Back on track...

Finally things have settled down for me. We just got moved in to our new home in Ogden and we are loving it... We moved on the 31st of December and I have just gotten mostly everything in its place.. I think that it will take me a few weeks to get fully moved in, but at least we are not living out of boxes.. For the last week or so I have been trying to catch up on laundry since I was without a washer and dryer for almost two weeks.. It seems that it never will get caught up. Once I think I am caught up I look again and nope still loads to do...

The first week we were in the house Ray had to work in Provo and stayed there for the week. That was awful and I hated it. They have now transferred him to Brigham City and so he is home every night.. The kids are finally starting to get used to the house and will sleep through the night now. Payton still wakes up once in a while, so I still get some sleepless nights.

On January 8, after 22 1/2 hours of labor, my sister Jessica had a baby girl by C-section. They named her Bryzauna Harley and she weighed in at 8lbs 12oz and 20 1/2 in. long. She looks like a little pug with some really chubby cheeks and a tiny nose. Jessica is doing well just getting used to having a baby girl around..

This is Bryzauna just a few hours old..

This is my kids with her.. How cute are they???

This is Bryzauna again..

Hope....

Finally the holidays are almost over. One more to go... I love Christmas and all, but I am so glad that it is over and done. We decided to have Christmas dinner at my house and I was okay with that. It was just really hard since half my house is in boxes since we are moving.. Christmas was great and I enjoyed being with family.. Glad it's over though.

Hopefully our house will close either today or tomorrow so we can move on Saturday. Our landlord has rented the apartment already and so we have to be out by Monday.. Our loan officer says they are working on our loan finishing up the last little bit and that has been going on for a week now. So I have no idea when closing will be and I just hope that it gets done today so we won' be homeless!!! My house is almost packed and we are ready to go.. We tied to get it done before Christmas, but that didn't happen. Today is the closing date and so it needs to be done today!!! So we will just see what happens..

Life is great and we are just busy packing and cleaning and stuff.. It will be a while before I will post again. Tomorrow my Internet will be just down so we can move and will be up next week. When we get moved I will update on our move and have some pictures of our house!!! I am so excited to have a house and actually be settled for a while...

Hope everyone had and great Christmas and have a wonderful New Years!!!

Abriee Jo....

Last week Abriee had a well child check up and she is doing good. She weighs 18 ilbs 3 oz which is very well, but she has actually gone down on the growth chart. When she had her 6 month checkup he was in the 50th percentile with weight and height and at 9 months she is in the 37th percentile. So we have to make sure she gets more to eat than just formula and baby food. Hopefully she will get back up when she foes in for here 1 year checkup. There is also a bump on the side of her eye and so she had to see the eye doctor this week to see what's up with that. Well it turns out she a dermoid cyst ( happens in the womb when the skull grows togther, skin gets caught in the skull so when it grows together the skins grows outward) Nothing really serious, but she does have to have it removed. So next Thursday (20th) she goes in to have it removed. It is only about 1/2 hour procedure and she will go home same day. They do have to put here totally asleep and hopefully she will do well with that when waking up.. It is just always scary when your little one has to go through things like that. Even though it is a safe proceedure, there is always something that could happen. So she just needs to grow a little more and get back on the charts!!!!

The inspector is out atthe house today so we will know for sure tomorrow what the deal is and when we will close for sure.. Still looks like we will be in our new house by the 29th of the month. Still running sround like chickend with our head cut off getting things signed, packing, Christmas, and doctors. What a crazy month. I will be happy when it is all done..

This is the picture when we took the kids to see Santa..Payton loves Santa!!

Fun in the snow...

These last few days Abriees been sick. She will sporadically throw up all over us and she just sleeps all day... On top of Abriee being sick I woke up this morning with Pink Eye.. What a thrill. So needless to say I didn't really feel up to dealing with a sick child in church so we stayed home... Ray decided that he need some air so while Abriee was taking a nap Ray took Payton outside to play in the snow... Payton looked so cute in his snow suit. He could barely walk with the big bulking suit on.. It was so funny..

Payotn before going outside!!!!

