8 Months and More

My Baby is 8 Months Old! I can't believe how the time has flown. She is sitting up, jabbering all the time. Loves to scream and then smile. She is almost cralling she can't get the arm and leg moving at the same time but she is getting closer. We do alot of face plants into the floor right now. We love having a little girl. She is still tiny and wearing 3-6 month clothes and size 2 diapers. I don't mind though I like how little she is. Her hair is long enough on top to put it into a pony tail. It sticks straight up and I call it her antenna, but it is just so darn cute. Jaden and her are going to be so fun at Christmas because of how into toys they both are. She loves the gerber puffs and could eat them all day if I let her. She loves her big brother and he is the one that can get her to laugh the most.
I had my Christmas concert on Monday and it went well. I wish it would have been a little more prepared but what can you do. Jaden had a solo and did well in the first concert and was a little more defiant in the second concert but it was still so cute. He sang "I'm wishing on a star" from polar express. My one choir did a medley from it and suggested that my son sing the solo in it. We had two concerts and they both were full. It was fun and the kids loved it because the prinicipal didn't think we could fill two up and those students were out to prove him wrong. He admitted later that it was a good idea to do tickets and have two concerts. Ha!! That's all I can say about that. We also have an ancient little theater with and ancient sound system. But, in our gym we have a $40,000 sound system. What is wrong with that picture. Anyway, it was acting up really bad at the concert to the point that I apologized to the audience and just had to let it be annoying. Well, the principal and super were there and heard how horrible it was, and decided to start looking for a new sound system finally. Hopefully we have it before the end of the year. I think things are finally starting happen at the school. I am a little bit of an annoying person right now but it seems to be working. I am not satisfied and they realize that something needs to be done. I'm just glad the concert is over.
My blood pressure has dropped but is not as low as it usually is. I am going to go in and have them check my thyroid and some other stuff to see if there is something else other than stress that is causing it to go funky.
We went to our ward party before the ward change and couldn't get Jaden to want to go. We told him Santa would be there and that got him in the car right away. When we arrived at the church he got out and asked, "where are santas reindeer?" It was so funny and cute and made perfect sense to him. If santas here than his transportation should be outside. He really loves christmas. He has been walking around the house and everywhere singing Christmas songs that he heard on the Christmas radio station.
Merry Christmas everyone.

From the Arnold Family

Change

As a people, we don't like change. Well today in Rigby we got one of the biggest changes ever made here. Let me give you a little history about little old Rigby, Idaho. I am not sure on how many people live here but I can tell you that we have two street lights and one grocery store, oh and three gas stations. To say the least we are a small town. You could almost call us a village. Eugene/Springfield area is about 5 or 6 times our size if not 10 times our size. Well, last week we had an announcement that we would be having a stake conference this week. We all knew this was coming soon. Our two stakes in Rigby had 14 wards and 10 wards. Today they announced a new stake in Rigby (this does not include the outside surrounding area. They have their own stakes). Yes, little old Rigby now has three stakes in it. Our ward boundries consist of about three miles, maybe four. Our previous ward was part in downtown rigby and then across the highway. Well, my neighborhood got the ultimate change. We are in a different stake, ward, and building. Infact we don't have a bishop or any callings yet in our war. We aren't a new ward but a very made over ward. We got the biggest makover of them all. I am sad because I really liked our ward but am excited because I won't be playing the piano in relief society any more. I like playing the piano but I am excited for the change. Lets see how long I can hold my little secret until someone blabs. I am worried about Jaden because we showed him where are new church building was and he says he doesn't like it. He likes his own church building, and he loves his sumbeam teachers. They are still in our ward luckily and hopefully they get called to the same calling. If so we will be just fine but if not Jaden is going to have a rough couple of weeks, which means we will have a rough couple of weeks. So to recap, Rigby now has three stakes, We have been moved to a new stake, ward, and building and it is the one ward that got completely reorganized. This will be an interesting new year.

Been a long Time

I have been super busy. My choir Christmas concert is next week and we are not ready. Because of all the stress i found out today that my blood pressure is high so i am trying to find ways to relax. Anyone have any good ideas?