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!

Two weeks...

2 weeks and counting.....

So we have survived the 1st two weeks with little Lanie in the house. The kids can't stop kissing her and asking to hold her. Things could be worse so we are counting our blessings. That and Lanie doesn't cry very much even when trying to pass gas so we feel really blessed to have calm nights. The paparazzi were finally able to catch up with her....

Hospital Visitors

We are trying to catch up from the last couple weeks. Nat's parents, Glenn and Carol, came to visit and help just as Natalie and Lanie came home from the Hospital. Al and Blanche, our wonderful next door neighbors (and our adopted grandparents from Texas) watched Jaden and Megan while the rest of us were in the Hospital. Additional Louisa and her kids (Matthew, Zach, Alex, and Adriana) came to say hello, hold Lanie, and take the kids to one of the parks to play. I guess Adriana and Alex are the only photogenic ones of the bunch. Either that or we just didn't take pictures of the other boys. We wanted to say post some pictures of their visits and also say thanks to them for helping us out. We couldn't have done it without them.

More pics

If she would only poop.....

So we are home and trying to get more and more sleep. For some "small" reason it isn't happening but Lanie is now out of the tanning bed, hopefully for good. Her belirubin count was high so we are feeding her as much as we can (based on the nurses orders). In the meantime when she poops I am afraid we will have to throw a party because that means we are flushing out the belirubin. No pun intended! Either way we are happy to be spending the night in our own bed eating regular food.