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!!

September

On Labor Day we took Kenzie and Jalie to the Ringling Bros and Barnamum Baliey circus. We had so much FUN! Kenz LOVED it! She talked about the Elephants for days!Kenzie has been getting better and better about playing with her baby sister. She still has her not-so-nice days but fewer all the time.

Here she is today... what a ham!

Kenz LOVES to dress up. This poor hat from the dollar section at target has seen better days! My mom got her these boots as a joke and she has to wear them around the house. Oh yeah and you gotta love the empty winnie the pooh back pack she wears while pushing the doll stroller around the living room!!

Our amateur photographer... Kenz snapped this pic of Jalie and I

Jalie is getting SOOOO big!! She stands up on her own and has even taken a few steps! crazy girl! she is saying Da Da now but no ma ma yet... i need to work on that one!

She is such a happy girl!

On Tuesday we went out and bought a minivan! It was quite the experience! I now officially feel like a MOM! I LOVE IT! I love love love my nice van! Its a 2004 Mercury Monterey. It has all the nice automatic features I wanted and leather seats. I am so happy with it! Now we are all set for our road trip in a week and a half!

Computer Virus!!

So our computer had a BAD virus... or a few BAD viruses... so sorry for not posting for a whole month! Thanks to my awesome hubby its fixed now and I was so happy to finally catch up on everyone elses blogs after so long! So here is the last month in pics! Alittle out of order...???

Jalie Update: This kid is a dare devil! She needs a NO Fear T-shirt! At 7 months old she is crawling, pulling her self up onto everything, eating cherrios and puffs on her own, and trying to walk. She is also the biggest ham you've ever met! If she sees a camera she smiles big! ha ha such a funny girl! and getting too big too fast!

Kenzie Update: Terrible Two's anyone?? She is the funniest little kid, so smart and so full of energy! She loves her Abc's, all songs and the show Calliou. She hates taking naps and is always grumpy between 6-8 when she doesn't take one. I'm taking her to the circus on saturday and she is so excited to see "simba"?? For some reason she thinks he's gonna be there! ha ha This is her after she wouldn't take a nap, she fell asleep in her chair watching tv!

Jalie and her friend Ry

Kenz is starting to play really well with Jalie, and Jalie just LOVES her big sis!

We went on a hike to Rattlesnake ridge with Kerianne and Ethan and this was the view at the top... breath-taking!!

While my sis Kandis and her family came into town we went camping at Seaside, OR. Yes, I ate this chocolate covered twinkie!! YUM!!

We went to The Bouncy Place and the kids LOVED it!

Mariners game for family night

And Kandis took some great family photos for us. Here are some fun ones. I can't wait to get this family one printed for our living room!

Kenz was difficult...

Jalie was easy going!

We never got Jalie's 6month pics done so here she is... 7 months old!