The Relief Society Presidency

So the Relief Society presidency came to see me today. (The Relief Society is the group for the women in the LDS church) They always go and visit/introduce/get to know the new sisters (that's what we call each other) in the ward. Anyway, they were awesome! I had a really good time talking to the four of them. I'm really excited about getting to know more of the ladies now. I guess they have a volleyball group that gets together and plays every Tuesday at 9:00am. I LOVE volleyball it is my favorite sport. I haven't got to play for a really long time ago. I think the last time I played was like 2 years ago : ( boo. Anyway they were so awesome. I'm so excited to be in this ward. I already feel so at home here. : ) YAY! Anyway that's all I just wanted to share I guess.

Squash!

So today we tried squash for the first time. He LOVED it. I have the feeling he's gonna be more like mommy and LOVE veggies. Yay!!! Anyway here's a cute video of him eating.

Crawling!

That's right folks he's crawling. He looks a little uncoordinated but give him a break he's only been doing it for a matter of a few days maybe a little longer. And I FINALLY got a good video of him doing it. Usually I turn the camera on and he's like a deer in the headlights. This time I didn't let him know what I was doing and he crawled good! : ) w00t!! : D Anyway here's the video. I thought of including more but I don't feel like dealing with the video uploader today. lol

Oh and he has discovered the kitchen/dining room. It's such an exciting new place! The living room will just not do anymore.  Except he's not really sure what to make of the flooring in there. ha ha!

It's Been Awhile

Well it's been awhile since I last posted. I'm sure you all missed me! All the crickets out there chirping that is *wink wink*

Anyway I guess this post is just to say. I'm still alive. Not much has been going on. Robert has been quite the busy fellow tho. Robert has just got his first tooth! It's broke through the skin (I would know it's a sharp little buggar!) But it still has to push up and show itself all the way. I'd get a pic but Robert is anti-showing off his gums, he plays with everything with his tongue. Surprisingly or not so surprisingly he wasn't too bad while it was coming in. He did a lot of the closed mouth hum/whine thing. He just wasn't himself and I guess and had a little bit of a harder time sleeping. Nothing getting in bed with mom and sleep nursing wouldn't fix tho. I was tired but he was fine, he sleeps great like that but I don't. I like my sleeping space! : ) Also Robert has started crawling!!! It's very tentative and it seems the more he thinks about it the more mad and unable to move he becomes. It's when we're not expecting it that he's all the way across the room. But he's getting better and better everyday. I'll make a post about it once I get a good video. I was gonna get one today but the camera battery was low and it wouldn't let me. Sigh. Maybe tomorrow.

I've been good. I haven't even thought about Facebook at all really. The only thing I have thought about on there are the group of ladies that I was friends with that I don't get to talk with very often now. I hope they're all doing well. A new thing for me that has happened is that I have taken over doing the family newsletter from my sister, she's too busy and is burnt out, so I took it over for her. It's been fun so far and the first newsletter I'm doing is being sent to my family on September 1st. I'm excited, it's gonna be a summer edition. Then we'll have one each month. It's hard to get everyone to send in their news tho. I'm sure I've driven them crazy with all my email reminders to them. Oh well I'm sure I'll get everyone to send in their news eventually. Until then I'll have fun with what I have sent in. I haven't made any friends yet here. Although I have met a few people in the ward that I could hang out with. I just have to find a chance to talk to them sometime. This last Sunday we kinda left pretty fast after church got over so I didn't get to speak to anyone. Well there was one lady I talked to in the mother's lounge while I was feeding Robert, but she was just visiting family so I guess I won't be seeing her. Hopefully next week will be better. We won't have the combined meeting with the men for the 3rd hour so I'll have a better chance to talk to some of the women during Relief Society.

I also realized that I am writing in a journal. It's just not how I would usually do it. It's here in my blog, instead of a paper journal. I think that's why I love blogging so much, because it is a journal for me. I haven't written in my journal regularly for a long time and I miss it. I just don't seem to have the time to write everyday. I write so slow and usually write pretty lengthy entries and I just don't have the time for that. Well I suppose I do but this is so much easier and prettier than my handwriting. Plus my journal is still packed away somewhere in a box that I need to unpack. Speaking of unpacking I finally am starting to feel ready to unpack all the way. I haven't been able to decorate (not that I have anything to really decorate with) and make it feel like home because I've been getting used to it and it has only recently begun to feel real and permanent not temporary. We finally got blinds for the sliding door to the back yard! Wohoo! Windows at night freak me out usually so it's nice to have something there I forgot to close them tonight tho. Oh well, I guess I should do that then. Well that's about it for now I think. See you tomorrow hopefully with more on the crawling and tooth.

Peaches!

So it has been 4 days or so since we started carrots and we've had no problems. New kind of poop compared to what we're used too, but hey that's what real food will do to ya! lol Anyway so we decided to try another food! PEACHES!!! Yay for more options! Hopefully all goes well with the new food. He wasn't sure if he liked them or not. I'll probably try them again later today. He'd already had some carrots when I tried it. Here's some pics. Got a couple good ones and that's about it.

He looks so weird because the flash was bright.

Looking at the jar

Om nom nom nom!

No more Mom!!

Sadly we didn't get any all over the face messy ones we didn't get that far today. Maybe we'll have some later!

Our New Ward

So today we went to our new ward for the first time (our congregation for church). It was great. There is only one ward in Hansen. Before we went I was wondering if the ward would be small or big (since there is only one). I was hoping it would be small. I like small. I LOVE small. At least when it comes to people. The song "Little Bitty" by Alan Jackson pretty much describes what I like. Except I like a big yard. But I love little towns and little wards and that kinda thing.

So what size is our ward? SMALL!!! : ) I was very excited about this. It's probably the same size as 3rd Ward in Mountain Home or close to it. I'm excited. I function much better in smaller groups. Everyone was very friendly. We feel at home there. And guess what?! I see quite a few ladies that could be potential friends!! How exciting. Let's just hope I keep up the courage to step out and make friends with them. I'm excited. Relief Society was great. And I actually got to stay in all of it! Woot!!!! Well that's it for now : )

Oh how about a song : ) It's "Little Bitty" by Alan Jackson. I just had to do it after talking about it : )

Little Bitty

Sorry I couldn't figure out how to put the video on here so you just have to click the link if you wanna see it!   : D

CARROTS!!!

So we have started solids. I'm kinda sad I can't just start giving him all sorts of different flavored baby food. But alas, I must wait the allotted 3-4 days so I can know if he has allergy to anything. We already know he loves rice cereal which I tried to show off with an ultra cute video but it didn't feel like loading so you're all just out of luck! So the first food we are doing is carrots! Here is a sample :-) I'm pretty sure he likes them. Oh and it sure makes his poop really interesting compared to just mommy's milk (or cream as some of you like to say)!!

He's looking at the jar thinking, "give me that now!!"

Mommy you and your spoon are silly!

Om nom nom nom! *burp*

I can't wait for what we can try next!