READY OR NOT HERE WE COME!

Well I guess we're moving back to Delta! A couple of weeks ago IPSC called and offered Jake a job. We applied for the position before we moved to Mountain View, and we weren't expecting a call from them at all! Living in Delta is what I've always wanted, and Jake feels more and more the same way the older we get, but when it came right down to it really has been a hard decision for us. I love my job here, we make more money here, and we actually do like Mountain View, but we want to be close to our families and friends and really is there a better place to raise your kids??? I might be biased, but growing up in Delta was great and we both want to give our kids the same opportunities we had! Jake and I have really struggled with the choice of making more money or living where we really want to, but we've come to the conclusion that we just want to be in Delta. IPSC will be a great place for Jake to work. He's really excited about it and I'm happy for him! Hopefully I'll get a teaching job there someday, and then life would be perfect. Anyways, I'm starting to sound like I'm having to talk my self into it, but we really are excited about being there. I'm not excited to live without my hubby for 5 months! :) Well anyways, I just wanted to let you guys know we're on our way! Now maybe I can see some of my friends a little more often! (Shai, maybe we really will go to lunch now!)

Picture Over-load!

I have had so many pictures that I have been needing to post! I'm so excited to finally be getting it done. I know I've said it before, but my main purpose in blogging is so that if I never get my scrapbooking done, I'll have my blog as a backup for my kids someday. So anyways, I'm sorry for all the pictures!
Every year we try to get a picture in front of the Christmas tree! My mom made us do it and now I make my family do it! No one complains yet, but I'm sure someday they will. I love to look back at the pictures my mom takes in front of the tree and see how much we all change over the years. I swear my brothers grow 2 feet every year! Anyways this year we didn't do that great, but I guess we got it done!

The only one the kids are all looking in just had to be the one where Addi was pulling this face!

This, believe it or not, was the best one we took! Depressing, huh??

Jake accidentally took this one but Jet ended up so cute in it! I wish Jake had made it back in time!

So these pictures are all a little backwards! This is actually Jet's birthday cake, but because their Birthdays are so close I figured for Elli's first birthday cake one cake all month would be ok! I swore to myself I'd never have a December birthday and now I have 2!!

Jake loved his cake! He wasn't afraid to take a big chunk out of it!

Who needs a fork when you've got a mouth!

My sister made this cake! Her cake decorating skills are getting better every time she makes one! Thanks Lace!

Everything Jet got for his birthday was from the movie "Cars"! He loves it so much. The next day when people would say something about his birthday he would tell them "Cars!" I think he thought the 2 went together! Birthdays means Cars!

This was the beautiful cake I made! Jake didn't think boys should have pink cakes, but I really meant for it to be red! I guess I should practice making cakes more often! Or else just let Lace do it!

I swear I really do let my kids sleep! I really don't know why he was so tired in this picture, but Jake and I thought it was pretty funny!

We love decorating the tree at our house! We've made our own little traditions out of it and we all have a lot of fun!

I couldn't believe how much Jet loved it! He just kept going back and forth for another ornament!

This is how Elli helped! I swear all that girl does is make messes! If she wasn't so cute I'd probably get mad at her!

Seriously though isn't that the cutest smile you've ever seen!

These are all just a bunch of random pictures! This was when we went to Cheyenne to watch my brother Jordan play basketball! The kids were having a pretty good time!

This is pretty typical for Elli. In fact I seriously could've taken this exact picture again tonight!

I really don't know how he falls asleep like this!

Jake pulled our mattress downstairs and we had a party bed. It really was so fun! We even left it out the next day so we could just relax on it all day! I seriously want a mattress floor instead of carpet!

Halloween!

Halloween was pretty fun this year, but it was really cold! Elli was a monkey, Jet was a dog, and Addi was Jazmin. They all looked really cute!

We went to a Trunk-or-Treat, and until it started raining it was pretty fun! Jake had the back of our car all decorated! I was pretty impressed with his skills! Addi was pretty disappointed that we didn't get to do more Trick-or-Treating so we took her to a few of the people we knew in town! It was a pretty uneventful Halloween!

We went with the Glazier's! We're pretty lucky that we have them here to hang out with us! They have the cutest little girl named Kennedy!

I go by Mrs. Abbott now!

