My update record, it's not so good....

Life continues to be hectic and exciting, in spite of the fact that busier people would certainly make fun of me for saying that. Poppet is 3 days too young for Kingergarten, even though she was reading Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law the other day. (I don't know how much she understood, but she could pronounce all the words correctly.) Yeah. So I'm probably going to be homeschooling her this fall. (E!GAD!)

We realized early this month that the house we had verbally agreed to rent was not going to be un-occupied by the owner's son before we had to move... so new housing arrangements needed to be made. And fast. .... So we're buying a house. (.....E!!!!GAD!!!!!!! -- But now I can eventually have a cat.)

Last Monday we found out it was for sale and decided to look at it. (My sister-in-law's cousin owns it and she was wrong about the price by about $40,000.) We fell in love with it. (It also happens, ironically and interestingly, to be the house my parents owned when I was born. My neighbor pointed out that it will be my first house ever in two different ways now.) We decided to see if we could do anything at all to buy it. We found that we could, miraculously. We agreed on a price and terms on Saturday and began the intensive mortgage approval process today. We will be literally around the corner from my oldest brother and his five kids. Apparently our neighbor to the north is super excited we're moving in. It seems she likes kids. :) (Good to know, and a relief. We'll be in that house for probably many many years.)

So now I'm all nervous about meeting people I will know for a long, long time. New ward, new neighbors. It will be nice to live in a less transient area. Less students, more actual families. But we've never lived anywhere for more than two years, so it's intimidating to me. First impressions and all that.

I swore I'd never live in Utah, or at least get out before Poppet started high school. Yep, nope. Sounds like not. I'monna raise me some Utards (and clearly, I will have to remove that word from my vocabulary) -- no offense to any of the truly awesome people I know who were raised in Utah!

I wonder how seminary will work if I homeschool the whole time....

And now, a few pictures of our summer:



I painted this butterfly for Poppet at the Stake Picnic a month or two ago.



He oozes charm -- what a funny little guy.



Made. Of. Cute.

I won't put up pictures of Darcy and I. No one wants to see us anyhow. :P No, I'll probably put one up from Friday. It's our six year anniversary, and we are going OUT. :D

I do, however, need to post a video of Little Hungry laughing. I'll make it it's own post, though. Baby gurgles are the happiest sounds EVER.