catching up

ok, so I have been bad at taking pictures since we moved. I didn't even get Halloween pictures. But Lydia wears her costume all the time, and Danton's was easy too, so we will just take pictures later. Lydia was Giselle from enchanted, I made her the curtain dress, and she has worn it EVERY day. Danton was a monkey. Same costume I made for Lydia when she was that age. Just as cute on Danton as it was on her. I wore my fall back costume, my chicken hat, and went as an egg head :) I wanted to take the kids to the trunk or treat, but it just didn't' work out, we were too busy that day. so we just went to people we know. Uncle Paul and Aunt Ann, Granny and Papa, and My friend that I have been tap dancing with. i think we got about 7 pieces of candy.
As far as tap dancing, this is the way to do it. Since it's just me and my friend we can go at my pace, and we are having a good old time. I've gone for 4 weeks, we have already finished one song and we are starting a new one. And each week we talk about something else and find more stuff that we have in common. That hour goes by SO fast. It's way more fun then the dance studio I was going to last year. :)
My little car that I got 7 1/2 years ago is finally giving us trouble. Mark is working on it again today for the 3rd or 4th time in the last month and a half trying to fix what ever the heck is wrong with it. We are hopeful that this part he is getting today will do the trick. But fixed or not, we still need to get a new car in the near future. We are driving a little 2 door car with a booster seat for Lydia and a rear facing car seat for Danton. So in order to get them buckled, we have to climb in the back seat. yeah, it's fun. We just aren't looking forward to car payments.
oh oh oh, I almost forgot! Renters insurance. We finally set up renters insurance. Oh Halloween night after we got the kids in bed we were watching tv and about 8:00 or so we started hearing sirens. We realized they were fire trucks and they kept coming. Mark finally said "Sarah, I think they are close." He looked out the back door and I looked out the front door. "I see it!" he said to me. There is an apartment complex right across the street from us and tons of smoke was coming up from one of the buildings. He walked down the parking lot to see and called me when he saw it. I made sure the kids were asleep, locked the door and walked down to see it too. It was crazy! I got there in time to see the flames cut out the side of the building and move on to the roof. We watched for about 20 mins. the flames for a good 15 feet above the roof. The next day we drove past on our way to church and we could see the damage it caused. Monday first thing I called and got our insurance set up.
ps 2 units were destroyed, one belonged to a couple in their early 20, and the other a single mom with a 5 and 7 ish year old girls. very sad. No one was hurt.

quick update

This is at the new house, Mark finally got his grill, and we have a bag of marshmallow so when ever we grill, after the meat is done we roast marshmallows. Lydia thought that was pretty cool.

Danton just learned how to climb (this is the old house)
oh he struggles

Ok I'll do my best to do some quick updates. I say quick cause after almost a month of not blogging there is a bit to catch up on. Lydia's new phrase is Kay-naw naw. We have yet to find out what it means. It's kinda like a wild card. She usually says it when she is mad or something isn't quite right with her. She has another wild card word. Ever. Ever is the opposite of Kay-naw naw. She will add the word Even to any sentence when she is happy, or when something is good, or pretty. She loves pretty things, EVER! She also mixes up her words, I how learned to do it, or I gotfor (forgot) I can't remember anything else specifically that she has said, but I do have a little story. (although it's not as good with out being able to see her face)
She was getting ready to take a bath and she was in the tub as I was starting to fill it. Once the water got warm I told her to plug the tub. She grabbed the faucet, I said no, it's lower push the plug, so she pushed a little metal round cap on the wall of the tub below the faucet looking a little uncertain as she was squatting in the tub. I laughed and said "no, push on the bottom" with a VERY confused look on her face she tried to follow my instructions and slowly moved her hand to cover her bottom. I busted up laughing and bent down and showed her what I meant.
We went to visit Great Grandma Willis last Saturday and we rode with Grandma and Grandpa Adams. As we got on the interstate Dad went to pass a car and moved to the left lane, Lydia said "Mom. I'm scared. (putting her hands on her face) We're on the wong side of the woad"
I didn't even know she knew what the wrong side of the road was.
Danton has 4 teeth now (finally) and is climbing EVERYTHING, he LOVES our stairs. He is also starting to stand up on his own.
I have taken to calling him Danton the Conquer. If he sees an obstacle in his way he doesn't go around it, he purposely goes over to it and conquers it. It is SO funny to watch.

