Been a wile.

I was reminded this weekend on how long ago I have last posted to this blog. A lot of things have changed since September of last year. For one, we have moved, again. My father in law decided it was hi time he got a job, and with jobs here in short supply, he moved back to Wyoming. We had a beautiful baby girl, Elizabeth born the end of January. I almost didn't make it to the hospital. I started with a little pain on my way from tow that day, got home and found one our chickens had been hit by a car. I thought, I can feel labor pains now, not too bad, but I need to kill the chicken and not get bloody, because I don't know if I will have time to shower. I take are of the chicken, and see my father in law and say hi and tell him I need to goto the bathroom. Contractions are 2 min apart and getting very intense. I have only started having contractions for 10 minutes. I lay on the couch hoping for them to slow down. Nope. I called Joe, who is 45 miles away and tell him I am I labor, and have 3 contractions while on the phone with him. My telling him that I didn't know if he had to hurry, he had good insight and left immediately. My father in law watched the kids for us so we could go to the hospital. Joe got home in record time, and then we also got to he hospital, that was 40 miles away, in record time also. I was In labor for only 2 hours, and one of it was in the hospital. I didn't get the IV that I was needing for med, oh well. She was beautiful and healthy. A few weeks after Lizzie was born Paul, decided to move back to Wyoming. Living on the Christmas tree ranch was wonderful, and hard. We went through 13 cords of wood for the winter, and we were still cold, and we didn't have enough to get through all the cold months. We ended up getting another 2 cords, and still needed to get more. We found a smaller house closer to town, close to church, and $400 less on the rent. We were sold. The new house, had air, and central heat, and even a dishwasher. Now we are on 5 instead of 115 acres, drive 4 miles to church, and 6 to town. I am loving some of the conveniences of living closer. I have seen more people in one month than I did in the year we were at the ranch. We miss grandpa. He was fun for all to have around. We will see him in a few days when we take him his things for a family reunion. The kids are excited to see him and their cousins. I have been involved as the beehive advisor for a while now, and now I teach sammi. I love being with her and with the girls. Joe was called a few weeks ago, to be in the bishopric, and now I sit without him. He will do a great job. Joe is working on his masters degree and will be finishing that up by early next year. I was homeschooling the kids at the ranch, but when we moved closer to town, I put the kids into school for the remainder of the school year. They enjoyed that. Now we have a 7th, 5th, 2nd, kinder, and preschooler in school next year. I haven't decided if I will have Ty go to kindergarten yet, or let him go to 1st in public school. We shall see. We left the chickens on the ranch, and now need to build a new coop, and build a fence for them before we go and get some of them back. We really miss having fresh eggs and we love having chickens. The dog misses having his friends too. He is totally bored. I really had a hard time leaving the ranch for all the ideas we had to make it a permanent home, for Paul to live with us, to raise our family in a ranch style environment with all the animals that went along with that. Where we chose, was just too far for our family. We are ones that are involved in church, and wanted our kids to be able to participate in extra curricular activities if they wanted to. We we just not able to do that out so far. Oh well, life here is going on well, the kids are getting piano lessons every week, and seeing friends all the time. We are planning on getting them in wing chun after we get back from vacation. We also have the goal to get a travel trailer this year so we can pick up and go camping all summer. I saw some friends that I have not seen since sammi was just months old, and others since our wedding reception. I had a fun time reconnecting and having our families meet.good to see you Garian. We went for Christmas to see my family and had a blast seeing everyone. I have not seen my brother since before his mission. And that was when I was pregnant with Ian and he is 31/2. Adam played tackle football and had a blast playing with his best friends. Joes and my best friends, moved to Florida, and we miss them terribly. We had a visitor from our town in Wyoming for a few days last year, and loved seeing her. Jennifer was visiting her daughter in Washington, and decided to drive 900 miles to spend time with us. Thanks Jen. Well hopefully, I covered some of the major things that happened in the last nine months. Hard to do one blog as a catch up. Next I will post pictures when I am not typing from my iPad. Oh, we have Internet again!