Wow it's been a long time!

So it's been a while. Summer went by way too fast and now that school's started, my free time has been very limited. But, the plus side of having two tests this past week has limited my homework for the weekend so I though I should post some pictures. We haven't been up to much. Colleen's searching for new work, her company has pending litigation in California so she's slowly losing her privileges at the VA Hospital which means that sooner or later, she most likely won't have a job. That's been a little stressful, but we'll see how things work out.

School's been going good, I have classes Monday-Friday but I don't go until 7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I get home at 6pm on Wednesdays, so that allows me to have a little more time at home during the week, which has been really nice.

Silas is doing good, we're working on potty training but not much luck so far. He's completely potty trained at day care, but he just won't do it at home. It's kinda nice since we're not going through as many diapers. They have kid-size toilets at day care, so I think it's easier for him to do it there than it is at home with the seat on the normal sized one. I was joking with Colleen that we should just get a kid sized toilet installed in our bathroom at home and maybe that will help. He can also now reach the light switch in his room so getting him to bed has been a bit of a struggle lately, as he's always getting out of bed and turning his light and either playing with toys or reading books. He loves to help us cook, as you can tell from the photo below. Today we made cookies and he was so excited about them. When I asked him what he wanted for lunch he said, "Um...cookies?" We had dinner at our friend's Adam and Kelli's house tonight and brought some cookies with us and he just couldn't wait to eat some after dinner. He's quite the showoff, too, which I know Tim can attest to. He'll say "Watch this Unka Tim", then do some strange acrobat move then fall down. You would think he's starved for attention. We were playing in his room the other day and he was standing up on his bed then jumping down to the floor and he would say "Watch this, daddy, super jump!" It was pretty funny. Melanie gave us their trampoline, which has been awesome and allows him to do all sorts of fun tricks. Anyways, here are a few photos.

Here he is helping me make pizza one night for dinner.

The above photo was taken about 5 seconds before he attempted attack Colleen with the stick he has in his hands.

I got home from school Friday night and he and Colleen had made this cool track for his cars. He was so excited to show me that he wouldn't go to bed until I got home and saw it.

Hope everyone is doing well. If anyone's planning on coming for Thanksgiving and needs a hotel room, let me know. I've got the sweet connection. 

Silas is Two!

Hey all! We had a birthday party today for Silas' 2cd birthday. I made 7 pizzas, we bought a cake, and had a lot of Silas' friends (and some of ours, too) over. We had great time, and the weather was absolutely perfect. Silas had a lot of fun, especially after he got to eat some cake. There were three of his friends that came over that are right around his age, and they played and played and played. He got some cool presents, although he only really opened one of them before he was off running around again. That's the problem with having cake before presents. 

Everything with the house is going good. We're still trying to get unpacked, but a majority of the house is coming together. The garage is a disaster, but most of it is stuff that we'll sell when we have a garage sale in a few weeks. School's going well, only 3 weeks left now until summer break. I was hoping to take a couple of summer classes, but the only classes I need are only offered during the day so I'm unable to take any of them. Kind of sucks, but I also really want to have the summer free.

Anyways, I hope everyone's doing well, here are some pictures!

He had already grabbed the cake once, so while we sang "Happy Birthday" to him I had to hold his arms down, hence the dis-satisfied look on his face.

From left to right is Jack, Silas, and Uly. That's the box our lawnmower came in. They loved playing in it.

New House!

Hi all,

No pictures yet, but we closed on our house yesterday, and got the keys today. It's finally over...almost. We're moving tomorrow, so we still have a bit of stress that comes with that; but at least we don't have to worry about whether we're actually getting it anymore. Our total mortgage payments are lower than what we've been paying for rent, which is really awesome.

I'll post some pictures once we get all set up, but it might not be until next week before I get a chance to. Too much homework that I've got to focus on this week. Now that we've got the house, if people come for Thanksgiving at Mel's house we'll have a little bit of extra room to put some people up.

Hope everyone is doing good!

Painting

As you might be able to tell, Silas had a lot of fun painting with Colleen the other night when I was at school. The last picture here is how it ended right before he had to take a bath.

I'm at work so I thought I'd do a quick post while I had some time. We're still figuring out house stuff, hopefully we'll get everything settled this week. I think we're still going to close on April 6, so we're looking forward to that. Hope everyone's doing well.

Been a while...

Hey all, after just seeing that both Ben and Jeremy posted blogs I figured I probably should as well. We've been super busy the past couple weeks. We got a home loan and looked for a bit, then found one that we really liked. We had the inspection done on Friday and there were a couple things that need to be checked out before we close, but it all depends on if the current owner will pay for those things to get checked out. I can't imagine that they wouldn't pay, I figure if they don't do it for us they'll end up having to do it for someone else or else they may not sell the house. On the other hand, they might get someone who doesn't get a home inspection done, then they won't have to pay. Anyways, it's been a little stressful, and along with a crazy busy semester at school, plus work and family, it's been a little trying.

School's going pretty good so far. I'm taking pre-calculus, Accounting, Survey of Western Literature from the Civil War to the present, and Business Communications. Math and Accounting are fun classes, my literature class is boring as hell but it's kind of interesting, and Business Communications is probably the biggest waste of class that I've ever had, but it's easy, so that counts for something, right?

Colleen's doing good, she's been taking the lead on most of the financial stuff for the house, so that's been stressing her out a little bit. She's still enjoying her job at the VA, and she started to bring a painting teacher in on Fridays for a special class. She says he's kind of like Bob Ross, and she's had a good response from the veterans that are taking part in it.

Silas is awesome, he's starting to talk a lot more, and counted to three tonight on our way home from our friend Adams house. He'll answer questions with a yes or no, although unless you're talking about food and playing I'm not sure he fully understands what you're a sing him. Sometimes if you ask him something he'll go "um...", it's pretty funny and words don't do it justice but if anyone else's kids have ever done that you'll know what I'm talking about. If you don't have kids, well, I don't know. Anyways, Here are some pictures of Silas. We got those boots for him and he loves to wear them as much as he can. They're a couple sizes too big so he sometimes has a hard time walking. It's amusing. He can do a somersault now, too. That's been a lot of fun. Well, hope everyone's doing well, I probably won't post again until I get out of school in May but we'll see. Colleen posts a lot of pictures on Facebook, so you may have already seen these.