I want to write on my blog but I can't think of anything to write about.  Things are just moving along.  The job hunt is happening, grad schools are being looked at, the child is being adored, etc, etc. We just bought a tent and a bike trailer.  This summer is going to be awesome now. :)  We always need another tent, right?  Spencer loves the bike trailer, and it has an attachable front wheel, so now we at least have an option for toting two kids somewhere in a few months.

I did just see this article on my friend's Facebook page and it really made me smile. It's several years old, but timeless. Enjoy.

Deja Vu

So it's the 13th of March and it's feeling a lot like it felt this time last year.  Bill had what he thought would be a totally sweet internship at a company he really wanted to work for coming together only to hear on Friday that for some unexplained reason they don't even want to interview him.  What?!?!  It feels a lot like last year around this time when a bunch of potential internships didn't come through.  So here we sit, a month from the end of school and no internship or job in sight.  Oh joy.  Last summer a job never was forthcoming.  We did odd jobs for family and friends and somehow made it through.  We are hoping and praying that that part of the deja vu doesn't repeat itself.  It wasn't that great.  I will say we were really blessed and have made it through this last year despite that.  So if you happen to know of anyone hiring or have any job connections, we're all ears.

Aside from the very present need to find summer employment, this turn of events has really made us rethink where we're headed.  Bill only has one semester of school left and we've been looking at grad school options.  With this super sweet internship we thought we had, it was looking really good to stay put here, do grad school at BYU, potentially have a job waiting afterward and we'd go along our merry way.  Tons of our family lives here.  How could that not be a good solution?  The funny thing though is that I've been feeling lately that we really aren't meant to stay in Utah.  I didn't have any basis for the feeling since everything seemed to be falling into place, but with this turn of events, suddenly it doesn't feel so strange.  So we shall see how the future goes.  I don't think we're destined to stay here, which is just fine, though definitely uncertain.  There's so much to do.  A job to find, the GRE to take, schools to apply to, and lots of decisions to make.  Who knows, maybe this time next year we'll be in another state.  South Carolina is looking pretty good.  Or maybe Pennsylvania or even Oregon.  We shall see.

Christmas Stockings

I know it's March, but this is a project that was slow to happen after Christmas.  My mom made a super cute stocking for Spencer last year and I decided to make stockings for the rest of us to match.  I came up with four patterns, so there's one for me, one for Bill, one for the new baby, and one for a future child or a friend that comes to visit or something like that. :)  They're not completely sewn together, but they're as far along as they are going to get until I get names embroidered on the top.  I really like how they turned out! I crocheted the snowflakes to go on them and freehanded all the rest from ideas I got online.  It was a fun project.

Abu!

Spencer loves to play peekaboo.  For weeks or months he's been initiating it himself.  So cute.  Anyway, he's just starting to mimic what we say if we ask him to.  And tonight he finally got across to us that he knows how to say boo himself.  Except he says it "abu!" It totally makes sense when you think about how you always take a deep breath before you say shout boo! at someone.  To a one-year old, that's naturally part of the word.  I love it. :)