Monday, December 18, 2017

On to Something NEW!

We have had some exciting changes happen for our family! Well, just one exciting change: Justin is moving on from his job at Davita!

He has been unhappy with leadership changes in the past several months and has been considering moving on for a while. He fished around for some different opportunities, but nothing struck his fancy until our good friend Aaron Christensen said he was ready to launch his business and needed someone of Justin's caliber to get it started. He had a great interview with another company just down the street from where he currently works for similar pay, but with better vacation and better benefits. So he was going between that new position and working the new business. That all happened the first week of December. Aaron wanted Justin to be able to start in January, so Justin had some quick decisions to make: not his comfort zone! We dropped Emmett off with Jon for a last-minute temple run to seek some heavenly guidance! Justin put in his two-week's notice the next day, and decided to go with the new opportunity with Aaron.

This will be his last week at work. He gets to cash in all the PTO he saved up, and then he starts working with Aaron in January. He has always wanted to do something like this, and he has always admired Aaron and wanted an opportunity to work with him so he is excited and I am too! I have to say I've never seen Justin so excited about anything in the 5 years we've been married! So come January we will have some changes and I'm thrilled for Justin.

Emmett is 16-almost-17-months old. He is a dare devil. He has officially reached the age that nothing, nowhere, is safe. He can climb onto ANYTHING and he's way too confident about it ;) He is FAST about it, too. We keep the piano bench and the chairs tipped over so he doesn't climb on top of the tables, counters, and piano. Those are his favorite places to get at! We are working on learning new words. He is in the 35% for weight and 80% for height - tall and skinny. But don't be fooled because this boy LOVES cookies, chocolate, you name it. He can hear a wrapper being unwrapped from a mile away and will come running asking "please" for some and has a complete meltdown when the answer is no! It is hilarious and annoying.

Recently he has become quite the mama's boy. Justin said "You like that don't you?" and I said, "For now!" Little guy is gonna have to learn to share when baby Rose gets here in 10 WEEKS! You guys, this pregnancy is FLYING by. I'm enjoying this pregnancy way more that with the first. Go figure: no one has tried to stab me recently!

Our Christmas season has been very enjoyable. I sang in our community Christmas concert and we sang some of my favorite songs. All those practices helped bring the spirit of Christ into Christmas for me. I love love love the Christmas music! We had a cookie exchange with some friends Friday night and got a nice haul of many different varieties of Christmas sweets. I made Mom's fudge to share. This weekend I will make Christmas Eve dinner and next week we will take all the kids sledding up at Snoqualmie.
We got a rug for this area (finally) and he was too cute: he ran right over to it and plopped himself down.

He had a crazy high fever a few weeks ago and just wanted to sleep on me. 


After his shots he got TWO suckers - that face!


our cookie exhange

Emmett and his buddy Teddy - they play every Tuesday morning. 



He HATED Santa..poor buddy!

Justin is building some kind of shenanigan toy for Emmett at his parent's house

fell asleep holding his teddy bear...awww

watching White Christmas