Whoops!

It has been WAY too long since I last updated!  We moved, then didn't have internet, then updating seemed like a daunting task so I was putting it off... I'll try to do some short posts over the next little while to catch up more but here's a very brief update:

Mid July we bought a house and moved in.  It was a CRAZY week.  We moved on the 11th and my brother's wedding reception was on the 13th.  At my parents house.  Where we just moved from.  And all sorts of family was coming into town for it.

 

 The street view

 

 Backyard view from the sliding door

 More of the backyard

 The kitchen

 The living room/dining room

The living room from another angle (ignore the scantily clad Little Man...we were attempting potty training, which didn't work)

We are loving having our own place!  Overall, there wasn't a ton of work that NEEDED to be done, but there are always projects of stuff we'd like to change.  We've been slowly working on getting the most important ones done.  We are almost done hanging pictures lol. And then comes the inevitable re-evaluation of where things are to see if we can make them make more sense.  But we're getting settled in and we LOVE our new ward.

Jeremy is loving his job at Gesa.  He switched branches and now only works 5 minutes from where we live, which is really nice.  He's been coming home to eat lunch with us lately, which has been a lot of fun. (And it saves me the trouble of having to make him a lunch to take to work lol).

I started watching a couple of boys in September.  Pax is 4 and Emmett (baby Emmett, lol) is a month younger than Addy.  They keep me on my toes!  It has been really nice to be able to supplement our income a bit and I love that it's only 2-3 days a week so I still have free days where I can run errands or do doctor appointments or whatever.

Emmett started seeing a speech therapist.  Well, actually, he sees a speech therapist once a week at the hospital outpatient therapy place and then every other week someone from the school district comes to work with him.  Since starting therapy, his speech has been improving, especially over the past month.  He's now willing to attempt more words and is, I think, understanding that verbal communication is a good thing and will help him get what he wants faster than having me guess what he wants.

Both kids got sick a few weeks ago.  Emmett got croup.  He was super miserable.  I felt so bad for him!  I don't think Addy got croup, thank goodness, but she was pretty stuffy and had a bit of a cough too.  Thankfully, both kids are doing much better!

Emmett moved up to a toddler bed, which has really thrown night time out of whack.  He kept coming out of his room since he didn't have a crib keeping him in, so we switched the handle around so we could lock him in until he went to sleep.  He had finally settled down just before he got sick, and now we're having to create habits all over again.  Hopefully he'll get back in the swing of things soon.  These middle of the night wakings are killing me!  Way to flash back to newborn stage....there are definitely things I DON'T miss about that! ;)

Addy has started getting around.  It's not quite crawling yet...I call it "inch worming" because she'll get up on her hands and knees, lunge forward on her belly, and repeat the process to get where she wants.  It's super cute.  I don't think true crawling is too far away...I guess nothing is safe again!

The kids were both tigers for Halloween.  I lucked out and was able to find them both tiger costumes at two different places (Emmett's a yard sale and Addy's at a thrift shop).  Yay for not paying full price! =D

I seriously had the hardest time trying to get them both still for a picture!  This is one of the FEW clear ones.  I love the cheesy smile on Emmett's face.  And notice his cherished package of m&m's haha

Well, I think that's about it for BIG updates.  Like I said, hopefully I'll be able to find time soon to get on and do more specific updates and such.  If not, I'll at least try to update better from here on out.  =)  I'll leave you with a few more cute pictures of the kids.