December

 December was seriously SO crazy for us!

Lane got a job interview in Rock Springs, Wyoming!

It was his 3rd interview for the same job!

They hunted him down, so I figured he had a really good chance of getting it this time!

SO.. we took a overnight trip up there to interview and see what kind of a place it was!

OH MAN!! Let me tell you! If you haven't seen it, first impression, I was terrified!

It was freezing cold, and the wind was something i have NEVER experienced before!

While lane was is his interview i drove around, and I now know I went to the sketchy part of town, but i was so scared that we would have to move!

He came out of his interview and did so good! He really clicked with the store manager and had already met and loved the other 2 ASMs, so we drove around to see what kind of housing they had!

We found some really nice apartments.. but the apartments were double the price we were paying for our house and half acre in Monroe!

We left and on the way home he got a call saying that he pretty much had it, and that they district managers wanted to meet with him the next day!

So long story short he accepted the job, and was told he had to be in Rock Springs the day after Christmas!

So we had planned a trip to Disney with Ash and Kyle, the week before Lane had to do a weeks worth of training! It was a blast and I am sort of sad that we were feeling the pressure of EVERYTHING we had to get done back at home!!

On to the pictures...

Aparently Abbey thinks Mr. Smee should drive our christmas train!

 At our hotel in California:) Love these 4 littles

 California Adventure

 We went on this ride at least 5 times this trip!! I LOVE IT!! It is so cute!

 Waiting for the Christmas parade!! We take such great family pictures!

 World of Color! It is ABSOLUTLY INCREDIBLE:) We got the most perfect spot, and It is even better the more you see it!

 I am such a lame mom!! I can only find this picture of Christmas morning! Seriously we had such a great christmas with some pretty great people. and this is what I got! At least, it is a HAPPY little girl, who loved Christmas this year!

November

I can't believe how long it has been.. Here is November! 

I put our tree up right after Halloween!

My dad would kill me, but i promised Lane i wouldn't decorate it till after Thanksgiving!

I am not the type to leave my tree up till New Years,

usually the day after Christmas all our stuff comes down!

 I love this picture, and i think that i will cherish the moments like this forever!

It is something SO special to see your Grandma teaching your kids the same things they taught you~

We were so lucky to live so close to her!

She is the most special thing in the world:)

 We had Thanksgiving, it was delicious and there were hundreds of people there which meant the girls didn't see me hardly at all!

I have so much to be thankful for! 2 BEAUTIFUL, healthy, happy (most of the time) girls!

A husband, who is the hardest working, loving dad and hubby, he works so hard and such long hours to make sure we are taken care of!

I adore him and can't believe how far we have come:)

Halloween

We had a great Halloween!

Lucy had 3 different costumes throughout the month and Abbey just wanted to wear a pretty dress! We made cheesecloth ghosts

Costume #2

 Abbeys 2 costumes

 And #3

We also love those wax lips.. we all have been wearing them nonstop:)

53 Pounds

I have made a lot of significant changes this year.. I remember this time last year I was pretty miserable.. Lucy was such a great baby, but i was having a hard time nursing her, and kept getting mastitis and it just wasn't working.. I was sore because I had to have a c-section and to top it all off.. I had gained a TON of weight with sweet little Lucy! I remember thinking something has to get better.. i started loosing my weight.. i was exercising eating pretty good, and it was slowly coming off.. then thanksgiving came and I gained most of it back, all but about 10lbs! I was reading one of Lane's mission friends blog, and she totally inspired me!

I am going to put it all out there.. numbers and everything! How fun right!

Right before I had Lucy weighed in at 201

I remember my sister being in the room and them asking me how much I weighed and feeling so embarrassed that I actually weighed that much!

After she was born, there are virtually no pictures of me.. but for we took a family picture the night we celebrated Lane's birthday! I looked at them that night and was just so mad that at what I had done.. I wasn't happy, and in turn it was making everyone else in our house grumpy!

I think i was about 185 or 190 here!

