BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!

WOW!!! I have so many fun and exciting things to write about! Let me just tell you between being busy, lots of changes, and not having the internet for over 5 weeks (vacation and moving without internet) was a very large part of why this post has been a long time coming. Sorry, and truly I am the most sorry for myself. There were so many fun and exciting things that happened that now as I sit to finally write them down my memory doesn't serve me as well as I thought! I should write these wonderful memories down on paper so that I don't forget to document. After all this is our family journal. And the only place that I document our family's updates.

So needless to say things have been really crazy for us over the past 2 months!
What happened over those two months you ask? WELL...

Here is where it all began, decorating for Christmas. This is such a cute pic of Scott and Paige! Paige loved the ornaments, but wasn't interested in the lights. Which I was kind of suprized about, I thought that she would love them... oh, well :)

We discovered that we were moving to the Boise area at the end of November for Scott's new job, so we drove up to Boise multiple times looking for apartments. We collected boxes of various sizes all December long from many office supply stores and the hospital for our move.

Scott finished finals and graduated from nursing school, that was wonderful. Some of my family even made the trip over to Twin to see him walk and get his diploma. Thanks everybody for coming! It really meant a lot to us to have you there!
Here's a picture of Scott's graduating class...He's the tallest person in the back row!

Scott waiting to go get his diploma Here's where Scott recieves his diploma

One of our very best friends back in Twin, Bethany, took 6 month pictures for us of Paige, they turned out sooooo cute! I will post those in the next post.

We had multiple visits from friends and family which was awesome!

We got to have Scott's Brother, Chad, and his family come stay with us for overnight visits on their way to and from their trip up to Washington. (I totally forgot to take pics while they were here! :( Darn it! )

We also got to see some of our very best friends, Davis, Linda and their adorable little boy Gavin. They live in Virginia so this was a real treat for us. It was only suppose to be a day trip but on there drive back to Utah to visit with Linda's family the roads were too bad to travel on so they had to turn around and stay the night at our apartment. Which I can honestly say that I was really excited that they were going to be coming back to spend more time with us. Sad that the roads were bad, but still super excited! Here's some pics of their visit~ Can I just say, kids never are ready to take the picture when you are. When one is the other isn't and you know this is what we got, still really cute though! :)

We officially had our first Christmas together as a family. We drove to Blackfoot for Paige's first Christmas and stayed there for a week with my family. Needless to say she was very spoiled! Santa brought her a walker for Christmas, with Grandpa and Grandma Scott helped him out with this one. It has been great. She loves to sit in it and play.Helps mommy keep her sanity so that she isn't holding her all day long! :)Paige waiting with Grandpa Scott to see what Santa broughtWhat can I say... I have two children! Scott was so excited to look and see what Santa put in his stocking, doesn't he look excited!?!?Paige loved opening the packages... not to see what was inside, but so that she could listen to the paper krinkle and play with the remains. Typical! You spend the money on the gift and all they want to do is play with the packaging! :)Grandma and Grandpa Scott gave Paige a Leap Frog Learning Dog for part of her Christmas present. She loves it!Grandma got this super cute pink bike from Santa, it was really cool and vintage looking.She got so many fun things. And she even got to have her very first taste of solid food, if you can call it that :) Santa brought her a box of rice cereal for her Christmas breakfast. We even used the walker as her "high chair" for a while, until we were able to get her one. It worked out great.Look at my cute girl with her first remains of real food on her face... PRECIOUS!It was so fun to see the family during Christmas before our big move. We then drove back home to Twin for 1 day to pack and prepare to go to our next destination...

Pueblo, Colorado for a get together with Scott's family, where we stayed for a week ,which I thought was north of Denver, sadly as we were getting ready to leave the night before our BIG trip we discovered that it was south of Denver by about 3 hours :( Oh well, it was definitely worth it! What a fun trip. Here's Grandma Macdonald (Scott's mom) with all the girl cousinsJust hangin' out with mommy during scripture study

Next when we returned home we got some last minute moving supplies and started packing immediately... We got home on a Sunday night and started packing first thing Monday morning because we needed to be completely moved out by that same Wednesday, January 6th. Thanks to lots of great friends and family we were able to move out fairly quickly.

We officially moved on Thursday, January 7th. Scott drove the Uhaul with one of our cars on a trailer and I drove our other car up to Boise with Paige. My wonderful father and nephew, Jake, drove all the way from Blackfoot to help us move from our Twin apartment into our Boise apartment. I tell you what they were lifesavers because it would have just been Scott, me, and one of very best friends, Zach, that lives here in the Boise area moving everything in if they hadn't been there. Thanks Dad, Jake, and Zach! You guys are awesome! We were supposed to have some members of the Elder's Quorum helping us move in but we only had two show up when we were pretty much done. It was a Thursday so I am sure that they were all very busy, week days are not always the best days to move.

Between all that and unpacking and settling in, Wow! We had a big couple of months. And I can't believe how much Paige has grown! She is just becoming her own little person with quite a personality! I will post again in a few days with more updated pictures and Paige's 6 month pics!