Crawling is for babies

As many of you know Ethan has never been able to crawl. He just bum scoots to get around. He is very clever at figuring out his own way to do things! I was concerned that he would never learn to walk because he couldn't get from sitting to standing. However much to my relief, a couple weeks ago he started full out walking. Here is a video of him bum scooting at Christmas time because it's just so cute and one of him walking! Aaron posted another video of Ethan walking on his facebook page so you can check that out too if you want.

While in Utah....

Aaron accepted a job at L3 in Greenville, Texas, which is about 30 miles outside of Dallas. We will be probably be living in Rockwall (pictured above) because Greenville is ghetto. Rockwall is about 10 miles from Greenville. Rockwall is built on the shore of a lake and is beautiful! We will be moving there in May and staying until January then we will move back to College Station for Aaron to finish his last semester of his masters degree. In May 2010 we will move to Rockwall to stay. Aaron was originally just looking for an internship this summer but L3 doesn't do internships so they just wanted him to start up and then take time off next year to finish up school. We thought we would end up in Utah after Aaron finished school but staying in Texas seems like the right place for our family to be now. I love the weather and the southern hospitality. We will ofcourse miss living close to our family and friends. We had so much fun going to family parties and friend gatherings while in Utah. Now we will have to bribe them to visit or even move here!

It's about time......

Ethan's 1st Birthday which happened to be on Thanksgiving.
He loved his puppy dog cake!

Aggie school spirit

Aaron and I found a monkey at the
Trunk or Treat!

We'll be seeing all ya Utah folks in 2 days!! We can't wait!

Yea for Visitors!!!

My parents and little brother came to visit us last weekend. It was great to see them and show them around College Station. We didn't have time to do a lot because they were only here for 2 1/2 days. However, we did do a few things like go on a tour of the Texas A&M campus and visit the George H. Bush Presidential Library. I had never been to a Presidential Library before last weekend and I thought it was great! I was hoping I'd run into Pres. Bush Sr. because he apparently hangs out around his library but unfortunately I didn't. Maybe next time!
Ethan was scared of my family at first but he warmed up quickly. He kept on looking at them funny and you could tell he was thinking what are they still doing here. And then....before we knew it it was time for them to go. :( But we just bought tickets to go home for Christmas on December 10th for a whole month so we will see them and more family in less than 2 months!

Politics Schmolitics? I think not!

Something very strange has happened recently!
Aaron has become interested in politics. This is very big for those of you who don't know him. He has never registered to vote and has never really cared to. I on the other hand have always liked to be up to date with happenings in the political world and I always vote. I'm certain my interest in it is because of my parents. I remember many a times my family having political discussions. Sometimes they were pretty heated considering one of my parents is a Democrat and the other Republican. From what Aaron tells me his family is quite the opposite of mine when it comes to politics.
So, you can imagine how surprised I was when Aaron watched the WHOLE Presidential debate a couple weeks ago and then again on Thursday when he watched the WHOLE VP debate. (Poopy that The Office wasn't on because of it. We were very disappointed!) I thought I couldn't be any more prouder of my hubby until he told me that he thinks he better vote this year! Aaron I love you and you will never stop surprising me!

Happy Baby!!!

I've been meaning to post this for awhile but our internet here hasn't been working too well. This is a video of Ethan giggling. He is such a happy baby most of the time. He has the funniest laugh! He gets especially punchy late at night which is when this video was taken.

Last night hurricane Ike arrived here in College Station. It has been raining a lot and really windy since then. Luckily our power only went out for an hour. Hopefully it won't go out again with all the flooding that is sure to occur. Today has been pretty boring because a lot of the stores are closed and boarded up. I had to get out so we went to the mall but it wasn't open either. Before the hurricane arrived the grocery stores were crazy. Everyone was stocking up on food and water and several shelves were empty. About 3,000 evacuees are here from Houston. Some are staying at our church. I'm just happy that the worst is over. Hmmmm.... Funny thing-Before we got the hurricane news I was actually thinking about visiting Houston and Galveston this weekend. Good thing we didn't!

Howdy

Well, we made it here safe and sound with a pretty uneventful trip. When we first walked into our apartment our first thoughts were, "Ghetto!" but now that we have everything set up it definitely feels like home. There are a lot of broken things and carpet stains but we don't really notice them anymore. The day after we got here Aaron ran into our next door neighbors. They are a young couple who are also LDS and he is a grad student at A&M too! They also have a little boy who is almost a year old! This discovery made me super happy and was an answer to my prayers. They told us that they were the only members in this area until we moved in.
And even more good news: We found out that Aaron got a full tuition scholarship!!!! We were planning on taking out student loans so this is a super great blessing for us.
Aaron found a little lizard in our apartment while he was shutting the window and he accidentally cut the lizard's tail off in the window. Luckily we were able to catch it quickly but the tail is still on our window sill and I'm trying to make Aaron dispose of it. In the past two weeks we have seen a lot of bugs we have never seen before. There are a lot of toads too. They just jump out at us when we go on walks.
It is super hot here. Temperature wise it's about the same as Utah but the humidity is deathly. Whenever we go outside we get super sweaty. Poor Ethan cries whenever we get in the car because it feels like an oven.
Well, that's all for today.