Pictures from our snow day

Gingerbread house

Snowing like Crazy in VEGAS!?

Yes today it is snowing like crazy! It also snowed on Monday and actually accumulated 3 inches on the ground in some areas such as Summerlin which is about as far west from the strip you can get. Today it is forecast for a possible 10 inches in some places! Even the strip was snowed on today! Snow has not stuck to the strip since 1979 according to the news. The airport was closed tonight and they canceled school for tomorrow. So this is rare and exciting for us to actually see snow and to see it accumulate here. The downside to snow in Vegas is that people already drive like maniacs here and is even worse with snowy weather (Vegas has no snowplows!) so we are staying home and updating the blog for once.

House pics.

Finally, I took some pictures of our house! For anyone who may not know we moved in over Thanksgiving weekend. Jared and two guys from El Salvador (we met at Home Depot) moved all the furniture in and then we did the rest. Thanks again to everyone who helped us move in and out of storage and our first and second rentals here. We are happy to be done moving and mostly settled into our new house.

Halloween 08

Trunk or Treating with our Utah cousins!
Owen was a little shy at first but once he figured out people would fill his pumpkin bucket with candy he decided to walk and join in the fun. I think he was missing his dad who was off fishing for the weekend with some friends! After trunk or treat we went and hung out with Aunt Debbie and Uncle Lane and helped pass out candy to their trick or treaters.


























sweet little turtle

Moving AGAIN!

We are packing up and moving again! 3 months ago we moved from the first house we rented in Vegas to a temporary rental house while we continued looking for a house to buy. We finally decided to build! So, we are waiting for our new house to be completed, we are putting everything in storage and Owen and I are going to be staying in Utah and Jared will stay in Vegas at a friends to work and save money. A huge THANKS to anyone who has helped move this time, previous times and one more time from storage into our new house. We love you and could not have done it without your help. Also just so you know we will not be moving again for a very very long time, six times in 4 years is out of control and we cannot wait to be settled in. When and if we do move again we are waiting until we can pay someone to pack and move our stuff for us! Yeah!

Bowling Night

Jared's firm had a bowling for all the staff and families. Owen tried to bowl a few times but seemed to be more entertained by just running around like a wild man checking everything out. They reserved a private bowling room which was great to be able to let Owen run around without worrying about him getting to far.
Here is what Jared's boss sent out in an email the next day about Owen.

"To everyone that made an effort to come out to Bowling Night, thank you for making it such a fun event. I hope everyone had a good time, as I sure did. It was fun seeing all of the kids….and if there was a prize for the most energetic, I might have to give it to Jared's son, Owen. He was walking on the edge of the couches almost falling, trying to sneak sips of beer, eating other people's pizza and making his mom fall on the bowling lane....b/c he wanted to chase the ball to the pins. Sounds like Owen is taking after his dad! "

Pictures coming soon....

Happy Bithday TWO You!!!!

Making the cake!

Blowing out the candle!
Blowing out the candle AGAIN!

Owens second Birthday (October 7th) has come and gone faster than I ever thought it would. He had his birthday at his favorite park, it was a perfect 8o degrees and no wind! Yeah! The pizza, cake and presents came second to playing on the park for Owen and his friend Alec, they had a great time.

Its a Boy!

Initially I thought I might be having a girl due to how sick I have been in comparison to my pregnancy with Owen, but its been confirmed we are having another boy. We are really excited for Owen to have a little brother! plus we won't have to buy as many new clothes, though it would have been really fun to buy little girl clothes. Now is the difficult part.... trying to come up with another boy name.

Movie Times

As Jared and I were looking up movie times on the theaters website Jared said "do you remember the movie phone". UGH! yes, so annoying, listening to a listing of every single movie playing and every single time it played and directions and all sorts of other random info just to get to one movie! Lets not forget, if you got distracted for just one sec and missed your movie there was no rewind you just had to listen to the whole thing again!
Yeah! for no more movie phone!

Time for everything else later

Sometimes I get caught up with things I think I need.. Such as... Pursuing career goals, Living next door to extended family, Traveling all over the world, visiting everyone I want to visit, Buy whatever I want whenever I want, for me or the house, to be a better house keeper, etc,etc.

Then I read this on another blog today...

" I am going to listen, love, communicate, cherish, enjoy, teach, preach and prepare my children. Time for everything else later."

I might add, provide and support the best possible life.

I need to live in the moment and forget about the rest.

The things I really need are Jared, Owen, Penny and Baby#2

Labor Day Weekend

Over Labor weekend we decided to go on a day trip to check out Laughlin and on the way back drive through Hoover Dam. Once we arrived in Laughlin and got Owen out of the car he saw the river and started yelling pool! pool! We checked out the map and found a beach to go play in the river. We had no idea that only an hour and a half a way from Las Vegas we would find a fun place to play at a beach. Owen, the water baby was so excited we stayed in Laughlin rather than drive around to the Hoover dam. Jared had to keep Owen from being swept away in the river, he has no fear and kept lunging further into the water. There was tons of people boating and ridding wave runners, now Jared is reconsidering his dream of getting 4 wheelers and thinks we should buy wave runners. It turned out to be a really fun day. One little glitch on the way home when Owen decided to shove a raisin so far up his nose he started screaming bloody murder. We tried to remove it but were unsuccessful, luckily he was so tired he fell asleep and we took care of it when we got home. Dr. Jared used the tweezers to extract the raisin, Owen was freaking out during this process but as soon as the raisin was pulled out, he looked at Jared and said "good job".

