mutual and found this really fun idea for Divine Nature. We did a "Temple Marriage Night". I talked with the girls about what goes on in a Temple and Civil wedding ceremony and why we should strive for a Temple wedding. Then I gave each girl a satin hanger and they glued ribbons of all the colors of the values onto the hanger then I had a handout that hung around the hanger that said: "Hang onto your values, hang onto your testimony, so that one day you can 'Hang' your wedding dress on me". And then we played a game to see which group could make the better modest wedding dress out of toilet paper and plastic bags. Then I brought all my wedding pictures, dress, and pictures of temples for display. At the end, we cut the wedding cake and ate the whole thing. The girls had so much fun. I was sure glad when it was all over!

Christmas

Christmas Eve this year was really stressful. I had some things planned for the kids, and then a ton of cooking planned to do, so by the end of the day I had had enough. On top of over planning, Brock was sick, so he was fussy and clingy all day. So next year, definitely not over doing it. Christmas was great, we were really blessed from family and friends so that the kids could have a fun Christmas. So thank you everyone for everything.
Making and frosting cookies for Santa:
















Opening Pajama's from both Grandma's:

Happy Birthday Liz!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZ! Hope you have a wonderful day!! Thanks for all you've done and still do. Love you!!

Happy Birthday Andee!

Finally Andee had her birthday. She had to sit through her brothers bdays and wasn't very happy about it. So she finally got her day. I woke her up with a flower pancake, then she had a blast opening her presents. Ever since she went over to a friends house who had Barbie's, that's all she's talked about, so we got her 2, and that's all she did for the whole day, is play with her Barbie's. James took her out for a "Daddy Daughter dinner" when he got home from work, which she was looking forward to all day. The whole hour before he came home she would sit by the front window waiting for him. Then today we took Andee and Nick to see "The Christmas Carol", wouldn't say it was the best movie to take the kids to, a little creepy, but they still had fun. Then we had a little family party for her tonight, which she has also been talking about for the past month. So I can't believe I have a five year old, she's growing up so fast. We love her little sweet personality and feel very blessed to have her apart of our family.

Happy Birthday Nicholas!

Wow, let me just say I'm so glad this weekend is over! I don't know what we were thinking with having all the kids birthdays within 2 weeks of each other. Two down, one to go. Nick had a good day, his favorite breakfast is pancakes, so he had a star pancake, and then had fun opening up his presents. Thanks Dad and Modena and Joseph, he loves the Captain Moroni and the Stripling Warrior toys! They've been playing with that all day. We got him a bag of "Cowboy and Indian" toys, so they play with those along with the other two, it's perfect. Brock had fun with his cake of course. Made a complete mess! So what a great day to end this fun weekend.


















He was so excited to try out his new bubbles:





















Brock's "Monster" cake:

















Brock's gift from G-pa and G-ma Losee: