SO FAR. SOOO GOOD

WOW! What an amazing year it has been for our family.

Here we go

March 16, 2009 I get a panicked phone call from my husband asking me to come pick him up from work, "Why its only 11:30, are you sick?" " NO, JUST COME GET ME!" The longest 15 minute drive I have ever had. Yep, Pig was laid off. After 10 wonderful years working for Mountainland Design there was no longer a need for him there.

April 6, Our beautiful daughter Mia joined our family. 3 days later we took a road trip to Moab- Yes we are crazy but it was alot of fun.

May -Planted our very first garden(which turned out very succesfull and had so much fun doing it). Alot of job hunting and interviews-nothing came of them. Enjoyed the Richmond cabin.

June -Pig ran his very first race. He participated in the Ragnar Wasatch Back- its a relay race that his team of 12 ran 188 miles! Pig did amazing and while training he lost 35 Lbs! More job hunting. We had Fun family time with Richmonds in Boulder at Roberts Ranch.

July - Took the long road trip to Yellowstone and enjoyed the bears and Marzos. Pig and I became a Duncle and Dauntie(double uncle and double aunt). Still job hunting.

August- Tayli learned how to ride a 2 wheeler in just 1 hour- she was so thrilled. Still job hunting.Pig decided he wanted to go to school. We prayed long and hard and decided to attend Air Traffic Control School in Washington. We put our house in Lehi up for sale, which was a lot harder than we had ever imagined. Lots of wonderful memories and great friends acquired in that house. We flew to Washington to find a house-didnt find one.

September- Started the fun potty training process with Gman- it lasted for about 2 weeks until we decided there was too much going on. Pig went to Washington a second time, still didnt find a place for us to live yet. We were under contract with our house and decided to move in with my parents. Thanks mom and dad for taking care of us.

October- What a miracle, we sold our house!! Pig, Mia and I went on a vacation with some of the Marzo adults to Moab- it was so beautiful!! We had a great time and really enjoyed the family time. Wahoo- Pig and I along with my oldest sister Rochelle ran our very first half marathon! Pig beat us at 2 hours 6 min and Rochelle was kind enough to stay back with me and finished together at 2 hours 9 min. We had a very fun halloween with Tinkerbell, Spiderman, and a Bumble Bee!

November- We found a house to rent in Maple Valley. Actually we have some wonderful friends that found it for us. Thank you Gustins for all the time and efforts you spent on finding us a house. We really appreciate you!! We made the big move on the 17th. It couldnt have gone any better. Thanks to all the wonderful help from family and friends on loading all our stuff. Thanks Nana and Papa for taking the long journey with us.

December- My 8 month old learns to crawl :( - we dont want her to grow up. We really like it here and are very happy with our new house(especially since we didnt see it until we moved in). We love our new ward and are excited to get to know more people there. Our neigborhood is really cool and surrounded by lots of huge trees and feels like we are in the mountains. Our kids are adjusting and are happy they have new rain coats and rain boots.

We just found out that right before we moved into our ward the head controller for the western United States air traffic controling moved in with his family. We met him last Sunday and he is happy to help Pig and is going to take him on some tours of some facilities. Oh yea-- Grayden is really potty trained this time :)

Pig will be starting school on January 4, and we are all excited to get into a routine again.
Pretty amazing how things have worked out for us and how blessed we feel. It maybe hard for others to see all the blessings we have recieved this year but they are very apparent and obvious to Pig and I. All the trials and hard times have and are still bringing us closer as a family and help us to realize and be greatful for all the miracles we have in our lives.

We miss everyone in Utah and hope you all have a good Christmas and 2010.

SOOO CUTE!!!

sorry so small-the copyright wont let me enlarge them.

Finally a post with pix!!

First family picture with 3 Little Pigs

Papa came right away to take pictures for us

Grandpa loving Mia

Sweet Big brother

The hospital set up a fancy steak dinner for us the second night. It was pretty fun

Tayli cant get enough of Mia and wants to hold her all the time

Our little angel.

Shes not very big but she definately has mamas round cheekies

First bath after hospital

enjoying the swing

Mia Lorraine

YEAH! she is here finally!  I have lots of pictures to post but i dont have my camera cord to download my pictures so for now i will just tell the really long delivery story.

I went to the hospital on Monday the 6th to be induced.  We checked in at about 7:45, my dr broke my water at 8, gave me pitocin(i dont know how to spell that) at 8:30, i pushed two times and Mia was born at 9:56!  6 lbs. 2 oz. and 18 in long

long story ey?  Everything went so fast I can hardly believe it.  She is beautiful, healthy and has the sweetest spirit.  We are so blessed to have her and to have had such a wonderful pregnancy(i can say that now that im done :)) and delivery.  It is so amazing what a spiritual experience it is to have a new baby and I love being a new mommy again.  It is fun to watch Tay and G love her and be so gentle with her.  Its even funner to hear all the questions they have about everything :)  Thanks for all the love and support from everyone.  I will get pix up later.

yesterday and today

thoughts for the day

I love nap time and bed time at our house. Not only because its quiet and I have time to think but because I get to lay by my kids and snuggle them! Today I was laying by Grayden watching him fall asleep and all of a sudden I felt so sad thinking that he isnt going to be my baby for very much longer! He was such a hard little guy as a baby but has turned out to be sooo much fun. He is so smart and growing up so fast and Im sure that once he is a big brother he will seem alot older too. He loves to do what Tayli does- sometimes Tayli asks "why does he always say what I say Mom?" We are very excited for this new baby to join our lives and hope that its sooner than later. The other day we were at my parents and Grayden came up to my belly and lifted up my shirt and said "hey baby, looka at mea!" It was so darn cute. Tayli and Grayden love this baby so much already and love to talk and sing to her and bless her in their prayers. I love you Tay and G and am greatfull for the joy that you bring into my life every day!

SO SCARED

Sunday night Pig, the kids and I were all sitting on the couch watching the Christmas devotional. All the lights were out in the house besides the christmas tree. All of a sudden we heard someone fiddling with the front door lock. Pig jumped up and ran to the door. I grabbed the kids and was thinking of where we should hide. I couldnt believe that someone was breaking into our house on a sunday night at 8:30. Pig grabbed the closest weapon he could find which was one of those toy horses on a stick. It sounded like the people trying to get in were using a key on the door. Pig was so nervous he didnt even look through the peep hole he just hit the door really hard with the horse in hopes to scare the people off! He heard someones voice so he decided to look out the window. All he could see was a lady holding a baby so he decided to open the door. At this point I decided to come up and see why he was opening the door. I looked up and saw MY SISTER and her husband and baby who live in Philadelphia standing on my front porch. I was so excited and frantic and thought I was dreaming I pretty much peed my pants!(remember im pregnant) So my brother in law who is in med school in PA got a rotation here in salt lake for the next month and they didnt tell any of my family and just packed up and drove all the way here to surprise us. TOTALLY AWESOME! what an awesome Christmas surprise. We had to go with them to surprise mom and dad and it was so fun to share in the surprise and excitement. Pig and I had a very hard time getting to sleep cuz we still are in shock that they are here and keep playing it back in our heads and cant stop laughing. We love you Ali and Ryan- wish that you could have brought webbies home too!