Update

We've moved and I haven't blogged in a while. We are painting our computer desk still and so we still don't have a computer set up and we have not internet. I thought I would do a quick update for now.

Dustin and Serene got married on the 16th of this month. Yea! We are excited for them.

Mike was feeling sick the day of the wedding, so the following day he went to the doctor and discovered he had a cyst growing on his tonsils. That afternoon he went to another appointment and had the cyst drained. He was living on soup and pudding for about a week; he feels great now ( his Birthday was mixed into that week-he had to have soup for his birthday meal [poor guy]).

We managed to put up some sort of Halloween decor, although we still have a few unpacked boxes laying around. Mikaela wanted to carve Tinkerbell on her pumpkin this year. I looked at the instructions which read "challenging;" I tried my best with my little pumpkin carving experience and while it's no where near perfect I think Tink came out o.k..

She was so excited to start Pre-School. I am way eaxcited too. At least for about 3 1/2 more months I will have a little time to get things done. Her first day at school I went to the grocery store alone. Wow! it has been a long time. I saw parents dragging screaming kids into the store and I was happy I wasn't one of them (for now). She loves school and has been excited to go back each day. She also started ballet again last week; She is enjoying her time.

Happy Birthday Mikaela! We had fun celebrating Mikaela's birthday with family. Thanks to everyone who helped celebrated with us.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

We have had quite the eventful week. Tuesday we spent time with family at the first Parker Family reunion in my lifetime. Amazingly everyone was there and it was fun to visit and spend time together. Along with the reunion we celebrated my great aunt birthday who will be turning 98 in August! Mikaela was the first at the table for birthday cake. It was a great occassion to celebrate.

Wednesday, we headed to the MTC, to see Chase, my brother, off on his Mission. He was full of excitement and anxious to enter the MTC. We said goodbye and watched him as he headed through the missionary's only door. I am sure he'll make an excellent missionary.

Thursday, we spent time with the Campbell Family in Beaver. It was nice to relax a little and have fun with family while celebrating Pioneer day. Beaver has a large parade. It was Mikaela's first parade and at times slightly emotional for her when the candy was thrown and she wasn't quite fast enough to get any. Thankfully, she had some older cousins that were really great at sharing with her. Eventually, she finally did pick up some candy herself and was very excited. Later, Mikaela and her cousins had all sorts of fun throwing water balloons, fishing, and making ice cream in bags. It was a fun day for us. With such an eventful week Mikaela slept most of the way home.
It seemed the many events would be over for the week, but to our surprise, Dustin, my brother, called about an hour after we had been home and announced "I am engaged." We are thrilled. His new fiance, Serene, is a really cute girl and we all enjoy her. They seem to complement eachother. He has set a date for late November, four days before we are expecting our baby boy. My two girls were six and five days early, so hopefully I am not in the Hospital and can attend the wedding. I am excited for him.

Past news I forgot to blog: Mikaela has been swimming floaty free for the past couple of weeks! She is comfortable swimming the length of the pool and has no fear of jumping off the diving board floaty free. It is fun to watch her.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Mikaela has been learning to swim. She has been doing really well, but it still scares me a little to watch her. She swims fast with her head under the water and a little more tentatively with her head out of the water (my pictures are still on my camera).

I have been busy working on little projects around the house and sifting through(dumping out mostly) everything we have. I would put a picture on, but I honestly have not downloaded any pictures from my camera to my computer in over a month as I have been trying to delete pictures hoping my computer would run faster.
Mikaela just gave her first (and mine as a mom) in primary this last week. She did really good. She had fun coloring her pictures for her talk. Lately, she has been playing sunday school teacher. She puts on her dress and "goes to church." She does singing time and then she goes to class and does her lesson. It is funny to hear what comes out of her mouth. It is mixes of different scriptures and songs, sometimes other stories she remembers that we have read. I thought it was pretty cute.