We are moving! A carefully worded ad on Craigslist to advertise that we're LDS and therefore responsible, non-drinkers, non-smokers, non-college-age-partiers who pinky promise to take good care of their house in exchange for rent that is only slightly higher than what we are paying now and voila! we are moving into a 4 bedroom house just across the street from where we live now.
Which means moving. And packing. And attempting to sort through things that haven't been used since 2001 but seem to insist on sticking around anyway. Considering I sift through all my belongs every time I move and I've moved a lot the last few years, I'm kind of surprised I still have things to sift through. This does not include Dustin's impressive t-shirt collection that I'm hoping will take up residence in a new storage ottoman for the foot of our bed after Christmas...hint hint.
But I was only hoping for a 3 bedroom. One for us, one for the rugrat and one for a guest room with the desks and computers and stuff. Four bedrooms! That means we can have a separate guest room and office! The futon will probably still go into the office since there will probably be a smaller tv in there or something but that frees up a whole bedroom to be something else.
The very best part of the house? Its in a new ward and we'll lose our calling. Primary is not my bag, baby, and I'm thrilled to be able to talk to grown-ups again. Let's do the happy dance!
I started my Bachelor's program this month too and I'm working through my first class. Business Management HERE I COME! Yeah, my excitement is out of control...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Who, What, When, Where?
I was reading Becky's blog yesterday and decided to check out what the 20 comments could possibly be on. I won't touch the political stuff cause I don't want an angry mob of comments to drown my little site. What I did notice was a familiar name. I wasn't sure if it was the name of a cousin of ours that I didn't know had a blog or if it was someone else. A quick cursor over the highlighted name revealed it to be Kristina whom I know from another internet forum.
Which got me thinking (dangerous, I know. The world might explode!) how she knew my cousin. I check of her BFF blogroll lead me to a different cousin's website. But, I didn't see Becky's on there. Its a mystery to me.
Not such a big mystery that I'll actually e-mail Kristina and ask how she found my cousin's blog but enough to give us our first post of September. Yeah, I'm lazy and hoping she'll post a comment and answer the buring question.
Wait! September means back-to-school! Maybe I'll find my camera and post Alex's first day of First Grade. I think its buried under our towering pile of Ensigns that we can't bring ourselves to throw away even though they are available online. It seems like a trip straight to the dark, fiery pits of the Underworld and I try to avoid the space under our bed. Its scary.
Which got me thinking (dangerous, I know. The world might explode!) how she knew my cousin. I check of her BFF blogroll lead me to a different cousin's website. But, I didn't see Becky's on there. Its a mystery to me.
Not such a big mystery that I'll actually e-mail Kristina and ask how she found my cousin's blog but enough to give us our first post of September. Yeah, I'm lazy and hoping she'll post a comment and answer the buring question.
Wait! September means back-to-school! Maybe I'll find my camera and post Alex's first day of First Grade. I think its buried under our towering pile of Ensigns that we can't bring ourselves to throw away even though they are available online. It seems like a trip straight to the dark, fiery pits of the Underworld and I try to avoid the space under our bed. Its scary.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Bad cakes
You might have noticed a new addition to my Favorite Blogs list. You haven't? Well, you should notice. Go ahead, I'll wait.
I highly recommend all of these get checked out but my current new favorite is Cake Wrecks. The ability of people mispelling words, adding punctuation that isn't needed and committing the unforgiveable sin: Making cake look so gross I can't eat it! I honestly don't think I could eat a piece of fungal toenail if it was made of manna.
I highly recommend all of these get checked out but my current new favorite is Cake Wrecks. The ability of people mispelling words, adding punctuation that isn't needed and committing the unforgiveable sin: Making cake look so gross I can't eat it! I honestly don't think I could eat a piece of fungal toenail if it was made of manna.
And the pregnant belly ones resemble a c-section too much for me to be able to choke down a piece.
But I'll have the piece with the ("Olnypic Rings") on it.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Rock band
Dustin bought Rock Band a few weeks ago when it was on sale for the PS2. Since then, we've played almost every night and even got my older sister to sing. Alex has decided that he is a drummer.
He likes the Rolling Stones and Bon Jovi and can make it through a whole song by himself on easy level.
I'm so proud!
He likes the Rolling Stones and Bon Jovi and can make it through a whole song by himself on easy level.
I'm so proud!
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Neglected!
This blog has been sadly neglected for the past two weeks so I'll try to play catch-up.
First of all, we're all doing good. I've recovered physically, if not quite completely emotionally, from the miscarriage. Alex is loving getting ready for school and finishing up his kids camp for the summer and Dustin is thrilled to be driving up to scout camp to spend the weekend with his brother and parents/siblings.
I've broken down and started reading Twilight. I usually don't like to read series until they are all finished because I hate waiting for the next one (I'm talking to you, Diana Gabaldon and your 'three years between books' nonsense!) and I don't usually enjoy the young adult genre. I tried the first Harry Potter and just couldn't go past the first few chapters. However, I've been book-starved so I borrowed it from my sister-in-law and its a fun read. Fast, not so wordy that I have to re-read a paragraph four times to understand it and full of teenage angst. Its good summer reading.
