KEYS!

We are officially homeowners now!  YAY!  And with the house, came 10 (count them... TEN) keys to the house!  I don't know what these people did with all these keys, but 9 of them are the same, and Jason says that those 9 go to all the doors, to the lonely 10th key we have no clue what it goes to.  I guess we'll have to go around all the doors of the house and find out... maybe they gave us one they didn't mean to give us.  But at any rate, we own a home... weird thought!  Jason took the first load of stuff to the house... just some small things and stuff we never unpacked here because we knew we'd have to move it anyway.  So hopefully within the next week or two we will be all moved in... the nice part is the fact that we don't have to technically be out of this place until the end of August, but we're obviously aiming for WAY before that!  Whew... we really feel like grown-ups now!

WA Baby Shower

While we were in Washington last week, my sister in law threw a baby shower for me.  It was her third one in something like a month or two, so she's been busy with them, and most of the people there had been to all of them.  She had a rough time coming up with some new and different games, but I think she did just fine!  Thanks Kelli!  Here is the cake... yummy.

This was one of the games we played.  It was a game where the hostess puts different candy bars inside baby diapers and then melts the candy bars, so then they get passed around in order for people to try to guess what candy bar is in each one.  It just looks really strange to watch everyone inspect what looks like a very messy diaper!  Laurie Odegaard inspected quite closely on this one!
Then my mom and Carmen Stucky decided they would collaborate and try to figure some of them out.
I did pretty well... just wish I didn't second guess myself or I would have been almost perfect!  
Dayna seemed stumped here, and I'm not sure exactly what Danelle was thinking, other than maybe we were all just a bit crazy!
Terri Nicholas holding her son Luke, and Paula Hochstatter doing their inspecting.
Natalie Skaug won that game.  We realized she must really like her candy bars, and hasn't been around many diapers to be grossed out by the thought of inspecting them closely!

Then on to the presents!  I only posted a few of them on here, but I got LOTS of good things for the little guy.  We were a little worried I wouldn't be able to pack it all well enough to get it back to Tennessee, but we managed.  Here is a little outfit with a "taggie" lion on the front.  The tags are good for textures and boredom. :)
Thea thought the paper was pretty fun too.
This was the end result... AFTER we consolidated some.  See why we were worried about getting it all back to Tennessee on the airplane??
Like I said, the party was great, and thanks to everyone that came and/or helped out to make it happen!  And just for fun because I think it's a cute picture, even though it's not from the baby shower, here's Thea, who decided she wanted to be in her seat, only she didn't figure out how to turn around in it. :)  Isn't she cute?!

Catching up.... with catfish!

On April 25th, Jason and I decided to go to a pay lake east of here.  It was like $4 each for us to fish all day long, and if we caught anything, we could either throw it back, or pay a certain amount per pound to keep them.  Well, here was our set up.

There wasn't much shade because the trees planted around the lakes were still small, so we found what shade we could, and then moved as the shade moved. :)  

I caught the first catfish.  Yes, I was doing my best to stay cool that day... it was hotter than what I'm used to still...
A while later, Jason caught his first one.
Turns out, I only caught one... and Jason caught the rest.  This is the biggest one he caught.  He also had two that got off the line right next to the shore, and one other one that broke his line, so I'm sure it was pretty big.
Here's the fish we caught... I think there were 5, although it looks like there are only 4 in the picture.  We had some catfish fillets the next day, and I froze the rest of the fillets for later.  YUM!

I'm sure we'll do it again sometime, or maybe go jugging for catfish instead sometime this summer... we'll see.  Unfortunately, catfish bite better at night, so I probably won't do much of it with Jason because I like my sleep and so does the baby!