Welcome Home

If you walk in our front door to the left this is our living roomThe living room from behind the couch. Keep traveling to the right and there is our dining room. These are shelves that are in between the dining room and living room.The kitchen coming in from the right.Coming into the kitchen from the dining room. Shelves in the kitchen.The upstairs bathroom. Corner facing toilet. Awesome no?Inset mirror.

I forgot to take a picture of the upstairs bedroom but that will have to wait till later. Downstairs to come later too.

There Was A Man That Was Killing His Neighbors Trees, And Now I Know Why.

The trees are pretty in Utah. We didn't really have trees in Vegas. We had a palm tree but that is nothing in comparison. One of the things that we liked about this house was the big tree in the front yard. We came to find out it is a horse chestnut tree. Lovely. Cleaning up the leaves and chestnuts out of the grass...not so much. When it was all said and done we had 20+ bags. We paid the kids a penny a chestnut to pick up the nuts out of the grass. With their money Gavin got a batman toy and Laney got a barbie.

Another funny thing about our house is the dishwasher. It hooks up to the kitchen sink. It doesn't bother us too much. We are just glad that we don't have to wash dishes by hand.

Shame On You Pottery Barn

I don't know what it is? Perhaps Blake and I are crude and think strange things are funny. Such as...

The other day we were in Pottery Barn Kids with the kids. I was looking around while the kids played with a doll house and Blake watched them. When I can back to where they were Blake says

"Uh. So...uh, what is with the anatomically correct doll?"

I laughed. I cried. I took a picture. And then I laughed some more.

And There You Have It

Since moving into our new house Canon hasn't been able to sneek cereal out of the cupboard.

Some other points of interest:

I got strep throat. Again.

Canon went to a ears, nose and throat specialist. They are going to put tubes in his ears.

Almost all of our stuff is put away.

We got new callings in our ward. We are teaching the 12 & 13 year olds.

We are giving talks this Sunday.

Just A Week

We moved into the new house.

We are surrounded by boxes.

I may make a fort.

See you in a week.

The Wait Is Over

Happy Halloween!

I loved our Halloween costumes this year. I made mine, part of Blake's and Canon's. When my mom was here she helped me figure out what to do with the Grimus face. She also pretty much revamped the pattern on my Ronald costume.

I am quite proud of our McDonalds family.

Pumpkin Patch

Back Tracking

When we were in California we went to the Long Beach aquarium. I had strep throat so I wasn't feeling so hot. I also had just lost my cell phone the day before so I was bummed and not looking forward to spending money on a new phone. Going to the aquarium, for me, did not sound like a super fun time. But in the end, we had a really good time. Canon spent most of the time at the aquarium climbing stairs. He didn't really care about the fish. But let me tell you cement stairs were the "it".

It was a good day.

Things That Happened This Last Week:

• Blake left for a week to go to California for FEMA training.
• My Mom came to help. I was quite the slave driver while she was here.
• We have moved most of our stuff to the new house. We also repainted some rooms and cleaned.
• We had rocking costumes for Halloween. At this point you are just going to have to believe me because Blake packed our camera cord away and we don't know where it is.

Things that we are doing this week:

• Finish packing up our stuff and move in.
• Try to catch up on blogging...maybe.
• Take Canon to the doctor. This is his 4th ruptured ear drum.
• Try to have some kind of semblance of normalcy at our house.

on a side note: I lost my cell phone while at Disneyland. I have lost every ones phone numbers. So if I should have your number please email it to me or I will never be able to call you again. Sad for you, I know. Oh, I got a new phone and it is still the same number.

My email is hunguren(@)hotmail(dot)com.

Rainbow Connection Powered By Duracell

Gavin: "I see the rainbow."
Laney: "Jesus turned it on."
Gavin: "Oh no! Where is it going?"
Laney: "He turned it off."
Gavin: "Yeah the batteries are dead so he turned it off so he could charge them."
Laney: "Yes. He needs to charge them."

Tuesday Toilet Musings

We went to the "new house" to do some cleaning prior to moving in.

As I was scrubbing the shower, that had an obscene amount of soap scum in it, I had some deep thoughts. Why oh why would anyone think that blue toilet water is a good idea? I understand that putting a tablet in the toilet is good for helping it stay clean. I don't understand the blue. It makes it so that you can't really see if the toilet is clean, leading me to believe it is not. If you cleaned it regularly would you really need a blue tablet to prove it? Furthermore when you pee in a blue toilet it makes the water turn green. I am sorry but in no place is green pee good. I would also like to pose the question, "Are we on an airplane or living in the 80's?" If you were the previous tenants and are in fact "living in the 80's" than I am sorry. Not only for your need to put teal blue in places that they don't belong but also for the fact that you most likely have 80's hair and probably have hammer pants in many colors. Which makes me want to bust out in "Can't touch this."

You know that you are singing it too.

Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh can't touch this. Music hits me so hard....

We Like To Rub Happy In Your Face

Our trip to Disneyland was great. It was a much needed vacation and we got to spend time with our family. We went a week before Laney's birthday so she was under the impression this was her birthday party. (I know...best parents ever.)They decorate it so cute for Halloween. I want to figure out a way to make my own candy corn. The wheels are already turning.
Laney spent the majority of the time like this. She loves Grandpa. I am pretty sure the feeling is mutual. We did a lot of pin trading.

"We are the Grasshoppers where's our food?" Who knew that bug glasses could be so fashionable?All the cousins. They may not all be looking at the camera but they are all together. Believe me when I say that Gavin and Laney had the best time with Porter, Tyler and Blake. Even though you can't tell from this picture Laney was giddy as a school girl to be able to see one of the princesses. Gavin was pretty thrilled too.

The Big 3

Laney came into this world with an opinion. She has an opinion about what she wears, how her hair is done, what she eats, how she eats it, how her blankets are placed on her at night, how the day should go, how we should do certain things, what toys belong to her and what ones other people should or should not be playing with, how much water she should get to have before bed and what order people should use the bathroom at night. Sometimes this little girl makes me crazy. But I will tell you something, all her personality makes her that much more entertaining to live with. For her birthday cereal she choose Honey Comb. She also requested pink cupcakes with sprinkles. Check and check.Everyone enjoyed them.

For a little after birthday celebration we went to go get pumpkins from the pumpkin patch.

Blob

I can't get myself to do a post. I have lots of stuff to talk about and no motivation to do it.

Laney's birthday was today...more of that later.

In other news we are going to be moving in to this house soon.

See. I have all sorts of things to talk about and no energy to do it.

Actually I guess this post means I have a little energy.

More tomorrow.

I am going to drink some caffeine.

I am sure there will be some sad times...But it is still the happiest place on earth.

Disney Land here we come!