A Time to Catch Up!

Greg is at a concert tonight with a friend, so I have the evening to myself. I was kind of nervous about being here alone, but it has actually been a pretty nice evening. I don't particularly like to be by myself that often, but it has given me a chance to get a lot of things done that I have wanted to. Deagan is in bed, I am watching "Sleepless is Seattle," and I have the luxury of spending some "me time:" Very much needed I might add.
It is hard to believe that our time in Seattle is coming to an end. It is a weird feeling because it feels like we just got here, and at the same time it feels like we have been here forever. Someone once told me, and I can't remember who, that once you have children the days seem long but the weeks seem too fast. I have now realized just how true that is. This week has pretty a pretty hard week for someone for me emotionally. The weather hasn't been all that great and I have just had some "blah" days. It is hard being here all day with not a whole lot to do. I have said this before, but I am so glad that I have Deagan with me because I am not sure how I would be able to handle this time here. I know that I am at my limit when not being able to find a place to get my hair cut almost brings me to tears. Pretty pathetic I know. Greg gave me a blessing, and things have been much better since then. It is so easy to lose perspective and to get caught up on the small things. For me, I seem to do this a little too often. How grateful I am for the priesthood that helps brings that perspective back into my life. We also had the chance to go to the temple last night, and that also helped a ton. I am reminded of a talk by Elder Bednar about "Tender Mercie" because I feel like I have had a lot of these lately. I talked to my sister tonight, who is by far the best sister that I could have been blessed with, and she helped remind me of these "tender mercies." She is such an example to me. Things are going up now, and I am becoming more and more anxious to set foot in our apartment in Rexburg and to see family and friends that I have missed so much.

So if you have made it this far in what probably seems like an entry from my journal, we have some new pictures of our little guy. He is such a blessing to us!

His expressions are just so cute to me. They change constantly. If only I could capture every one of them to cherish for memories.
He is very flexible, and his favorite thing to do lately is to play with his toes. Sometimes they even make great pacifiers. This isn't a very good picture of it, but he was sucking on his toes, and smiling.

I was changing his clothes, and we were having kind of a battle with putting some new clothes on. I decided to let him play for a little bit with just his diaper, and he loved it! He is rolling and moving like crazy lately, so diaper changes have been very frustrating for both of us.

I don't know what to say about this picture other than that I love this little guy so much! His smile just makes me smile!