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As I sat here talking to myself trying to update our background Madeline just announced, "OUR BLOG IS NOW A BLOG!!!" and she was really happy. Neither of us have any idea what that means, but it is truly exciting.

What's up?

Well, I haven't summarized our trip, but it was all I could do to pull together a few pictures (and we've been home for a month). We have been busy searching for a house. It was a difficult search! We looked at 25 different houses and on the 25th house we found exactly what we were looking for. It is a 4 bed 2.5 bath. We love this house! The owners just updated the kitchen and the bathrooms are great. It has an unfinished basement so if we happen to be here a long time we will have the option to finish it. We have an inspection this Saturday morning (don't worry, we'll be home for conference). I think we'll have to do a little painting inside, but that is by choice and will be a little bit fun!
Also, we will be finding out if we are having a boy or a girl on October 13th. I am 23 weeks now and we could technically have found out by now, but the way the appointments were scheduled it is a little late. Madeline can only think of the baby being a girl (all of her dolls are girls I guess) so if I suggest that "maybe it is a boy," she replies, "it's NOT a boy, maybe it's a girl." So, either she's a good guesser, or she's in for a big surprise!
Life is going well here, but just as we begin to get used to one area of Cincinnati we go and buy a house 25 min away (with a better commute for Raymey) and we have to start all over! I think that if we have to start over sometime, this is the time to do it. This should be the last move for a while!!!!

For Raymey

There you go. Now put a different picture on your work computer!!!

Vacation 2

The two of us in Mexico without Madeline. It was fun, but we REALLY missed her!

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Vacation 1

These are the highlights (what we have pictures of) of our trip to Utah, Colorado, Canada, Oregon, and Washington. I can't get rid of the crazy words without messing up the link!

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Posting in Mexico City

I have been hogging the computer for 45 minutes, and I should probably get off. We have had a crazy summer! Quick summary and update. We were in Utah where I went to a family reunion for my Dad´s side and then my Mom´s side and Madeline loved her cousins, and I think they thought she was kinda funny too. Then we went back to Colorado to a flooded basement at my parents´ house, where I stayed for 2 weeks generally doing, nothing. It is really nice to have morning sickness at your Mom's house, especially when she takes care of your little girl and makes the food. Wonderful. Then we went to Canada (finally with Raymey, yes, he is done taking the bar). After this trip we went to the Tillamook County Fair and hung out with Raymey's family for a few days. That was fun and Madeline had fun with her cousins, and everyone else! We dropped Madeline off in Colorado and Raymey and I have been in Mexico City and Veracruz. I am completely amazed at how much I can understand. Obviously, my comprehension and speaking skills could be much better, but I am not as lost as I felt in Japan! We are with the family of a mission companion of Raymey's. They are being really nice to us and feeding us well and showing us neat things. We miss Madeline like CRAZY and she apparently thinks that we are still up in an airplane (she always tells my mom, Look, there are Mommy and Daddy in the airplane!) We will do a bigger post later when we can upload pictures and I can us a keyboard that is familiar! It is hard to find the correct punctuation marks on this one!!!