My Amazing Husband

I just wanted to take a minute to tell you all what a wonderful husband I have. Today I woke up with a yucky flu. I won't go into detail cause I am sure you can imagine. Oh I will say however that contractions and an active baby kicking me doesn't help nausea. Anyways Stan got up with Isabella fed her breakfast and played with her all morning while I sat around trying not to throw up. I couldn't even hold Isabella because it was too much pressure on my stomach. We didn't have any medicine so he took Isabella and went to the store. When he came back he not only brought medicine, and powerade, but a beautiful little bouquet of flowers. He said they were my get well flowers. When he put Isabella down for a nap he put a movie on for me while he cleaned the house. Then when she woke up he fed her, made me some rice and took her with him to school to study. He taught his study group while taking care of her for several hours. Then put her down for nap when he got home, sat with me for a while then started taking a test. He paused his test to get Isabella up out of bed and feed her dinner, then continued his test. I was starting to feel better so I was able to play with her on the ground. When she got sleepy I put her to bed because Stan was still finishing his test. As you know Stan usually has tons to study and today was not different, but he took the time to take care of me and Isabella. This shouldn't shock anyone because thats just how he is, but I wanted to really thank him because it meant so much to me. I love you so much Stanley!!!

We found a house!

This past week we were able to find a house that we like and that is in our price range. So many people helped us out. I contacted the bishop of the ward we wanted to be in several weeks ago and he gave me lots of advise on the area and some good places to look for housing. We looked on craigslist.com and found a house we just loved. The bishop went and looked at the outside of the house and back yard and said it looked good to him. Then we applied for the house and were approved! However before we put money down we really wanted to be able to see it or have someone we knew walk through and take pictures and get a feel for the house and the landlord. Stan's friend Elana and her husband Jason were lifesavers!! They offered to meet with the landlord and take lots of pictures of the inside for us. We felt good about having them go look at it and would totally trust thier judgement. Well about 5 minutes after we got off the phone they call us back and offer us a free standby ticket to fly up there and see it ourselves. Jason works for the airlines. We were so grateful!!! Wednesday I hopped on a plane to Portland. Elana wasn't busy that day so she was my taxi. I had never met her before but we became fast friends. We looked at the house, took more pictures, took measurements of the house and even picked a bag of strawberries that grow in my new front yard!!!! It is so beautiful there!!! Our landlord Laina is so nice! I hurried back to the airport and was back home by 8pm. It was a long busy day but well worth it. We can't wait to move there. The weather was perfect, everything was green, and we have a house!! YEAH no more apartments!

Here are some pictures of our cute little house! Enjoy!

Front yard that is just infront of the door
Front yard. This is where all the strawberries are. YUM!!! And there are tons of flowers just starting to bloom
In front of the house

Back yard

Back yard

Back Yard

House Hunting!

So as you can tell from our nifty count down we are almost gone! We are excited and nervous and stressed. Right now we are in the process of finding a place to live. It's hard when we can't go look at the house or the neighborhood. We have found several that we like and are getting excited as we go through the applications process. Hopefully we will know soon. Until then we will just have to pray hard and trust the spirit. Wish us luck!

Isabella is 1 yr old!

Isabella turned 1 yr old on Saturday and we had a little get together with the family. Isabella and us had a blast. Thanks everyone for coming! All of her cousins were able to come except one who lives in Idaho. She also had both granparents there. We went swimming and then had a BBQ while the kids played at the playground.

Here are a few pictures.