BOYS BOYS AND MORE BOYS

Hi Everyone, I just thought I would update the blog in case some of you have been following. It has been a while and I will try my best to post some pictures later. Anyways had my two days ago and its another BOY!!!! We are excited now that we know what we are having. It makes the pregnancy seem more real. Anyways got to go so hopefully I will post pictures later.

Another Update

I have been very busy so here is my semi annual post (HA HA) Anyways Ethan started Kindergarten in September and he is liking it. I think he is pretty well adjusted, I just can't believe he is a big school boy! David is staying busy and playing and drawing on everything. Anyways I don't have tons of time right now so I will post some updated pictures. A lot of them are Ethan's first day of school and his Jog A Thon!!!

Mommy and David at the Colvin Reunion Aug 2010

The Boys visiting graves in Tropic Utah

Update

It has been way to long, so for those of you who have been waiting, here you go. The last couple of months have been very busy for me. School and family has kept me totally occupied. Anyway last week we went to Utah for a week. It was fun and the boys enjoyed playing with their cousins. Neil's sister Laurisa got married and we had a great time attending. Here are some pictures of our Utah trip. It snowed about 10 inches the Monday we arrived to Utah. We also went to a The Treehouse in Ogden which is a children's museum. (Totally Loved it too)

(Above: Our Next President of the United States. They had a cut out of President Obama, but I cut him out, he he he)

Above: Snow day! In APRIL??????

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.