trying to buy a house

Trying to buy a house is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.  It's a lot of work.
We are slightly frustrated that the loan writer is so anal.  yes I said it.  I am a perfectionist, but this person is way beyond that.
Our loan is being held up because on one form somewhere an 'L' was missing from our address.  So she can't process anything until she finds out why.  Hello - zip, city, state, numbers, etc all the same but someone left an 'L' off the end of the road.   Are you kidding me!!!!  So we had to file an extention to our contract so we didnt' lose our earnest money.
I can't believe what this underwritter is doing.  Our mortgage lender didnt' even know what was wrong when she submitted the 'condition' to him.  My goodness.
so here we sit in the hotel still.  School starts on Monday and the moving company brings our stuff on Tuesday and we are still waiting.   What a joke.

it's been a while

So sorry, I haven't kept you posted on the last few months it has been crazy.
First of all, Dave got a new position at a new park so we've been doing that.  He started the middle of July and we are still waiting to close on our house so hotel life is getting old.  Hopefully we should close late this week or early next.

Second, my sister got married!!!  Which was wonderful, but they got married the week we moved which made for some craziness. 

My Stampin' Up! business has been busy, which is a good thing, but that doesn't leave much time for blogging.

And lastely we had our computer in to get the webcam fixed and they wiped all my programs, so now I have to wait to get unpacked to edit my photos and post them.  and then I will be into the school year againa and who knows how much blogging time i will have.   bummer.

But things are good.  Our soon-to-be home is perfect for us!!  We are so excited to finally plant some roots.  Hope you all are well, and btw we decided not to go private after all.  The people we actually write the blog for would not get on.

Going private

Hi everyone.
This is a quick post just to let you all know that I have decided to make this blog private. That means that only selected people can view it. So what will happen is I will be sending invites to you, but you would need a google sign in to read it.
I would like your feedback, because if that seems to hard for most people I will just go edit all my posts.
reasoning behind this is I have a Stamping/Scrapbooking blog that is attached to this one, and there are random people that access that one and hense have access to this one. Also, with our newfound premanancy I feel like it is easier to find us from our posts than it has been in the past.

Please give me your feedback and an updated email address so I can send out the invites and then make this official.

love you all, thanks for understanding.

boys

Boys come with sound effects installed.

We actually found a water gun at the park and Dallin was doing this there too. (don't worry we didnt' take that water gun home).

Now with daddy's instructions - hmmm

Danica dance

Since I can't get blogger to upload the video of Danica (it must be too long), here are some pics of her dancing. Not as good as video for a dance, but it'll have to do. If any of you have suggestions on how to get it uploaded please let me know.

jazz

jazz

tap

tap

begining sequence.

the pics are from a dress rehersal.

more whitney

Whitne'y little ballet.

She did much better in rehearsal, but still did a fabulous job here.

more dancing!!

Whitney's tap.

This was my favorite. I love how their little attenae sparkle and wiggle. The first time they had them on for dress rehearsal they all couldn't stop shaking their heads. What a cute bunch of kiddos.

Dance number 1

The girls just got done with dance concert. Here are some videos (I was having technical difficulty with the camera because it wasn't mine) oh well.

I accidentally pushed the stop button - so here is the rest.

I will try to post one every day, but it takes so long to upload I don't hink I can do more than that. Hope you enjoy.

Catch up randomness.

Danica's BFF invited us to watch How to Train your Dragon in 3D. Here is everyone sporting their fabulous eyeware. the movie was even more fabulous than the eyeware. It's definately recommended by me.

Here are the kids decorating easter eggs. They always love this part of easter. Can you guess what Dallin's favorite thing was??

Slowly getting caught up from everything. Have a great day!

More summer Challenge

So, I haven't had time to blog until now, but here's an update about what we did this weekend.
Friday our plans took a twist. Danica's friend invited her for a sleepover. so instead of having a fun girl night where we did every one's hair, nails, etc. It ended up just being Dave, Whitney and I watching a movie. I did do a pedicure on Whitney and tried out a new hairstyle which she totally loved and has asked me to do everyday since. Danica ended up coming home early from her sleepover and so we chatted and stayed up late.

Saturday we hiked for March 4 Parks and spent the day at the zoo, and then a birthday party. I will edit this post and add pictures soon. Even Dallin got down and hiked. He wanted nothing to do with being carried. He was so cute. At the zoo they had earth day activities, and the got to plant some plants (Whitney planted radishes, and Danica planted Marigolds). We had fun and thoroughly wore out the kids.

Sunday morning we finally got to play around with some practice wedding styles. We went to church and then after dinner we put in "the other side of heaven" and practiced other hairdos.

