whats been happenin' with the fullmer clan:

I think the most exciting news is Josh finished his first semester at the University of Utah with being on the Dean's List.  We are so proud of him...now only 3 full semesters and 1part time and he has his bachelors in Anthropology and 2 academic certificates.  Adey draws circles, walks up and down stairs with a rail, builds towers using 11 wooden blocks and her duplos (thanks Uncle Jay), has tea parties (thanks to clarissa), feeds her baby in her play high chair (thanks to Santa), puts her baby to sleep in her play baby bed (thanks to Nana and papa for christmas), says about 20 to 25 words, jumps on the bed, laughs all the time, cleans with her new vacuum and broom/mop set (all thanks to nonni and grampy), and sits at the table like a big girl!  with our taxes we are gonna get her a play kitchen from target and a little table/chair set from ikea...we will have fun with this!  she is growing up so fast!  We are even gonna redo her bedroom decor with our taxes but not her furniture until we move into our next place where we will have the room to put her baby furniture somewhere.  hm...Oskar hates the snow and it freezes his poor paws so i think we are gonna get him some doggy shoes so he can at least go outside and do his business without us always having to make a spot for him.  As for me, just work and being crafty.  i love making stuff and now i have my cricut (even the next addition up from the one i had because my parents surprised me with it for christmas this year) so i will be doing even more crafts with it even because of the snow i will stay home even more on the weekends and that gives me something to do during nap times.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Josh's family....lots of food and taking pictures and relaxing.  We did Christmas with us 2 weeks early and celebrated mine and Josh's 4 year anniversary with Adey at a Japanese place (thanks to Malinda and Evan for suggesting it...the food was yummy), then Christmas with josh's family the day after ours, and then went to Nebraska to be with my family a week later and had a wonderful 2 week vacation with them for Christmas.  They bought a beautiful house and it is coming together nicely.  My mom was sick most of the time so to our advantage we got to spend more time with her.  We went to the zoo, shopping, met mom for her lunch breaks, went out to dinner, got to see my brother, sewed some, watched movies, met santa, built 2 dogs at build a bear, and made memories.  it was a great trip seeing my family and look forward to going back for my dad's retirement party in august.

first hair cut...

uncle evan cut Adey's bangs for the first time...

First trunk or treat

Again last year Adey was too young to really do the trunk or treat put on at the church but now she is older and had fun last night.  We went to Josh's parents ward and ate his sister, Clarissa's yummy chili (which won her a free pie in the contest...we put 4 votes in: one for oskar, one for josh, one for me, and one for Adey).  Then went and did the cupcake walk and Josh won Adey a cupcake that we let her pick out that had candy corn on the top and that was all she wanted so we threw away the cupcake.  Then she went fishing at the pond and won this whistle/twisty noise maker toy.  Then we went out side to go from trunk to trunk getting candy.  Adey was carried the whole way and kept wanting to pull the candy out of pumpkin bag at first but then when she was told to pick a piece of candy from some of the trunks she put it in her bag and left it.  She was a green fairy with glitter in her hair.  Some people said she should have her be tinkerbell next year...we shall see.  We are thinking of doing a family theme of the wizard of oz or maybe alvin and the chipmunks/chipettes or something like that.  any suggestions to plan for next year?  let us know.

Pumpkin patch...

The other night we went out to the pumpkin patch and Adey got to pick her first pumpkin.  Last year my work got some donated and so we got free pumpkins which was nice since Adey was only 3 months old then but Adey is now over 1 and walking and it was fun.  We rode the hayride out to the patch at night with Joshs sisters family, Malinda, Evan, Ella, and Corbin.  Adey wanted to sit on the hay by herself like a big girl with out holding on.  It was freezing and I forgot her gloves and hat but she did have on a "daddy's lil pumpkin" coat and she smiled the whole way their.  When we got there she went crazy trying to pick up every pumpkin making all these cute grunting noises.  We finally found her one and i carried her while she carried the pumpkin.  Josh found a big, tall pumpkin and I found a medium normal pumpkin.  As we were getting ready to leave Adey did not want to get on the hay ride with a fit being thrown.  But she eventually gave in and sat with me all wrapped up for a few minutes because it was cold.  When we got back to the barn we got some apple cider donoughts...yummy.  Then we all headed home.  We had a lot of fun and will carve our pumpkins closer to Halloween.  We love starting new traditions with our family!

update...

Adelynn loves to climb up on to everything now...especially our love seat or little kid chairs.  she did climb onto her cousins train table which was funny.  when we are doing something in the closet, adelynn has a tendency to come clothes the doors behind us and lock us in them.  she loves to pick a color of nail polish and bring it to me or josh and sit down and put her feet up in the air for us to paint them.  she continues to love to look at books and color with markers.  she is working on using her silverware to eat.  i can say she will actually eat macaroni and cheese....lately she hasn't really cared for it but now she does.  she loves deli meat and pears and peaches.  veggies we are still working on.  her favorite snacks are drinkable yogurts, pop corn, fruit snacks, and pop sicles.  we do watch her sugar intake as diabetes runs in josh's family.  she drinks mostly soy milk and herbal cold tea and v8 splash.  she can almost always be found carrying her blanket around with...she is attached!  she can point to someones nose if you ask her so now we are working on finding eyes, then we will move on to mouth and ears.  she is turning into such a smart little girl!  she is still adjusting to mommy and daddy being gone but josh comes home usually after classes so monday and wednesdays are short days and no class on friday.  we love having her nana watch her during the day with the help of her aunt malinda.  she is adapting to her cousins and loves her uncle evan.  she loves to be outside and pushing her stroller or playing in the dirt.  she can now also blow bubbles from the wand.  she loves to feed her baby doll and wrestle with oskar and his blanket.  she is really into dancing and we have a trial class in a few weeks and another place to look at that i want to have her take classes at when is closer to 2 1/2....but it is so popular her that i want to price around and see what is best.  other then all this...she is such a good baby and adjusting to our new life well.  we are so very proud of her!

josh has been in school for 3 weeks now and still loves it...not the drive as much but the school yes.  we are trying to see if he can still graduate next December...should be able to if we play our cards right.  as of right now we are managing with out him working and he is applying for a research program that he can get 1400 a semester which would be nice for gas and savings.  keep your fingers crossed for him...he could also use it for his thesis further down the line when he goes to grad school.  he has been keeping in touch with 3 particular companies that are interested in when he is closer towards graduation so that is a plus.  we have also been talking about our house plans and researching the town of springville which is about 20 miles closer to his school.  but we are pretty sure he is gonna work for a while and try and get his future company to pay for his additional schooling some or all.  he loves staying home on friday with adelynn...it gives them great bonding time.  josh and evan (his brother in law) are building up quite the friendship again.  it has been a while since they have been close.

as for me...i am just working as a preschool teacher with 6 spanish kids and 2 english kids which is alright....(have applied to be a child development specialist some where else which i should find out about this week....but we will see).  this job i have now is not permanent but if i need to work after josh is done with school and we are in our new house hopefully in springville i will find something up there.  this place is so close to my house which is a plus and my hours are great and i get long breaks and holidays off and the pay is good.  so just temperarily...i really miss my job at OELC...that was by far my favorite place to work...probably because of the friends i made.  at this job everyone speaks spanish so i am kind of an outcast?!  anyway...i have been doing some crafts lately when i have time and adelynn is sleeping.  when she is awake...josh and i make it more family time.  we love being together with each other and our little family.  i have been working on my cooking lately and i am sure glad about that!  tonight is chili and fry bread and i can't wait!

anyways...here are some pics from august: