Brief Update

There used to be like NO young people in our ward.  Now, seemingly all of a sudden, there are a LOT, and they're all really neat, fun people.  We've become good friends and we like to do something all together once a month or so--though, smaller groups get together more frequently.  This isn't everyone, but quite a few of us at our cookout/camp-out at Rye Patch Dam last month.

This is our kitten Hiram rescued from a ditch a few weeks ago. 

This is the face Brigham makes when Israel won't let him play with the kitten.

We were in a prime spot to view the solar eclipse (or partial eclipse or whatever it was) in May.  I had some sweet glasses that I put over my camera lens to get this picture.  Pretty cool, huh?

Notice the odd double shadow thing going on.  It was kinda trippy.

Paul came to visit and to take his M-CAT (is that what it is?) in Reno.  He was here for Hiram's 28th Birthday.  It was awesome to see Paul.

These two pictures are the BEFORE the exterior paint job.

And these two are AFTER.  I know the door seems extremely bright in these pictures, but I think its absolutely beautiful.  I am SO glad to have my house painted.  I just can't even tell you.

A woman in our ward is living with a man who wants to be baptized, so they were told they had to get married.  I was so happy when they announced that they were going to be married that I offered to do ANYthing for the woman.  She asked me to make her wedding cake.  Okay!  I had never before made a wedding cake, but with the help of utube and one of the new young women in our ward, I accomplished THIS!  I started it at 5:00 in the morning and wasn't done until 10:00 at night!  And then my friend who was helping me spent three more hours doing the piping, but it was all worth it because it was BEAUTIFUL and delicious.

No one that came to visit would know it to look at it, but we have been doing a TON of work on our little house.  We are busy ALL the time.  Here is Israel helping me pull up the kitchen tile.

We took the boys to the pool a couple days ago.  It was the first time this summer.  They were so excited and had a blast even though the temperature began to drop dramatically and the wind started blowing a million miles an hour or so.

I thought this was funny.  Israel spilled the mini m&ms my mom sent in his carseat.  See his rainbow bum?

Brigham loves to help his Daddy.  At first we had to plug our fridge into an extension cord because we had no functioning outlets in our kitchen.  And if we wanted to use the microwave, we had to unplug the fridge and plug the microwave in.  Yesterday, Hiram remedied THAT problem.  SO exciting!

Here the boys are waiting for our frozen pizza to be finished.  I have an oven!

We have been sleeping in our house since the 31st.  It is so nice to be out on our own.  Here we are eating our first sit down meal together in our beautiful home.

We're painting the wallpaper. 

So much better.

 

 Well, we've been busy and mostly well.  The boys both were pretty darn sick for a few days but they are doing much, much better.  We knew Israel was doing poorly when he refused fries and cookies.  He's made up for all the not eating though.  The other morning he ate FOUR bowls of oatmeal.

He's growing up so much and talking like crazy.  Every day he says something we've never heard him say before.  The other day, driving in the car, Israel was stroking Brigham's face and saying, "Stay awake.  Stay awake, silly head."  He's also called Brig a "goof" recently and likes to call his dad and me "idiots."  Its sure fun to have a three-year-old.  I love having a just-year-old too.  Brigham has the cutest face and voice and butt.  I love him. 

That's all for now.  I have to get loaded up (I'm still moving my stuff out of my mother-in-law's), and go pick up Hiram who has been sleeping since he got off his grave this morning at eight and drive to Fernley (50 miles roughly) so we can get to a Wal-mart to load up on groceries and other essentials.  All I  have in my fridge at this moment is some butter, a few eggs, a package of hot dogs, and some strawberry lemonade.  Love everyone who takes the time to read my posts!