Family Newsletter

Dearest Friends and Family,

We hope you are all doing well and your holidays are happy and eventful! 2008 has proved yet another busy year for the Price Family, and looking back we realize once again how blessed we are! Especially to have such wonderful friends and family who are so loving and supportive, we can’t do it without you!

Our sweet little Jentri Ann is growing by leaps and bounds every day. She is so animated, creative, curious, and will steal your heart, so watch out! We can’t believe how fast and how much she’s learned in her short 21 months. Although her first phrase in the morning is usually “watch a movie,” we try to keep her busy doing some of the other things she loves to do: coloring, reading books, running outside (even in the cold), playing with friends and cousins, “helping” mommy with anything and everything, dancing and singing songs, to name a few.

She’s been in nursery for three months and still isn’t too keen on the idea. She loves playing with the toys and other kids, just not by herself. She seems to be doing better, so we’ll see. She’s excited for baby sister to come in roughly six weeks! She loves babies and is so gentle and sweet with them. She’s going to be a great big sister!

A little update on the rest of us, Katie is living the high life as a stay at home mom. Tiring stuff, but oh so fun! She usually spends her days making peanut butter sandwiches, playing with blocks, and changing diapers. Her calling in Young Women’s keeps her plenty busy, but she’s learned a lot and loves being a part of her girls’ lives. She’s also teaching violin lessons one day a week to spice things up a bit. Winding down on pregnancy #2 is getting exciting! We’re anxious to add another little one to the mix and to see where life takes us from there! We have yet to choose a name for her, but I suppose we’ve still got some time. Hopefully her identity won’t be a mystery for too much longer.

Jake’s year has been a busy one. He’s decided that it’s pointless to root for the Aggie football team, and has changed his career path so he can be a Cougar. This fall he started his Masters Degree in Civil Engineering, and is now working for a civil firm, RB&G in Provo. Earlier this year he felt strongly that he needed to leave RMC but wasn’t sure why. The big round of layoffs two weeks later confirmed it was time for a change. His time at home is scarce these days, but Jen & I love to see him whenever we get the chance. On top of it all he teaches the 14-16 year olds in Sunday school, and loves doing that.

That’s us in a nutshell! Enjoy the Holidays, and know that we love and appreciate you! We’re also grateful to be able again to celebrate the birth of our Savior. He lives! May He be a constant guide in our lives!

Merry Christmas! Love Always,
Jake, Kate, Jentri, and Baby Price

Cool pics

So I finally got around to getting some professional pics taken of Jentri. How did we get such a pretty girl!?! It still amazes me! Anyway, my friend Christy is just startin out, but she does an awesome job! She's really reasonable and gives a CD of all the pics. Here are a couple of my favorites, but to see more, check out Christy's blog!

http://cheapshotsllc.blogspot.com/

Before I Forget...

I just have to tell this quick little story before I forget it forever. The other night while putting Jen to bed, we were singing songs as usual, and one of her recent favorites is "The Daddy Song," as she calls it. I think it's actually We are a Happy Family or something like that. Anyway, we were just going along like normal, "I love Mommy, she loves me...We love Daddy, yes-sir-ee..." Jen suddenly puts her hand on my belly and says, "sister." I was a little confused at first why she had to interrupt ( I was clearly in the middle of a song...hehe JK) and of all things say "sister." It took me another minute to realize why, but I finally asked, "Oh, do we love sister, too?" Jen got this big grin on her face and jumped up and down saying, "Yeah, sister too!" So we added a little verse of our own at the end so instead of "he loves us and so you see" we sing "we love sister and Jentri, we are a happy family."

I don't know if I'm making too much of this, probably so, but I was so impressed with her inclusion of her sister. Call me pregnant, but it brought a tear to my eye! It made me so excited that another little sweetheart is going to join our family, and the Jen is already so accepting of her. We'll see how long that lasts when she's actually here and keeping us all awake at night, but I'll take it as it is, for now. So cute!

PS-We haven't picked a name for sure yet, hence the "sister" references. We keep changing our minds. This week at the top of the list are Emma and Olivia. We'll just have to see what she looks like, I guess! It won't be long now! At least that's what I'm telling myself...there's no room left in my squatty little body, it's hard to imagine her getting any bigger! Ah well, life is good! Happy Thursday!

Happy Birthday to Jake!

