Rylan FINALLY lost a top tooth

Hello everyone!

It has been a few days since I posted last, we had a great christmas day with friends from our ward. Lots and LOTS of food, and fun! We really had a great time with them. We appreciate all the friends we have down here, without them we wouldn't be feeling nearly as good as we are. We only have 22 more days left until my dear Wesley, and the kids' daddy come home! We couldn't be more excited about him finally being home with us again. Luckily time is going by pretty quickly still, I pray it continues. We are so grateful for the safety and protection our Heavenly Father has blessed him with, and we ask you guys (friends and family) to please continue to keep him in your prayers as the last few weeks are here, we still need him safe! We are staying busy getting the house and car ready for him to arrive. Work is great, I am going to be taking over a leadership position in the next few weeks! I am so excited to do that, and a little nervous. All in all things have been really great here in TX! Rylan is still doing fantastic in school, and Addie is loving her daycare (as much as she allows) The little stinker. We love you all very much and miss each and everyone of you! I hope you all had a wonderful christmas with your families and friends!

Love

Faith And Family

Super Fun Weekend With My Nephew Jake

Well this is going to be quick, I have to get ready to go. But I just wanted to write about how much fun it has been to have my 14 year old nephew down here just chillin with us! He is a great kid and alot of fun! We have had a great time with him! here are a few pictures of the gingerbread houses we made and also a pic of Jake...and how dang big he is! He is taller than me now. that is crazy! Anyway. See ya!

Feast of Sharing

This is the kids with HE-BUDDY!!

Well let me just share with you what a great company I work for! Every year they have a community event where they donate over 5000 meals of Ham, potatoes, veggies, and pecan pie...sodas, milk, and water. To our community. Then all of us HEB folks volunteer our time and serve up this lovely meal to the community. They have music and lots of fun things for the kids to do!! We had a great turn out this year and served about 1500 more meals than they did last year. It is a great time for our community to get together as one and enjoy a big feast. I had pecan pie for the FIRST time and let me tell you...it was YUMMY!! The kids had a great time and it was really neat to get to know some of those people that come shop in my store on a regular basis outside of the store. It was great!! The mayor of the city Temple was there helping serve up the meals. I am glad and VERY grateful to be working with such a giving company. I really do appreciate the opportunities they give to families of all kinds. I hope you all are having a great and festive holiday season, I know I am. I hope also you are all well. Love you all!!

Christmas Party 2008 at Salado X-mas Tree Farm

Well yesterday we had a great time at our X-mas party that was given by the support group here called the FRG. (family readiness group) it was alot of fun, they had hay rides, hot cocoa, real TX bbq, Welcome home poster making!!!, A big pile of hay to play in...not fun down yoru shirt. Even old Saint Nick was there to give a big smile to all of us families going without our soldiers once again. So here are some pictures of the day, we had a super fun time!! We cannot WAIT for Wes to get home so we can have him all to our selves again!!

Almost the Middle of December

Whew, I have been here 1 month tomorrow!! WOW!! Time is going by alot quicker than I imagined it would being here by myself. I have been working almost every day of the work week and they are kind enough to let me have weekends off until Wes gets home. Usually they want you to be available to work weekends, but obviously I am not able to right now. The store director is very understanding and willing to help me with anything! I am very grateful for Belton, it has great schools, great daycare facility and a great store for me to work with. I have wonderful co-workers that are fun to be around. And my body is getting a KILLER workout every single day. I am going to my re-training for cashiering so i will be back on the registar next week! WOOT WOOT! I cannot wait!
Rylan is doing AWESOME at school! He is getting 100% on everything he is doing, his artwork he is doing is beautiful, and is having NO behavior problems.....hummm...I wonder why? Ha ha. It is amazing the change in him and his attitude for school. We went to his good friend Micheala's b-day party last night, they have been friends since pre-k. It was alot of fun, I wish i had my camera. I am sure her mom will give me pics of last night.
Addie is still doing good. She is learning to write her name, and is learning LOTS of fun songs to come home and sing. She had a great time at the b-day party last night, they had it at a skate rink and she tore it up!! I couldn't believe her. She is a natural. She got that from her dad.
We have a little less than 6 weeks left until we get to welcome home our Daddy!! WAHOO!! We cannot WAIT!! Wes is getting ready to come home, and isn't have the greatest time with all the details he is having to work on, but I know he knows it is for the end of the tour which makes it a litle easier to deal with. Right booty?
We miss you all in Utah and hope you are all doing well!! Please leave me notes and things to let me know how ya'll are doing. (Rylan HATES when I say ya'll, it's funny.) See ya'll later! Love to everyone! Have a great week!

Rylan's picture

This morning Rylan decided he was going to draw a picture for his daddy. I think it is a very good picture.

We are doing well, the kids are enjoying their daycare, and Rylan is enjoying his school. He was telling me the different continents that he made on his Earth picture. He is learning so much here, and loving every second of it. I hope you all had a great thanksgiving. We sure did. We went to my friend Lia's house and we had a feast!! It was fantastic! We had a great time! We missed our family, and it was sad to be away from utah. But, we have a great ward family here, and had a good time. We love you all!!