pictures to come

We are all moved in, and we love the new place and the new location. IT's all totally great. Lydia likes the stairs, and I even made her a castle out of one of the bigger empty boxes. She loves to dance in her castle wearing her princess dress, with her frog, she is so funny.
We don't have the internet yet, and we probably wont get it till after we get a new car. Which hopefully will be soon. Readers digest version: Our only car (small 2 door car that I the end of my senior year in HS) is dying on us. The problem is not sever yet, but if we keep driving it, it will get bad fast I'm afraid. So the car is parked at Mark's parents house and we have been borrowing their 4 door truck till we get a new car. And with no internet it's hard to search for them. :)
I was looking at my camera last night and we have lots of pictures adn videos that need to be posted, but I forgot ot bring it with me today :( sorry.
So you may not see much of me on here and facebook for the next while. And I shall adjust to living "out of the loop" :)

Danton 7 months

He thinks he is pretty hot stuff now that he can stand up when ever he wants. Although he is having new trouble falling asleep, cause he gets up and can't get back down, so he just cries and cries as his feet start slipping apart until he can't balance any more and falls over. However it usually doesn't take that long, he can hold him self up for quite a while, I usually go in there and take him down before he falls...usually. :)

TAP AGAIN!!

I'm going to start tap dancing again in 2 weeks, I'm SO excited. I found out that a sister in my ward use to own a dance studio, so a couple weeks ago I ask if she would be interested in teaching again. She said that would be fun and we talked for a few mins. Well I kept thinking about it and since we are moving to a new ward next week I thought I'd better talk o her while I could. I gave her a call yesterday, she said "wow, you're serious about this aren't' you" I laughed and said "very serious" She said she hadn't thought about it since we talked until the night before I called her.
So we talked for about 10 mins and decided that after we move I will give her a call and we will start dancing once a week at her house. She will teach me as long as she can. I' excited though cause it's a very casual setting. I can bring my kids, so I don't' have to worry about Mark being home or studying, and she has an open schedule so we can do it when ever is good for me. I'm SO excited!
The last time I was in class I was 8 months pregnant with Danton and my balance was not that great. So I wasn't really in the shape I wanted to be in. I just think this is going to work out great, cause Lydia is going to LOVE coming with me. I took Lydia and Danton to my tap class when he was about 2 months old just to show them off, and Lydia would have stayed and watched for the entire class, she loved watching them dance.

moving

I haven't been doing much posting lately. It's not really been on my mind. I have been focused on moving instead. We are just moving into Springfield, so it's no big deal, but I still have to clean and pack and I've got 2 weeks to get it all done.
We are so excited about our new place. Love the location. It's about a block south of Battlefield, and it's off of Golden/Scenic. (between Kansas, and West By Pass) It's a town house and it's bigger then our current place and CHEAPER! WOOT WOOT! AND we get 2 months of FREE rent. So we are going to take that money and finally buy us a bed. YES! We move on the 24, two weeks from tomorrow. Can't wait. So if you don't hear much from me in the next couple weeks you know why. :)

I am enjoying...

I am enjoying a fat free, sugar free, calorie free, guilt free milk shake. Want my recipe? sure! It's got one banana, 5 strawberries, a dash of skim milk, several scoops of country rich vanilla Ice cream, and Hershey's milk chocolate pieces.
How in the world? Do you ask. Here is my secrete. I cleaned my ENTIRE room today, AND did my dishes after dinner. ANYTHING is possible. :)
p.s. I didn't even shove anything under my bed! :)