Back to the Country!

Yes! We finally have a yard! But no fenCe so now I have stray animals and stray kids! But being grounded seems to help a little for Brent, and AJ well so far we just have to keep an eye on him. 

We love it out here already. The house we are renting is for sale so we have had one showing already and we got accidently locked out by the agent when we returned to the house. No big deal just inconvenient. LOL.

At least we have no one banging on my floor just because my boys are active. ;) 

We are in the midst of our 1 week break between semesters. Something is better than nothing- right! ;)

We are also very excited about the upcoming events: Fred's graduation, Luke's graduation, and Alex and Bethany's wedding!!! Yay! I love to travel! Well, it is a little more challenging with the boys... but I still like it!

It snowed again today! Can you believe this weather.... I can,  but I don't want to! 

Well, hopefully it will get nice soon. 

Hope everyone enjoys the photos. I don't have Easter ones up yet, but I'll work on it. The boys loved hunting eggs in their own yard. It took AJ a little instruction, but he got the hang of it. In fact, he hung around Brent while Brent opened his eggs, but refused to open his own. 

At the store we went to their egg hunt and Brent got so many that when we asked him to give to the little kids who didn't get any like AJ (who stood at the end of the isle and cried because he had tried to sneek past the grocery girl so many times and had to be told 'no' that he must not have realized it was finally ok to go). Well, it was nice of Brent and I was glad he did it! I'm sure it was hard for the other Mom's since Brent looks 6. They asked me if he was really 4yrs old and I said yes, but it wasn't until they asked that I realized how much bigger he was and he is going to be 5yrs old next month LOL. 

Brent braved his kindergarden shots. And the doctor said he is just above the 99% for hight for his age. AJ and Joshua are still just above average on size. Joshua is 20lbs! Still no teeth. He can crawl and pull himself up on things. Brent can count to 100. And AJ is trying to put sentences together, I love it when he tries to sing 'itsy bitsy spider'. 

And I should say we love having Mom and Maria with us! They help with the boys and the house work, and they are just plain fun to hang out with!

Well I'd better skat. Love you all!

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Cookie Love'n Pictures

I added some pics to facebook also, but here is one of the cookie pics. Joshua really wanted that cookie it was so cute!
Brent is always happy for a photo op! He's growing up fast! He has his first Primary talk this next week. Fun Stuff! He is 4yrs 9mos.
AJ has so many faces! Usually dirty because he's always into things! He loves to  'make' things in the kitchen....a dirt soup and mud pie kinda guy! He's 2yrs 7mos.
Who would have thought this little guy, Joshua, would get big so fast! He's an eater and is always grabbing for foods you are holding! It just happens to be a cookie this time. I don't blame him these cookies were good!
The Temple always looks so nice. This day it just seemed to glow off the snow so I snapped a pretty bad pic, but you get the idea right. lol. I've been doing indexing every morning- you should too it's fast it's easy it helps geneology work AND I think I type faster..... maybe. lol Anyway you get the idea. More Fun Stuff!

Justin started out the year with Shingles, a reoccurrance of the chicken pox. Your body never really gets rid of the chicken pox virus it just fights it into being dormant in your system and if your immune system is down for some reason it can come back to get you with a vengeance...yeah poor Justin it was bad his whole side of his face was so swolen up!!

And it happened right when our insurance was like "see ya later!". They said we were no longer covered. We've been working on getting the mistake fixed but they say it won't start up again until maybe mid Feb. 

Needless to say we're taking our time if possible on any medical stuff. My Surgery to remove the filter to my heart won't happen until late Feb or Mar because of it, but I'm in no hurries. LOL. They did run some blood tests.... about ten or more viles worth so those results will be in two weeks. I have to wait for those too before the surgery. I've been really weak on and off so hopefully those will help us understand more about what is going on. 

Justin is back to school and doing great! This semester he is coming home more excited about what he is learning so that is fun! Our taxes are done..... I guess thats good well except for state taxes we owe them so we haven't filled it out yet.

Brent is in Preschool and will start Kindergarten in the Fall. We hope to get some more gymnastics in after this semester because he is increasingly interested in doing gymnastics in the apartment and we think he needs a place to do them outside of here. LOL. He is good though. We won't start AJ until Fall. Joshua is turning over and trying to sit up but no luck yet. 

We are looking for a new place since the rates are going up for the 3rd or 4th time at our apartment complex. We found something hopeful but I won't talk about it unless it works out. I guess thats it so far for us. Love you all!!!

Ending Another Year in Rexburg 2008

Nothing Like Frozen Smiles!!!... with an average temperature closer to zero who wouldn't!
OOOOh! It it cold! But F-U-N ...Fun!

Ok for those of you with facebook these pictures may be dejavoo, but I added them anyway because some who don't have facebook get to see them from here. 

This has been a good winter so far. Christmas itself had it's challenges, but we made the best of it. We appreciate all the cards and packages we recieved from family. It is not the same as being together with family, but it helps. 

Grandpa and Grandma Bo thanks so much for the Christmas money the boys purchased some little target toys they really enjoy and have not yet stopped playing with!!! Miss you! We also got them some gloves and things they needed for the winter. 

Grandma and Papa Nelsen thanks so much for the box of Christmas goodies! We all loved our 'jammies!! Brent changed several times! lol. :) And we are grateful for the other things like the picture frame with pics already in it- awesome! And among others the little star pig- we have yet to decide on a name. Thanks so much!!

Aunt Karissa we loved the game expansion and can't wait to get some friends or family to play it with us! I loved the pandora bracelet as well- what a great idea! The pig made me smile even before I knew the exact meaning of it and laugh after.... it is a cherished gift and always will be!

Grandma Neises and Aunt Maria thank you so much for having Christmas with us and for your gifts as well! Thanks Grandma for watching Joshua while we played out in the snow!! And thanks Maria for playing in the snow! Maybe next time we can all play!

Well, it's been a long and difficult year! But we survived. And we look forward to the coming challenges of this next year. As the widget on my blog says "Everyday is a gift" (and Kung Fu Panda- lol )! We look forward to making the most of it! Although I can not say everyday is good- I can say we are trying to make them as good as we can! Justin has had some highs and lows with school. I have had some highs and lows with health- and I now know the hospital pretty well and it's staff. ( A very difficult pregnancy as usual and a surprise blood clot) Which set Justin back in school because he was helping at home. We found out he will need two more years and then we found out they would let him into Winter term reducing the two years to 1 and a half! We want so badly to be at home with our extended family, but we will enjoy Rexburg while we can also. Who knows when we'll get to see this much snow again! Thank you so much to all of our family and friends who have prayed for us and helped us through this year!!!!

Winter Fun: Sledding

Us in the Snow.....always a family event!

  Dad and Brent!
Brent and Aaron... looks like he's smiling? ;)
AJ and Aaron..... he did ride with Dad most the time, but he got tired of the cold pretty fast!
And this is how Joshua spend the his time tucked away under like ten layers!

Sorry we haven't finished putting decorations on our tree, but we did go sledding! So I thought I'd put the picture on here. Joshua and I didn't really get to do much sledding, but we still enjoyed it until it got too cold. ;)

Well enjoy the pics!