Funny October Moments.

Alright so I know it has been a while since my last post, but give me a break will ya, I had midterms to study for, plus moving into our new house!!! Which took quite a bit of time and energy. WE LOVE our new house and we are so grateful to finally have a home to call our own. (ok so technically it belongs to the bank, but you know what I mean). This October has been very fun and exciting for our family. Neil turned the big 28 and we celebrated by signing our papers for the house the next day. I have been learning bunches about the history of Africa from my class that I am taking. It has been a hard class for me just because I was totally ignorant coming into the class, so everything that I am learning is new to me, which is a good thing. Our house is awesome and it great to have so much more space. Well last night was Halloween and we took the boys to a ward trunk or treat. Ethan was dressed as Darth Vador, and he has been wearing his costume for like a week now. Anyhow when we got there at the church there were a bunch of kids playing on the grass. Ethan went over on the grass and as Neil and I were talking to someone Ethan starts crying. Neil went over there to try to figure out what was wrong. He said that some kid had come up to him and scared him. When Neil asked Ethan who did it, Ethan points to the kid dressed up as a storm trooper. Neil and I laughed so hard. Here was Ethan all week long pretending to be Darth Vador, and he gets scared by a storm trooper. David went as Superman. He was so excited and caught on to the idea of trick or treating really fast. When he got his candy put into his pumkin he looks down and smiles and starts clapping his hands. It was really fun. Ok here is another funny story that happened this morning. I was getting David ready and got him out of the tub and all dressed. David was ready to go when I was giving Ethan a bath. Well I left the bathroom for a second and David got back in the tub with Ethan clothes and all. Neil came in and yelled for me to come. I starting laughing so hard. Anyhow here are some pics.

New House!!!

Hey everyone! We have had a stressful, emotional, exciting couple of weeks. Several weeks ago, Neil and I start ed looking around at houses. We found a cute little neighborhood that we liked so we decided to check it out. It was a new development and there were two houses we were looking at, One was already built and the other was not. To make a long story short, we decided to put in an offer on the one already built, however it was more than we wanted to pay, so we just kept going back and forth and couldn't make up our minds! We got a counter offer on the house and we still didn't feel like we loved the house enough to stretch our budget so tight. We decided to reject the counter offer and get our earnest money back which I think was good decision. The next day we decided to look around some more and we actually used a different realtor the second time, because we were not to crazy about the girl that helped us before. We met our new realtor at a house and looked through it,we didn't like the house be we liked him so we gave him our email. That very night he sent us an email with a whole bunch of listings of houses in our price range with the things we wanted (way helpful). On Friday we met in the morning at a different house. We looked at three houses on Friday and we both really really liked the second one we walked through. We decided to put in an offer on the second house. Yesterday we got our counter offer and this morning we accepted their offer. So we are on the way to getting into this house. Hopefully the loan process with go smoothly and we can get into this house. We really like it and are excited about it. So for all you who are coming for Christmas, hopefully some of you can stay with us! Nothing is set in stone as yet so hopefully everything will be good to go!!!! YEAH I am so stoked!!! Neil and I feel extremely blessed and we feel that our prayers have been answered and we are really grateful. Here is a picture of the house.

David's First Haircut!

Well I know that this is not recent but David had his first haircut about two weeks ago. He actually did pretty good. We used Neil's beard trimmmers instead of the big clippers and I think that helped. The heat wave we had convinced us that he would be more comfortable if we cut his hair so we gave him a little buzz. Anyhow here are some pics.

Escaping the Heat and the Great Outdoors!

It is really crazy, but Oregon has been really hot this past week. It was about 100+ or close to 100 for a whole week. We filled up the little baby pool for the boys to play in and they really liked it. We tried to escape the heat by taking the boys on their first camping trip. We found a little campground about an hour and a half away in the Willamette National Forest. It was very beautiful and it was a lot of fun. The first night was not a whole lot of fun for Neil and I because the group next to our campsite all were drunk and were yelling and screaming all night long. Finally the park host had to come and kick them out in the middle of the night. The second day was fun we went down to the river and played in the water. The boys really liked throwing rocks into the water. Anyhow, Ethan experienced his first bee sting which wasn't fun, but other than that We all had a good time. I have not been camping for a long time and I never realized how much work it is. Even though it takes a lot of preparation it was worth it. I would do it every year and hopefully this will become a family tradition every summer. Anyhow Here are some pics of last week and the weekend.

