OK!

So I just decided what school to go to but it has to be a secret until I find a fun way to reveal it!

There were 20, We chose 8, now only 3 remain!

Hello my followers and family. It is completed! It is finished! We are done interviewing. We are done traveling. We have come to the moment where our future is nearly presenting itself in its full glory.

So you tell me, Will we live:
In California




Or in Texas




Or in Tennessee?




These three schools looked the best for us and if you're wondering about Florida? Well... they were expensive and they demanded money a week ago and we just weren't ready to decide and so we pretty much dropped them and didn't feel to bad about it.

So yes. We are about to reveal our supreme destination for the next 5 years. And we are keeping our precious baby's future in mind.




So within a few weeks perhaps sooner we will make a decision! Exciting eh?

A day at the zoo

A few days ago Isaac got to go the zoo for the first time! He could care less about the animals right now, but it was fun to hang out with Chels and the cute little girls she nannies, Jacob, and my mom. :) The only thing that could have made it better is if Brad didn't have school, and came.

No joke, Chris Farley was our train conductor.....

5 generations. Isaac and his great great grandma.

Yesterday we had an opportunity to go visit Isaac's Great Great Grandma Pauline and take a few pictures. Here's the loot:

Isaac and his Great Grandma Udell

Great Grandpa Udell
The Whole Clan

Halloween!

Well people. In two days I shall travel the world once again looking for Carmen San Diego. I've already matched the warrant, the crook, and the loot together. My fellow Gumshoes have caught Double Trouble and they've alerted us to Carmen's wherabouts... Fullerton California! and Houston Texas!

Once there, I'll run around placing flashing cones every where she may be until she is caught!

And when all is said and done. Whether or not I have her behind bars, there's gonna be only one thing left to do:

HIT IT ROCKAPELLA!

here's some cuter pumpkin pics of Isaac.

Family Pictures

So we all went down the the Sears Department store at Jordan Landing. We took pictures and it was so funny because Isaac was a riot! He smiled so freakin big every time! They had to keep retaking our pictures because one of us adults weren't doing as good as him.

So anyways, when we got done they had us choose a handful to print off and if we bought a package then they'd give us a CD with all the pictures.

So. We chose 8 pictures but then they TRICKED us!

They only put those 8 on the CD!!! How horrible of them!

So I, Brad, stomped home angrily and decided to show them who's boss by doing my own photo shoot!

Here's what I came up with!

Yeah. I totally rocked. Isaac is a pretty great rockstar when it comes to posing for pictures.

My giggling little boy

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

So I like to try new recipes here and there, and this one turned out pretty good so I'm posting it :) I actually got this recipe as a wedding present and finally tried it out.

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup chunky peanut butter

2 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp soda

Beat butter, sugars, and eggs until light and fluffy. Add peanut butter. Mix remaining ingredients into creamed mixture just until blended. Roll dough into balls and place in ungreased mini muffin tin and bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Cookie will spring back to the touch when done. Remove from oven and place a snack sized Resse's Peanut Butter cup in the center and press lightly. Tip: Cut the peanut butter cups in half and place it in the cookie crinkle chocolate side up.

So the verdict is.... they are delicious! I don't know how often I'll make them because of the expense of the peanut butter cups. These always have been one of my favorite kind of cookies though!

First foods

With Isaac's first tooth coming in, and his increasing interest of what's on our plate, I decided I'd see how he reacts to a little bit of rice cereal on a spoon. He thought it was pretty weird, and he still has a bit of his tongue reflex going, so he pushes a lot of the food out. Maybe every few days I'll let him try with that spoon a bit more. I don't think I'll get him on a regular solid food schedule until he hits his 6 month birthday. It's fun to let him practice though!

The teething and the gnawing

Isaac is teething, and truthfully it hasn't been pretty. We have had many sleepless nights lately. He's started doing this funny thing that looks like he's chewing on something- maybe it feels weird to have a tooth coming in. Anyways I caught in on camera for your viewing pleasure. I also tried to take a picture of his incoming tooth- but it basically just looks like his gums. It's the best pic I got though, it's tricky business taking pictures of a 4 1/2 month old's gums. :)

GOT ACCEPTED TO 2 now!!!!

Hi. If you're visiting here for the first time, then WELCOME! We've just received another email... from FLORIDA! They said I'm Accepted!

but they need me to pay them the money and decided to go there by October 19th!!!
OH NO! THAT:S SOON!

it'll be a couple days after I visit Houston and California so we need to be making decisions fast! We'll be hopefully getting answers to prayers by then!

Love you all and thanks for reading!
PS if you have any votes for a particular place for us to live in the next 4 years please make it known!