California

Greetings from Southern California! (Sunny, warmer than Cedar City, Southern California!) Here we (James, my dad and me) sitting on the back porch of my dad's house chatting about life and the economy. We drove down here yesterday after picking up Bailey at the Vegas airport.

James had a job interview this morning and turns out they loved him and now he has a job! Not sure if we are happy about this or not. It's great that he has a job but its back here in Southern California so not sure if we will eventually be moving back or not. James is going to stay down here and work for a few month to make sure he enjoys the job before the family packs up and moves AGAIN!!!

I always miss living in Southern California when I came down to visit this time of year. Southern California is so beautiful right now. The mountains are green from the recent rain, the weather is perfect (65-75), and the smog is hardly noticeable. Plus In-N-Out is right around the corner, of course its always around the corner no matter what time of year we are here visiting. Then because I miss it I always tell James, "sure we can move down there" but then I hate it when the summer hits and its 110 degrees, its smogy and the mountains are ugly brown...and that's when I miss living in Cedar City. I need to have two houses, one in Cedar City for the summer and one in Southern California for the winter! If only....right?

When I get back to Cedar I'll fill everyone in on our Christmas and post some pictures from Christmas and New Years here in California! Everyone have a wonderful end to 2008 and beginning of 2009!

Christmas Eve with the Wellers

For Christmas Eve we went to our friends house to have dinner with them. It was a lot of fun. We had great food, great conversation and it left us with great memories. After James, Asher and I left we stopped by James' parents house to wish them a merry Christmas Eve and then headed home. Asher was exhausted and went right to sleep (remember he and I had been up since 6 that morning, of course he had naps). With Asher asleep and the rest of the kids at their other parents house that left just James and me so we decided to stick with trandition and watch Christmas Vacation. I have to watch that movie every year. Usually we watch it Thanksgiving weekend to get us in the Christmas spirit but we kept forgetting about it. I didn't make it through the whole movie, I was so tired. But it was a great night and I'm so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family in my life. Here are a few pictures:

All I want for Christmas...

Well Asher can't wish anyone a Merry Christmas, but he did wake up this morning with one of his top two teeth breaking through his gums! How cute is that, getting a top tooth Christmas morning?

Merry Christmas everyone, we love you and wish you all the happiest day!

It could only happen to us

Had to make a new post really quickly to let everyone know we ran out of gas in the Jeep just about two blocks from the gas station today. We had to have some guy in a small truck push us to the gas station. I swear, James can't go a month without running out of gas in one of the cars :)

Its way too early!

So Asher has this new schedule...and it involves waking up at 6 am with so much energy there is no hope for him falling back asleep. This is the 4th day in a row he has gotten up this early. He was sleeping until 8 am before this and I had no idea how wonderful I had it until now!

Well its Christmas Eve. I can't believe this year has gone by so quickly. Its been year of such highs and lows that I can't decide if I'm sad to see it come to an end or happy. Asher is such a blessing to our family (even when he wakes up at 6 am). He is like the glue that holds us all together, I'm not really sure why we waited so long to have him. I am sad that we won't be in California this Christmas Eve to have our Riley Christmas with my dad and Kimmie. We will miss everyone there, but we are looking forward to Dad and Kimmie's visit the day after Christmas. I miss Bailey tons this year. I think its because he has been talking about moving to his dad's the end of this school and I am just beginning to realize how much I will miss him when he does move there. I know that he is having a great time there though and that makes me happy.

We are going to our friends the Weller's house tonight to have a family candlelight dinner. I am really looking forward to that. We really enjoying spending time with them. Patti is due any day now with her little boy and I can't wait to meet him. I'm just happy that someone else is having a little boy so I can give away all of the clothes Asher never fit into. All of my other friends and family that are pregnant are having little girls.

I thought it would be fun to post some pictures from Christmases past so everyone can see just how much our kids have grown since James and I got married.

All kinds of rolling

Asher and I are sitting here watching the huge snow clouds rolling in on Enoch from all sides. It looks like we are in for a week worth of snow storms, one right after another. Should be interesting to see how much snow we have by Friday. I guess we'll be having a white Christmas this year :)

And another type of rolling. Asher is finally rolling over from his tummy to his back. I was so happy to see him do it the other night. James saw him do it the Saturday after Thanksgiving but I wasn't watching and missed it. Now I've seen him do it a few times :) YEAH!!!

