Very Boring...

To sum up the most of the last week, I will quote a portion of a poem that I learned in 4th grade at Bonneville Elementary School...

Today is very boring,
It's a very boring day,
There's nothing much to look at,
There's nothing much to say.

There's a peacock on my sneakers
There's a penguin on my head
There's a doormouse on my doorstep
I'm going back to bed...

And so on. Most of this week was very boring except a few points. First, I went for a walk/hike on Tuesday with Doren, a friend from church, at Reedy Creek park and Nature Preserve. It was nice to be outside (except the large amounts of pollen in the air) and the park was really nice (at least the 1 mile trail we took). Wednesday and Thursday nights Joe went Home Teaching with Steve (Doren's husband) while Karen and I sat at home without him ;( However, we're planning to picnic with Doren and Steve as well as a couple other families in the ward during the breaks at Conference on Saturday and Sunday and party with the girls during Priesthood session. Karen's new food for the week is peas, and she really seems to like them-though not as much as she likes the pears from last week. Here are a couple pictures of Karen that I was going to add last week but forgot.

Two Weeks

Well, the past two weeks have been fairly uneventful. The only really exciting things that have happened are...

1. Karen has started solid food and loves her pears while enduring her rice cereal. The only bad part about the food is that she had a slight allergic reaction to the formula we were mixing the cereal with. Not good, but hopefully it's not a really bad thing...only time will tell.

2. Karen has started rolling over. Usually this happens only on my lap, but the other day she did it on the floor, which is good progress. She still hates being on her tummy, but it is still progress. She also holds her rattle or other small toy, but tends to hit herself in the head and get frustrated with it all. We also got her shots last week, which was not very fun. She was upset for a few days but then back to normal.

Other than that it has been life as normal around here. Not much is going on and we're just doing the school/home thing. We're looking forward to Conference in a couple weeks and wish we could watch more BYU football games!

The Visit

Last weekend was really great. We went to visit Jamie and Tom Stansfield in Buena Vista, Virginia. It was a fun day or two, for the most part. We left on Saturday morning, and arrived around noon. After lunch we called the fam in Utah at their big Labor Day get-together. Then we took our tour of Southern Virginia University, which took all of about 15 minutes. It's a really nice campus, but very small. Then we just visited, had pizza for dinner, watched a movie, played with babies, and all that fun stuff. Sunday morning Tom made great pancakes for breakfast and we sat around until church at 1:30. After Sacrament Meeting we thought it would be good to start on home so Joe could spend Monday on school stuff. So, we took off on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Not the most quick way to go, but it was fun to be up in the mountains again for a while. It was a nice trip, with quite a bit of relaxing and non-stress environments...it was fun to get away for a day or so.

The rest of the week was pretty boring. Cleaning, changing diapers, etc. It's been pretty boring, but that's life. Next week we go for Karen's next round of shots, which will not be fun. Here's a few of the pictures with Karen and Liberty, Jamie's baby who is about 6 weeks younger than Karen. For those of you who started school this week, hope it's going well.

Crazy Weather?!?

Well, this week has been pretty uneventful. Joe went to school/work every day and Karen and I stayed home just chillin'. Which, of course was not really exciting. So, to bring something other than bathroom and kitchen cleaning into this week, I'll talk about the wonderful exciting weather that wasn't.

So, there was this storm called Ernesto that was supposed to be going really close to here. It went by Haiti, over Cuba, across Florida, and then was supposed to hit right into the Carolinas. So while I was at home all week I watched the weather as the storm came closer. As late as Thursday morning they had it supposedly coming through less than 100 miles from here. However, as wonderful as their prediction models are it didn't hit land until it was due east of here, almost 250 miles. Instead of getting upwards of 10 inches of rain in a couple hours, we got 8-9 inches over 3 days, and the flooding they were predicting was nonexistent in our area. North and east of us there was quite a bit of flooding and such, but we missed out.

This weekend we're going up to Virginia to visit my cousin Jamie Stansfield and her family. She also has a baby girl, who happens to be about a month and a half younger than Karen. We're excited to go see some family and compare babies and all that. It should be a good weekend. Luckily we didn't get the big rain, because if we had it would have been more difficult to make this trip. So, while this week's post is really boring next week we should have some way cute pics of two cute babies (of course Karen will be cuter, but I'm not biased in this at all...).

Here are some of the pics I was going to put up last week but it didn't work. Hope ya like them.