where to begin

Sorry, we haven't posted anything in a while. Its been a crazy month. Where to begin...

We had an interesting Christmas as we didn't get to make most of our get togethers because of weather, roads, and the flu. Then, the Milmonster family was around for about 1 1/2 weeks. We pretty much spent all day with the family and then came home to sleep. It was great fun to get to see Lil'Mil, Nano, MiniB, and family for so long. Rose started to walk and is already an expert. She also has 8 teeth, 9 and a 10 on the way.

Then, life started again and decided to head to Lincoln to house hunt. Before we left we wanted to leave Rose here with grandma and that meant getting her use to the bottle. She wouldn't have anything to do with it so we made reservations at a hotel and grandma was coming with. Then, Rose decided to wean herself so everyone came to Lincoln and we had great fun. We looked at 26 houses and found about 2 that we really liked. Made an offer on 1, then 2, and number 2 it is. We just heard today that they accepted our offer! I'm so excited that everything is falling into place. It seemed like 6 months ago we weren't sure what we were doing and where the Lord wanted us. I guess faith and patience are true principles of the Gospel:)
There are so many pictures I want to post but I will try and keep it short. Great Aunt Beth from Atlanta
Rose trying to get into the swing with MiniB.

Our little girl is the biggest moocher. Food is the surest way to make Rose your best friend.

Nano, Rose and Grandpa's chin

Lil'mil and Rose's favorite game...lil'mil playing with cars, Rose putting them in her mouth and lil'mil taking them away from her

Beautiful blue-eyed girl

Papa sitting on my lap

Mmmmm. Only 3 weeks apart and best friends. Want to know why our pictures look so good...here is our new christmas present!

And a picture of our new home!

Happy Birthday Rose!

Today is Rose's birthday. I can't believe it has been an entire year since my 24 hour labor with this firecracker. She has truly blessed our lives in so many and wonderful ways. Being a parent is everything I thought it would be, and everything I didn't, and more. I can now understand how our Heavenly Father feels about each one of us and I am grateful for His incomprehensible sacrifice of His son.

Here are some pictures of Rose's pinwheel party yesterday. I got many (okay most) of my ideas from this fabulous party And yes we made everything from the pinwheels to the cake to the banner. It was fun making everything for our little girl.

We are going to dental college to get more dental knowledge...and family pics

So we are definitely going to Lincoln! No other offers came our way but who cares (all you need is one)! We both love the school and the city and I think it will be fabulous. We will leave around the beginning of the sumemr and I am already looking at housing (no, I'm not excited).

On another note, we got family pictures taken about 3 months ago. I've been trying my skills at photoshop which is why I have taken so long to post but here they are. They seem like forever ago because Rose only has 3 teeth and now she has 8.

Can anybody tell me why they look grainy on the blog? When I print them out they look fabulous. Oh well. Rose turns 1 in three days! Can't believe it.

dental school here we come!

Baby Rose and I just wanted to say...Congratulations Dad! The hub got up this morning at 2am and checked his email. Dec 1st is a long awaited day for those trying to get into dental school and he did it! As of yet, we are accepted at Lincoln, Ne and so excited. There could still be more acceptances to come but right now we are pretty darn happy and feel very blessed that the Lord has heard and answered many prayers (and that we don't have to wait any longer to know). Thanks to everyone for all your support and prayers on our behalf. We love you. GO BIG RED!

adventures in mobility

This...

then a few days later...

Climbing on the furniture (I'm not sure I'm ready for this)...
The consequences of learning how to walk (notice the red bumps on the head)...

and some bath time fun

Chopped Liver

thats all I have to say about that.

Snow and Halloween

What a week! A had an interview in Lincoln, Ne this week and we decided to go earlier because of the snow storm. The interview went well and we are hopeful but were snowed out of Wyoming from Tuesday till Saturday. Thanks Davis' for letting us crash at your house for so long! After being snowed out of Wyoming for almost a week we were excited to get back home and enjoy Halloween. I made our costumes (Rose's skirt was the most fun). Here are some pictures of our little Bumble Bee and her bee keepers.

Decorating Halloween cookies. Delicious. We weren't able to carve pumpkins this year but we are thinking about Thanksgiving pumpkins:)

This is from the first fall snow storm. Rose had a love hate relationship. She loved to eat the snow but hated not being able to move in her snow suit.