............YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!!!.............

........................................................WE! GOT! THE! HOUSE!..................................................................
It's beautiful and it will be ours on March 15th..... Happy Late Birthday to ME!!!!!!  Thanks for all the warm wishes!!

Update on the house.

We didn't get the fixer upper house I posted about last week. We did find another house. This one has been completely refinished and we are in love with it. We put an offer in on it last night and hope to hear back soon. This one seems too good to be true, so I'm having a hard time getting my hopes up. It's only been on the market 11 days and it is priced to sell quickly. I'm sure other small families have seen this house too and we don't have a lot of wiggle room, but here is the listing for the new one.
CLICK HERE

We know if it is meant to be, it will be ours. I just really hope it is. But until we hear anything I'm just going to act like it isn't possible.

Tell me what you think!!

Our (MAYBE) New Home!

FYI:

I wrote 7 or 8 posts today, so please don't miss out on the first few! :O)
-Kera :O)

Dalton is 9 Months Old!

 

Ok can you honestly look at this baby and not say he is adorable? 

Jed and I are so thankful that we have him in our lives! 

We can't believe our baby is 9 months old! 

He went to his well baby visit yesterday and here are his stats:

Weight: 19 lbs 3 oz    30%

Height: 27 1/4 inches 40%

Head: I can't remember the cm. But 50%

Dr. Kathy said that he is continuing to be on a perfect curve. 

Dalton is such a happy baby (minus teething).

He loves his Mommy and Daddy and tends to switch back and forth who he favors. 

He has started crying when Jed leaves for work. It is really sad, but at the same time it's so sweet.

Almost always though if anyone else is holding him he will reach for me. 

This melts my heart!

 

Dalton loves to crawl EVERYWHERE!

He is most interested in the kitchen and bathrooms....which are his No No spots, of course!

Our doctor was very impressed with how strong his little legs are, but doesn't have the balance to walk yet.

He did decide to pull himself up to standing position for the first time on his 9 month mark! 

 

Dalton is such a good eater.

He isn't a fan of meats though and would pick veggies over fruit any day. 

He loves little puffs cereal, bitter bars, and apple juice out of his sippy cup.

Dalton is obsessed with the camera.

He stops what he is doing and poses....sometimes he attacks me for the camera.

This is a picture he took. Of course it would be of his toys. :O)

Speaking of toys...

Dalton really loves his toys these days. I love watching him crawl over to them and pull himself up and pick through his basket! It just makes me laugh. Sometimes I think I know him so well that I could pick what he'll pull out and then he grabs something way off what I was thinking. I just love it!

Dalton brings more love into our home than we ever thought was possible. 

He is just our perfect little man! 

Happy 9 Months Baby Boy!

Sometimes I....

 

...wear Daddy's socks...

 

...actually play with my toys...

 

...fall asleep while eating...

 

...try to help Mommy with chores...

 

...eat my ducky during bath time.

Ok actually I always eat my duck at bath time.

To Oak Hill we go!

We love going to my parents' house for the weekend. 

We get spoiled with affection, love, and a little extra "me" time. 

Dalton is hardly ever sat down, so he thinks it's pretty awesome too. 

So this last visit was pretty low key, like most. 

 

Dalton played with this balloon most of the weekend.

Actually, this is his second balloon; he popped his first.

I felt a little uneasy about his choice of toy. I mean HUGE choking hazard...

But of course, he was at Grandma's house, so he got to do what he wanted.

He was under strict adult supervision though. :O)

Next we celebrated my Papaw's 88th Birthday. 

Yay Pap! 

We went to eat at Toro Loco. 

YUM.... I love their chicken chimi dinner!

See the man in the first picture...the one offering a napkin.... 

He is the man who smashed the ice cream sundae in my Pap's face.

I think he felt bad...I mean come on not a fair fight....my Pap...is...88! 

LOL

Pap was very proud of his cake. He even told his friend at church all about it. 

She is a columnist for the county newspaper and she also runs the Welsh Museum in our town.

She wants a copy of the last picture to put it in her column. 

Cool huh.... lol or just lack of important stuff going on to write about in the newspaper.

I got to love on this CrAzY hAireD  baby! 

This is Baby Grant. 

