Christmas Card

It's a little late but here are our end of year 2009 pictures.

Our girls are growing like crazy.
Kirsten is loving living near her grandparents, cousins, and aunts
She still adores the movie Cars and everything Cars related. For Christmas she got some Cars bath toys and she carries them everywhere. She takes them down the slide with her at McDonalds, into Walmart, sledding, they eat with her and she somehow even changes their diapers. She loves to jump (especially in her squeeker shoes) and spin. She adores having her dad around all the time. She is talking more everyday (that is when she decides to).
Audrey is the happiest smiliest baby. She is so close to sitting up on her own. She loves chewing on her fists. She is rolling over occasionally. When she laughs it's like she is so happy that her whole body can't contain and she bursts out in little giggles.
Kirk was offered a job in Las Vegas as a trainer for a facility management consulting company. He starts on January 11th.
We are thrilled to have a job and are excited to start our life in Vegas soon.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

So we took Kirsten to see Santa....

It didn't go over so well. Audrey might be getting all the presents this year.

Also it snowed a lot here in Vernal. Kirsten is a huge fan of the snow. She especailly loves walking through it. Sidewalks are for whimps, she always insists on walking right through the snow...and using the same tracks twice is lame, she always makes new tracks. She played outside in the snow for an hour tonight and didn't whine once. When she finally came inside she had snow up her sleeves and in her boots but being cold is a small price to pay for fun in the snow. Also she loves to eat snow. We found her licking the bottom of her boots like an icecream cone.

And the truth comes out

A month ago life was perfect. We had decided to go ahead and look into buying a house in St George. It didn't take long to find a home we loved. 4 bed 3 bath and the cutest playroom. Our dream home.
We were able to move the sale of the home along quickly and were planning to close in a week and a half. We could move in by the end of November! We were estactic at the thoughts of having thanksgiving in our new home. We gave notice to our rental house that we would be moving out at the end of the month. Kirk and I were officially grown-ups. We had two kids, a career, buying a house, I stayed home and made crafts...the life we've dreamed about for four years was ours.

Half a week later Kirk lost his job.

His company was under new management and decided to down size. And since he was one of the new guys he was let go. He was working on something for the company that no one else knew how to do, so he was offered some contract work. We were also blessed to get a small severants package. Luckily we were still days away from closing on our house. But as of the end of November we no longer had a place to live. So we packed and cleaned our house, moved all of our stuff into a storage unit, and with our heads held as high as we could muster moved in with my parents.

We have been living in Vernal since the weekend before thanksgiving. We are happy here. It feels like we are on vacation. We are lucky to be home for the holidays. (Although I am a little bitter about enduring St George heat 9 monts pregnant only to move away as winter gets started) It's awesome to be around my sisters who make me go walking with them at 6:00 in the morning when it's -4 degrees (no joke) and take me to the movies for a girls night. The girls are doing fine. Kirsten spends most her time by the back door adoring my parents new puppy. Kirk has applied for jobs all along the wasatch front, Logan, and Vernal. He has had one interview in Vegas but we haven't heard back on anything. Tough tough economy.

My parents have been wonderful about us moving in. Chelsey (senior in high school) is the only one home and they were disliking the empty home feeling. We don't plan to stay here long, but aren't sure where to move until we have a job.

It was incredibly hard to leave St George and all of our dreams there. I pretty much cried for a week straight. But it is wonderful to be around family and we are having faith that something will work out soon. If you would remember us in your prayers we would appreciate it.

And as it's Christmas card season our temporary address is:
3433 West 1000 North
Vernal, UT 84078

Monday night blogging

Kirsten got this pair of shoes from her Nana last spring. In June, when she realized she could put them on herself, they quickly became her favorite pair of shoes. She has had at least 8 different pairs of shoes since she got this pair, all of which have been ripped off her feet and replaced by these purple croc imitations. Even when the previous pair match her outfit and these clash terribly. I've tried hiding them, but she hunts them down. They are the only pair of shoes she doesn't rip off as soon as we get in the car (even when she is bored enough to take them off she then lovingly holds them until its time to put them back on and get out of the car). She wears them to bed and tries to wear them in the bathtub. They are a size too small now and I am letting her wear them everywhere before I retire them for the winter.
Farewell favorite pair of shoes.

I got some adorable pictures of Audrey smiling today. She is so smiley and happy. She coos and laughs all the time. fyi: her tummy is VERY ticklish

 Most days around 3:30 I am loading my girls into the car to head to a local park to play until Kirk gets off work. Kirsten's favorite are the swings. Swings first, then slides, then back to the swings before going home. I love these pictures, I think they show the joy of swinging perfectly!

My little mama!!!

Kirsten Sue is the cutest little girl. She absolutely loves the movie Cars, no matter how many times I try to put in Cinderella or Little Mermaid! And airplanes, she could live outside just to watch the airplanes fly by. But she loves her baby dolls the most. She always has at least one in arm. Baby dolls are treated pretty well around here. They get bathed, fed, tummy time, noses wiped, diapers changed, swaddled and put down for a nap, buckled into car seats, and even assisted in blowing us kisses goodnight. Yes Kirsten sue takes very good care of her baby dolls.

2 months

(I've officially decided a car seat is the best position to take pictures of babies...next time I will use a blanket or sheet to make it look prettier, no worries)

We went to the doctor yesterday
Kirsten is in the 33% for her weight and 95% for her height
Weighing in at almost 24 lbs and 35 1/2 inches...she is consistently tall and skinny
Audrey is in the 83% for her weight and 80% for her height
Weighing in at 12 1/4 lbs and 23 1/4 inches...you go girl!
Both girls got their shots. Kirsten cried for 30 seconds. Audrey cried for 15 minutes...she's such a girl! When Kirsten got her two month shots I sat and held her and cried (long after she was done crying). When Audrey got her shots she immediately started screeching and turned Santa Claus red...it was all I could do to keep from laughing. I think she was more offended that we gave her the shots than anything. Oh the drama!

If you are wondering if Kirsten pooped while we were in waiting room you are correct. Did I have any Kirsten diapers or wipes with me? No (remember how she poops way more than she used to and I'm not used to stocking my purse every time we leave the house)! Did I raid the doctors cabinets and drawers for diapers and wipes while waiting for him? Yes! Did I carry around a stenchy stenchy diaper in my purse for the next 1/2 hour? Yes I did. Because I'm a mom and that's what moms do.

Halloween 2009

For Halloween this year Audrey was the "good" witch

and Kirsten was the "wicked" witch.

they were stinking adorable!
(yes Kirsten is hiding Audrey's face under the witches hat)

I was a witch too and Kirk was a biker (ya with his moped, funny I know)

We celebrated with my Aunt Colleen, who went all out for my little family. She really is the greatest! Everyone needs an Aunt Colleen!!! Then we met up with some friends for some good ole fashion trick or treating. It took no time flat for Kirsten to appreciate going door to door and getting candy. Her favorite house gave out dum dum suckers. She kept grabbing the sucker out of her bucket, wanting to eat it. It was the first piece of candy to vanish. We went back to my friends house for post trick or treating fun. If you are wondering if Kirsten pooped on my friends carpet you are correct. The joys of being parents. We had a fabulous Halloween!