Aleks glasses

Alek brought a note home from the school nurse one day saying that he had not passed the general eye exam that they do at school. I was a little surprised because he had never complained about not seeing. We made an appointment with our family eye doc and sure enough he is nearsighted (Takes after his dad) and needed glasses. He was unhappy about it at first, and afraid he would look like a nerd, but once he realized he could see a lot better he wasn't so unhappy. We are happy about it because we have now found the secret source to some of his grumpy moods. Hey, it's hard to be happy when you can't see the tv clearly right! Now he has a little girl at school chasing him so he doesn't think the glasses are so bad after all....I think he is so cute in them that I had to put up a picture for you to all see.

Our Very Quick Year in Review

Ok, so here is our really quick year in review....We moved here to AZ at the begining of the year as you all know. It's been an interesting and sometimes difficult change. Took some time to get used to. Of all the places we thought we would end up this was not even on the list. We survived our first summer. 114 degrees and we never even went to utah once this summer.
Ethan was baptized in July and lots of family came to visit. I have learned to navigate the curbs of the Delta terminal at Sky Harbor and how to loop back around the airport when I miss them thanks to all of my flying family. Alek, Ethan, and Emily started school. So much fun to have three kids in school! Alek got his first pair of glasses and Emily lost her first tooth.
We got to have Halloween in shorts and t-shirts. That was interesting but lots of fun! The kids got hot trick or treating in the costumes we had left over from cooler climates. Still had warm weather at Thanksgiving but cooled down for Christmas. Yah! We even got rain. Loved the rain...hated our yucky muddy unfinished back yard. We missed everyone in Utah but glad we didn't come to share in the snow. Maybe next year...and our favorite piece of news is of course finding our surprise of adding another baby to the family! Due in Feb'ish. That gets complicated but we will keep everyone posted. So that is our VERY Quick year in review. I promise to keep up from now on so that you all don't have to have the condensed version again next year. We love you all. Happy New Year!