Farewell

Ryan just left for the MTC. It's been a bitter sweet experience in that I am so proud of him and know that what he is going to share with the people of Canada is a priceless gift, but I also miss him very much and can't believe I won't be able to see him for 2 years. We tried to pack in as much family fun as possible with him before he left and definitely made some good memories. These pictures are all from the night he was set apart to be a missionary. We had some little smokies with the bacon wrapped around them and the brown sugar sauce, then headed over to the church- it was a really neat experience to be there for. The only thing that was super embarrassing was that Lyndi hit the Stake president in the face (he's also my boss) when he said hi to her (I just about died). When we got home we had some birthday cake since it was my little bro Hyrum's 13th b-day the 19th. Then because my dad was bald in all of our last family pictures we tried to get some before Ryan left. Don't worry we were trying to get a toddler to behave for pictures at 11:30 pm. Through all the craziness we still had allot of fun and I love my crazy big family.

Jeremy Joe and his cute little kids

Jeremy e-mailed me these pictures to put on the blog. It is so fun to their new little addition and how much all the others have grown! If any of you guys would like to e-mail me pictures to put up here I'd be more than happy to!

Jacob Eli Judd

Jace, Charlie, Jacob

Jace, Jeremy, Jacob

Rowdy Ray

Well he took his sweet time , but Rowdy is here! My actual due date was Dec.20 but that day came and went.Then the next day and the next day....you get the idea. Then the morning after Christmas I was scheduled for some tests at the hospital, just to check and make sure he was cooking okay. Well both of the tests were concerning. in one of them he was being lazy and they were a bit worried then the other test results came back and showed I was low on my amniotic fluid. The nurse said it was probably a very slow leak and thats why I myself never noticed it. Anyway they called the on-call doctor and he wanted me admitted right away.

I felt so bad because Ihad taken Roxie and LoLo over to grandmas that morning in their pajamas and a pretty empty diaper bag because I THOUGHT I was going to be right back.

Anyway, they started me on pitocin at about 11:30 that morning and Rowdy arrived in all his glory at 7:24 that evening. It was my quickest and easiest delivery. I am so thankfull to our Heavenly Father for entrusting us with another sweet spirit! We love him so much!!! I am so thankfull that I can be a mom. My family is my world.

Happy Birthday!

So there are quite a few lately that have had a B-day and I just wanted to take a qick minute to welcome the new little ones to the world and tell you that you are so blessed to have such an awesome loving and supporting family. To the not so new ones HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mom and Grandpa! Two big birthdays for them 75 and 50... but they both look oh so much younger : )Happy new Year to the rest of the family and lets make it a good one and all try to keep in touch a bit better and remember how important our family really is!