Good Morning!

Most mornings, the kids are up before I head to work. The ritual of the morning is of course to eat breakfast. Brooklyn will come running into the kitchen and the first question she asks is "Dad, are you staying?" If I say no, she gets pretty sad, but part of it is that she's still half awake. If I tell her yes and then after she is fully awake I tell her I have to go to work, she's fine with that. The kids love Cheerios, but they're pretty funny about getting started. They both need to be sitting together on the bar stools and need a bowl with a spoon (or as Isaac says it, "poon"). They also need their sippy cup of milk. However, they'll just sit there and stare at it for about 3-4 minutes as they finish waking up. Then they dig in and are usually quite happy. Check out the before pictures above and then the final one is after they've waken up. They're a pretty cute couple.

House under contract!!!

After being on the market for 41 days, our home is officially under contract. However we're not out of the woods yet. The house still needs to be appraised and the buyers need to read our full seller's disclosure. Hopefully they won't have any problems with the whole flooding issue. If they stick to their dates, we should be out of our house in 3 weeks! Happy Halloween to us! That's not a lot of time. We'll be living in temporary housing for the next 3-4 months while they finish our new home, which we're very excited about. It's only about a mile from our current house, which is nice. I never thought I'd hear myself saying this, but Spanish Fork is starting to grow on us. Below is a picture of Brooklyn standing in about where our garage will be. The second picture is a view of our lot from across the street. It's a little over .25 acres and is a corner lot (like our current house), so we'll have to focus on the front yard a little more yet again. Our home is a rambler and has a side load garage with a driveway that will empty into the street to the right. The front of the house will face the street to the left. Brooklyn calls our new house the sunflower house. If all goes well, we'll be moved into the home by the end of January.

Braids . . . . finally!!!

So the day has finally come. We never thought it would arrive. We're talking about the day that Brooklyn's hair would be long enough to actually French braid. We went up to the cabin this weekend to watch conference up there. Brooklyn was pretty excited at first, but by the time that Grandma Adele was finishing up, she was definitely ready to be done with it. They did turn out to be pretty cute though. She's growing up fast!