Only Post #2 for June?

"Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things." -Steve Brown

Maybe that's why I haven't been blogging; I guess I've been busy! No voices telling me to do wild things lately. ;) Mostly keeping our place clean after the tornado called Andrew ravages the place! (And this entry has become quite long because of pictures, so if you want to skip it, skip away!)

Things we've done over the last few weeks:

• Watched this movie a million + 1 times:

• Loaded, ran, and unloaded this:

• ...and this:

• ... and ate a few meals cooked like this:

We are loving our new ward! They're so friendly and we've made several new friends already, mostly those who live in our complex. Speaking of which, our little road is lovingly referred to as "Mormon Alley" because there are 5+ LDS families living right there. It's been really fun.

As per request, here are a few pictures of our new place!

We live on the second floor, with the stairs inside our apartment

View from the middle of the stairs looking up

Living room from the top of the stairs

Our living room/path of Andrew the Tornado!

Dining area taken from the living room

Kitchen! I don't like galley-style kitchens, but this one will do. :)

We have a balcony! This on is right off the living room and there's a window to see it from the kitchen

Hallway to the boys' bathroom, washer/dryer (no picture of that), and bedrooms

the boys' bathroom

the boys' bedroom

a little more of their bedroom... Their closet is awesome! Three separate places to hang their clothes plus a small set of shelves in the middle. Score! We didn't need to buy a new dresser!

Our bedroom. It really is this empty. There's just our bed. And our lamp. *shrug*

We have a second balcony! Right outside our bedroom! We don't have any outdoor furniture yet, but I can't wait to get some so we can sit outside after the boys have gone to bed! (Plus there's a storage area out there.)

And that's where my camera's battery died. Off our bedroom we have our bathroom, and through the bathroom is our walk-in closet. I *love* it.

Alright. It's late. And this post is entirely too long.

The End.

Secret: I don't like talking on the phone. Which a lot of you probably already know. My secret is this: whenever a phone call needs to be made, I try to convince Jason or someone else to make the call for me. Sad, right? It's awful.

All done!

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Teresa


"Who, being loved, is poor?" -Oscar Wilde


"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." -Henry Van Dyke

Random quotes for a random post!

We're all moved in! We unpacked our last box and suitcase yesterday and other than lacking hangers for some of our clothes, it's all organized. Though how long it really will be organized with our extremely curious and active 2-year-old is yet to be seen. :) Once I take pictures, I'll upload them so you can see it.

In other news:

• David can officially roll over! He's been trying for several weeks, and he rolled over about a week ago! He didn't do it again until yesterday, but he tries to do it all the time whenever he's on the floor now.

Almost rolling over! He was trying so hard!

Our new ward has a play group, and they get together every Thursday. We went yesterday and had a little bit of trouble with it because of figuring out a schedule for the car while Jason worked, so we only stayed for maybe 20 minutes. It was still fun though, and I'm excited for next week's date.

He was so excited to be outside!

Playing with the dancing bunnies. They're pretty ugly, no? There's a splash park at the bottom of this "bunny hill", but the water wasn't turned on yesterday! Sad.

• There's a pool here at the complex, and Andrew has loved it! He's only been in twice, and he always just sits on the steps leading into the pool, but I have a feeling that we're going to spend a lot of time there this summer!
• I'm getting a massage today! I'm really excited! It's only my second one ever, and we got a deal on this one from  Groupon. Jason and I made a deal that I would get a massage after each child we have is born, and it's been almost 4 months since David was born. We finally have the time to have me get it. Yay!

Ummm... I think that's it. :)

Secret: I like to build things. When I was 8 months pregnant with Andrew, I built both the crib and changing table just about by myself (by choice, I promise!). I put together two new bookshelves/media shelves for our new place without help, and I enjoyed it! I think I like the sense of accomplishment I feel when I look at the finished product.