New news is good news...

So many things have been going on that I have neglected to blog about.

Hooray, we moved in to a bigger house. Don't get me wrong. I actually enjoyed living in the casita. I loved being so close to the Davis's. I was great for Bode to have a little playmate. We were just getting cramped. With a stress out husband, pregnant-grouchy wife, a rambunciouse 2 year old and a full grown boxer, we were all ready to have a bit of space. So 2 weeks ago, I think, we went yard selling to find a bed for Bode and at the same time looked for rentals. I had been searching online for weeks, unsuccessfully finding a place that would suit our needs. We found a few that we called on and met with a very nice couple renting out their house. We were walking around the house chatting a bit and she turns to me and says "Are you LDS?" We said yes. They seemed worried about us having a dog at first but after they found out we are LDS they were like when can you move in. The house is perfect for our needs. Close to friends and family and not to far from where we were before. It is 3 bed 3 bath with a big kitchen, dining room and great room. I have a phobia of plain with walls so I was sold the second I walked in because it has beautiful nutrally painted yellowish-tan walls. We are really enjoying all the room. It is great to close a door and not worry about waking anyone up. The only small down side it that it is all tile. Great for not having to worry about stains, but I can tell it is going to be a pain to keep clean. We definitely need to get a big, big rug for the great room.

Bode it getting way to big. We have been toying with the idea of putting him in a big boy bed for a while, but he is such a, shall we say a wondering spirit, I kept him locked up in a crib. But when I was setting up his crib in the new house I saw the transitional railings and decided what the hay, maybe he can do it. Boy was he ready for a big boy bed! He loves it!! I thought it would be a fight to keep him in there but nope. He takes a nap with no problems, and goes to sleep so easy. The only thing that he does is get up at about 6:00 and wants juice, so he comes in and gets me. Then I tell him to go back to bed until I am up. The second he hears me around 7:00 he yells MOM OUT! He now has a full size twin bed. We got a great deal on a bunk bed. There is no top mattress yet so I haven't had to worry about him wanting up there yet.

As for me I turned 24 on the 17th of July. I don't feel any older. Jeremiah kept asking if I wanted to go out to dinner and all I wanted all day long was mac and cheese with hot dogs in it. I know I am a crazy pregnant lady. So that was my grand birthday dinner. Jeremiah bought me some gorgeous pink roses and I got a new desk. Jeremiah reminds me that I got to move into a house for my birthday too. I am so proud of my new desk. I have always just used whatever to put our computer on, but I knew that when we moved into this house it would be in the living room and I didn't want to have some hideous thing in the corner. So I was looking a new ones and used ones on craigslist, with no luck. So I told Jeremiah I was going to go look at Goodwill. And I found it! It was cosmetically in bad shape, but really sturdy. I had been eyeing one at Wal-Mart for a while, but their furniture isn't built to last so I didn't get it, even though it was exactly what I wanted. Plus it was expensive. So I found this one, sanded it down and put a few coats of black paint on it. It turned out so good! I love it. The picture doesn't show how pretty it is. Plus instead of spending $140 I only spent $45. I love taking old things and giving them new life. I just need to get a little file cabinet and a place to disguise the tower and it will be perfect.

Boy, maybe this little baby I am "incubating" is a girl or a boy. Who knows? All I know it that I am sick and grouchy. Mornings are great. I feel like I get so much stuff done. And then 1:00 hits and I am a slug. ........ with heartburn. Yuck. I didn't get morning sickness with Bode, nor do I have any this time. But I am super gaggy. Any smell can put me into a gross gagging fit. I already feel my body being the host for the little thing growing inside me. I wont have my body back for quite a while. So I better get used to it.

Jeremiah only has 11 days left in the academy. He graduates 08-08-08. Although he is ready to be out of there, I am not, in ways. It has been stressful for us both. But as long as he is in there he is in a safe environment. Every day he gets closer to being on the streets. I am glad that he gets to do something that he really want to do, but couldn't the thing he wanted to do be bunny taming?

Mom-Grandpa?

After returning from Colorado, Bode and I decided to stick around Pinetop for a few extra days. Bode is really good at saying Grandpa, but wasn't to good at saying Grandma. So his variation on the word was "mom-grandpa". But after spending so much time with family he can say Grandma. Bode was really interested in gardening with my mom. Or maybe it was just the dirt.

Digging a hole.

Gardening with Grandma

Don't worry this isn't what you think it is. It is just dirt down his diaper. My mom was talking to her neighbor and when she turned around she saw Bod e taking hand fulls of dirt and sticking it down his pants.

That deserved a good hose down.

4th of July in Silverton

A little late, but that never hurt anyone. Bode and I made the trip to my parents house on Saturday afternoon. We wanted to get away from the heat. So we went to church with my family on Sunday. Sunday afternoon Bode started acting whinny and weird. And then about 6:00 he started throwing up, Yucky! We all though he must have had some bad juice or something because he was fine the next morning. But nope I caught the "bad juice bug" on Monday and was up puking and well you know, all night long. I was so bummed and felt horrible that we brought the flu with us just in time to go on vacation. Well I felt better the next day, but my Dad didn't. He felt bad all Tuesday night, never puked and still was ready to hit the road Wednesday morning. I wish I could say the same for Lee. She was a trooper and had the flu in the back of the motorhome all the 7 hours it took us to drive up there. We were all good until the last day when Lee's friend Ashley caught it, just in time for the trip home. Depsite the yucky beginning and end, we all had a great time!

