Love you all!

Wow, I got onto my blog for the first time in what has seemed like ages (we are still waiting for the phone company to put in a DSL line for us at our new house) and I couldn't believe how many responses I had. You are all so great!

To answer some of your questions: we are partially moved into our new house. We are remodeling the kitchen and we have to wait until August 7th for our cabinets, so we will be in the move in process for quite some time, but I am so happy to be out of that nasty rental house that I could just sing. We haven't decided on any names for our new girl yet but we have made an informal list and we will just have to wait and see what fits when she is born. We are excited that Penelope will have a little sister. Sisters are definitely the best. My pregnancy is going well and I am feeling soooo much better now. I don't even feel that tired now, which is great! I will post some pictures of my house in about a month, we should be almost done with our kitchen renovations by that time. (cross your fingers) I am in the process of painting my living room and I am so excited with the way it is turning out. Love it.

For those of you that I will see in Cokeville this week and Vernal in 3 weeks, I am so excited to see you! For the rest of you, I wish I could see you soon, but I'm kind of glad you won't see me with this huge belly. :) Thanks for being great!

It's a Girl

We found out Tuesday that we are expecting another little girl. Aaron was a little disappointed but I think he is over it now. It will be very nice not to have to buy a bunch of clothes, although we will have to get a few items to keep our little one warm this winter since Penelope's clothes consisted mostly of summer items.
We are buying a house here in Shelby. We close on July 1st. It is smaller than our house in El Paso, which is kind of sad, but it is a really cute little house with a great layout, so I will get over it. We have some renovations we have to do before we move in, so we will still be renting the house we are currently living in until August. We are remodeling the kitchen in our new house and there are limited options for eating out here, so we decided to keep the rental for another month to help with cooking.
We have some trips planned for July and we are looking forward to those. Penelope and I are going to Cokeville the weekend of July 19th and we will spend about 5 days there and then we will be going to a Heaton family reunion on July 30-August 2, so we are excited to see some family since the whole purpose behind our moving from Texas to Montana was to be closer to family. So anyway, we are looking forward to the next few months even though they will be a little hectic.

Purse-y

Girl

I just had to post some pictures of my sweet girl. She has always been in to dressing up in my clothes and shoes, but now if I leave any article of clothing lying around it becomes part of her outfit. These are some pictures of her wearing my pajama top as a dress. Oh, and of course she has to have a purse. I also attached a video clip of her saying purse (pursey) and ball (bally). She has started this new thing where she adds a "y" to everything she says. Chooy (choo choo), booky, boonsy (spoon), doggy, etc.

And not only does she love dressing up, she also loves her baby, her toy kitchen, spoons and cups. She really enjoys "making us food" and then feeding it to us. She also wraps her baby in blankets, hugs and kisses her and puts her in the stroller for a walk. She also loves to sing. She just learned the birthday song, except for her version just repeats happy over and over and over again. It is really quite cute. I'll try to get a video of her singing it. Her favorite time to sing though is when we are in church. As soon as the organ starts playing, Penelope opens the hymn book and starts singing as loudly as possible. In a ward with lots of kids this would probably not make any difference, but in a tiny little branch that is totally silent the whole meeting, quite a different story. Anyway, she is fun and keeps me very busy.

Montana

We have finally surfaced! I know it has been a long time since we have been in contact with anyone, sorry about that. We are currently renting a house in Shelby, MT, but we are looking at a house in Sunburst that we might buy. We haven't found a whole lot of choices when it comes to housing here. We were quite disappointed in all of the house that we were shown. Most of the houses in this area were built in the 1920-1940's and are basically not in great shape. They are also all only 2 or 3 bedrooms, which is hard with a growing family. Anyway, this house in Sunburst is not perfect, but it has potential. It has a really big yard which will be great for the kids and a big garage which will be great for Aaron, and for me. . . newly remodeled kitchen!! Unfortunately it only has 3 bedrooms and no basement, so we may have to add on at some point. Anyway, we'll let you know what we decide.