Wow

OK, now it really has been forever since I have posted. Ray and I have had a busy couple of months. We listed our house for sale on Sep 12 and had accepted an offer within 1 week. We closed on the house on Oct 16. We put brand new carpet in the entire upstairs and the stairs to the basement, we also re-tiled the upstairs bath and painted the whole interior or the house in two-tone paint, off white on the walls, and super white trim. We also did a bunch of stuff with the yard. I have to say that Kimi has a very handy husband Jesse did an amazing job helping us with the yard and helped us to fix the sprinkler system that hadn't worked since the fist winter we lived there. We still owe you guys and Shane and Anngee a steak dinner. Thank you guys so so much we never would have gotten every thing done without your help.

I painted some cute pictures on Suzan's windows that I need to get pictures of posted. The Halloween painting was probably the best painting I have ever done, I loved it. The thanksgiving one is cute and I am just getting ready to paint the Christmas one. I am grateful that Suzan has allowed me to use her window, I would be very sad if I didn't get to do any holiday paintings.

We had a nice thanksgiving, I had to work but I got double time so that was nice. I also got a two hour break to go have dinner with the fam.

Raymond has wanted an E-reader for quite a while so I finally got him one for his birthday this year and he has been reading non stop since I showed him how to download books on to it. About a week after his birthday I got home from work and he surprised me with one of my own, I asked him why he didn't save it for Christmas and he said that he had been looking for something for me for a while but he couldn't find the right gift for me, he said that I just deserved it for being such a good wife and mother and he already had plans for something else for my Christmas gift. What a sweetie huh?? Love him!!! After I got that I finished the rest of Sword of Truth series in 3 days. I absolutely loved that series but now I am sad that it is over and I don't know what to read next. Suggestions???

I have been having a lot of upper back pain for the past few months and I honestly think that I probably just need to lose some weight, OK a lot of weight (mostly from the front of my chest, B-cup Oh how I miss you!!) anyway I finally went to the doctor because I just couldn't move anymore. He ordered 2 MRI'S and blood work, turns out I have two herniated discs in my low back (congenital defect, FYI family members suffering from back pain) and my upper back pain is caused by my muscles, I will be starting physical therapy this week, my doctor appreciated that I don't like taking medication so he didn't make go on any regular anti-inflammatory regimen, hooray. Hopefully the physical therapy will help quickly. I also have personal training and nutritional assistance provided at no cost to me through my employer so hopefully by this time next year I will be wearing a much smaller pant and cup size.

My kids got school pics done and they turned out super cute I will post them and mail them out as soon as I get a chance. We were able to get Alex and Soren's pics done as well and I have to say that I am fairly certain that I have the cutest kids in the entire world.

Well that is all for now, happy blogging everyone.

Wow I haven't posted in forever...

So Rayden did get baptised, here are a couple of pics.













We have had a busy month. Raymond went to Montana for a week to try to find a job in Kalispell or Misoulla, so far no luck. A lady at work said that means that we aren't meant to move, I guess that also means we aren't meant to stay here because he has had no luck finding a job here in the last 6 months. Very frustrating.

We have been applying for pretty much any maintenance job we can find. There is one in Boise, Id that seems promising but I don't know if I want to go to Boise, I would like to end up in a smaller community than we are currently in. I did some research on population in Salt Lake County vs. Ada County (weird that Boise is in Ada county instead of Boise County) Salt Lake had 1,000,000+ and Ada had 100,000+, so it is quite a bit smaller. I talked to Chelle and she said it is a lot smaller, full of Llama and Alpaca farms and there is never any traffic.

Kimi and Jesse came over while Ray was gone, Kimi made some super yummy enchiladas and Jesse fixed my sprinkler manifold, thanks guys you are awesome.

Raymond's cousin Joelle watched the kids while I was at work and even slept over every night to ensure that I wouldn't be late the next morning, she is so nice, I just love her.

Raymond's uncle Urcle and his son Heath were in town for about a week and we had fun getting to visit with them.

We all went swimming as a family last week and it was so much fun that we are thinking about making it a weekly event. I guess that is all of my updates, hopefully I will get more chances to post in September than I did in august. Thank you to everyone who helped out while Raymond was gone it was much appreciated.

Rayden is getting baptized

Rayden will be baptized this Saturday, July 11 at 10:00 am at our stake house located at 8950 South 1300 West West Jordan, UT 84088. This is our invitation if I don't have your e-mail address. I am not good with fancy invitations so this is short, sweet and to the point. We hope to see you there.