ISU, here I come!

I am so excited right now. I know I blogged a while ago about going back to school, and how I had just registered, but didn't know anything else. Well a lot has happened since then.

I got accepted, which I wasn't too worried about that, I have pretty good grades. I found out that I have to pay out of state tuition. A small sum of about 7,000 dollars. Yeah. Well needless to say things almost fell through. I was looking at scholarships online and found a Utah resident transfer student scholarship. Bang. But I had to be accepted for it and I didn't know if I would get it. So I took the necessary bureaucratic University steps and just waited.

Meanwhile, I met with the counselors and music advisor, have started practicing for auditions, got back on my ADD meds, have started weaning Libby off breast milk, signed up for classes, figured out where to take Libby ( I'll talk more about that,) and hoped.

Off on to a tangent now that has little but a lot to do with this. I am so glad that Heavenly Father answers prayers and that we have the knowledge about prayer. My Mom ( understanding my impulsivity) told me I needed to pray to make sure that this is what I am supposed to be doing. I did and today I got my answer. I was awarded the Utah resident tuition scholarship and a transfer student scholarship. These along with my Pell grant will cover everything with about 1500 left over. I was bawling about 5 minutes ago, I am so happy and very thankful. Heavenly Father knows what we need and knows us as individuals. This has definitely proven this fact further for me.

So where will Libby go you ask? Well for this semester I am going Mon Wed Fri. Nick doesn't have school on Friday, so he will be home to watch her. This is my long day as well. My neighbor Katie across the street, we trade babysitting. I have been watching her kids about once a week since we moved in. She doesn't work Mondays, and said she would watch her. My other neighbor runs a daycare and can take her Wednesday. I really like the idea of Libby being close to home, and it will be really cold in the winter, so this way she doesn't really have to go outside. We were worried about paying Kim( the daycare neighbor) but the second scholarship I didn't expect or ask to be considered for which makes it even a bigger blessing. This is just proof that if you put your trust in Heavenly Father, and work hard, things work out the way they are supposed to.

Staying warm in Idaho

We just got a huge heating bill for the October month and it was scary! Lots of locals here have told us that to survive -20 degree weather we would need lots of wood to burn.

Most people bought tags to cut down trees then haul the lumber to their homes. We didn't have anything to haul (or cut) the wood, but Krystal found a guy in town that is a logger and sells and delivers large amounts of wood.

So we recieved a half of a cord of wood last week. But how to chop it? We don't own an axe yet. Our neighbor was chopping his wood and he said that if we helped chop his wood, then he would help us chop ours. So I (Nick) went out there and began helping him chop and stack wood. His beer-drinking buddies arrived (with 12 packs of beer) and many of them helped us chop and stack. After we chopped his wood, he and his buddies came and helped me chop our wood. Got it done in 30 minutes! Really nice of them.

Our fireplace has had problems getting enough ventilation. I got up on the roof and looked at our chimney and found about 1/2 an inch of soot caked all over the inside of the chimney. I borrowed a 15 foot chimney sweep and swept it. It made a foot tall pile of soot in our fireplace. I cleaned it out and we got a roaring fire in there last night. It warmed our home to a cozy 75 degrees while it was 30 degrees outside.

It may not be the cleanest solution, but it's how we survive in this cold weather climate for now.

Libby Update...and her stitches.

Wow has she changed in the last couple of months. She has been doing the crab crawl for a couple of months, and she is so fast! She has such an adventurous personality. It is cute and sometimes very scary. On thursday I was cleaning up the toys ( a daily ritual, about three times a day) and I heard her open the oven drawer. I went running in and she had her hand stuck somehow. I pulled it out and a part of the drawer sliced her finger around the knuckle. She was bleeding pretty good, so we hurried up to the ER in Soda and they glued it instead of actual stitches. She didn't even cry, and they gave her a teddy bear :)

So her new things:

-She has started pulling up on everything, and it scares Mom half to death. Dad says she has to fall to learn to walk, so I relax.

-She loves to empty everything, with anything in it.

-She just started to climb up on things, like the shelf table in the front room.

-Libby has two top fornt teeth. Cute!

-She also has her own launguage. One of her favorite words is "Nawaja, waja, waja." She does say real words like Dada, Mama, doggie, Hi, and she barks like Chio. It is so funny;)

-Libby is becoming alot more independent. She loves to feed herself, and now drinks out of a big cup. Cute!

-Libby loves her Daddy. She wakes up when she hears him leave in the morning, and will cry if he doesn't give her hugs and kisses bye bye.

We are so blessed to have such an angel in our home and we enjoy every minute of her. We love you Libbers!

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Halloween Eventfulness

We are still alive, we have been some poor excuses for bloggers lately. Since the last time we blogged, Halloween happened. We had the annual (I guess starting next year) Grace High School Spaghetti Dinner/Concert/Fundraiser. Kids performed without fear, and no food was thrown = It went awesome. Plus our music program made over $800 in one night thanks to many parents and friends.

Our next event was the actual Halloween Night. It was our first time that we've had the opportunity to give out candy (no one came to our creepy apartments in Ogden, with good reason). Krystal was scared out of her socks by a kid wearing a two foot devil-mask with evil eyes and a scary grin. Our Obama pumpkin unexpectedly lived through the night without being smashed, and all went well.