Lets take a look back.

At the end of this year, 2008, I am looking back and remembering what happened and what I am grateful for. Bear with me. The year started out with Jimmy, Xavier and I living with my parents and as the year ends we are still here. But in that lies the blessing. My husband and I were able to work with a fantastic bishop and we went thru the Temple and are sealed together with our son for all of eternity, something we started in our ward in West Jordan that just seemed to get lost time after time. That ward was just so big! There were to many people for that bishop to look after that Jimmy often was overlooked and the progress was short sighted and seemed to go nowhere. Then the circumstance that moved us in with my parents gave us a small ward and a bishop that was on top of things saw us from beginning to end and the rest is how they say history that will go on for all of eternity. We are in the new year moving and that I know we were in my home ward for that reason, so we could move forward together as a couple, as a family, with an incredible amount of support from our home and from our ward family as well. They will never know how much I am grateful for, or how much they did with out knowing it for the betterment of my family and for my own personal gain. To them I say thank you.

Xavier turned one and had a huge party in the park with more presents than could fit in my car! It took three cars to get all of his gifts home and then a considerable amount of time to get them all put away. It was so much fun to see him all messy with cake and frosting everywhere. I put him in Mom and me swimming lessons over the summer and although he loves his bath time there was something about the pool that he didn't like at all. If I were to hold him away from my body for any amount of time he would panic and start to cry. We will see how he does next summer. He is growing so fast! He is starting to feed himself and slowly is stringing words together, it's so funny to watch him try to have a serious conversation with his animals with the play remote up to his ear like a phone. I laugh all day long with him. I couldn't for a minute think of a life without him. It's funny, you have to go out and meet the person you fall in love with. And then you have to do just that, fall in love. That love grows and marriage is the result. I love my husband more than I have words to describe, to the ends of my soul and with all the depths of my heart. But the love I have for my son was so instant and over powering and different, not more, not better, just different. Jimmy and I have talked about this and he was trying to figure it out and he feels the same way. With children there is no getting to know you and maybe I will like you enough to one day love you. It's instant and binding.

Jimmy has had some ups and downs with work, he was painting but due to the slowdown in the economy and with the changing of the seasons he left and is now with eBay and loves it. He was telling me that this is the last job he wants to have. He likes it and wants to move with the company and I fully support that. To me if you find something you love you should fully immerse yourself in it and leave your mark on it. He is doing email and live chat with big shots that buy and sell their livings. These people he deals with make their living on eBay and I am always shocked that some do make killer money selling what I perceive as junk on line, but then again one mans trash is another mans treasure.

I am still doing nails out of my home and am a stay at home Momma. I love being with my son all day! I thought that it would get old and that I would eventually want to go back to work, but so far that day has yet to come. I don't think it ever will either if I'm being honest. I think it is to important to raise my child(ren) and teach them myself while they are young. I am not saying working mothers are wrong, but I am in the position that I can stay home and I am taking advantage of it. Jimmy works 2 jobs, that's the sacrifice we decided to make and that is just how it is. He sees the importance of it as do I.

Well that is our little update and for now I wish you a Happy New Year and as always, stay tuned!