Summer starts

So it looks like summer is just around the corner. It was pretty warm here today, upper 90's, and it hit 100 yesterday. Oh well, you can't have everything can you? This is a picture of our back yard. We still haven't had a chance to mess with the fountain to see if it actually works though. Yes, I am dragging out sending out pictures of the new place.

Things have been pretty good recently. Shawn had a bit of a cold the last few days, but nothing too major. Ezra has cut a tooth, though it hasn't really pushed out completely so we can't really get a picture of it. He's been eating more and more. He has decided that he LOVES apple juice, and can't get enough of it. He's fun to play with, and he smiles quite a bit.


We put up our tent for the first time tonight; we figured that we should have at least set it up once before we go on vacation this summer. This year has gone so quickly, its already the end of April almost!




Ezra started playing with some cloth boxes that we put some of his toys in. He managed to get kind of stuck in one of them today.


He likes to stick his tongue out and play with it. He makes a "la la la la"sort of sound as he wags his tongue back and forth, its cute.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone. Hope you had a good one.


So this is the face that Ezra gave Susan on Saturday when she asked him if he wanted to go shopping. Already decided that he doesn't care for it I guess. Either that, or its just because we've been out a lot, getting little things and whatnot.

Ezra has started climbing on EVERYTHING. I'm surprised he hasn't taken any worse spills than he has.

We've gotten quite a bit more settled. We got some new couches for our living room (kind of long over-due, we've been talking about it for months and months). That was a long day. We went to 5 stores and despite everything, most of the salespeople were less than helpful, the same "well that's the price it is" story. The last place that we went, the couches were on sale and then the salesman got us another $100 off without us even really asking too much. It was nice. (The couches are in the last picture of this post).

Ezra got a new shirt for Easter, and Susan got a new dress. She was happy because it was one that she had seen earlier, but hadn't bought, and it was on sale for 1/2 off.


Yay for new Easter clothes!

Ezra got some toys in his Easter basket (the bunny is the basket). He was happy. Who doesn't like new toys?


Ezra also got a hat from grandma, which he didn't leave on for very long. He doesn't seem to like having things on his head for whatever reason. Guess some people just aren't hat people.

We went to both our new ward's sacrament meeting and the one at our old ward. The new ward will be quite a change for us it looks like , but it should be good. Ezra missed his morning nap though, which made things interesting. It was kind of bitter-sweet going to our old ward. We're going to miss all of the friends that we've made. We both had gotten to the point where we knew a decent amount of people fairly well. Oh well, the new place makes up for it, and this gives us the chance to meet more people.

After we got home and had lunch we all just took a nap for a while. It was nice just to rest. Ezra slept for like 3 hours.


We had a nice dinner. Breaking from tradition, we didn't have ham. The main reason was that we couldn't see what we'd do with that much ham between just the two of us. We had a roasted chicken instead. It was a really good meal though, and worth all of the dishes.

Not me, I'm not teething!!!

So we got everything moved. It was quite the week of moving everything. We were all so tired by the time that evening came, but it has all worked out. A big thanks to our friend Garrin for coming over and helping us move the furniture. We're still in the unpacking stage of things, but almost done with that. We'll put up pictures of the house when we've got it to a respectable condition, which should be soon.

It has been a bit of an adjustment having stairs, but all in all, it has been really nice to be in a house instead of an apartment. It's a lot quieter, and the neighborhood is nice. The house is a lot nicer than our apartment ever could have been. It's still weird to think that we're paying less each month in rent than we were for our apartment.


Ezra has adjusted pretty well. He likes having all the extra room to play in. He's been chewing on everything recently. See!


He's been pulling himself up onto everything, and has figured out how to get down without just flinging himself off of whatever he is holding on to or just letting go. He should probably start walking soon. Every now and then when he is holding on to you, you'll notice that he isn't using you to hold any weight at all, and is in fact standing by himself, but just doesn't realize it.


He has learned how to wave his hand at people; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to tell you that he wants something. He's been growling a lot too. Its really cute.

He's our good little eater. He eats anything you put in front of him. He always has to eat when he sees us eating.


He's figured out how to play peek-a-boo with a blanket, and seems to like to cover himself up and then pull the blanket away and laugh.

We've noticed that whenever it gets really quiet, you start to worry. (you can normally hear Ezra banging around on the tile floor) Today, Susan went after him when it got quiet, and this is what she found: