Update

Well its been a couple of weeks since I wrote anything. You can see why I have never sucessfully kept a journal. Even when I was on my mission I would go weeks in between entries. Then write a couple pages in attempt to document what I had missed. So I guess that is what this post will be as well.

Mark and I have made offers on 2 homes. One in West Haven, the other in Clinton. Both of which are short sales. Because of which we are told it will be 30 to 60 days before we hear anything back. So we are waiting. I am hoping that we will get one of these two homes. Ideally get both and be able to go back and walk through them again and then decide which home we want. I think the chances are very slim in getting the home in West Haven. The location would be ideal in keeping us close to Mark's parents. I think are chances of us getting the home in Clinton are much higher. I guess only time will tell.

Claire is being Claire. She very successfully embarrassed Mark in church yesterday, but knocking over the piano bench in sunday school and proceeding to play. The ward members insist it doesn't bother them, but I can't wait for day when we can send her to nursery. She has too much energy. She needs something to do with it all, and nursery toys sound like the perfect outlet. We will wait patiently over the next couple of months, and have a little celebration when June 7th comes. It will be a glorious day.

Its February!

So it is officially February and has been for a few days. :) I already have a case of spring fever. I just can't wait for the warm weather. Mark and I brought his bike in the house this last week and pimped it out with all the cool stuff he got for christmas. He now has a basket, headlight and taillight, lights on the tires, and a speedometer. He was so excited that he braved the cold and rode up to subway to pick us up dinner. Upon returning he was able to tell me the mileage and speed that he traveled. Oh yeah that is one sweet bike!

Claire is still growing. She isn't my baby baby anymore. Now she is a toddler, well more of a runner now days. She will just take off, I never knew little legs could move so fast. I was at Ulta the other day picking up some nail polish for my mom for her birthday. I sat her down to pay, the second her feet hit the floor she was off. Before I got to her she had two bottle of polish in her hands and was running to the back of the store. She threw the polish when she saw me getting close, probably in an attempt to look innocent. Luckily the bottle didn't break! I guess it must have been entertaining as all the other customers in the store were laughing. That girl keeps me busy. Her newest thing is to walk to the fridge point at it and say "MMMMMMMMMMMM" . That is to let me know that she wants food. I keep trying to get her to say eat, but she isn't interested in talking. She also is saying "AHHH" after taking a drink. I guess to let us know how much she is enjoying her beverage. I just don't find milk that refreshing, but Claire sure does.

We are going out to look at homes again tomorrow. I am excited to go look. I think it is good for us to look at a lot of different homes. That way we get an idea of what is out there and what we want. When we bought our first house, we only looked at 3 homes before we decided to make an offer on one. We just knew that was suppose to be our home. I did love our home, but there were things that also drove me crazy, like only have one drawer in the kitchen that actually opened. I didn't think to check to see if they drawers were for decoration only. So now I faithfully check all the drawers in every kitchen we look at. I am determined to get a kitchen with more than 1 drawer. I'll let you know how the house hunting goes.