HE DID IT!!!

On Friday, April 23rd, Greg GRADUATED!!! We are so excited! Greg had been in school since before we were married (our anniversery in June will make 6 years). He has been hired full time at L-3 Communications in North Salt Lake (where he has been working as a co-op) as a Manufacturing Engineer.
On top of that, we are in line to buy a house in South Jordan and should close on May 19th. We are very excited. It's a cute tri-level with a great yard for the kids, a big kitchen, and right by a park.

still kicking...

We are still here!
Our lovely HP has had yet another melt-down and we have sent it in for repairs. Again. Thank you to the Peterson's for letting us borrow their laptop so I can occasionally keep in touch with reality.
We are at five weeks to the end of the semester.
Cute litte Issac had his first birthday last week. He is the cutest little trouble-maker I've ever seen. I'll post pictures later.

Happy Birthday Will

Our little William turned 3 last month. Having a birthday right after Christmas is not quite what I wanted for him, but we don't always get to decide these things, do we?

This is him wearing his special birthday hat he made himself.

A new tool set just like Daddy's.

I made Will a Cars birthday cake in the shape of a race track with little car crackers driving around it.

Both boys got bath towels that are so cute. Will likes the bear...

so Isaac is the shark.

We got to go sledding with Auntie Tanza and Uncle Mike before they went back to Hawaii. Will had an awesome crash but he did eventually get back on the sled. What a brave kid!

It's official

I must be getting old because my baby sister is getting married! She is engaged to her long-time boyfriend Michael Tupola from Molokai, Hawaii. They are getting married in June, which means this year will be even crazier for our little family than we had thought, as they will be having the wedding and reception here in Utah and a reception in Hawaii.
Speaking of weddings, I finally applied for a business license for flower arranging (mostly for weddings, but other things, too). I've been wanting to get one for a long time- I've been working with flowers for almost 15 years and arranging for 10. I have one wedding coming up at the end of February that I'm excited for. I love doing flowers! Greg is really good about putting up with the fact that when I'm arranging he doesn't have a kitchen or a wife for a couple of days.
Otherwise, we are plugging along trying to survive another Utah winter, already looking forward to spring with all the beautiful daffodils and tulips.

Merry Christmas

We hope you all had a merry Christmas! We had a great time with both of our families. My sister is home from BYU-Hawaii and we were also able to go visit Greg's sister in Wyoming. She works at Western Wyoming Community College where they have an awesome collection of dinosaur fossils that William loved.


At home we made yummy candies...

Christmas morning...

Also, some random pictures:
Isaac playing with a balloon at cousin Charlie's birthday party in November.

Greg is on a team building a remote control boat for his senior project and they finished their prototype this past semester. It's about 4 feet long and runs great.

Monday starts a new semeter that will culminate in the greatest day of days: Greg's graduation!!!

Shopping Deals

I just wanted to share my awesome shopping trip to Rite Aid this week. I bought:
2 bags Snickers candy
1 package Huggies diapers
8 Rolls Bounty paper towels
2 16-packs Duracell batteries
The total was $45, after coupons it was $33, and I had 3 rebate checks that brought the total down to 75 cents! Plus, I qualified for $6 in rebates, so I really made $5.25!

The H1N1 Bandwagon

People at Greg's work and school have been getting it right and left, so we knew it was only a matter of time before we got it too...
dun, dun, dun... the Swine Flu!
I got hit last Monday at 11:00 am- it's amazing how suddenly it came on. Then a few days later Isaac got it, then the next day Will got it, and finally, several days later Greg got it. (He was proud of how long he was able to hold out). Zac's complicated into croup and then a few days later a bacterial infection in his ear and throat, but we got him on antibiotics and he's fine now. Greg went to the doctor and got Tamiflu so his was shorter than mine, but still no fun.
It's a little ironic we got the swine flu because we've been metaphorically rolling our eyes at the media frenzy over it. Still, for us the swine flu was really just like the regular flu. Now we've all had it and we're done! Bring on winter!