Another quick update

We have finally been able to get hold of Pre Trial Services. Chad has a court appearance on April 2nd at 9:00 am. They are going to recommend him for the program. The lady from there also said to have our lawyer petition for Chad to be able to stay in the home and they will agree with that. I'll keep you all updated but your prayers in our behalf would be greatly appreciated:)

Update on Chad

We found out on Thursday that Chad has a warrant out for his arrest. The way we found this out is we got several letters from lawyers stating it had come to their attention that he had a warrant and they would like to represent him. We still haven't received anything from the courts. We have retained a lawyer and he told us about a program that Chad can hopefully be accepted into in and he wouldn't have to pay bail. As of now we are looking at a $10,000 bail. He is being charged with a Class A misdemeanor for Child Abuse with Physical Injury. We were able to finally speak to someone from this agency today and if he is accepted into the program he will be required to take an anger management class and he will have to move out of the home with no contact with Jared at all. The lawyer can ask the judge to drop that but until that happened he would have to go live at his mom's house. This whole thing is just ridiculous. Basically he is guilty until proven innocent. I'll keep everyone updated as we learn more. All your prayers would be really helpful right now.

January Happenings

This month we celebrated Kaleigh's third birthday. I can't believe she is that old already. She is so smart. When Anthony started school this last fall she asked me if she could go and I told her when she was three she could. The day after her birthday she informed me she could go to preschool now because she was three. I'm grateful every day to have her and all my kids in my life. I don't know what I'd do without them.

Kaleigh got four wheeler for her birthday. It isn't one of the battery powered ones. Just feet powered. She still liked it though.











Kris and Lill gave her a Tinker Bell sleeping bag with an air mattress attached. She loved it.














The kids were actually getting along when I took this picture:)











We had Kaleigh's party for Chad's family a week after Kaleigh's birthday. She got a princess dress, play dough, an outfit and a quilt that Sherry had made for her. It was so cute. She loved the princess dress. She loves girly stuff. She got "lippy" from us and I think that was her favorite present. If you don't know what lippy is, it's lip gloss.











Grandma Hall is trying to help her put on the dress. I got the pictures backward.











We got party hats for her birthday and Jared thought it would be funny to make them into horns.













Brock and Morgan welcomed their little boy, Olin in early December. They blessed him on the 31st.













Isn't he cute:)













Parent's, Grand Parent's and Great Grand parents.










Three generations. Brett's dad couldn't make it that day.











Chad's dad passed away on January 12th. He had suffered from Lewy Body Dementia. It was so sad to loose him but we know that he is now happy and whole. He had lost his eye sight and struggled everyday from the dementia. I'm so glad we have the plan of salvation so that we know that we will see him again someday.

Happy Holiday's

We had alot of fun over the holiday season. We made Christmas cookies (18 dozen) and were able to give most of them away to neighbors and friends. The kids had so much fun decorating the house and loved having the Christmas light on.










These were taken at the family Christmas party. The reason we don't have one for Kaleigh is that she wouldn't sit on his lap.



































Frosting cookies.
















































Christmas Eve. They were opening their pj's and then put them on.






























































Jared got a new dump truck and a camera.











Anthony got a scooter and a monster truck.











Kaleigh got a doll house from Santa and was so excited.










Kaleigh got pony's from Anthony and he got a transformer "Bumble Bee" from her.










This was before we got cleaned up.










The day after Christmas we went up to Charlene's to go sleigh riding. There wasn't enought snow the actually sled but we had fun anyway. Brock and Morgan were there with their new baby Olin. Kaleigh really likes him as long as I'm not holding him:)










Cole with Olin.











On the 29th we went down to Temple Square with Lill's family to meet Courtney's boyfriend Austin.























This is Darin and Kurtis with Kurtis' friend Matt.











I love all the lights.










This is a picture of the Christus Statue from outside.






































This was the last picture taken before all the chaos started. For those who don't know, when we got back to the train we had missed the 9:27 train by just a few minutes. There was a train there but it didn't leave until 10:27. Jared started running up and down the isles, jumping off of benches and pushing the buttons on the doors to open and close them. Chad sat Jared down several times and then Jared kicked Kayden a couple of times. Lill suggested that we take him off the train to run around outside and apparently Chad got mad and thumped Jared in the head. None of us saw this but I guess a lady on the train didn't like it and called the cops. Chad was taken off the train and questioned. They pulled me and the kids off the train so it could leave. They continued questioning us and finally released us so we could make the last train home. Needless to say, we now have DCFS investigating us. They came the next night and pulled Kayden from our home. This whole this has been a nightmare.

Halloween

Last week was a fun filled week getting ready for Halloween. On Monday night we frosted cookies for FHE. I think the kids ate more frosting than actually went on the cookies.





































On Thursday night we carved pumpkins. The kids chose their own faces to go on the pumpkin. Kaleigh chose Mickey Mouse, Jared chose a bat in the moon and Anthony chose a happy face. The Mickey Mouse was really hard. It had a lot of little fine lines to cut out.
































































This is Jared with his teacher, Mrs. Wood.













Chad's dad is in a nursing home now and they had trick or treating there. We took the kids over to trick or treat and then visited with Earl for a little while.










On Saturday we went to Granny and Gramps. Kris made her spaghetti and even made the noodles orange. The kids all put on their costumes. It is always fun to see the kids dress up.













Granny, Kurtis the hippie and Princess Kaleigh.













Princess Kaleigh and Lady Liberty Courtney.













Meagan is here for a few weeks. Rhone looked so cute in his Zebra costume.













Kris even got into the festivities. She dressed up as Tracy Turnblad from the movie Hairspray.










All the kids dressed up.













Kaleigh and Rhone. She likes him as long as I'm not holding him.













Anthony wanted to be a T-Rex. I look everywhere for one and couldn't find one. I finally found this one and convinced him that it was a T-Rex.













Anthony and Kaleigh.













Princess Kaleigh. She told me what she wanted to be this year. She is just getting to big for her britches.













Jared had wanted to be a black bear but I couldn't find a costume. We had this one down stairs and he decided that he would wear it.










This was the kids waiting to go trick or treating.