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Yeah, yeah,...I know....it's been FOREVER since we posted anything new on our blog. Slowly but surely I am catching up on my work, and Misty is almost done with her "Twilight" series (again) : ) so, hopefully we can post something interesting soon!

Happy Valley Take 3

So I have to apologize to those people that tune in to our blog to see the crazy antics of our ward that we are attending down here, because believe it or not....Testimony Sunday was surprisingly....Normal! 

Not too much to report on it, Misty and I were asked to sub in the Marriage Class, (I don't know the exact name of it) and I thought that we did a pretty good job!

The biggest drama that happened last Sunday, was that Carson SCREAMED HIS HEAD OFF when I had to take the chalk package away from him to give back to the librarian. I guess he got attached to it during the time that I let him hold onto it on the way there. 

Daddy's Little Boy

So, I had this thought to post some of my favorite pictures of Carson. Whenever I think of Carson, I have this image in my head, and so I wanted to post the pictures that I believe represent my little boy the most.

I am so proud of my little boy, and the amazing things that he does! (Crawling all the way over to me when I get home, turning pages of the books that we read to him each night, helping turn off light-switches, and saying Da Da Da Da over and over and over again! (I Love it!)

I love my little boy so much!

Below, is Carson's face that he has been making ALL THE TIME! It's SO FUNNY! He sucks in his top lip, and just crawls around like that!

Happy Valley (Take 2)

So last week, we had a member of the Sunday School Presidency (at the close of Sunday School) actually say "The Church is True, The Book is Blue, and I love you all!" (yes. that is verbatim.) WELCOME TO HAPPY VALLEY!! This resulted in multiple comments on my facebook status when I had posted it there. I failed to mention that I had left out that during sacrament meeting that same week, we had a speech (yeah, I'll call it that, rather than a talk,) given by a guy who was talking about how everyone in the BYU Newspaper Opinion section, was debating about the new "For the strength of youth" pamphlet. He was very preachy, and I felt was a little out of place.

Well, this week, in our sacrament meeting, we had a girl talking about how "God is in the little details" and how she felt that God had prompted her to put the little socks that were blue that she had just taken off of her baby, back into the "Booty Drawer" (Sock Drawer) but she decided just not to do it then. And then this morning, she couldn't find them, and so she had to put on socks on her son that didn't match! (Heaven forbid!) and if she would have just listened, he would have had clothes that matched today. But instead, she had to get his older brother's socks which were way to big, and didn't match. (See! God is in the little details! He even coordinates baby outfits to match! That was basically the point of her talk.)

I had a little bit of a desire to dry heave while she was talking, but I refrained.

(Sorry if I seem a little insensitive about God coordinating your outfits, I think that if He definitely wanted to He could, but I really think He has better things to do than match your baby's clothes and socks together.)

Talented

Our wonderfully talented, extremely smart child has learned so much in the last two weeks. He has learned to sit himself up, plop down on his belly to drink the bath water, walk in an orderly direction in his walker, repeat "Ta Da", and CRAWL!! That's right, our little darling is crawling. He started on Friday by taking two crawling steps and has progressed so quickly that he can already crawl across the room. We are extremely proud.

Phil has been pretty busy this week with work. He didn't even get to see Carson on Monday because he was in Ogden. Carson has really missed him. Today he screamed every time Phil would leave the room. It was pretty heart breaking. Carson just loves his daddy so much. Phil will be busy for the next little while. He has moved his mortgage license to a new company and is working on getting everthing set up there. Along with the move, they have made him Branch Manager over the other loan officers that are moving their licenses along with him.

We're Here!

So for those of you that haven't heard, Phil and I are officially residents of the great city of Provo! We moved Monday. Our original plan was to stay up in West Point at least until the end of March, but we sold our fridge. Our lease started down here on the 16th, so we decided to push our plan up.

So far, we are pretty happy with our apartment. As far as apartments go, it's pretty good sized. It's three bedrooms and one bathroom. The bedrooms are all pretty small. Carson's bedroom is the perfect size for him. Phil's and mine, on the other hand, is pretty tight with all of our furniture. Our kitchen is decent sized and has lots of cabinet space. We have met a few of the neighbors and they seem pretty nice. Most are young couple with one or two young kids. Just right for us! I look forward to making friends and joining play groups.

We are going to be renting our home out to a very nice couple and their children. They will be moving in in May, so if anyone needs a place to stay for a month, we have a house you can squat in.

We haven't decided when Phil will start school yet. Probably Fall semester, depending on money. He can start anytime. We have decided to have him continue to process mortgage loans. Doing that gives him flexibility when he starts school.

Carson did very well on moving day. He was happy most of the day, and didn't even freak out too bad when we were moving stuff and left him alone. He is adjusting pretty well to the new environment. The first two days after the move, he was pretty clingy. He wouldn't let me walk away from him or leave his side. Today he did much better.

We will take some pictures of our apartment and post them in the next couple of days.

And on a totally unrelated note, Carson took two crawling steps today! He has been trying so hard for the last couple of weeks and he is getting so close. We are extremely proud of him!

LDS statement on "Big Love" controversy

http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-publicity-dilemma