Bye mom!

The house behind our lot is the same house we are getting.





here are a couple pictures we took before my mom left town yesterday, to remember her by. and i also posted a picture of our new lot! they say 120 days out, which is one day (1!!) after i am due. and i talked to some people who lived in a house from that builder and they said they didnt move their date at all. so we MAY be in earlier than i had thought! i was thinking it would be at least end of april, or may. but 1st of april they are expecting to be done, and we picked out our upgrades/options yesterday. that was exciting, but also a little more expensive than we had thought. you really had to upgrade a lot, and i think since the house is fairly large it was more than i thought. for instance, you had to upgrade the inside doors because they came as FLAT doors. flat like the wall flat! i was really surprised at that. anyways we had fun with my mother while she was here. it went by SO fast though. i cant believe she is already home in alaska. we had our ward Christmas party last night, that was fun. its hard to socialize with people though when everybody is just sitting at a table. then audrey had hers this MORNING at 7:30 am. thats right. a ward Christmas Party at 7:30 in the morning. is that not crazy!? but i gotta hand it to em, they had a great breakfast, and the kids were in a little Christmas play, very cute. they even had real palm leaves covering the stable. and audrey has a new foster baby, hes 18 months, 35 pounds. HUGE. but seems to be a real sweet kid. comes from severe neglect and some abuse it looked like. it was really sad. audrey said they bathed him twice last night, and this morning, because he smelled so bad, like bugs and dirt, and like he hadnt had a bath in a LONG time. poor little guy. they didnt even have any clothes for him because Child Services said when they took him all his clothes were covered in cocroaches and they could only find 1 diaper, and the only food in the house was some cheese crackers... its horrible what happens to little babies at no fault of theirs. but audrey will probbaly have him a while, he's a long term for now i think. anyways, here are some pics.