Burned

Our Church Building in Mukilteo was burned down last Saturday! It was arson. Such a sad, sad thing. Everything is lost for the two wards that met here. Now we have to meet at the Stake Center where three wards already meet! It will be a busy church building. The Sunday after it happened we met at a building out of our stake and the media was there interviewing people. I made it on the news that night in the clip they showed! It was weird to see myself on TV. It's just sad that someone would do this. It will probably be over a year before we have another Church built.

Preston's Starts Preschool!

Preston's went to his first day of preschool on Monday! I took him there so I could meet his teacher and then he rode the bus home. He threw a fit when they tried to get him to go on the bus to go home, but the bus drive said he calmed down a minute later. Today he rode the bus there and home and did great. It was sad to see his little head look out the window and follow us as the bus left. It made me sad! He's so little! I think he's doing good. He comes home happy and scarfs down his lunch and then goes off to play.

He was totally being cheesy and funny while I was taking his pictures so I included a few of him.

His new little backpack he got for his birthday.

This makes me sad...his little face peering out the window. How cute.

I love Kate's outstreched arms. She's always excited when he comes home. He spilled water on his jeans at preschool so they changed him into some they had there. His bus driver in the morning is Miss Shellie and for the ride home is Mr. Mike.

Kyle's work is going good. It's always an adjustment going to a new job so he's trying to learn everything. I told him I wanted to take his picture on his first day of work and he said "no". Shocking. He loves pictures. He has to wear business casual clothes and before he could wear jeans (which he loved) so that's a change for him. He works for a consulting company as a consultant for a bank near our house. The bank has a bunch of propery they need managed so he works in the land development side of things. So far so good. I haven't gone back to work yet. I was supposed to this month, but he got a job (phew) and so I get to be home. It's had it's stressful moments, but now with two kids in school in the morning it's pretty nice. :)

Lindsey's Blessing Day

We blessed Lindsey in my parent's ward and had a lot of family come and support us. It was so nice to have everyone there. Kyle gave Lindsey a beautiful blessing.

Here is Kyle with his Dad and two sisters. L-R: Jill, Kyle, Lynn and Melanie

Our family! It took an army of people to get Preston to smile. They had to sing the Miss Mary Mack book to him to get him to smile. Lindsey did great during the blessing. I am always nervous they will scream or cry during it, but she was good.

My Mom, me, Lindsey and my Grandma (my Dad's mom)- 4 generations

My Mom made this beautiful dress!!! She could seriously sell them and have her own business. We tell her that a lot! I found an idea online that I liked and so we copied it and it turned out so pretty. Kyle's grandma, Arlene, made the baby blanket that she's laying on for when Kate was blessed.

What an angel...with chubby arms. :)

Happy 3rd Birthday Preston!

Happy 3rd Birthday Preston!!!

Preston loves playing with trains so we did a Train Party. I made this cake on my own (I was so nervous!). I got ideas online and then made up my own. Preston loved his train cake. It was time consuming, but I'm glad I did it. They had some good tips online like making the rounded part on the blue train car by baking the cake in a green bean can. Then the smoke is polyfil and then I made everything else by baking the cake in loaf pans and cutting them up to make the littler cars. I had a coal car (choc covered raisins), animal cage car and a little red caboose.

The decorations for his party. We also have a tradition of decorating their bedroom door on their birthday with streamers.

Opening his presents.

Eating the animals first!

L-R: Kate, Preston, Sara holding Ashlynn, Dallin, Alyssa and Asher

My Mom and Sara came over for the day and that was so nice of them. Preston had Asher and Dallin meet him at the playground in the mall to play. Then we all came back to our house for lunch, games and cake and ice cream. We played musical trains, throw the coal in the bucket and green light/red light.

The aftermath! It was hard to cut into the cake after spending hours making it.

And a picture of Lindsey for fun. :) She's already over 2 months old! She's eating better most of the time. At her 2 month check-up a couple weeks ago she weighed 12lbs 5 oz (86%), length 23.5 inch (89%) and so the doctor wasn't worried at all about her growth. She was doing great. She's already rolled over from her stomach to her back. I don't know if it was an accident, but it's happened twice now. She's strong.

Kate kept begging Sara to do beauty parlor with her. Sara put it up in a bun and then Kate had to dance like a ballerina for us. It is fitting for Sara to do this because she just finished Beauty School and will take her tests soon to get licensed. Good job Sara!

New Journey

294 job applications and/or contacts +

80 times of filing unemployment +

20 months of being home+

Countless prayers and fasting on our behalf=

Kyle starts his new job today. :)

Thank-you!

We feel blessed!

Update

I had to give an update on my post yesterday...

• The washer got fixed, it was the water pump and now $200 later we can do laundry again. How did people survive without washers and dryers?
• We had the meeting for Preston's preschool this morning and they found him an AM spot for preschool! I was SO relieved! I had my reasons why he needed AM all figured out in my head and had a pit in my stomach walking into the school, when 2 minutes into the meeting she tells us, "oh and we found an AM spot for him." Little did this lady know how much sleep I lost over it! Kyle said I worried for nothing. We are excited and know Preston will enjoy it. He starts next week after his 3rd birthday.
• Lindsey is eating today. :) She wouldn't drink the soy formula. So we continue on with the normal stuff. Why do kids give us a hard time eating their food?
• The TV guy came (right before the Sears' washer repair guy did) and he was about to put the part into the TV and realized it's the wrong part! So we wait some more with the entertainment center apart.
• Kyle uplugged the bathroom drains. much nicer.
• Kate turned in her homework and library book.
• And something I forgot to add yesterday in my post is that I got pulled over yesterday right in front of Kate's school- about to pick her up- supposedly I didn't stop long enough at the stop sign. Great, now I have to go to court to contest it.