Amanda!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you all know how great our little Amanda is doing! She is growing so fast and starting to give us hints of her personality. She eats and sleeps extremely well and is just a perfect little baby! For more details, check out our family blog. If anyone can't get on and needs invited still just drop me a note and I'll get an invite sent. My email is coffeyshop@msn.com.

We are going to bless Amanda on Sunday, Sept. 28th at 1:00 p.m. Everyone is invited!

Its a boy!!!

Christie and I just got back from our ultrasound appointment. We are having a boy!!! He was being a bit uncooperative for the photo op, so the pictures are a bit fuzzy. I'll see about posting them later.

Anyway, thought you'd like to know.

Love , Brett and Christie

Hi From Brett and Christie

Hello Family,
Just a quick note to let you know what we are up to. We are still living in Lodi, CA and love it here. Our school district starts the year early, so I am already back at school endeavoring to fix all the lisps and stutters that come my way. Brett is still doing database administration for Cottage Bakery (Ever wonder what makes that gourmet bread so delicious? It's the data!) Our fur-baby, Jessi, is 2 and a half and is still the shyest (and sweetest) dog we know. She will soon have a human brother or sister. We found out in May that I am (finally) expecting. The baby is due January 20th and we are so excited and overwhelmed. We will find out on August 28th if we need to paint the nursery pink or blue! We can hardly wait!Here is the latest ultrasound from about a month ago. If you can't see the baby don't feel bad. Most people can't. But if you can make it out, you will see that the baby is sucking his/her thumb. Too cute!


And, of course, here is our first-born:



Lots of love,
Brett and Christie

P.S. I will try to list our baby blog on the sidebar. It's private, so If you would like to check it out just send me an email at christie.westover@gmail.com. I will send you an invitation.

We're jumping on the bandwagon

Hi! Thanks to Julie, our family can now post on the Westover Family blog. We are living in Utah and loving it. We have discovered a "lake" about five minutes from our house where the kids can swim. In the same area are various hiking trails that lead to look outs over Utah Lake.

Paul is enjoying his teaching at BYU and loves his students--they actually want to learn.

Katee is staying busy with the kids and running errands. Just recently we signed the two oldest up for Karate. They are so excited about it! She also took a job with a colleague of Paul's to write up summaries of 18th century novels. She loves it, at least for the moment.

Madelyn (almost 7) has been having fun making new friends and riding bikes out in the front yard. She will be in the second grade and is registering for school tomorrow!!! She loves horses and books.

Isaac (4) loves to play with Madelyn and ride his bike too. He likes to play with babies, especially Keatyn, his cousin. He likes to smile and is a sweetheart.

Thomas (2) is our handful. Just today I had to save him from cutting himself with a knife. He pushed the stool over to the counter to get the knives out of the knife block. Note to self: move the knives. He is also our clown. He loves to make people laugh.

We update our personal blog ever so often. It will be updated really soon so check it out!

The Rees' Pieces

Here is a quick update on the Rees'. Joseph is still the bomb diggity computer guru at Mediconnect and works WAY too many hours at it. Jocelyn is a SAHM, but feels like she is always on the go. Cadence (Cadey) loved going to school, but has decided that summer is better, because we swim a lot more. She loves Strawberry Shortcake, playing any computer/video game, and singing at the top of her tiny but loud lungs. Mary still changes her outfits several times a day. She doesn't like Strawberry Shortcake, but does like the outfits that Strawberry wears. She also loves to dance and put on make-up. Ava Jean is now 18 months old. We are very pleased that she now weighs 21 lbs. That means that it is finally legal to sit forward facing in her car seat. We have no idea what she likes most minutes of our day. Obviously in this picture, she didn't like being held. She wanted to throw rocks over the very steep cliff behind us up at Snowbird. Too bad for her!!
Julie, this idea rocks! We have nominated you for Queen for the Day!

So here is my first attempt at blogging. I think that this is a great way for all of our family to keep in touch. There are so many cousins that I haven't seen in so long, so I am really hoping that everyone will continue to post anything and everything.

Alrighty......so I have attached a few pictures.......so let me introduce you to the people that are in them. Aaron and I have been dating now for close to a year (1 year in August) and we just went ring shopping on Saturday. Yeah!!!! He is an electrician with Guarantee Electric, and is the head of maintenance at Vallero Refinery in Benicia. He is 33 and yes, that is a handlebar mustache. He is an amazing man and a wonderful father. Which brings me to the other photos of Kaelin, his 12 year-old daughter and Tyler his 7 year-old son. They are really great kids and a lot of fun to be around. Aaron and I are not engaged yet, so no wedding plans as of yet, but hopefully in the near future. I will let you know all of the mushy details when it happens.

Oh yes, and how can I forget, Phoebe. Phoebe is now 6 years old and still kicking. I love her to death, snorting, snoring, sneezing and all.

We're coming home!

Well it's just about that time. Kelly finished her last semester at BYU-Idaho today and I finish tomorrow. It's hard to believe that we won't be coming back to Rexburg next semester. For the next three days we will be packing up our entire apartment and loading it into a Uhaul. After that, we have that wonderful 14 hour drive ahead of us. It's okay though, at least the majority of the drive is through beautiful scenic Nevada (it's hard to write sarcasm). When we get back to California, Kelly will start up at Clorox again and I'll be working there too if there is an opening for me. If there isn't an opening then I have to job hunt...yeah. While we're home I have to complete a couple of Organic Chemistry classes and then I'll be off to Life Chiropractic College West, in Hayward. At which time Kelly will officially become my "Sugar Mama". We're excited to enter this next chapter in our lives and even more excited not to have to live in snow ever again.