It's almost ours!

For those of you keeping up, our house was suppose to close on the 23rd of Dec., but it was pushed back till this week. There is no set day, but our attorney is guessing it'll be before New Years. It better be, cause, we have to be out of our apartment by Dec. 31 (Thursday).
We got back last Sunday from Arizona. It was so great to be back home! It felt as if we were still living there and that New York was just a dream, but the 2 weeks passed by quickly and here we are. It's been so wonderful to see so much of Duane this month.






Some of our adventures in AZ...
My brother, Dallin, is always picking on our little brother, David. One evening we were enjoying pumpkin pie when, Dallin sprayed a bowl full of whipped cream and motioned to me that he wanted to throw it in David's face. So, Duane and I played along to set David up. Duane strategically got Davids glasses, Ruth (on the right) has no idea what's going on. it's fun to replay it and watch each person's reaction. David was a great sport about it.


We spent a weekend up at Duane's parents cabin in the mountains. It was nice to play in the snow. Duane pulled Kal around and they both loved it!

Kalvin is trying to give him a hug, but Stratton's not feelin' it...

I laugh so hard every time I see this picture of Kalvin and his cousin, Stratton. What kind of mother let's their child wear something so hideous as what Kalvin's got on?!

Can't leave the snow without making a little man.

No making fun of our sad looking snowman. It was the best I could do with a big baby attached to my front side.

Downtown Show Low has a beautiful light display and we were able to walk around.

This is actually a Realestate office, I believe.

Kal singing with the Carolers.

The Mesa, Arizona Temple has such a beautiful display of lights, we went for a program by some random Junior High School (that should have sang about half the songs they did) and then enjoyed walking around looking at the lights.

Tristen always gets so giddy with chilly weather.


Back in New York now, once we found out we weren't going to be closing on our house before Christmas, we decided to set up a fake tree Duane found for $20 and some lights on our kitchen table.

Oh yeah! One more thing, I decided on the 23rd of Dec. that I was going to start potty training Kal for real. I told him I threw all his diapers and as far as he knows they are all gone. The first 2.5 days was hard for both of us. Lots of accidents, but by the night of the second day, he ran into the bathroom all by himself and did it all on his own without even telling us and the rest is history. Tonight he actually refused to wear his "night-time" underwear (pull-ups) to bed so we put him in his big boy underwear.

Well, I'm out, this migraine has almost completely taken over my thinking ability.