Oh my goodness, it has been a little while hasn't it? This Thanksgiving I am thankful for acute care clinics that are open late. We took Ethan to the doctor last night at 8:30 p.m. and was told that he had croup. Maybe next year we could be thankful for a pharmacy that is open on Thanksgiving?? I doubt it.

Jacob found out on Tuesday that he is a now a regular. That means that he will get holidays off, he will have a standard start time of 1:00 p.m. and he will also not be required to work overtime if he doesn't want to. Also starting December 1st. our insurance premiums for the Option High will go down to 45$ a pay period. I love that he works for the federal government. It sure does have its perks.

We had dinner this afternoon at Grandma Youngberg's. It was nice and I really enjoyed the fact that there were other people there that could watch Ethan so that I could eat while my food was still hot. That was a definite bonus.

On Halloween we got carpet! Ethan loves it - and because he loves it - I love. Anything that means less bumps; means fewer cries; fewer cries; means less strees; and less stress means a happier mom.

On Halloween we of course visitied all of the Grandma's and Grandpa's and I got to eat all the candy that they gave him because he is too young for chocolate. It was great. He thoroughly enjoyed being a giraffe and thankfully and surprisingly Jacob had the night off so we were able to go as a family.

Right now we are saving money for a new car for me seeings how I don't have one at all. So if anyone is thinking about what to get me for Christmas - I want a car. See if you can afford that hu? Jacob's 3 siblings all just got new cars and it is really depressing to him. It sometimes make him wish that he had student loans where we could just buy things. But we have to keep reminding ourselves that one day they will have to pay them back.

This week was Katie and Kai's wedding. It was hard to take Ethan but somehow we all survived. The first night inthe hotel room he was SCREAMING before bed time. It's a good thing that bedtime is around 8:30 because if it had been any later I think we would have had an angry mob at our door. We were going to spend the night on Friday as well but Ethan had met his limit and Jacob had gotten off work at 8:30 so he picked us up on his way home from work. It worked out well and Ethan got a good night's rest. Now today he has a runny nose. That makes the day fun.

We don't have much planned for this week. Really the only thing of note is that Jacob and I are going to buy new underwear. Woo hoo! Hey, right now I will take anything I can get.

This week has been rather uneventful for us. We did however carve pumpkins and Ethan had a great time. He thought it would be fun to try and eat the gooey insides but decided that it wasn't that tasty after all. Later he also thought it might be fun to try and eat some rocks but unfortunetly he DID think that those were tasty and so I had to wrestle rocks away from him all afternoon. And you know what - I am sorry to say that is all there was to note this past week.

We went up the Sardine Canyon on Thursday to take some pictures - Denise was our photographer. They turned out pretty well. We brough Ethan's Halloween costume (he is going to be a giraffee) and took some pictures in the bright leaves as well. He is growing quite big and can crawl faster than ever right towards mom's unprotected entertainment center better than you could believe. Jacob is going to bid on a few job openings in Salt Lake to become a regular. If he gets them he will be guaranteed 40 hours and holidays off. He would also get standard days off of Sunday Monday. That would be really nice considering right now they change every week. I hate not being able to count on a steady schedule for him.

Conference was really good. We all went up to Craig's new apartment in Logan and watched it in the apartment club house. They have a new dog - an Italian Greyhound. "Chauncey" and Ethan got along quite well seeing how they are about the same size. The only downside - he is not potty trained. Oh well, it's not my apartment.

Tomorrow we are going to go buy some pumpkins and Ethan is going to carve his first pumpkin. Well...Jacob will do the carving Ethan can play with the mushy insides. We are hoping that Jacob has Halloween since it will be Ethan's first. We won't know till a few days before but we'll see.

I started this new project of scanning all of my in-laws pictures so that they could go digital and preserve them. It has taken about a week to scan the pictures but now I have the slides to do. I think there is about 800 or so. That might take me longer than a week. But just look at this cute picture of Jacob as a little boy that found. Now you all know why Ethan has very blonde nearly white hair. All Jacob's fault. It's cute though.

We tried to push Ethan's bedtime back from 8:30 to 9:30 but he absolutely refused. He still woke up at the time and was then ornry all day long because he didn't get as much sleep as he normally did. Not worth it.

This Friday Jacob is having "brother" day where he is not to be disturbed by anyone and is going to play (I guess) with his brothers from sun up to sun down. I have no idea what they are going to do but I am assured that it is going to be awesome.

As for me and Ethan our plans are to sit home and do absolutely nothing together. General Conference is this weekend so we won't even be going to church. I am sure that mom will have something going on over at house like a slumber party for Conference but we will see.

We are going up Sardine Canyon tomorrow morning for family pictures. We can't afford to pay a fancy photographer so we enlisted the free services of Denise to do the honors. We might have to pay her five bucks in the form of frozen yogurt afterwards but it will be worth it. That way we can have as many copies of the pictures we want and it will be so much cheaper than anything we could possibly afford to pay someone to do. The last family picture we had was at Ethan's blessing day which was about 6 months ago.

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.