So the Riese's have moved to Arizona and while I absolutely am starting to love it (minus the summer heat) we will be moving back to Utah in May. James has decided to go back to school and become a physical therapist. I completely support him in all he does but have decided me and the girls are just along for the ride for the next few years. :) We have added a member to our family and she is as adorable as Alexis was and we are loving her to pieces!!! James is living in a house full of girls and he loves it. Kaia is finally sleeping through the night, WAHOO, and while Alexis is in her terrible two phase, and trust me it is in FULL effect, there are still tons of moments where her sweetness and loving nature can make you forget all about it. James is working hard at the dental lab but for those of you who know him he is just too active to sit at the desk all day long and he is searching for something a little more stinulating to him. I am fortunate enough to be a stay at home mom and I love it. It is hard work most day, especially now with two girlies, but the rewards are greater than any pay check. While I will be sad to leave this awesome in the winter weather state I do look forward to moving back close to family. Alexis is going to miss her cousins Shelly, Briana, and Nevaeh cause they are down here but we'll just have to get in lots of play time while we can.

So we've been in Georgia for the summer and it has been interesting to say the least. James has been doing pretty good for his first year selling although it's been a lot tougher than he thought. We don't see much of each other but it is so much nicer being here with him instead of far across the country. Alexis not only walks now but she runs. It is amazing and she is starting to say words and she tries to copy everything we do. Alexis and I go swimming almost every day and she has these arms floaties that make her think she is invincible. :) She copies all of the bigger kids and dives in to the water and pops back up with a huge smile on her face. It is going to be very sad when we leave our big, fun pool.
We did get to take a week off and went to Maine for a family reunion. It was James' first experience with all of the Stehmeier's and we had a blast. Maine was beautiful but VERY small town everywhere you went. People literally stared at our family when we walked into grocery stores or any public place. It was crazy. We stayed on this beautiful lake and went canoing and kayaking, we had these two big yards in front of the houses we stayed at that were perfect for games and the week went by way too fast.
We leave for Utah on August 31st and I will be happy and sad to go. The weather has been wonderful here and I love the south, but I am ready to go home and see my family and friends.

Wow has it really been this long???

Sorry I am such a slacker but I am way better at facebook. James has moved to Georgia for the summer doing summer alarm sales for Platinum. Alexis and I are still here in Utah and she just turned one. My mom had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in her kidney and to remove a cyst (thank goodness that's all it was) roughly the size of a softball along with all her female organs. All of that the week after James left. No fun for me...let's just say I was feeling a little overwhelmed. Now though the doctors are confident they removed all the cancer so my mom is home recovering from the surgery and has a check up in a month and then every three monthes after that for a year to be sure. James is doing pretty well down in Georgia and we are excited to be debt free at the end of this summer!!! YEA!!! James is getting very lonely with out us and we are doing suprisingly well considering James was the confident one that we would be fine for the summer and I was dreading his leaving. He asks me every day when I'm coming out there and I love being missed. Being a part from my husband has made me appreciate a lot about him that I think I was taking for granted and it has opened up doors in our relationship for us to explore that I don't think could've been opened without a seperation of longer than a week. I have enjoyed discovering things about myself and James that hadn't been brought up before now. I do miss him so much though and so does Alexis. It's not easy being a temporary single mom and taking care of someone else's kids on top of that. Alexis and I will be going out to join him soon and I look forward to the oppurtunity of living outside the Provo bubble. Maybe there I'll be better at writing here.

Our two year wedding anniversary was in March and we went hiking down at Arches National Park. It was a blast!! We had a ton of good times and there are a ton of pics on facebook should you care to look. We also went on a family vacation to my granda's house in California. It was awesome and much needed. again I tell you I'm way better at updating facebook but even then that's not to hard to do compared to this. :)

Here is a picture of my new hair color, Alexis loving the swings, and some pictures of us on Easter. It was so fun. Alexis was throwing things out of her basket and digging the candy. I let her have some chocolate and she was loving it. We went up to Logan on Sunday and spent the day with my family. It was a blast. We went on an Easter egg hunt and Alexis found three eggs. On Saturday we went to the big Easter egg hunt at Scera park and it was insanity. The adults are crazy. I saw a grown man rip a giant stuffed animal from a 10 year old boys hands. Craziness I'm telling you. We'll definitely be back next year. :)

Busy Busy

Well it's been awhile again. Things have been crazy with the nanny job and my patience is being tested to it's very limits. If all twelve year old girls are like this I hope all the rest of my kids are boys. :)

Anyway something kind of fun that I did is become a redhead...that's right I have been brunette, blonde, and am now a redhead. I'll have to put some pics up tomorrow but it is fun for sure and different but I love it. Thank goodness so does James and Alexis hasn't seemed to notice so it's all good.

James and I are going to be pretty busy the next few weekends with Easter, our anniversary and Conference coming up we'll be gone visiting the family, going camping, and hanging out in Salt Lake with some of our extended family. Life is great, Alexis is keeping me on my toes but is the angel that saves me from going insane. Her innocent smile and wet kisses keep me laughing. Here are a few more fun pics of her.