Well, it got way cold today, 42 actually. I started a walking program just like mom because it worked so well for her. I have to walk inside because I have a baby and I don't have a walking partner. I know it gets way cold everywhere, but I found a great book at the library. It's called "Walk away the Pounds" by Leslie Sansone. She has good tips for boosting your walk and good moves to add that won't throw you off balance. She only uses a 2 pound weight for each hand, but she suggests a water bottle in each hand too. It is so easy, I would definately check it out.

Courtney and I have had alot of fun around the house while Devin

is at work. I have been working hard to get the house cleaned up and I promise I will have an "after" video posted this week of the house. I was bored today, but Courtney was having fun playing with a teddy bear I got from my parents in high school. I decided to see if she could fit into the bear's cheer outfit and took some cute pics. The top is short and I couldn't fit around her tummy to velsro it, but it's still adorable nonetheless. Devin's brother, Dominic, and his family came to visit this week as well. I posted pictures of Courtney with Sammy and Leesy, and also one of her with Benjamin. We went to the State Fair Saturday. I guess I didn't wear very good shoes because my back was sore all day sunday, yesterday and still today!! Hope you enjoy this week's pictures!

Trojan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our laptop contracted 2 nasty trojans this week, and these are some of the few pictures that somehow escaped being deleted. Work is going great on the house. All the rooms are painted, living/bed and kitchen brown, bathroom dark red, and Courtney's is bright pink (we thought it was lighter)!! The light fixtures are up except for the back porch, and the floors has new tiles that look like marble as well as the sink. We are going to paint the walls around the bathtub and also do some mock granite tiles for the kitchen counters. It is going to look awesome. I'll put pictures up ASAP once it's finished. Here's a look at our house before we started on it!

Courtney is still sleeping through the night, but she's going to bed much earlier, 8 instead of 9, so my days start earlier too. She isn't crawling yet, but she's almost there. She'll start pushing with her legs and run her face into the ground because she hasn't quite figured out what to do with her arms. Devin's brother, Dominic, and his family are coming up this weekend and we're going to go to the Eastern Idaho county fair. I've never been to a fair without performing so it'll be so much fun to wander around in normal clothes without the heavy stage make-up.

Update

Sorry it's been so long. Alot has happened. We took a vacation up to Spokane to visit family over the 4th of Julyimmer's lake cabin which i haven't been to in years. Although I didn't swim alot. Devin and i took out the canoe and almost got hit by a boat! We even course corrected and they still came at us! The important part is that we lived. We also got to see Jordan and Ginanne's house, even their creepy basement. We're actually alot alike. We have a dilapidated garage like they do, we have a small creepy basement, it's weird! Well I still can't figure out how to get the darn pictures to show up, so it's another round of Maran's Picture Lottery! Enjoy!!!

Big news, good and bad

We have very exciting news........WE ARE GETTING A HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost anyway. We have signed an offer on a 750 sq ft house in st anthony, but the seller doesn't want to close before the end of july. she doesn't even live there, she just wants to wait, urgh! But Courtney is as cute as ever. She can almost roll over, but she gets stuck on her arm, then she's like a beached whale. she is kind of sort of crawling with alot of help from devin and me. And can you believe the week we're having? First ed mcmahon, then farrah fawcett, next is Michael jackson, and today billy mays! No more shouting at us to buy Oxiclean. And what a classy discovery show he had. I will be forever faithful to watching "Pitchmen" everyweek. well, enjoy the pictures and video! Again, I just had to choose based on the numbers, so hopefully we'll get some good ones.

I just had family over this weekend, my parents and most favorite sister ;) We played rock band, went shopping, played with Courtney, and had a BBQ. We also went up to the Gardens on campus as well as the temple to take some pictures. For some reason, when I pull up the "Pictures" file, it won't show the image just a file #, so i just picked five that were far apart numerically. Enjoy!

Courtney has started smiling and "talking" more, so I thought I'd post a few videos to share. Life has pretty slow down here. Devin is working full time of course, and I'm a mom full time. President eyring is speaking at devotional this week, but I didn't get tickets so I'll have to watch from TV again.