Christmas.....

We were so very BLESSED this year!!!! We moved to Nebraska & Bryan started his great new job, we found a house with in a week of being here & we had our amazing Aunt Laurie & Uncle Marty & their AMAZING family have us for Christmas. Laurie spoiled us rotten with good food & entertainment. She made my mom's rocky road fudge & I think I ate the whole tray!! SO YUMMY!!!! The Girls had a great time too! Sarah & Katie were AWESOME!!! They took Kelsey, Lindsey & Sadie everywhere. I don't think I even changed a single diaper while I was there. We had a WONDERFUL time.

We spent Christmas Eve at Laurie & Marty's & then Christmas Day at The McKendrick's house for a wonderful dinner & great fun!!!

Here is a picture of Sadie on Christmas Eve. We were just getting ready to eat & I looked over at here & she was nodding off. So i grabbed the camera & this is what she did.....

....Passing out....

.......Trying to open her eyes, not quite ready to sleep yet she still has some more gold fish to eat......

...eating a gold fish in her sleep.....

....& she FINALLY gives up!!!!!

Oh man that was sure funny to watch!!! Pictures just don't do it justice!

Marty, Katie, Lindsey & Bryan. Bryan was explaining to Lindsey that Santa was coming that night so she needs to eat all her dinner!!

Sarah spread some oats all over the front yard so that the reindeer would find their house. I thought that was a great idea.

Kelsey & Lindsey watching Sarah spread the oats.

Nicci, Matt, Sarah, Sadie & Katie.

Katie & Sadie & Kelsey's head.

Katie was so good to Sadie! She was always holding her & making her laugh.

I couldn't decide which one of these was the best picture because they are ALL pretty FUNNY!!!! This is Christmas Eve after dinner & we were getting ready to open our 1 present under the tree. We put our camera on Laurie's book shelf & set the timer. It was too funny!!!

Opening 1 present each on Christmas Eve.

Laurie had this Santa tin that had all theses goodies in it & she could NOT get the lid on!! It was SOOOO FUNNY!!!

Kelsey & Sadie in their new princess PJ's.

After we opened presents Laurie has this cool bell set. They are a bunch of pipes that have been Numbered & cut to certain lengths so that when they hare tapped with a nail they play a certain note. Then she held up a poster board with the numbers written on it. We all took a pie & a nail & When Laurie pointed to your number you would tap your pipe. It was so COOL!!! We played a whole bunch of Christmas songs. We all laughed & had a great time.

Here is their beautiful tree & all the loot!!

Nicci was worse than all the little girls. She was so antsy to get down stairs. Here they are all waiting at the top of the stairs to come down & she what Santa brought!!

The girls got this GREAT stuff called 'Moon Sand' For Christmas & Laurie & Nicci were so cute playing with them!! They made such a mess!!

Eating dinner at the McKendrick's on Christmas Day.

Christa has these awesome dogs. They were so good with all these people there & esspecially Sadie. They just let here hug them & ride them & kiss them. Here she is taking Shamous for a ride. He was a great dog!!

Matt, Nicci & Christa on the couch whatching the girls opn their gifts from Michael & Christa (Matt's mom & dad). It was so VERY nice of them to give us all gifts!!

Sadie got a Glow Worm & she is so in love with it!! She just kept kissing it & hugging it!! She was all smiles all night!

The Elders were there too & the girls kept on tickleing this one Elder! Poor guy!! Kelsey sure thought he was pretty funny!!!

Sadie & Shamous again! They became pretty good friends that day.

Our New House....

I know it is hard to see since I took them at night but these are pictures of the front of our house.

This is the basement. There is a living room with fireplace & to the right.....

There is this fun little nook. We are going to turn it into a play room for the girls.

Upstairs there are 3 bedrooms & 2 bathrooms. Here is the hall bath.

There is this fun little nook above the bath tub for putting decorations. I think I know what to do there!! =)

Mater bathroom....

Master bedroom, with this cool vault to the ceiling.

Back bedroom...ths pictures make the rooms look small but they are pretty good size rooms. I couldn't get the whole room in one picture....

Middle bedroom/office.

Kitchen......

Dining room (the sliding door goes out to a HUGE deck)....
& finally the family room upstairs.

I can't wait to get all of our things put in our house. It will feel good to make it our home. I'll post pictures as soon as we get it all set up. Now to get all ready for our trip to Kansas for Christmas. Laurie has been so fun. She keeps calling me & seeing what we want & need. Heavenly Father sure has blessed us this year!

Winter Quarters Temple.....

Today we went on a family drive to the Winter Quarters Temple in Omaha. What a gorgeous Temple & such an amazing story. We watched a movie on the pioneers & the girls were able to dress up like pioneers & try to pull a hand cart! They thought that was pretty cool!

I guess it is a tradition in Omaha that every year there's a gingerbread house display down stairs in the visitors center. It was pretty neat! They have at least 100 different gingerbread houses on display & a scavenger hunt for the kids.

Here is Sadie standing with her face in the gingerbread man!

Kelsey as a gingerbread girl!!

