Happy New House Satisfaction!

So--!

We haven't actually moved yet--we don't move until the 12th of May--but our house is ALL DONE and we had our first walk through this morning! Yeah for a pretty new house! It was so fun to see everything finished and ready for us to move in. We wrote down a few things that needed fixing--so don't mind all the orange strips that you will see in the videos, they are just places that need to be fixed. There are going to be a lot of pictures and a lot of videos that most of you probably don't care about--but for those of you who do, enjoy!

The outside of our home
(you're right Dad, it does look like a slope, but it's not much of one, if at all)

Here we go! Home Sweet Home!

Here's the front door and entry!

Kitchen and Storage Closet


Master Suite (sounds more posh than master bedroom/bath)

Going up stairs and Gameroom



Guest Room and Bathroom (where all of you will stay when you come to visit!)


Other rooms upstairs


Utility Room/Attic


Exterior/Backyard

You'll notice that our goobster isn't in any of our pictures--here's a blessing of being a member of the Church...people serve just because they can! We were told that we couldn't bring children with us on our walk-through (which, if we lived in town wouldn't be such a horrible thing, but add on 5ish hours of driving time from here to there...) and so we needed a babysitter in Pearland. I don't know anyone in Pearland, but I knew where I could find people I could trust and who would be willing to help. I called the Relief Society President down in Pearland and she gave me the number of several ladies who would be willing to watch Katelyn for us during our walk-through. So, Katelyn had a great time playing and I made a new friend!
Count your many blessings!

Happy New Cell Phone Satisfaction!

So--we got new cell phones!! I don't think it's probably safe to give out our new numbers over the internet, so I'll send an e-mail later with all of our new info! We were planning on getting a family plan (upgrade from one cell phone to 2!) when we moved so that we could get local numbers, but our plans just happened to come about quicker then we thought...ever accidentally let your baby chew/slobber/gnaw on your cell phone? Yeah, it doesn't work so well afterwards!!
Anywho--we're both pretty excited and dorky about our new phones--and it's been fun to take lots of pictures and then upload them! So enjoy a short visual walk-through of our day!!

The first picture taken with my new phone! Cute Katelyn, of course!


Eating Worms (not really, it's stir-fry!)

At the Cub Scouts Hockey Game!

A favorite picture--sweet sleeping baby!

And the morning after--thanks Aunt Meg for the cute PJ's!

Yeah for a whole Sunday with Dad home!! Wahoo for Stake Conference!


We love you all!!

Fill the Temple Week

This week is Fill the Temple Week. Our Temple Presidency here is Houston does a neat thing--twice a year each Stake is invited to Fill the Temple--members are encouraged to take the day off work and spend all day in the temple. Mike and I headed down yesterday and did Endowment Session, Sealings, Endowment Session. It makes for a really long day (what with the 4 hour drive) but it's also really neat! We gained lots of insight and just enjoyed the peace of the Temple. It was great! One temple blessing, in particular, that I enjoyed yesterday was the absence of my persistent toothache! I've had a bad toothache for a while now, and we're waiting until we move to find a better dentist before we fix it. My tooth didn't hurt once while we were in the temple--I'm grateful for the little blessing that we receive for obedience!

And, as part of fill the temple week I'm babysitting a whole lot! I just couldn't resist this picture...what do you get when her put 5 children under four in a 10X8 room for 10 hours? A MESS!! :)

Gig Em Aggies!

We decided to have a family fun night last Saturday. We headed to the A&M Maroon and White game and had a great time! It's the only game we have been able to afford going to--tickets regularly run 80 bucks a pop--and they charge you for babies! Dude!! The Maroon and White game was only $5...and students and children were free! So we headed over for a fun night of FOOTBALL!


Hanging out with Daddy--check out the gouge in her forehead--our table-top greeting is healing nicely!

I love Katelyn, she loves me...

Here's a shot with A&M campus behind us--you can't really tell, but campus is HUGE!! (It's like 4 BYU's put together! Mammoth!)

And lastly, just hanging out after the game! Whew--we're tired!!

A&M games are no BYU games, but we did have a fun time!

This is how Katelyn spends a day with Dad!

I was gone all day Saturday, so Katelyn got to spend the day with her Dad! Here are the highlights!

Katelyn loves her books!




And here is a great picture! All of Mike's silly antics don't surprise me anymore, so he's moved to making Katelyn look crazy! So silly!

A list of new firsts!

Hello one and all!!
We've experienced our first head wound--another first finished! Yeah!! Katelyn was playing around this coffee table (not ours--Mike has finally convinced me that we don't want one!) and bashed her head open on the corner (the exact corner that is pictured!). No stitches this time around, but a whole 'lotta blood. We're hoping it doesn't scar! Yeah for firsts!!


And here is another first...ever been warned not to play with a baby right after they have eaten? Well, if not, consider yourself warned! This picture does not do the amount of spit-up true justice; let's just say Mike got an early lunch! Enough said.


And here's a video for Aunt Meg! We sure feel grateful for all the great stuff we've gotten lately! Katelyn loves her books!




And, just because we can't possibly imagine posting a blog without talking about how excited we are to be moving, here's a fun picture! I saved every single one of these boxes from our move to Texas--all of these and several more. I had them stashed all over the house--under the bed, behind the furniture, under the couches, etc. Since we are so blessed to have a moving company doing the move, all of these boxes headed to a friends house to help them with their move! Wahoo!


Oh, and one more thing--I've uploaded a whole lot more pictures to our picasa web album--check out the link on the left in you want more photos of the beautiful baby girl!