Some New Changes

Our sweet little baby boy turned 1 on January 17th. He is such a sweet, spirited little boy. He loves loves attention and playing with his big sisters. He finally started walking at 11 months and has clung to my leg every day since. 

 He loves doing Big Boy and playing peekaboo. He can say dada and mama but prefers to say Bah to everything. He claps, points and loves music. He will dance to everything but especially loves shake it off and Up Town Funk!

 This boy loves to eat and has almost doubled our shopping budget at 1. I'm nervous about the next 17 years!

 He sure is awfully proud of his newly found skills.

 Tess got to go to school with Lexi a couple of weeks before we moved. She loved it so much. We loved it too since we could pack up our stuff while the kids were in school. Tess is a social little butterfly and goes to new places pretty easily,

 This is the last time we were at our house in Georgia. We sold our home in 3 days and had to be out in less than 2 days. I am so thankful that our house sold so fast and we could get to Utah faster and settle ourselves in.

 Our cute little Tess started dance class at the rec center and she loves it. She is such a cute little princess. She is like a head shorter than all the girls. She is such a cute little petite thing with lots of attitude.

 Cute little Lexi started gymnastics 3 weeks ago and is AMAZING. She is in a beginner class and the other girls are 3 and 4 and are incredible but Lexi has had 6 classes and has improved tremendously. She has natural talent and she is a hard worker, I am so proud of her!

GOOD NEWS!!

Baby Maverik will be joining us probably on June 3rd (planned c-section) and he should LIVE!! For those who didn't know we have had quite the scare with him having Trisomy 18 which would have not let him live for very long. When I went for my first specialist ultrasound, the cysts on his brain were huge. 3 weeks later, and a whole lot of prayers later, they are mostly gone. It is truly a miracle. I truly know that Heavenly Father knows each of us and loves us. I am so grateful for our growing family!

 

 Tess is all smiles until she has to be Anna. Why does nobody like Anna, so weird!

 Discovery Museum in St. George

  February 22, 2015

            So, we just moved to Utah and I am not sure where my other journal is…Goodness I hope it is not lost. I’m sure I will find it one day, but for now, I will just start over and hope I am not repeating things or forgetting too many things. We have been so incredibly busy the last few months. We had to get our home in Georgia ready to sell which required lots of painting, painting and a whole lot of packing. My husband is a genius and instead of spending thousands of dollars on a Uhaul he bought two trailers and drove them across the country and then sold them for more than we bought them for to help pay for the gas. He is so awesome! We sold our home by owner in 3 days. We had 2 offers within two days of it being on the market. We sold it for 139,000 and are very happy with how it all worked out. It was still scary and stressful but the quickness of the sell just reassured me that we are supposed to move to Utah. I have felt like it was the right thing to do for awhile, but I love Georgia and will miss it so much. I am just grateful for all of the times that we had there and for what we learned. Me and the kids flew to Utah at the end of January and Jesse and his mom and Dad took the long haul across the country with the vehicles. I’m not sure they will truly know how grateful we are for their sacrifices and love for us. Things have been going really well since we have been here. Things have worked so smoothly with Jesse’s job and commuting so far. We are still a little nervous about it, but I really think it is so important for us to have trust in the Lord and know that he will provide a way for this to work out. The kids have adjusted well and seem to thoroughly enjoy spending so much time with family. We have been busy remodeling the house to work for the family. Adding doors, building closets, and getting ready to redo the backyard. It is helping out my mom, but she is really helping us out so much! Lexi is starting her fourth week of gymnastics this week and I am literally shocked at how far she has come in just 6 lessons. Her cartwheels have always been amazing, but her handstands are improving, and her backbends are remarkably different. I am so proud of her. She really hasn’t made any friends in her class, but she doesn’t seem to care. She goes, works hard and is doing fantastic. She is starting to sound out words and is doing great at that. I just need to take the time and work with her more. Tess just started dance a couple of weeks ago and is literally the cutest little stinker EVER!! I love watching her. She gets so involved and just looks so perfectly dollish out there I just want to give her hugs all day long. She has turned into a little sweetheart and my favorite thing she will do is try to resolve people’s problems by saying, “I talk to her!!” I hope that I never forget cute moments like that. Bodee started walking at 11 months and has got himself a cute little, fisty attitude. He always wants to be held. He loves playin peekaboo, doing big boy, and getting chased around the house. He loves his sisters and follows them everywhere. No one makes him happier than they do. We are still working on him sleeping through the night, but he is so cute that his bad traits seem like nothing compared to his adorableness. He say Buh all the time, for everything! I am currently 25 weeks pregnant and feeling pretty good considering my horrible veiny legs. I am loving feeling baby Maverik moving around and seeing him in multiple ultrasounds. He is already bringing such joy to my life. The journey with Maverik has definitely been an emotional one. First of all, I’m not sure how I got pregnant with him in the first place, although when Jesse and I went to the temple to confirm that we were done, we both got an answer in the first 10 minutes that we weren’t done. Anyways, when we found out that another baby was coming we were nervous but excited. We had it confirmed that he was a boy and were beyond thrilled, but then found out that he had some cysts on his brain. I wasn’t too concerned until we went to the specialists and they told me that his cysts were very large and that was often associated with trisomy 18 which of coarse I had no idea what it was other than the dr. said it was worse than down syndrome. I said what could possibly be worse than down syndrome? He said well with trisomy 18 your baby won’t live. These were words that I was definitely not expecting. He suggested genetic testing, but I wasn’t in the right mind to get all of that done. We were in the middle of moving and I just couldn’t handle this information. So, I said I would take care of it when we got to Utah. But I didn’t realize that after I left I completely fell apart. The thought that I might have to say goodbye to this beautiful son of mine was too much for me to handle. Jesse gave me a blessing and I really didn’t feel great about it. A long time ago my mom felt like she needed to buy a few cemetary plots and with how fast the house sold I just knew that Heavenly Father wanted me to have support for when my baby died. I was tormented for about a month until I went to another ultrasound specialist and as soon as I saw his brain I was bawling because the cysts were gone. I know that it was a miracle and I know that all of the prayers on our and Maveriks behalf came true. I have to remind myself in the midst of my crazy life to cherish every moment and to know that Heavenly Father does hear and answer prayers and that he does love me very much. I can’t wait to see this sweet baby of our and have our beautiful family complete.