From A - Z in the last months . . .

Sorry I've dropped out of the world for a little while but I am trying to come back onto the swing of things. Here's a quick update of the last six months and a ton of pictures. By the way I am going to go private on my blog so send me your email.

October

• Tavis was a skunk for Halloween!

November

• We found out we were expecting!!!!!
• It was my birthday I'm 27
• We had a wonderful Thanksgiving (All my family came up from CA and we had so much fun!
• Brad went away for a while and we all miss him and pray for his safety. (A very tough situation and very scary)
• Tavis was moved to a big boy bed and doing awesome!
  

December

• Tavis got a 3rd degree burn but all it well it was just a little scary
  
• Christmas!
• We were going to Ca for Christmas then as we were walking out the door bad things happened and we went to the hospital to see if we were still going to hav a baby and we are. Everything looked okay but we needed to be very careful so NO CA. TRIP :(
• A week later Alex was leaving on his mission and we needed to be there so I called the Doc and he said okay and we took off that day!
• Thank goodness we went because my mom got into a car accident and I needed to be there to help!
• We had a blast in ca and Tavis was loving it!
• I Had finals and passed with an A wow Go Jessica

January

• I started another semester of school
• I became the Chamber of Commerce Treasurer
• We had a good ultra sound and things with the baby still looked good
• I was released from Young Women's and was not happy about it!!

February

• We are Having a GIRL!! and we are so exited!
• I am not doing good with my my school class but I am plugging away
• My mom decided to have surgery on her neck from the accident it's a big surgery.
• The chamber is good we are revamping the whole program and it's going to be great!
• I'm gaining weight and feeling it!
• We are working hard to get more work as the economy is struggling
• I started potty training Tavis and he is doing awesome! A little bit at a time.
  

March

• Nathan's Birthday and it was nice. Simply but nice.
• I am 6 months pregnant and loving every minute of it!
• I have another doc's appt. on the 24th
• My mom is having surgery today the 23rd AHHHHH
• Shawn will go and see her and help her as I am fragile.
• We listed our house for sale! Scary.
  

That's it. Although as I was thinking about it all it's seemed like I was so busy but it doesn't look that way on paper. Sad. I thought I had an excuse for being lazy with the blog. Sorry about that.

Quick tavis update. He is such a chatter bug and loves his dad more than anything! I loves to go potty and throws himself a wahoo after he is done. He notices every baby now and hates the nursery, and says no to everything. It's so awesome! He's 20 months now at the end of march and I hate that time goes so fast!

With the new baby (her name is a surpise) we are so lucky to have Carter's Dr. again. We love him and appreciate all his patience and guenine care for us. He and his faily hav become great family friends of ours and we are sooo lucky!

I am going private with my blog next week so send your email! Thanks for caring everyone and I will try to update at least once a month.
Lova you all
jessica

San Fransico on peir 39

Star fish in Ca.

After trick or treating we chopped wood for the winter. . .fun. Not

I'm a Skunk and looking back I will be mad at my parents. We had a fun time dressing him up! HA HA HA

Alex left to the mtc early Jan

Santa Time, he hated santa

My first potty!

Tavis love to play the drums

I taught him to say cheese and he loves to make cookies.

Walking, Talking, Running, Flushing, and so much more!!

Okay so first let me apologize again for being out of the loop for a while but let me give you a run down of the last month. A very special family came into my life and our time has been priceless! Well then their house burnt down and we have clothed them and housed them and they are not gone and it's bitter sweet. I love them so much and they loved us so much and our little tavis they have given him books and toys and love and laughter and a 4-wheeler! Yes he has a 4-wheeler that they had to leave behind. Oh I miss them! Well School has been a bit tougher then I once thought it would be. I have forgotten how to read to retain but it's going good and hopefully I will at least end up with a B. I love my young women calling we made apron last week and we are sowing pillows tonight and I love my girls! They have brought back the eagerness we all had at that age for new and exciting things. They love the gospel and it bring me back to the feelings that we all should have and the pure love of knowing the gospel principles! I love it! Oh yeah I made a mad dash to Ca to see Brad and my parent and grandparents and it was so fun! And we have snow on Oct. 11th CRAZY!!!!

