It has been a busy few weeks. I was just put into the Young Women's Presidency in my ward as Secretary. We settled the deal with our totaled car and we will get a whopping $935 for it. So... I am out of a car for a while because we can't afford another car payment right now. Hopefully we will get enough for our tax returns to figure something out.

Ethan is crawling faster than ever and is not pulling himself up. He will try to pull on anything in sight. Including my drawstring pants that come down at the slightest tug. This is a picture of him at our front window. He just loves to stand there and watch the cars drive by. He will pound on the window and stomp his feet in delight every time one comes by. We took him into the doctor the other day and he is a healthy 20 lb. 9.5 oz. little/big boy. He is 30 inches tall which just makes his Papa so happy. Ya know, Jacob is hoping that Ethan takes after my height, not his. We went to my Mom's today for Sunday dinner just like we do every Sunday and made Ethan some sweet pajama pants. Do you guys remember those awful purple and black plaid things my mom used to wear. Well be thankful that she is not wearing them anymore. Now Ethan is. Strictly as pajamas though. He is teething pretty good and that makes him pretty ornry sometimes but if I keep him well regulated on his Tylenol he stays a happy boy most of the time.

Doesn't he just look so cute in his dinosaur pajamas!!

Ok - so it may have been some time since my last blog but Ethan has not been very cooperative. He is teething and is not very happy these days. He has also cut back on his napping and sleeping at night so that means that when he takes a nap so do I.

Besides that we are all doing ok. Jacob talked to the Post Master in Logan to see if he could get a job there before his 18 months was up. It doesn't look like they are going to bend the rule at all. Some post offices will - Logan will not. But he likes Jacob and so I hope that in January he will think of him when an opening comes up.

Like I said, Ethan is teething. He is growing and crawling faster than you could believe. He wears 18 -24 month clothes already and is very tall for his age. These are his dinosaur pajamas and are everyones favorite.

I just got a new calling as Young Women Secretary. I will be "initiated" this Sunday. I am just happy that I am not teaching Primary with a 7 month old or some 14 year old Sunday School class. I don't think I could have handled those kids and Ethan too.

The Scrapbook Expo is coming the end of this month and I think I might try and go this year. Seeing as how I don't have a car though I might try to convince mom to go with me so I can just catch a ride.

Boy, my life is really boring. Yesterday the most exciting thing I did was walk through the Peach Days booths with Melissa. Granted - it was fun, but certainly not exciting. Today is the big day though with the parade. Ethan is going fully loaded including earmuffs for when the police and firetrucks pass through. The parade starts at 10:00 and we are at the end of the route. Mom said to be there at 9:30 but ya know, I don't think I am going to show up closer to 10:30. Trying to corral Ethan while he is trying to crawl into the irrigation ditch that is full of water just doesn't sound like fun for me. Once the parade has started he will be intransed that he will sit still for most of it.

Well, I must say that I just don't have that much going on today. Jacob has to go back to work and so I am here to clean up the mess from our "weekend". Nothing ever seems to get done when we are all home so the next few days I have to play catch up.

I might take Ethan to the children's parade tonight. It is Peach Days this weekend. I guess I could go look at the booths too. Melissa is coming up on Saturday so I am sure that she will want to go look at the booths then too. I had to go lay out the tarp last night to reserve our spot on the parade route. I couldn't believe how full it was allready. There were barely any spaces any left!

Sorry it has been a little while since my last post. Me and Ethan took a trip to Grandma and Grandpa Barrow's house. Now, granted they do have the internet but it also moves at the speed of tar. It was interesting few days trying to travel nearly 14 hours with a 7 month old in tow but somehow we all managed to survive. We were most surprised that Dad made it. Poor Dad with nothing but girls in close quarters for that long of a time. We found ways to entertain ourselves. Ethan had several different different hairdos - this one being one of the best! We stopped in one town to take a picture underneath a street sign where the street was labeled "Bucket of Blood Street". That was nice because I bet Mom that if we stopped Ethan would wake up. I won and I got to sit in the front seat while she had to sit in the back and entertain the now tired and cranky boy. The only really bad thing about the trip is that we either had to hear Mom read from her Ann Coulter book or the NRA magazine the WHOLE WAY. And it did not stop once we got to our destination. Yes, it continued.

This weekend is Peach Days so of course we will be joining in on the festivities. It will be Ethan's first parade and he told me that he is very excited to go to the car show as well. Jacob has to work and so he will miss most everything except maybe the first part of the parade.

We are thinking that maybe once Jacob can transfer (January 10, 2008) that he might look for a job in Logan. We both really like it over there and housing is affordable. We could get a 3 bedroom 3 bath for only 700 a month. We also like that the town has more to offer than Brigham does. It has a mall, a Home Depot, and just hundreds of other little stores and restraunts that Brigham does not. Besides that it just far enough away from home but still close enough too.

Ethan is now effortlessly crawling around the house and I think it will begin to show on his forehead. We have wood floors and every now and then he bonks his head pretty good. He hit is so hard the other day that he got a bloody nose. We do have a rug in the front room but trying to keep him on that is impossible now that he knows he has things to explore. Our house isn't too big which makes baby proofing easy. We just keep the door to the bathroom and our bedroom shut and then Mom gave us a gate that we put between the hallway and kitchen. We just need a few drawer safe pulls and one for our t.v. cabinet. Now, baby proofing ourselves is another deal. Jacob has to learn to put his shoes away so they don't get chewed on and I have to stop leaving paper and pens around. That might take a little while before it becomes habit.