Monday, January 05, 2009

since the last time i posted...

so much has changed, jack had surgery, i turned 28, jack went to the dentist, we celebrated christmas, it is now 2009, we have lived in arizona for a year already and jack is now a sunbeam. i can't believe how fast time passes us by. we were lucky enough to go to st george for christmas which was a complete miracle. john ended up having to work in kingman and bullhead, arizona so john drove jack and me up to las vegas and had my mom come and pick us up. john came on christmas eve just in time to take care of jack for me because i ended up getting sick, which really sucked because i couldn't eat any of the delicious food. then christmas night john got sick but still went to work the next day. what a trooper! christmas was awesome in spite of all the sickness and we so glad to be able to spend it with our family.



christmas morning bright and early. jack woke us up at 4 in the morning. lucky for him he was in a pretty good mood and looked dang cute in his christmas jams.



this year santa brought jack a little drum set, a magnifying glass and grandma and grandpa got him his own digital camera.

then to celebrate the new year we had john's parents here and my parents which was awesome. we felt so loved. but what would a holiday be without someone getting sick. this time it was jack's turn. i was the lucky one who had to deal with it all alone in the middle of the night because john was out of town. the good thing about this illness is that it only lasted 24 hours. so along with the new year comes the resolutions and i'm sure i'm not going to keep them all but i'm sure going to try. but one of my resolutions is to do family home evening every week and to help with that our ward primary gave us a link with lesson plans for the whole year that goes along with the theme in primary. for all of you who are like me and need a little help with being creative here is the link...

speaking of primary my little tiny 2 pound baby is now a big boy and is in primary. i can't believe he is in sunbeams and that means he will being singing to me in sacrament meeting for mothers day and for the primary program. i was a little stressed about this new transition one because i was in junior primary and i knew jack wouldn't want to stay with his class if he saw me, so they switched me to senior primary;(more on that in a little bit) and two, sunbeams seems so completely different then nursery but john said that he did pretty well in sharing time and then john was able to leave for his actually class. his teacher is awesome and that really helped with the transition. what a big boy i have, i guess preschool has really helped jack.

now back to senior primary. what a different world that is compared to junior primary. i loved my class and kids in junior primary but i'm really excited about my new class and to actually teach lessons out of the scriptures. it is a wonderful opportunity for me to learn and grow in the gospel.

this christmas break has been a crazy happy one but i'm really glad to be back in my house and back to our routine. 2008 was a crazy year i'm glad it is over and i hope 2009 only gets better. i also hope i get better about blogging, i've kind of lost my gusto.

p.s. jonathan another new years resolution is to kick your trash in wii fit once i get one. bring it on sucker!!

4 comments:

Sarah said...

ahhh, liked this post- i've been wondering what you've been up to. and happy birthday! i kept thinking "remember shannyn's birthday", but of course i forgot. why did jack have surgery? hope he's all good now.

so about our ward. i don't even know how to explain it to you without a map, but ALL the houses in our ward combined with the ward to the north of them (like radebaugh's whole street going up to the church) and then the condos got put in a different ward. and the top two condos are in another ward than ours. there were two whole wards that were cut out completely, so now there are only eight in the stake. every other ward had additions and boundary changes as well. it really sucks and i'm having a hard time with it. had no idea i was so attached. we are in the ward that is on the very south edge of our stake (south of bonn. elem) and we have nine condo buildings in the ward so that will be very interesting. wish you were still here with us- but i'm sure you're glad you're not.

that was long. we should email instead. but i don't even have your address!

Reynolds said...

Yay for Christmas! Cute boy. Ditto on Sarah's comment.

val said...

I can't believe you were across the street from me and I missed you! Glad you were able to come home for Christmas. ANd I love Jack's cute smile with the giraffe stuffed animal! Also, I can't believe he's a Sunbeam! What a fun time!

Adam and Jenica said...

I can't believe how big Jack is, he looks so good. what a cute little boy you have. I love seeing him grow up.