Quoth the Raven "Nevermore"

Well life has definitely settled in here. We are well into the daily grind of life, which I must admit can sometimes be very boring. Fortunately we've had some really great weather and have been able to spend a good portion of it outside on the new park they put in by our house.

Steve and I now both officially have callings. He is the Elders Quorum secretary and I am... Beehive advisor. For those of you who are wondering, yes, this is the same calling I had in my last ward. Apparently I didn't learn enough. I am SO excited to be working with the Young Women again though, I really love serving the youth. They also asked us both to speak on Sunday, so we've been feverishly coming up with talks (and for me a talk and a lesson).

Another exciting and momentous occasion happened this week. Steve drove to Oregon to take the last part of the boards, which (assuming he passed, which I'm sure he did) marks the very last test he will ever have to take. Considering the years that he has spent in school and the numerous tests he has taken, this is a HUGE milestone and we are thrilled to be done with it.

When he came home he was sick, probably from the hours of studying and driving and the lack of sleep, but he is doing well now and is working really hard on his website (it is a very time consuming and computer consuming project).

I have finished a few projects too! The never ending rag quilt that I was working on for baby girl is finally done. I don't think I'll ever make another one. It was very easy to do, but my hands never want to hold another pair of scissors again.

I also made this Family Home Evening Chart (I still have to do the tags with our names on them). I thought it turned out pretty cute considering the amount of craftiness I was genetically bestowed. We'll see how it looks when it is finally hanging on the wall... hopefully it will be a good reminder to have FHE :)

Ethan picked up some new tricks this week. My favorite is that he has started singing along to songs. He mysteriously knows all of the words to "Once there was a Snowman" and it is probably his favorite right now. I have tried to capture it on video, but without any success yet. I'll post a video when I get one. He had his friend Skye over the other day and was very protective of his red ball. The green ball was for Skye and the red ball was his and there was a serious melt down if ever the colors got switched. He is also very serious about the color of shirt he wears every day. Some days he wants red, some days blue, some days green, but if ever I try to trick him because the red shirt is dirty then I can expect some protesting. What a funny, color conscious boy. I can't believe he isn't a baby anymore. *sigh* Two years goes by way to fast.

Steve is Great!

Steve has been hard at work putting together a website for the office he works for. You should check out his webpage at http://www.canyonspringschiropractic.com/. If you want to help move his webpage up in the search engine's results you can link his webpage to your blogs or webpages, that way when people search for a Chiropractor in Twin Falls it will come up on the first page instead of the fiftieth (or wherever it is :). Also, I've put a link to it on the side of our blog so that you can see all of his hard work whenever you feel the urge ;)

Visit from Grandma and Grandpa

This week was a pretty mundane week. All week long Ethan was excited for Grandma and Grandpa to come visit. We had a wonderful visit. They came Friday evening and brought a ton of food storage for us. I thought I would post a picture of the shelves in our garage, because they are our first ever food storage shelves. She brought us canned tomatoes and applesauce and grape juice, we are so lucky to have such a wonderful grandma to do this for us!
Saturday we spent the day playing. We went back to the Hydroproject to have some fun. We had such a great time, and Ethan loved playing with the Cat tail and in the leaves. Fall is such a great time of year.

Sunday we went to church and had dinner and then the grandparents had to say goodbye. Ethan was not happy about that, and he is still telling me that things in our house are grandma's or grandpa's. Luckily we'll get to see family one more time for Thanksgiving.

Super Halloween!

Here is our little superman trying on his Halloween costume. We tried it on earlier in the day to make sure that he would wear it. He loved it and didn't want to take it off. We also made pumpkin sugar cookies to decorate, but it turns out that he didn't want to decorate them, he wanted to eat them! We went to our ward Trunk-er-Treat. Ethan loved it. He went around to any adult he could find and held up his bucket to them with eyes just begging for candy. When we ran out of candy then he started begging for my doughnut. He's a sugarholic. When we got home that night he was bouncing off of the walls and it took him forever to go to bed.

There's nothing like counting candy for a little learning experience.

Another thing we did this week was have an ultrasound done. I haven't ever had one done this late in the pregnancy. I was measuring a little small so they just wanted to make sure that everything was growing like it was supposed to. This is a picture of baby girl's face. Think she will look just like me or what?? haha. Anyway, they said that you think they would be able to see more later on, but because baby is so squished in there it is harder to see anything. She had her face squashed into the placenta the whole time and this is the best picture they could get. I'm sure she'll be much cuter when she comes :) They also said that she weighs 3lbs 6oz right now... how they figure that I'll never know, I just know she feels heavier than that. Either way we're down to the single digit weeks countdown. 8 to go! One last thing we did this week. We finally got to watch the base jumpers going off of the bridge. We drove into Twin to do some shopping and take a walk along the rim trail. Just as we started walking there were four guys up on the bridge getting ready to jump, so we stopped to watch. Ethan kept saying "more jump more jump!" He loved it. Hopefully he won't ever try it. The video on our phone didn't work out, so here's a Youtube video that shows what it looks like.