Noelle waited for hours last night to see the neighbor's street fireworks. By the time they started, she saw a few and Dan sent her to bed. This is how we found her!
It is a good thing this little puppy is so cute! It has been quite a roller coaster week. Yesterday we were just certain that we were going to have to pass her along to another family. One by one we changed our minds and decided to give her a another chance.
The question we get repeatedly is "Oh my goodness, are they twins?" Funny huh? 18 months apart! They were so excited to get spiderman shirts!
This little boy is growing so quickly. He is a riot! He talks from the time he wakes up, until his head hits the pillow. I love teaching him big words, as he will repeat anything we ask him to say. Yesterday it was, "FANTASTIC!" He is busy, cuddly, silly and very loving with his family. We love this baby!
I am so excited to be posting today. Many of you know that this move has been hard for me. I had fallen in love with Salt Lake, had made wonderful friends there, have family there. I just thought we would settle there. I also would have loved to go back to Sacramento. As we were considering job options and praying about our decision, we felt a strong hand lead us to Twin Falls. It is where we are supposed to be at this time in our lives. Yesterday we were in Sacrament Meeting (At church) and we sang the Star Spangled Banner for our opening hymn. I could not contain my emotions. I think sometimes prayers are answered when we least expect them to be. I thought to myself that I have so much to be grateful for. I am really in a wonderful place and we are going to find a great life here. I am so thankful for this wonderful country that I live in and that I am able to raise my family in. The government has many flaws, but there are many freedoms that we are able to enjoy. Ultimately, I am thankful for the freedom to worship as I choose, that I am able to wake up each Sunday and attend church, without any threat of persecution or government restrictions. I am thankful for the people who devote their lives to the run and protect our country. We had a friend back in Salt Lake who devoted a year and a half of her life, away from her husband and son to work as a medic in Iraq. She speaks about the joys for serving her country. I am so thankful for those wonderful people. I am thankful for a government who helped us get through graduate school on so many levels: grants, loans, food and health care. I now have a greater appreciation and desire to feed back into a system that helps families like ours. Like I said, I know the system is far but perfect, but it is wonderful no-the-less and this Independence Day, I am feeling a deep sense of appreciation for my life here in the United States! We are going to celebrate tonight by burning our money, I mean street fireworks with friends. The kids are SOOOOO excited!
As for what the Aldamas have been up to, I am going to do this in bullet- form:
-We have been parenting 3 young children and a puppy. (I could stop here!)
-We took a really, really quick trip to Salt Lake (24 hours including driving!) last weekend to attend the sealing of Calisa, one of our friends from student apartments to her husband and 5 year old son. She was sealed to her family in the Salt Lake Temple. It was beautiful!
-We had 10 people (one of those a new born and also a puppy!) in a student apartment for a night. We hadn't seen Emily's baby and wanted to spend as much time snuggling her as time would allow! It was a blast!
-We tried our first Bountiful Basket last week (food co-op) and have been enjoying yummy farmer's market produce all week!
-We have been doing lunch in the park everyday- it is amazing, healthy, yummy lunches and tons of kids!
-We are juggling having just one car and enjoy our time taking and picking Dan up from work. This is a huge part of our day. We get to drive by the temple and often attach it to errands in the "City!"
-On Friday we went out to dinner and had amazing food at a restaurant with a case full of guns on the wall and taxidermy all around us. We knew we were in Idaho! HAH! It is starting to feel normal!
-We visit our construction site daily. SLOW progress, but progress. They have the foundation down, the skeleton plumbing for the basement and have all the frames ready to poor the basement walls. It is scheduled to be done the 22nd of September, which is a bit of a stress for us, since the house we are living in is pending sale and the landlords have given us until August 31st to be out. We shall see. There is no speeding up the building process. It is slow!
-Noelle and I watched an entire High School Musical Marathon on Saturday-all three movies!!!! We love it! Even Elijah and Corom can sing every single song.
4 comments:
Sounds like things are going better for you! So glad! Thanks for the update.
Wow! Great post! We still miss you guys, but glad things are going better for you in IDAHO!
Great post! Thanks for sharing everything! We sure miss you guys. For preschool stuff- do you remember that website I made for a class I took? I compiled a bunch of websites. https://sites.google.com/site/preschool1000/ It is private so you might have to sign in.
I was so glad to see you over the weekend! You guys look great--and your puppy is so cute. I'm glad you're keeping her. I hope you can make another visit sometime soon! We'll try to find an empty apartment so it won't be so cozy next time!
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