We are in our new house!

We have been here for a few weeks, I still have just a few things at the other house in the shed. It feels so nice that our goal of buying a house is finally out of the way, now we can do more fun things like fixing up the house, working on Jason's Nova (which as of last night is at our new house), going to AZ (which I always am up to do, however Jason doesn't want to go over the summer, I don't know why yet), and going to Disneyland (next year over Spring Break). Maybe eventually I will take pictures of the new house and update the blog I am still at Dec, which I have no real good reason why I didn't blog about that yet. Maybe because I don't want to admit how few pictures I took of the kids opening presents.  The more kids you get the more you have to do as they open presents or something.

I should be posting about December

I should be posting but I am busy doing homework, whats new I know. However we are also MOVING next week. Slightly excited but very stressed. You know its sad when you start crying about all the work you have to do in addition to all the everyday things you do anyways at Walmart AND at Taco Bell when they say "hi how are you ?"

No need to worry but,

  I normally don't do this but the next few weeks for us has a lot of things happening that can affect us greatly. Nothing bad don't worry,  I just don't want to go into detail in case it doesn't go as planned. However any prayers for us right now is greatly appreciated and wanted by our family. We love you all and will keep you informed!

November 2010

I didn't take any pictures in November I guess. These are the extent of our pictures. Axel of course and then paper the girls taped to the wall using this thick double sided tape that is super hard to get off. I took a lot of pictures of it because I apparently thought it was funny until I couldn't clean it off. We had our own little Thanksgiving like always and enjoyed the break.

October 2010

October is always a fun month. With the pumpkin patches, the parties and of course Halloween we always have fun. Gunnar turned 5!! We had a party at Pirate Island and had a great time. The pictures didn't turn out good since our new camera we bought in Feb right before Axel was born broke and Jason tried to fix it which voided the warrenty. The kids were all super heros for Halloween. I don't know why I didn't take a picture of Novalee in her costume when it came in the mail but they all looked super cute. We had been looking forward to something called the Scarecrow Festival but they didn't have it for some reason so we took the kids out to a pumpkin patch it was fun but no where near as fun as the scarecrow festival. It was however soooo much cheaper. On our way home we went to Walmart to buy some fun Halloween treats since we were going to a friends house later that night for movies and they had a picture thing for How to Train Your Dragon which is one of Gunnar's favorite movies. As you can tell Novalee wasn't very happy. Trick or treating didn't involve pictures. We were kind of rained out so we only did a little last minute but we did pretend trick or treating with Logan and Julia and had a lot of fun with that.

September 2010

September was fun. I already posted some of these pictures and talked about September because I must have been having a good day. Axel started crawling. He also stopped taking binkies which made me slightly sad. Gunnar started preschool and the girls enjoyed their school.

August 2010

August was just about going back to school. I think we spent a lot of time buying clothes for the kids, getting them registered at their new school .  I started a semester of school that included a stressful stress management class (which was shortly dropped) plus my computer crashed which meant we had to buy a new computer.

July 2010

Keeping it short and simple the big things that happened this month was that Axel was blessed and Novalee was baptized.  Jason blessed Axel and baptized Novalee and it was such a great thing to see. We did it all at once. It was a great day with help from great people. I wish I took more pictures but with the blessing and the baptism, it was busy. I wish I could put into words how wonderful it was and the feelings that we all felt that day.
Novalee also turned 9! Instead of a party she wanted money. So she got to go shopping with the money.

What?

Axel turned 1! I do have more recent pics of him but not on the computer! He is such a fun boy. He has been walking since 10 months. Which means he loves to get try to sneak outside every chance he can. I used to let him just look out the screen door and watch people outside but not he tries to walk outside which has started my love of using rubber bands to secure the lock even more. He doesn't say too many words yet but says uh oh and is starting to call for ma ma. He does like to yell if people are talking he tries to be a part of the conversation but just be louder. Its pretty funny to play with him and try to go louder then him. He loves to chase around the house. He still hasn't completely slept through the night but that is on my part that I have never really made him but he is a lot better then he used to be.  He wants to be a big boy but then wants me to cuddle with him. He loves to play with Daddy and sometimes just follows Jason around the house. How can you not love this boy?

year 2010 in review PAUSE

I am going to finish however life is busy with homework a TON of homework should I mention, housework, being a mom, being a classroom mom to two classes, being a cool mom (added by Gunnar), distraction of new games, playing with cute boys all day, not to mention this house feels like it is shrinking by the day.

June 2010

June was a fun month. Jason started his new job. They have a playground there. Lots of fun. We also were "lucky" enough for the kids to have swimming lessons 2 times! Bonny came and played. We loved it. It is getting harder and harder every year to entertain the kids over the summer in this house.

May 2010

The first few days of May were beyond hectic. On April 30 we drove to Mesa, we stayed there for a birthday party for my Granddad, then we left on May 2. It was so fast up and down and we were so tired when we got home. I love love love going to Mesa. We stayed with my Aunt Laura and my Uncle David. It was the first time my kids have ever been to Mesa and it was the first time since I have been down since my Grandma died. It was different but we had fun. My Granddad got married 2 days after I had Axel so it was nice to see him and his wife (we already loved her though). Also Jason got a new job at the end of the month it was a lot of ups and downs but it was such a blessing to us and we love it.

April 2010

This month Jason and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. We had gone out to our now favorite restaurant the night before since he forgot to take the night off on our real anniversary and the next day I had roses and I forgot why I got them for a minute. I love my family!

March 2010

We spent most of March playing with Axel. He had spent the first two weeks of his life in his bed since he had to have a bili blanket and then every other day we had to go to the hospital for the poke on his heel to test the levels. It was so hard to do. Luckily while I was in the hospital Jason got this wonderful card for Sonic. It was a discount card that was given to everybody who worked in the school district and great thing for us there are 2 Sonics close by. One just down the street from the hospital too.  We ate there almost every day those two weeks that he had to go get checked.  I always have a hard time the first few weeks after I have a baby but this time I had a hard time since I also had a tubal ligation. My stomach hurt. I of course was emotional and I was tired.  I was also going to school and Jason was busy with his jobs. I couldn't just lay at home and put a movie on for the other kids so I could rest like I had done before. They are older and in school and need more. Luckily we have great people around us that would take the kids to school, and when we started letting the girls walk to school on their own, they would watch for them for us too. It is only across the street but it was a big step for us to do that. I had a great teacher that semester too. I took one class but the few weeks I couldn't think I was able to miss stuff and she would let me make it up later. It was hard but honestly making myself do things taking one step at a time and thinking, that I needed to get through this one thing say get the kids ready for school. I would do what I needed to and got them ready and then I could focus on something else.

February 2010

For some reason I can only post so many pictures on here at once and I have wasted enough time trying to get it. However February was a VERY eventful month. All weekend, we went to Chuck E Cheese, Jason baptized his nephew, had 2 valentines parties and had a BABY! Axel was born on Feb 16 and we are so lucky to have him  The picture of Gunnar is him with a toy from Lord of the RIngs that he is dethly afraid of.