We did it again........WE MOVED!!

Ok, so Provo wasn't the greatest idea. I loved living near Pat's brother Adam and his wife Denise, but other than that it wasn't the best for our kids. They did not make any friends and they seemed to really struggle in general. We found a house in Spanish Fork, right on the edge of a nice park, and we are loving it. I think we hit the jackpot of neighborhoods. There are kids everywhere and our girls are loving their new school and they all have friends wanting to play. I am really happy about it. The girls are loving the new house too. While we were looking at it, thinking about it, they were begging us to move here. It has been really great. We went to church last week for the first time and the ward was really welcoming. I think we will be here a while. We better be anyways.

Soccer is slowing down now. One more game for Amanda's team and then a break until March. Yay!! I will love having some extra time for things like family dinner and cleaning and such.

Pat went to Moab to mountain bike, for a few days with his buddies and will be home tonight. I hope he had a fun time. It sounded like it was going to be awesome.

My girl love the new sillybands that are out. They are little rubber bracelets that are shaped all different in cute shapes. I bought some the other day and today they worked and worked on jobs they came up with, and I approved, to earn sillybands. My house is now all clean and I love it! I have to go get more for next Saturday.

WOW, its been a long time.

Well I'm only going to touch on a few things that have happened since I last wrote, in December, and then start on the stuff that is going on now.

We moved from Mapleton to Provo in March, and have enjoyed living near Patrick's brother Adam and his family. We had a great summer, going to my Dad's graduation in June and to family reunions in July. My Grandma Smith passed away in Aug, and I will really miss her. I am still working at our business and Patrick is still in school.

Now for the present.

Soccer started up in July and I am coaching Amanda's team again. Paige is also playing club this year. Both their teams are undefeated so far. Amanda is a great Keeper, and Paige has scored a bunch of goals for her team. It takes up all our time going to games and practicing. Pat and I split up with him usually taking Marin and Jaida, because I coach and its hard having the kids there.

I have 3 of my kids in school all day which has been so nice. They are all doing really well. Marin has taken off with reading and has really impressed me. Amanda loves reading too, she reads about 2 books a week. These aren't just little books either. They have about 300 pages each. I can get so many things done with just Jaida home. She loves playing with her cousin Eliana and so we trade off with them because its easier to have them both then just Jaida alone. They keep each other happy.

Pat is still going to BYU and is doing well in his classes. He has his flag football games going on every week and I look forward to them all week. I love watching them. This last week he got punched in the face accidentally while he was going up for a catch and it broke is nose. He came running off the field with it bleeding like a faucet. Ewww it was gross.

Here are a few fun Pics of recent.




Ok, well I have tried to load some pics and this is the only one that would. That's ok, its cute anyways. I will post some pics soon.