I'm back!!!!!!

Yes, I know I'm horrible! After all my begging to friends back in Bakersfield to start a blog so I could see what they were doing, I don't even keep up on mine. Sorry, sorry. Life has been too crazy for me these past few months!
Anyway here's the update on the Norris Fam.
Let me just start off by saying that we had a good plan in mind when we decided to come here. In fact we even had back up plans for our move out here, but it seems like all our plans for this move have died by the wayside. I told Jared, "We started with plans A, B, and C and now we're on plan X!" And I'm sure by the time everyone is reading this we'll have already made it to plan Z.
Okay, so here's what we've been up to. Jared is working for a Charter School in Lindon teaching Health. He is also taking classes at BYU to get the prerequisite classes he needs to apply to Physical Therapy School. Hopefully he can complete what he needs to apply in about a year and a half or two years and then it'll be about another 3 years at a Physical Therapy School. (It sounds longer when you actually type it all out!)
We are still at my mom and dad's. And as gracious as my parents are to us, I'm having a hard time being here. I actually miss my teeny-tiny house back home. Oh.... I won't start thinking about it! Our new game plan is to try and be out by December. (Please, keep us in your prayers!--We so need it!)
The kids are having the time of their lives. Since we're at my parents we tend to see the cousins on my side ALOT! And don't worry there not lacking from Jared's side either. He's had siblings down for the summer and his brother doesn't live too far from us so they are in Cousin Heaven! I love it that my kids are building relationships with their cousins. And I won't deny that I love hanging out with my siblings and Jared's family. We have definitely done some very fun family things this summer!! I love just talking with everybody after a Sunday dinner!


Having said all that, I have to say that I still am very homesick for Bakersfield! This has been a really hard move for me and I'm still adjusting. This summer has been a summer of trials and more trials. But I'm sure Heavenly Father has a reason for it, I just haven't got a clue what that reason could be! I REALLY MISS all you guys and hopefully I'll do a better job of communicating with you!!

Chloe is walking along the furniture and will even stand alone for a few seconds, I'm thinking she'll follow in Janie's footsteps and be walking at 9 months. She's such a good baby despite the fact she'll eat anything off the floor. You have to be pretty quick around her. Janie just loves being here. She loves to play with all the cousins. Everyday she asks me who is coming over and if I tell her no one today, she'll start crying. The kids start school on Wednesday. I'm a little nervous for them because it's at a new school- I just hope they have a good first day!

Here are just a few pictures in case you forgot what we all look like. Maybe I'll do a slide show of everything we did this summer. And I had to add these two really short video clips of Janie going down my parent's water slide. It still cracks me up!






I promise that no child was hurt during the filming of these two short video clips.

These were not the only two times she flew off that thing. I lost count at how many times she repeated those scenes!!