A New Year!

Honestly the reason why I don't update this thing is because my pictures are never on my computer. It's stupid, I know.

So well lets see, life is good. :) We love living in Santaquin. It's a nice peaceful place, and it reminds us a lot of what Payson used to be when we were little.

We love our home. The more we live in it, the more we like it. Its has everything we need. It's got the space. It's got the yard. And it's a quiet neighborhood. I hope we never move again!!

I'm 21 weeks pregnant now. Yeah! Back in Sept./Oct. I thought I was losing my mind. I totally have sympathy for anyone that has to deal with depression. If I had to deal with that with every pregnancy, I probably wouldn't be going onto having 6 kids. It was a pretty bad two months. I'm so glad I'm past it. And I'm sure Joe is glad too, ha ha, it was hard on us all.

Now that I'm back to being normal, homeschool is going full steam ahead. It's so nice to have the energy again! Seriously! Looking at what I need to do now doesn't seem like moving a whole mountain!

Right now we're doing our basic thing everyday where the kids do their math, reading, writing/vocabulary. And then everyday we focus on a subject.

Monday-Math

Tuesday-English

Wednesday-History

Thursday-Science

Friday-Projects/field trips

Saturday-cleaning

Megan and Anthony are reading The Mouse and the Motorcycle. They read a chapter everyday. Amanda is learning to read. So far she can sound out and read a bunch of words, which is so good for a kindergartener. Abby is learning her letters, which is amazing since I haven't actually sat down with her to teach her. That iphone app. is great! :D

I've got Megan and Anthony reading some scriptures everyday also. It really makes me happy to see them reading without having me tell them to.

I'd say the only thing that I need to get back onto doing is teaching them music. And getting them out of the house more. With winter here, it's so easy just to tell them to stay inside. Not to mention the crazy freaks out there that like to prey on our children! I've got to work on going out with them.

As for an update on Joe, he's doing well. He's working on building up a clientele. He's looking for any small businesses that needs their computer systems networked and/or worked on. He's really good at what he does, and I'm not just saying that because I'm his wife. :) All of his clients are impressed with him. He's actually got a couple companies that want to higher him full time, but he's too over qualified. One has actually tried to set up an agreement with him to do some out source work for them. We'll see how that works out. Joe's found out how nice it is to be your own boss. And I must say that I like it too. :) We don't worry about vacation time, and if it's okay to take the afternoon off. (Which by the way, we're doing our ultrasound today. I'll let you know if it's a boy or girl! :) It's so nice not to have to get clearance from the boss to take the afternoon off!!

It's amazing how a trial can seem so hard when it first happens, but then you find out that Heavenly Father is totally in control of what's going on! Seriously, there are things that happened back in June and July that prepared us for this transition in our lives. Heavenly Father has totally been directing our path! It's amazing! And I'm so thankful for it. Everything from moving into this peticular ward, to feeling prompted to save money has sustained us through this trail. We've learned a ton, and we're still not through the trial yet. I'm so thankful for the things I've learned. And for good friends and family, and people that are compassionate. Joe works with good people, which is so great. :)

Anyway, now that I've written a book, I hope you weren't too bored. :D I hope everyone had a great Christmas a New Years! Our's was awesome!

Leave a remark, and tell me how you all are! Some of you I haven't seen in so long.