BUSY!!

K so I totally thought that with JT gone I would have lots of time to Blog and let everyone (including him) know how things were going! HA HA HA Yeah I'll go ahead and laugh at myself because I'm so busy I just can't seem to find the time these days! My list of things to do is about 10 miles too long and I just do the best I can and try to find time to have fun along the way!
My friends have been WONDERFUL!! I have had tons of invitations to hang out and have had lots of friends come over just to visit!! It is exactly what the doctor ordered!! I'm so lucky to have my friends and my family! Such a huge help to me! My Dad has turned out to be a great babysitter and always willing to help out. My Mom and I went to the So You Think You Can Dance performance for our birthday in November and had a blast!! I had sooo much fun having a night on the town!
The girls are growing up so fast... Kenz is getting better and better with using sentences instead of phrases and has mastered the art of talking back! With Daddy gone she definatley knows how to test my limits but she is sooo much fun to play with and incredibly smart! Jalie is practically running now! It is so cute because she went from baby to toddler overnight!! She has two little teeth and LOVES LOVES LOVES to eat!! She will eat anything and screams until you feed her!! Funny girl!! She is getting into everything and is determined to pull my curtains off the wall!!

Kenzie is going to be a hairdresser like her mommy... here she did her own hair with my headband...Here she did Jalie's hair with mommy's lotion... (Jalie didn't mind one bit but mommy did!)
and just days later she did Jalie's hair with toothpaste!! I guess its time to put my scissors in a locked cupboard!! I'm afraid of what will happen next!
Little dare devil!! I was organizing our closet and came out to find this!! Glad she didn't fall but had to get a quick pic!!
Jalie is an even bigger dare devil than her big sis! She climbs on everything! And don't you love the upside-down binky?? she won't leave it right-side up anymore!

I don't have ANY clue how she did this one!! ha ha
It's amazing how one chocolate cookie can give 15 minutes of quiet... which seems worth it at the time... but then you have to start a bath. Was it really worth it?? YES!!

Saying Goodbye

Saying goodbye to JT on Saturday was SOOOO hard!! But we got through it and we are doing okay! Staying busy as usual and having fun! We are hoping to get to see him for the holidays, but if not we won't see him until April and April is VERY far away!!

Kenzie loves dressing up!! SO FUN!

Okay JT.... THIS is why YOU usually fed Jalie!! Ha ha I suck at it!

WALKING!!

So Jalie took her first steps around 8 months old. Since then she has only taken one or maybe two steps at a time. Then she got ahold of Kenzie's baby stroller and used it as a walker. Then Sunday she took about 7 steps in a row! Crazy girl is only 9 months old!! All week long she's been trying so hard to walk around but keeps falling! SO CUTE!! Of course by the time we got the video camera out we could only get 3 steps out of her but it's still adorable!!

Happy Halloween!

Can't you tell...Picture day was FUN!!

Big CHANGES!!

So JT finally got his offical offer from Boarder Patrol. He reports to his station on Nov 9th. Yuma, AZ. From there he will go to the academy in New Mexico for approximately 5 months. After that I will take the girls and move on down to Yuma where we will live for the next few years!

This has been a crazy couple of years for us! Our adventures started with the Maricopa County (phoenix) Sherrifs department, JT went through the whole hiring process with them right after we were married. When they offered him a job, he turned it down to move to Washington with his prego wife. He tried for about a year and a half to get onto any police departments here in the Seattle area. He was then hired by the King County Sheriffs Department and endured a 6 month long Law Enforcement Academy. Unfortunately JT failed a test and was let go. He then started with King County Corrections 2 months later... endured another Academy (3 months with corrections) and has stayed with that job for a year now. After the Sheriffs dept had let him go JT had applied with the US Boarder Patrol. It took almost a year and a half of hiring process till they offerd him this position.

It has been a roller coaster over the last few years and so I have been VERY reluctant to have JT accept this position. We are finally stable where we are now. I am comfortable and happy where we are now. I just have to have faith that this is the best thing for our future.

Thanks for all the prayers and encouragement! We will miss all of our friends and family here in Washington GREATLY!!! It's sooooo hard to leave!

My blog should be updated almost daily once JT leaves. Sorry if it will be boring to everyone else (you don't HAVE to read it) but it will be the best way for him to get updates from us everyday! This is our new "Adventure" I'm truely scared and excited!

Here is where we will be living! (Green star)

It's approx 2 1/2 hours to San Diego, 3 1/2 hours to Mesa, 4 1/2 hours to Benson and minutes from Mexico. We'd better get our passports!!

We're back!

We had a really fun road trip! Such a blast! Here are some fun pics from our travels!

JT and Jalie

My SIL Danielle and Me

The Original 7 Judds

My pretty Kenz

Kenz and i in TombstoneJT and his friend

Jt playing with Kenz

We are LEAVING!!

Vacation here we come!! So in approximately 23 hours we are headed out on our 16 day vacation! I'm stressed out and totally excited! Trying to get everything ready has been crazy! My house looks like a tornado came through... HONESTLY!! Tonight (well tomorrow night?) we are heading over to Idaho Falls to see my sister for a couple days... then we will head on down to AZ to see all of JT's family and our friends for a couple weeks, then it's back on up through Idaho Falls and back home! It will be interesting to go from chilly weather to really cold to HOT and back again! I have had a VERY hard time packing!! ANyways if you are part of our friends and family in Idaho or AZ and want to see us.... we'd love to see you so give us a call!! We will see you all soon!!