Are you afraid of Scorpions?

Well, I did not think I was until I saw one in our house yesterday! When I first spotted the evil little creature I thought it was dead. So, I proceeded to pick it up off the floor with a paper towel then all of a sudden it started running around and arched its back like this one shown in the picture. Very very SCARY! I totally killed it and all the other scorpions better watch their creepy little backs!
P.S.
Thanks to my friend Alysia for giving me scorpion killing advice.

One of my BFF's just started blogging!!!

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!
HERE IS THE LINK.....

http://www.seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/

Back Home

Back in Vegas! Back to the heat! At 90 degrees in Utah Owen and I were almost cold and it was so nice. Any way I should be blogging more since I am feeling a lot better and recovered from the little scare baby #2 gave us. I wish we could have seen more of our friends while we were in Utah since many of them left vegas to live there. Hopefully sometime soon we will all get together. Thanks to all who left the nice comments about feeling better soon, i was probably whining a little to much about it .

Having fun at Nana's

Checking out the new pool Nana bought before taking it out for a swim. Also loving Nana's boyfriends motorcycle, the highlight of Owens day.

Pictures from Utah trip

Cherry Hill with Aunt Debbie. Turned out to be so much fun, Owen loved both of the kiddie water slides, he could not get enough. He was the smallest kid on the bigger slide and did not like having to wait his turn, so funny.

More Pictures

Parade in Utah with Cousins.

Playing with cousins and Papa in Grandma and PaPa's backyard.

Pictures just before Utah trip.

Trying to beat the heat of a hot July day in Vegas!

The last month

Finally, a new post! Here is what has happened in the past month or so...
We went to Utah for a good friends wedding and to visit with the fam. Owen and I stayed for a week to beat the Vegas heat for a while before our move. Jared stayed for the weekend and then had to come back to work. My mom drove back with Owen and to come and help us pack up to move to our temporary house while we continue to look for a house to buy. Thank goodness my Mom came because I was really really sick. I became pretty sick just before leaving Utah and then the worst of came once we returned. Without my mom we would have never been able to make the move. Things are going better now but unless somehow I forget how sick I have been we might end up staying a family of Four plus penny and future dogs. Anyway we are still on the house hunt and can't wait to just be settled in somewhere. I will try and post some pics soon.

Happy Birthday America! and an Update on Us

This 4th of July we spent the majority of the day house hunting. We did squeeze in a bar b q and fireworks at the end of the day. Fortunately there were tons of great firework shows by our house. Owen liked the fireworks but LOVED the sparklers we bought. Each time one would burn out he would sign and yell "MORE"! It was really cute and funny.
Finding a house to buy has been one of the reasons we have been so so busy lately. Our current landlord refuses to let us go on a month to month lease so we are getting booted at the end of July! and we don't want to rent anymore. So we just started packing and are hoping to be able to find a house really soon. I don't think we will be able to get into one soon enough to be able to prevent us from moving twice but we are sure trying.
Other things keeping us busy....
We celebrated our 4th anniversary on June 30th. Jared turned 30 on June 28th! Happy Birthday, we still love you even though your getting old! Jared has been super busy with work, he was out of town in Alabama with his boss getting new clients for his law firm. Being out of town did not help with our house hunting!!! He also had to prepare for his first jury trial which was last Thursday. Thank goodness its over now and YEAH! he won. We are so proud of his hard work. He did the whole trial alone and went against two attorneys that have been practicing for more than 20 years each.
Now lets get back to finding a place to live! I have stayed busy with the house hunt and have been really really sick. We just found out we are expecting a baby in February, that explains the sickness.
Owen has been a trooper looking at houses with us, he loves to run around all the empty places we have been looking at. He is growing like a weed and learning new words all the time. We think we have finally broken his habit of jamming food i.e. cheetos, raisins, apples or crayon tips up his nose and in his ear, time will tell. He pooped in the potty twice! Yeah! but has never wanted to do it again. He does pee in the potty about once a day so he is thinking about being potty trained. We are not going to get serious until we move and get settled. Owen has also acquired a new chore to help with penny. He feeds penny every day and now its his job to let her outside in the morning so she can do her business. I think he mostly just likes opening and closing the door.
Well thats enough typing for me, hopefully I can update on a more regular basis...as soon as the sickness goes away.

Busy Busy

We have been really busy lately so I have not been blogging much. I will try to post more soon but in the meantime there are some really cute pictures of Owen on Megans blog so... Grandma's and anyone else if you need so see some new pics check out the link "Chasing all our crazy dreams".

Not enough pictures!

During Debbie's visit we did not take enough pictures. I can not believe that we did not get one of the two of us together! Maybe next time.