Ward Blog Spotlight

We got to be the first family spotlight on our ward's blog...

Since you have to be in the "in crowd" to read it, I thought I'd post it here as well!

Here's us:

Hi HB4th!

We're the Mousser Family!  We moved into the ward 3 1/2 years ago from Arizona where we'd lived since we got married.  Here's a little story about how our family got started:

Jeff and I met at BYU our Junior Year, weeks before he decided to transfer from playing baseball for BYU to playing for his home town Arizona State University.  We dated for 3 weeks before he moved to Arizona for his senior year, while I (Autie) stayed at BYU to finish my degree.  I graduated in April, and immediately moved to Arizona where I had a job lined up to be a Personal Trainer, and to live with his brother and his family.  Jeff was still playing ball for ASU and it was so fun to watch him pitch weekend after weekend!  About a month after I moved to AZ, the Major League Baseball draft took place...and Jeff got drafted to play by the Minnesota Twins.  Super cool, huh?  

Unfortunately for me, we weren't married yet, I had just moved to Arizona to get ready for our Wedding in July...and he was moving to Florida,( and then who knows where to play until September! (dang!) ) So, I stayed in Arizona, because I had a really good job, while he went and threw some K's in Florida, and then a few weeks later in Eastern Tennessee to play for the Twin's Farm league, the Elizabethton Twins.  (don't ever go there).  He got a weekend off to fly up to Seattle (where I'm from) for our wedding, and then the two of us flew back to Tennessee where we had our "honeymoon".  Haha.  (Rather, I watched Everybody Loves Raymond, and wrote ALL of my Thank You cards, while he played baseball all day every day!)  

Anyways, He did get released after that first season, so he came back to Arizona to coach at ASU, and I continued to be a trainer.  Max came along while Jeff was coaching, in 2006, and some of my favorite memories are sitting in the stands behind the dugout with my little Maxer-man, yelling at the ump, and watching some really good baseball in the good ole' desert!

After a few years, Jeff was finally offered a job as a part-time scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks covering the 4-corners.  He did so well, that after 1 season, the offered him a job to cover Southern Cal!  (woohoo...Max turned 2, we found out we were expecting Ivy, and we moved to big- bad-California all in the same month!)

So, here we are, I get to stay home with my two kiddos, which I love to do so much.  I also run a craft blog with Jen Schumann, which is so fun and allows me to craft to my hearts content!  {click here} to check it out!  Jeff has a job that he loves to go to every day, which is so important.  So, while he does work a lot, and it's mostly just me and the kids, especially during the baseball season, he LOVES his job, and enjoys doing it!

Max is 5 1/2 and he is in Kindergarten. He reads like a stud, plays T-ball with a couple of his friends, and is a really sweet kid.  He has a contagious laugh, is helpful around the house, and is so sweet to his little sister, Ivy (most of the time).  His favorite scripture story is when Nephi builds the Boat and loves to sing Primary Songs.

Ivy is turning 3 on April Fools Day (and that's no joke)...She is a little sassy-pants, girlie-girl who will only wear dresses by day, and nightgowns by night, and she loves to have her hair in braids.  She loves to 'read stories' by herself, and actually does a really cute job making stories up to go along with the pictures, she loves playing with Play-Doh and coloring, and anything Princess (hello...every other girl in the ward)  Ivy's favorite scripture story is, and I quote "about the mean guys and the nephites and Jesus in the scriptures."  She also calls the Book of Mormon, the Book of Stormin'...she's so fun.

AND, we're expecting baby Scarlet the day after Ivy turns 3!  I'm scheduled to be induced Monday, April 2nd, and we're so excited to see what she looks like, and to meet our newest little love!

We love our ward, and can't wait to get to read little blurbs about the rest of the families on this blog!