We Bought A House!

Well, we closed on our home and moved in. We still have junk all over the place and are trying to get it unpacked, but we are here. I don't know how many people Katie has told, but for those of you wondering here are the stats of our home that is way too big.

Bedrooms: 5

Bathrooms: 3

Other rooms: Living, Dining, Kitchen, Breakfast area, den, laundry, game room.

Garage: 2 car attached

Square Footage: way too much (the plan is to grow into this one in the next 5-10 years)

attached are a couple of videos of the home. The first one is the quick version for those of you who are pressed for time.

Just in case that wasn't good enough for you here is the longer version.

Well, we're excited to have our own space now, and feeling more and more permanent every day. My job is going well, and we have some friends and family close by. Katie is due to have the baby on September 18th. We think we have decided on the name Brianna Lynn. Alyssa is pretty excited to have a baby sister. That's about it for a quick update. Hopefully Katie gets on here soon and posts what is going on in more detail.

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there. We recently got the rest of the band for Guitar Hero, and Alyssa loves playing the drums. It kind of reminded me of my own dad, who is constantly drumming on the table, the steering wheel or whatever is around. He played the drums growing up, and has continued to have a good beat. I thought that this video would be a good tribute to him and the joy in drumming that he has apparently passed on to Alyssa.

I know that Katie loves to watch videos of other people's kids, so in case you wanted to hear what Alyssa was actually saying and doing through the video I have added the undubbed version below. If you listen closely you may hear a couple of yells for "Cookie monsa an' Gwova!"(Grover). Enjoy.

-Jesse

It's a ...

Well we seem to have a healthy baby. Since we are moving I wanted to make sure everything was okay so I had my routine ultrasound at 18 weeks. The ultrasound technician recommended that I have another ultrasound when we get to Texas because she couldn't see the heart and lips as well as in a 20 week old baby. I'm due September 18th which matched up exactly with what the ultrasound said. Scroll down to see our next little bundle of joy and to find out what it is.

Face
Foot

Legs

It's a girl! We're excited to have another girl. Jesse says he isn't disappointed at all as long as we eventually have a boy. I just wanted a healthy baby.

What we've been up to

So I've been thinking that I didn't have anything to really post about, but I decided that I should update on what we're up to. I took the pictures off of our camera and found a ton of pictures that made me laugh and that I thought I should post. I guess I should take pictures off the camera more often so I will post more often. Anyway, we're headed out of Provo to Houston in a little over two weeks! We're excited to both be done with school and headed out into the real world. We've been looking at houses more seriously lately (we've been looking at houses for about 8 months) and have been in contact with a realtor which is very exciting. Now we just have to get pre-approved and pack up all our stuff and move it, definitely the not so fun part. Not much else is going on, but when we find a house we'll have to put up some pictures. Here are the pictures from the last two monthsish.

Here is Alyssa in her cute apron and hat getting ready to help mommy cook.Somehow Alyssa got this noodle stuck in her hair.

Jesse's ABC block tower.

Alyssa trying on mommy's shoes.

Reading stories with Grandma May.

Playing Guitar Hero. We got a Wii a few weeks ago.

Alyssa eating ice cream.

Trying to put her pants back on. I'm not sure if you can tell, but they are upside-down.

Tucked in dress.

Pretending to sleep in the laundry basket. She did actually fall asleep like this the other day, but we forgot to take a picture. This is the reinactment.

Alyssa was up playing in her room all by herself. I went up to check on her and this is what I found. She has four or five blankets piled on top of her.

Picture Tag

My friend Kyla tagged me on her blog the other day. It is fun to see what picture it is.
Here are the rules:
1) Choose the fourth folder from wherever you store your pictures on your computer.
2) Choose the fourth picture in that folder.
3) Explain the picture.
4) Tag four people to do the same.
5) No cheating (cropping etc.)

This is a picture of Alyssa when she is about 2 months old just chillin' out on the couch. Man she was a chubby little baby.

I tag anyone who is reading this that wants to do it.

Alyssa Video

Here is some fairly recent video I took of Alyssa, within the last month. It's just a bunch of random stuff, and about 7 minutes, so you may not even want to watch it, but there it is.

Alyssa is 2!

My little girl is already 2. I can't believe how fast time has passed. Alyssa's birthday was over 2 weeks ago and I'm just getting around to posting about it. Alyssa is such a sweet happy girl. She almost always does what she is told. She is very independent and very loving, always giving hugs and kisses. Here are a few pictures of my little girl on her birthday. We had Alyssa's friend Emmalee and her family over for cake and ice cream.

Here she is blowing out her candle. She loves to blow out candles.

Opening Candy Land. Finally a game for her age. She is always trying to get out our games and play them.


Here is the tutu she got from her friend. When she opened it Emmalee's daddy told her it was a hat and immediately she put it on her head. It was pretty hilarious.

Wearing her new tutu. She loves dancing in it. Thanks B* family.

Here she is a couple days later playing with her blocks that she got. I helped start her out, but amazingly she did most of this by herself. She kept saying it's "big and strong". It was so cute, but finally fell over. I love you Alyssa you are such a wonderful daughter.