She did! So happy. This morning I forgot to give her milk as I usually do first thing in the morning and she kept squeezing her hand at me making the milk sign and I was so confused until I understood that she was asking for her milk. The moment I gave it to her, she drank it up! Wonderful, isn't it??
Also, I am in Colorado right now with my parents this week. My father had a hip replacement surgery on Monday, Feb 27 but he is doing much better now. So happy and grateful. He will be able to walk again (which he had a hard time doing for the past 2 months).
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Lizzie is 11 months old
Really? Only a few weeks away from being one-year old?? I can't believe it. So here's what's new with sweet baby cakes. She really is growing by leaps and bounds this past month.
- She can drink from a straw, yay!
- She likes to be in nursery at church.
- She says mama and dada a lot and tries to talk to us with her babbles.
- She laughs and giggles so much these days. I love it. She laughes histerically at the foosball table and whenever I dust with the funny duster.
- She is often caught reading, not even kidding. It'll be really quiet and we'll wonder what's going on and she is sitting there turning pages.
- She had her first big sickness and fever of 102.8. It was so sad to see her ill and she just laid there on me and fell asleep which never happens.
- She's not really into sitting down patiently on my lap. She likes to roam.
- She copies everything we do like she likes to give kisses and clap etc.
- She bounces along happily whenever she hears music.
- She can stack the rings of the colored ring stacker all by herself!!
- When I ask her to give me a toy she is holding, she hands it right to me.
- She is very close to figuring out how to put the shapes in the right hole for the shape sorter.
- She is so smiley and happy to anyone and everyone.
- She is a much better napper and sleeper these days. I love it!
- Sometimes when I sing to her, she sings along.
- She is fascinated by the bathroom and wants to pull all the toilet paper down and put her hand in the toilet and eat the cleaning solutions. Egads!
- She has really blossomed this month and makes us smile in a million ways. Love you Lizzie.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Night on the town with Snicko Snako and Mitt Romney
Yes that is indeed my latest name for Paco - Sniko Snacko. So funny! He actually started it all. I told him I love you last night and he said "snicko snacko" back and we laughed and laughed and now that's what we call each other. It used to be bumpco. So guess who waved at us last night?
That's right. Mitt Romney! Future president of the United States (I hope?). He was really nice and pleasant. Utah sure is the right place to go to boost your self esteem if you are Romney, I think. He walked in and everyone got up and cheered. He said some nice things about the Olympics. The poor guy is not perfect but people just won't give him a break. Why anyone would ever want to be president is completely beyond me.
Anyway, it was such a treat of a night. We ended up getting tickets to the Olympics on Ice show at the Energy Solutions area and it was lovely to go out. We got great seats (17th row) and amazing performers like that Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, and that Olympics gold medal winner couple from Canada who won in SLC in 2002. It was the 10th year anniversary, you see. I can't believe I didn't take a picture of the actual skaters. But anyway it was so fun to look at the back of Romney's head and feel the energy in the audience and most of all to be there with Paul, my true love.
Anyway, it was such a treat of a night. We ended up getting tickets to the Olympics on Ice show at the Energy Solutions area and it was lovely to go out. We got great seats (17th row) and amazing performers like that Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, and that Olympics gold medal winner couple from Canada who won in SLC in 2002. It was the 10th year anniversary, you see. I can't believe I didn't take a picture of the actual skaters. But anyway it was so fun to look at the back of Romney's head and feel the energy in the audience and most of all to be there with Paul, my true love.
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| Romney talking along with Kirsti Yamaguchi |
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| Skaters in action |
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| Romney |
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
What's new
Sunday, January 29, 2012
We bought a home!! A log home!!
You might get the feeling from these posts that I am a fan of exclamation points. You would be right. : ) Or right!!! I should say. : ) Anyway, great news. We are now homeowners of a new home. Check it out:
Pretty isn't it?? I am actually incredibly happy and excited about it. Since I was a young girl, I have always wanted to live in a log home and on some land and I remember telling that to Paul when we were dating and I can hardly believe my dream came true. It's about 2900 square feet and it's on 1.2 acres!! I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We've actually known about this home for a while now. We made an offer mid-December and we closed on it on Thursday, Jan 26, 2012. Our lovely home. We bought it for $249,999 which everyone says it's a deal for the neighborhood it's in. It's a lovely neighborhood. All the homes are pretty but not crazy, I'm so rich, North-Salt-Lake crazy, and not so suburb-Draper bland, and not even so I-live-in-an-80s-home-in-Sandy-cause-that's-all-I-could-afford type either. It's frankly better than we could have ever dreamed of having for our first home. Isn't that simply wonderful?? We are so grateful to the Lord for this blessing and surely acknowledge His hand in this.
