A whole month of blessings!!!!

This month has been full of blessings for our family. After a long search and years of prayers Brandon was offered a job!!! There are two men in our ward who gave him great referals and did a resume review and helped him get his neck and foot in the door we are very grateful to them and for the network the church provides. At the beginning of the year he will be working as a Business Planning Manager for.....


Things are still going well for his SEO/Marketing company, so he will continue to work on that as he is able to.

We had good feelings he would be offered the job and had been looking at renting an apartment or a house if he was offered the position. Out here renting a 3 bedroom apartment is pretty much the same cost as renting a house. We were really hoping to stay in our ward since we have moved so much and been in 10 wards since our marriage. The Allen 4th ward is AMAZING and we have callings we like and are making friends. I could not find a house in our budget to rent and had not seen one listed for MONTHS, so I started to look outside our ward. Then my visiting teacher said her parents bought a second rental property in the ward and she was moving from her house into the new rental property and she would talk to her dad! Long story short it was out of our price range but her parents went down a little on the rent and we came up a little! December 9th we got the keys to our rental house!! My dad was in Dallas so he came and helped us move as did my father in-law and one of my brother in-laws. Since we had so much help that weekend we were pretty much settled and un-packed in one weekend!!! It was such a blessing! Here are some pictures of our new place. We are going to be doing some painting and more decorating. We have NEVER had this many walls to decorate or rooms to set up. We are hoping to stay in this house for 2+ years. It is a wonderful neighborhood and our landlords are terrific!

Ethan's Room

Our Bathroom

Our Room (I am not a huge bed maker)

Aria's room

The living room, with my hubbie working.

Kitchen and eating area (we will get a table later on, that one works great right now thanks to Brandon's parents for letting us borrow it!)

The formal dining area turned Ethan's Play room

The front of the house.

Then of course our last but definitely not least blessing this month was the birth of our daughter, Aria Diane Stucki! She joined us at 9:32pm on December 14 she weighed in at 6lbs 15oz and 19.5 inches long. She has already slept 8 hours in one night which made me EXTREMELY happy. She is such a blessing and a joy in our family already. Ethan is adjusting to a lot of change right now and for the most part he is handling it very well.

First family picture!!

A few hours after she was born.

Good big brother!

Brandon got this GREAT shot of Aria two days after we got home! Love it!!