House Showing and Hunting

Another month has passed. But unlike January, I know exactly what I've been doing these last four weeks, and unfortunately, blogging has not been too high on the "to do" list. We put our condo up for sale (by owner) on February 4th. Then after showing it 14 times and getting many other calls on it, we got two serious offers. As of February 23rd, it is under contract and expected to close on April 21st. Yeah!! Meanwhile, we are house shopping... We are looking anywhere from Orem to Lehi for either a house or town home (probably the latter, but we'll see). It has been nuts!!! Ryan also has to turn in his final draft of his thesis to his committee. So, while we were writing up the contract to sell our home, Ryan had me proof-read his 95-page beast of a paper. On top of that, Preston is teething and won't let me put him down. So all of the above items have to be done with one hand. I feel like a cripple, but what can you do!? I sleep very little thanks to all this stress and busyness, but life is bound to slow down soon. Well, there's a quick update. Hopefully, I can write more soon and post some cute pictures too.

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is a picture of Adelyn with her Valentine buddy Jaron. They made Valentine's crowns and took pictures. They are so cute!

This morning I woke up to a nice little Valentine from Ryan and I am excited to give him his gift when he gets home. Hopefully we'll be able to find a babysitter so we can actually go out for a change.

Mothers Beware

"Insanity is hereditary...you get it from your kids." :)

The Lost January

I don't know if it has been the same for anyone else, but I am completely at a loss for where January got off to. I cannot remember a single thing about the month apart from nursing children back to health (through several sicknesses) and cleaning my house (over and over and over). Fortunately, I did take some pictures as evidence that the month did actually happen. According to the pictures...

We got bundled up every time we went out so as to combat the freezing cold and prevent sickness (much good it did, though).

We painted Adelyn's nails (look closely), ate some delicious hot dogs (or at least Addie and Ryan did), and sometimes wore sad faces.

We held each other close... or rather I held both my children at the same time, all day, everyday while they were sick. I realized that the only thing worse than a sick child is sick child'ren'. It has been a tricky juggling act, and I'm grateful that my mom came up to help me a couple of days last week, or I'm afraid none of us would have survived.

We played games and did puzzles. Adelyn was obsessed with this puzzle which she referred to as "my Strawberry Shortcake game." We did it over and over together and now she can assemble all 63 pieces by herself. It is quite amazing to watch!

We smiled a lot, especially Preston who rarely finds any reason to be sad.

We danced around the house.

I bargained with Adelyn for some computer time. She loves playing her "Winnie the Pooh" and "Mickey Mouse" preschool games. She's learning so much about colors, numbers, and letters. And Ryan and I are so proud that our two year-old can already "drag and click. "

We goofed around and just spent lots of quality time together indoors. How grateful we were to be sheltered from the cold and surrounded by the people we love most. Hopefully in the coming months we will encounter a little more productivity and a little less sickness, but isn't it amazing what you can get through when you stick together.