Christmas Card & Letter!

First, we would like to wish a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all friends and loved ones. We hope this year has been as good to all of you as it has been to us. Also, we apologize for not sending a “real” card this year but we hope this will suffice for the moment.
I guess we’ll start with the biggest news first. Trina and I are expecting our first baby and it’s a girl!! Her “do date” is March 29 so in three months you should all be receiving an announcement. It is starting to get closer and closer and we are getting really excited to welcome her to the world and to our family. Both mom and the baby are doing great, and growing, and we feel blessed in that regard.
Our year has been good, a little less eventful than the last. No break-ins or blown up car engines this year which we are very thankful for. We tried to buy a house this summer; I think we must have looked at fifty or more over a month’s time. We even submitted several bids but were always out bid in the end. After all the looking, and being out bid, we decided to sign another lease at our current place. We enjoy our current ward and some of our best friends live in the apartment directly below ours so we feel maybe this was what was supposed to happen.
Trina still nannies during the day for two little boys. I think she still likes it and I don’t hear too many complaints from her. It’s getting more difficult now that she is pregnant because the younger of the two still doesn’t walk and I guess he’s a real solid little guy. Trina did get a few weeks off this fall while the father of the family was between jobs, which was nice.
Trina still does some photography when the opportunity arises. I think she did two weddings this summer and there is always the occasional family portrait, graduation, or missionary picture. And of course, there are always lots of nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters, etc who need photos. Her website has been down for a few months, something about the person who was hosting it moved or is not hosting anymore, I’m not sure of the details. So any work that comes her way now is purely by word of mouth.
I’m still working for the same company doing estimating for the framing division. This year has been a little scary as residential construction in Las Vegas has slowed to a snail’s pace. The company has had to let a lot of people go this year and closed our divisions in Reno and Kingman. My department has stayed busy bidding anything and everything that can be framed out of wood. We have been able to pick up some apartments and a few commercial buildings to supplement the few houses that are still being built. It still looks a little bleak but we pay our tithing and live the best we can and try not to worry too much about it.
I have also been taking classes in the evenings at the community college. This spring I will transfer to UNLV and will enter their construction management program. The degree still seems a long way off but it will be good to be into the program finally. School is school and I guess there is no easy way to get around it.
We feel very blessed and love and enjoy having you in our lives. We hope you are all able to enjoy the Holiday season and spend it with the people you love. Merry Christmas!

Let It Snow ... Let It Snow... Let It Snow...!

What a day we had yesterday here in Las Vegas, I have never seen so much snow fall at one time in my hole life of living hear in Nevada. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!! about 11:45 in the morning it started to snow, I was no my way to pick up Spencer ( one of the kid's I nanny) from Pre School and I don't think it stopped snowing till after Ben and I went to bed at 11:00 PM. I took some photos of the the snow with my phone while I was at work so sorry they are not that good but they work.

I had to drive pretty slow no my way home, but it was worth it. To see the white snow cover everything in Las Vegas was quite a site, I laughing to myself saying this in not Las Vegas maybe UT or WY but not hear. Ben & I had tithing settlement at 7:20 PM so we got to go out into the weather and enjoy the snow while it lasted. We had trees in our Apartment complex braking because of all the weight from the snow that had fallen on then, the poor things they were not meant to have so much snow on them.

When we got to the church Ben had to spin a few donuts in the parking lot and when we left, we decide to take a drive and look at the Christmas lights that look so out of place most of the time hear (because it never look like winter hear) they looked so pretty with all the new white snow it made them stand out and really shine! I loved it!

I had at about 4 inches of snow on my car before I went home from work. This is Erik the family that I work for helping me get all the snow off my car.
The sad thing is snow does not last long here by this morning it was melting and has been all day.

It's Almost Turkey Pinata Time!!!!!

Hey Everyone I just wanted to show you my beautiful Turkey pinata that i made. The last three weeks I had off from work so I was trying to get some thing done around the house and my to do list, but my sister in law summer was making a turkey pinata to take to Mexico with them for Thanksgiving and it looked like a lot of fun so I had to make one. I think he is so cute I call him turkey lurkey I forgot to put a thing on him so we can hang him up so were going to put a nooses on him I think its quite funny but that's just me. I think all the kids are going to love him!

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Time to place your bets!

Hey Every one i hope your all doing fine Ben and I have been doing a lot lately, Ben is do working on that house (Yes! I'm so happy) I think Ben is too. This last weekend Heather help me and Connie can fruit the we got for free from friend is Alamo. It was fun but i knew i would run out of steam before we would get it done so having Heather there really help a lot we would have never got it all done with out her. Ben tried to go camping this weekend and got his truck stuck in a wash so he had to dig himself out by had witch took him 3 hour and not knowing how close to his Buddy's camp he went back and stayed the night with josh. Poor guy it looks like he got in a fight all of his hands and arms are scratched makes me feel bad when i look at then.

 

Well We are going to find out what were having Nov 4Th so we are taking bets on if its going to be a boy or girl.  

I made it to 13 Week's

Hey everyone sorry I have not been posting much, today it my 13Th week mark and online it says that it is about the size of a medium shrimp and weighs nearly an ounce. Connie, Robin and I have started walking at 7:00 am every morning at sunset park and we up to two miles a day. Then we let shay plan on the new kids play ground that they finally fixed and put in that soft rubber stuff on the ground, She love to swing! I'm doing alright not liking the fact that I'm getting bigger and its just going to keep going but oh well that's what happens when you want a kid. Ben has been working on a building project that is taking all of his extra time, so I'm home by myself a lot witch I have not been liking very much but hopefully he'll be done soon. My brother Cody and Luci are engaged and are getting married Nov 29Th the last Saturday of the month. Well Braden is crying so got to go.

Peanut Photos

I'm so sorry for not writing this month but it has been a really busy one for me. Now for the big news, I'M PREGNANt!!! I know what some of you are thinking, "you're prego and you didn't even tell us". Well maybe not my side of the family, they've known for awhile already. Yes, I'm 9 weeks and 2 days, the pictures say 4 days but when they measured the baby it came out to be 2 days less then the predicted date.