April

APRIL FOOLS! We literally found out we were pregnant again on April 1st! Hooray! The following pictures are how we told our familes. I made a book with baby pictures and the number of each grandchild. I told all the siblings I was making a "Mother's Day" gift and was able to get pictures without them know! We had to mail Ken & Calie's since they live in Utah and gave my parent's their copy at our annual tax season dinner! It was a lot of fun!

Cover (of course the Seiter's said Seiter, I just didn't take a picture of it!)

Both started with:

Petersen Copy:

Seiter's Copy:

Both ended with:

I also turned in my letter of resignation the end of April!! Woo-hoo!

March

Josh FINALLY was able to get a job in the nursing field. He is working in Scottsdale at a skilled nursing facility and hoping to transfer over to a hospital soon! He works the night shift from 10pm to 6:30 am, Sunday-Thursday night!
When we received his first "real" paycheck after training, I about peed my pants with excitement that I was going to be able to be a stay at home with my kids!!

February

Abbi turned 3 on February 2nd. We had a bunch of family and friends over for pizza and cake! You would have thought it was Christmas morning with all the gifts she received. Josh and I made her a princess castle cake that she absolutely loved! Thanks to all who came over to celebrate! Here are some pictures!

Slacker!

So I'm basically doing a horrible job of keeping up with the blog! Its been a while since I've even seen what's new with blogs! I've just spent 45 minutes changing my template and looking for other stuff! But here's quick recap of what's been going on since June with some pics!

End of June - Bought a "new to us" vehicle!

4th of July - Spent in Blanding, UT with in-laws

Month of July (and then some) remodeled the basement bathroom

August - Started back to School

September 3rd - celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary

October - Halloween

November - Josh passes his Final exam by 0.57 points!

Thanksgiving in Blanding

Josh laid off, as well as 699 other University of Phoenix employees!

December - Josh' graduation

Went to Michael and Saundra's cabin for a few days.... Kenna decides its time to start walking!

Christmas (see separate post)

Awful trip to Utah. I say awful because of the looooonnnnnggggg trip home... too tired to post about it right now!

January - Jed's bachelor party - celebrated by the men (and Saundra) doing a day trip to six flags

January 10th - KENNA TURNS ONE (see separate post)

January 22nd - Josh takes NCLEX (state boards)

January 24th - we find out Josh PASSES his NCLEX!! He is officially a nurse! Now we are looking for a job!

February 2nd - Abbi turns THREE!! I'll post that stuff later!

Christmas

If you are wanting to invest the best $30 of your life, may I suggest "The Elf on the Shelf". I overheard a lady talking about this while getting a pedicure. My parents found it on the Internet and it truly is the best investment. Long story short, you by this package of an elf and book that explains the story. You're able to give your elf a name, ours is Herbert. Herbert listens to you during the day and at night, "flies" back to the North Pole to visit Santa and report. You know that he "leaves" because when you wake up in the morning he is in a new spot! The kids are told in the story to not touch him, or else he loses his "special flying powers".

There are numerous stories about Herbert quickly stopping any problems we have with Abbi misbehaving (they don't call it terrible twos for nothing). My favorite story is she was being ugly to me DURING sacrament meeting and throwing a fit. I promptly marched her out into the foyer and told her that Herbert could hear her being naughty at church. To which she quickly wiped her tears and calmly replied, "I'm okay. I'm not throwing a fit." And that was that!

We took the girls to get their picture with Santa.

Here's Santa dropping off presents Christmas Eve!

Christmas morning:

We had a nice, calm, inexpensive Christmas! We spent Christmas at my parents and then drove up to Blanding the next day and spent a few days with Josh's family!