Baby Ruby

We are a little late, but we want to welcome Ruby Becky Wachter into the family. She was born on February 12th and weighed in at 9pounds 1 ounce and was 20  inches long! Thank goodness she had to come by c-section, she was breach. She is a very cute girl. Ryan thinks she looks like Brittney, I can never tell. 

Ali and Emi loved holding her and seeing her. Ali I think would have held her all night if we would have let her. Ali kept calling her Rudy but we have worked on it and she is now saying Ruby. 

We are excited to see how this family grows we know Craig and Brittney will be excellent parents! Congratulations to the new mom and dad!

It's a Boy!!! (most likely)

We just found out that we are most likely having a baby boy! I am due August 6th 2009. Even before I was pregnant Ali kept asking for a baby brother and telling me that I had a baby brother in my belly. I didn't know I was pregnant until mid december. At our last doctor's appointment the doctor starting looking at the ultrasound and he wanted to say we were having another girl, but because Ali has been so persistent that it is a boy he wiggled the baby around and looked a little closer and we think we saw boy stuff going on. We will for sure find out on March 6th at my next doctors appointment. But we are looking forward to welcoming a baby brother into our family!

The computer Crash

So we have a mac and they are suppose to be invincible! Not so. When we came home after our Christmas parties our mac wouldn't work. We found out our hard drive had fried, no one knows why. So we have now lost our whole last 2 years of photo's and videos. It really stinks but we got us an external hard drive to back everything up to so now it won't happen again!

As for everything else...We did find us a new car. We are now a van family. We bought us a 2004 AWD toyota Sienna. While it isn't my dream car it is the best for young kids, they can get in and out easy and at a push of the button the door opens!

Christmas was great. We had fun at all our family parties. I will load some pictures that I do have with my next post. I just wanted to get something up so people didn't think we had forgotten about our blog!

A New car?

We sold our sonata! We are so excited at the opportunity to finally get a bigger vehicle now the question will be what we get. First lets talk about the car selling experience. We got a phone call during an intense speed scrabble game. This phone call lead to a trip to Salt Lake to show a family of Iraq refugees our car. What a very nice family they we're. The Dad who had just had open heart surgery 2 months earlier was very kind and invited us to dinner. It was late though and we needed to get our girls who were still at Grandma and Grandpa Jones. This family has only been in the US for 4 months. One son will be attending the U of U in January to get an ESL degree. They also have one other son and a daughter here. They were such a kind and generous family I truly pray that we fixed everything on the car so that it gives them the years of service that they need. 

Now comes the car shopping. We have looked a little at Honda Oddesy's and Toyota Sienna's and Sequioa's. While we would love to have a SUV we will probably end up with a van as they get better gas mileage and are cheaper to insure. My wonderful father-in-law hopped on the car auction website to check things out for us and we could get a 2006 oddesy or sienna right around 10K or less. He told us the 2 weeks before Christmas are great times to car shop as no one else is so the deals are hot! We are now ready to buy!

A Great Thanksgiving in 2008

What a wonderful thanksgiving we had. I am new at this blog thing so I didn't take as many pictures as I probably should have to remember this great day. We first enjoyed a few games of speed scrabble at Ryan's parents where ever so casually Adam announced he is going to Italy on his mission. He leaves April 1st! What an awesome adventure, everyone is already planning a trip to pick him up, we will see how it goes. Then we went to my parents and ate the most delicious food. I somehow lucked out of preparing any of it so I just got to enjoy it all. The girls and I stayed both Thursday and Friday night while Ryan drove back with Ron, Wanda and Sierra, they were the lucky ones who got to work on Black Friday. The rest of us went to see Bolt at Thanksgiving Point. What a fun show! Saturday I met Ryan and many other people on the Jones side to witness Jason and Adomma being sealed for all eternity! What a neat experience. We are so thrilled that they were able to be united as a couple. Then it was fabric shopping for Ruby's crib (Craig and Brittney's little one on the way) This was fun. We went to a cute shop in Lehi where they truly had the cutest fabric. We find the perfect idea for a quilt that I think will work wonderfully!

The Holidays approaching

With the holidays approaching and Christmas cards about to be sent out we thought this was a great time to start our blog! Now we can keep in touch with so many of you. My excuse before has been I already see everyone I know, but then I began to realize we have lots of friends we hardly ever see! We hope to keep in touch with all of you better this next year!