January and half of February 2010

Well time flies when you are having fun! We are now settled in our new place in St. George and I love it here. I feel right at home and it really helps that there is no snow and the weather is so nice. We have been just working hard on getting settled, we love our new ward and have already made some great friends. Josh is playing Basketball with the guys and I am going to a play group with ladies in the ward. This last weekend some of my family came for a visit due to the Presidents Day holiday. We had a blast as usual. Some of the things we enjoyed doing were: Parade of Homes, going to the park, Girls Night, games, games, and more games!! Time flew by and they are gone already. I am looking forward to seeing all my family next month when we come for a visit. Now that I have my camera cord situation figured out I should be able to post pictures more often of all you fans of my baby boy, because lets face it that is really what the pictures are of. Speaking of Talon, he is turned into quite the charmer and a troublemaker. He knows how to work mom and dad to get what he wants. He is also finally getting some teeth. He decided to get 4 at once, two on the bottom and two on top. It is adorable! Anyway, I hope you had a great January and half of February!

Is that a bracelet in your ear??

Talon loves the park and cannot get enough of it.

I had to get a pic of the cousins in the bath. SO CUTE

He has turned into a full blown troublemaker

Who can resist this cute little smiling face??

Greetings from St. George, UT

Hello all!! I have just a few minutes to update what has been going on here with us Doans. We have successfully moved to St. George with the help of some of our family. It was so nice to have them come and help us get settled because they did a lot of unpacking for us. So when they left I almost didn't know what to do. Almost. I decided to enjoy the weather here. It hasn't snowed once in the two weeks we have been here. Just a bunch of rain. We have gone to our new ward here and we think we are going to love it. Such nice people! Talon and even Charlie seem to really like it here. We feel so happy to be all back together and in our house. When I get a little more time I will post some fun pictures of what we have been up to here.

Really?!?!?!?

The reason for this post is so that when I am having a bad day in the future I can look back and realize that maybe it's not so bad after all. My day on Thursday consisted of this:
Thursday morning I received an email from our mortgage lender basically telling me that the bank had a change of plans and they were pulling out of the deal on our house that we were supposed to close on in a weeks time or less. To say that I was shocked and absolutely devastated is an understatement. To put this into perspective a little bit, we have been working on this since the beginning of October. We moved in with my mom and at the beginning of December, Josh had to go to St. George for work. So we have not been together since the beginning of December. I had put so many hours into the paperwork and documents we needed to send to them only to find out we are not getting the house after all?!?!
I put myself together enough to realize that we needed a Plan B and quickly. So without a lot of thought I put together a bag for Talon and I and we headed down to St. George. We had a pleasant drive......until I was getting ready to turn into the parking lot of my destination. I was in the left hand turn lane and was waiting for traffic to clear when I was suddenly hit by another car from behind. That's right!! A car accident. Luckily everybody was fine but it was enough to make it so both cars were not drivable. When I finally got done with the police reports and such I wanted to do nothing but go back to the hotel and have a little dinner and go to bed.

This was the car of the girl that hit me.

This is the back of the Jeep. You can't see it very well but the gas tank and the tow hitch was all just hanging down practically ready to fall off.

I sent Josh out to get me some tacos and he comes back with the WRONG ones. It was the cherry on top of my day. I even ventured back out to try to get the right ones and came back and they were still wrong. This is about the point I was done trying. Now the taco thing really not a big deal but I thought I would throw it in just to really prove that my day was not meant to be a good one. So that was my horrible awful day!

On a bit of a better note we did find a place to rent down there and we should be able to move in next week sometime. So we will be back together but not in the house we have been dreaming about. I do know that everything happens for a reason and I am grateful that we are being watched out for. There were a lot of things that went wrong that day but there were still many things to be grateful for. The main one for me was that Talon was not hurt in the car accident. So now at this point we live and we learn. Can't wait to share our new place and our new adventures with you!

Time to Catch Things Up

First of all let me just put a warning up, this is a long post with a lot of pictures!! We have been very busy with the holiday's. We did so many fun things to get ready for Christmas and my favorite was probably going to see the lights at Temple Square with our little family. Talon was so eager and excited to be there and we got outside and it was so cold but bless his heart he was still so good! It was so beautiful there and really helped me feel the spirit of Christmas.