Lindsey as a gingerbread girl!

Kelsey & Lindsey in front of the Nauvoo temple sculpture.

Here are the girls spinning the wagon wheel till it reaches a mile...360 turns I think...they only made it 10!!!

Here we are looking out onto the pioneer cemetery & the temple grounds covered in SNOW!!

What a beautiful temple!!

This is a neat painting of what winter quarters looked like in pioneer days.

This is a model of what one of the homes would have been like back then. There would have been 2 families that lived in each house. It was the size of my bedroom right now, maybe even smaller. I completely admire the pioneers.

Inside the home.

Here are the girls trying to push the handcart.

All dressed up like pioneers. It was so funny, Lindsey wanted to wear all the boys 'Cowboy' clothes!! =)

Getting dressed up!

Outside the visitor center...FREEZING our bums off in front of this gorgeous statue of the pioneers!!! They have statues like this all over Omaha.

Bryan & the girls.

The whole family in front of the temple gates.

I had such a great day! I have such a love in my heart for how brave & selfless the pioneers were. I don't think I could have ever done what they did, Barry my baby, or husband, walk across the frozen river. Truly the Lord works in amazing ways. How blessed we are to have this amazing gospel & knowledge of it in our lives. We had a great day together as a family reflecting on our churches amazing history. What a great place we now live in full of church history. I look forward to this summer & being able to visit MORE church sites.

Nebraska....Pictures!!

Finally I am updating with some pictures. Here is Kelsey eating some noodles in our Temporary apartment. We finally found a house to rent & we move in on the 23rd. We wont have any of our things with us yet. But we will survive. We are leaving for Kansas on the 24th to spend Christmas with my Aunt Laurie & her family. It will be so fun to spend some time with them. They will be our closest family out here & we are thrilled to be able to spend Christmas with them. Donna & LaMar are bringing our things with them when they come around the 27th & stay till New Years Day. I'll post more pictures as they come. I just haven't been in the mood to snap some pictures. This has been a hard move on all of us. I know it will be easier when we have all of our belongings around us & we are all settled into a house & not bouncing from hotel to apartment to house! Heavenly Father has blessed so much this Christmas. I just can't even tell you how much we have truly been blessed with.

Lindsey posing for pictures in Bryan's & my room.

This is our room. There is a HUGE walk-in closet & a bathroom in it.

This is our sad little Christmas tree. The girls didn't feel like it was Christmas so Bryan came home from work on Monday with this & we set it up for family night & sang Christmas songs. I was going to make popcorn strings & buy some small candy canes to put on it but then we all got sick & I haven't done it yet.

This is the living room.

This kitchen...

The dining room...

The girls room...Sadie sleeps in the HUGE walk-in closet. That sound terrible I know but is is almost as big as this room. I just put her port-a-crib in there & she loves it. The apartment comes with Internet & a home phone. So we brought our computer with us & that has been great for looking for houses & keeping in contact with everyone. The girls get the desk in their room.

Here we are pulling away from the hotel we stayed in that was so GROSS!!!! YUCK!!! Look at all the snow.

Sadie now officially HATES her car seat!!! She SCREAMS BLOODY MURDER if we try to put her in it!! I guess 25 hrs in that thing will do it!!!

Kelsey all bundled up.

The nasty hotel!!!!

The DRIVE......Thank heavens for modern technology!! DVD players are AWESOME!!!!!!

Sadie all happy that I let her free from her car seat while dad filled up the car with gas.

Sadie was so stinking cute...every time we would say a prayer she would fold her arms!! This kid cracks us up!!! Here she is folding her arms.

Lindsey...SO SICK of the CAR!!!!

Nebraska...

The big move!!

We moved to Omaha Nebraska on Wednesday December 8th 2009. Bryan was offered a great opportunity & we took it. We are so excited to be out here FREEZING our rears off but loving the change. I am so sad to leave our 'HOME' of Arizona & all our amazing Friends & our family but I know this is what the Lord wants us to do & where we are suppose to be as a family. What a great adventure. I will post pictures as soon as I take some. We have been so busy trying to get settled into our temporary apartment & looking for houses that I have forgotten to take that many pictures. We are so blessed to be together as a family & to have a job & a roof over our heads. We miss everyone but will see them soon...hopefully!

11/23/2009.....

We had so much fun!! Allison, Richard & their kids came down because Rich had a Dr.'s appointment in Phoenix & the kiddos were all able to play with each other. Russell is the funniest kid. He kept pointing at me & laughing. He cracks me up!

After they left I made spaghetti for dinner. Here are some pictures of Sadie's 1st experience with Spaghetti!! Check out the mess she made. I had to bathe her in the kitchen sink because I didn't dare walk across the carpet to the bathroom with her!! Oh she is the cutest thing!!

CHEESE!!!!

New Moon.....11/20/2009

A few of my friends & I went to opening night of New Moon. We had so much fun!! Katie Dew (in the middle) & I made out T-shirts. Katie's is so funny. She has her face on Bella's body!! So funny!! I am so lucky to have such good friends.