London's Walking

London has started walking! She loves it and wants to do it all the time now. This video is taken at her Grandma Alice's home. Isn't she so cute? Matt is away right now in D.C. for work and she'll be a pro before he gets back. Today is his birthday too! He is now 28. London and I both miss him terribly.

We'll be moving into our new home in a little over a week. I am so excited! I'll post pictures of it once we're there.

Home Sweet Home

Oh it is so nice being home! We've been back now for awhile, like 6 weeks or so, and it still seems too good to be real. Every time I see the mountains I feel this big gush of comfort =) I really miss my friends in Alabama though. Now I have to make some new friends that are stay at home moms.

We are staying with our best friends for now while we still look for a home. I thought house shopping would be way fun but it's actually terrible! Most of the homes out there are completely retarded. It feels like we'll never find one that is just right for us.

I just finished a CNA class today. I had to take one for a new prerequisite that SLCC is requiring for the nursing program now. It is wonderful to have it done! I had to be in class every evening for 4 hours. I hated leaving London, but at least it was my mom and/or Matt taking her.

The picture above is of Pepper and I at Eclipse. We had a girl's night (well really afternoon) and went and saw a movie. I have to say that the movie was awesome! The best one out of the three so far.

London is crawling extremely fast and is constantly wanting to walk. She can't walk on her own yet, but she loves to grab your pointer fingers and walk with your support. It is so cute! Oh and she babbles like crazy. She said her first word this week. She was waiving to my mom as we were leaving and she said "bye-bye"! She is super close to saying dadda now too.

Salt Lake Here We Come!

We have the best news ever to report.... We get to move back to Salt Lake City!!! I am still screaming and jumping up and down from excitement. Now don't get me wrong, Alabama has been great, but we get to go back home! We are moving sometime in June. We still don't know exactly when, but we should be finding out for sure soon. We also hope to buy a home when we get up there. Can life be any more perfect? Blessings are just coming left and right. Now London will grow up with Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, and Cousins all really close by. Just the way we want it. Oh yeah!

Scooting Madness!

London is now officially crawling! Well, it's not quite crawling... but pretty close. It's more like scooting. Every day she gets better and better at it. I attached a video of her doing it, but she does it at the very end.
Matt and I will be finding out in about two weeks if we are going to be Alabamians the rest of this year. He's requested to be transferred back to Utah. We're just keeping our fingers crossed! I'll keep you posted as soon as we know!

First Easter

Ahhhhhh! London was really enjoying herself when we took this picture. She must love Easter as much as I did when I was little. It was my favorite holiday! The Easter Bunny gave London a basket with Laffy Taffys (because they are mom's weakness), bubbles, and a little blue puppy. We went for a little stroll between conferences and I wish everyone could see how beautiful Alabama is in the Spring. It totally beats Utah by a mile! There are these gorgeous white trees everywhere. And it is warm enough to wear flip flops and capris. I'll have a tan in no time! In fact, it is so warm already that the AC is running all day and night. I left the window open last night to try to get the place cooled down, and it cooled down to only 75. Crazy! I have a feeling this summer will be an experience!

Salt Lake Trip

A couple weeks ago the three of us made our first trip back to Salt Lake City. London was finally able to meet all of her family. We had a blast! It was a very busy trip, full of rushing around to see all the people we love. We didn't even get to catch everyone we wanted to! Of course I didn't get as many pictures as I was hoping, but below are a few good ones.
Traveling back to Salt Lake made us want to move back even more. It was crazy to see how big our nieces and nephews have gotten. We wouldn't had even recognized Abby, and she definitely didn't recognize us! I like to think that by the end of the trip she liked us =)
The worst part about living far away is that we miss so many family gatherings. I always love when the whole family gets together. Those are definitely some of my favorite times.

London loves her Uncles! She has a lot of them!Abby didn't want to swing on our laps at first, but once we got her to, she didn't want to stop!
Us after eating Cafe Rio. Yummmmm.... don't have that place in the South =(
London with her Great Grandma!

March has already been busy!

There has been so many new things that have happened to our family! Matt went to D.C. last week for work. London and I went 5 full days without him! It was horrible. I can't tell you enough how happy it makes me to have him home. Our place is just so much happier when Matt is home. London laughs and smiles more, because he is her favorite buddy, and our place just feels so much brighter. He has to go to D.C. again in June for two weeks, but London and I will be tagging along then.
The last week of February we three went to Atlanta to can some food for our food storage. We got beans, flour, rice, oats, sugar, apples, carrots, dry milk, and onions. It still isn't enough, but it is a start. I can't believe how relieving it is to know that we have a nice back up if times get hard. Hopefully we'll never have to use it. It was so fun though to go to the cannery with the people from our ward. We had a blast packing food and visiting.
Another exciting event is that London has started solids. I was going to wait until our trip to Salt Lake was over, but she is so ready that I couldn't put it off any longer. She isn't fond of the rice cereal yet. We died laughing when she took that first bite! She gets so excited when the spoon gets close to her mouth and she'll open big and wide, but then make the funniest and nasty faces when she tastes the cereal. She spits most of it out for now, but she'll have it down soon. I can't believe how big she is getting. Solids already?