New Year's Resolution

Since many of my family and friends have blogs I decided to try doing this whole blog thing. I actually had a New Year's resolution to blog regularly. Well, I'm a month late, but better late than never eh?

I'm usually pretty good at journal writing, but I'm pretty bad at emailing people and giving updates on my life. I'm sure some of my family and friends will like reading this blog because I will eventually post pictures. Since my husband and I share this blog there will probably be quite a mix of posts.

I guess I'll start by giving a brief update on events in our family. Mike and I currently live in Hercules, CA and are going to have to move because our landlord wants to unload the house. Luckily we're just moving across town. The house is bigger and has a yard, but it's going to cost quite a bit more. It's owned by a woman who used to be in our ward. One advantage of renting the house is that the contract is month-to-month (also a reason the rent is higher).

The lease on the house we're currently in ends in March and we were planning on going month-to-month in order to take our time and find a house to buy. House prices here are still pretty high, but still dropping so we don't really want to buy now because 1) I doubt we'd get approved for a loan 2) We don't want to be losing value in a house we buy now because prices are still dropping and 3) We haven't found a place that we really like. I personally don't want to buy a house in the Bay Area because I don't want to stay here for an extended period of time. I've met a lot of really good people here, but I really don't want to raise my children here. Lucky for me my children are still pretty young.

Miriam is almost 2 1/2. We've half-heartedly started potty training. She was doing well for a while and then all of a sudden decided she didn't want to do what we want her to. She's really funny though. She talks all of the time and is always insisting that she do everything. She's usually pretty good with Isaac, although she thinks that all of her toys are hers and all of Isaac's toys are hers.

Isaac is about 8 1/2 months old. He's crawling really well. He pulls himself up to a stand and walks next to the couch. The other day we had him hold on to a train that Miriam inherited. It's one of those Thomas the Tank engines that children can scoot around on and it has all sorts of buttons to push that make train sounds. Anyway, we had Isaac hold on to the train and he started pushing it and walking with it. He tips the train over sometimes, but it might end up being a good thing for him to use to practice walking.

Mike is really busy at work. His company hit a rough patch a few weeks ago, but there are other projects that they are getting awarded, so things are looking good. We think Mike's job is pretty safe, but we're still going to save money just in case.

I have been busy with the kids and trying to de-junk the house. I'm trying to get into an exercise routine and a routine with the kids so I can have some time to myself. I'm thinking about signing up for a class so that my brain doesn't go to mush.

Last week was Mike's birthday. His parents came down to babysit so we could go to dinner. They ended up getting here a little late so all we got to do was go to dinner. It was nice to go somewhere without kids. It had been a long time since we had been on a date. Hopefully after we move we'll be able to find a babysitter and go on more dates.

Anyway, I have realized that this is a very long winded entry. Hopefully I will get in the habit of doing this and post some pictures.