We had an enjoyable trip this past weekend down to visit Paul and Karry (Justin's oldest Brother and his family) down in Alpine Texas. We got to enjoy a wonderful time with them and played lots of Wii! We are converting the world! We went and enjoyed a wonderful German meal at a little german restaurant called Edel Weiss (Sorry for the spelling--Obviously I am not a german speaker). It was nice to be able to take another break from Lubbock. AS much as we love it here, we have come to realize that it is nice to get out and visit other places too! Alpine is a tiny little town. We went to Paul and Karry's branch for church on Sunday in the smallest little chapel I have ever seen. There was a room that had a divider, it doubled as the room for relief society.priesthood rooms, Sunday School, and Sacrament meeting. The primary, which had about 12 kids in it was set up in an addition to the chapel. There was a small room for the nursery that had about 3 kids in it. I was amazed at how small the branch was. Justin has spent time in small branches, but I have never been exposed to them before. It was a new experience for me and I enjoyed it. Everyone was so incredibly nice and polite and so friendly down there. It was fun. Thanks again Paul and Karry for letting us visit!
Out next family trip will be falling probably about spring break week. We will be taking the girls and going off to Utah for a wedding. Dad and Kay Bruce will be getting married on March 21 in Ogden. We were fortunate to meet Kay while in Vegas for Christmas and we all loved her. Jaicie attached hersel quickly to Kay. Before even being told that dad and Kay were getting married, Jaicie looked up at Kay and said "Kay, you can be my grandma, cause my grandma went to Heaven." Jaicie loved Kay as soon as she met her and she is excited that we can go to Utah to see Grandpa and Grandma Kay get married. We are not sure of our exact dates for travel, but we will let everyone in Utah know. It is our hope that we can get together at least once with our friends as well as have a chance to visit all of our family members there. We are looking into renting a car while we are there.
As for me, I will be making my first trip to Austin next week. I am so excited to go out there. It will be nice to get a better idea of what my responsibilities on the state level are.
We will be having our ultrasound on Feb 1 and will make a post with the results. We have every intention of finding out what we are having. I would go crazy not knowing. We are excited to find out what new little angel will be joining our family.
Jaicie is doing well in school. She has now basically mastered writing her first and last name. She is focusing now on making sure the her letters hit the lines where they are supposed to. Grass flowers and sky is the way that they teach kids to write these days. It is really cute to hear Jaicie talk about the a needing to go to the flowers and the C needing to go to the sky. (grass=bottom line, flowers=middle line, sky=top line) She has started reading more and is doing well. We are going to start focusing on words and building words in order to help her understand reading a little more. Jaicie has be diagnosed with Asthma and does nightly treatment with a nebulizer. It has made a tremendous difference in her breathing and coughing. We are so happy to have such a great pediatrician!
Felicity is beginning to learn her letters. She knows O really well. O is for Octopus, she tells us repeatedly. THis week we are focusing on A-D. We are also helping her learn about numbers. We have decided to put of potty training because of our trip to Utah in March. We are still working on encouraging her to tell us before she goes in her diaper. So we are working with her but not trying to push it to fast. I guess it will come when she is ready.
Justin is working on his system disorders course. He begins rotations in July and is really excited. He loves his courses and is keeping especially busy with everything. He takes good care of me though even with how busy he is. He has cooked dinner a lot lately!
Other than that, things are going really well for us. We are happy and healthy and
continue to see things in our life improve! We are so blessed in life and have more blessings than we can count! Hope this week goes wonderfully for you all!
4 comments:
Jaidi, I found your blog from your facebook. We miss your sweet girls in nursery! Hope you are doing well!
Cathy (4th ward!)
one more thing, my sister's husband is from alpine. im sure they are in that branch too! i remember hearing her describe that chapel, and that german restaurant!
Sounds busy and wonderful! And March 21st is a great day to get married! ;) Good luck in Austin!
hey, you dont know me, but you know my sister Cathy. I think she said yall are in the same ward or something. Anyway, I was just going to tell you that my husband is from Alpine and he knows your brother-in-law and their family. And I believe that it IS the smallest place ever. The church is so little!! And everytime we go there, we always eat at that German restaurant!!
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