I Hope You Dance

I was cleaning the bathrooms Friday and listening to my trusty orange ipod shuffle when I heard this... "I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance and never settle for the path of least resistance. Living might mean taking chances but they're worth taking..." and I felt complete hope and peace. We have recently decided that we are for sure going to Penn State but the thought is still a little scary for these reasons...
* Penn State is far far away
* moving costs lots of money
* school costs lots of money
* we have 3 kids and going to school can be stressful
But then when you think of these reasons for going...
* PA sounds like an awesome place to live
* Yeah for adventures!
* education is awesome! Higher salary and better job outlook is awesome!
* Jonas' job is not what he would like to do for his career(you think anyone would love being a rocket scientist but I guess it has to be the right fit)
* Jonas likes acoustics and I think he would enjoy it
* It feels right
We have decided and we are making definite plans to move on August 4th! I am really excited for the trip over there, should be fun. I am excited to live in the east and try somewhere new. It will be really really sad when we leave family, our neighborhood and ward we have grown to love, but in the words of Lee Ann Womack "I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance and never settle for the path of least resistance. Living might mean taking chances but they're worth taking..."

Jaxon's Blessing

Yesterday was a great day! Jaxon was blessed by Jonas and it was awesome! As I was trying to write the blessing down, Maelie came to me and wanted to "color" too. Finally I ripped out a sheet of paper and handed it to her... Thanks to all who came, all the family who came and took part in the blessing, I'm blessed to have a family full of worthy priesthood holders. Thanks to my mom for making Jaxon's cute outfit. I was happy to finally meet Emily's fiancee Tyler and happy to say they are a perfect fit - so cute together! We had a fun time afterwards with all the family over at our house. We sure are going to miss family, friends, our ward and area when we move to PA!

Jaxon we love you so much and feel so blessed to have you with us!

recent pix

life

I feel so blessed! Yesterday we went to the temple for my little brother Trevon's endowments. Jonas and I have been wanting and needing to get to the temple but this has been our first chance since January. We are struggling with some life decisions and just really needed the influence of the holy ghost in our lives as we make important decisions for Jonas' education and for our family. We decided to pray in the parking lot before we went in. We were mostly praying for guidance with our decisions. Jonas asked me to pray and as I was praying I was overwhelmed with the reason we were there that day, to be there for Trevon as he entered the temple. What a special day as the last of my parent's 7 children entered the house of the Lord. I was overcome with such a warm feeling and such happiness for Trevon and for my family. The actual session was awesome. I don't think I've been able to pay that close of attention for a really long time for some reason. I always find myself daydreaming and it was so awesome to pay close attention and learn more from something I have heard countless times. I so love the temple and am so grateful that we have them on the earth today. I am so happy that there will be 2 more temples in Arizona and one in Gilbert. I don't know where I will be when it will be dedicated but Gilbert will always be apart of me and I can't wait to go through that temple someday. We still aren't completely sure about our future but who is right? We are very grateful for the peace we felt yesterday and only hope that we can make the best choice for our family.

The Apostle Song

Maelie wants to go camping

KYLA

Sibling love

We were having fun making movies last night while Jonas was at EQ pres meetings. I tell ya, this is the first time Jonas has had a calling where he's actually been a way quite a bit and it is hard. I am trying hard to be a supportive wife. :) 5:00 is my favorite time of day because Jonas comes home and not only do I miss HIM but I miss having an adult to talk to. And he also shares in the responsibility of 3 kids! I won't lie, 3 kids are hard!!! Anyway, we made tons of cute videos, Maelie and Kyla were loving it and I am trying to get them all up. There are 2 new ones on the video link to the right as well.

Stanford Babies

Jonas

Kyla

Maelie

Mistie

Jaxon

6 weeks and 7.5 hours

Yeah for sleep!!!

Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson

We went on a little trip to Tucson on Saturday and went to the Air Museum. It was pretty cool but not quite worth the price. We did enjoy getting out and going somewhere "out of town" eventho we really wanted to go to San Diego. :) However, I don't really recommend this museum for kids, there were a few tantrums involved and we got all the looks you get from people without kids enjoying a "quiet" afternoon at a museum.

Maelie and Jaxon - he did awesome by the way
Kyla sitting on a plane - looking soooooooooo excited - HA!

Watch your head!!! - Maelie loved the hands on section and just wanted to play with the toys... they had little toys and stuff for kids while Jonas and I looked around at the planes.

little space girl

one of the 4 hangars we went in

We walked through the Air Force One that 2 of the presidents used (I can't remember who) pretty cool stuff!
Kyla flying with her daddy

Maelie insisted I take her picture with this plane engine

Kyla flying

Wright Brothers plane

So...

I was finally giving the floor a much needed sweep when I looked over to see Kyla feeding Jaxon waffles! aaaahhhh!!! Almost as bad (but not quite) as when I looked over last night during dinner and saw Kyla jump over Jaxon!!! This mother of 3 kids thing sure keeps you on your toes!

Jaxon's 1 month pix

Does anyone else think it's stressful when you go get your kids pix taken? They show you tons and tons of cute pix and you came with this coupon and you just want the one package and it's soooo hard to choose! Well, I only ordered a few of these poses and I am really wanting to order more. There are so many cute ones...

I got this pic (above) but not as a birth announcement

too bad I wasn't ready to be in the pictures :)
This above pic is the one I got for the package
I love this pic (above) and wish I ordered the package for it!

I got the above pic

Anyway, at least I have the smaller versions all saved to my computer and on my blog. Jaxon is such a cutie and we are so happy to have him in our family!

5 hours 45 minutes

(Jaxon's 1st sleep stretch longer than 4 hours last night) Sleep is a beautiful thing... now if we can just go to sleep at the beginning of his longer stretch instead of 2 hours into it!

M-a-e-l-i-e and random pix

I asked Maelie if she could write her name all by herself. She did it! - without looking at my version and without me telling her what was next - way to go Maelie!

This is her copying my version!

Little Jaxon hanging out on the bean bag

Jonas with his 3 little munchkins - the red eye reduction thing turned Jaxon's face all funny colored - whoops

5 weeks

All Smiles

Jaxon has hit his 1 month mark! Yeah, it really feels good to have that first month behind us. He went to a checkup yesterday and got a shot - ooohhh he was mad! But when he got on that scale it sure surprised me! 11 lbs 14 oz! I was shocked he had grown so much - the doctor asked me if I would feed a few more babies... I said 1 was plenty! He has been making little smiles occasionally since he was born - but now we can make him smile!