Happy 4th birthday megan!

Her new Pet Shop Clubhouse!

Her new Barbie scooter!

I love this girl so much!

Finally she is four!

Daddy's little girl!

Having fun at Chuck E Cheese....

Megan turned 4 years old! We can't believe how fast time is going by. She seems so big and grown up, probably because she is 4 but going on 16! She is a funny girl and we are so blessed she is in our family. Here are four things we love about her.

1-She is just so cute to her new baby sister. She adores her!(sometimes too much)She is always singing to her getting a blanket for her or changing her diaper.

2-She is really good at sharing.

3-She is all girl. Loves to sing High School Musical 2 ,play dress ups and with her Little Pet Shop..And loves animals.oh and can be very dramatic.

4-She can say the sweetest prayers and is mostly happy and lights up our day with her loving personality.

For her birthday all she wanted was to go to chuck e cheese. So we spent a Saturday afternoon there along with everyone else in Modesto.we are so very thankful that Heavenly Father sent us Megan. We love you so much!

First Day of First Grade

Jaden started first grade last week. It is kinda weird here in California the campus is huge! It looks like a college campus. Everything is outside. He goes to a different building for everything. Kinda crazy and hard to get used to. We unfortunately had a hard time getting him into a school. They only allow 20 kids in each class up to third grade. So the school next to our house was all full and all the other schools in the district except one was open and yep it is the furthest one away. Oh well. He is liking it. He loves that he gets recess, and his new favorite thing is teather ball. And he loves fun Friday, because you get ice cream! What more could a first grader want right! It's the mom that is having a hard time sending her baby to such a big school. Hopefully we can get him into the school by our house. He is on a waiting list so we will see.Ahh! As a lady at our church told me Welcome to California!

She did it!

Lanie slept all night! Wahoo. I know it may not happen again tonight, but I will still take it. She slept from 9pm-6am. what a good girl! I feel so refreshed today.If only I had someone to do something with. I guess I will take the girls to the park .I did go to playgroup last week but no one came so maybe there will be one person today. I did meet a nice lady from our church. she has two kids the same age as megan and Jaden but she has five kids so she is busy busy. I miss my lubbock playgroup!

OUr lIttle Lanie

Little Lanie is now 10 weeks old. I can't believe it! Wow, what a crazy 10 weeks it has been ,but she has been the calm to our storm. She is such a sweet baby and so cute. Jaden and Megan still love her and want to hold her every second they can. Megan last night was saying" oh you are the best sister ever". We are going to be Sisters forever. She is starting to smile and coo. And is almost sleeping all night yeah! We love you so much lanie!

pictures from the park!

This is our new favorite park Freedom.
Oh they love it when I ask them to take a picture together
for mom.













What cutie pies!
























This is a fun new toy at the park .



















Even lanie likes being outside in california, THere is NO wind!


























Lanie is warming up to daddy now, she wasn't so sure of him for
a couple of days . After he was away to california.



















Jaden loves the water at this park and gets all wet so he can get some good air off the
big slide!

California!

Hey we made it to california!The kids are adjusting well. They love this new park and we have to go almost everyday to it. Which is fine by me. The weather here is perfect! I am starting to make my way around and have found more parks the kids like and some fun shopping. But the sonic is far away and not very good:( I do miss texas and all my friends there especially Down Memory lane. I did go to a store here which was good, but it won't ever be the same:( Jaden will start school on Monday . Which makes me happy for him but sad for me. The school he will go to is year round. So I will have to adjust to that too.But here are a few pics from our favorite park.I guess I will have to show some pictures later.

prayer

We feel so blessed knowing that we have a loving Heavenly Father who hears and answers our prayers. Ben got a job! We are so thrilled and excited to start a new adventure with our little family in California. Ben graduated in December in Finacial Planning and we have been looking for jobs since then and have had a fun roller coaster ride as some of our friends and family know. We are so thankful for the love and support Thur all of that. We wanted to be closer to family and have more things to go and do. This is going to be a great opportunity for Ben's career and we are so proud of him. He is a great husband, father, friend and really works so hard to provide for us. We will really miss all the friendships we have made here in Texas and will be so sad to leave. We will definitely keep in touch through our blog and emails and phone calls. Oh and we love visitors. So ,for now we are enjoying the last few days here and are trying to get to all our favorite parks and places before we leave. Ben will head off to sunny California with our stuff and I will get to go visit family in utah for a while with the kids. Yippee!