Moving and family updates!

Life has been sooo busy lately! We've sent in all the paperwork needed for our home as of the beginning of this week and are just waiting for the final OK. We are hoping that we can close on Friday and start moving in. I really should be packing right now but needed a break :).
I was starting to worry a little about Josh not walking yet, especially since Evan was walking at like 11 months but he finally started walking on his own the night before Thanksgiving! He had been walking all over the apartment for quite a while with this ride-on toy and toy stroller we have. He was so proud of himself, It was soo fun to watch him! We were at my moms house when he did it so we got it recorded on their nice new camera, I will try and post a clip of it soon! Anyway he is walking everywhere now and is doing so well.
Evan gave himself his first black eye. He was standing near the table and started to throw a tantrum and he threw his head forward and hit the table. I thought that he had just bumped his forehead and not very hard so I was like well that's what you get for throwing a tantrum, maybe next time you won't do that! anyway he kept crying so i picked him up and he had this HUGE goose bump right next to his eye. Oh, I felt sooo bad and like such a mean mom for not being sympathetic at first! The swelling has gone away and it is now just a lovely bluish purple color. Evan got a thing with mine right now and says it to everyone. If we are at the store and someone glances at him he yell something like "No, my cart!" or "No, my mom!". It's starting to get pretty annoying and embarrassing! Any advice on getting him to stop this? other than that Evan is doing well and is excited to move to the new house. Although I'm not entirely sure he understands what that entails.
Lars and I are doing well. It was so nice to have a night away last weekend! I think it really refreshed us both. I have basically all the Christmas stuff bought. I'm excited to decorate and not have to worry about what i still need to buy! Speaking of decorating I've stumbled onto some cool decorating blogs and I'm really excited to start decorating our house. I'll link them to my blog when I figure out how to do it. I'm bummed about not having the Internet but we just won't be able to afford it for a little while with Lars hours getting cut. I think it will be good for me though because I waste to much time on the computer, it's like an addiction for me! Maybe I'll be able to focus more on decorating and music. I'm starting to really miss being more involved in music. I would be sooo excited to find a good deal on a piano!
Lars is taking three classes this semester on top of working full time and he is so ready to be done. he's always so worn out by the end of the week. I've been so impressed with his paintings from his painting class. I'll try to post pics. sometime. I wasn't really thrilled about the last one(a woman in a bikini laying on a table) but actually liked it to when I saw it. Although I have jokingly told him that he can't go to a University after this because of the nude drawing or painting classes! I know there's nothing to it but it sure is hard to not feel a little jealous about him looking at other girls. By the way i wouldn't really stop him from continuing his education, I just might be a tad grumpy when he took those classes! He's enjoying his ceramics class a lot. He's also excited about doing the landscaping at our house this spring.
Well hopefully my next post will have Pics of our new home! I better get back to packing.
P.S. please excuse the typos, I'm in a hurry to get back to packing :)

Kid Pictures

Here are some fairly recent pics of the kids.

Evan has been rather difficult lately about taking naps even though he obviously still needs one! It was about 7 pm last night I was washing dishes and I looked up at Evan and he had fallen asleep in the middle of coloring! we thought it was funny and had to take a picture before we picked him up.

These pics are from a few weeks ago and aren't really the best but i thought i would share them anyway. He had just figured out how to get on and off his toy by himself and he was so excited and proud of himself!!

well I can't figure out how to rotate these photos so I guess you will just have to look at them sideways. these are just some pictures of Josh from this summer. his looks have really changed since . I will try and update again soon with Halloween pictures.

House Pictures

I FINALLY got my pictures downloaded! I was going through them and there are a ton that I want to share but since I don't have a ton of time I'll just post some pictures of our house and some fairly recent pictures of the kids, enjoy!

The siding supposed to be a sage green but it kind of looks a little gray in these pics.

This is from when we were prepping to paint. I told Lars that if we ever build again that we should just let the professionals do the painting! it was a LOT of work. Thankfully my Grandma and Grandpa Nelson were absolutely amazing and helped us a TON, I think it would have taken us twice as long without their help.

These are just a couple picture of what will probably be Evans Bedroom

Need I say more?? I am SO excited to use this tub!! (after I clean it of course, it looks rather dirty in this picture)

The house is starting to look a lot more livable now. They put in the vinyl and closet systems last week and they got all the cabinetry put in this week and they will be putting carpet in next Monday! Yay! I will try to take more pictures this weekend when we paint the colors in the kids rooms. Although we are not looking forward to the process of moving and having a higher payment I think it will be worth it, we are so excited to be in a house and have more space.

Update

Ok, so I started this with the intention of keeping up with it but that obviously didn't happen! hopefully this time I will actually keep up with it though. The kids and I kept busy this summer playing outside and gardening. We were able to freeze a whole bunch of green beans, peas, carrots, and apple pie and crisp filling. we also canned some salsa and peaches. I would have liked to do a little more canning but oh well, maybe next year.
Also for those of you that don't know we're buying a house!! I'm so excited. It is 3bedroom, 2 bath and 1,410 sq. ft. We are so excited to have more space! Lars is excited to do the landscaping and I'm excited to paint and decorate. we should be moving by the end of November. I think I've finally figured out how I will paint the kids rooms. I'm thinking that in Joshua's room I'll paint the bottom half of the wall brown and the top half the room will either be a baby blue or white with blue wall hangings and stuff. In Evans room I'm thinking I'll do the same thing except with red on bottom, white on top, and something navy blue separating the colors. he has a lot red, blue, and yellow things so I thought that would look good. I will hopefully post some pictures this weekend once I get them downloaded of the house, joshua's b-day, our trip to Downata Hot Springs this summer.

Trip to Downey

Well, I had a whole post written but being the inexperienced blogger that I am I accidently erased the whole thing trying to take out a picture. I wanted to take the one of me out this time but I don't want to risk erasing everything again so I guess you will just have to look at my scary pic :). These are just a couple pics of the kids from the birthday party for grandma Lena about a month ago. The elk antler painting is by Lars. He was asked to paint it a long time ago so he figured he better get it done. I thought it turned out great and had to show it off! It's getting late here so I will write more another time

-Rachel