I've also been rolling out cookie dough and making Christmas cookies. I just can't make them fast enough for Bailey to eat them. Crazy kid.

Hope everyone has a great weekend...if you don't hear from us in a few days come dig us out of all the snow we are supposed to get..hehe!!!

Random Ramblings....

So, James and I had to make a quick trip into Vegas yesterday, we got fuel for $1.47 a gallon!!! That was actually here in Cedar City though, not in Vegas, I noticed in Vegas it was still up around $1.89 a gallon. The bad part is that today its up to $1.51 already. I hope it isn't going to climb as quickly as it went down.

I'm re-reading the Twilight series of books again. After seeing the movie I wanted to see what parts they had left out so I read the first book again. And once I read the first one I had to keep going. I'm on the third one already. James wants to read them now too, after seeing the movie. He started the first one right after I finished it, but he can't sit for a long time just reading so it may take him a little longer to finish it than it did me. And can I just say, the movies are NEVER as good as the books...Da Vinci Code, Where the Heart Is, The Green Mile, and now Twilight, all of these movies were disappointments because I read the books first! Just goes to show, my imagination is way better than anything Hollywood can come up with!

James has two recruiters working on finding him a job right now. I hope one of them comes through soon. They have a few things in the works, only one problem with all of them...they aren't here in Cedar City which means we will probably be moving...AGAIN! UGH!!!!!!! I have no idea where we will end up, but I pray that where ever it is, its a place we will be staying for an extended period of time...which for us is about 2 years! LOL!!!

Asher had to get shots on Monday...poor little man. He did not feel well all day after that. And this morning he woke up not feeling well again, I think it was something we ate because James and Bailey also had stomach aches. Asher is getting so big though, of course he started out big so its no surprise that he is continuing with that streak. He weighed 19 pounds 6 ounces on Monday and was 27" long. He is the cutest little boy though. He has found his tongue and has it constantly sticking out. He also does the sweetest thing with his hand, he scratches at different objects with the tips of his fingers, I think he is feeling all the different fabrics and materials of his surroundings. He does it to his hair when I am feeding him, he kinda looks like a little monkey. He hasn't rolled over yet, well James said he rolled over on Sunday but I didn't see it and he hasn't done it again since. He still only has two teeth (HA! ONLY!!!) a 5 month old with two teeth that he has actually had for 2 months!

Josten moved out of our house and into a townhome with some buddies of his. I think he is really enjoying it. He comes over every night to work out and lift weights (and steal some food) so we still see him very often. In fact we probably see him more now then when he actually lived with us!

Well, that's the latest update with the Sherratts and the Amo. Our life is so crazy and there are so many of us that I'm sure I'll have a whole new bunch of stuff to report in a few days. But until then...we love you all and hope that this last month of 2008 finds you happy and healthy!

Our daughter-in-law (soon)

Our soon to be daughter-in-law's mother passed away yesterday and I just wanted to post a blog to tell her how much we love her and hope that she is doing well. Jadeth said Whitnee is taking it pretty hard and we just want her to know that she is in our thoughts and prayers. I feel so awful for her, she is only 21, pregnant and about to get married and I can't imagine what it would be like to go through all of that without my mother.

Post-Thanksgiving

Well Thanksgiving has come and gone, thank goodness. I had a great time with family but I'm glad its over. Now I'm just in shock that its only 24 days until Christmas. Who's idea was it to put these holidays so close together anyway??
While we had all the family together for Thanksgiving we took some family pictures. We had planned on taking them at a park in Cedar City but the weather did not cooperate, so we had to take them in the house. They didn't turn out as well as I would have liked but they work for now. Here are a few.

James, me and Asher (it was almost impossible to get a picture of him without his hand in his mouth!)

Asher and his mommy, would you just look at that smile...is he not the cutest little boy you have ever seen!

The whole family from left to right - Whitnee (and Jade), Jadeth, Jared, Josten, Me, James, Sabelle, Bailey and Asher.

All of us again!

And all of the kids. Its a pretty cute family! :) The picture below was of us a year ago on the cruise for Thanksgiving, crazy how life changes in only 365 days!