Well now to more important things. . .Tavis! Our little man. He finally walks/runs everywhere and it is so fun! He get's going so fast his little legs can't keep up and he falls and we cheer and he gets back up to do it again. He puts his little arms up in the air to balance himself and it's the cutest thing ever! He is now down to one arm in the air and the other is to keep dad from getting him:) Nathan is loving this stage and all I hear when it's nathan's time with Tavis is laughter and I feel so blessed! Tavis has a little tent in his room he won't let anybody in. He opens and closes the door like nobody's business hee hee. He has figured out how to push himself on his elmo truck. If there is a botton to be pushed he will find it! He loves loves loves oreos and sometimes he becomes my little black baby I've always wanted. He has learned to flush the toilet so while I am doing dishes and need five minutes I stick him in the bathroom and he goes to town on the flushing. He is doing so good at signing and we now excatly what he wants except for the times he feels he's entitled to just be given what he wants and we go back to square one which I also love! He is outting stuff on his nose and thinks he is so funny which he is! :)

As for Nathan, Well it's hunting season and between elk, duck, geese, and deer, and oh yeah and work, he's busy. I love him so much my teeth ache. We have grown so much as a family this last little while and I feel like everyday it just gets better and better! Nathan bore his testimony on Sunday and while he was talking Tavis went crazy! DADDY DADDY DADDY! It was so cute. He is a total daddy's boy. Of course I felt compelled to say something as well and Tavis didn't even know I was gone. . he was so happy to be sitting with dad, they sure are funny!

Here is a ton of pictures. . .

Bear Lake Parade of Homes 2008 People's Choice Award Goes To. . .

Epic Construction for Bear Hollow Lodge!

Bear Hollow Lodge Lake View

Drive Way and Entry

Great RoomMaster Suite
Master Bathroom
Kitchen

Butler Pantry

Outside Living and Fireplace

Dinning Room
Timber Work

Grand Stair Case

Lake View and Covered Deck

Covered Deck

Guest Suite

Upstairs Bedroom

Great Room Down Stairs

Loft Living Area

Recreation Room ( Wired for Projector System)

Bedroom

Wine Cellar

Guest Bathroom

Bunk Room

Wow it's been a while . . .

So I just realized how long it has been since i participated in the blogging world and I am so sorry. Let me give a quick update. First I put another post in before this one so scroll down to see it! it's long but you will enjoy the update i promise!

* Alex is now gone but while he was here he basically worked and slept ans ate! Really that's all he did. However while he was working he cut his finger open on a skill saw and basically it looked a little bit of spaghetti. They were going to give him stitches but there wasn't much they could stitch it too so it healed on it's own. Just so you know drugs were a wonderful healing power!

* Nathan built a home for the Bear Lake Parade of Homes of which he WON THE PEOPLE"S CHOICE award! I am so proud of him!!!! It's a beautiful home that we were so blessed to build because we have really met and made some pretty special friends. I will post on this a little later.

* I am going back to school to finish my degree in Elementary Education! I am loving it!

* My pool project isn't going like i thought it would but a little at a time. I am almost at $10,000 which is a start. I need much much more than that so if you know of any companies that need to make donations please let me know! Or if you know of any grants that I may obtain somehow please let me know!

* Tavis has found the new love in his life! TRUCKS TRUCKS AND TRUCKS. He makes the driving sound and drives them all over his body and all over everyone else. It's so funny to watch. He has taught himself to put things in the bucket of the trackhoe and skidster and hull them around. I did not teach him this but I think he got it from his watching his dad drive all the equipment around. He recently started putting food in the buckets and feeding himself from the trucks. It must be in his blood!

* His first word is of course DAD! :( and the 2nd word is Dog. There is no mom, infact he's not even close. He won't even make the sounds. I am so sad. He loves our dogs and points everday out the window at them and dog dog dog. . . he'll point at Nate's truck and say Dad Dad Dad. I have tried everything but there is not mom.

* Tavis has taught himself how to use a fork. He will not let me feed him to save my life. I tried the kid forks but they are not sharp enough for him to pick anything up so he won't eat unless he has a big people fork of which h is amazingly accurate and feeds himself very well.

* We finally got grass! Well kind of. it's in quite the fragile state but i'll take pictures to show you later when it' doesn't look soo umm well fragile.

Raspberry Days Parade

I was asked by the Home Builder Association to help decorate the float for the home builders. Every year there is a craft fair and a fun parade and a fun run (5k) which i have never done, and there are rides and candy and tons of food. Well this year we a had to pull and decorate the float which was so fun. Tavis loved all the candy even though he didn't really know what it was. Tavis loved chasing the balloons around, he couldn't even pin one down to play with, they all just kept popping out of his grip; It was so funny! We had all of Nathan's guys (employee's) ride on the float and throw hats and shirts and candy and beads! We had a blast!