The next two weeks are going to be filled with dance rehersals so we are taking a small break until the dance is over. We have truely been enjoying each other's company (as it should be).

Summer Challenge.

Okay so my friend put out this challenge to increase quality time with your family. She has challenged everyone to do some kind of wholesome recreational activity with your spouse/family everyday for the entire summer. Well, since our family doesn't really have summers we went ahead and started already. Of course - I haven't really told them what's going on yet. So yesterday we went on a walk after dinner. It kept Dallin up about 30 minutes past bedtime, but we saw these beautiful flowers.

These beautiful children enjoying each others company, playing with pine cones and skipping around the block.

We also saw a go cart whipping around the corner. I have to admit that I have missed being outside in the early evening hours. That is one thing Dave and I always did before we had kids was go play after dinner/work. But since we put our kids to bed so early it makes it hard to get outside and play after dinner. It started sprinkling on us at the end of the walk - we talked with our neighbors for a bit and had a fabulous time.

Tonight we played Go Fish, read books, and gave the dog a bath. It was so refreshing to have this quality time together instead of everyone just doing their own thing.

So, I am passing this challenge on to everyone! Get together and make some memories!!!

If you decide to do this challenge you can link your blog to my friends blog and we can all see what everyone is doing.

more happenings

The daily grind is all we've been up to lately, but my sister has been up to some things like...
Getting Engaged!!!

We are so happy for her and her fiance. They are getting married in July and are full into the planning. We are excited that they picked the same week in July that we were already planning to head out to Utah so no extra time off needed.

And - Dave gave me my birthday present early and we have a camera again. I went crazy the first day and took pictures of everything. I was definately in withdrawl. So now I just need to download and edit and then you can all share in how fast the kids are growing.
We have a big dance recital coming up in a few weeks and have begun the craziness of extra rehearsals.
Meanwhile - Dallin is using his binky less frequently and just babbles all day long. He has made sounds very similar to stroller and has said sister a few times when pointing to Danica. Slowly his vocabulary is coming. I can't belive he is 17 months and will be going to nursery soon. He still seems so little.

Conference

While I was putting kids to be tonight we started discussing conference.
Here is a small excerpt from our conversation

Me: So a lot of people talked about the family...
Danica: No mom, they talked about moms. It was all about moms.

Well, at least she was listening.

Easter is here!!

Happy Easter to Everyone!!




Just thought I would share two of my favorite easter/spring songs. I wish I had pics to share, but still no camera.
love you all.

recent happenings

Well, I guess it's been a while since I blogged. Just been busy.
to catch you up...
After we got the dog... I had surgery. Dave was home for a week and then my mom came out and played 'mom' instead of grandma for a week and then I was on my own for two weeks.
Dave (bless his heart) had all these ideas of what he was going to do while he wasn't working for a week. none of those ideas got done. imagine that.
I think we wore out my mom between the kids and staying up watching the olympics.
I learned that I am not a good patient. (unless I am copletely nauseated and druged) I learned that being a couch potato makes you hungry for junk - not fruits and veggies, and you are much more tired. It is definately not what our bodies were designed for.

The dog also had a small degression because I wasn't able to out with her for a while. She is doing much better now. She still gets excited when she meets new people, and sometimes with the girls, but she goes on walks without pulling and comes when called and will sit and lay down on request. I have also learned that I am NOT a dog person. While I enjoy the walks and other opportunities to be outside, I just dread the responsibilities that come with a dog. I just have enough on my plate. The good thing is that Danica has taken complete responsibility for the dog. She feeds her and pooper scoops the yard. I think it is great that she wants this responsibility. I didn't even ask her to have these jobs, she just took them upon herself.

We survived the two weeks without daddy. He went to training at the Grand Canyon and had a blast there, but really missed us. I'm sure I'll post pics of his adventure when we get them. He had a disposable camera so we are back to having to get them developed.

I guess that catches us up. mostly. Whitney had a grand week and ended up with a black eye, swollen arm, goose egg on her leg and a bloody nose to top things off (each of which was a seperate disaster) Guess she must be growing again. hahaha

Dallin missed his daddy terribly and when he came home he wouldn't let him go. He had a death grip on his shirt - it made for unpacking the work van interesting and then Dallin cried when daddy left to take the van back.

Well, I will try to keep you posted even though we won't have pictures (so sad). I am reasearching cameras and think I have it narrowed down to two - what feature would you prefer - a self-timer without manual settings, or no self-timer and the option to control what types of features you use when taking a picture (ie- shutter speed, color contrast, etc)?
Then we have to figure out if it's in the budget.

toodles for now.