We are Moving!!

I know I haven't blogged in like forever and there is really no excuse except for being busy and just not finding the time. And then every time that I thought I wanted to blog I was overwhelmed with trying to catch up with everything that has happened since Thanksgiving, so I will just say we had a great Holiday season and enjoyed our Valentine's Day!! So to get to the point of why I wanted to blog was to let those of you that don't know that we are moving. Jared is moving to a different building in his company, which is over in Gresham, so the commute would be a bear if we stayed out here. So we decided to move to Gresham!! Jared new job is basically what he is doing now, but with a bigger place, people under him to help and a pay raise. Today was his first day in Gresham and this weekend we will be moving over to that side of town. We had our last day at our ward this last Sunday, which was very sad. We have lived in this place for 5 years and it is hard to move on. Lexi will have her last day of school at her old school on Thursday and hopefully start her new school next week sometime. Lexi was sad about leaving all her friends, but now is excited to meet new friends and go to a new school. We also found out that the place we are moving to is in my sister's ward, so that is exciting also. Spence isn't having too much of a problem with moving, he just wants to make sure that everything is going with us. Sometimes he will ask randomly if certain things are going with us like, "Is this fork going with us". Jared and I and even Lexi thinks it is funny. Bella has no idea what is going on and probably will not be affected until we actually move into the new place. I am excited to get out of the place we are in and move into a bigger place. So I guess that is it for now. I am really busy packing and getting ready to move, so I might not blog until after the move. I promise my Farmington Ward friends and all my other blog readers, I will try and do better at blogging so you know what we are up to. We will miss our Farmington friends!!

Turkey Day Times Two!!

We spent Thanksgiving with Jared's side of the family (since we were having a gathering with my family on the Saturday following). They held their dinner at Jared's brother Jeff's house in Vernonia. We arrived a little bit early so that the kids and Jared could play flag football with Jeff and his family. The kids really enjoyed playing (this was the second football game that Jared got to play in this day, the first was at the Jones's house and was not flag football). Jared enjoyed being able to play football with the kids. Bella and I watched for a little while, before Bella got to cold to be outside. Below are some pictures that I took of them playing.

Jared with Lexi, Spence and Gillian (niece) getting ready to play

Spence getting ready to kick the ball he was so excited to do this!!

Lexi and Spence listening in the huddle

After the game was finished we got things ready and sat down to eat. We were able to share dinner not only with Jeff's family, but also Jared's parents, Brent and Mark and his family. It was a full house, but fun to see everyone and enjoy their company. It was also good food too.

On Saturday we enjoyed a day with my family. We had a great dinner at one of the church buildings where the kids were able to run around the gym and enjoy themselves. We brought Spence's tricycle for him to ride on in the gym he loved that and it keep him entertained. Since we weren't bringing something like that for Lexi. We came up with something different to entertain her. She wanted to do a thankful jar and have everyone write down what they are thankful for and then she (with my help) read them to everyone, while we were eating. I wasn't sure if she would help me read them, but she did. She is getting so big. I was so proud of her.

Spence and his other two boy cousins riding on their trikes

This picture is so cute, Bella doesn't move much in her walker, but Abby who is a week older is all over the place. Abby though does have a lot more room to move around also. Anyways so Abby was pushing Bella with her walker it was so cute.

So we all had a Happy Thanksgiving and enjoyed spending time with our families. I love this time of year because of the time that I get to spend with my family. I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving also.

1st Video Blog

This is a video I took of Lexi making Bella laugh so hard! I have never done a video on here before, so I decided to try. Enjoy!!

Family Pictures

So here are those pictures that I promised you. All went well with them Bella was asleep until we were called back and was so happy through the whole thing. Hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think.

Here are some pictures of the kids that we took at JcPenney's

Sorry I have to brag...

Lexi did a fundraiser at school and when she brought the thing home we found out the you could get a Nintendo Wii for selling the most stuff. We jumped right on it and got a whole bunch of our family to help out. Good thing that we have such big extended family and that they live close by. So I thought she did a pretty good job selling it, but we had to wait for a couple weeks to find out if we sold enough to get 1st prize. So we found out about a week ago that Lexi got 1st prize, a Nintendo Wii (we probably would not have bought a Wii otherwise), The kids love it and it can give you a little workout on the sports game that we got. Jared and I also enjoy it and find the game that we have fun. So I just had to share. Sorry no pictures this time. I will try and get the family pics that we just took up soon (they turned out great)! Thanks to all that helped out!!

8 Years Yesterday!!

Nov. 2, 1999 (our second date)


So it was 8 years ago yesterday that Jared and I had our first date!! It was weird thinking about where we were when we first met and what we did on our first date and such. So I decided to get a babysitter (my parents), so that we could go out to dinner together. So we went to "Applebee's" and had a great dinner and a little dessert also (they have this new thing called dessert shooters and they are just the right amount of sweets for after dinner and only 2 dollars). Anyways so after dinner we thought that we would go over to Target to pick up a couple of things that we needed and look at a couple of things we didn't. As we were walking down the main aisle just minding our own business we bumped in to the Director of the Portland Institute downtown. Which is ironically where we had met eight years ago, so not only is that where we met, but he was also there for the first time that we met. His name is Bro. Weed. He is such a great person and so easy to talk to. So he asked us how we were doing and we told him that it had been eight years since our first date and that we were out on a date. He was also there with his wife. We talked for like 45mins in the middle of Target. It was so nice catching up with him and talking about old times. He couldn't believe that our oldest is six. He told that he still tells the story of us meeting and other stories about us to his classes. That is weird sometimes to think about, but cool to know that we were someone that left an impression in his life. I know that he has also left an impression in ours. So how weird was that to run into someone that was there the day that we met and through our courtship on the day we were celebrating being together for 8 years.