My new hair color, I let Rylan decide what color to make my hair, he did a good job! He chose an Auburn Brown. I like it!! Addie is obsessed with it. It is funny!! I started (really) my job today! It was a crazy busy day with all the folks that are doing last minute shopping. It was so much fun to see old customers and have them remember who I was. It is funny to have old co-workers no know who I am, and then realize they had to look at my face for a year....ha ha (employee of the month of March 07) I am feeling much better than I had been last week! We have been busy getting things put away, and thrown away ect..too much stuff! We only have about 6 1/2 weeks left til we are welcoming home Wesley!! We cannot wait!! Hopefully time goes by quickly. I am exhausted and I now need to go and get the kiddos from daycare! Love you all very much!! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

New job!

Well starting today I am offically back as a working mommy. Addie started daycare today and was pretty excited...thankfully. I cannot wait to have this job started and get things back to where they should be...it is weird cause I am back to my old ward, and old life......in Belton...but everyone has grown together and is closer, has their own inside jokes ect...so I still feel a little on the outside. I know things will all work out. Anyway, thought i would share the news!!

ON THE WAY TO TX!!

HILLARIOUS SIGN IN Canon City!!

WOW, the last week has come and gone in a blink of an eye! We left Utah early on the morning of the 4th, we drove away leaving behind us lots of snow! We drove to Canon City, CO to stay with my best friend Elise and her family. We ended up taking Addie to the hospital on Weds night there in Colorado, she has an ear infection and had croup so bad she couldn't breathe they had to give her a steroid to take away the swelling in her throat. Which made her tummy VERY SICK! Elise's husband Ivan gave Addie a blessing, I am so grateful he has the authority to have given her the blessing. Thank you thank you Ivan! We left Colorado on Thursday morning and headed for Weatherford Oklahoma, it was a beautiful drive. We got there and stayed with another good friends parents. They have the MOST beautiful home I have seen in a while. It is amazing! I was so grateful to have friends and family to stay with during the trip, it helped the stress dwindle away. We had many people before we left give us gifts to help us on our way so we ended up not having to spend hardly anything the entire trip. Gas went down the entire trip. right now it is at 1.94!!!!! How much fun we had during this trip!! The van was full, and we had alot of crazy things go on....but all in all it was a great trip....oh, we got here to Belton on Friday afternoon, we got to Rylan's school and got the papers to get him started on Monday. Saturday was the schools' annual Family Fun Festival, it was alot of fun!! The kids had a great time!

Addie riding a pony
Monday came and Rylan went to school back at Leon Heights!!

He came home with the HUGEST smile, he had gotten 100% on his first math test at school! He has a male teacher named Mr. Willie. He is a great man! We are happy to have him as Rylan's new teacher.

Our ward is happy to have us back, and we are just thrilled to be back home.

We have great neighbors here at the apartment, and we are excited to prepare for Wesley to get home!! WAHOOOOO!! Until next time here are pictures of the trip. We had a great time!

We miss you all (ya'll) in utah! Hope you enjoyed my little ditty. It is GREAT TO BE BACK!!!

Halloween

Halloween was a BUSY day! We had a luncheon for me in the morning, a party to go to from 3-6 and trick or treating from 6-8 and then I went to Leah's fun Halloween party after I got the kiddo's to bed. It was a fun day, the kids weren't into dressing up though Rylan just painted his face white and gave himself black eye brows, and Addie was a cheerleader, but didn't want to do anything more than just wear her outfit. I didn't get any pictures, =( because I didn't know where my camera was at...it was in my purse.
Also, we are leaving on Tuesday to head to Colorado to stay with one of my best friends Elise, we will stay there for a day, and then head to Oklahoma (is the place to BEEE) stay with some good friends' mom and dad. And then FINALLY back home to TX!! I am SO EXCITED! I am going to miss all my friends here and especially Marie! We have had alot of fun together the last 6 months or so. The kids are so sad to leave their cousins behind and wish we could bring them with us....me too. We will be re uniting with Wesley some time in the next 9 weeks!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? HOLY COW! I CANNOT WAIT! It is going to be a crazy next few months...but a good kind. Love to all!!

HALLOWEEN IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!

Rylan and Addie

Addie's cute hair!

Today we went to the Boo at the Zoo at Hogle Zoo here in Utah, it was alot of craziness mixed with stress...but the kids had a good time. I am exhausted, but cannot sleep. We also carved pumpkins with my neice and nephew Jasmine and Zack. We had a lot of fun! We were a little crazy at home too, but we had a good time. The boys together are just insane! But they love being with eachother and they help eachother through this difficult time. Here are some pictures of the day, we are SO happy it is Halloween time!! P.s Rylan and Addie were "Heros" Addie the cheerleader of course and Rylan was Peter Petrelli (just for today) they had signs on their backs with Rylan Peter's name, and Addie had "save the cheerleader save the world" it was pretty funny. The Alien and Mike Wizowski pumpkins are Jas and Zacks and the other's are ours.

What a day!

Alright so the day went by pretty slowly today, we just pretty much hung out alot of the day. I went and had Addie's hair cut and came home. Next thing I know my dear Addie bear had added (or taken) to her new hair cut. Sooooo, she has bangs now...oh man. What a dork! Rylan had an okay day at school a sub AGAIN for a week. I am ready to go! Only a few more weeks til the big move! Wahoo. Anyway here is a picture of Addie's new hair doo! Ha ha.

Starting my Blogging life..ha ha

Okay friends, I have been talked into doing a blog. It is actually going to be fun I think. We are getting ready to move back to TX to get ready for Wes's arrival home!! WAHOO!! More later when I have more time!