Next we had Christmas Eve festivities with my mom and sisters and their families. We had a delicious dinner of roast and potatoes and the works. We opened gifts from each other and my mom and we had a fabulous time. Josh and I got stuff to finally start a 72 hour kit (better late than never) and I got a zebra purse with some Dancing Waters lotion and body spray. It was a fun night with great company.


Obviously next up was Christmas Day. It was so fun for me to wake up and be at my mom's house still. It reminded me of times growing up. This was Talon's first Christmas and I had so much fun putting that together for him. I can't wait for next year when he will know a little bit more about what is going on. It was a good year for us. Josh got me a new Digital Camera that is hot pink that I am still trying to learn how to use but I still love it. We had our usual Christmas breakfast of crepes and then went over to my grandma's house for some good company and food. I really loved Christmas this year for Talon and because I was able to really feel the spirit of Christmas and that is really what it is all about.








And last but not least we come to our New Years Eve celebrations. This year has been one of the most fun years to celebrate. It was me and all my sisters and families and we even had my little sisters boyfriend here to help celebrate. We had more food than we even knew what to do with and played Wii and Curses. We laughed all night long and ate until we wanted to throw up. Such fun times. Thanks for all who helped bring in the new year.





Just a few quick updates. We should be closing on our house and moving in within a week to a week and a half. This has been a very long process and we are so excited to move in to a house. Talon is getting bigger by the second. He is so quick crawling and can't wait to walk. He is pulling himself up on everything. He talks to me all the time and only has 3 words I understand. Mom, Dada, and Ba Ba.
Whew!! Long post! I hope everyone else had great holiday's and Happy New Year everyone.

Happy Birthday Josh!

Josh turned 24 yesterday! We had quite the celebration for him too. We had the family come over to my mom's house for dinner and a white elephant gift exchange. To add to that we were all supposed to wear our "ugly sweaters." I think the ugliest sweater award went to Jared but there were some pretty ugly sweaters. Dinner was delicious and the gift exchange was so funny. We were all laughing until we had tears coming out of our eyes. The pictures below can describe the gifts and fun times way better than my words ever could. So Happy Birthday to Josh. We love you.

This and That

Since my Halloween post I have: seen New Moon with my mom and sisters (minus 1), saw New Moon again with Josh, had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal twice once with my dad and once with my grandparents and whole family, done a little Black Friday shopping for Christmas presents, enjoyed the nice weather with my sisters, and today said goodbye to Josh for possibly a month and a half. I need to explain the last one. We put an offer in on a house in St. George back in October but the process takes a very long time because we are waiting on the bank. So I have been told we will hear back to see if we have been approved in about two weeks. Josh is starting his job in St. George today and our house isn't ready so he was sent on his way to work and stay with friends down there while I stay here with Talon at my moms house. While I am so grateful we have these options that save us money, I wish so badly that there was a way to stay with Josh. Hopefully it will go by fast and all will go well.
In the meantime I will work on Christmas and Birthday preparations. I am going to be sending out Christmas cards this year and all my addresses are packed in a box somewhere in a storage unit so if you would like a card I would love it if you could get me your address. You can email it to me at princessjojo05@yahoo.com or text it to me at 801-472-4223. Thanks everyone!

Getting ready to go see New Moon

Talon will not like me someday for this but I could not resist this picture

Be Grateful

In honor of Thanksgiving, I wanted to list some of the many things I am so very grateful for this year.

I am SO very thankful for my husband and all that he does for our family so that I can enjoy staying home with my baby. He is such a wonderful father and husband that I don't think I could of asked for better or more!

I am thankful for Talon and the joy of being a mother to such a unique and wonderful baby boy!

I am thankful for all of my family everywhere and for their love and support in all we do, most especially right now for my mom that is letting us stay with her and for helping us out above and beyond.

I am grateful for the opportunity that we have to purchase a home in St. George.

I am also so grateful for the little things in life, like retail therapy for a really bad day, or happy hour at Sonic that helps get you through the rest of the day!

I have so much to be grateful for and it goes so much deeper and more than this but I wanted to share some of the things that are such a big part of my life. What are you grateful for?