Lots of Happenings and Julie!

Hi all, a lot of things have happend sense my last post.
 We bought a house! this took a while and we had a few adventures and slight drama in this endever. here is what happend: In July Fred and I decided to go see a house on the corner neer our trailer park that was for sale "just for fun" we really liked it so we decided "just out of curiosity" to see what type of home loan we would be approved for.
It turned out that we were approved for a decent amount (not enough to purchase the house on the corner) We also discovered that if we purchased a house we would be paying about the same or just a tiny bit more for our mortgage then what we were paying for our trailer and for land rent a month. so we decided we were going to bye a house!
I found a realtor and we started looking at homes in our price range. We decided on a manufactured home out in Archer, about 10 min south of Rexburg. It was a 4 bed 2 bath home on 2 archers of land. we were pretty excited.
During this time we were working with the bank to get our loan fixed and ready to close. we had fixed on a price with the sellers and were just waiting on the bank to do its appraisal  the appraisal came back but there was a problem... some how we had neglected to tell our loan officer that the home we were getting was a manufactured home and he had forgotten to ask. it turnes out that our bank does not give loans for manufactured homes. so we had a choice, we could find another bank or we could find another home. there were many factors in our decision making that I wont go into but the main one was time. we had sold our trailer and only had about two weeks til we had to be out so we decided to find another home.
With in a two day period we had decided to purchase a sweet little home in Sugar City.

We closed last monday and I have just got to say that it is so nice to be in our little home, it is perfect for  us.
We bought a truck! We bought it for our move, im not sure if we will keep it or sell it again but we got a good deal on it and I like it a lot. It is a white 1990 Ford 4x4. it is with Fred right now so I will post pictures latter.
I have done a few halloween crafts in the past couple of days and I thought I would share. 8)
In the past have not decorated much for all the holidays in the year, it is some thing I really want to do and this is the first step. here is what I have done so far.
                           
                                                This is my MONSTER Wreath, int he cute!

                               

                                                      These are my little MUMMYs

And these are my little toilet paper roll BATS

I have a kitchen curten and a matching tabel runner that I still need to make but trust me they are going to be super cute as well. 8)

AND now JULIE!

She has gotten so big! Julie is 6 almost 7 months old now. She is still a tiny little thing compared to other kids but so big to me. she is 14lb and so tall! Julie is talking a lot and trying to grab everything.  She stil loves to stand and if you stand her up on the ground holding her hands some times she will take a few steps. I am not ready for her to walk yet though.

Julie is getting more dexterity in her hands but mostly bats at everything and she is now eating solid food once a day! she loves the food but is still trying to figure out how to eat it. eating is much different then nursing. 8)

Here are some videos and pictures of my girl. 

This is the first time Julie ate solid food, she makes the funniest faces but seems to like it fine 8)

                                                                       Jammy time!
                                                               

We sure love her and have so much fun with our little Jules.

My Crazy Adventure

So on Monday I decided to head to Idaho Falls to bye Julie some cloths. she is growing so much and was in need of 6-9 month cloths. I tell you what, she is going to be so tall.
I stopped off at my in laws house before heading to IF to drop something off and decided to leave Julie there to spend some quality time with her aunt Anna. I am SO glad I did.
I got quite a few cute outfits and jammies for Julie at Ross. (love that store) and was headed home when   this lady in a red car starts to merge in to my lane (I was in the left lane passing some cars) where I am. I honk my horn and swerve out of the way. I couldn't swerve to much because the median was deep and i wold nave rolled my car.  I tried to correct but ended up over correcting, hit one of those poles on the side of the freeway on the drivers side and spun across the high way to the other side of the road and into some weeds.  It was crazy.
The lady pulled over and we exchanged insurance info etc.
Over all super crazy, scary experience but I was not injured, the car was ok except for the large dent from the pole I hit and Julie was not in the car so it all turned out ok.

Here is our pore car. I assume the lady's insurance is going to pay for our dore to get fixed. at least that is what I am hopping

Harry Our Newest Family Member

This is Harry, he is a 6 month old boxer/? mix puppy. Fred rescued him from the pound last friday so we have had him for over a week! He is the sweetest snuggle dog, he will come up to you and just want to be loved.
Jeff did not like him at all at first, he sulked for about two days but then started to worm up to him. now they play and are on there way to being good friends. 8)
When we got harry he had a large lump on his neck, the pound did not think it was any thing serious but said that they would pay for the vet diagnose and hopefully fix it.
Well Harry had his vet appointment on thursday for his neck but also to get neutered. (pore guy)
The vet lanced the lump and let it drain out. Now harry has this big bandage over his head so that his pore neck can heal.

