Rob has a new Job!

We have had a rough time lately. Just before Christmas Rob's work laid him off. It was rather upsetting, because it was a surprise. Oh well. So, the last 6 weeks Rob has been franticly looking for a new job. He was able to do freelance work to bring money in to pay the bills, which has been nice. This past Monday he received a phone call from a company in California called CafeFX. It's a well known visual effects company. It is located in Santa Maria. They were interested in hiring him for a full time position. He did not know the program that they use to do the visual effects so they wanted to try him out for 6 weeks. They offered to pay his housing to come out and everything.
At the same time he also had a job interview for a video game company in SLC. It was closer to home and we could stay in UT. Well this was the hardest decision he has ever made. He chose to stay in Utah and work for the video game company. Well thats the short version of the past 6 weeks, but it describes it well. As for the rest of our life. It hasn't been too bad. Abby is hilarious most of the time. I have new pictures and videos I'd like to show you


Also Abby says so many words now. Let me see if I can make a list of what she can say.
1.) Ma Ma ( this on is not new but she can say it.)
2.) Da Da
3.) Drink
4.) Ba Ba
5.) uh oh!
6.) bye
7.) Hi
8.) Grandma (she says moo ma)
9.) Grandpa ( she says Pa Pa)
10) eye (she points to your eye)
11) book
12) this
13) ball

She knows these words but can't say them:
1.) Down stairs
2.) hug
3.) kisses
4.) loves
5.) dolly
6.) pony
7.) clean up
8.) food
9.) bath time
10) ear
11) mouth
12) nose
13) hair
14) toes
15) outside
16) put away
17) shoes
18) come on
19) done
20) rubber ducky
21) Ann (her dolls name)
22) Molly (her dolls name)
23) Fisher (her toys name)
24) Teddy
25) No No
26) dance
27) push it ( as in buttons)
28) phone
29) Grandpa bear ( this is the bear that Rob got from his Grandpa Allred shirts. She only gets to hug it when she is upset or sick, but it calms her down when she does)
30) Nighty night
31) blanky

I am sure that there are more but I can't think of any more. If I do I will add them. I just thought this would be fun to see how many words she can say.

Abby's 1st Birthday!!!!

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Abby had her first birthday on Friday. I tried to make it special for her but everything that I tried to do was ether closed or they didn't have what I was looking for. I tried to take her to the Mall because she loves to play at the play area, she also loves to play with children. They had temporarily removed it from the Mall for an MTV movie they are filming there. The other Mall in Utah county is replacing there play area because of water damage so they have been closed for a while. That was a let down. So then I decided to go and by her a Happy Birthday balloon so that she could play with it. The dollar store in Spanish Fork was all out of Helium so we couldn't do that. So finally I just settled with regular colored balloons. I blew them up and just let her kick them around and throw them. She sure loved it and thought that it was the greatest thing in the world. I bought a pack of 18 and blew all but one up. She still plays with them everyday. So it all turned out to be a great birthday for her.
Then On Saturday my parents came up and we had cake and ice cream. Abby loved it. we gave her a whole slice for herself. She got some great presents. From Grandma and Grandpa Field she got two hair bows and a head band (very cute) She also got a mini player that plays music. Kathleen and Bekah there is a video of her opening the present it's too big to upload onto blogger sorry. But it's on our computer so you can look at it that way. It's in the videos file folder and 12 months file inside of that one. For everyone else this is a video of Abby giggling. i thought you might enjoy this.
For her birthday she also got Cinderalla the Disney Movie and a my little pony. She also got this cute barn that my Mom made. It has little animals that are fabric and stuffed. Rob and I gave her some books. She loves to read. She also got some really cute hair pieces that Amy and Nicole made on Saturday. They are so cute. I counted them and there are a total of 33. She will have plenty of cute pieces to put in her hair. I love them you guys thank you so very much. Well that is about it for Abby's Birthday. It was fantastic.

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