January 2015

After about a week at Chris's parents house, we then all went and stayed at a YMCA Cabin up in the Rocky Mountains!! That was an AWESOME Cabin and there were a lot of fun things to do there. It is just too bad that EVERYONE was sick with the flu (everyone except for me and couple others). All of the kids were sick though. Luckily it wasn't the throw up flu. But we still had fun despite all of the sickness! I just wish that I could have done some of the fun things like snowboarding instead of staying at the Cabin with all of the sickies because I am pregnant!

There is a moose and her baby in that tall grass!!!

Chris and his brothers made this cool sledding hill outside our Cabin! 

All of the cousins had a Christmas gift exchange! Caden got a Huge stuffed fish from Elle! haha He really likes it and he makes the sound for a fish "Blub Blub Blub"

Our last day at the Cabin we celebrated New Years with a piñata!

My poor sick and teething boy! I have never seen him like that before....He had a cough, runny nose, and no appetite for any food.....SO So weird for him not to want food. 

But....He did love the Pooh Bear Piñata!!

pure joy!! I think he liked all the attention of everyone watching him too! haha

Clapping!! 

We had a fun time with Chris's family!! But sadly the next day Chris had to go back to Ohio to finish his last two weeks and finish packing. He then would drive out to Utah with all of our stuff and his dad thankfully accompanying him.  Caden and I caught a ride with Chris's brother to Utah the next day as well! Caden and I stayed with my sister Marla in Meadow. I haven't seen and spent time with them in a long time, so I was very excited...but pretty exhausted after spending two weeks with sick people...haha. I was looking forward to not being around anyone sick! First few days in Meadow were great with no sickness, except for Caden having his cough and runny nose still. I didn't find out until after we left that it was because he was teething his bottom two year old molars!! SHEESH no wonder! But after the first few days of being in Meadow at Marla's, her two youngest kids that Caden absolutely loved playing with got sick with some kind of stomach bug and was throwing up!! UGH more sickness! But Caden and I were blessed that we didn't get that! I don't think that I could have handled him or I throwing up!  This was so hard for me being away from Chris! I missed him so much. I was also super tired(pregnancy and probably fighting off the sickness myself), SO ready to be in my own place, sick of being husbandless, homeless, carless, AND phoneless! But I had a tender mercy with the car...our good friends Heath and Anika let me barrow their car for about two weeks! That made things a lot easier and nicer being able to go wherever whenever! As far as my phone...I was at my other sister Jenell's house when I slipped on the stairs and had my phone in my back pocket to cushion my fall, but in the process totally busting my phone. Luckily Angela, my sister in-law had an extra phone that I could use! So I am still using that phone, I just don't have any of my contacts that I had on my old phone! I really did have a good time in Meadow even though I may not have showed it as much as I should have! A month on vacation is a long time!! Two weeks is usually my limit of being gone on vacation haha and sadly Marla got me way over that mark!! But I did love every single late night just staying up either talking with Marla or Emma or watching some good ol' chickflicks with them!! :) I am so Glad that we  have moved back to Utah so I can go down more often to see my siblings and their families!! Thanks for putting up with me Marla!! 

I went to a couple of Emma's basketball games!! She is Awesome! I am so excited for her! She is just a freshman and all ready looking like she is going to pass me up! She is such a fun young woman to be around, so thoughtful and kind!! She even gave me the most wonderful foot massage and made us cookies! I am very Very impressed with the woman she is becoming!!! Love you Emma! 

Marla gave Caden a hair cut! A little too short but he does look quite handsome! I do really miss the curls though. He did awesome!

Caden loved playing with Cannon and Macie!! Look they are twinners! Cannon is three and Caden(a year and a half)  is about the same size as him !!! Crazy! haha

Chris couldn't have arrived any sooner, but when he finally did we got moved into a nice basement apartment in Lindon Utah!! Chris works for a company called Vivint Solar in Lehi! We have a wonderful ward here!! Many of the men from the ward came and helped Chris move in!! Thank You!! It is so weird coming from Ohio where most of the members are newly members and there are a lot of less actives there, then to come here where most of them have been members their whole lives and there is 95% active going members for the ward!! They have been so welcoming to us and we have only been here for just a couple of weeks! I Love it here already!  It also makes it nice to be able to see our best friends Heath and Anika and their boy that is Caden's age practically every day!!

I will have to post pictures of our apartment another time! Sadly...I made it so long without getting sick until I finally got into our own place and then got a head cold!! Darn!! But I would take this over the flu! Caden also got Diarrhea right after leaving Marla's. But he is finally over that and his bottom molars are finally all the way through but is now working on his top molars! The good thing is once he gets those last two through he will be done with Teething!!!! YAY! Done for now until we start all over with the next baby! I am feeling better now too, still dealing with sinus junk but at least I am not so tired as much! But we are Here in Utah!!! That automatically makes me feel better! We are super busy getting settled in with apartment issues, buying a couch, looking for a car to buy, getting ready for this baby girl to come(in like a month!!!), and just enjoying Utah life! :)

Caden finally getting his appetite back! He loves putting olives on his fingers!! haha

Caden was so tired that he was slap happy! haha he was smiling and then would close his eyes while smiling. We even gave him a sucker to help keep him awake, but he started falling asleep with it in his mouth! haha 

We Absolutely Love being back in Utah!!