We missed the family reunion this year which I'm sad about but it was just too far away and I didn't have enough vacation time saved up to go. It also fell on the weekend after our biggest deadline of the year so I spent the first three days of the week (and the weeks before) working until 7 or 8 pm until everything was done. We made it with 7 minutes to spare! Back to the reunion, it sounds like it was a lot of fun and hopefully next year it will be a better possibility.
Dustin should have lots of stories to share when he comes back on Saturday. Flying is nice but it presents some challenges when it comes to camping equipment so he's decided to buy a small tent that he can use and then we'll eventually get it back to Las Vegas where it will be good for the father/son campouts.
Three weeks until school starts! Alex has grown out of all his jeans this summer and continues to eat us out of house and home. Who knew a 6 year old could pack away more food than an adult male? And still ask for dessert. It amazes me.
But I'm looking forward to the raise that we'll get when school starts and we don't have to pay for the kids camp anymore!
First of all, we're all doing good. I've recovered physically, if not quite completely emotionally, from the miscarriage. Alex is loving getting ready for school and finishing up his kids camp for the summer and Dustin is thrilled to be driving up to scout camp to spend the weekend with his brother and parents/siblings.
I've broken down and started reading Twilight. I usually don't like to read series until they are all finished because I hate waiting for the next one (I'm talking to you, Diana Gabaldon and your 'three years between books' nonsense!) and I don't usually enjoy the young adult genre. I tried the first Harry Potter and just couldn't go past the first few chapters. However, I've been book-starved so I borrowed it from my sister-in-law and its a fun read. Fast, not so wordy that I have to re-read a paragraph four times to understand it and full of teenage angst. Its good summer reading.
We missed the family reunion this year which I'm sad about but it was just too far away and I didn't have enough vacation time saved up to go. It also fell on the weekend after our biggest deadline of the year so I spent the first three days of the week (and the weeks before) working until 7 or 8 pm until everything was done. We made it with 7 minutes to spare! Back to the reunion, it sounds like it was a lot of fun and hopefully next year it will be a better possibility.
Dustin should have lots of stories to share when he comes back on Saturday. Flying is nice but it presents some challenges when it comes to camping equipment so he's decided to buy a small tent that he can use and then we'll eventually get it back to Las Vegas where it will be good for the father/son campouts.
Three weeks until school starts! Alex has grown out of all his jeans this summer and continues to eat us out of house and home. Who knew a 6 year old could pack away more food than an adult male? And still ask for dessert. It amazes me.
But I'm looking forward to the raise that we'll get when school starts and we don't have to pay for the kids camp anymore!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!
As some of you have already heard, Dustin and I will be welcoming a new baby next year! Due sometime in March is what we are thinking but my doctor won't see me until I'm 8 weeks to give a dating ultrasound. I've added a ticker with a generic date that I'll change when I find out the actual due date. Not that due dates mean a whole lot more than "Well, there's the chance you'll have your baby within a week of this date but...don't hold your breathe!"
Oh and we're not telling Alex yet. I can't handle nine months of "Is the baby coming today?" "No not until March." "Is it March yet?" He'll find out probably around the time of the gender ultrasound.
In other news, Alex has another loose tooth! And his adult tooth is starting to poke through into the empty void from the first tooth loss. He spent all of sacrament meeting looking in my compact mirror so he could see it and feel like he's finally growing up. In the meantime, he's already growing out of the size 6 jeans I bought this spring in the hopes they would last until school. How foolish I was!
The weekend at Bear Lake was wonderful! Good times were had by all and I even got Alex to ride a tube behind the boat. He told everyone else he didn't like it but told me he thought it was fun. I'm not sure who he was lying to. No sunburns this year! YAY!!!!! Thats quite the accomplishment for me. Dustin doesn't seem to burn at all and Alex only tans no matter how long he's in the sun. I'm apparently the only vampire in this family. It was great to see everyone and Dustin is very excited about Scout camp in August. It happens to fall on the same weekend my family leaves for an Alaskan cruise (including Alex). Do you know what this means?!
A whole weekend all by myself!! Let's hear it for hogging the bed and sleeping in! No 6 year old to come in and 7 am on Saturday and ask if he can play his nintendo DS. Ohhhhh the luxury!
See, good news all around!
Oh and we're not telling Alex yet. I can't handle nine months of "Is the baby coming today?" "No not until March." "Is it March yet?" He'll find out probably around the time of the gender ultrasound.
In other news, Alex has another loose tooth! And his adult tooth is starting to poke through into the empty void from the first tooth loss. He spent all of sacrament meeting looking in my compact mirror so he could see it and feel like he's finally growing up. In the meantime, he's already growing out of the size 6 jeans I bought this spring in the hopes they would last until school. How foolish I was!
The weekend at Bear Lake was wonderful! Good times were had by all and I even got Alex to ride a tube behind the boat. He told everyone else he didn't like it but told me he thought it was fun. I'm not sure who he was lying to. No sunburns this year! YAY!!!!! Thats quite the accomplishment for me. Dustin doesn't seem to burn at all and Alex only tans no matter how long he's in the sun. I'm apparently the only vampire in this family. It was great to see everyone and Dustin is very excited about Scout camp in August. It happens to fall on the same weekend my family leaves for an Alaskan cruise (including Alex). Do you know what this means?!
A whole weekend all by myself!! Let's hear it for hogging the bed and sleeping in! No 6 year old to come in and 7 am on Saturday and ask if he can play his nintendo DS. Ohhhhh the luxury!
See, good news all around!
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