Our Summer Vacation 2009

I have been so busy lately that it really feels good to finally have some down time to write a new post. A couple of weeks ago our family went down to Taft California to visist with Grandma London and the rest of the fam. Our Boys had a great time swimming in the pool (well Ethan did anyway, David had to warm up to it). We all went together to Knotts Berry Farm and had a blast. Ethan LOVED the race cars and went on them like 6 times. We have some pics but I am going to have to get them off our video camera. Anyhow we spent about a week in Taft and on our way home we spent two very HOT nights in Sacramento for Greg's wedding (my brother). Anyhow we got back safe and sound and we had a great trip! It was a nice little break. Our Fourth of July Weekend was not spectacular, but it was ok. We went to a Civil War reinactment (I don't know if that is spelled right) and it was pretty cool (not the temperature). Then that night we were really brave and went to River Front Park ( A Really Really Really Popular Park

on the Fourth)Our experience there was nothing more than inhaling smoke, listening to drunk people ohhh and aww over the fireworks, and rude obnoxious people standing right in front of us the whole fireworks show. I now really do appreciate those quiet 4th of July Celebrations at home with the family. Even though we did not particularly enjoy that event we still felt patriotic and proud to be part of this great country. This semester is about to end for me and I will get a little break before Fall Semester so that is nice. It is looking good for another semester of straight A's, although I don't know if that is a huge accomplishment considering I only take 6 credits at at time, oh well. I better get going, it is getting late and I am feeling pretty tired. Until next time!

Forgive Me!

OK so I have to start by apologizing for being so terrible at updating our blog. Forgive me please! I have been so busy with school work that by the time I am done doing homework I want to get away from the computer. Anyhow I just wanted to write what has been going on the last month. We received some exciting news a couple of weeks ago. Neil has received a promotion at work which starts July 1. We are excited because he will be making a little bit more money which gets us one step closer to buying our first house. We have been kind of talking to a mortgage broker who is in our ward and he has been helping us figure out all of the details that go along with our situation. Anyhow we want desperately to get into a house by the end of the year to take advantage of the $8,000 first time home buyer tax credit. Anyhow we are just kind of exploring our options you might say. Anyhow Ethan is almost four years old. I can't believe it! Only two more summers and he will be in Kindergarten! AHHHHHHHH! David has made HUGE progress with his little foot, in fact about two and a half weeks ago he started walking all by himself. He has had a lot to deal with his first year, but he is super smart. He is now walking all over the place and getting into things like my kitchen cupboards and the bathroom (his favorite is the toilet! YUCK) We are excited for our little get away in a couple of weeks. We are grateful that we can make a trip to see family and to attend Greg's Wedding! It is going to be lots of fun.
I will try to post some pics later. I don't know where the cable is that connects to our camera so Neil is going to help me find it.

Alright already, I haven't posting anything in a while! A couple of weeks ago David turned 1! I can't believe how much the time has gone by. We had a birthday bash at Mom and Dad's house which was really fun! I have been really busy with school and my finals are this coming thursday, then I get one week off and then a new semester begins! I am excited for this summer because we are planning a trip to California for my brother Greg's wedding and we are talking about taking the kids to Disneyland or some place fun. Anyhow it should be a great summer and I can't wait. David is growing so fast and he is getting really close to standing all by himself and that is a big deal considering his little foot. Anyhow for those of you who don't know, Neil bought us tickets to go see WICKED up in Portland. We went and saw this past Tuesday (March 31st) IT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME!!!! GO AND SEE IT IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE!! I can't get over how good it was! I have been singing the songs all week. It was so good and I am so grateful that I got to have that expereince. For those of you who don't know about the show It is a musical about the Witches of OZ and it is so great. Anyhow I found some clips from You tube I am going to atempt to post. Hope you like them but first here are some pics of Davids birthday.