3 MONTHS down, 3 more to GO

I can't believe I have already been here for THREE MONTHS!!! To me it seems like I just got here... This is a good thing for sure! But at the same time, the next 3 months are going to go by just as fast.. and I don't want to say goodbye to the Hawkes Family. Yes, it's offical now.... I am moving back the end of December. We're shooting for the 23rd, right in time for Christmas!! Like I've said in many posts... I love it here!! It's just so hard being away from my home, my family, my friends & everything that I love about Utah. I knew that I was going to have a hard time telling Kelli because I'm just an emotional person!! I did good at first... but it ended in tears. I love Nebraska, I love this Family, I love the experience! I want to stay forever, I just need to move back! Everytime I think about moving back I bawl my eyes out. It's definitely going to be hard...... a lot harder then I thought. I'm so thankful for Kelli and the friendship that we have now. We're all each other has most of the time! We've really bonded and I've enjoyed it! It's just hard to thinking about leaving them.

Skyping was SO awkward at first.... but each time we skype it gets more interesting & hilarious! I seriously LOVEEE it. It's such a good invention! Good times with the skypie! :) It's nice to see my family... but also I've been skyping with friends a lot more lately! It helps a lot!!

Oh I just love Ali Hawkes. and of course Jaxson tooo. It's amazing how fast you get attached to these kids... or kids just in general! Before I even moved out here, the kids were just at our home to be watched while their parents worked, but soon it turned into something so much more! They aren't just kids that come to our home anymore..... they're part of our family, we really love them!

I am so incredibly attached to Ali & Jaxson!!! I love and care about them so much.... and to think about me moving back to Utah, leaving them here to a day care or whatever Kelli & PJ decide to do just breaks my heart. I am going to miss them. I'm going to miss Ali's funny sayings, when she tells me "I'm the bestest & she loves me", I'll miss her cute little face, her laugh, and believe it or not her sassy attitude, everything about her! I'm going to miss my Jaxson's cute chubby self!! When he just stares at me with his huge blue eyes, when he tries to talk to me, our butterfly kisses, cuddling during nap time, just everything!

It's going to be just as hard leaving these adorable kids & Kelli and PJ as it was leaving my own family. I love them. I get very emotional when I think about leaving....

On a happier note!!! Here are a few of the silly things I get to hear from Ali every day::

"Mom? Does P start with mushroom?"

"My air is too hot to blow on it!" & "My wind is too tired to blow on this right now."

"Who was that?? I thought it was someone coming to kill us."

"I'm just so tired. I wish that Jesus would make us sleep all day. I think I'm going to take a nap"

"WHAT THE HECK, IN THE WORLD??"

"ah! Jaxson scared me. Because he's a creature!"

This weekend I got to go down to Lincoln to go to one of the big HUSKERS GAME with a friend!! It seriously was cRaZy! I have never seen soo many people.. just for a college football game! There was over 85,000 people there, no joke! ALL in Red. They take their college football VERY seriously here in Nebraska.. it's a big deal!! Lincoln is about 45 minutes from Elkhorn, but somehow I got there much faster......... we can thank my Mom for passing that gene along ;) Anyways so I got there around 1:00pm, walked around down town, went to lunch and to the big game!! It was a good time. and now I can check that off my list of things to do while I'm here in Nebraska.