Family pictures

I stand all amazed

Jason, the kids and I went up to Oakland on saturday with some friends of ours. We haven't been able to go to the temple since before Jason went to Basic. We really wanted to go to the temple and our friends the Halls were willing to go through a session and then watch our kids while we went through a session. It was a 2 hour trip to Oakland and then we chilled there for 2 hours, went through a session and 3 hours back! Traffic in Oakland is horrible saturday night at 6. but it sure was worth it. Before our session we took our kids into the visitor center and looked at the pictures of our Savior. I pointed to a picture and asked Jonathan "who is that?" He looked up and said, "Esus Esus!" It was just too cute! Then after the session Jason and I sat in the visitor center and looked at the statue of Jesus and we pondered! while we waited for our friends to bring our kids back. As I sat there the song, "I stand all amazed " ran through my head... "I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me. Confused at the grace that so fully he proffers me. I tremble to know that for me he was crucified, that for me, a sinner, he suffered, he bled and died. Oh it is wonderful that he should care for me enough to die for me! oh it is wonderful, wonderful to me!"


I marvel that he would descend from his throne divine to rescue a soul so rebellious and proud as mine. That he should extend his great love into such as I, sufficient to own, to redeem, and to justify....
I think of his hands pierced and bleeding to pay the debt! Such mercy, such love and devotion can I forget? No, No, I will praise and adore at the mercy seat, until at the glorified I kneel at his feet. Oh, it is wonderful that he should care for me enough to die for me! Oh, it is wonderful, wonderful to me!
I am amazed at what our Savior did for us and for me. I am grateful for all I have and all I have been given.

Halloween party!

We went to the church Halloween party on Oct 30th. it was fun with lots of games. We all dressed like super heroes... Jason was superman, I was batman, Jonathan is spider-man and Natali is cat women! We are a cute super hero family! Sorry I forgot to get a picture of Jason and I with our costumes:( Jonathan got A LOT of candy when we truck er treated! He was so excited! The next day we had family over for the blessing so we didn't go door to door. We were eating dinner and we were handing out candy to the trick or treaters which was fun. we ran out of candy so we had to use a lot of Jonathan's candy we didn't want him to have. Jonathan was loving it. He would come to the door with me and when they would leave he would say bye and wave. It was so cute to watch him. next year I hope I can take them both out knocking on doors. I think they would love it!

2 months!

well we have been in Seaside, California for 2 months now. So many things have happened since we arrived! 3 weeks ago we had a beautiful little girl. This is a picture of Natali at 2 weeks.
This is natali at her 2 week doctor appointment....
This is the army burning fort ord (that is where we live) they had to burn all the fields around us!
We had a visit from great grandma Moffett...
and Grandma Shelly for a week.... they came down to see the grand kids and to help me out...
Jonathan joined the army!
natali at 2 weeks... so cute!
The week before Natali came we went to the beach and played!
I was tired from walking on the sand I was just chilling watching Jonathan and Jason play.
This week we went to the aquarium in Monterey with Grandma Shelly and Great Grandma Moffett. This is jonathan playing with the star fish.
Us inside a clam (actual size of a giant clam)
Jason and Jonathan riding a fish!
Seaside (fort ord) from Monterey.. we live there!
Jelly fish
Jonathan playing with the turtles. It has been a fun 2 months but also a busy one!

an evening at the park!

Saturday evening we all decided to take a walk to the park that is on the end of our street. It was a nice evening and a nice walk for all four of us. Jonathan enjoyed playing on the slides with daddy and natali feel asleep in my arms but it was perfect just our little family.

wonderful blessing!

