Derek is now one month old. Time flies so fast. I guess that once you have three kids the days aren't as long even though they can feel like it.

-He is a really good eater. Erica and Jackson both had trouble nursing. So far it has been a pleasant experience for me.

-He is starting to be more awake during the day.

-He does really well at night most of the time. I usually get up twice to feed him, and then he goes back to sleep.

I bought a swaddler blanket a few days ago, and so far I'm loving it. He sleeps in it at night and sometimes for naps. Its so funny. He can be fussing one min. and then I put him in the blanket and he is sound asleep.

Brent and I have really enjoyed him. He is such a sweet little guy.

Erica's Early Birthday Party Dec. 13, 2010

Since we are moving to Cedar and wont be here in Richfield for Erica's birthday (Jan. 5) so I had a friend party early for her. We invited 11 of her little friends:

Caleb and Addilyn
Jaxon and Madi
Aubrey and Tyler
Zach and Allie
Ethan
Katera
and Julia
When the kids arrived we made little advent calendars with the kids. My friends Katie, Ashely, Amanda, and Cindy stayed with their kids and helped me out a ton. After the craft we played "Find Santa's Raindeer" I told the kids a story about how the raindeer had a party on Christmas Eve and Santa couldn't find them, so he sent his elves (the kids) around to find them so that there would be presents for Christmas. They went excitedly running around looking for them. Afterwords they brought them to the table and we put them in order from 1 to 8. Caleb asked me were was Rudolph. I know I should have printed one out. Then we played "The Christmas Candle" It is kind of like pin the tail on the donkey. The kids were blind folded and then spun around. Then they would walk toward me and try to blow out the candle. Ethan and Katera had so much fun with this and would help we blow out the matches. After all the kids had gone we opened presents. The kids took over at this point. By the time I got over there to watch almost all the presents were open. Afterwords we sand Happy Birthday and ate Christmas cupcakes and tree cookies and m&m cookies with Red and Green drinks (Cherry and Lemon Lime 7UP).
The party ended a little early so the kids went running though the house laughing and having so much fun. When everyone was gone we took Julia home and picked up Jackson. Debbie was so nice to watch him for me. I don't think that I could have done the party and watched him at the same time.

Erica has loved playing with all of her new toys and can't stop talking about the fun games that we played. It was a fun way to somewhat end our life here in Richfield. Thanks to everyone who helped out.

The New House

The home is in Enoch. Brent is very excited about the third garage, and I love the kitchen. By the way the kitchen does not have the word kitchen across the Island. That was a mistake that I made with the pic.

Yesterday we found out that we are for sure selling our home. The loan for the couple passed underwriting and now they are working on the appraisal. We are also working on our loan. Over Thanks Giving we went down to Cedar. We went and looked at a home in Enoch and just loved it. It has been on the market for over 3 years has never been lived in. It has 3 bedrooms upstairs and also an unfinished basement. I never would have thought I would ever live in Enoch, but we loved the house and the neighborhood has a lot of young families and we hear the ward is wonderful. We made an offer on Thanks Giving and the accepted it the next day.

We had been blessed with how everything has been working out. We accepted an offer on our home here in Richfield after only having it up for 3 weeks and then to find the perfect home in Enoch has really lifted a weight off our shoulders. We are so grateful for all of the blessings we have had during this process.