Getting ready...

We leave for Alaska this week! I am so excited for so many reasons! So thankful for so many reasons! It is a good season for being thankful. I think that the number one thing that I am thankful about is that it seems like the Lord is on our side right now and has caused it so that everything has been so perfect for us while getting everything ready to go to Alaska and go to the temple. It was the perfect time for our family to do this. The first step was to have Chris meet with the Bishop for the interview to get the Melchizedek Priesthood. That was last Sunday. Once his name was submitted to the high council, he had to be sustained and it just happened to be stake conference today so as soon as he was sustained and it was over, he was ordained and then we went and met with the bishop who that day had been called to be the 1st councilor to the new stake president and then after the three of us got our recommends from the bishop, we went back and met with the new stake president and were interviewed by him and got him to sign our recommends and then on Tuesday they will be scanned and then we will be ready! I still need to call and schedule our endowment and our sealing but the fact that everything has been working out so perfectly helps me know that the Lord really wants this to happen!

So we leave on Friday for Alaska, my parents and Jonathon get home on Sunday and it will be a nice home coming for him! Haven't seen him in over 2 years... Once he is home we will have Thanksgiving and we will have snow and winter! I am looking forward to that. And then on Sunday the 28th we will go to the temple. Chris's brother Russ is coming up to be with us for that and then we leave on Tuesday morning. We just bought our plane tickets to go visit Maryland for Christmas and are looking forward to that, especially meeting Russ and Jess's baby that will be born shortly before Christmas.

As for things that are coming up, lots has been going on. Chris got that part time job and are just waiting to hear back from them about work for Chris to do. Dallin is getting so big and strong and I am a happy mommy!



You can tell Dallin is gaining lots of weight now because his legs are finally starting to chunk up. It isn't a bad thing but I have noticed he is getting a lot heavier. Chris weighed him yesterday and we guesstimate that he is about 14 and a half pounds when he doesn't have his clothes or cloth diaper on. Such a big boy! He loves his jumper and will sit in it for 30-45 minutes at a time just jumping up and down and staring at us. And he smiles the whole time.



I like to have a fruit with breakfast so I had apples the other day and since I give Dallin apple sauce I figure I can give him apples so any time I eat an apple I give him a slice to gnaw on. He loves it even though we have tart apples.



This is Dallin being tired. We were out and about doing something that day and when we got home he was out and still drinking his apple juice. Chris always says that he would love to be able to eat while sleeping like Dallin.



You have to enlarge the photo but you can see his two teeth in this picture! He isn't a biter at all which is nice because I still nurse twice a day.



As for me, I decided that I didn't like my flat dead feeling hair! My friend Joyce permed it for me!



This is the best picture I have of my hair. I think it turned out really well and I love having it curly. I am still not used to it but I definitely like having the curl in my hair. I feel silly for saying it but in the back of my mind I ask myself who gets perms? Its what old ladies do... But I think it is because I don't know anyone who perms their hair. They all get body waves, which in the end is a perm. Anyway, I love my hair and so do Dallin and Chris.