The Last 6 Weeks

A lot has happened the last six weeks. We had a baby, attended Becky Slinker's wedding, had to move out of our place, visited with both sides of family and friends, Jim's sister, Melanie, got married, went to Disneyland twice, got ready for Jim to start school and moved to Malibu, CA. Here is our story these past weeks.

ZUMA BEACH

Us along with 4 other LDS couples and their children that live in the same complex that we do went and ate dinner together on the beach. Isaac made a new friend, Jacob. They instantly became inseparable. Isaac was also taken out by a wave. He is fine.





DISNEYLAND

We bought DL annual passes since we are about an hour away from the park. We are so glad that we did because Isaac LOVES it there! He loved going on all the rides and watching the shows. We, of course, had fun watching him. Elizabeth was a good sport and relaxed the whole time in the stroller and also went on all the rides with us with out a peep.










VISITING WITH FRIENDS




RANDOM SHOTS OF THE KIDDIES



MELANIE'S WEDDING

Paul and Melanie got married in the Oakland Temple on Aug 15th. It was a nice but busy day.






AT THE CABIN

We had a great time at my parents cabin. Isaac had such a great time playing in the lake and the dirt. He also liked to roast marshmallows and fish off the dock.








ELIZABETH

i


VISITING WITH FAMILY




BECKY'S WEDDING

It was so nice to attend Becky's wedding. Isaac calls her "My Becky." He said that she was "pretty" in her dress.





SLEEPING ON AIR MATTRESSES

Patience

Ok, to my 2 frequent readers, I have not forgotten about you. The past 6 weeks have been crazy between having a baby, visiting family and moving to Malibu. I am still unpacking and getting everything situated. Once all that is done, I have a ton of pictures and updates that I can't wait to post. Until then, the both of us have to be patient.

Goodbye Utah

Well, it is official. We are moved out completely of Utah. It had been a whirlwind in our home with me getting home from the hospital, packing up the house, loading it up on the truck and then the doing the cleaning all with 2 kids, an infection in my uterus and living out of suitcases, air mattresses and paper goods. It went by really fast which was good since I couldn't dwell on the fact that we were leaving so many wonderful people that became family for us. We were blessed to live in a place that we loved and belonged to a ward that was not only our neighbors since it covered 4 streets, but that became one of our favorite wards that we have ever belonged too. We grew spiritually there and made so many wonderful friends. Utah was very kind to us and we enjoyed the 5 years spent there however, we could never see us making it a permanent residence for us.

Now we are staying with my parents for a couple of weeks before we make the real move to Malibu. We are very excited because we just found out that we got into an apartment that is on campus for married student housing. That will save us a TON of money compared to the apartment that we were originally planning on using in Calabasas. This apartment on campus is smaller than what we wanted and it doesn't have a bath tub which will b e interesting with 2 kids, but we will be on campus, across the street from one of the many beaches in Malibu and saving money at the same time. We are interested in serving in our new ward which is the Pacific Palisades ward. I think it should be interesting since it is a pretty affluent area.

So in a couple of weeks, we will move down there and once my computer is set up, I will be posting pictures.