It has been a very hectic (to say the least) 3 weeks for our family.....we've moved, Jessica started Kindergarten and also turned 6, Jayden (my step-son) is now living with us full time, we had to SADLY find a new home for Barnes.
We have moved back to Salt Lake (yeah!). I forgot how much I missed being around all our family and friends......oh, and the shopping!! As much as I loved Tooele the only real shopping is Wal-mart (I hate going to Wal-mart). I will miss my friends that I made in Tooele and I vow to return and keep in touch!
We are living with Josh's parents.............in a 37 foot trailer, in their backyard...............................
with a TWO-YEAR old and SIX-YEAR old LITTLE GIRLS! Are we crazy?!? YES, I believe that anyone that has been around me for this move could have me committed (and probably should). We do have a goal of building our own house on our property (I'll post more about this later) and being debt-free. We have been thinking about this for a VERY VERY long time and we know that we can do it but it's going to be crazy for a while.
Jessica started Kindergarten. Her first official day of school was actually the second day of school. This is my very bad mom moment.....She was so excited to start school we were waiting and waiting for 11:30 to come. I'd been prepping her for the things she needed to know....where to hang her bag, where the potty was and her teacher's name. 11:30 came and we went over to her school with all the other mom's and all the other kindergarteners. We waited for her teacher to open the door and Jessica was the first one in! She was SOOOO excited. I took Tori to the office to hand in the rest of her registration papers (because we were moving what I would've already had done before the first day of school was done at the very last minute). When the person at the office looked over her immunization records she was not current. (She had gotten all her shots but only missed her very last couple needed to start school.) They told me I had to pull her out of her class until I got everything up to date. I was feeling like such a bad mom at this point. I had to get Jessica out of class and explain to her instead of school she had to get shots!!! (I tried to make this sound fun and exciting but she didn't believe me! I wonder why?!?) She was sobbing in the back of the car because she wanted to stay in school! I could not have felt any worse than I did at that moment! We rushed over to the health department (her dr. was a week out with appointments) and she ended up getting 3 shots that day!!! What a trooper she was though, she knew that she had to get the shots in order to go to school and was so brave! I called her teacher and explained what happened and how bad Jessica felt about missing school. Her teacher, Mrs. Rizer, was so nice and saved everything for her!
One of her homework assignments was to draw a picture of her first day of school. She ended up drawing her at the doctor getting shots! At least she will remember this for the rest of her life!
Jessica turned 6 going on 16! She has always been independent, she is no longer my little 4 lb. 12 oz. baby. Where does time go? We had a BBQ and she got to the Lion King with Amber.
Some fun things about Jessica.......
Her favorite food-Panda Express
Her favorite color-Purple
Her favorite thing to do-Planting flowers in her garden and playing with her Koala and Panda Bears.
Her favorite animal-Koala Bear and Panda Bear
Her favorite T.V. Show-Kai Lan (it has a koala bear in it)
Her favorite flower-Sunflower
Her favorite bug-Ladybugs
She is always busy, loves to learn, she loves loves to garden, she also wants to build things with her dad she even has a couple treehouses designed for her and her koala bears! She always tries to make us laugh by telling jokes and being funny! She is a wonderful older sister to Tori and wonderful daughter, I love love love being her mom!
Jayden is now living with us full time and is in the 9th grade. That's been an adjustment from having no kids in school to having to register 2 kids this year. He's going to be starting karate soon. It's been nice to have him around more!
We had to find a new home for Barnes! This was probably the most stressful of all. Barnes was a good dog and I wanted him to go to a good home where someone would appreciate him as much as we did! I put an ad out for him and the people that took him were so nice and were really excited to get him. Barnes also took to them right away which made me feel better. I was very happy that he went to a good home! That was extremely hard for me to do and unfortunately it didn't work out as well as all of us were hoping for. He will be very missed!
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