A blinker!!!

This is what I woke up to this morning:
Lindsay: Mommy, mommy, there's a Blinker outside!!!
Me: A what?
Lindsay: A blinker, a blinker! Come see!
Me: Okay, just a minute.
Lindsay: Come with me!
Me: Okay, fine.
I'm sitting there thinking there's a police car with its lights flashing or something like that. I couldn't figure out what she was so excited about.
Well, we look out here bedroom window and there's the automatic sprinkler going.
Oh, to be two years old and have that much excitement.

Twin Falls Temple

So, almost two months ago we went to the open house of the Twin Falls temple. With all that has happened the last couple months, I'm just getting around to blogging it! It was just Josh and I, our kids and my parents. We had a great time! We went in my mom's company van so we didn't have to pay for the gas. We spent the night at their house the night before, and left their house about 9. It's about 2 1/2 hours to Twin Falls. It was very hot that day, and we didn't know we would have to wait outside before going in the temple. Luckily, none of us got burnt, especially Daniel. He didn't enjoy the sun. Lindsay freaked out when they put the booties on her shoes. She really didn't like that! She threw such a fit that she fell asleep! Which was fine with us, because she was quiet, but Josh's arms got tired by the end from holding her. We really enjoyed looking through the temple and look forward to the opportunity to visit again. Here are some pictures that I just got from my mom.

The beautiful Temple

Josh, me and Lindsay, my dad and Daniel

ditto.

Mom, me, Dad, Daniel, Lindsay

Josh, Linday and I and part of my Dad

Daniel

Daniel is now 6 months! Some exciting things that are happening with him is he has been sitting up since the end of August, and he got a tooth on 9/11! It is the bottom left side front tooth. He has done really well with it. He is such a cute little boy. He is such a good baby and we love him so much! When Josh or I walk in the room, Daniel will say, "Hi Da....". We are not sure if he is saying Hi, Dad, or if he is trying to mimic us and saying Hi, Daniel. Either way, it is really cute! He is still nursing well, and we started baby food last week. He loves all the food and eats a whole container, which his sister never did. He even cries for more when it is gone. And if we are eating in front of him, he throws a fit until he gets some food. I think he's going to be a good eater! Which will be a nice change! Lindsay still isn't a good eater, which is evidenced by her only being 25 pounds. Daniel will catch up to her soon! At his six month appointment, he was 15 pounds, 3 ounces and 26 inches.
We are still trying to find doctors for the kids and I down here. So, if any of you have ever lived in this valley and have any recommendations, let me know!

Daniel sitting up at my parents house

Daniel and Lindsay at the zoo. They both liked it.
So did we! It was only $3 for the whole family!

Daniel at the park by the zoo.

Lindsay in the baby swing. She has to do everything Daniel does- Heaven forbid he get more attention, right?

This is what Daniel was doing while I was working on this blog today. Lindsay put her hat on him, and I think he looks cute!

Yes, I am still blogging!

So, after a month hiatus from this blog, I figure I better update it. So much has happened in the last month! About a month ago, I was looking around on monster.com, just searching for possible jobs for Josh. I bookmarked some that I thought looked interesting, and that night he applied for some. The very next morning, we get a call from HR for a company that we had applied for. I thought it was interesting that they called back so soon. That day, and the next, Josh had a phone interview, as well as another phone interview the following day. Then, the next Monday they had him come down to a personal interview. It went really well, and Wednesday we found out he got the job. We are excited because it is better pay and a lot better benefits. They gave us 2 1/2 weeks to move down here and get a place to live!
We found a manufactured home that looked really nice, and was in our price range. Then, we found out Utah Dept. of Transportation is building a highway right where that house is sitting! So, it would have been about $50,000 to have it moved and set up on a new foundation. So, that house was out. Then, we found another home that looked great, was in our price range, everything. We signed papers to do a rent-to-own and thought everything was going great. Well, at the last minute, the seller decided not to go through with the rent-to-own. It was Monday Sept. 1st, and Josh's first day of work was the 8th! So, we had a week to find a roof over our heads. (Josh did consider coming down with our tent, but soon decided against it.) Our realtor down here is awesome, and she found us a condo. It is for sell, and she is the agent selling it, but we are doing a month-to-month rental agreement. Which works out great for the sellers, so they are not making payments, and works out great for us until our house sells. We really like it. It has a garage, dishwasher, and central air conditioning, which are 3 luxuries I have never enjoyed before.
Josh really likes his job. He says it is challenging, but doesn't have any complaints. He likes the people he works with. Each Wednesday about 12 of them get together and make lunch for each other. So, on Wednesdays he only has to do a lunch every 12 weeks.
We are really enjoying being close to everything. We have a grocery store less than a mile away! It is such a change! There are also tons of restaurants/gas stations, everything we need. They are building a Wal-Mart about 1/2 a mile away, but we'll probably be moved before its done. I have mixed feelings about it. Sometimes it would be nice to have one that close, but I don't really want the increased traffic.
Lindsay seems to like living down here. What she doesn't understand is that we can't just go to grandma's or to her cousins house like we used to. We are still working on finding some friends.
Well, we would love to hear from everyone! I'll do better at keeping you posted!