It wasn't long after this that i bought a bodybugg! It really made me want to change!

I didn't even really exercise all that much at first, i just kept track of what I ate and once the weather got good the girls and i walked ALOT!! I mean we would go for 5,6, 7 mile walks every night after dinner!

Now.. 10 months later i am at 148 and am really close to being where i want to be...

I lost 53 pounds in 10 months!

I remember reading Love's blog telling myself that when i loose my weight i will blog about it too!

I know that it is such a mental battle and once you get your head in the game the rest is easy!

It wouldn't be a fun blog if there weren't any pictures of these sweet things:)

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Lucy turned 1 on Oct. 6 but we were so busy with helping set up for Landon's wedding and running around that we didn't really have a "party" then we went to Disneyland and partied for 3 days.. so we didn't really ever throw a party for our sweet little girl (I know I am lame)

So when we got home my mom has a friend who makes cakes so she got Lu a cake and both my sisters were in town so we went camping for 3 or 4 days and the first night had some cake in honor of our sweet 1 year old!

 She loved the cake and at alot of it! My mom cuddled Abbey who didn't feel so hot and Lane and I got to just enjoy the view!

 She was so scared for the longest time about riding these things.. but once she did it we couldn't get her off

 Cute cousins at the pumpkin patch.. we miss these little Hawaiian kids:)

 I swear i stink at getting pictures of my kids together! I don't have any that both of them are smiling!!

 Out in the mountains looking for crystals.. we found a ton of really awesome ones! the ride down was way bumpy but Lucy loved it

 A little better minus the red eye! In Lucy's birthday wagon:)

We love Lucy.. she is such a big girl RUNNING everywhere and really turning into a toddler! She is a crazy woman.. way more wild than Abbey ever dreamed of being!

But life wouldn't be the same without her! Can't wait to see her change over the next year!

A Wedding and A Little Mickey Mouse

It has been a crazy 2 or 3 weeks, and we are now just getting back into our normal lives..

Lane's brother Landon got married on the 7th and it was a cold cold snowy rainy day but it was such a beautiful wedding! While we were waiting to take pictures we caught Grandma Julie and Abbey catching rain drops! She is such a great Grandma and I feel very lucky to have her as my mother in law! She is really something special!

 They had a luncheon after the wedding and these are 2 of my most favorite boys ever!

 Miss Kynsie, Me and Lucy!

 Kyndra and Me.. I swear I got so lucky.. i love her so much! I am so lucky to have her as my sister!

 There is nothing like going to someones wedding to really remember your wedding and how special they are! Landon and Micall had a really great ceremony and while we were listening I just remembered Lane and I's wedding ceremony and how special it was.. i remember it like it was yesterday! I adore Laner.. he is the best thing that has ever happened to me:)

 The next day we took off to Disneyland for the 2nd time this year:) We drove to Victorville and crashed at an interesting place to say the least.. this little girl loves her picture taken.. i have at least 2 dozen that look just like this!

 These 3 kiddos sat in the back and watched movies, and giggled all the way to California:)

 Laner and Lu.. neither of my kiddos love the water so much they would play in it for a few minutes and then they both like to hang out in the sun.. wierd i know but i like to sit in the sun more than swim so i guess its fair!

 These 2 cute girls are just a month and a half apart in age, and for a while didn't get along so well.. but that stage has seemed to pass, and they are good buddies now:)

 Aunt Shelby and Abbers.. first day at Disney

 I love him:) We have come a long way! Its wierd to see us getting older!! I saw a picture of us on one of our first dates and man I thought i looked the same.. but i was wrong.. i am looking older its a really cool thing to see how much we have grown up together!

 Can you tell they are siblings?

 We had such a blast and were so happy that we got to spend so much time with our family! We love them so much and hate that we live where we can't see them more often, so it was fun to have a week full of just quality family time:)

At the Color of Wonder show.. if you are going anytime soon.. DON'T MISS IT:) Its awesome!

We have a Christmas trip scheduled that we can't wait for!!