Much needed update! CHANGES!

Well here is the reason I have been a blog slacker, WE MOVED! It all happened pretty quick. We put our house up on the MLS wednesday night and had a full price offer Friday. I was sad to leave our old house because we literally put our heart and soul into fixing it up but Danny and I had been looking at this house for months before we even thought about selling our house. Luckily the people had to sell it so here we are. The best part is the kids wont have to share a bedroom and all we've had to do it paint. Also I've got lots of yard work so don't look to closely - that is still to come.
Danny stole my awesome office. In the mist of moving Danny had a company contact him and wanted him to come work for them. It is based out of Sweden with US offices in Oregon so he works from home when he is home - he travels A LOT! This should be fun when baby number 2 arrives, well see how I manage. Anyways we figured while we were making changes we would just keep going.

Front entry looking into the living room.
Ben's room, the stripes took me quite some time but I think they turned out cute and something fun and different for a kids bedroom. I was able to reuse the roman shade I made for his old room - it was a swear word project, I had to make it bigger and roman shades on a window that size, well they shouldn't be done, that's all I'll say about that.
Our bedroom, not a great picture but we love having an attached bathroom and a big closet.
One of the best parts of the new house is the amazing view in our back yard. When we showed my dad the house all he had to say was you can see the "A" I'm sold!
Ben moved into a big boy bed this month. He has done great, our only problem is we can't get him to go to bed at night because he says up looking at books.
Speaking of changes, I sure I didn't look like that a year ago! This was actually on the 4th so I'm sure I'm bigger now. As my nephew Drew says to me each time he sees me "getting bigger"

Easter Weekend

I love this picture! Don't we live in a beautiful place
Baby Animal Day- I thought Ben would love the animals the way he attacks Sammy all day but he was a little bit nervous of all the animals.
The cute cousins- Halle was here too but she didn't want to get in a picture until she got a balloon animal.
Happy Easter, me forcing them to get in a picture after church, you can see how happy they were with me
My parents brought up Grandma Kenya, she is literally on her last leg. She can't really walk anymore and will probably pass away this week. It's hard to imagine her gone. We've had her for 12 years.
Ben loved the egg hunt

My awesome easter eggs I made, I brew out the yokes, I serious pain, (reminded me of child birth) and then I used a silk ties to dye them

NO Aprils Fool's Joke!

Ben's going to be a Big Brother! It was quite a surprise for us but we're really excited, especially for the 2nd trimester (which starts in a week) so that I can start feeling better! I am due on my birthday, October, 10th. It's already been an interesting pregnancy so far so were hopping for less stress and less sickness in April!

Winter Overload

We got another new niece in February- Allyson Kathleen Egan! We love her, Ben thinks she is pretty cool, the best part about her is she lives about a mile away so we get to see her all the time but I still get to sleep through the night!
Our family keeps growing! We got 2 new nieces on my side and now we are getting 2 new nephews on Danny's side! Lots of fun with cousins
Drake & Ben, need I say more, cutest little buddies!
Heading over to the park for a little sledding


So much snow, this is why we still have a mound of snow in the front yard!
Family ski night, we were planning on taking turns with Ben in the lodge but once he figured out he could be out on the slopes there was no going back in
Will and Drew tore up the slopes, very brave and good little skiiers

Winter Get-a-way

Before this trip the longest I had ever left Ben was for about 4 hours. I couldn't even get excited for the trip because it made me sick to think about leaving Ben. Well thank goodness to my AMAZING sister Hayley who took Ben for almost the whole time. This was right before we left. I went and put him to bed at Danny's parents and cried. I did pretty good until about Thursday of the trip.

Rock climbing in the Gulf of Mexico!
Roatan, Honduras - this was such a beautiful place. This was probably my favorite stop of the trip.

A little snorkeling, it was great and right off the beach


Cave Tubing in Belize. We were a little nervous when we got off the ship in Belize, it's kind of a dump. Well we took a tour about an hour outside the port up to the mountains. It was beautiful. We went through the jungle and up to a river. It took us through these amazing caves. It was a really great experience and I'm glad we got out of the port.

Cozumel was a little disappointing. We were planning on going scuba diving but when we got off the ship it was really windy and a red flag day so they canceled all the dive trips. It was a little heart breaking to look at that turquoise water and not get in. We ended up having a nice relaxing day at the beach sitting in hammocks. I guess we will just have to go back. (Last time we went to Cozumel I had just found out I was pregnant so I couldn't dive, I think I'm cursed to not dive here)
Enjoying a great dinner,Danny hated the dress up nights. He kept saying don't they know I'm on vacation!
Hard to say good bye to that, but I had a pretty cute little kid waiting for me at home!

ELDER JT is home!

Elder JT is home! I made shirts for all the kids, so when he came down the stairs they were all standing there. Little Ella has a "T" on but she was sleeping. Sarah's family made it by about 30 seconds. We had to leave Logan at 5 am to get down in time. The roads were the worst I have have seen them, but we were all there!
The whole family! What a wonderful day!
I wish I had a picture of my mom when Jeffrey started coming down the stairs, (I have it on the video camera) she went nuts, she stared screaming and jumping up and down.

It didn't take long for all the kids to recruit Jeffrey into help them build their legos. He's the best Uncle ever. We are already feeling the blessing of having him back home again. He has such an incredible spirit. I can't believe want an amazing kid he is. Being around him makes me want to try harder and make some real New Year's resolutions to really improve my spiritual self.I can't wait for him to move back up to Logan next week to start school. I'm excited to have a good babysitter for Ben! When Jeffrey meet Ben he said, it felt like he already knew him and forgot that he hadn't actually ever seen him. He fits right in!
Jeffrey we love you so much and are so happy that you severed an honorable mission and have set such a great example to all your nieces and nephews!

Merry Christmas!

I made this little construction apron for Ben with Dave's construction logo on it! It is stinkin cute!
Santa really spoiled Will and Drew this year, they got a go cart! Oh wait was is Will and Drew or Josh that got spoiled, I don't know who was more excited
We went over to Hayley's for Christmas breakfast and Ben spotted Santa's left over cookies by the fire place and helped himself
A BIKE! This has to be one of the best Christmas mornings I can remember. Ben was so excited to see that bike sitting there. Every time we go to the store we always have to go over to the toy department and let him ride around so we were so excited to actually have one of our own.
Gingerbread house! I think this might have been more mean than fun for Ben, he wanted to eat all the candy and I wouldn't let him. Now its sitting on the counter and he keeps trying to get it. He's like 'hey mom there is candy sitting right there and you want let me eat it'
My mom took all the grandkids and mom's on teh Polar Express up in Heber City. Ben thought it was great to go on the train and especially liked looking out the window at all the lights.
Ben wasn't a huge fan of Santa. I think it was a mixture of being exhausted and a little scared
Pretty cute group of kids! Thanks mom for the memories!