Jesse is 1, 2, 3!!!!

I can't believe my baby is 3. We had a fun birthday party at the house with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Everyone was there, well almost everyone; Jesse & Lydia were stranded in Australia on an unexpected extension to Jess' project. Jesse got a new plastic pool that he and his cousins played in. As always he got spoiled by his family with fun dinosaurs, tractors, coloring books, clothes and other crazy things but his favorite present had to be his batman pajamas (pictured) from grandma Pat; he wore them day and night for a week straight.

Jesse loves to play with his cars, climb and jump "to infinity and beyond", watch movies, visit grandma & grandpa, play with his cousins, play with his friends in the circle (Jake, Max & Isabel, Erin & Libby), go to church, run "I am speed", torment his sister, make his sister laugh, have his back tickled "ah, that feels good", and go anywhere and everywhere with "daddy".

The last thing I want to post regarding Jesse's birthday is that although we started using pull-ups several months ago and failed at a few attempts to get him potty trained, I am happy to report that Jesse is a big boy now. I explained to him that once he ran out of diapers that I wasn't going to buy them anymore. Even though he said he liked to go pee in his diaper he transitioned to underwear with relative ease. He especially enjoys the part about watering trees.

Our New Home?

Still weighing our options but absolutely considering a move to Baltimore.

These are all pictures from my trip earlier this month when I got the opportunity to interview with a huge, reputable, extremely "nice" investment management firm.

Jorja's Blessing

A beautiful day for a beautiful baby girl to get a special blessing. We chose July 7th for Jorja's blessing day in memory of my father; July 7th was his birthday. Although he couldn't be there in person, he was definitely there in spirit and actually had a significant part in her blessing: During the blessing Jorja was wide a wake and staring at the elders while they were unconsciously doing the "elder bounce" when about a 1/2 way through my sweet baby girl decided she wanted to sit up. Well being a 5 month old spirited little girl she knows how to throw her weight around and well, she, threw off the elders and started to slip and slide her way through 14 hands but thankfully due to some promptings by my dad she was caught and the prayer proceeded as if nothing had happened and this little "ride" that Jorja went on didn't seem to upset her one bit, in fact, she seemed to be in on it and just smiled the rest of the time. I also found it quite significant that this episode took place just as the bishop was addressing "the parents". So, yes dad, we heard you and yes dad, we will take very good care of your sweet baby grand daughter.