Great News!

Yes, we have some mighty fine news -- two things to be excited about: First, we SOLD OUR HOUSE! After seven long months of our house being on the market, it is sold! We closed Jan 29th so it's all done. Needless to say, January was a very busy month trying to get this all taken care of long distance. I couldn't have done it without Brandon -- he's wonderful! To be honest, it hardly seems real but we are so very happy and grateful!

The second thing to be excited and grateful about is that we are pregnant (for those of you who haven't heard yet)! I'm 15 weeks along so we are due at the end of July. I realize that it has been a long time since our last post and now you know why! If I ever had a minute to myself, I slept rather than getting on the computer. But now I am back in the world of the living! (It's good to be back!)

The kids make us laugh so much! Just before Christmas Tanner came up with a nick-name for Hailey that he could say: "LuLu". Hailey was thrilled that Tanner could finally call her by "name" and it stuck! It's pretty darn cute to hear him say! When he was born, Hailey called him "Shaw-Shosh" for a nick-name. So now we have "Shaw-Shosh and LuLu!" Sometimes Tanner will sing a happy little song to himself, to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle" saying, "Mama, Dada, LuLu, Ma, Da, Ma, Lu, Dada, Lu ..." We love to hear him sing! I melts all our hearts to hear him say, "I ya yoo!" (I love you.)

Last week Hailey was pretending to be a "Rescue Princess;" wearing a princess dress and brandishing a sword. During this pretend time, I gave her a cookie and she asked me, "Is this for being such a good warrior?"

While driving home from preschool one day, Hailey was telling me about opposites (something they were talking about that day). So I asked her, "What's the opposite of high?" This is the answer I got, "Well, birds can fly up in the sky because, well, Heavenly Father put magic on their wings. But He didn't put any magic on our arms, so we can't fly. So, birds are high because they are up by the trees and the sky and we are low on the ground 'cause we can't fly." I wasn't expecting anything so elaborate. She certainly has the gift of gab.

A couple of weeks ago, Hailey was helping Grandma make pancakes for a Sunday morning breakfast. (We have late church -- not my fav.) Grandma Marti said to her, "After we're finished making the pancakes then we'll set the table." To which Hailey replied, "Yeah, well, someone will." Maybe we could look at it as developing leadership qualities and learning the value of delegating. She's definitely got sass. Does sass count as a leadership quality?

In sacrament meeting last Sunday Hailey leaned over and whispered to me, "This is magic bread, it helps you think about Jesus." She's got lots of other good qualities, too!

Tonight, Hailey was getting out of bed over and over with one long-winded excuse after another. It resulted in her losing out on her beloved TV time for tomorrow. After hearing her consequence she turned and started stomping back to bed and I told her that I loved her. She turned around and in her angry voice said, "Don't say that! I know! I love you, too! I just -*huh*- I won't be angry in the morning!" And off she went. My mom and sister Mary were there to witness the whole thing and had to stifle their laughs until she was all the way up stairs! Yep, she's definitely got sass.