Sold My Car

We sold my car to save money. It was really hard to sell it because I've put lots of money into it and knew it will still last for a long time. And it has been such a good and reliable car. But it is good to learn to let go of things when you don't actually need them, which we no longer needed this car.

Well the guy who bought it got it for his granddaughter's first car. And he painted it purple and sent me some pictures. I always wanted a car that wasn't a normal color. Maybe not purple though. It will be fun for his granddaughter and I'm glad that i got to see it. I thought that Chrissy and Wendy may like to see it too.

And as usual, Oliver is super cute.

He is so adorable with his little ball pit. He has grown developmentally so much in the last two weeks. It has been amazing how much he has grown and to be watching it happen. Yesterday he learned how to clap. We'll be getting him a baby basketball hoop for Christmas since he is always dunking the balls onto the top of his ball pit (there is a hole for the slide at the top). I think that we have a basketball player on our hands.

And this is what it looked like over at our house for conference. Dad woke up when he heard me get out the camera, but he was out too.

Also, we had a pet chihuahua for a day and Oliver was in love. The dog never let Oliver touch him, but Oliver loved to stare out the window at him.

And I agree with Wendy. Heaven must be full of sleeping babies.

Having fun in Florida

We have been having fun in Florida. Oliver had his first birthday and went to town on his cake. He loves to stand in the middle of the living room and i realized today that his fourth tooth is coming in. Eric and i got to go to the Orlando temple too. Nice to have free babysitting.

Visiting Wendy Before the Baby and the Rest

Well, we decided to move to Tennessee. We gave away just about everything except for the few things that would fit in our two cars and a few boxes in storage. We hopped in the car and drove to Tennessee. Which, by the way, how come Tennessee isn't spelled out by elementary school kids all the time like Mississippi? They both have a ton of letters? And crooked ones too. Well, on the drive we just drove straight through. Turns out the google map time estimate for driving across the country is way wrong when you are driving with a baby and have to take lots of breaks. Oliver did super duper. We each drove a car and Oliver was in Eric's car. The first day we drove from 5:30 am-11:30 pm. We stopped at a rest stop and pulled out our blankets and slept on the ground and hope that we wouldn't get in trouble. There weren't any signs about no camping like there were at other stops and we were in Nebraska. It was a pretty uncomfortable sleep until 4:30 when we started up again and drove til 5 pm the next day when we made it to Memphis.

When we got to Memphis, it turned out that our hotel was in a really scary part of town. We went to the grocery store to grab some food and were scared to get out of the car. So after some more thoughts and prayers, we decided to go to FL. We still gave Memphis a chance and looked for housing. Turned out the other side of town was much better and had the smallest Temple that I have ever seen, but it still just wasn't the right fit.

On our way to FL, we went to Baton Rouge to visit Wendy, Daniel, Lucy, and Reuben. We ate some delicious food and saw some cool buildings. It was fun to hang out.

I made Wendy do lots of pregnancy poses for me.

When we got to FL, we stayed at Sage's for a week until we could get our own place. Stephen was actually sleeping like this for the night. Pretty impressive.

And the day that we got here, Monty decided to run through the fence. Since Mom was in Minnesota, I became dad's assistant to fix him up. You saw the earlier post with his healing legs, but this is what he looked like at first. All of the silver on him are places where he had pretty good cuts. Now, all but three are healed and we have to wrap all of them. The vet said that after this week though they might be able to stop wrapping and just spray all of them. Yippee! Mom is back now too, so I'm off the hook.

Dad was pretty impressive with his diligence. It was really gross work and he said "ick" a lot. Oliver came out with us most of the time too. He was such a good baby. P.S. It took him about two weeks before he could handle going in the car again. He did not like the last 12 hour drive and I don't blame him. He was perfect for the first 30 hours. But he is sweet and happy in the car again and doesn't mind short drives.

Oliver likes picking Monty's nose.

Oliver ADORES his mini bottle. Sadly, the lid is breaking so I think it is no more unless I can find another somewhere.

And again, I'm not sure what these videos are, but I'm sure they are cute. Oliver is pro at going up the stairs. Since this video he can now make it up them in about 10 seconds flat.