Wednesday, July 22, 2009

changes and updates...

a lot has been going on lately and i just haven't seemed to find time to post. summer is so busy. we have had lots of fun lately, mostly spending some time with our families. but had a few challenges too. about a month ago the school cody was working for went out of business so he is on the job hunt. last week our car's tranmission went out along with a whole lot of other problems, but fortunately we were able to just trade it for a more reliable car, instead of have to pay more than the entire car was worth to get it fixed. we decided put our house up for sale too. all the jobs that cody qualifies for are not in utah, we thought it would be best to get ahead of the game and not have to worry about getting the house sold when he gets a job. it is a little bittersweet. it is hard to think about leaving our home. we are still happy though and enjoying life. jentri is changing so much. we can really see her personality coming out. she is understanding things a lot more. she is able to point at "bird" and "frog" when we ask her to point at the pictures of them on her highchair. she also loves the portraits on the walls. she loves our family pictures. it is awesome to see her begin to comprehend the things we teach her. she absolutely loves outside. she is getting around so good. she doesn't crawl around on her hands and knees she walks around on her hands and feet...she is actually pretty fast.

here are a few pics of the last few weeks...



we were able to spend an entire week up in idaho with our families...we had so much fun!

the first night in idaho we went camping with my parents at grassy lake...this is me enjoying cody's boat...

here is cody with his 5lb lake trout...

jentri on the 4th...



we went to the lake with cody's fam...jentri LOVED it!


jentri & meg...fishing at connie's pond...

my horse oreo...love him (even though he did buck me off after this pic!)

what a good dad...he has trained oreo for me
jentri's 1st bubble bath...she wasn't sure what to think

jentri LOVES her pool in our backyard!

here is our garden... it is getting so big

5 comments:

Paul and Aubrey Young said...

So fun, Sorry to hear about cody's job and the car. But how fun to think of all the new things to come!! If you need a real estate agent mine is great!! Let me know.

Anonymous said...

Sorry about the hard times Jess. I guess they come and go. Good Luck job hunting/selling your house and everything else!

P.S. Your Garden looks Awesome!

Matt and Serenity Stewart said...

Hard times are not fun, but they really do bring the family closer together I think. I always have to tell myself it has to get worse before it gets better!! Love you guys!

Woolstenhulme-4-ever said...

I love all of the pics, so cute! Jentri is just a cutie, I love her eyes. It was so good to see you guys! How is the job search going?

jeremy and amanda rowsell said...

The fish is awesome! And I think I saw some long hair on Jentri's cute little head in the pool picture!