Summary of July-November...

Wow, mid-November already! Aye!

Please forgive my lack of blogging the last few months. Not only have I been busy being a mommy to the cutest little boy on the planet, I have been without my beloved computer for a couple of months now. I have our iPad that I can use to check my email and facebook on, but I don't really like typing a lot on the touch screen. So, things like blogging don't happen.

So since I haven't written since July, I have a lot to catch up on!

At the beginning of August, David and I went on a lovely vacation with David's family. We flew into Salt Lake City and toured Utah a bit. I got to see some good friends that I hadn't seen in a while and I got to visit with some family that I don't get to see as often as I'd like.

We got to see my friend Rita and her husband Mathoni. Rita was about to pop with their first baby, baby Jimmy. While we were in Provo, we visited with my siblings, Adam, Camille, and Heidi. There was some drama with rental cars, but once we got that straightened out, we were off to lunch with my aunt Gayela and cousin Angela!

My uncle Tom and aunt Karen were totally awesome and let us stay at their place for a couple of nights so I could go to my best friend Alex's wedding. It was a beautiful sealing ceremony in the Logan temple. I'm so glad I was able to go!

After our escapades in Utah, we met up with David's family and headed up to Yellowstone. We spent a couple of days touring the park and then drove back down to Salt Lake City to fly back home. All in all, it was awesome to get out and see some new things.

After we arrived back to Texas, David decided to look into going back to school since he had still been unable to find a job. We talked it over and decided to move to Ohio and go to school there. Through his job-searching, we had seen too many job openings that he would qualify for, except that he does not have a bachelor's in computer science. So, by the end of September, we were all moved to Ohio!

We feel that Ohio is where God wants us right now, and we have peace with where we are and what we're doing. David has continued to apply for jobs, but still no luck. In two more weeks, we will have hit our year mark (Nov 29) of unemployment. We are hoping that he will get a job before he goes back to school in January. We can hope, right?

On another note, Jackson is growing up so fast! Once we moved here, I feel like he has hit milestone after milestone! We moved here just before his 6 month birthday. Two weeks later, he slept through the night for the first (and second) time! He has yet to do it again, but that's okay. Two weeks after that, he finally mastered rolling over! And two weeks after that, he cut his first tooth! Slow down! He is also scooting like crazy, and he is trying to figure out how to stand up to furniture. Not to mention zooming around in his walker and grabbing everything within reach. He will lunge himself towards something interesting! He makes the cutest little noises, goo-ing and gah-ing and dada-ing, and mah-ing. I love it! Right now he has a pair of shoes and he is playing with the shoelaces. I sure love that kid!

It's amazing how much joy motherhood brings me. Even though I honestly don't know how in the world I am surviving, I am happier than ever. I've got a loving husband who is trying so hard, and a beautiful goofy little boy to keep me laughing.