Well I finally did it! I'm all grown up with a real job! I still can't believe it! I'm really excited and extremely nervous! One of the elementary teachers at the school right by me is moving somewhere else this weekend so I start on Monday. I'm so nervous about just jumping in there, but I knew if I didn't do it soon, I probably wouldn't ever do it! I'm extremely nervous about leaving my kids, but I feel like we"re making the right decision for our family. I know it won't be easy for all of us, but it's only a 1 year contract so if it doesn't work out I won't do it next year! So, from now on, around the Bridger Valley, I will be known as Mrs. Abbott! (That still sounds so weird sometimes, but I love it!)

Halloween Party and Football Games

This weekend was a lot of fun! We had Jace and Hunter's football games and our Halloween party! There are quite a few pictures in this post, but I just couldn't leave any of them out! We had so much fun at the football game. Jace, Jace, and Hunter did so good! Yes I meant to type Jace twice, Jake's brothers name is Jace. Delta won and now we get 2 home games in the playoffs! GO DELTA!!!

We were all there, except for Jordan. :( Jordan had his own basketball games so he couldn't come! He's doing really good, so we're excited for him but we miss him so much!
This was some of the food at our Halloween party! My mom and Lacey cooked so much good food for us! That is one thing about my mom, I'm pretty sure her motto is GO BIG OR GO HOME! She always tries to make everything so nice for us. Addi has been up all night for the last week in anticipation for the Halloween party! She wanted to talk about it all night!

The boys were the little army men from Toy Story. They had there feet taped to a piece of cardboard so they couldn't really walk.

Addi and I were both Jazmin. Elli was a monkey but it was too hot to keep the mask on, and Jet was a giraffe.

Britt was Jessie on Toy Story. Jed was Tayt and Tanner's General, and Jaye was Tinkerbell.

These two were so hilarious. Denielle was Tinkerbell and Trev was Captain Hook. He looked so dang funny. Hayden was a monkey and Jacen was a Lion.

I borrowed my costume from Jessica George. I barely fit into it, and no that is not my bare stomach showing, she had a little skin colored thing I put on underneath it! Jake was deer hunting so he couldn't come!

Hunter and Jared were Woody, and Jace and David were Buzz. They looked so funny!

These two looked so good! I couldn't believe how funny they were. Yes, Travis really bicked his head for our Halloween party! These 2 are the best fake Shrek and Fiona's that I have ever seen! Lacey kept her makeup on all night and every time I looked at her I just had to laugh!

Lacey's whole family looked pretty cute! I wish I would have gotten a better picture! The reason Lacey and Trav aren't smiling is of course because Ogre's don't smile! These pictures don't do it justice how funny they were!

And last but not least, Mr. and Mrs. Potato head. My parents had a whole Toy Story theme going on with their family. My mom and Lacey made these costumes, and I think they turned out pretty good.

This was the whole crew! Next year we're going to have to have the party at the church!

My Cute Kids

Jake has been gone a lot this month so we haven't been doing too much! Jake has traveled for 2 weeks this month so we've spent a lot of time in Delta. It's so good to be home. I really do like living here but I still miss Delta. I'm so grateful to my family for letting us come so much. We've found a place to rent for awhile and we're not excited about it, but hopefully it won't be for very long. We're moving to Urie. It's only about 3 miles from Mountain View so it's not much of a move, but I still HATE packing everything up and moving.
Elli has the funniest smile, but I can't get a good picture of it!
She has 2 bottom teeth and more coming!
Jet's face ALWAYS looks like this! I really don't even know how to keep it clean. He always looks like a homeless child!
Addi's playing soccer! She loves it. It's so crazy to have someone old enough to play organized sports. It's fun to watch, but I have a whole new understanding of why my dad acted the way he did when he was unhappy about the way we performed! If she's going to do it I want her to be the best, and we have a long way to go to be the best!
Watching soccer games!
Napping with Uncle Jace.
The kids just laid here and watched a movie the other night! It was unbelievable that they all just watched it. It was pretty sweet!
Riding in Addi's derby car. This little jeep doesn't have a battery so the kids just push it around.
How cute is this picture! This was at the Stansbury football game. We've been to a lot of the games so far, and hopefully we'll got to most of the rest. I hate missing the boys' games!