nothing new

Well, there is really nothing too new going on at our house. For those of you who don't know, our air conditioner was out for about 3 days, but works again. Those 3 days were pretty miserable and really made us apreciate some of the things we take for granted (ie. air conditioning). Sam has been a little sick and has developed a cough. He's hacking away as I speak, but he's okay. Wesley is still learning to go to the bathroom on the potty. JOnathan called one night to say that he'd be late and I let Wesley answer the phone, it went something like this, "Hi, I pooped on the potty. Bye." We had a pretty good laugh. Jonathan has been busy as usual. We are just grateful that he is getting good experience and learning a lot. Here are a couple of pictures of life at our house the past few weeks.


On the 4th of July we went to a carnival. Wesley played the bean bag toss and won a prize!

Sam is a big baby. At his 4 month appointment he was 19lbs, 4 oz and long (I don't remember exactly). I call him our little line backer.

We tried to find a parade in our neighborhod on the 4th of July. We packed up our strollers and went for a walk. About a mile down the road we ran into someone who said they canceled the parade. So, we just went for a long walk.
The highlight of our 4th was letting the boys stay up late and watch fireworks on TV. Wesley was so excited. He danced and ran all around (oh, fireworks are illegeal in our county).

our house on the 4th

We went to Splashtown with some friends a few weeks ago. Wesley and Dad had a lot of fun swimming around. Mom and Dad both got really sunburned, but the kids were fine.
Wesley and Sam sitting on the couch. Sam learned to sit all alone this past week. I cannot believe how big he is getting
Wesley loves to help Mom cook. His favorite is stirring flour. He's such a good helper.
At the carnival Wesley got to jump in a bouncy castle thing. As you can see, he had a lot of fun.

Hope all is well at your house. Good luck with your finals Peter and congrats on finishing school!

the Wood's

Our last week!

I just had to post that this is our last week in Rexburg, and I am just dying with excitement!  Peter should be finished with all of his homework this weekend and then we just have to pack up and clean! yay!  We are so excited to be done with school and Rexburg!

Love you all!

Officially a toddler

Violet has officially entered the world of Toddlerhood, by taking her first very funny steps.  She can walk about 4 feet between Peter and I and she walks with her hands straight up in the air (what a funny kid).  She really just takes two or three steps and then makes a dive for our arms.  It is hilarious to watch and Violet thinks it's the best thing ever.  

Also, we received a response to our request for potential birth mothers for our friends, Daniel and Belinda.  Errin Wilson has a friend that is working with LDS family services also and is due in September, and a connection has been made, so if you could keep these two families in your prayers so that everything works out for the best for the baby and the parents.  We'll keep you posted on any updates.  

Love you all! 

Ellen, Peter and Violet

Arizona Wood's

Well, after a failed adotpion with Eli, Warren and Mel were able to adopt another baby. They got a call last week from an agency that wanted to place a baby girl with them. This baby is also in Sacramento. I think it is official, Maxine has a little sister. They are thinking about calling her Virginia (Ginger) after Jonathan's Mom. We are so glad that simething wonderful did work out for them.

EMily

epilogue

I guess the birth father would not sign his consent for the adoption. We are very sad for the whole situation, but Warren and Mel seem to be thinking of the birth mother and baby's situation rather than their own.

emily

new cousin

We have a new cousin in our family! Warren and Mel were selected to adopt another little baby. This time it is a boy. He was born this morning at about 12:30am in California. They named him Eli. We are so excited for them and for Wesley and Sam to have another cousin. I guess they just found out last week and flew out to Sacramento on Thursday to meet the birth mom. They got home on Saturday night and Mel flew back to California Sunday (the Mom went into labor Sunday morning.) Anyhow, we are excited for them!

Emily

Life in Texas

We are all doing just fine. Jonathan has given some of his work load to a new engineer that they hired and that makes us glad. We are just happy that he is working hard for the company. Sam is starting to talk a lot more and last night just told us all about everything at dinner. it was a lot of fun. Here is a few picutres of some things we've been up to lately.
Wesley is starting to show a little intrerst in the potty. We got him some Lightening McQueen pull-ups. One day I went into his room to find that he'd decided that his new pull-ups make a better hat than underwear.

Baby Sam is a smiler and he really loves his dad.

We have a "rest" every day after lunch. Sometimes it just turns into playtime. Wesley loves to pull his toys out of his toy box and either put them all in his bed, or push them all out of his bed. Today his potty seat got in on the action.

Grandpa and Wesley at Sam's blessing. Wesley is looking forward to comming to see Gma and Gpa again. He knows that in August we are going to fly on another blue airplane at the airport.

Gpa and Sam at the blessing lunch. Sam's is excited to get to know his grandparents more too!