Long Journal entry

I need to post more often for Journal purposes.. So it may be boring, but it is nice to read later on..

Today was a fun day.. I was able to go to one of my very best friends baby shower. Christine Meehan is having a little girl, she is only about 23 weeks along, but her and her husband are moving to California in just a few days so she wanted to have one with friends and family. It makes me sad that she is going to move so far away.. It makes me more sad to think that I've let a lot of time pass where she was only about 45 mins. away and I didn't go see her more often. Christine and I are completely opposite people, we always have been.. We don't do a lot of the same things.. but she has always always been such a great friend :) She has always been a true friend.. Something you don't find very often. I love her to death and hope the very best for her and her little family! It was also fun to see a few other people that I hadn't seen in a while. As I drove home I was thinking about all those friends that I was so close to back in the day, who I rarely ever see now.. It is so crazy how you grow up, and have your own families.. and don't see those friends that you spent countless hours with. I was very lucky to have a good group of friends that made me laugh everyday :) I'm glad that we have things like Facebook to catch up with old pals.

So after the baby shower.. Jonathon, Alexis, and I went across the street to Grandma and Grandpa Carters house to watch the BYU game (they have a gigantic flat screen T.V.) I'm so mad that BYU lost.. It was such an important game :( It is a lot of fun having G'ma and G'pa across the street..

Jonathon's dad moved to Utah a few days ago... We haven't seen him for 3 years and before that Jonathon hadn't seen him for about 5 years.. He saw Alexis one time when she was about 4 mos. old.. So it is nice to have him here.. He is staying in one of our bedrooms down in the basement and will probably stay here until he finds a job, and gets settled here. And also Chad and Kelly are going to move up here hopefully soon, and they will be staying with us, so he knows that as soon as they are ready to move here, he'll need to get his own place. He came here from Oregon, and is pretty excited to finally be around his family. It is always a little different having someone live with you.. And in the past we've let family members live with us.. and it just didn't work out. I'm thinking and hoping that it will be different with Jonathon's dad because he is very respectful. We are excited to be able to get to know him, and Jonathon has just been on cloud 9. He is loving having his Dad around. I know he had been wanting this day to come for a long time.

I am loving loving that it is getting a little colder :) I love fall.. I love Halloween.. I love Thanksgiving.. and of course I LOVE Christmas!! I love getting all cozy in blankets and watching movies in the winter.. and playing in the snow! I'm just so excited :) I DON'T like driving in the snow.. and I definitely don't like waking up and going to work when it is still dark outside.. But those are things I'm willing to live with.

It seems like Summer flew by this year.. In fact I keep saying it just skipped us. Maybe because last year when we lived down by Lake Powell we were out in the sun, and at the lake all day :) But I just feel like we didn't get one..

We are all doing great.. Except I still have a little bit of a cold.. but I get sick with a cold every year so it's no biggy.. Jonathon is doing good.. he has his really good days with tile and then those slow stressful days.. It is scary owning your own business. He warned me that it would be hard the first couple of years.. and that is true. I am so proud of him though.. but I can't help but stress sometimes.. That is just the way I am. So we hope and pray everyday that he'll keep getting tile jobs so that he can give his employees more work, and also of course support our family. He is still helping coach Sterlings football team, but so far they've lost every game.. And of course he is a boy and even if he isn't playing he still gets bummed when they loose. I know it's been good though, he gets to spend a lot more time with his little bro.

Alexis went to the baby shower with me.. and got more compliments on her gorgeous hair :) She is always getting compliments! She is the best daughter ever.. I'm so blessed to have her, she makes me so happy.. and Jonathon and I are always cracking up and things she says and does. She has such an imagination now.. the other day she came running up to me and said Elephant (her stuffed animal) needs CPR, he is hurt.. So I gave him CPR and then she said he needs band aids too! So we patched Elephant up!
She always gets my phone.. picks it up and says "Cody, where are you?" (she loves her cousin Cody.) Or she'll say "Mom, can I call Bummy Ree?"
Everyday she asks me if we can go to G'pa and G'ma Maries house. She misses them all the time. She talks about all of her family all the time. She'll ask about Derek, and Cocoa :) The other day she kept asking if Kelly and Chad were coming to our house....
She is such a cutie.. Right now as I'm typing she is dancing to "Happy Feet." She still loves that movie.. It is crazy that she can still watch it.. It makes me a little sad though because it reminds me SO much of Ticaboo.. That is where we were when she watched it 24/7. So it is just one of those things that reminds me of Ticaboo... I sometimes still get sad that we don't live close to everyone like we did then.. It's crazy that a certain song, or smell, or movie in this case reminds you so much of something :)
Alexis is just growing and growing.. I swear she doesn't stop.. And although I love watching her grow into this little lady, I wish I could freeze time sometimes and just make her stay little.. She is still cuddly and I just don't want that to ever go away.. I don't want her to stop needing me...

Anyways Jonathon is getting back into working out, so him and his dad are working out right now.. I know this is really really long.. but my blog is definitely something I have to keep a journal on.. so people don't have to read this.. So if I ever say anything to personal just know it is for Journal purposes :)
Goodnight..