A long overdue update

Well since its been a year since my last blog post I won't actually post an update of our whole year; although we had a pretty good one! :)  Some of the most notable happenings were:

1. Rock graduated from BYU in December (he walked in August) and we are very proud of him!

 I finished my last semester at school but still have to finish a couple online classes to graduate (story of my life but I promise it will get done.) Hopefully I'll have of these pictures to show for myself!

2. Griffin turned 4 and started preschool.  He enjoys it and has learned a ton! Here is a picture of him beside his dry erase board where he wrote his name all by himself for one of the first times!

3. We had a wonderful Christmas alone as a family since I was expecting our baby soon after...

Maelie playing Mary in our Nativity

 

We got a fun visit from the Oblads!

Griff and Maelie in their new slippers

  4. Griffin learned to ride his bike without training wheels! We were very impressed!

 5. Most importantly we had our baby Reece on January 5th....I was induced and things went pretty slow at first because Pitocin doesn't work on me.  After about 6 hours of Pitocin my water finally broke and Reece came about 10 minutes after that so it was a good easy labor and we are soo happy to have her in our family.  She is the BEST baby in the world and I love her to pieces.  She seriously never cries and is so patient with her brother and sister. 

Reece on her blessing day

 

6. My mom went into the MTC and has now made it to Nauvoo for her mission.  It was sad to say goodbye to her but we know she will have such a good experience and bless so many peoples lives including ours because of her service.  Whenever we pass the MTC Maelie still yells "Hi Grandma!"  We are very proud of her and can't wait to hear of her experiences in Nauvoo!

 7. And finally, Maelie turned 2 and had a fun little party with some of her friends this weekend....

We are waiting to hear where we will be moving to in a month or so...Comcast said that they should know by mid-April and as we requested to stay out west as much as possible that would put us in Los Angeles or Denver so we are very excited for the next chapter in our lives.  Although it makes me sad to think about leaving our friends in Utah! 

The transition to 3 kids has not been as painful as I was expecting.  There are definitely times when I just want to crawl in a hole or even more my bed but overall it has been great!  Reece is an angel and will usually just sit and talk or be happy anywhere you put her.  And Griff and Maelie have been so good as well - they really haven't had a hard time transitioning to have Reece at all.  Maelie has hit her terrible two's of course and can be heard saying "STOP IT" all day long but she is just so cute its hard to get mad at her!  I signed up for the Disney Princess half marathon which isn't until September but I've been trying to run every morning to get ready for it.  I'm a little nervous since the most I have ever run is probably 2 miles in high school, but I'm making some good progress, I think.  I just hope I can finish the race before the Pinocchio bus has to pick me up and take me across the finish line!

Anyway, that's the update of our lives! Hopefully it wont be another year before the next!