November:
The most important event that took place during this month was Jacob's Baby Blessing.
Jacob was blessed on November 4, 2012 in the Riverside Blackfoot Idaho church house at 4 pm. We were grateful to our family and our friends (the Wilcox's) for coming and being a part of his special day. Josh was able to give him a beautiful blessing. It makes me so proud to have such a wonderful worthy husband be able to give each of our children a name and a blessing at these special times in their lives. The feelings and memories will truly live on forever in my heart.
A week later we celebrated my 26th birthday. I know what some of you might be thinking because I've heard it verbally before- "oh, your just a baby". Well I definitely don't feel like a baby and truly feel blessed for the life that I have lived so far. Josh bought me the one thing I could think of that I wanted- a new cd player. My sister-in-law gave me one shortly after we were married and earlier this year it saw it's end after I taught in Relief Society. He also bought me a cake and bless his heart with trying to be thoughtful. We still joke to this day that it was the worst cake I've ever tasted. Next year I'll just save him the agony and buy a cake mix that he can whip up. It was a great day all in all and I absoulutely loved it when Ashlyn would come up to me and repeatedly sing "Happy Birthday". It's so much fun to see her understand and remember things now and get so excited to tell you it's someones birthday.
Thanksgiving this year felt so strange this year as we did our own, but it turned out well. Normally we get together with one side of the family and eat and play games and simply visit. This year though we decided to do our own thing due to a couple of different reasons. I was pretty nervous about how it was going to turn out but we were well-fed with all the fixings and enjoyed a great game (Josh is a huge Texan fan so it was pretty intense for him to watch them win in overtime). The meal was tasty,the game was fun to watch, clean up was a breeze. I think the only thing that made me a little sad was that we didn't have anyone to play games with afterwards. We also pulled out all of the Christmas decorations and got the house decorated. The girls were in heaven and it brought in a nice festive feeling into our home.
So that was our month in a nutshell. Now moving on...
Decemeber:
Boy has it been a crazy month. The holidays always bring joy, laughter, and hustle and bustle.
Our biggest surprise this month is that josh took a new job that will move us to UT. Josh applied for a job with the Church as an accountant after his dad had mentioned that D.I was hiring an accountant. Josh wanted to know where you even found those positions and ended up finding this job with the Church's Family History department. After Josh had thought about it for an hour or so he decided to apply, not really thinking anything would come of it. The next morning he recieved a phone call asking for a phone interview for the following Monday. He agreed, did the interview and 2 days later got a call to see if he'd go to Salt Lake to do another interview. He left on a Wednesday and was told after his interview that they'd have a decision by Friday or Monday at the latest. Friday rolled around and no phone call and then the same thing on Monday. We weren't quite sure what to think at that point (at least I wasn't sure at that point what was going to happen). Tuesday morning came and Josh received a phone call with an offer. We'd had time to discuss our options and what we would do if they made us an offer that we'd be willing to take so when the time came to decide whether to take the offer we knew what we were going to do already. Since then Josh finished up working for the company he'd been working for and we got the house listed on the market. Now we are hoping it will sell soon and would be grateful to anyone that is willing to offer a prayer on our behalf.
Christmas was wonderful and full of excitement. It's so fun to see the kids excitement-mostly Ashlyn, Kaylee still doesn't understand and Jacob is too little. I think the kids really enjoyed Christmas time. Ashlyn went and saw Santa, we went to 2 different ward Christmas parties, Ashlyn helped me take around neighbor plates to our good friends, we were able to visit Temple Square with the kidsand we were able to teach her a little bit about the true meaning of Christmas and why we celebrate it. On Christmas Eve we went to my parents and actually spent the night- never again will we do this. It was a lot of fun to eat and visit with the family and be able to have my parents be able to see the girls open their presents. After presents Josh and I cleaned up our sleeping area and loaded up the car we headed to Josh's parents house for Christmas breakfast with the family. We accidently left the camera in the car so sadly we have no pictures this year, but it'll be a year I rememeber. Below are just some more pictures of the kids.
(Pictures taken in Nov.)
(Pics taken in Dec.)
