The kids

My first ravioli dinner!!! I loved it, can you tell?

I found mom's box of chalk. Happy Halloween?!?

Just playing.

Zeke sometimes gets so frustrated that all he can do is scream. Here is an example.

We got a dog. Her name is BluBell. She is a lab mix. She is about months old and full of energy. Zeke loves to try and play with her and chew on rawhide with her. I think we should just buy Zeke some dog toys because he plays with them more then his own.

BluBell waiting for Zeke to feed her from his try. Something we have tried to stop but Zeke doesn't want to listen.

This is Rosco. I found him in front of our house yesterday looking for food in a neighbors garbage. So I have been trying to find his home. He has no tags and is not chipped. So for now we have two dogs and BluBell is loving it.

They love to play tug with each other. One will grab a sock and take it to the other. Then they will grab on and tug.

The house

So I have been slowly cleaning and getting all the boxes out of the house. Here are the rooms that I have finished. Hopefully soon you can see the rest of the house.

This is the front room. I just rearranged it today we will see how we like it.

Here is the kitchen. Not sure where the dog crate is going to go exactly but it his here for now.

This is Zeke's room. It is really plain right now. Hopefully soon I can find stuff to decorate with.

This is Zeke's bathroom. I think I am going to add some more color to the curtain.

This is the master bathroom. We need to get more storage for this room sometime. I just love the rugs in the bathrooms. I found them all at Ross.

Pictures!!!

Zeke Loves our coffee table. Its a great jungle gym.

This is Zeke on his first set of wheels (well Thayne's)

We have conquered the Stairs!!!

I am soooo cute

Way tooo cute!

The Entertainment center is another fun lace to climb.

I fell asleep at the Zoo

Showing of some teath

The petting zoo at the Zoo only had goats but we had fun anyway.

Ok ok ok here is an update

So much for the weekly posts. We have moved into our new house. There was a little bit of trouble before closing and we were not sure everything was going to work out but it did. :) My mom and dad drove all of our stuff that was still in Utah as well as my car. It was a long trip for them but we are sooo grateful they did that for us. THANKS AGAIN. While they were here they were able to unpack the kitchen for me so it made it easier. After that we went site seeing to the Wildlife ranch, the Alamo, River walk, and the Zoo. It was a lot of fun. Since they have left not much more unpacking has been accomplished but I started back on that today and hopefully I can get a lot done this week. The downstairs looks pretty good. I need a few more frames and such; oh and finish painting the table and chairs, I think that is about it. The bottom shelves on our entertainment center are going to stay empty for now cause Zeke pulls everything he can reach off. I hoping to come up with a solution for that, any suggestions?

Matt has had a few days of trainings and things so I have had the opportunity to Substitute his classes. It, for the most part, has been enjoyable. Also it is nice for a little extra income. So we have lived here a few weeks and had neglected our lawn, first of all cause we don't have a mower and second cause we were busy with things inside. So I cut some of the waist high patches of grass with scissors as well as did the edging around the lawn. But when Matt saw me starting to cut the rest of the grass with them he drew the line. I told him that I was proud of being a hick and the neighbors we bound to find out sooner or later. He didn't think that was very funny. LOL. I was able to borrow a mower from the neighbor, actually 2 mowers from 2 neighbors.

Next door is a cute family Bryan, Michelle, Elizabeth who is 3, and hopefully another child in June. Oh and their dog Lilly she is a boxer. Anyway Michelle and I get together at least once a week and go to the library or just hang out at someones house. They offered their mower it is not a gas mower but a hand push mower. I started on the front lawn and the neighbor next to them saw me. His name is Gus and moved here recently from New York and until this moment we had never met or even seen him. He offered his gas mower. I mowed the front with his mower and the back with Bryan and Michelle's mower as to not to use up all of Gus's gas. While I mowed Matt made the neighbors brownies.

We have actually made several treats to take to neighbors since no one has come introduced themselves to us. But we have only met a few of them cause no one is ever home when we go over. Oh well more for us. Bryan and Michelle on the other hand are always there. Each time I go there they say "baking again huh?" or something like that. It is kinda a joke between us now. I am really going to enjoy having them as neighbors.

What else? I have been volunteering at a dog shelter. It is huge they have over 200 dogs and then a ton of cats. I go and walk some of the dogs. I have meet some that I would love to bring home and some that I am glad I only have to walk them. It is sad to see the condition that some of these dogs come to the shelter in. Humans can be so cruel, but then you see wonderful people coming in an adopting some of these animals that you think will never get a home.

So in all we are settling in here in Texas well. We are making friends in the ward and the neighborhood. Slowly getting things for the house. And hoping everything continues to go well.

I know everyone wants to see pictures of the house, and Zeke but I am having problems loading them but I will try again later. Sorry