Walter Christmas party!

Last night was the Walter Christmas Party! We had a blast. Tradition is the boys cook breakfast burrtios for us and they were very yummy! This year Brooke and Scott got to be Mary and Joseph with Jayden as baby jesus :) and the little boys were the wise men and shephards as jade read us the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. Afterwards we played this fun game... if you rolled doubles you got to answer a question about christmas and if you got it right you unwraped a layer of wrapping paper off the present. Joel unwrapped the last layer of wrapping paper and we won the board game monopoly. which was pretty exciting! Then we all exchanged gifts. It was a very fun Christmas party! Now i just can't beleive its Christmas Eve! And Joel is only working till noon so im excited to get to hang out with him all day!!!

                                 Scot, Jade, Joel and Scott cooking us breakdast burritos!!

Jayden and Will

The biggest pan I've ever seen!!!

Jade and Casey!

                                  Joel....being Joel :) :)

Colton and Trent were Wise men!

Christmas!

I can't even beleive its almost Christmas! This year I am really having a hard time getting excited for Christmas...infact all i have been thinking is I can't wait for Christmas to be over! That is terrible i know but i am just terribly homesick this year. Mom and Dad will be all by themselves this year too and i just hate it. I am very excited though to get to talk to Ephraim. He said he would call me since i wasn't going to be home. I really hope I get to talk to him for a long time like last year. I am really missing him. Poor Joel, he has really helped me through this I am like balling all the time or on the verge of tears very easily. What would I do without him!!! I am trying really hard to get into the spirit of Christmas, some snow would definatly help that is for sure... But the rain today just made me feel right at home so I am very thankful for that. This December has been quite hectic especially with my new calling as 2nd counsler in the Primary. I have had sharing time this month and so ive been quite nervous and stressed for that. And we are also in the procces of buying a house! It is in Hatch and its suppose to close on the 7th but i had no idea how much there is to do when buying a house. We have been pre-approved for the loan and the appraisal has been done but i still feel like i can't celebrate until keys are in hand just because I know that something could come up and we might not get it...probably not but just in case im trying to control my excitement. But it is making the time go by fast!!!
          im already almost 26 weeks along!!! I just can't beleive it. my weeks are just flying by. We are going to name our precious little girl Jersie :) we havent quite decided on a middle name yet so for now she's just Jersie Walter. But the closer i get the more excited I get. It is so fun too because she moves around so much and i feel her all the time and we can even see her move, which im my favorite thing :)  Joel and I try to picture what she looks like. It is so fun and I really can't wait to meet her and hopefully we will be in our house and all ready for her!! I am going in for another ultrasound this week to make sure she really is a girl. The nurse that did it said he was 100% sure it was a girl but he said i could come in for a complimentary ultrasound so of course we are!!! im excited to see her because its been 8 weeks since my last one and she is going to be lots bigger now!!! and she better be a little girl still or else my little boy will have girl clothes and girl blankets ha. well i have a few pics that we took for our christmas card so ill post them. I hope everyone has a very Merry Chirstmas and a Happy New Year!

catch up....again :)

I dont know how i got so far behind!!! Life has just been so busy i guess!!! So this blog is going to have just some updating in it.. so some stuff will be a little old. Lets see i guess i'll begin in October about my 18 mark Mom and dad came to utah for Chaley's wedding and it just happened to be perfect timing because i could do my ultrasound and find out what we were having!! And to my surprise it is a girl!!! Joel knew the whole time it was going to be a girl. I was quite excited and it was the most amazing thing to see her little heartbeat and she was quite active. She even gave us a little wave it was adorable. If it weren't for the fact that I had never in my life had to pee that bad i could have watched her all day. It was so special that mom and dad were able to be there as well as Joel's mom Jill. Everyone thought it was so fun to watch her.

That day mom, dad, and I went to Bryce Canyon. Unfortunantly Joel had to go back to work but it was so fun to go and of course it was beautiful. It was a really cold day so we didn't stay long.

           

 The next day we went down to Manti for Chaley and Brocks wedding!! It was a beautiful wedding and we are very excited for them and so glad we could be a part of their special day. The Manti Temple is so Beautiful I had never been there before so it was fun.  

The next day was a bitter sweet day because I was going home with my parents for two weeks. I was very excited to go home it had been a year since I had been home but unfortunantly Joel wasn't going to be able to come with me. It was so sad to tell him bye. Two weeks seemed like so long!!! On the way back to Oregon we got to stop by in Idaho and see Jason and his family. The kids had gotten so big it was really fun to get to see everyone again.  

I had a wonderful time at home with mom and dad. Mom and I just had so much fun the first thing we did was go buy some baby girl clothes...we just couldn't help ourselves we were so excited. We also visited Joann's fabric store everyday. We were sewing and quilting away!!! We even made our very first rag quilt together. It was so fun and we enjoyed every min. of it. I couldn't believe how fast the two weeks went by!!! I needed a few more weeks!!! It is so hard to live so far away from them. Being home was awesome and I will always be so glad i got to go home. I don't know when i will ever get that chance to be with just them again. I really appreciate everything they do for us.

Joel picked me up at the airport in Vegas. It was really really good to get to see you eachother!! We had missed eachother! We decided since we were going to be in Vegas we might as well celebrate our two year anniversary! It was only a couple weeks away. We stayed at the Golden Nugget!!! It was really fun to just spend time with eachother. We just celebrated our real two year anniversary on Sat. I just can't believe it's been two years!!! The time really has flown by. We couldn't be happier its been a great year and i know its only going to get better especially with our little baby girl on the way. I have a wonderful husband who loves me and treats me like a princess. A fairytale dream truly come true :)

     I only have a few pics from vegas i didn't carry my camara around with me when we went places it was easier so i have some on my phone but they didnt turn out the best so for now im only going to post the one.