A New Baby!!!

Daniel was born on June 20th at 11:12 pm. He was 7 lbs 9 oz and 21 inches. Labor went smoothly, I had him at home with a Midwife. He was born in a fancy blow up swimming pool and I highly recommend it. It was so uninvasive and peaceful, and they didn't poke or prode at him, only did what was necessary. They did all his measurments when he was two hours old. They had all the necessary equipment except the surgeon. Daniel is the most peaceful newborn baby I have ever seen. He hardly makes a fuss. He sleeps like a champ and eats like a champ and poos like a champ ... what more can I say? We love him. Joey is very excited to have a brother and is always looking for the "beebee" and asking to hold him. Everyday Joey makes sure that Daniel has his eyes, nose, and toes. I am healing well and feeling pretty good, in case you were worried. I'm very grateful to be at my parents and have my mom take very good care of me.

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.