update on Leavitt Life

Life has been a little more busy around here lately. I planned a trip to Utah (just Reagan and I) the second week in December so it was just her and I for about 10 days...wonderful! Kurt drove the rest of the family down for Christmas at my mom and dad's. It was, as always, so fun to see all my family and Kurt's sister plus the bonus of getting to see my best friend growing up Laura, and our good friends Steve and Ginger. We haven't seen the Snyders in a few years and they were our surrogate family when we lived in Port Orchard. I love family and friends that are like family--it always feels like you just left off talking with them even if you haven't seen each other in a long time. After I got home it was back to catching the bus, nap times, PTA, YMCA, playdates, laundry, Primary chorister, and all the other things we mom's do...

Kurt's dental school schedule wasn't busy enough so he thought he'd tack on a bit more when he was called as bishop of our ward. That happened back at the end of October. He also decided to really get serious about exercise the beginning of the year, so he's been really busy. The nice thing for me is most of the time he works out in the morning--sometimes 5am--so it doesn't effect my life as much as the bishop hours do. Some days I can tell it's a lot on his shoulders but most days we both feel like life is really good. I know the Lord is lifting our burdens to feel light. And I'm glad we've made a habit of Friday being date night so I always know we'll have that time just for us.

So now we are facing Kurt's graduation. Which means we are looking everywhere for a job. Ideally we could find an associateship around here and he could work for a few years and then find a practice to buy, but we'll see. There aren't very many associate jobs in this economy so we're looking and praying and I'm sure we'll find something soon.

Oh yeah and right now I'm training for a half marathon and it's nuts! Running is hard! My half marathon is first of May so we'll see if I can do it.

So that is an update on Kurt and I...I'll have to update on my kids another time since this is already way too long for a blog update.

some pics...

Steve with Cohen and the cape I made for him.





Cousin Nathan

Avery and Natalie made a tunnel through the snow

Grandma...Reagan misses you...

Natalie and Aubrey



Waiting to see what Santa brought

I think Lincoln is a sweet brother. He picked out this crown for Maya and wanted it to be from him for her birthday. He wanted her to open it as soon as she was up and she wore it all day. I have a different picture with them just smiling but I loved this blurry one better because it shows how much they enjoy each other.

Maya has talked for weeks about sharing a cake with daddy

This was the trunk the kids and I decorated for the chuch trunk or treat. I was husbandless during this since Kurt was fishing in 75 degree Texas weather over the weekend.

We ended up carving pumpkins on Halloween and lit them up right before trick-or-treating. Kurt's brother Aaron was here and he made the spider and the ghost in the window with Lincoln and Natalie.

I love how it takes the muscles in her face and other hand to get all three fingers to stay up on ther right hand. She wore this outfit all day. Such a fun age! Thank you Aunt Carol for a birthday outfit, and her Halloween costume!

This is the annual dental school party. It's actually just a group of us friends from dental school. I guess this is the last year for it.

Uncle Aaron was a hit. Lincoln said he wished Uncle Aaron could come to our house every day.

blessing day

Natalie helped me get Reagan to smile and look up for the camera. Lately Natalie gets the biggest smiles.

Grandma Leavitt's blanket. It's a tradition to use it for the baby girl blessings.



Happy Blessing Day Reagan!

two weeks ago

Maya and Alyssa wanted to be part of the pictures. It was pretty funny trying to keep Reagan asleep with four other noisy kids. Reagan didn't want to sleep so we got a bunch of her awake.

This one is my favorite

And this is my other favorite...I have a lot of favorites...THANKS KATI!

while mom's taking pictures . . .

Maya loves to wash her hands. They are always squeaky clean even if her face isn't

Here is my two year old using up all of my dish soap.

I'm about to get mad face

You can catch her smiling if you are quick. She's a lot more generous with them now though.

She still spends most of her time like this.

end of summer

Jason and Melissa (my brother and his wife) flew out to see us. They were so much fun! I was only half fun since Reagan was still so new. We took it easy but managed to see some fun sights.

Reagan in her carseat on our trip to see some friends in Whidby Island. That was our longest time in the car. She didn't seem to mind it. She slept for most of it.

Note Jason's hand---I guess I should just be glad that they are close...

Meadowdale beach


Melissa and I after our short hike down to the bottom of Snoqualmie falls

Hiking down.





First day of shool. Lincoln was so much more excited about riding the bus than anything else.

Here he is at Kindergarten orientation. (The day before the bus ride and real first day)




We went to the park the other night to let the kids ride bikes and I was playing with Reagan on the bench.



Before school officially started we took the kids over to an little mini island called Jetty island. They have a small ferry to take everyone over. Apparently it's really popular. They ferry ride adds that little bit of charm. We really liked it. It was really fun for the kids.

Here they are with some of their friends. Ausitn, Lincoln, Maya, and Jackson--and the one standing up in the back is another Jackson.

We managed to catch her smiling! Well, kindof smiling.
This is my most recent one of her. This is her at six weeks. She will be seven weeks on Tuesday. I actually did a fun little photo shoot with my friend Kati and her nice camera this morning so (don't worry mom) we'll have more pictures of her soon