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.