New Hair cut for Melia!

I decided to chop Melia's hair to get it all the same length! We did it today and here it is!

Before...

After!

Another after shot

Lil' update...

We are moving into a new apartment on February 10th... I know, we move a lot! BUT we decided it was best thing for us given the circumstances. We will be moving to apartments that are right across the street from a hospital, WSU Vancouver (where Treven goes to school), and right around the corner from my parents and only about 2 miles from Treven's parent's house. We will be in the same ward as our parents, but we have been on our own here for a while and now we have our own place, we aren't living with my parents. We are very excited for the move. We don't have to be out of our old place until the end of February so we are planning to get everything moved over in about a week and then leave the rest of the time to completely deep clean the old place. The new apartment is in a gated apartment complex, and the apartment is about 300 sq ft bigger. It has an actual pantry which is awesome and central heating and air conditioning!

If you want to take a look at them, www.nwluxuryapts.com and it is Highland Hills. We are moving into the Highland 2 apartment. We have been praying about this decision for about a month and decided that it is the best for our family. With Treven's work and school, it will be better and I have been working in the school district up here more than anywhere else so I always had to drive further! That is our big update.

Christmas was great with all the family and Melia asks daily if we can do it again and do the money drop again. The money drop, for those who don't know, is a tradition started about 5 or 6 years ago in my family. My parents save up all their extra change all year in a jar and then on christmas day, my dad drops it from the stairs and the kids just scramble for it. They add some dollar bills and some dollar coins. Then everybody brings what they got to the table and pull a name and everything get switched to the person's name you pulled out. I hope that made sense... all in all, Melia LOVED it and wants to do it everyday! haha It was really nice being home for Christmas and to not have to worry about traveling with the girls. I could just drive home to our own bed every night!

My sister, Anne, and her family will be moving here at the end of February and I couldn't be more excited! They will be living at my parents' house for a little bit and she is due in April and now we will be right around the corner.

Melia is loving being a Sunbeam in Primary and really makes sure that she goes every week. With the move, she will be switching classes so hopefully that will go well. Andrew, Anne's son, will be in the sunbeam class with her so that will be nice. There are 14 sunbeams already in the Ward so we will be adding 2 more! They are not too excited about that! haha! Oh well!

McKenzie is becoming such a little girl! She is talking more saying words no or yes, baby, MO! (Nemo), socks, stuck, where did it go?, drink, up, teeth, and more... She knows most of her body parts. We are teaching her elbow, knee, and chin now, but she has pretty much everything else now. She loves playing with her cousin, Noah and they love to dance around the house together. She loves playing with her baby she got for Christmas and takes it EVERYWHERE with her. She will be 18 months old on the 15th which seems nuts! She is slowly getting switched over to going to Nursery at church. She really doesn't like me leaving, but I hope she likes the new nursery because that is where Melia starting loving nursery so crossing my fingers!

Well I am more of a stay at home mom now since subbing is pretty much non existent right now. They are trying to pass levys for the schools right now and if they don't get passed then teachers most likely will be fired so teachers are trying to not take days off. We will see what happens. Treven's job is going well and we will find out soon what his new position will be. Hopefully very soon! :)

Anyway, that's us for now! I will try and write more since now I am pretty much a stay at home mom.

Merry Christmas!

Well today is Christmas Eve... I am sitting here waiting for Treven to come home from work so we can go to my parents' house for the night. McKenzie is asleep and Melia is watching some Christmas shows she loves, aka Spongebob's Christmas episode.

We have not updated for a while, but our big news is that we finally became a second car family and we are thankful for that. We got a Nissan Quest. We felt that we needed to buy a second car and we are NOT planning on having another baby for another 2-3 years, but we didn't want to have to turn around in 2 to 3 years and have to buy another new car that would fit the third child so we bought the van. We absolutely love it! I will post pictures of it soon. Whenever I remember to take a picture of it, it is too dark outside.

This year has flown by so fast, it is amazing. I feel like we just moved here yet we moved here about 8 months ago. The girls have grown so much since we have moved here and they are becoming great friends and sisters to each other which is so great to see. I am so thankful for everything from this past year.

This next year I am signed up for the Hippie Chicks Half marathon in May. It is an all women run on Mother's Day weekend. I really can't wait and I will start training on Monday. I am so excited for it. I was supposed to do a half marathon in September, but was not able to due to a respiratory infection and a possible stress fracture. Crossing my fingers that my body will cooperate this time. ;)

Treven is really enjoying his new job at Dick's Sporting Goods. They are been great and he has been able to have a full time schedule. We are hoping to be actually put to full time status in January for the benefits and pay raise. Treven was hired as a holiday person because they had no permanent positions open and so he had to have the temporary 90 day trial before becoming full time. The 90 days is up in January so we can't wait for that to be over. School is over and next semester starts up in January. He has a pretty easy schedule next semester so it will be nice. He receives his residency in April so hopefully he will start going full time and be done SOON! :)

Well that's us. I will post pictures of Christmas and the van next week. I will post a picture of McKenzie. I took this night and I can't believe that my baby is gone! haha She looks like a little girl now, especially when he hair is done.

Here is our Christmas tree. Our first one!

The countdown blocks I made. Melia loves them!

Little girl McKenzie

Melia's message from Santa

Go here to watch Melia's Santa video http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/7761efd4b9cae0c952e59faa9e83a9d2

Melia's 3rd Birthday

The easel we got Melia from IKEA! Love it!

Showing off her birthday shirt that I made for her... A new tradition

Back of the shirt

Her princess cake that she picked out... She love it! Cinderella lit up too!

She was so happy when she blew out the candle. She has been practicing for a while!

Top view of the cake

Eating the yummy cake before opening presents.

She loved all her presents and thank you to all of you! She is having so much fun playing and reading today. She got a coloring book, the BOB books, pretend food for the girls kitchen, she got a princess blanket, books, Tinkerbell 2 movie, and paints for her easel. She loves it all!

Long awaited...

Pictures of our apartment... meant to post a while ago!

Love Fall!

These are some pictures from the last couple of weekends. My family had a Murder Mystery party with the adults. It was pirate-themed and it was a blast. I was Breathless Betty and Treven was Sealegs Sam. Treven ended up being the murderer, but it was all for love.

Then last weekend we had a Halloween party that was hosted by my brother and sister-in-law. We decided to be an Alice in Wonderland theme. Melia was Alice, McKenzie was the White Rabbit, and Treven and I were Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. My mom made Melia's dress and it was perfect! I love it! Melia can't wait to wear it again for Halloween.

We also went to the pumpkin patch last week. More photos to come for that. Melia had a blast with her cousins there!

Everything is going well with us. Treven is loving his job at Dick's Sporting Goods and they are loving him there. He was scheduled for 11.5 hours last week and ended up getting 43 hours. Great for us! :)

Well just a quick update! Have a great Halloween!

Brownies I made... Graveyard Brownies :)

Treven's Rice Krispie Head... Vomit coming out of the mouth was a nice touch huh? It is just jello salad.

Alice AKA Melia

Family picture Halloween 2009

Breathless Betty and Sealegs Sam