My little monkey

Just a few random pictures of my little monkey to keep me entertained...

Playing with Callie over Christmas break

Swimming on Christmas Eve

Being a shepherd in the Christmas play (the staff doubled as a trumpet)

Swinging at the train park near our house

Riding the train with Mama.

We have fun together but he's a social critter. Every day he asks for friends to come over and would happily live at someone else's house. Hopefully he stays interested in other kids!

Finally.

I title this post "Finally" both because I spent nearly every weekend of four months and plenty of days in between looking at houses and also because we bought one at the end of December and I am FINALLY getting around to posting pictures! I still have to take a final set now that my kitchen is put together and we are ready to start actually living there.

Roll over the image to see the caption. Completely missing from any picture is the fourth bedroom, which we plan to use as an office... The house is in Chandler, AZ and a 15 minute drive from my parents.

Overall the house was in great shape and we spent a few days painting (and having the bedrooms wired for ceiling fans and overhead lights!) before packing up the truck and moving in. Eric has been working long days (and is out of town this week) so I've been relying on my mom to help get things done. With a toddler and the stress of life it's taken longer than anticipated!

We love our new ward and feel very welcomed there. Scotty loves the nursery (of course) and has already won over all the new leaders. Eric and I have already been called to teach the CTR 4 class in primary. He's the only guy serving in primary and I can already tell that I'm going to need his help for a few specific reasons :o) I love the idea of team teaching and actually getting to see my husband at least one day a week!

Merry Christmas

With house hunting, moving, and juggling work and family, we didn't get to send out Christmas cards this year. Still, I hope you all know how much we love and appreciate having you in our lives! Thank you for sharing your lives with us. We feel fortunate to be surrounded by wonderful people.

Love from our family to yours, and we hope you have a very Merry Christmas.

Phoenician Christmas

I've loved the posts on many of your blogs that say: "here is the view from our house right now" and usually depict feet of white, fluffy snow and buried cars. At first glance I think: wow, that looks gorgeous! and Christmasy! And then I remember that it's cold. And you have to shovel your car out everyday.

My view seems better and better everyday.


Scotty hangs out in the cul-de-sac with his big kid friends. Today they showed him how to use a walky-talky.

He can actually pedal from time to time but mostly walks his bike around. He usually wears his firefighter helmet so he matches the big kids with their helmets.

Doesn't seem like Christmas time to you? What more do you want? Christmas colored toe nails?


At least here you can actually see them... besides, we took Scotty to see the temple lights the other week and it was cold enough that we actually got hot chocolate.

Transportation Man

My mom commented that I hadn't updated the blog in awhile. So here you go mom, pictures I took in your hall bathroom! You would think she doesn't get to see this kid everyday ;o)

He's still Mr. Transportation, so I often walk into the bathroom in the morning to discover a demolition derby in the sink or a parking lot on top of the toilet seat.

You can always tell when he's up to something...