This past weekend, I got an email from a lady in the ward saying she had free raspberries! I love raspberries, so I emailed my Mother-in-law and we went a picked them together. We got about 3 #10 cans full. It was a lot of fun. Saturday afternoon, we made jam at her house. This was a first for me! It was a lot of fun. I got 11 1/2 pints of raspberry jam, and it is so yummy. My MIL made some sugar-free jam sweetened with lemonade instead of sugar. Well, lets just say lemonade isn't exactly a sweetener. It was so tart! We added a little sugar to make it edible, and it was actually pretty good. We had a lot of fun. I have more than enough jam to last me a long time. Here's a pic of our creation!


Yesterday both kids had a bath and were in their church clothes. They looked so cute! Here are their pictures.

Lindsay loves Daniel so much. She'll say, "He's my baby brother because I love him."

He was wondering what I was doing.

It's hard to get her to look at the camera and smile at the same time.

There's our happy boy!

The kids and I also went to Reed's Dairy family day on Saturday, but my mom has the pictures, so I'll save that, and our pictures at the Twin Falls temple open house, for another post!

Tagged

So, my former co-worker Sydney tagged me...here goes!

Four things you may not know about me:
1. I could say the alphabet backwards at 3 years old
2. I don't have any sisters, and neither does my husband, mom, nor dad
3. Both of my children were born on the 2nd to last day of the month (well, most years for Daniel -- October 30 and February 27) -- not cool when you work at Melaleuca
4. I met my favorite author, Ann Martin, author of Baby-sitter Club Books, when I was 10

Four places I go over and over again:
1. The Park
2. Wal-mart
3. My Parent's house
4. church

My four favorite foods:
1. Tacos
2. Spaghetti with meat sauce
3. Jamba Juice or any smoothie
4. Ice cream

Four places I've lived
1. Shelley, ID
2. Provo, UT
3. Current Location
4.

Four places I've worked:
1. Target
2. RGIS Inventory
3. Melaleuca
4. Mommy!

Four places I'd rather be:
1. somewhere air-conditioned
2. with my hubby, sans kids
3. watching the Olympics, in person instead of on TV!
4. camping

Four movies I watch over and over again:
1. My Best Friend's Wedding
2. Horse Whisperer
3. Message In a Bottle
4. Hope Floats

Four people I am tagging:
Any 4 people who read this and want to do it!

Nothing too exciting...

So, nothing too exciting has been happening around here. That's why there haven't been any posts for awhile. Well, I guess you can classify a new water heater as exciting. Sunday morning, while getting ready for church, I went to the laundry room to get Lindsay a shirt. I stepped in a puddle of water! I thought it was from the washer, and was really frustrated because we just got the washer and dryer in December. But, no, it was the water heater. That old thing (I have no idea how old it is- it was in this house when we bought it), had rusted through- Josh could poke his finger through the bottom and go all the way through. So, we turned off all the water to the house since we were going to my parents for a couple days. We didn't want to come home to a huge flood! So, Tuesday we went and bought a new water heater ($350 dollars later, good thing we have an emergency fund). Wednesday we had the water turned off all day because the new water heater wasn't hooked up all the way. It was really frustrating! Thankfully, Josh's dad came over and helped us get it installed. It is a lot more efficient. It has a setting that if you don't use hot water for a certain amount of time (like 11 pm to 7 am, for example), it won't heat the water as fast during that time, hence, saving you money. So, I'm excited to see if our power bill goes down at all. After going a few days either without hot water, or without water at all, I am really grateful for our new water heater.