Goodbye 2009!

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Wow what an amazing year this has brought our family. So much has changed in what seems so little time. This year we thought we would write this letter to send with our Christmas cards so all of you can know what has happen to us.

In April we welcomed our latest addition to our growing family. Bradley Alexander Moore was born April 9 @ 12:35am. He was a big boy weighing in at 9lbs 1oz, and he was 21 ½ inches long. He did have some breathing issues when he was born do to part of his lungs not expanding all the way and was in the NICU for 5 days on antibiotics. We were so glad to be able to finally bring him home. He of course now is 8 months old and just brings us such joy every day. Just this past weekend he started crawling! He is now weighting in at almost 20lbs and 28 inches long. He says three words, “mama”, “dada”, and “hi”.

In May, Ivory finished 1^st grade top of her class. She is reading at almost a 7^th grade level and currently is reading the Harry Potter series. She is on book 3! There is nothing this girl can’t do after she puts her mind to it. She is now in the 2^nd grade and is just excelling.  Every Thursday she brings home the past week’s worth of school work and I swear it is just “A’s”.   At the end of this coming year she is going to be tested for a gifted program for next year. I think this will really benefit her so she doesn’t become bored in class.

Sara started kindergarten here this past August. She has been just doing wondering in it. She picks up on a lot of things very well. She just loves the fact that she is now in school. When we moved this year we had to switch her to home school just for the time being do to no bus to get her to school.  Next year she will be back into full time regular school.

Both of the girls are now doing Girl Scouts and have their first project they are going to be doing tomorrow. They have been making Christmas Cards to send to the troops overseas and our going to go caroling at the local nursing home. They are learning so much through Girl Scouts. Oh yeah we start selling Girl Scout cookies here next month. If you want to order some we will ship to you just let us know *hint hint*.

In July we welcomed a new brother in law into the family. Jennifer married Robert Harnden. The wedding was beautiful. All six that is right six kids looked amazing. Jennifer and Robert have such a beautiful family! Robert is also an awesome brother in law so welcome to the family! You are now suck with all of us crazy people!

In August we took a trip to Oroville, CA. Stopping in Reno to see family. It was great to be able to spend time with everyone. The kids had a blast and I know all of you that were there loved seeing the kids. Speaking of stopping in Reno I need to give a shout out to Uncle Rob and his wife Misty who welcomed there first little girl Truly into the world on November 27^th. She is Beautiful you too! If you want copies of the photos from the trip please let us know. We can send them to your local Walgreens to be picked up. We are not sure if the whole family will be going back to California here in 2010. AJ is planning to for her 10 year reunion we will keep you all posted. 

In September Dell in Twin Falls, ID announced that they would be closing their Twin Falls call center. This of course was bad news for us. Josh has been working at Dell since April 2005. We pretty much had a choice. Stay in Idaho and fight 500 other people for barely any jobs or apply and transfer to the Oklahoma center. Keep our job, keep our benefits, and keep our pay. Well we took the job in Oklahoma and moved out here to Moore, OK (right outside OKC) in October. Not only did they pay for the move they also gave Josh a raise. We are now in a cute 3bd 1ba house with our dogs Blackie (lab) and Romper (beagle). Our back yard is great size and all fenced!

We sure do miss all of our family. It has been such a hard few months and very stressful. Thank you to all of you that have helped and even just been there to listen to us vent during these past couple months. We hope that all of you have a great Christmas! It may be just us here at our house but you are all in our hearts. Plus maybe it is time for Josh, the kids, and I to make our own holiday traditions!

May you all have a great start to a New Year. I am not sure what 2010 has in hold for us but hopefully a little calmer than 2009! We love you all! Please keep in touch!