Sitting

Well, Johnny Boy is sitting up over here nowadays. He's doesn't seem like a baby anymore . . . It went by fast. He wants to crawl, but can't yet and that's frustrating for him, but he's working on it. We need a while longer before that starts happening because we haven't baby proofed our house yet.
Spring is on it's way and that's just what I need!
I'm getting antsy to move, but we've got a while before that happens, so instead we're going to repaint some bedrooms and redo our bathroom. We want to stay in this house as long as we can, so we'll just turn this into a home sweet home instead.

I've put working on a poem I wrote a long time ago. I was thinking about it and decided that it would make a good gift book with the pretty pictures. So I'm going to submit it to a publisher! Three actually. I'm sending it into Deseret Books in the next few days and then if they say no, I've got two others I'm going to try. It's pretty exciting. I don't know how hopeful I'm feeling because it said on their author guidelines that they generally don't accept poetry, but I'm going to try to pass it of as a short story that happens to rhyme. We'll see.

Blake's doing well. Work is going along for him. Nothing new there.

Meanwhile, we're just plugging away here having a ball.

Our hometeachers always ask what's new and what they can do for us and every time we have nothing to say. We've settled into a nice routine where life is nice and organized.

I'm working on a few different projects and that's been keeping me busy. As we get closer to repainting I'll post some before and after pictures.

Johnny is Funny

Nothing new here - Just a few videos to share.
We're all doing great. I'm so ready for Spring, but other than that, no complaints.
Blake is just working away, Johnny and I hold down the fort here, and the dog spends her days napping on the couch.

Or in the rocking chair.

Actually, I couldn't get the videos on here. They're on Facebook though, or I'll come back in a little while to figure it out.

Updates

Sometimes I spend all my free time reading other people's blogs instead of updating mine . . .

Things here are going great. Johnny has started solid foods and loves it! It's fun to feed him and he makes such a cute mess (I wonder how long I will think that )
On Monday Johnny will be four months and has his next doctor's appointment. I don't even have a guess as to how much he weighs. He's getting pretty big, though. He's got two cousins who are two months younger than him and he towers over them.
We went to a Superbowl party with Blake's family and that was good - I didn't watch any of the game, but we had fun.
I took the GRE and that went really well. Three long hard weeks of studying did not go to waste. The plan is for graduate school starting summer of 2012.
Other than that things are pretty quiet. Johnny's a good sleeper at night, but naps during the day are treasures that are rarely seen, but we have a fun time just hanging out.
I'm sure there are more updates, I just can't think of them right now. I was up quite a bit last night . . . The doggie door in our bedroom usually does a great job of staying shut, but it was windy last night and it blew the door right open and the wind right into our room so it made for a long, chilly night.