March 1-14, 2010

It's safe to say we haven't really been playing very much. There has been a lot of work going on.

March 3, 2010: Paul will be starting his job sooner then expected. Starting Monday it's all me with the 4 kids for 4 days. I'm feeling a little nervous about it. We are racing to get the house up on the market. Pray for a quick sale people. I'm going to need all the help I can get.

March 13, 2010: BABY BLESSING IS CANCELLED!! Luke has RSV and I am coming down with it as well. Poor guy. He is miserable. It's put a kink in the whole put the house on the market thing as well. I am miserable as well.

March 13, 2010: The pictures of the house are finally done. Cleaning out the house and finishing up projects have taken up all of our time for most part. I am excited that we are done. I have scrubbed, dejunked, and packed up stuff we don't need this spring and summer. It safe to say my house has never looked this clean.

We will have to get a better picture of the front of the house after the snow melts.

Take it in. The cleanest ever. Clean windows, walls, cupboards. I need a nap just looking at the pictures.

You would never believe 4 kids live in the house by looking at the pictures.

It looks like a professional organizer lives here. All the closets are even organized.

I am nervous about keeping the house clean by myself. I couldn't decide if I should post all of the rooms. But they all look like this. Kids room, play room, even the storage room looks super neat and tidy.

February 2010

February has been a crazy busy month. My cellphone broke, our water heater sprung a leak and had to be replaced, the van had to have some repairs and I caught the flu. Once we survived that someone stole our account information and used it to buy a bunch of stuff. Some how we have still managed get a lot done in the house. We have made several trips to the D.I. to donate stuff and have been filling up one side of the garage with boxes.


February 13, 2010 We had Staysha over and Elissa came over to play with Marissa. The girls had so much fun. It was really cute.

Staysha is one of our best friends. She is one of our favorite people to have over. The kids love her. We are going to be sad to move. Staysha is not very happy with us moving. Does it show?

Marissa and Elissa had so much fun. There was lots of dress ups and dancing. They played so well together. Then I drove Elissa home. Marissa came with us and they watched Hello Kitty together in the van on the drive to Elissa's house. They were so cute together.

Easy dinner, pizza. My favorite dinner night. Look at how big Andrew is. He is looking so tall.




So we have a little bit a news and I would like to start by saying NO I am not pregnant. Paul has had a great oppurtunity come up and we have spent a good 6 weeks making this decision. It isn't something that we made lightly. With that said we are excited and a little nervous to announce that we are going to be moving to Phoenix Arizona. I am sad to be moving so far away and know it will make it hard to come home as often as we have been able to living in Salt Lake.

Paul is starting his new job in 10 days so we are going to try to have the house ready to put on the market at the same time. We are hoping it won't take to long to sale as I will be home 4 days out of the week alone with the kids. We have already started getting it ready as we planned to sale it and move to Lehi so we thankfully have had a head start.

We have also scheduled Luke's baby blessing for the second weekend of March. That is our next fast Sunday. We would love to have any who are able to come and certainly understand that schedules are full and everyone has a lot going on. Our sacrament is bright and early at 9:00 a.m., so that is something to consider as well. We will be closer to the Georgesons (I think it's a 9 hour drive) So I will finally be able to get out to see them. We love you all very much and I know we will be home as much as we can. Big changes are ahead and we are probably not going to rest easy or be able to relax for probably 6 months, likely more. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Love ya tons, JuliAnne and the family

January: Week 3 and 4

Luke looking Handsome!!

January 14, 2010. Paul and I decided we are going to put the house of for sale in March. It's going to be a very busy year. So now I have 6 weeks to clean up the house and get it ready to put on the market. We feel really good about it. I started our Super Spring Clean and Dejunk today. First day in and I am exhausted. Since Paul has been working in Provo for over a year we are going to look in the Lehi/American Fork area. I am hoping it won't take long to sale. Even with a thorough cleaning and dejunk it will be impossible to keep it clean all the time with the monkey's running around.

January 20, 2010: So I started packing up some boxes today to clean up the house to put it on the market. It felt weird.

January 27, 2010. The kids and I took a break from going through our mountains of crap and decided to make cookies.




MAKING COOKIES WITH MOM!!


We love making cookies and I have a lot of GREAT helpers. Sometimes the help is helpful and sometimes they are little disasters. This time Oliver dropped the 1 cup measure in the mixing bowl while it was mixing. It shot flour up and out in all directions. It made a big mess. He thought it was cool.








You can't tell very well in this picture but he had a flour cloud settle over his head. it made him look a little gray.











Marissa was all dressed up making cookies. Ready for a dance recital at any given moment. She is so cute. Some how she missed the flour storm.










Andrew can't stop laughing at this picture of Oliver.
All I can say is I told him to smile. He squinted at the flash of the camera and this is what came out of it.







Luke has discovered his hands and I have discovered that socks are the only things that will stay on his hands. He sucks on his fingers constantly. I am trying to break him of the habit. He doesn't seem to mind but he looks really silly with socks on his hands and feet all the time. He is a super happy baby.






January 28, 2010: It's safe to say I could not be busier than I am right now. It feels great to be getting stuff done though especially after being on best rest and miserable pregnant most of last year.

2nd Week of January
Marissa got into her Mothers make up this week and she tried everything, pretty much all at once. She focused alot around the mouth and cheeks which gave the overall look of having a 5 0'clock shadow or just a REALLY dirty face. I can't really explain the vision she had for the pink blush in her bangs. I don't know where she was going with that. Only Marissa could pull off 'cute' with all this mess on her face. She knew that she was in trouble though, so she didn't dare smile.



In total Mom of 4 fashion we assembled and decorated our ginger bread house a month late. I don't even know how we ended up with one this year. The kids have been asking me to make it all through December. Now that we are through the holiday madness we finally have time. I suppose they should be grateful it even got done. Let's be
honest its a delayed Christmas miracle.




The beauty of a delayed gingerbread house is there is no pressure or need to make it last through Christmas so they started eating the candy off of it right away.





This is the gingerbread house one day later aaaannnnndddd then it went into the trash. I think a 24 hour life span on a gingerbread house is very reasonable. It's just one more thing you have to find a place for and try to keep the kids away from.



Luke slept 9 hours on Tuesday this week. We are all hoping to make this a habit. Probably the main reason the gingerbread house happened. I wasn't stumbling around in exhaustion all day. =0)

......and a Happy New Year!!

First Week of January

Survived the first week of the New Year 2010. Ended 2009 with a raging migraine and vertigo, like I haven't had enough of that for the year. We spent the weekend at Zermatt Spa and Resort in Heber Utah with Paul's family.

















The kids had a great time and it was a very mini-family vacation for us. We haven't all gone somewhere together for a while, it was nice.










We walked through the ice sculptures. With the exception of Oliver who tried running through it. They were really cool, the kids loved it. It was really slippery in places. It was suprising how big they were. I wonder how long it would take for it to all melt.







We had dinner with Grandma, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins. The kids had had a full day by this time. They were really tired. Marissa at some point asked to lay down on the bench. She volunteered to go to sleep. I couldn't believe it. You know she O.D. on fun when she is asking me to put her to bed.




The next morning after a long sleepless night by me and Luke. Andrew, Marissa and Oliver decorated Gingerbread Men. They came with gummy candy buttons and hats. Oliver's was a big mess and the gummy candies were eaten before they ever made it to his gingerbread man. So there is no picture of his goopy mess.






The only down side is that the trip was to short. The kids had to get back to school. Wish we could have stayed for longer.







I think I took 20 pictures of Luke trying to get a picture of his cute smile. Sweet boy!! 2 months old already.