It's been a while.

It has been a long time since I've posted, so this one might be a bit long. Life has been blissfully busy. I finally graduated the nursing program from ISU, Joshua turned 1, Nick has been crazy busy with work and I ran my first marathon. It is such a relief to be finished with school and I thought I was going to have all this free time, but I was wrong. I now consume my time being a Mom and a wife since these areas have been kind of neglected for the past 2 years. I look forward to entering the workforce of nurses. I haven't found a job yet, but I'm hoping something will open up at the hospital so I can work 1-3 times a month. Nick has been crazy busy with work and is putting in long hours just trying to keep on top of things. Joshua turned 1 (holy cow I can't believe he's one already!!!) and we had a little party with family. He thoroughly enjoyed his cake, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching. I just ran my first marathon. It was the Ogden marathon and it was long, but amazing. I still can't believe I did it. I'm really glad it's over because now I can run and bike because I want, not because I have to. Now we are getting ready for a trip out to New York in June to see my parents. Life is great, and I will try to keep my blog updated a bit more regularly.

Time to catch up

So I haven't updated my blog for a while so I figured I would take a few minutes and do it. School has started and I am super busy with that but one more semester and I'm done!!! Isabel had her third birthday and we had so much fun at her party. She thought she was pretty special for the day. we then got to spend some time in the hospital with Joshua for RSV and pneumonia. NOT FUN!!!!! We are all healthy for now (knock on wood) and we are ALL trying to survive this semester. Spring can't get here soon enough for so many reasons, and it will be such a happy time when it's warm outside. Anyhow, I'm posting a bunch of pictures of random things that have been going on. Oh, and by the way Natasha, your page is so cute!!! I'm glad your getting into this because it really is a lot of fun when you get into. ENJOY!!

Oh Isabel!!

So here is a funny little story about my sweet little girl Isabel.
We were all downstairs and I had just finished getting the kids into their pajamas and headed up stairs to put them to bed. I put Joshua down and then came to my bed to red Isabel her night time book "Llama Llama, red pajama." We read the book and I took her to bed, covered her, kissed her goodnight and walked out. Well Nick and I were still wanting to sit downstairs and watch TV. So I thought I would turn our TV on in our bedroom to make Isabel think we were upstairs in bed. I was downstairs for about 10 minutes and we heard Isabel coming down the stairs. She came around the corner and saw us sitting there and with a sigh, and a very concerned look on her face she looked at me and said " Mom, you tricked me. You weren't even in your bed." Nick and I had a good laugh and then I felt guilty. So we shut the TV off and all went to bed and she came to make sure I was really in bed a couple of times. She's now finally asleep. It's moments like this I realize how smart she really is. Man I love her. I can't believe she's going to be 3 in a week. WOW!!!

Little update!!

Well I know I haven't updated for a while so here ya go. Let's see, we've moved into our new house and I LOVE it. Isabel loves it too. She especially loves her new room. I love the layout and it's just nice to finally have my own home again. I finished another semester of school and have one more to go. I think I can hang in there for one more. Nick has been very busy with snow plow which makes him happy. We had a wonderful Christmas with just our little family at home. Isabel gets the basic ideas of Santa and naughty and nice. Christmas morning she was so excited to see that Santa actually came and that he is real. The excitement in her eyes ways priceless. She opened all of her presents and then opened all of Joshua's. He didn't mind as long as he had the wrapping paper to play with. It was a beautiful thing to sit and watch our kids play and be so excited and they were just so happy. It was awesome!!!! So now it's new years and I get to make the goals for the year and hope I have at least started them by July. One goal is to graduate by May and that is a pretty safe goal to set.!! Then, right around the corner is Isabel's 3rd birthday!!! WOW she's going to be three years old. I can not believe it. She's such an amazing little girl and I love her so much. She's so adorable and has the sweetest spirit ever!!

Later on I will be posting some pictures of all the things that have gone on recently and try to get my page updated before school starts on the 12th. :( Gooo

Princess Tea Party

Isabel and I went to the Princess Tea Party at the Festival of Trees. We had so much fun. She got to dress up as a princess and she got a hat a wand and she got entertained by many of the Disney princesses. She thought Princess Belle was so pretty! It was a lot of fun and I would recommend people taking their daughters next year. It's princess everything and if your daughters are anything like mine, princesses are her life right now. It was a good mommy, daughter night. I sure love my little princess.

Having Fun

We went to SLC to see the lights and the planetarium. The lights were amazing but there were a lot of people there. Isabel had a lot of fun at the planetarium and we found this fun little toy. At least he has hair now. It always nice to get away even if it's just for a night.

Dirty

We are in the middle of building a barn out back and any chance she gets, Isabel is out there helping. She loves to play in the dirt!! Later that evening she got a much needed bath. As I emptied the water from the tub, a layer of dirt was still there. Needless to say she got another bath