Austin is Home!!

Austin got to come home a little bit sooner than planned. They stepped up the program a notch. We've decided that it would be better for him to get his pilot licenses here in SL. He hates being away from us. So we canceled our loan for the school in Phoenix and we are waiting for it to show up on Sallie Mae's website that we can re-apply. We've checked like a hundred times. We are starting to get nervous that when we re-apply they'll deny us. I slept like 6 hrs of very interupted sleep. I feel like crap. I hope everything works out.

15 Lbs

Hi! I just had to post my good news. As of today, I've lost 15 lbs! All that exercise and watching what I'm eating is starting to pay off! Sadly, I still have about 20 more to go to be pre-baby weight. I'll keep you posted on my major milestones :)

Nellie & Scott's Wedding Picts

My sister, Danielle, married Scott Hudson on December 30, 2008. Congrats Scott & Danielle!!! :) Good lookin' couple I might add!

Nellie & Scott's Wedding Picts

Kissy Kissy

After watching "Lolly" & Uncle Scott kiss a lot for wedding pictures India thought that she would practice for her big day! All I can say is she is 100% my kid.

6 More Weeks

Austin left this morning to go back to Phoenix. He left at about 10 am. The girls and I were late to church so that we could see Daddy off. I was so emotional at church I couldn't teach a lesson in my primary class. So my kids just talked and played. Then in sharing time I just cried. I hated coming home to an empty house. When I pulled up to the house I looked in the backyard and the furnace vent thingy had blown off the roof. Great!

Austin is going to be gone for twice as long as he was gone last time. I really need to pull it together and get focused again. But I just feel like crying and crawling into a dark hole and hybernating for 6 weeks.

Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

We spent Christmas Eve with the Bowens. Ariane had just had her wisdom teeth out and JaNel had two teeth pulled to make room for her teeth (she has braces). So we didn't get to go carroling (sp?) instead most of us sang Christmas songs together in the warmth of the house and then we read the true Christmas story together. It was nice. Then we went back to our house. We woke up Christmas morning and checked out our gifts. Austin got me an ipod and we spent hours putting music on it. He totally surprised me by getting me a gift. I told him a hundred times that all I wanted for Christmas was him. But I guess he gets a kick out of surprising me. Gosh I love him. I got him a small gift...just the first 4 seasons of American Idol on DVD and some Almond Joy candy bars.