FIRST THE NEWS:

1. We are having a boy!
2. Nate has decided to go to SUU, Southern Utah University, in Cedar City Utah. We are very excited and looking for a place to live. He will start in August and should be able to finish by December 2010.
3. Nate got called as the 15-17 year old Sunday school teacher and I am the sunbeam teacher (I get to teach my neice, Lydia and eat snacks with them).


On to the Cute one:
Joey is now 19 months old. He has started Nursery, at church, and seems to like it. He has spent the last week really sick. I cannot tell you how grateful I am that he woke up feeling better this morning. I think that being a stay at home mom is really a challenge when your baby is sick. His gruminess was a nice little test of my patience at times. Here is a morning in the life of 18 month old Joey:

Play on the computer

He usually gets a little chastisement for this one.

Recently he's been better about not touching the computer.

Get Dressed

Draw in mommy's planner

Jump on the mini-trampoline

Ride the rocking horse

Read a book

Play with his police car

Spin in the computer chair

Play the Piano

Get a gold star on his forehead and eat lunch

Joey also likes to play in Grandma's bowls and wear them on his head.

One advantage to sick Joey's is that they take 3 and 4 hour naps. The disadvantage is that they wake up from those naps grumpy!
Here is a video of Joey telling you all about how he feels being sick:

In case you don't know yet ...

Sorry it's been so long. I've been waiting till I can get good pictures, which won't happen for a while. But, I figured I better post our happenings for those of you who don't know yet:

1. Nate and I moved to Santa Fe for 8 month's or so. Sorry we didn't say goodbye ... He is working and we are trying to pay off our car completely (donations accepted :) ) and rebuild our depleted emergency fund and hopefully start saving a ton. Nate isn't sure about school right now. He is going to reapply for BYU's business school for September but isn't sure if he want's to go there. He is thinking he wants to go to SUU and is also going to apply to NMSU.

2. We are having baby #2. Surprise! We were surprised! I'm due June 25th they say ... I should know soon if it is a boy or girl. Girl preferred, then I will go on 12 types of birth control!! :/

I will try to be better about updating and getting pictures of the cute one up. I can't though, until we set up our computer ... we're still in the process of unpacking, which is funny because we hardly brought anything with us. OYE!

Nate's Discovered Talent

These pictures are from this semester's drawing class. These are the drawings that I'm most proud of. The shoe is part of my final project for the class. I'll be posting the other two shoes when I get them finished.

Ward Halloween Party

Joey was horse for a halloween. I have never seen him have so much fun. He loved just running around watching everything and looking at all of the other little kids.

Joey stood and stared at this little girl for like 5 mins and did what he always does when someone has a stucker: sticks out his toungue, I guess expecting a try.

The three of us won a prize for our costumes

Provo Canyon National Park

A few Sunday's ago we took Joey to a park up the canyon so he could run around. He loved it!

One of Joey's favorite toys is his toy bus. He calls it his Vroom vroom. When he pushes it around he says "vroom vroom" and when he sees it he points and says
"vroom vroom." It's a good toy to distract him with. We'll say "joey, where's your vroom vroom and he'll go looking for it.

Lil' pianist

Joey loves to play the piano. He doens't bang on it either, he carefully pushes down the keys one finger at a time. We got some cute pics of him playing the piano at grandpa and grandma Nelson's.

what's happenin'?

HAIR CUTS

Joey got his first hair cut. His hair was so long and full in the back that he had a mullet! It's beena couple weeks since the buzz and yet we will be doing it again, cuz it's already grown out to a mullet again. OYE!

MESSY EATER

When Joey eats he loves to throw things on the floor. It makes keeping the floor clean very hard. He also loves to put his hands all over his face and head, so the first time I gave him some pasta ... well, just look at the pictures

WALKING!!!!

It was a long time ago (I am very lame at keeping this updates) that Joey started walking. This is a video we took when he first got started.

BONK!!!!

So with the walking Joey, of course has his falls. Joey and I were on BYU campus waiting for Nate to get out of class. I took Joey onto the grass so he could walk around. Well, he insisted on walking on the sidewalk, no matter how many times I put him back on the grass, or how far away from the sidewalk we went. While walking on the sidewalk, he fell down and in his attempt to get up, he tripped him self and face-planted into the concrete. He cried good and hard while I held him and all the students walking by looked at me like "can't you get your kid to be quiet?" Well the result showed up a few minutes later on his forehead was a nasty purple bruise. A week later when the bruise was gone, he decided to get one on the other side of his forehead by hitting it again.