We simply can't wait to be able to do things like sit on our back deck and watch Elisabeth run around (hopefully with some neighbor kids who are around her age), look out at Mt Timpanogos while doing dishes from our kitchen window, being all cosy in a log cabin with a fireplace, running around the big field ourselves and having dogs, cats, and chickens, creating a nice, big playspace for the baby and our future kids in the basement, living outside and getting out of our cramped apartment. We could do so many fun things outside like have bonfires, go "camping", have really fun parties, easter egg hunts, treasure hunts, etc. The things you can do with a little bit of land are endless. Plus it's in a quiet neighborhood with little traffic. I just can't tell you how happy it all makes me.
We will be moving there in June, right around the time Paul graduates from school. What a crazy summer it shall be, I feel. It does seem rather far away right now but I know it'll be here soon. But back to buying this home, it's been some kind of a week, I'll tell you. We've been haggling with the guy who lives there right now because we were going to rent it to him for a while (per his request). But now he has offered to give us a water share if we let him stay there for free. It sounds like we might do this very soon. It's going to be hard to make rent payments and mortgage payments for a while. We have been a little stressed about that. But then the good news is that we know the Lord had a hand helping Paul get a raise this week as well. It's going to be $13K more than he makes now and a hefty bonus on top of it! We are extremely happy and grateful for that.
Paul worked really hard to make this all happen. He got a job offer (out of the blue) from Goldman Sachs and then HP counter offered on it on Friday. Paul's been pretty stressed and was so relieved and grateful for this much-needed raise right now. Anyway, that's the basic gist of things as they stand. All is well though. We have good friends and family and we are a happy family.
During this stressful week, the Spirit whispered to me that I must keep an eternal perspective on all things. As wonderful as it is to have a home, it won't matter a stitch a million years from now. Whenever I think of this, I always relax a lot. We learned recently in church that after the millenium, we won't even remember our lives on this earth. For some reason, that is such a pleasant feeling for me. As long as I can be with Paul and Elisabeth and the rest of our family for eternity, it's nice to know that life goes on.
Well, going to wrap it up now. We're actually going to go to church up in Heber at our new ward. I can't wait to meet the new people in the ward and see our home again!!
We've actually known about this home for a while now. We made an offer mid-December and we closed on it on Thursday, Jan 26, 2012. Our lovely home. We bought it for $249,999 which everyone says it's a deal for the neighborhood it's in. It's a lovely neighborhood. All the homes are pretty but not crazy, I'm so rich, North-Salt-Lake crazy, and not so suburb-Draper bland, and not even so I-live-in-an-80s-home-in-Sandy-cause-that's-all-I-could-afford type either. It's frankly better than we could have ever dreamed of having for our first home. Isn't that simply wonderful?? We are so grateful to the Lord for this blessing and surely acknowledge His hand in this.
We simply can't wait to be able to do things like sit on our back deck and watch Elisabeth run around (hopefully with some neighbor kids who are around her age), look out at Mt Timpanogos while doing dishes from our kitchen window, being all cosy in a log cabin with a fireplace, running around the big field ourselves and having dogs, cats, and chickens, creating a nice, big playspace for the baby and our future kids in the basement, living outside and getting out of our cramped apartment. We could do so many fun things outside like have bonfires, go "camping", have really fun parties, easter egg hunts, treasure hunts, etc. The things you can do with a little bit of land are endless. Plus it's in a quiet neighborhood with little traffic. I just can't tell you how happy it all makes me.
We will be moving there in June, right around the time Paul graduates from school. What a crazy summer it shall be, I feel. It does seem rather far away right now but I know it'll be here soon. But back to buying this home, it's been some kind of a week, I'll tell you. We've been haggling with the guy who lives there right now because we were going to rent it to him for a while (per his request). But now he has offered to give us a water share if we let him stay there for free. It sounds like we might do this very soon. It's going to be hard to make rent payments and mortgage payments for a while. We have been a little stressed about that. But then the good news is that we know the Lord had a hand helping Paul get a raise this week as well. It's going to be $13K more than he makes now and a hefty bonus on top of it! We are extremely happy and grateful for that.
Paul worked really hard to make this all happen. He got a job offer (out of the blue) from Goldman Sachs and then HP counter offered on it on Friday. Paul's been pretty stressed and was so relieved and grateful for this much-needed raise right now. Anyway, that's the basic gist of things as they stand. All is well though. We have good friends and family and we are a happy family.
During this stressful week, the Spirit whispered to me that I must keep an eternal perspective on all things. As wonderful as it is to have a home, it won't matter a stitch a million years from now. Whenever I think of this, I always relax a lot. We learned recently in church that after the millenium, we won't even remember our lives on this earth. For some reason, that is such a pleasant feeling for me. As long as I can be with Paul and Elisabeth and the rest of our family for eternity, it's nice to know that life goes on.
Well, going to wrap it up now. We're actually going to go to church up in Heber at our new ward. I can't wait to meet the new people in the ward and see our home again!!
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| Kitchen area |
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| Lovely fireplace |
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| One of the bedrooms |
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| Kitchen |
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| Front room with big picture windows |
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| View from the loft |
Monday, January 23, 2012
Family Pictures 2012
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