Payton making a snow angel!!! Attempt anyways!!

Payton playing outside trying to see with the huge snow suit on!!!

Not a very event full day and I should have been in church, but I was a slacker and stayed home.. One sick kid and one out of control kid equal headache and I already had a huge one!!!

Going, going and going..................

Last night we took the kids to see Santa. Payton hated it and cried the entire time and Abriee seemed okay with it until she looked at us and realized we were not near.. It was so funny. I guess we will try next year and see what happens.. My kids do not like Santa.. Earlier this week we finally got around to putting our tree up and decorating. The kids were not so much help as they had to get into everything and even breaking an ornament or two.. They finally found the Christmas stockings and that was fun enough for them.. They seemed to think that they were hats cause they put them on and thought they were so skilled.. But hey they are pretty cute eh???

Like I have stated in previous blogs we have decided to buy a house. We have been looking in the Ogden area and really only because it is cheap!!!! We like cheap.. I also like Ogden and had spent a couple years there going to school so I am okay with it. I know its kinda way out there but that's okay too.. So the past few weeks we have been looking at houses and driving back and forth is the pitts. Especially the gas prices.. Talk about a whole in your pocket!!! Finally after weeks of looking we have found one that we like. The owner wants it closed by the end of the month. So closing date is set for Dec. 27.. What a great Christmas gift for Ray and I.. Kids don't really care so that is a good thing as well. Hopefully things will go smooth and after Christmas we will be in our new house.. This is what the house looks like from the outside.. It come with 1/4 acre and is 3 bedroom 1 bath.. It is so stinking cute... We just hope all goes well..

I have been doing so much getting all the documents signed and faxed, the other day I was working with my printer. It is having major issues. Abriee was playing in here exersaucer and it got really quiet. I looked over and she was a sleep. She was so cute so I had to get a picture..

Pictures, pictures and more pictures

Today I took Payton and Abriee to Kiddie Kandids to have their pictures taken, but Payton would have nothing to do with it. The minute we walked in he started crying. I was sooo mad at him. We did get him to sit and take two pictures, but they were so ugly I just decided to have Abriees pictures done. And she is soooo stinkin' cute.. Here are what we had done...

I just can't get over how adorable she is... We have such a hard time getting her smile in the picture because she is so quick with her smiles it takes forever. For these 6 poses it took us almost and hour.... Crazy huh??? I was pretty disappointed that I couldn't get Payton to get his done. I wanted so bad to have them together.. Oh well maybe in a week or so.. But here are some of them that we had done about 2 weeks ago...

Abriee and I just hanging out..

Payton and Abriee trying to get along..

Ray and I showing our love...

Abriee just hanging out by herself.. How cute is she??

Back to normal!!!!

Sorry that I have been out of commission for a while. The kids have finally gotten better and then I got sick.. I had done something to back and it killed to sit, stand,walk, and even sleep. My back has finally gotten better and now we are back to being somewhat normal again.. Then Thanksgiving was here and getting ready for that took time and I was just busy my blog has been the last thing on my mind.. I finally have a few minutes to myself so I thought that I would take the time to catch up..

No one has missed much anyway. Same old thing here at the Keel household.. Work for Ray and taking care of kids for me.. Abriee is finally getting around. She has started crawling but of course not the normal crawling.. She crawls like an army man. I call her Army Abriee cause of the crawling.. It is so funny but man is she fast.. Then she just rolls around the house and can get anywhere just by rolling. I have no idea how many times we have all stepped on her cause we will just turn around and she is there. You can't even hear her half the time.. Now I have two kids that get into anything and everything they are not supposed to!!! What fun!!

We are also trying to buy a house so all our spare time we have been looking at houses and we just can't seem to fine one that we like.. We are planning to move to Ogden so we are always driving up there to look. Hopefully we will find one this weekend when we go up to look.. I am just so excited to have a house to fit my family instead of this two bedroom apartment.. It is just not big enough for the four of us. The kids also need their own room.. That is all that we are doing and hopefully by the end of the month or first of the year we will be in a house.. I am so excited...Here are some pictures that we Had taken this weekend.. They are just so dang cute!!!