Moving In and Birthday Time!

(*Pictures now added- July 22, 2010*)

OK SO WE PACKED OUR CAMERA CABLE... AND CAN'T FIND IT SO NO PICTURES! SORRY, I HAVE BEEN TAKING THEM AND I CAN'T EVEN POST THEM :( Oh well... as soon as we find it I will add the pictures.

Man, has the past week been full of stress and excitement... We moved all of our stuff from our apartment to our home these past couple of weeks. Man, we have a lot of stuff! Once again my wonderful father helped us move for the 7th time. We've been married 5 years and we have moved 7 times WOW! Hopefully it will be a while before we move again. ;) Since Scott works such long hours and consecutive days in a row we had to time our move in-between his scheduled work days. So it all started Tuesday May 18th. Scott had one of his buddies, Cameron, help us move almost all of our boxes (I thought... then came Thursday and Friday... think again!) on Tuesday. We loaded up his truck and trailer full and headed to the house to unload. We just put them all in the garage and headed back to the house to finish packing some more boxes.

Scott had to work on Wednesday, the 19th, and so I tried to do as much packing as possible with Paige trying to be right in the middle of it. It's a good thing that I didn't pack her in a box with as much as she got into :) My parents came up Wednesday night to come and help us move, they stayed until Sunday. It was wonderful to spend time with them. I swear, without them we wouldn't have been able to move! My mom watched Paige for us while we moved more boxes, furniture and cleaned our apartment which was a huge help! And my Dad helped carry box after box after box up and down a flight of stairs and cleaned most of our apartment with us. THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!!

Thursday, the 20th, we had a few of our friends help with the big stuff,

Thanks Cameron, Zach and Mike!

(Our kitchen packed to the hilt with boxes)

Then on Friday, the 21st, we cleaned the apartment and officially moved everything out. That night we went out to dinner with my Uncle Rusty and his wife and daughter and a few of his grand kids. They live about 15 minutes from us in Caldwell.

On Saturday, the 22nd, my parents took Scott and I out for our birthdays. My parents have a tradition of taking out each of their kids and their families out to dinner for their birthdays (and even the spouses on theirs). Where Scott and my birthdays are just a few days apart, Scott's being on May 28th and mine on the 31st, we get a joint birthday dinner! We went to this super yummy restaurant here in Boise called Tucanos. It's an all you can eat Brazilian Grill. YUMMY!!! My favorite place to eat. They even brought us out ice cream Sundays and sang to us in Portuguese. And of course with all the moving I forgot to take the camera for pictures. I didn't really get any of the past couple of weeks with all the business and just slipped my mind. Other things to think about I guess, huh? :)

And speaking of birthdays... I can't believe in just a few weeks my baby girl is going to be 1 year old!!!! Where did the time go?

Sunday, the 23rd, we went to church and I swear my parents always know someone wherever they go. They knew at least 3 people that were in our ward either through someone else or they had a previous relationship of some kind with them in Blackfoot or Snake River. I guess that's what happens when you live somewhere your whole life and so did your parents. Anyway, fun to see connections with people, it really is a small world. After church we had dinner and they left for Blackfoot. I always feel like anytime we visit with family or friends it is never long enough. :)

Since Scott had to work on his birthday... we weren't able to do a party or anything. Here's a pic of Scott on his birthday enjoying his birthday cake (he loves fruit, so we had a lemon pound cake with strawberries and whipped cream)!!

Here's a pic of Paige being so good walkin around in her walker while we unpacked!

And this past week all we have done is unpack, unpack, unpack. So far we have the kitchen completely done, Paige's bedroom, our bedroom and the living room unpacked... No decorations up anywhere yet, so even though those rooms are unpacked they still aren't done :( I have a feeling that it's going to be a while yet before we are completely settled. Anyway, and Scott is going on his 4th day of 10 hour shifts in a row, really it turns out to be more like 12 hour shifts, cause he leaves the house 30 minutes before his shift starts and then when he leaves the hospital he has to discharge his patients so he always goes about a half hour over and then 30 minutes until home again... tomorrow will be his last consecutive day in a row for the a few days. YAY!! These 5 days in a row are the hardest cause we barely see him. When he gets home he sleeps and is up for about an hour or so, eats, gets dressed and goes again. Anyway, we are excited to have a couple of days to spend with him until he goes back to work!

Today, Scott was able to go to part of church with us. He left after sacrament meeting and Paige was not her most pleasant self to deal with at church today, trying to crawl everywhere and screaming if she doesn't get her way... man, I am hoping that she grows out of this stage pretty soon. She does have her moments though, she has quite the personality!

Something fun she has been doing... she loves to climb stairs. We have a small step down from our kitchen into our family room and she loves to climb up and down them. She's got the up figured out but the down is face first. We are working on that one but it usually turns into a some type of summer-sault face plant thing. Doesn't even face her. She just keeps going and going. We have to sit right there if she is going down to slow her down and help her cause it is just "GO FAST and NO TURNING BACK" for her. She has started crawling a little bit on her hands and knees. She just needs a little more practice and I think she will be crawling like a pro in no time. She has gotten so good at her army crawl I never thought that she would even normal crawl. She pulls herself up on anything and everything that she possibly can and even walks around while holding onto an object. Paige loves being outside. We go for walks in our neighborhood a few times a week and go to the park. After our walk today we sat outside on our front lawn this afternoon while I was talking to my mom on the phone and she just crawled around picking up everything and showing it to me... didn't even try to eat anything which was great! She is starting to be more choosy about what she eats, if she doesn't want it right then she throws it on the floor, we are working with this one but OH is it frustrating! She is also pretty much weaning herself off milk, she just is not interested past a few sips of her bottle. The rest of the bottle is like pulling teeth. I'm sure it's because she eats more now and it doesn't taste as good as everything else. I bought her her first toothbrush (I've been using one of those finger brushes up until now) and she loves it, so cute!

Anyway, that's what's been going on with us lately... :)