About Me

I'm a mother of four girls and one boy and I've got the greatest husband in the world-and I'd bet the farm on that one. We're a great team although he says he's moving out of the house as soon as all our girls are teenagers. We're very strong in our religion which is in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I draw strength from my religion and my family. I love life and am grateful to be surrounded by such great family and friends. I am gently reminded daily of the love and blessings that our Heavenly Father has for us. I live the life I always dreamed of having. I don't know how I was so blessed. Sometimes I feel undeserving to have the perfect life I always wanted. But I'm not complaining! I'm the luckiest girl in the world. Life goes up and life goes down, but even during the lowest so far, I'm still happy. Still know that I will have my family forever. Still know that my husband adores me and I him. Life is so good.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Well here it is January. I made it through the holidays. The decorations are taken down, not to mention almost all my regular decor as well. Aaron is getting us ready for "the move" although we still don't know where or when. As far as where we're considering St. George for the moment. We found a cute little house there for only $1400/mo. 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms, fenced yard and a gardener (and it's not me-not that I did it anyway). Now we just need to find a job... Actually a general contractor called off an ad that Aaron has posted and said he wants to hire him to finish a 4500 sq. ft. basement. Yeah!!! If he likes him I'm sure he'll keep using him too. He'll like him-who doesn't? I sure do. :) He's also past his 2nd interview with Edward Jones. He's got one more and then he'll begin working for them. We'll see how that goes. He doesn't like the door-to-door thing very much from what he's told me but he's so great with people so who knows! My friend and cub scout leader partner Jaime brought us a huge plate of muffins a few nights ago. Seriously there had to be 40 on there! She's so sweet and this isn't the first time she's brought me sweet things. She's such a great example to me. I just love it here-it will be so hard to leave, if that's what ends up happening. We still haven't had any buyers for this house so I think it's going to go into foreclosure. So sad. What's worse is my entire family is in the same pickle we are. Rick sure did a number on all of us-we never should've trusted him with everything. He still says he's going to pay though-although he hasn't now for 9 months. Wow, I can't believe this has been going on for that long.
Macey has been sitting up and rolling over for a couple of weeks now. She's so dang cute. I'm actually really glad that she's a girl now. I was quite disappointed when we first found out but now...I just think she's great. She's sitting in my lap right now trying to help me type. When I put her on the floor she can be across the room in no time. She just rolls and spins and rolls some more until she gets to where she wants to go. I get the feeling she's going to be very independent. She's going on 7 months now and I've been trying to give her rice cereal. She hated it until I mixed it with a banana last night. She ate a little bit after that. She still is waking up twice in the night and it's killing me. I feel like a zombie all day. It probably doesn't help that Aaron and I stay up until almost 11pm every night either. I'm hoping that she'll cut it down to at least once. She was sleeping through the night for a few nights in a row but then she went back to this, hence the rice cereal. Any other suggestions? You'd think after having done this 3 other times I'd remember what to do-actually I think the other ones did the same thing now that I think of it. Thank heaven they all sleep great now. Jocelyn figured out how to get out of her crib two nights ago. Aaron put her in it and next thing we knew she was coming out her door. So I lowered her mattress to the last slot. She can't get out now but i'm sure that's not going to last for very long. I'm planning on moving her to a toddler bed and Macey into the crib as soon as we move anyway so it's not that big of a deal. Well this is getting quite lengthy and the girls need a bath before Olivia is off to school so I'd better go. Have a great wednesday-and go spend time with your family. Like my visiting-teaching companion says (who just found out her sweet 11 yr. old boy has cancer) "Go spend time with your family-you'll never regret it". I just love her, and if you're still reading this please say a little (or LARGE) prayer for her little boy, his name is Jacob. Thanks.

2 comments:

Jenni Russell said...

Hey Bonnie- It sounds like life is gettin' you down. We are in the same boat... trying to figure out how to keep our house and try to avoid forclosure. Try to stay positive and know that others are in it with ya, and along with a generous prayer for Jacob, we'll be praying for you guys to!!! By the way I love your blog- I feel so involved even though I am not, and the girls sure are ADORABLE!! Hang in there!! We love you guys! XOXO

Aly said...

I'm glad you post all of your news on here. I never get to talk to you! That is so sad about your companions little boy. I cannot even imagine how horrible that would be. I really wish Jayci and Macey could get together more and we could watch them play together as they get older. Why don't you guys consider our side of the country? That would be PERFECT! We miss you all a ton. Let me know how things go for you guys and as soon as you hear about any future plans, keep us posted. We love you tons! Tell your girls hi.