1st Birthday and Christmas!!! December is a wonderful month!

Alexis turned 1 on December 13th! It was so fun to have a birthday girl. We did a little party with family! she had volleyball cupcakes and got lots of fun presents! We love having her and cannot believe she is one year old. We just can't imagine what we would do with out her in our lives!

Christmas!!! This was probably the funnest( I know thats not a word but I love it) Christmas every. I love being a mom. Lexi enjoyed Christmas so much. She got spoiled and I guess that exactly what is supposed to happen! We gave her a few gifts but let most of the spoiling up to her grandparents!! We had a wonderfuly day and were grateful to have a family who we love to spend the time with!

Santa found everyone including zoe. Lezi loved her chair, necklace, and ball from santa!!! Zoe was afraid  of her bone and Matt and I were both spoiled!  The next pictures are lexi in her Christmas dress that grandma Red and Grandpa Mike gave her. The other outfit was her Christmas day outfit. I made the leg warmers and the onesie with the present on it. It was really fun. TJMaxx supplied the tutu! And Lexi made it all look good!

What a wonderful holliday season! I love christmas time !!!

Change.... The story of our lives!!!

So I haven't blogged since September when we were still living in Wyoming!!!! My how things change in such a short period of time. Where to begin. Well Matt stopped working in Wyoming in August. To say the least things didn't go as planned. We learned a lot and a happy to be home. Some people just aren't who you think they are. We were about to close on a home in Thermopolis, Wy when Matts friend layed him off. So we decided to go home for a visit. We wrestled with a lot of thoughts. We felt like we were supposed to be in Wyoming, and we had asked the lord many times and felt right about it, however everything was making it nearly impossible for us to be there. We put 4 offers on homes none of which were accepted until this last one and yeah life was crazy. After being home for a few days and Matt going back to work for Troy (and some persuasion from some grandmas and grandpas who were wanting their little Lexi closer) We decided to move back!!! We went and took all of out stuff out of the storage bin it had been in all summer and moved it back into the Uhaul and were back on the road. We decided to buy another home in Pocatello and continue to rent our home in chubbuck. We moved in with my parents with intentions of buying another home. We left most everything in storage and moved into their basement. Long story short we put 3 offers on homes here and none were accepted then we finally found one we really liked and were excited about. After getting into some of the loan steps we discovered we could not get another FHA loan so we were back to square one. We decided to move back to our home and gave our renters notice. We were planning to give them 30 days and within 6 days they were out and we were in. We are so happy to be back in our home and back in our ward.
Matt is still working for Troy and really enjoying it. I am home with ms. Lexi and learning to love it. She is so fun I love being with her. Its just been an adjustment for me to not be so busy, but down time isn't all that bad I'm finding out. Im still coaching bball at Highland with Kristy and loving that. Starting in FEb. I will be coaching club volleyball and can't wait. Matt is planning to broaden the landscaping business this summer and do more than curbing. Hes really excited and we are up for the challange. I also have some  stay at home mom business plans in the making but there is more to come on that.

catch up posts on Christmas and Lexis bday to come !!!!!!