Our very own FIRST HOUSE

Hey Everyone!

Yes, we are still alive. A little sick of painting and moving, but we have finally made it to the phase where our house is liveable now. We moved in the beginning of October and have used every spare minute to paint and organize every room of the house. We knew we wanted to paint and carpet, but we never knew it would take so long! We are extremely happy with it all and now look and think it was all worth it. Now it's on to the little projects. Josh's parents came in to town to help us out. They helped us paint the kitchen cabnets, clean, and organize some more. It was such a great gift. Josh is in the middle of making a custom closet for the master bedroom. He is doing a great job and so far it's looking good. I keep teasing him that I hope he doesn't do all this hard work and it collapses on him since he has never done such a project, but he reassures me that it wont and loves to pull me into the closet to show me just how straight EVERY board he puts in is :)

We had a really fun halloween although we have all been sick lately. Noah still has a cough and Eli still has the runny nose and cough. Noah got to carve his first pumpkin. He did really well helping take out all the gooey insides and loved watching the candle burn inside the pumpkin. This year it was all about pumpkins. Every where we went he was sure to point out the pumpkins along the way.

They were really cute as Spiderman and a Panda Bear. We dressed up as well for our ward trunk-or-treat as a witch and whatever you want to call josh. People would ask him what he was and he would just say "I just got off work!?!" People weren't sure to take that as a garbage man, consturction worker, janitor??? It was pretty funny. Noah wasn't much in to dressing up in his costume. I planned on painting his face red and letting him wear his spiderman hat, but we did well to get him into his spiderman sweats. He was a little grumpy until we started getting candy to put into his pumpkin bag and then he was all smiles! Every time I turned around he had a mough full of candy. Now when he wakes up or see's me he says "need some candy". What have we gotten ourselves into???

I have been called as Enrichment Leader so I have been busy helping plan our last activity of the year. I also helped get a play school group together and we started that last week. It was really fun! 6 toddlers running around was quite a handful, but Noah loved having so many friends to play with. I plan on starting music makers the beginning of the year. It's taken me a while to get organized enough to do it, but I am excited to get it going now that we are settled a little more.

We are really starting to enjoy it here. We have met lots of great friends, neigbors, strangers even. People love to talk to you around here. I love the change of season and look forward to some cold weather...I actually get to wear my coats I've had stored up for years.

Well, I figured it was time for an update. Hope all is well and that we get an update from you soon. Take care and enjoy the holidays!

love always,Valerie