Updates on Us

We are snowed in!! Guess this gives me some time to update my blog. This past couple months have been insane. Lots of new things happening in our life! New house, new pregnancy, new car (details to come), new school (for one of us), new furniture and a new ward. Oh, and new sicknesses. Before Christmas Ella and Jett both got sick with one day fevers. They also developed a little cough/cold. After Christmas their cough got worse. One night Jett got so bad that he could hardly breathe. I waited 2 days and it was just not getting better so I took him to the doctor. Turns out he had croup. He sounded so bad it and it was really sad to hear him wheezing. He also needed and wanted a lot of my attention so I got almost nothing done. The doctor said that there was nothing to give him so we just had to wait it out. He is now finally better. Thank goodness! Ella's cough is also slowly going away.
Last weekend we went to Portland for a dance convention for Kaiya. Right as we got on the freeway we had to stop the car so she could throw up. That continued for the next 30+ hours. I will do a blog all about it...stay tuned!! That was sure...interesting.
We have been slowly but surely getting organized and emptying boxes. It is a big process, and it makes it more of a headache when you have kids that like to make messes while you clean. It seems like a vicious cycle of cleaning 24/7. Maybe one of these days I will be able to relax.
We are enjoying our house. Sometimes when the kids are upstairs and I yell for them but they can't hear me. It's pretty annoying until I stop and think about it...it's a blessing to be so far away from them that they can't hear me! At our last house I felt like we were constantly on top of each other. It's nice to have a separation. Laundry has been interesting with the laundry room downstairs but it has been giving me an extra little workout and made me burn some calories! Ha ha.
Dance competitions start soon!! Mock competition is Sunday and the real competition is in a few weeks! I am excited to see all the kids dances!! It's going to be fun! Which reminds me...I am due right in time for Nationals. This year instead of going to Disneyland or Vegas like usual they decided on Seaside, Oregon. I was looking forward to going and not being too far away, somewhere we can drive to. BUT we won't be going now. Not sure what Kaiya will do. I need to talk to her dad about taking her....which means I need to find someone to help her with hair and makeup! It will be interesting. Kaiya was bummed and asked why I couldn't just take my doctor with us. Would be nice...but I am not rich! :)
That's all I can think of right now. I will go back and work on the bloggy blog now!

WE Moved!!

Woo hoo! We moved! With all the extensions we had on the closing date we finally moved in on December 12th. Half of our house had already been packed on on the truck waiting for a week. I didn't realize that with a foreclosure it takes longer to close than a regular house sale. I put as much stuff away as possible so that I could decorate for Christmas. A few days after moving in, I had Cirdan get a tree. Moving in and trying to be ready for Christmas at once was quite a chore (especially with horrible morning, or more like all day sickness) but it was fun to have a new home to celebrate in! Stephanie (my cousin ) surprised me a couple days and came over to help organize and put things away. She also brought us dinner and lunch! It was a huge surprise and I am very thankful for her. My mom came and helped one day also.
We absolutely love our house. Our neighbors seem great and there are a ton of kids in the neighborhood. We have a couple boys that come over almost everyday to see if the kids can play which is fun. We live in a cul de sac which is perfect for the kids. I also love how close we are to the elementary school. We downsized a lot with the size of the yard, which is nice not having to worry about yard work. But with the elementary school so close the kids have all that space to play in and the toys to play with also. Kaiya has been walking to and from school and that is a huge thing to not have to load the kids into the car...or wake them up from their naps to go pick her up. I just watch out the window, and make sure she gets home safe. Wonderful!

So much packing paper! And this was only some of it.

We took this picture while Ava was here for Thanksgiving.

Nye Christmas Party

The Nye Christmas party was fun. We had our traditional Chinese sundaes, which sounds really really yummy right now!! I think I will make it for dinner tonight. Anyways, dinner was followed by singing Christmas songs and then our annual white elephant gift exchange. We had the party at the church across from my Grandma's house since last year we were pretty squished with everyone in one house. I am glad that we all still get together as a big family. We are all getting older and it's nice to see each other still and not lose contact.

Busy Bee's Christmas Performance

Ella's preschool had a little Christmas program. The kids learned a few songs and performed for us parents. They all walked out and onto the stand with little Rudolph noses that lit up....then sang Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. It was so cute! The kids loved their little red noses.
They say a few more song and then a special visitor showed up....Santa!!

Ella and her friend Logan. These two are inseparable at preschool. They have to sit by each other for everything they do. Ella has somewhat of an infatuation with him. Logan is definitely her favorite part of school. She even knows how to spell his name. I am anxious for parent/teacher conferences in a couple weeks to see what the teacher says about these two. Yikes.

Ella and one of her teachers, Mrs Wharton...who she loves.

I'm Pregnant!!!!

Meet baby Imbler! Due July 2012!

Cirdan and I were in quite a shock to find out that we would have a baby joining us in 2012. When the shock wore off about 24 hours later we started to get excited.

Cirdan brought me home some beautiful flowers and a card the next day. He is a wonderful husband!

Elf - Part 2

After intermission Kaiya had her tap dance.

Then changed into her lyrical dress and performed. This is her first year doing lyrical and she loves it.

Next came jazz...

Look at that attitude!

She ran off stage and had to run right back on to be a towns person. I think she forgot to take a scarf or hat or something...ha ha

She changed back into her elf costume and went out as an elf one last time.

All the Xtreme dance team kids went out and had one last dance.

And then the show was over! It really was fabulous. I am really excited to see the June show now that the December one was so good! These kids work so hard!

My little dancers

Kaiya with a couple of her dance friends

Starley and Ella

Starley and Kaiya

ADA - ELF Production - Part 1

The dance performance last month was the best one that I have been to yet! The theme was ELF. It was funny, it grabbed my attention and the kids did an outstanding job!! I can't wait to get the DVD to watch it again.
Kaiya was very busy during this performance. She had at least 8 costume changes (she isn't here so I can't check with her). Her first dance was hip hop and she absolutely rocked it!!!!! She stood out and did such a great job. It looked awesome. We ended up taping all her dances but not the hip hop one and I am still made at myself!!! She did great.

Then she changed and was party of the hip hop party crew.

Next was her Angels performance. It wasn't a dance class...but an extra part of the show.

Ella was up next!! She even had a quick costume change. Ella looked so cute in her ballet tutu. She did so good! Ella loves the stage...even at a young age. It was funny - in her ballet class she was supposed to switch from the back from the front in the middle of the song. She was standing on stage talking to someone off stage. We were wondering what the heck she was doing. Come to find out she was telling them that they were supposed to change and didn't. Ha.

She ran backstage and someone helped her change into her hip hop costume. Ella did really good! She loves hip hop...like Kaiya.

Look at those moves!

Intermission is right after the little kids go onstage so that we can go pick them up and they can watch the rest of the show from the audience.

Kaiya's next dance was ballet. Kaiya doesn't like ballet very much but she is doing really well.

She then changed into her elf costume. This was another character costume and not one of her main classes. My mom sewed and Kaiya and I designed it. I actually had what I thought it should look like in my mind and Kaiya changed it up when I wasn't there. When I first found out I doubted she knew what she was doing but she did a great job! Better than what I had thought of! Made me proud!