More Pictures of the Kids

Here are some more pictures of Julia and Ethan hanging out around the house.

Julia and Ethan love to do box (car) rides around the house.

Posing on Julia's bed

Ethan trying to tell Julia that she is a little too close

Another movie night. This time Joshua and the kids watched The Emporer's New Groove

Julia is always wanting to wear dresses and if we don't put them on her, she puts them on herself. Unfortunately she had a little trouble with this one. Although she didn't think it was very funny when we were taking the pictures of her instead of helping her out, she did laugh later when we showed the pictures to her.

How the dress is really supposed to look.

Ethan hanging out in his room.

Playing in an old bassinet.

Easter Celebrations

We haven't posted for a while because we were hoping to keep our house pictures at the top of our blog for as long as possible. However, after taking some great Easter pictures of the kids we just couldn't resist.

Julia and Ethan both participated in Easter egg hunts at church and at home (we just reused the eggs from church for their home Easter egg hunt). Julia loved looking for all of the eggs and was very speedy in finding them all. Ethan sat and watched and was satisfied opening all of the eggs that Julia had found. Lucky for Julia, Ethan is still not eating sweets and so she only had to share her eggs with her parents (we call it the parent tax--hopefully there will be no Boston tea parties when she gets older and thinks it is unfair--Joshua already ate almost all of her peeps).

That evening we had some people over from our ward to share our Easter meal with. We all had a wonderful time.

We all missed being around family for this holiday though. I think Joshua especially wanted to participate in the adult Easter egg hunt at his parents' home.

Rebecca and Julia preparing some eggs.

Julia showing off her handy work.

Julia and Ethan taking a break before finding the rest of the treats.

House for Sale

Our house is now on the market. So if you know anyone that may be interested please spread the word. It is a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom home on a double corner lot in Stillwater Oklahoma. Total of 898 sq. ft. The back room, bathroom, and kitchen floor have been updated and it has just been painted. An awesome deal at $73,900. You can call Beverly Carter (405.743.9618--Century 21) if you would like more details.

Blog Tag

Christina and Brooke tagged us. So here is our sixth picture from our sixth folder in our documents/pictures.

This is a picture of us getting ready for our stake's adult only dance in 2006. Each year they hold this dance at an old mansion in a neighboring city. Don't we look good in red! Julia was born 2 weeks later, so this was our last night (ever) out on the town.

Projects

Since we're moving by the end of the summer, we really need to put our house up for sale as soon as possible. But first we have had to tackle the projects we've intended to do ever since we moved in but never got around to. Our (meaning Joshua) most recent project is turning these unappealing iron frames into some columns that will hopefully enhance the front of our house.
Here's Joshua at work--combining his brilliant engineering skills with carpentry expertise and sheer muscle--making our columns. He actually just constructed a wood frame around the existing iron. So far we haven't received any complaints from the neighbors yet, so I think they're a success!

When in Washington my mom and I picked up some fabric to make an upholstered headboard for our bed and some coordinating pillows. So below is the finished product--another of my ideas implemented by Joshua (pillows aren't in the picture). We're still looking for some decorative pins for the border.

Moving to New York!!!

GREAT NEWS! We found last week that we got matched for internships and are going to SUNY (see below) Medical School in Syracuse, New York! We are really excited but we don't really know much about the area and what to expect. Joshua starts September 1st, so some time before then we will have to figure out how to get all of us and our belongings up to NY. We hear it's beautiful and cold up there, and are looking forward to taking the opportunity to visit nearby sites, including Palmyra, NYC, and some others. We are also looking forward to hosting LOTS of you visitors who would like to join us in exploring this fascinating area! It looks like Syracuse is in Central/Upstate New York, and has a population of a few hundred thousand. One hour from Palmyra, four to NYC, five to Boston. I really want to know how close it is to Prince Edward Island, but I don't have an answer yet.

Movie Night

Last Friday Rebecca went to the temple with a couple of people from our ward, so we took the opportunity to have a movie night. We cooked up some popcorn (which both kids loved--Julia probably ate 7/8 of the bag by herself) and we watched Mulan (Julia's pick). It was a fun night for all of us!