Time keeps marching on.  We planted some grass seed in the backyard after some friends gratefully took all the rocks off our hands.  It's still a little sparse but hopefully it will be ready to be played on in another month.  We're also learning about plants, trees and flowers to make our yard beautiful but drought tolerant.  Those things don't really go together very well.  I want flowers that need lots of water and Dustin wants cacti. 

Alex turned 10 last month.  We had a family party at Cici's Pizza and that went over really well.  He was given some new Wii games along with clothes, cooking lessons and money that he's used to buy more Skylander characters.  Unfortunately he also created a Facebook account with his stepmom and didn't tell me so he lost all electronic media for a week and had to write some apology letters and an essay.

I headed up to St. George on Saturday with Mom and Dad.  Dustin's cousin had a baby shower so I went to represent the family.  After a little misunderstanding with the time, it was fun.  Apparently if you send a Facebook invite to someone in a different time zone, it automatically changes the time to what it would be in the other time zone.  Just a little PSA.

Mom and Dad came with me to visit with Gary and Diane and then we hit up one of my favorite stores, Tai Pan Trading.  Man, I could spend hours there.  I like to make a circle of the whole store before going back through and picking up what I really want.  We didn't have that much time there as the day was getting long and poor Ethan hadn't napped much.  He was a trooper though.  After TPT, we stopped by the bread outlet to get some Grandma Sycamore's bread.  It is seriously the best bread I've ever had and you can't find it in Las Vegas. I have to stock up when I can.

Ethan had his 15 month check up last week.  Two shots and 22lb 13oz and 31 inches.  He's at the 25th percentile but I think he's huge.  Until he gets next to his cousin Tyler who is 5 months younger and the same size.  Ethan has about 10 words now and understands a lot more.  He can put his clothes in his laundry basket and put his dirty diaper in the trash and he knows what "No" means.  Doesn't mean he listens every time but he's getting better.  He also has almost all his teeth!  He loves the water so we'll be doing some swim lessons this summer once the outdoor pool closest to our house opens up.

I've been trying to find the time to write more but its hard to do.  I sit at the computer and my mind freezes up so I play some games and check my forums and then my time is up and Ethan is pulling me away from the desk.  I do little bits and pieces when I think of things so eventually something will be finished.

Dustin recently installed two ceiling fans for me.  They look great and help keep the temperature down.  Next step will be to install one in our bedroom and fix the electrical in Ethan's room.  He has a ceiling fan with a light on the switch but also has a plug on a switch too so we need to separate them.  By "we" I mean Dustin.  He's a good worker.  He was enjoying a day off work when I went to St. George and when we got home I noticed lots of changes.  The changing table was put away, the living room rearranged, some light switches were switched to rockers instead of switches and the closet door pulls in our room were changed out from ugly brass plated to nice oil-rubbed bronze.  He works so hard for us.  The house is slowly becoming what we envisioned.