One of those moments!

I have to say that today was one of those moments that make me feel so proud to be a mom. Ivory came home from school today and I do my normal routine. What do you have for homework, any papers for me, and so on. She gets out her homework and goes, oh yeah I got awards today.

She got two different awards. One was the Principal's Award for getting Straight A's!!! Other was Academic Excellence SuccessMaker Math Award for working 2 grade levels above her current grade!

I am just so proud of her and what she has gotten today. I was a little upset the school didn't send out saying there was awards today. I so would have been there to take pictures and show my support. She was the only kid in her class to get 2 awards, and only to get the math award.

In April she is being tested for the gifted class. She currently reads 4 grades above her current grade.

These are the moments that make you so proud to be a mom!!

The New Year

Well we are now officially in 2010! I know this year will be so much better than the last.
Bradley is getting so close to being ready to walk. He is pulling himself up on everything and trying to walk the furniture.

Ivory is doing awesome. She met all her reading goals and is getting a free fun day at school. We should have her report card here in the next couple days.

Sara is doing great with her school work. We just did a huge butterfly lesson and she loved it. She can name all the cycles of a butterflies life by the scientific terms.

Josh is working hard as always. He does such a great and amazing job taking care of us. I know at times he doesn't feel appreciated but he so is. He turned 29 yesterday! He said he feels old!

I just got a job and will start working evening this weekend. It will be nice to actually get out of the house for a bit and learn the city. Great thing about my job is I will be at different sites and its always something new so that is GREAT! I have also started working out and you can read about my goals and success here
http://ajmooreweightloss.blogspot.com

We shall keep you all posted!

Love ya

The Moores

Holiday Letter

Wow what an amazing year this has brought our family. So much has changed in what seems so little time. This year we thought we would write this letter to send with our Christmas cards so all of you can know what has happen to us.

In April we welcomed our latest addition to our growing family. Bradley Alexander Moore was born April 9 @ 12:35am. He was a big boy weighing in at 9lbs 1oz, and he was 21 ½ inches long. He did has some breathing issues when he was born do to part of his lungs not expanding all the way and was in the NICU for 5 days on antibiotics. We were so glad to be able to finally bring him home. He of course now is 8 months old and just brings us such joy every day. Just this past weekend he started crawling! He is now weighting in at almost 20lbs and 28 inches long. He says three words, “mama”, “dada”, and “hi”.

In May, Ivory finished 1^st grade top of her class. She is reading at almost a 7^th grade level and currently is reading the Harry Potter series. She is on book 3! There is nothing this girl can’t do after she puts her mind to it. She is now in the 2^nd grade and is just excelling.  Every Thursday she brings home the past week’s worth of school work and I swear it is just “A’s”.   At the end of this coming year she is going to be tested for a gifted program for next year. I think this will really benefit her so she doesn’t become bored in class.

Sara started kindergarten here this past August. She has been just doing wondering in it. She picks up on a lot of things very well. She just loves the fact that she is now in school. When we moved this year we had to switch her to home school just for the time being do to know bus to get her to school.  Next year she will be back into full time regular school.

Both of the girls are now doing Girl Scouts and have their first project they are going to be doing tomorrow. They have been making Christmas Cards to send to the troops overseas and our going to go caroling at the local nursing home. They are learning so much through Girl Scouts. Oh yeah we start selling Girl Scout cookies here next month. If you want to order some we will ship to you just let us know *hint hint*.

In July we welcomed a new brother in law into the family. Jennifer married Robert Harnden. The wedding was beautiful. All six that is right six kids looked amazing. Jennifer and Robert have such a beautiful family! Robert is also an awesome brother in law so welcome to the family! You are now suck with all of us crazy people!

In August we took a trip to Oroville, CA. Stopping in Reno to see family. It was great to be able to spend time with everyone. The kids had a blast and I know all of you that were there loved seeing the kids. Speaking of stopping in Reno I need to give a shout out to Uncle Rob and his wife Misty who welcomed there first little girl Truly into the world on November 27^th. She is Beautiful you too! If you want copies of the photos from the trip please let us know. We can send them to your local Walgreens to be picked up. We are not sure if the whole family will be going back to California here in 2010. AJ is planning to for her 10 year reunion we will keep you all posted. 

In September Dell in Twin Falls, ID announced that they would be closing their Twin Falls call center. This of course was bad news for us. Josh has been working at Dell since April 2005. We pretty much had a choice. Stay in Idaho and fight 500 other people for barely any jobs or apply and transfer to the Oklahoma center. Keep our job, keep our benefits, and keep our pay. Well we took the job in Oklahoma and moved out here to Moore, OK (right outside OKC) in October. Not only did they pay for the move they also gave Josh a raise. We are now in a cute 3bd 1ba house with our dogs Blackie (lab) and Romper (beagle). Our back yard is great size and all fenced!

We sure do miss all of our family. It has been such a hard few months and very stressful. Thank you to all of you that have helped and even just been there to listen to us vent during these past couple months. We hope that all of you have a great Christmas! It may be just us here at our house but you are all in our hearts. Plus maybe it is time for Josh, the kids, and I to make our own holiday traditions!

May you all have a great start to a New Year. I am not sure what 2010 has in hold for us but hopefully a little calmer than 2009! We love you all! Please keep in touch!

Happy Holidays!

Wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holiday from all of us to all of  you!

 

Bradley is now CRAWLING!

We are so excited that our little guy is now crawling. He is all over the place and having fun while doing it. It is just such a wonder to watch him. He still gets a bit frustrated at times but he is getting over it and just crawling away. I just love him so much! Can't believe he is 8 months!!

New Home

We have started to settle into our new life here in Oklahoma. Ivory is attending public school. Do to the schools being so full here they have to transfer her to a different school. She doesn't mind her school. She is still getting to know everything. As figured she is testing high for all subjects in a the class. Sara is being home schooled. I choose this because I don't see why I should send her to school for 2 hours. She is use to a 7 hour day and so far loves the at home deal. Both girls are in Girl Scouts and are loving it.
Josh is back and work. The building is so different. There is building A and B and they are 3 stories high! The building really is amazing! kids get to check it out Thursday when we go to the fall festival there.
As for me I am dealing. It is so hard being away from my whole family. I have no one here and it just sucks. Hopefully it will get better!

OKC here we come

It is official we are moving to Oklahoma City. This is such a big move for us but we are all a bit excited to see what the future holds. We shall be leaving Idaho here in the next couple weeks. We are looking to be in OKC by the 15th of October. We currently have a couple rental applications out so waiting patiently to see what house we get. I will keep all posted on anything else that comes up. Pray for us and wish us luck!!