Starting with our family is also a great way to start things off.
Brian is working nights for Time Warner Cable. We get to start the day off together as a family with breakfast, lunch and some fun activities in between. He then heads off to work about 2:30pm until midnight. He is currently serving as our ward mission leader and loves it.
Nickell is enjoying the boys. I am substituting 1-2 times a week at the local high school. I also just finished my two weeks (twice a week) of teaching a co-op joy school for Tyler. It was fun and rambunctious with four boys running around and one girl. It was definitely something to get used to from high school to three/four year olds. I even tried some of the picture books on the high school kids before I read them to the joy school kids. You know that secretly they enjoyed learning about "I Like Myself". On the side I have also been putting together a months worth of Pampered Chef recipes for a consultant. Every month she posts the recipes for the month and the shopping list. I am currently serving as the Primary secretary and one of the Relief Society emergency prep coordinators in our ward.
Tyler is enjoying joy school. It has sparked his creative side. Before he wasn't into coloring or doing anything of the sort, now he can sit and enjoy cutting, gluing, coloring and creating all kinds of thing. I was shocked after teaching Tyler how to hold and use scissors that he was cutting on the line, very straight! (The curves were a different story.) Between art projects he is running around playing sports in the backyard, cars and trains. He likes to cook with me...if it is a dessert. The other day he came up with dinner. I asked him what we could have with chili. He responded with potato and cheese, so we had chili cheese potatoes that night.
Caleb is our excited boy. He is about a 98% happy boy. Tyler is a big contributor to this too. Tyler can just walk by Caleb and Caleb will burst out in laughter. Caleb thinks that chasing Tyler is the greatest thing in the world. You probably will always see Caleb with a cell phone of some sort in his hand. If he doesn't have one and he sees one, Caleb will throw a fit until it's in his hand. He isn't crawling yet, but turns in circles on his bum. On his stomach he reaches out for things using his toes to go forward and his face in the ground (not using arms yet). So maybe this next month we will be seeing him on all fours. He will be turning 1 October 12th. The fun thing is to get him really excited, his whole body wiggles so much and strong that if he is in my arms, he is about to fly out. He squeals and flaps his arms along with it all. We don't think that he'll take the time to walk, it will be straight running. He is a very active boy. His favorite thing to say is "OOOh"
Our family is closing on our house October 13th and have decided to stay in the Springs a little longer. We took my parents up on their offer to stay in their house while they are on their mission for our church...the catch is they haven't even turned their papers in yet. They are planning on doing it in October. So we will be living with them for a few months before they leave to another wonderful place. We are not sure how much longer we will be staying there, probably not the whole 18months. We are looking forward to making it back to Utah.
