whoo hoo!

Ok so that's a preemptive whoo hoo!  But for those of you who don't know yet we are moving back to Washington, in 3 weeks!  It's been a crazy week and a little emotional and stressful but we think everything will fall into place in time for us to head on to the next phase.  We of course are sad that things didn't work out here but it has been a great experience and we wouldn't trade it for anything.  

Anyways, the whoo hoo is for Craigslist, we've had our apartment up for rent for just over 24 hours and we've already gotten 2 responses! yay!  this may be less painful than we thought.  Now I just have to get someone through the process of taking over my lease, but with 2 people interested in just a short period I am optimistic that we can get it taken care of.

Peter has gotten a lot of great advice from family, friends and the Bishop of our ward.  The stress of moving was lifted greatly when we talked to the bishop and he said we were doing the right thing and the lord would bless us.  The Lord has blessed us, we've been able to turn a crazy, horribly timed situation into something manageable with the help of our family and our ward.  

Peter has a great quote that has helped us see things in a better light right now.  He got it from President Monson's last conference talk but he isn't sure who the quote is actually from

"Both abundance and lack of abundance exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities.  It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend, will we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives, but for the abundance that is present, love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us happiness. The wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth."

So in short, we are stressed and maybe we are doing something crazy but we feel we are headed in the right direction and this will be for our good.  If you live in WA see you in a few weeks!  If you live in TX, we will miss you!

The Markers are on a higher shelf now

Violet is getting to be very resourceful when it comes to getting what she wants.  She's a good climber.  The markers are now as high as I can get them!!!

Getting ready for baby

We set up our little moses basket on a rack yesterday and got out all the newborn stuff.  I can't believe it's almost time to have another baby. This picture is of Violet when she is maybe a week old.  She was so tiny!  

Here she is now!  She's all legs!  Violet has requested to be put in the basket twice in the last two days.  She hung out in there for maybe 20 minutes today, I just read her a story and she laughed.  I think she may be upset when we put another person in there!

The basket is all ready for baby.  she even already has her own toy and book (it's the Texas ABC's so she'll always know where she was born!)

Ok so there is another thing checked off our list.  We just have to pack my bag and install the carseat... I think that's everything!

Houston Temple

Today Peter and I were able to go to the Houston Temple.  It was a great session.  We really needed to clear our heads so we could think about all the changes that are going to be happening to our family this next year.  We are excited about everything that we are planning to do and really feel like it's a great step in the right direction for our family.

After the session we were able to walk around the temple grounds, we had to dodge a few brides (it is a saturday in June) but it was really nice and the grounds are beautiful.

A birthday Box from Diana!

ummmm..... how to explain this one....... hmmmm

I love my Husband 

 

Princess Violet!!!

Princess Violet plays a star wars video game

Our little fairy princess.  This one was a little itchy for V so she made quick work out of taking it off!  

Violet got a belated birthday box from her Aunt Diana.  Diana wanted to see some video of Violet opening the box.  There are five, since it takes so long to load a long video.  It was so much fun.  Violet is in little girl paradise!  Thank you Aunt Diana!!!

Such a cute Baby shower!

I just got back from my baby shower and I wanted to put just a few quick pictures up of the adorable things these ladies made for me.  This is my "corsage" it's four frilly little baby socks in the shape of flowers.  It is so cute.

This is my Diaper cake.  It's all diapers and a baby toy and a binky for decoration.  There is a baby bottle in the middle of the cake to help provide the form, and it's full of chocolate!  That's the Mommy's treat I am told.  

It was such a fun party.  The ladies in my ward are so sweet and generous, I think that even if we didn't already have a ton of girl clothes we would be pretty well set for this baby.  It was a fun shower, it was combined with two other ladies, one who is set for an induction on Sunday (she was having contractions all through the party so I don't think she'll get to sunday!) and the other is 37 weeks pregnant, it was so fun to be with friends.  I'll have some other pictures as soon as my friend sends me some, I left my camera at home.  

Shhhh.....were hunting Wabbits.....uh I mean roaches

Today I was sitting at the computer and Violet was playing on the floor next to me when I looked down and saw a huge bug crawl right by Violet.  I watched where it went, behind our china cabinet.  I got up and found our roach spray (they should include this in your welcome to Houston kit) and sprayed the area, a short time later a roach crawled out to surrender.  Ha!  I poisoned it and trapped it in a tupperware.  This occasionally happens so I thought it was no big deal and thought it may be time to vacuum behind the couches soon.  I went back to what I was doing when out of the corner of my eye I saw another roach run right by!   

Out came the Vacuum with all it's glorious attachments and I vacuumed the inside of the couches and set to work moving the couches so I could get behind them.  Well I found the source of our roach problem.  An apple, lovingly stored behind the sofa by our resident 2 year old there was also a dead roach back there, I don't think roaches die of natural causes ever so I wonder what happened to it.

 So I set about picking up the toys and moving things and when I grabbed my yoga mat out jumped another roach!  I'd like to say I was very calm and brave about this but alas I jumped up on the couch and screamed like a little girl.  Violet thought this was very funny.  I quickly grabbed my can of raid and chased down this last roach and sprayed it just as it was heading under the china cabinet.  a short time later it crawled out and died on the kitchen floor.

The living room got a thorough vacuuming today and this is where all the "stuff" ended up.  Let this be a lesson to roaches and pests in general.  Pregnant ladies are technically crazy and will go to great lengths to get rid of something that gives them the heeby jeebies!

Dead roach!  ha ha!  They lost 3 good men today I hope they will retreat for a while. blech, every time I stepped on anything today whether it was a toy, or my other foot I recoiled in horror.

Victory is ours!!!  We are hot and sweaty but we won!

In happier, less creepy news, my cherry tomato plant has two tiny tomato's on it.  I'm dreaming of fresh tomato's with a good salad.  Of course if these are the only tomato's this plant produces they will have cost about $2 a piece.... oh well, it's been fun to grow it.  I also harvested some rosemary and sage the other day.  I'm drying the rosemary and plan to make sachets to go in our dresser, the sage is in the freezer and should be good for up to a year, maybe I'll stuff our turkey with fresh sage this year... Yum!