He is a sweetie.

I love him to death

But I'm still not baby hungry yet...

oh just look at the peaceful little guy.

How my heart melts! 

 

Dalton enjoyed playing with Grady. 

Everyone has really been worried that Grady will hurt Dalton (by accident of course)

My brother is almost also right beside Grady making sure he doesn't get rough...

Well that's how it was until we told Grady to take his coloring book from Dalton before he ate it.

Grady obeyed and Dalton pretty much plowed over top of him to try to get it back.

That's when everyone decided Dalton could hold his own.

HAHA. 

Please please please Dalton don't become the bully. Mommy will be so embarrassed if you thump on kids. 

 

And last but not least. Dalton found a pretty cool fort! Papaw Dave was very proud of him! 

And then we came back to Dayton.... 

Back to reality....

:O) 

But it's ok, because we'll be back on February 12th! 

P.S. If you'd like to see Dalton plowing over Grady or any of our other short video clips, just post a comment and I'll invite you to our video blog. :O)

So there was this one day.....

...when Mommy was trying to get everyone packed for a weekend trip to 

Papaw Dave and Grandma Susie's house

And I decided to help Mommy

 

What Mommy? This is your list of subs for Primary? 

Do you really need the list? I'll teach for you!

So then Mommy decided to try something. 

 

Can you say Baby-in-a-Basket?

Can you believe he loved this? He actually cried when i got him out. :O) 

Guess What

Guess what...This Little Man

 

Has TWO teeth!

It took a long time.

I honestly thought my easy going baby changed his personality to something...umm....not so sweet.

He was SO whiny and SO mean.

I couldn't get him soothed most days.

Are you wondering how long I'm talking?

How about 2 months of it?

NOPE 2 1/2 months... I really thought my sweet baby was GONE.

BUT 

He is back!!! 

SORRY, no actual picture of his teeth. 

These are pictures of the sad, sore face that he has. 

None of these pictures actually show how bad it is.

His little face has cracked and bled a couple times. 

We've asked the doctor about, she told us we were using the right stuff. 

It's just the weather and the extra slobber. 

Poor Little Man. 

:O)

But we are happy campers!

New Years Eve and New Years Day!

For New Year's Eve this year we went to our friends' home. 

Of course I didn't take any pictures while we were there, so I'll give you a run down on the fun events!

Nathan, Katrina, Mike, Adrianne, Jed and I had a lot of fun eating lots of yummy snacks, dips, punch, and s'mores made with my homemade 'mallows. 

We played BANG!.... Have I ever mentioned how much I love BANG! ? 

We used to play it ALL the time when we were in Logan.... Oh the good ol' days of Logan. 

(Don't get me wrong, I love our new friends and our new town and being close to Jed's next older brother and his family, and being two hours away from my family...

BUT

There is just something about Logan.

Maybe it's because it was our first home as a married couple

Maybe it was getting to have TeaM sPiRiT! GO AGGIES!

Maybe it was living in super close walking distance to everyone in our ward....where we were all poor students.

Maybe it was our super amazing group of friends...... Oh dear sweet Logan)

WAIT I was telling you all about our super awesome NEW friends and playing BANG! 

OK OK 

Anywho :O)

So we played BANG! and I, of course, lied a lot... I am ALWAYS the Deputy...unless I'm the Sheriff. :O)

Because our friends have cute little kiddies too, we celebrated New Years at the stroke of 9:25.... It was so cute! The older kids liked doing the popper things and blowing the horns. 

Dalton just watched. :O) 

Since I forgot to take pictures there, you will just have to do with some pictures of The Man earlier that day! 

 

After completely missing the stroke of midnight, Jed and I leaned in for a sleepy kiss. 

Hey, we were only four minutes late.

Of course we went off to bed excited for the next day! 

I'm talking Rose Bowl folks! 

This would have been a game to watch in Logan.

What I would have given to be in the same room with Crystal and Taylor. HeHeHe.

Taylor is a big Ducks fan and has harassed us a lot in the couple years he has know us. 

Anyway, the better team won... GO BUCKEYES! 

Here's Dalton in some of his new OSU attire. He loves watching sports. 

 

I'm sorry Crystal, maybe you shouldn't show Taylor this post. :O)