Some pictures of this week

This week has been a really fun week. Violet and I are getting ready for our big move, and counting down the days till we see Peter again....6. Here are some pictures of what we have been up too. Violet likes to "Honk" Grandpa's nose, here she is getting ready to launch a honking assault.
Grandpa "honks" the loudest of anyone, Violet thinks it is so funny and laughs and screams. Here is her surprised face.

She looks like she is up to no good in this picture.

So much fun.

This is Violet's famous scowl, she really is a cheerful baby, she just likes to make this face!

Grandma Jeanne made Violet a Christmas nightgown, and since we'll be in Texas this year, we decided it needed a test run at Grandma's house.

I've got these two in the wrong order, this is the after dessert picture

And this is before.

Just a few pics

I'm having some posting issues...I'll try again later

Halloween and what we've been up to

I realize that to avoid these mass posts I probablly should give updates more frequently. I also apoligize for the confusion in the order. I guess it kind of goes from most recent to oldest.We had a fun Halloween. Wesley was Bob the Builder adn Sam was a Seahawks fan. We had a ward trunk-or-treat the week before Halloween and then I took Wesley trick-or-treating on Halloween. I went as a Mom in shorts and sandals. Amazing! You can wear summer clothes on Halloween. It is great!

what we've been up to cont.

The boys and I went to the Children's museum in HOuston. Wesley loved to drive this VW van. Wesley also liked to drive this car. I think he is taking Sam to school, or maybe HEB. I forgot.

Sam liked this Mustsang. He's a lot like his brother. ANything with wheels. He even has learned to push cars along as he crawls.

We went to the alligator park with Errin and Brandon. NO fenses, they say you should "be prepared to defend your self, or run away." I vote run away.

Sam loves to feed himself. Here he is eating his stars.

what we've been up to cont.

I am able to post a few pictures again so here goes. We had a great time at Errin and Brandon's wedding. Wesley got to carry cousin Gina's boquet for her. Gina was carrying Voilet who was suppose to "march" with Wesley, and yeah, if you want the full eye witness story talk to Gina. Anyhow, we had a nice time and have been lucky enough to get to spend time with Errin and Brandon since they have been living in Louisiana.
Sam realized that he loves balls at Grandma's. What a cutie.
One of the attempts to get the grand children all looking for a picture. Maybe we'll have better luck now that every one will live close again.

We returned home from Olympia on MOnday night, really late. That Friday Hurricane Ike hit. Our neighborhood was very fortunate and did not sustain very much damage. Lots of leaning trees, oh and we had a little flooding, nothing too big. We just need a new carpet pad.

We evacuated to the Stake Center in College Station. Each family got a class room and a we just camped out. There were a whole bunch of people from the Spanish Branch in Pasedena. They were so kind to us and fed us for every meal. We brought MRE's and were prepared to really rough it, but we were very well off.

He made it!

Peter's in Houston at Emily's house. He's exhausted but everything went smoothly with the drive. I am really glad he's there. I'm sure in the coming weeks we will have a lot of new things happening and we'll keep you posted on when Violet and I are going down.

Thanks Emily and Jonathan for letting Peter stay at your place for a while.

last travel day!

Peter just called and he is in Bowie, TX (as in David Bowie) which is about 5 hours from Houston. So he should be there by 6 pm Houston time.

Travel update #3

Peter is about an 1 1/2 from Amarillo, Texas. He'll stop there for the night. He said that he encountered a little ice in Colorado but the rest of the trip has been just fine. He says his hind end gets tired by the end of the day but other than that he is doing great. From Amarillo he only has 600 miles to Houston.
Emily-if Peter doesn't get a hold of you tonight you could just send me your address and I'll give him directions to your house.

Peter's Route

Tuesday- Peter has finally stopped for the night in Moab, UT. He just called and we figured out the best route to take for the rest of the trip, which is different from Moab than from Olympia.
He only has about 1200 miles left to go! yay! half way!
He'll go south on 191 which becomes 491, then hit 40 to go east to Amarillo. In Amarillo he'll head SE on 287 to the Fort Worth Dallas area where he will get on 45 going south into Houston.

Emily-Peter will probably call you tommorow evening to get from 1-45 south to your house.

I think Peter will get to Houston Thursday Evening. I'm so excited for him to get this drive over with.

Travel Update #2

Peter just called he is in Price Utah and plans to stop maybe near Moab, which is close to colorado. He drove through some snow in Southern Idaho and a little when he went through the mountains, but he says the further south he goes the nicer the weather gets. Tommorow he will clip the SW corner of Colorado and head into New Mexico. Once he crosses New Mexico he will cross into Texas and head down to Houston. I don't know how long it will take to cross New mexico but I think He'll probably be at Emily's sometime late thursday or early Friday. I'll have a better estimate tommorow.

travel update

Just a travel update. Peter left early this morning and was staying the night a few miles past Boise. He says everything has gone well and the truck is working great.

humm

okay, so we have many more pictures to share, but for some reason I cannot post any more pictures. so, you might have to wait a few days until I can get around to posting again. . . sorry

what we've been up to

I realize that it has been a while since we last posted any thing, so I have a lot to say. Okay, not really, but here are some great pictures to share.

We had a great time in Washington . ONe day we all went to the zoo. We were all looking at the elephant. They had some cool animals there and the zoo keepers had a story to tell about each one. Wesley enjoyed seeing Grandpa Corier's truck. Typical boy, he loves anything with wheels.

At the Corier reunion we had a great time and we all shared a bed. (Welsey, Sam, and Mom-aka ME) One morning I awoke to find Wesley snuggled up to Sam. I could not resist taking a picture.

As Sam gets older he is beginning to really think about things like, "why am I sitting here."

Grandpa Hall passed away in July. We were really sad about that because Grandpa was a good friend to us while we were in Provo. We all went to his funeral in Provo and had a nice time reconnecting with a lot of family and friends. Sam had fun playing with cousin Nataile.