Salt Lake Here We Come!

We have the best news ever to report.... We get to move back to Salt Lake City!!! I am still screaming and jumping up and down from excitement. Now don't get me wrong, Alabama has been great, but we get to go back home! We are moving sometime in June. We still don't know exactly when, but we should be finding out for sure soon. We also hope to buy a home when we get up there. Can life be any more perfect? Blessings are just coming left and right. Now London will grow up with Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, and Cousins all really close by. Just the way we want it. Oh yeah!

Scooting Madness!

London is now officially crawling! Well, it's not quite crawling... but pretty close. It's more like scooting. Every day she gets better and better at it. I attached a video of her doing it, but she does it at the very end.
Matt and I will be finding out in about two weeks if we are going to be Alabamians the rest of this year. He's requested to be transferred back to Utah. We're just keeping our fingers crossed! I'll keep you posted as soon as we know!

First Easter

Ahhhhhh! London was really enjoying herself when we took this picture. She must love Easter as much as I did when I was little. It was my favorite holiday! The Easter Bunny gave London a basket with Laffy Taffys (because they are mom's weakness), bubbles, and a little blue puppy. We went for a little stroll between conferences and I wish everyone could see how beautiful Alabama is in the Spring. It totally beats Utah by a mile! There are these gorgeous white trees everywhere. And it is warm enough to wear flip flops and capris. I'll have a tan in no time! In fact, it is so warm already that the AC is running all day and night. I left the window open last night to try to get the place cooled down, and it cooled down to only 75. Crazy! I have a feeling this summer will be an experience!

Salt Lake Trip

A couple weeks ago the three of us made our first trip back to Salt Lake City. London was finally able to meet all of her family. We had a blast! It was a very busy trip, full of rushing around to see all the people we love. We didn't even get to catch everyone we wanted to! Of course I didn't get as many pictures as I was hoping, but below are a few good ones.
Traveling back to Salt Lake made us want to move back even more. It was crazy to see how big our nieces and nephews have gotten. We wouldn't had even recognized Abby, and she definitely didn't recognize us! I like to think that by the end of the trip she liked us =)
The worst part about living far away is that we miss so many family gatherings. I always love when the whole family gets together. Those are definitely some of my favorite times.

London loves her Uncles! She has a lot of them!Abby didn't want to swing on our laps at first, but once we got her to, she didn't want to stop!
Us after eating Cafe Rio. Yummmmm.... don't have that place in the South =(
London with her Great Grandma!

March has already been busy!

There has been so many new things that have happened to our family! Matt went to D.C. last week for work. London and I went 5 full days without him! It was horrible. I can't tell you enough how happy it makes me to have him home. Our place is just so much happier when Matt is home. London laughs and smiles more, because he is her favorite buddy, and our place just feels so much brighter. He has to go to D.C. again in June for two weeks, but London and I will be tagging along then.
The last week of February we three went to Atlanta to can some food for our food storage. We got beans, flour, rice, oats, sugar, apples, carrots, dry milk, and onions. It still isn't enough, but it is a start. I can't believe how relieving it is to know that we have a nice back up if times get hard. Hopefully we'll never have to use it. It was so fun though to go to the cannery with the people from our ward. We had a blast packing food and visiting.
Another exciting event is that London has started solids. I was going to wait until our trip to Salt Lake was over, but she is so ready that I couldn't put it off any longer. She isn't fond of the rice cereal yet. We died laughing when she took that first bite! She gets so excited when the spoon gets close to her mouth and she'll open big and wide, but then make the funniest and nasty faces when she tastes the cereal. She spits most of it out for now, but she'll have it down soon. I can't believe how big she is getting. Solids already?

She's Getting Big!

Okay, so I know that it probably seems like the only thing I can talk about or blog about is London, but she is so dang cute! And right now all of my attention and efforts go toward her, so she is about the only thing I think about =)
Matt loves to hold London with one arm up in the air for her to practice her balancing. She loves doing this with her papa. He claims that she is getting better at it. I imagine that she'll be able to sit up sooner on her own from doing this. I've attached the video of it for you all to see!
We will be going up to Utah in a month and a half! Woot woot! I am so excited that I can hardly stand it! We will be extremely busy trying to see everyone, I can't wait.

Blessing Day

London was blessed by her Papa on January 17th. It was so fun to dress her up in the beautiful white dress that my Aunt and cousins gave her. She looked so beautiful! Our best friends from Utah, Shawn, Pepper, and Ken, came down for the blessing. Sweet huh? London was nice and calm that morning. Neil Jensen, who was also in the circle, told us that she was smiling and looking up as if at Heaven. The blanket you see in the pictures was the blanket my mom and I were both blessed in also. Who knows, maybe one day London's daughter will be blessed in it!

Here are some photos of our friends that came down. We had such an awesome time with them! We played games and ate all weekend long. I cried when they had to go home! Thank goodness we get to see them in a couple of months!