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dallas at work

Dallas Jay has been busy at work helping his dad! If Ace has a tool Dallas has a tool. It's good to see he has a good work ethic already! Hopefully it continues on into his teenage years. Not to much to report here in Pocatello. We are excited for my parents to move into their beautiful new home. I think they are too! Ace is working hard on his MBA and will only have 3 classes left after this semester! We are so excited. I am keeping busy at work. Dallas has started going to play group with Grandma Bailey and loves playing with the kids. He also loves nursery too, which is nice for us to be able to enjoy church. Poppa Ward loves to take him out to ride in the tractor. The last time he took Dallas out, Dallas Jay fell asleep! Nanna has been teaching him how to lasso and winnie and wyatt and scooby are not enjoying this new trick, but it's pretty cute. Winnie (our lab/ border collie mix) and Dallas Jay are attached at the hip and the other day I caught them both peeking through the fence watching our neighbor work in her yard. I guess the apple never falls far from the tree, because when Jesse and I were little and we lived in Blackfoot we would peek on the people that rented the basement from our parents, so what can I say! Dallas has learned the alphabet, but we are still working on the potty training thing. I hate it and truthfully so does he, so we just mostly talk about it and he tells me no he does not want to be a big boy and sit on the potty. I can't blame him I guess.

I don't know about you, but I loved conference. I loved the talk where Elder Haight talked about how Heavenly Father had created a symphony and loved every instrument in the symphony, not just the piccolos. It's good to know that there is love for those of us who march a little to their own drummer, such as me. I also thought Elder Bednars talk about active prayer was a wonderful refresher. It's so easy, at least for me, to get into a routine and remove the thought process. If you didn't get to hear the talks you can go to lds.org and read them. That's all that's new at the call house for now. Btyl (blog to you later)!

Dallas Jay's new favorite thing to do is to go with Poppa and daddy to feed the cows. He gets so excited he starts talking about it on Thursday and can hardly sleep Friday night. He is usually grumpy in the morning until we tell him he can go feed cows and ride in the tractor with Poppa.

Well our family made the big move we actually are a truckless family! We decided that with the way things were going with the truck(lets just say at 200k+ and needing oil every fill up, things were not good) and the cost of fuel prices and the cost of a new truck we decided to buy a VW Passat Wagon. We were really excited when after hours of online searching and research we found the perfect one in our back yard! It has leather, heated seats, dual exhaust, cd player, wood grain, etc! Luckily Dallas jay loves to ride in it and he can ride in Nanna'a truck if he needs a truck fix, Ace too!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to everyone! We're gearing up for me to finish out the semester. Jyl, Dallas and I have all been sick lately, I think it's the end of semester blues!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and were grateful to see you all. As you can see, we snuck away for a little R&R in our second favorite resort town. It was a blast.

Dallas is graduating to his big boy bed here pretty soon. It's hard to believe he's old enough for that!

Well, we love hearing from you all, and know how busy the holidays are, so Happy Holidays to everyone. May we remember to keep the meaining of Christmas with us all year long!

-Ace

Ace's new Job

This is Dallas Jay after his party in his new pajama's riding his new cruiser from grandma and grandpa Bailey, he loves it!! Ace has a new job at ISU as an accountant. We are so excited. He starts on Thursday and we can't wait! It was really hard for him to leave Ireland Bank, but we know it was the right decision in the end!

Dallas Jay at his turning 2 birthday party! He was so excited about his new toys. The funny thing that happened was Ace and I have been working so hard to get him to say thank you and he just would not. When he was opening his presents Ace asked him to say thank you and he finally said it as clear as a bell. That is one of the highlights in a parents life!!

Dallas Jay loving his glasses

Mister Cool Joe Himself! These past couple of weeks have been fun. We finanlly finshed our basement and moved out of our storage unit! Yeah! Pictures later. Ace built some serious storage in our garage. It's funny because other then Holiday decorations and Ski gear, we don't store much, but we have tubs full of baby stuff, that someday (who knows when and no ideas on when you think it should be) we will hopefully put to good use!