Well I wanted to make my sister something for her house for Christmas. I usually am so not the crafty type of person, but decided to try it out. I think that the blocks turned out pretty cute. Hope you like them sis.

A little something...

So still no luck on finding the camera cord, so until I get my desk comp. put together, I'll have to blog with no pics. So this week, we got so much snow. It just kept snowing and snowing and snowing. I'm not very used to having to shovel snow off the sidewalk every two hours or leaving an hour early for work even though I only live 10 miles away. I took some cool pics of the snow in our front yard, so I'll post them as soon as I can.

It's Christmas...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Baby Jett...

traffic control cleared the air space and baby Jett landed safely weighing in at 9lb 1.2 oz and 20 and 3quarter inches

Yeah...this was the pic message I got on my phone this afternoon. Jett has made his arrival into a great family. You two are going to be great parents. Congrats, and I can't wait to see him in person.

Seeing Jetta off at the MTC...

I have never been to the MTC before, and on Dec. 17th I got my chance. Sister Jessica Rose Whalen arrived at the MTC on that day and so did we. It was a very bitter sweet day because we were all very excited for her to go to Belgium, but very sad that we aren't going to see her for 18 months.

Jessica we are going to miss you, but good luck and we love you.

Lost camera cord...

So I haven't posted in a while, its because in the hast of moving, I somehow misplaced my camera cord so I can't upload any pics. So I guess since we have looked high and low for darn cord, I will just do an update of what is going on in our life and post pics later when I finally find the cord.
So over the last couple of months or the past year and a half, our life has been kind of in a whirl. But I won't get into that I will just go through the past couple of months. I had been kind of thinking that I need to get back into school, so I put some things into play like reapplying for school and seeing about a transfer with my job. Well I applied for SUU and USU, and I got accepted to both, so now I had to make a decision about which one. On one hand we could move back into the house in Dammeron and commute to school til we could sell the house(which is still up for sale...FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR). Or on the other hand, we could move to Logan and start school up there. We both started hunting for jobs to see what we could find, and we couldn't find anything really in St. George or Cedar, so up to Logan we went. Now we went into this thinking that we could get all this put together and move up about Januaryish. No I found a job transfer with the hospital to Logan in the middle of October. WHAT...this was happening too fast. So I took the job and told them I needed to find a place to live and my husband still needed to find a job. Within a week, Guy had found a job and we were headed to Logan. We still hadn't found a place to live, and were waiting on an offer to go through on the house in St. George. So we decided to pull the trailer up to Logan and stay in it for a week. Now this was into November, so yeah it was going to be way cold. Well we survived and finally found a place to live in a house out of town. And school is starting in about a week, so things are finally starting to fall into place. And on top of that someone made an offer on our house that is for sale. So that's what is going on...and I promise some pics of the new place soon...and of all the snow that we got up here.

We are missing our puppies...

So we left our puppies at grandma and grandpa's house for the week since we are going to be traveling two weekends in a row. But we are missing them alot so I thought I would post a pic of them being cute. After I started this post, I remembered that my mom was going to take them to her sisters house to be babysat while she took Samantha up to the dr. in Salt Lake. Anyways, she would have left them at the farm to play, but there was going to be construction people there working on the house, and she didn't want them to be in the way or get run over by a tractor. So her sister agreed to watch them for the day. I didn't care either, so last night when I called to see how it went, my mom said that her sister and her mom were probably going to be in bed all day tomorrow with a migraine. I didn't think that my dogs were that bad...just spoiled. So I asked what happened...I was thinking that maybe they killed one of the ducks in the backyard or chewed up a cell phone cord. She hesitated but then decided that she should tell me what happened. I guess that they were out in the backyard playing while Kami was in getting ready to get the kids from school. Now this wasn't the first time that they were out there, they had been in and out all day and been fine. But this time, she went out to get them so they could ride with, and Dal was missing. She looked everywhere, but couldn't find her. So instantly she went into panic mode. She had to be to the school soon to get the kids, so Gma Gene started going up and down the street looking everywhere asking all the neighbors if they had seen a small brown dog. Nobody had seen it, so about two hours later, they decided to call the pound and see if anyone had turned her in. And sure enough, someone had. So they jumped in the car with relief and went to pick her up. When they got there, they had to identify her thoroughly. My grandma was stressing cause she couldn't remember which jacket she had on, but she remembered that she had a pink collar on with jewels. The pound wasn't sure cause they said that noboby usually brings dashunds to the pound, they usually get stolen cause they are expensive. Anyway the pound also told them that the lady who brought her in wanted to keep her so bad so we were very lucky. They let them take her home after paying some money(which my grandma won't say how much). By the time my mom finished telling me the story I was flippin out...and we decided that we don't want our dogs to have week long vacations without us anymore. I was scared to death, my dog is a jail bird I guess.

Somehow we got roped into this...

I'm not sure how, but we got roped into going shopping on Black Friday. I was not very excited about it when we were all sitting around deciding who was going to what store, and what they were going to get. We all had our lists and what store we were hitting. Jessica, Guy, and me had Target. We saw that they were opening the doors at 6 am, so Jessica decided that we should be there at about 4 am. I thought that would be a little over kill, but with a lot a persuasion, I agreed to be up at 3:30 am. Well that was before I realized that it was almost midnight. Oh well, what the heck. So at 3:30 am sharp, Jessica came barreling in to make sure we were up, and off we went to get in line. We got to be about 40th in line, so I wasn't too bad. We asked what time the first people got into line, and they said at 2:30 am. Who gets out of bed that early just to save some money. Holiday shoppers are crazy. Anyway, when the doors finally opened, the race was off. I was to get a shopping cart, while Guy and Jetta ran to the toy department. It was a flippin mad house, but we got everthing we went for even the DVD's that were a killer deal. Needless to say, I think that we are addicted. Guy already has plans for next year.

Back home from the holiday hustle and bustle...

So we headed to St. George to have Thanksgiving the Whalen way this year. We definately had plenty to eat and lots of visiting with the fam. All the grandkids were full of wiggles and were so excited to see Uncle Guy and Aunt Bina. We had alot of fun and afterwards, we headed to the temple grounds to see all the lights and take lots of pics. Here are some of the pics of us freezing, actually it wasn't that cold. But we did head straight for hot chocolate after this.