Our friend Jenny posted some new pictures of Owen and they look great! Check them out here.

Our friend Jenny took pictures of Owen again today. She took some pictures of him when he was just a couple of weeks old and did a great job. Owen was a good sport again today, but was a lot more active than the last time he had pictures taken! So far we have only seen the picture below, can’t wait to see the others!

We never thought we would see this day, but it happened.  We sold our house!  For those of you that weren’t aware of our situation we bought a townhouse 3 years ago.  The home owners association was in the middle of a lawsuit with the builder.  When we bought we were told that the lawsuit would be over in the fall of that same year.  So we bought our house and moved in.  Flash forward 3 years later and the lawsuit is finally over.  It ended in mediation just after Thanksgiving.  So we got our house in order and put it on the market right after Christmas.

We knew it was a long shot to sell our house for a reasonable amount of money because of the down market and the lack of sales in the community due to the lawsuit.  Our realtor warned us that even if we got a good offer the deal would likely fall apart because of the appraisal.

So we listed our house and started praying.  We prayed that if we were meant to move on that we would get an offer on our house that would allow us to sell.  We got a lot of showings and lots of positive feedback but in the back of our minds we kept thinking we would be stuck there for at least another year.  And then it happened.  We got an offer and it was too good to be true.

So here we are less than 2 weeks since we got the offer.  Moved out of our house, most of our stuff stored in a storage unit and living in a friends basement (thanks Jerusha) until we find a new house.

There have been many tears shed over the last 2 weeks.  Facing the unknown and leaving friends behind has been very hard.  But in spit of all the sadness and tears we know that Heavenly Father is looking out for us.  We never thought that the answer to our prayers would bring on such sadness, but we have faith and trust in the Lord that we are supposed to move on.

Owen is getting very close to crawling, he still rolls around a bit while doing it but he’s getting better!

Lately people have been telling us that Owen looks like his Papa (Grandpa).  What do you think?

Owen recently figured out how to smack his lips and he thinks he is quite funny! This is one of my favorite videos of our son.

Go Utes!!!

Owen was so excited to get a picture under the tree in his Christmas PJ’s so he could wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from our family to yours.

So I was summoned to jury duty, again.  I was worried all weekend that I wouldn’t be able to save enough milk for Owen to eat while I was performing my civic duty.  I worried that Bernd wouldn’t be able to get any work done while taking care of Owen.  I worried that my house wasn’t very clean and Bernd’s business partner was coming over.  But I never worried about this…

So I was sitting in the courtroom with all of the other potential jurors when a security officer entered the courtroom and spoke to the clerk.  Next thing I know the judge is asking if anyone owned a silver Honda.  I raised my hand and the judge asked me to approach the bench.  Of course the first thing that went through my head was, what does my silver Honda have to do with this case or my ability to be a juror.  The judge then told me that my car had been hit and because of that he was going to dismiss me from jury duty.  

So I followed the security officer out of the courtroom and he started telling me what happened.  He told me that a lady had backed into my car and that the officer that responded to the accident got all of her information.  He was telling me that the whole thing was caught on the security cameras, he hadn’t seen the video or the car yet so he didn’t know exactly what had happened.  We walked up to the car from the back and neither of us saw any damaged.  We got to the front of the car and the officer said “what the hell did she do?!” 

These pictures don’t do the damage justice.  The front end of the car is a total mess.  She pushed the car back at least 2 feet.  Thankfully our car didn’t hit the car parked behind me.  Since the lady that hit the car was long gone by the time they found me I have no idea what happened but she sure did a number to our car.

So Bernd packed Owen up and came to get me and deal with the car.  By the time he got off the phone with the insurance company all of the jury members that were not selected for the trial were leaving the courthouse.  So even though I was dismissed early I didn’t get to leave until long after most of my fellow jurors. 

Before I learned that my car was hit I knew it was just a matter of time before they dismissed me as a juror because of the nature of the case.  Last time I was summoned to jury duty it was for a similar case and I was the first person dismissed because of my bias with this particular offense.  So I would have been long gone, but instead I got to deal with this loveliness.  Good thing I got my $18.50 of tax payer money for all my trouble, it made the whole experience totally worth it (that’s was completely sarcastic in case you weren’t sure!).

I have lots to talk about and I didn’t want to do a bunch of posts, hence the random title.

Owen’s new cousin was born on November 18th.  Cole is so cute and we are so excited to have him join our family.  We are already enjoying having 3 little boys in the family.  I can’t wait until they are all a little older and can play together. 

Owen had his 4 month check up.  Here are his stats.

Height:  25 inches -- 50%

Weight:  13 lbs. 11 oz. -- 25% (he dropped from 50%)

Head:  42 cm -- 50%

We were a little surprised that his weight dropped so much.  He is getting cute fat rolls on his legs and arms so I was surprised he was so low.  However people are always telling me that he is little so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised.  I think Cole might catch up to Owen before we know it.  Cole was almost 10 lbs. at his 2 week visit!

Thanksgiving was great as usual.  We missed Josh, Sabrina and the boys but it was fun to have Dan, Deb and family join us for dinner.  I didn’t get any pictures on Thanksgiving which I’m sad about.  Also there was no snow storms while we were in Park City which was disappointing.  I love being up there for Thanksgiving, sitting by the fire, with a huge snow storm.

We were playing Domino’s and Owen wanted to be on Jake’s team!  Owen loves his Uncle Jake.

I started feeding Owen cereal last week.  I wasn’t sure if he was ready or not but thought I would try it out.  I don’t know how much he is actually getting in his mouth but he is really interested in it.  I put Owen in his Bumbo fully clothed with a little bib on the first time we fed him.  I don’t know what I was thinking!  Since that first time I learned my lesson and I strip him down to just a diaper.