Monday morning we were blessed with a beautiful baby girl! About midnight, monday morning I was woken up with lot of pain! I thought oh its probably the contractions I have been having the past week that are far apart. I fell back to sleep but about 15 mins later another one hit. Then went away. I thought the same thing and fell back to sleep. again about 15 mins later another strong pain!!!! I thought maybe this is it I should time them. about 10 mins go by and another one hits. for about an hour they were coming every 8- 10 mins apart. I couldn't stand it and about 1:30 I started to cry. Jason woke up and asked what was wrong. I told him i was having contractions and by that point they were 7 mins apart. I thought I don't want to wake anyone, go to the hospital and them tell me its nothing go home. about 2:00 a.m I couldn't stand it so I called Jessica Hall ( a friend here on base) I asked if she could come over and watch Jonathan because we are heading to the hospital. She came right over and off we went. We arrived at the hospital at 3:30 a.m. and we got checked in and into those fun hospital gowns. they checked me and sure enough it was real. I was dilated to 5 cm. the nurse looks at us and says, "you guys won't be leaving this hospital without a brand new baby... you ready?" The nurses were walking around getting everything ready while the contractions started coming faster and stronger. not only was I having pain in the normal spots but also pain in my thighs. The nurse checked me and she could feel the baby's head. She asked if I wanted an epidural and I said yes please!!!! They had to draw blood and do tests before they could give it to me so about a half hour/45 mins later they finally give me the epidural. all of a sudden I felt sick and was throwing up and I almost passed out. They put oxygen on my face so I could breath. I started to feel amazing after that and just laid there on my side holding onto Jason's hand. I was enjoying the fact that my husband was able to be there. I was checked again about 4:30 and I was still at 5 cm so they told me to take a nap and get rested and ready for when I have to push. We fell asleep and about 6:40 we wake up and another doctor walks in with the nurse and says we want to brake your water so you can get going with this. They checked me and I was at 7 cm. The doctor broke my water and he said it should go fast and my doctor will be here about 8. he left and all of a sudden I felt a lot of pressure. it started to get more intence and I felt like I wanted to push. The nurse checked me and I was fully dilated about 15 mins after they broke my water. She called the doctor and said get here asap because she is fully dilated and she wants to push. he got there about 7:35ish and we were ready. I pushed 3 times (while yelling GET IT OUT!!!!!!) not a joke... it hurt! I could feel everything because by that point the epidural wore off and I could feel everything. But after 3 pushes Natali Orianna was born into this world at 7:48 a.m. On Sept 20, 2010. Jason had the opportunity to pull her out and also cut the cord. He was so happy to help with his daughter being born. They were cleaning her off and Jason was right there holding her hand. He had his daughter and was so happy! She was 7 lbs. 1 ounce and 19 inches long. We have been blessed with a wonderful son and a wonderful daughter. we are so happy:) I hope you enjoy these pictures and we love you all!

Our new home!

I know it has been awhile since I have posted on our blog. I finally have all the boxes unpacked but the house is still a mess in places. its taking me a few weeks but that is understandable since I am 38 weeks pregnant and I have a child. I wanted to show everyone our amazing house. We have been in here for a month now and we just got our stuff about 2 weeks ago. we are loving it here and we are loving all the space we have in our house to fit all of our stuff. We are lucky because we would have never gotten a house this big if we lived off post for the money they give us. It is a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath with a laundry room and a 2 car garage. It also has a back yard (Small one though) I will walk you through the pictures so if you didn't guess you will know what it is....



This is our master bath. Its a two sink bathroom and its bigger then it looks in the picture its just hard with the angle I was at....
This is in our room.... the door to the left leads to our walk in closet and the door to the right leads to the bathroom.
This is our bedroom. Its bigger then it looks. It was just where I was standing and I didn't want to post 20 pictures of our room because its a huge mess thanks to the clothes and jonathan's toys...
This is Natali's room. She needs to get out here so she can clean it up....
Jonathan's room. He has a huge room almost as big as ours and his walk in closet is bigger then ours is.
This is Jonathan and Natali's bathroom. (Still a mess)
Our stairs that Jonathan loves to climb....
Our kitchen....
Our study (Messy) Jason got us a computer table for free and we need to move it in and clean up...
Our half bath downstairs which makes it nice for me not to run up the stairs every 5 mins....
our dinning room and our living room....
Our front room (One day we will have seating for our visiting teachers and home teachers....

Front entry....
there you go I have walked you through sorry no pictures of our garage or the laundry room. But this is our loving home and we are loving it out here in California:) enjoy the pictures!