The parade

Lee. Ashley and Hannah. These are Lee's good friends that were brave enough to vacation with all of us.
Bode and Aunt Lee

For such a small town there is really quite a 4th of July celebration. There were too many people for Bode. He couldn't see the parade so we just walked up and down the street. I got a ton of comments on his little bear harness or leash if you want to call it that. Everyone else had a dog on a leash, I had a 2 year old.

Fireworks!

This is not a good picture of the little town. This is where we watched the fireworks. They were a but to the right of us and filled up the whole sky. Bode really loved them. He watched them to quietly and still until he fell asleep in my lap, with a smile on his face.
We called Jeremiah while we were waiting for the show. Bode loves talking on the phone, just like Jeremiah. He was talking away, he kept pointing at the town and telling him about the train. We missed having Jeremiah with us!!
He was so tired from a long day, he didn't even wake up when I put on his jammies.

Silverton has the best fireworks show I have ever seen. They are huge! Plus you get the added bonus of the echo of them through the mountains.

The trwwwain!!!

This is his first look at the big train. I don't think he realized "Thomas" was so big.
Every time we went into town we had to stop and see the trwwain!!
The Durango- Silverton train is a steam train that make the round trip between the two towns. It is really quite fun. But if you ever feel like taking the ride, a one way ticket is enough. Seeing as it takes like 3 hours to go all of 45 miles.
These ended up being the best souvenir. Yep, post card with trains on them. He loves them! Still!

The main reason I wanted to take Bode to Silverton was to see the train. He is in love with them right now. Every where we go he can spot a train. We went yard-saleing last week end and some how he found a train toy at every house we when to.

Ghost town...

Jeremiah and I have a picture looking out of this window from when we were first married. This year no Jeremiah. Just me and Bode.

This is a little ghost town a few miles out of Silverton. There are a few old houses left standing. Bode had a fun time exploring them. I love the book Christy, this little town reminds me of it so much.

Jeeping with Grandpa Dave...

One of the best reasons to go to Silverton is the large amount of jeep trails. They are old mining roads that wind their way through the San Juan Mountains.

Here is Bode super excited to sit in the front seat of the jeep and go out on the trails.
Bode and Grandpa Dave. I guess the rough roads we to tough, so he decided to take a nap.
Surprise is roughly 1199 feet above sea level. So you get up really high into the mountains.
Snow in July!

Tag... I'm it...

8 Random facts about me... this is a good one trust me, get all the way to the bottom!



1. I get overly frustrated really fast. Like it I put something on the counter and it falls, then I set it up again and it falls, I could scream, I don't, but I could.



2. I hate, with a passion calling people on the phone. I always have. Who knows why? I guess I would rather e-mail or have some other form of communication than on the phone. So if you ever get a call from me feel special.



3. I hate twisted sheets. I cannot sleep unless they are all straight and tucked in or I will just toss and turn all night long.





4. I love long hair. Have I ever has long hair... no. I am way to impatient to let it get past the ugly in between stage to let it grow out.



5. I bite the inside of my mouth. I know it is a bad habit, but I can't stop.



6. I recently found out that at the ripe old age of 23, I have lost my imagination. I was laying back watching the clouds roll in, trying to pick out shape and I thought, wait these just look like a bunch of clouds!! I remember when I could find so many different things hidden in the clouds! I need to work on being more imaginative!!



7. I never knew that heads lights on a car were for the people in the car to see the road. I always thought they were there so that other cars could see you driving down the road. I finally figured this out on time driving with my older sister and one of her friends and he turned off the lights for a second and we couldn't see the road. Talk about a blond moment. It then I was only like 11 though, so not to bad right?



8. I am pregnant. No joke. 11 weeks along.

I got tagged a while ago and wanted to wait until after this doctors appointment so I could have a fun random fact about me. I wanted to wait to spill the beans until I was far enough along to feel like this little guy or gal was going to stick around for the long haul. So good so far. We are very happy, excited and blessed to have this new addition work its way into our family. I love this ultrasound picture because you can see the little legs and arms curled up in there. On the monitor the little baby was so active it was really reassuring so us that it is real.

Shoulda' been a cowboy...

Isn't this the grumpiest cowboy you ever saw? He was not to happy about having to pose for the camera when he could hear the train coming in. (More Colorado pictures to come later)

We made it home... well not quite all the way home. I haven't been able to talk myself into driving back to the heat yet. Jeremiah is working a lot of strange hours this week so Bode and I have extended our stay until tomorrow morning. I have a ton of pictures from our trip and can't wait to get them off my camera and on to my blog. But until we go home there is no such luck of that.