Week 3

I changed Colin for bed and he was so tired he fell asleep on the floor like this.
My cute little Graham being a puppy with Colin's beanie on.

The 3 most handsome and loveable boys in my life!

We only brought the bare essentials to live here, so here is our elegant dining room table. Graham loves the "newness" of our place and plays trains and cars in his double-sliding closet.

Cute Colin...his neck is normal again. It started sagging to the side again when we arrived but is fine now. He has his own room and we are sleep training him. Day 1- good. 2-awful, Jon gave him a TON of baby food and it was only his 2nd time and woke up with the worst saddest tummy ache. This is day 3. Look at that face!!! I just love him!!!

Our adventures have begun. Week one went by so slowly. I did find out the little town has a playgroup and went and got to know some ladies in town and kids Graham's age. (Thank heavens!) It is weird not being in my Utah Bubble, but I have to say I don't miss it. It is really nice having Jon home at night and on the weekends. I started to cook a lot and even cooked a little bit of fish, which I'm not too keen on. Yes it was only canned salmon, but it's a start.

Our ward here is amazing. Last week in church Jon was in excruciating pain. I felt we needed to go to the ER. He said his back had this stabbing pain inside, but it wasn't muscle. Luckily a TON of people came to our rescue. One lady I have never met took Graham home with her, the RS President led us to the hospital because I didn't know where it was. We were there for 3 hours and found that Jon was passing a kidney stone. FUN! They gave him morphine and fluids and gave him a CAT scan. We found he only had one and passed it while we were at the hospital. I was just so relieved he was ok. He has been perfectly fine since. Oh the adventures here! My next post I'll tell you what we have done the last few weekends.

We made it

So yes we made it here. We are actually living in Cascade Locks, which is in Oregon, because I couldn't find a place closer to Jon's work. It is very small. We have like 3 places to eat, 2 gas stations, and NO stoplights. Haha. I have to say though I love it here. It is so amazingly beautiful. The first few days my eyes couldn't take it all in. There is so much to do here. As we drove on the 84 we passed like a hundred state parks, so we will just hit a new one every weekend. More posts to follow...

N E W S

So new development. Jon got an amazing internship for the summer in Bingen, Washington. Ever heard of it? (Didn't think so.) So we are moving in 3 weeks. AGH! It is an internship with a company called Insitu that does the unmanned aircraft part to Boeing. Pretty flippin' cool if you ask me. So we will leave Logan for the summer season. I'm pretty sad about missing the derbies, so will Graham. BUT ya'll can't get rid of us that easily. We will be back in August and finish one more yeah of school. So that's the big N E W S! Love and miss you all.

Real Easter Pictures. Happy Easter.

As many of you know Jon recently went to Spain and Israel. He had the opportunity to visit the tomb thought to be where Christ was resurrected. I was in awe at these photos. I hope to one day visit this site. I am so grateful this event happened for us all.

Happy Easter!

What we have been up to...

Graham really likes lemon juice, but not when I mix it with sugar and water for lemonade. Colin gets cuter and cuter. Jon swears he looks exactly like me. What's your vote?

(Don't just count the scowl!)

Oh yeah...and this. Graham is fascinated by all the new baby toys. And apparently the things for Mom too. I'm just glad I have this blackmailing photo for his whole life!!!

So yes, we just hang out at home all day, still trying to figure out life. Jon occasionally joins us. The poor guy. I love him so much. It's hard on all of us having him gone so much, but he is working so hard to provide a fabulous future for our family. I can only admire and love him for that.

We're starting to slowly function back into society. I always realize I need a new wardrobe. Ah, one day. Thank you to those of you who have contributed to my sanity- most of all my mom and sis. Lindsay is nice enough to let me come crash her nights and just have adult conversation while Graham plays with his cousins. They are so cute together and so fun to have so close. My cousins and I only really got together around Thanksgiving at the Ranch so it's fun to see my kids will have more than that for the time being.

Jon is leaving the country for almost two weeks as a study abroad for HR to Jeruselem and Barcelona next month. The boys and I will be escaping to Vegas. I am really excited to have his family's help, see my Dad, and maybe most of all see the sun again and feel it's warmth. I can only dream of it now. (Do I even own shorts?) We have decided to stay an extra semester so Jon can also get him MBA. It will be so cool for Jon to be able to complete an extra Masters Degree in just one semester. We couldn't pass up the opportunity. So we plan to be in Logan at least until Summer of 2011.

Sorry I don't post much. Colin doesn't let me set him down, but my mission this week was to be able to do more of that. So far- we're doing better. If only he would sleep laying down by himself at night. I love seeing other people's kids who are a few months older and thinking...oh it gets better. Graham being 2 doesn't help that insight much right now. But watching him play with Colin makes me so excited for them to grow up together. Colin will be on the ground crying and Graham will sit next to him and say "Sorry" "You okay". And of course he shares his trains as shown above.

Thank you to everyone for help, meals, and gifts. They are much appreciated!!!

Blog-Challenged

Ok all my friends with blogs....

It's looking like everyone is going Private on their blogs or "Readers Only" or whatever. Well I am blog-challenged and now I don't know how to view any of yours. Is there something I need to do other than be signed in? Help me please...

Had to post this picture

This is Graham when he was about 2 weeks. Very similar to the top picture of Colin below. Am I going to have clones? The differences are their hairlines, Colin's doesn't go to a V; and Colin's eyes aren't as big. I'm very curious to see what his eye color will be. Graham's was a surprise because mine are brown and Jon's are green. He got his blue eyes from both our fathers. So we'll see what happens with Colin's- I have no idea. Don't ya just love genetics?!