House Update

We take the kids every Sunday afternoon to look at our home that is being built. They love going and will start to ask if we can go right after we get home from church. So far things are moving along pretty quickly. We are surprised every week when we go and see how much has been done.

This is the kids sitting at the top of stairs before they had the second floor on.

Joey loved running around in the backyard on all the lumber. I don't know what he was wearing. I guess anything goes on Sundays after church.

We even had some of our new neighbors come over and play. Joey was happy to see there were boys around to play with.

The kids also love to walk through the walls. They are excited to tell their friends someday that they have walked through the walls before.

This was last Sunday, 2/22/09

We still don't know how this moving thing is all going to work out. We haven't sold our house yet and keep watching our economy get worse and hope that somehow we can pull it off. We know we are in the Lord's hands and will be were we are supposed to be. The unknown is just so hard.

Katie Funnies

Katie has been so funny lately. She is such a people person. She loves to be with someone at all times and doesn't stop talking almost the whole day.

The other day she was jumping on the trampoline with the neighbor boy. His mom called to have him come home so I went outside and told them to stop playing. I left the door open but went back in the house. I heard her say, "don't leave until I get a hug and a kiss." I peaked outside and she was kissing him on the lips and grabbing him and hugging as hard as she could. Then she said, 'Oops, sorry I got boogers on you."

Last week we went to see The Lion King at Gammage. Geoff's parents surprised us with tickets and we tried to get our kids excited to go. They don't really like the movie so we built it up to be this amazing show. They all really liked it and Katie was really into it the whole time. Geoff's parents especially wanted them to like it because they spent a lot on the tickets, we had awesome seats. It was a fun night. But the funny thing happened the next morning. I was driving Katie and her friend to preschool and she was talking so fast telling him all about the show. She was talking about all the animals and the dancing. Then she said, " You want to know what my favorite part was? It was when we walked in and I handed my ticket to the man and he scanned it." I was laughing so hard. Little kids are so easily pleased. I called my mother in law and told her what Katie got out of the money they spent on the tickets. The ticket was actually her favorite thing.

Joey turns 8!

Joey had his 8th birthday last week. He is growing up so fast and becoming a great young boy. He had a fun day. His Dad came to school and had lunch with him and played all the 2nd graders in four square. Joey's friends keep asking when his dad can come to lunch again. We had a fun night with the Johnson's. Joey shares a birthday with his Grandma Johnson. (Happy Birthday Mom!) We had dinner and cake and ice cream. Joey loved his presents. He was hard to shop for this year. He couldn't think of anything he wanted. Now, a week later he keeps telling me things he wants. He will have to wait til next year.

He got a race track that they had a lot of fun with. Katie was the cheerleader.

His favorite gifts were his MP3 player and his whistle/compass/thermometer.