The Last Two Weeks

My patriotic boy

My two boys

We picked cherries off my mom's cherry tree last week.

William really loves his toys.

My sister came to visit yesterday. Her kids are so cute. I really do have the cutest nieces and nephews.

Kaden had a softball game last night (which they won). This is him up to bat. Right before he told me that he wasn't going to hit a home run because he was to tired. I was pleasantly surprised to see him hit it far enough to get three people home and to third base! Thats my hubby!!

Lately William has been obsessed with flinging his arms around and kicking his feet. He gets a serious face when he does it, like he is concentrating really hard. He even does it while I am changing his diaper which makes it very diffucult but so funny!! I caught him in action this morning. Although usually he does it much more than this.

College Grad

I finished college in December but I postponed graduating so that I could maintain BYU insurance on the cheap. We weren't planning on having babies for awhile so it was quite the shock to us when we found out about little William. After lots of praying we decided that it was in our best interest to postpone graduating from BYU until June. If we hadn't have done so I would have had to pay $600 a month starting January then over $1000 once William was born. I had already applied for graduation so I had to go back to BYU and explain my circumstances. Luckily this happens often enough and they let me push back graduating even though I was completely done with classes and wasn't planning on taking any more classes at BYU.

I got an email the other day saying that BYU has ordered my diploma. I also just paid for my UT teaching license and am ordering copies of my transcripts. It is official that I am certified to teach K-8th grade in Utah!! I am extremely excited that I am done with college until I decide I want to go back!! I don't know that I ever will go back to college but I might want to get my Masters at some point in my life. Now I just have to get fingerprinted and receive my official transcripts so that I can apply for NV licensure.

I am really hoping that I can get a teaching job in NV so that Kaden can go back to school. He has a couple classes left for his Associates degree and is working on establishing his handicap in golf. There is a golf management (I don't really know the official term of the degree he wants so you would have to ask him) program at UNLV that is accredited by the PGA. Kaden is extremely excited about this program! We are hoping to get him back in school by next fall. If I can't find a teaching job I am not sure what we will do financially but I know that the Lord will help us through it.

Right now we are just trying to finish paying for the birth of William and hopefully save some money for school. We have lived with my mom for a year next month and we are hoping she'll let us live with her until we move back to Vegas. It sucks that we are both working full time and opposite schedules but it'll be worth it in the end! We could be worse off and are so blessed to have such great families that are willing to help us out any way that they can.

Blessing, Shots, & 4th of July

William met his cousin Zoe for the first time two weeks ago. They are only 5 days apart and I can't wait for them to be best buddies when they are older. He also experienced grass for the first time. We blessed William right after he turned two months. The day after the blessing William had his 2 month checkup and shots. He has gotten so big and was 13 lbs. 2 oz. and 23.5 inches long. He is in the 75 percentile for weight, height, and head circumference. That's my big boy!! He handled shots so well but still had some side effects. Nothing we can't handle though! Not really looking forward to his 4 month shots! I am really squirmy when it comes to needles so I never look at the needle. Since I had to hold William still I saw the needles they poked him with and holy cow those things are huge! I don't think I'll be looking again next time!! I took some two month pictures of William and my sister-in-law photoshoped them for me. Thanks Katie!

We set off fireworks on the 3rd. It was almost William's bedtime when we started setting them off so he was only awake for a little bit of them. I am not sure how he felt about them but I do know that he didn't cry!! Lately we have just been playing with toys a lot and enjoying the outdoors. Kaden took William on the slide for the first time and we can't wait to take him again!!