Turkey Trot

Thanksgiving morning Tony and I participated in a 5K Turkey Trot with some of his other family members. It was in honor of Tony's aunt Mary Woodbury who is fighting breast cancer. It was bitterly cold, I think 9 degrees when we started. But we braved the cold and snow and did our best. I came in dead last but at least I finished.

Green Gables

Well we put down a deposit on an apartment this last weekend. It's the Green Gables apartments that I already posted a link to. It's going to be tight....really tight but it's clean, ground level, and not a total dump. Like some others that we looked at. We'll be signing a 6 month lease so hopefully when the lease is up we'll be able to move into a bigger place. We actually found a bigger place that we really wanted, but someone else got to it before we did. I was pretty bummed. Oh well...so it about 5 weeks we'll be official Rexburgatonians.

Another Round of Sickness

Last week Alaina came down with a cold. A few days later my mom and I came down with it. Today Tony is home sick with it too. It's never fun to be sick but at least most of us are getting it out of the way before Thanksgiving next week.

Apartment Hunting

The last few weeks I've been searching for an apartment over in Rexburg. The moving day is getting ever closer and it would be very convenient for us to actually have a place to move into when we get there. Tony has pretty much left it up to me to find our new abode. It hasn't been easy. First, I've only lived in an apartment once in my life, and that was when I was going to school at BYU-Idaho before Tony and I got married. I only lived there for 3 months, so I feel kind of ignorant as far as apartment living goes. Second, it's difficult to decide that a place is conducive for our family from pictures and information over email. Third, it just makes me nervous to make this big of a decision. But Tony has reassured me that we only have to be in this first apartment for 6 months to a year. I guess I can endure anything for that long. I've been pretty discouraged the last few weeks as I've been searching because nothing seemed to fit. But last week I finally just bit the bullet and applied to an apartment that looked nice. It's called the Green Gables Apartments. Today I found out that we've been approved. So I guess we'll just see what happens from here. I keep praying that Heavenly Father will guide us and provide a way for us to get to Rexburg. Things haven't been easy in the least bit, but they're starting to fall into place. So in about 6 weeks we'll be moving to Rexburg. Whether to this apartment or someplace else I don't know. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Here is the link to the apartment we've been approved for.

http://rentmaster.us/rentals/Idaho/Rexburg/Apartment-Unfurnished/5749/

The Big Six!

Yesterday was Carson's 6th Birthday. It was pretty low key with all the other Halloween festivities I just couldn't do a huge party. But he was excited and happy about his birthday anyway.

He got a "Nurf" type gun from Grandma and Grandpa Elton.
New cloths from Grandma and Grandpa Foster, Iron Hide Transformer from Mom and Dad, and his own real tools from Mom and Dad. He is constantly "borrowing" his Dad's tools to "fix" things around the house, so now he has his own. I'm sure there will be a lot more things around the house that will be "fixed" now.

Halloween

Halloween was busy this year. Two Trunk or Treats, carving pumpkins and a Birthday. Carson dressed up as Iron Man this year, which was ridiculously difficult to find in his size, and Alaina was Cinderella. They were both adorable!

On Saturday we went to my brother's ward to join in the fun with them. In this picture is Carson (Iron Man), Mason (Dragon), Alaina (Cinderella), and Brady (Spiderman). It was a crazy type of fun.
Carson with his pumpkin which is the smaller one. Mine is the bigger one. It was supposed to be a mummy but turned out to be more of a Picasso.
Alaina with her pumpkin.

And here is Carson and Alaina together. What cuties!