March in like a lion- out like a lamb

Family: At the beginning of the month, we were able to attend Maisa and Carter’s wedding. It turned out beautiful. Then the very next day, Colby gave Hanna a beautiful blessing. In March we also made the big move that we have been anticipating for months!! We found a townhome in Sandy. It is a nice place with a clubhouse and a pool. It also has a playground in the neighborhood. I think we will really like it where we are. We are close to lots of shopping and fun things to do. I really don’t even know where to begin to express our gratitude to those that helped us. Family supplied trucks and trailers, babysitting, loading and unloading, and so much more! We really are truly blessed to have fabulous family members and friends. We have had fun eating at all the new places. However, this trend CAN’T last because it is expensive. We have forgotten about all of the details associated with moving. Every day I am reminded about another address change I have to make and some packages got sent to Cedar instead of Sandy. We were able to attend our new ward the last couple weeks in March. That very first week we were warmly greeted by so many people. We are very excited about this ward.

Before we moved, I decided to go around town and get pictures of each of the places we have lived in the past seven years. Bottom left is where we first started out when we got married. It was a little two story one bedroom apartment. We lived there for just about 6 months. Poor Brock even lived with us while we were there he slept on a futon in the living room. The bottom right picture is where we moved to next. It was a two bedroom apartment. Then when Colby started working at Brush in Delta and Brock had moved back to Delta as well, I didn't need the two bedrooms so a friend at work told me about the basement apartment that they were moving out of and it was just one bedroom and cheap the top right picture! Luckily, it was right across the street from the school so I was able to just walk. We lived there for just over a year. Then, the top left picture, was our first home that we purchased in October of 2009.

Colby: He is trying to adjust to being a stay-at-home-dad for the time being. We are definitely realizing the innate qualities that each of us has been given. While Colby does such a great job being at home with the girls, he feels the “inner-pull” to go out and provide and protect. He has been given quite a bit of study material to go through prior to starting his program so during naptime and after bedtime he focuses on that. We got his little "office" set up in our master closet. It is nice and quiet in there.

Megan: I started my job as an NP at Jordan Meadows and Hunter Medical Centers. It is going really good. I think that once I figure out my groove I’ll really like it! Not that I don’t right now- I’m just still a little unsure of myself. I feel that although I think I do a good job at work, my heart pulls me home with my girls. It is simply amazing the way God created us and gave us innate strengths and weaknesses.  

Hayden: Hayden absolutely loved the whole moving process! She would wake us bright and early in the morning the entire week before we moved to tell us, “we need to go work in the truck and trailer!” She still is loving to draw her name- I even noticed that she had written her name on the dusty Durango! She really wanted to label all of the moving boxes with her name so I let her write it on the boxes with her toys. She had so much fun playing with Ady and Elsie while we were unloading and unpacking. She had her last day of dance in Cedar at the first of the month. I am so glad we put her in dance. It was so good for her to go every week and learn to listen to a teacher. She would always come home and tell us about all the girls. I love her words that she uses. She calls a cement truck a “confuser” truck. I don’t know where she came up with that. But as we are driving, she can spot one from a mile away. It makes her happy which, in turn, makes me happy.

Hanna: This little angle has found her hands and she loves to chomp away at them. She is still on a 3 hour schedule and eats about 3 ½-4 oz while mom is at work. We have not been able to be very consistent with her sleep schedule because of all of the changes and running around! She really doesn’t do that bad considering though. At night she goes to sleep in between 8 and 8:30 and then I do her “dreamfeed” at around 10 then she will sleep until in between 3 and 4. Then she sleeps until 7:30 or 8. I am hoping she will drop the early morning feed on her own because I really don’t like having to let babies cry-it-out. It breaks my heart! Besides that, she is such a happy baby. She loves to make noises and loves any attention she can get! We also still have her sleeping in the bassinet in our room. I’d like to get her sleeping through the night before I switch her to the girls’ shared room.