He looks quite pathetic really.
We get to take off his bandage on monday so only one more day! He is such a trouper though, I can tell he wants to scratch the bandage off.
Hopefully by this time next week he will be back to his old self. 8)

Fun Happenings And a Family Reunion

Hey all this past week we attended our Eaton Family Reunion. It was a ton of fun. we had it at a really neet place with a lodge, playground, sandbox, swingset and places to set up tents. All of Freds siblings came and a few cozens. It was great seeing everyone. Here are a few pictures of the things we did.

Here are my sister-in-laws twins playing the piano. there pretty cute girls.

                                                                   The camp ground

My sister-in-law Anna and her youngest, Clayton. Clayton was trying to hold Julie 8)

My Sister-in-law Jen relaxing in the hammock

Ok, these next pictures are of an awesome activity that all 36 of the kids did. My mother-in-law got long pieces of big bubble wrap. they spread the bubble wrap on the flore and on the count of three all the kids started dancing and jumping all over it. It was a lot of fun and SO loud. there is a video of part of it.

        We had a ton of fun. Thanks to every one who worked so hard to make sch a great reunion.

4th of July

We had a fantastic 4th of July. Fred got the day off so we slept in then headed out to his moms house where we visited with family and got ready for the amazing party at my sister-in-law Anna's house.

At about 5:30 we headed to Anna's house in Idaho Falls. Anna and her husband Jason had prepared this grommet meet along with hambergers and hotdogs and brautwurst. everything else was potluck. It was AMAZING everything was so good! 

After dinner we set off fireworks then sat back and watched the Idaho Falls fire work show. Anna's front yard has an amazing view of the fireworks.

We ended up leaving half way through the fire work show because Fred had to get up early for work the next morning and I am so glad we did, we missed all of the trafic and had a great drive home.

Here are some pictures of the 4th and of just awesomeness.

                                             So cool just sportin her sunglasses......so cool.

Mommy and Julie.....SO cool.

                                 
                                   Here's Julie experiencing grass for the first time. She loved it.

                          I love Julies expression in this picture. Fred is just being goofy dad.

Soo cool

Here's a video of my girl. enjoy!

Ahh Life

Life has been quite interesting lately

Fred's company was bought by a larger company that has purchased a few other renowned policy software companies to make an amazing suite of software for large companies to purchase. such as hospitals and large corporations. Im not explaining it very well but it's pretty cool and is a good thing.

So Fred no longer works for Policytech but for Navex Global.

Fred has also been working on his motorcycle and it's going to look pretty spiffy when he is finished. Ill post pictures when he is finished. 

So that's whats new with Fred.

I have developed an allergy to summer 8( actually i think it's hay-fever  or because of the cotton trees (there has to be like 50 in the trailer court where we live) so I am taking allergy medication for the first time in my life. BLAH! It does make me feel better and it's safe for Julie so im not complaining...much. 8)

About a week ago I woke up with a killer head ach but only on the right side of my head, the next day the upper right side of my face swelled up and was very tender. turnes out some thing (I think it was a spider) bit me about 22 times on my right eye lid, eyebrow and forehead. Lame I know. I looked up spider bites on line and my bights did not look like any of the serious or poisonous spider bights so I decided to take care of it my self, with lots of Morton and yogurt and not go to the doctor. 

The spider bights are now scabbed over and dont hert any more, hopefully they will be gone soon.

Lets see what else....

My Sister-in-laws Jenny and Liz and there families are in town for the Eaton family's reunion that is coming up. So I have been spending a lot of time at my mother-in-laws the past few days. It's been lots of fun. 

Oh and I Just cleaned my house! it was in dire need of it.

  

 Julie is getting so big and is so much fun!

She will be 3 months old on July 5th, I cant believe it. 

Julie cried with tears for the first time today and has started teething. her hair is getting longer and her eyelashes are so long. 

Julie is sleeping for about 5 to 7 hours at a time which is so nice. She is such a fun girl when she wakes up in the morning. lots of smiles.

Here are some pictures of my girl 8)

This is my mother-in-law Karen (Julie's name sake) and Julies cosen Clayton. It is so cute how much            Clayton just loves Julie he asks to hold her all the time. 

 Oh what a cute little ham!

I love this picture!

What a pose!

                                                                      Love this girl.