So this is a couple of days late, but I just wanted to tell you how lucky I am to be married to the now 27- year-old Jake Price! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

With him working night shifts and me not seeing him much the last few weeks, I've really come to realize how much I rely on him and really how much he does for me. I told him the other day that it wouldn't be so hard to have him gone all the time if he wasn't so gosh darn good to me! He's always so quick to ask, "Anything I can do for ya, Love?" and is so good about helping me and taking care of both me and Jen, even when he's had a long day (or night as the case may be). He does so much for us, we love him so much! (Woo, what a hottie...)

He's such a hard worker and is so good at anything he does. Some might say he's just a big goof, but hey-he's good at it! :) Jentri will often say "Daddy, silly" and I'd say I'd have to agree with her, but I love it! I can't take him anywhere without him making everyone around us laugh and kids especially are his instant friends. My mom made him a clown suit for his birthday last year if that's any indication... :) He makes me laugh all the time, and knows just what to do and say to cheer me up when I'm down.


He's an AMAZING Dad, and it's no wonder Jentri gets so excited and happy whenever he's around. I love to just sit and watch them play together, it makes me smile every time. He's so quick to play silly made-up games with her or make up funny songs, and no one can make her laugh and squeal like her Dad can.

I LOVE JAKE! He makes me want to be better, and I don't know how I got so lucky! Happy Birthday, Love! I love you so much! Oh, and the surround sound you wanted? Well, I just thought these nice words of love and affection would make up for it. What d'ya think? ;)

Witches at Gardner Village

I figured since more than one person has mentioned I need a new post, it must really be time. :)

So Jake's mom has always been really great about doing things with and for her Grandkids. She's done what she calls "Grandma Day" where she takes the kids for a couple hours the same day every week and just does something with them. EVERY week. Some weeks it's just taking them to baseball practice or something every day, and other weeks it's been going to a dollar movie, swimming, stuff like that. I've been so amazed at her diligence in keeping it up, and apparently she started it when Cody and Braydon were Jentri's age (they're now 10). We haven't done it much now because Cody, Kaylee, & Katelynn decided to move to Levan, so it's harder to get together. But we're still able to do it once or twice a month, which is nice. I've been invited along since Jen came along, I think because she knew I needed to get out of the house, but I've loved going and think it's a really cool tradition.

ANYWAY, because of Grandma Day my wonderful Mother-in-Law has all sorts of fun traditions she's started with the kids, one of which is going to Gardner Village in October to see the Witches. Sad to say I'd never been to see them until I started going with them, and I grew up not far from there. Sad! It's so fun! The witches are so funny and I love all the little shops around there. They even have a little scavenger hunt for the older kids that makes it pretty fun. I didn't get too many pictures because I was chasing Jentri around/pushing the stroller, but we got a few...

Jen loved it! And, I actually got her to sit still long enough for a picture, AMAZING! (I know I'm a little biased, but isn't she so darn cute!?!) Anyway, I wish I'd gotten a pic of her favorite witch, the one that's suspended over the pond riding a bike. It's pretty cool looking. All the way home and throughout the next day she kept saying, "Witch, bike." It took me a while to figure out what she was talking about, but luckily I got to hear it over and over again so I could. :) Such a fun tradition, and the kids look forward to it every year!

Here are a couple of pics from last year of my favorite witches... :)

'Nuff Said...

So Jen and I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago I thought worth mentioning.

Mama: "Jen, what does a sheep say?"
Jentri: "Moo."

Mama: "No, a sheep says baa."
Jentri: "NO, moo!"

Mama: "That's silly. A sheep says baa." (A little baffled by her daughter's sudden urge to debate a clearly non-debatable thing.)
Jentri: "Moo."

Mama: "Baa."
Jentri: "Moo."

Mama: "Baa."
Jentri: "Moo."

Mama: "Baa."
Jentri: "Moo."

And so on, you get the idea. She cracks me up! We were both laughing pretty hard by the end. All I can say is that she was certainly determined to correct her Mama! She has since conformed and will say that a sheep says "baa," but it took some coaxing. I thought I had a few years at least before we argued!! Turns out I was a little mistaken. Kinda funny!

Here's a pic of her singing to "Tana" a.k.a. Hannah Montana, at Cousin Brynlee's sweet Hannah Montana birthday party. She brought down the house, to say the least. :)

IT'S A...

GIRL!

We're half way there! Wahoo! We had boy names picked out, so we don't have a name for her yet, but it'll come! Yay for sisters! :)