Still changing

Due to a mistake on Julie's part, she had to restyle the entire blog. She wasn't very happy with herself for that. Fortunately, it seems like she was able to recreate all the the cool styling she did previously. She's still making occasional changes to this or that. Hope you enjoy them. Here's a fun slideshow of Joseph over the last few days. He's so much fun!

"Dishes!"

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Burnham for my new apron! It works great for doing dishes. I just love it!

--He was saying "dishes" in this photograph. It's the best smile we've ever gotten out of him for a picture.--

Changes

Julie's been having tons of "fun" trying to figure out this blog business. It's hard, but she enjoys it somehow. Hopefully you can all still read this. She's experimenting with new fonts too. We also put up some of our family photos that were just taken recently. Enjoy!

In exciting news, Julie just took her final exam today, for her first Independent Study class. It will be two weeks or so before it is received and graded, but she's done on her part. She is writing her term paper for her New Testament class, and finishing up the reading assignments. She has until May 9th to finish. She's pretty excited about her progress. We are going out to dinner tomorrow night for date night to celebrate finishing her first class!

Tagged! Julie's sister Stacie "tagged" her a while ago, which means she gets to fill out some get to know you questions and what not. So, since she's been tagged quite a few times, she finally decided to do it. Here you go:

10 years ago I was 14. I was attending Palomares Middle School.

5 things on my to do list...
1. Edit family videos
2. Make our "Deal No Deal" board - story for another blog
3. Complete Joseph's car bag
4. Finish making Stephanie's apron e-book
5. Make a spreadsheet for last year's RS Quarterly Reports - being RS secretary is so glamorous

5 places I have lived...
1. Pomona, CA
2. Alfred, NY
3. Provo, UT
4. Ventura, CA
5. Missoula, MT

What would I do if I became an instant Billionaire?
Pay off all our school loans, buy a house, and a second car.

5 jobs I have had...
1. Server at Mt. San Antonio Gardens - Claremont
2. Light turner-offer at Alfred University - story for another blog
3. Tour Guide, Alfred University
4. Course Production Specialist, BYU
5. Day Care Provider, Missoula

5 things you probably don't know about me...
1. I am really into sci-fi and fantasy
2. I make homemade wheat bread
3. I make a really mean sweater - crochet
4. I have plans of getting a graduate degree one day
5. I can be really obsessive compulsive, and a perfectionist

We consider ourselves to be loving people

This was Julie's score:

20

This was Aaron's score:

28

We think Aaron got a lot of extra points because he's big, has a long reach, can kick really high and has some fighting experience (having 3 brothers).

Onto real life. We have a huge slide show full of pictures from the last few months. Enjoy, enjoy. During March, Aaron had spring break. During that week we took a trip with another family over to Spokane and took turns going to a temple session. A few weeks before that Julie was able to go to Spokane and attend "Time Out For Women". It was her first time but she absolutely loved it and would recommend it to anyone (any woman of course). It was a good time.

We're just plugging along for the most part. Joseph is ever growing, and so is his vocabulary. Most of his words are the kind that only Aaron and I can decipher. But they're actually not too bad. If you haven't seen the slideshow yet, Joseph's favorite new thing is to do the dishes. He LOVES to do dishes. Of course his definition of dishes changes constantly. For a while it was play with the cups and things and pour water here or there. Then it was rinse everything and put it on the counter. Now it is dump everything into Mama's side and watch bubbles come up his side of the sink. Either way, it helps Julie to stay ontop of the dishes and we try to let him help as often as possible because it will be his inheritance one day. So might as well learn to like it, huh?

Aaron will be finishing school at the beginning of May. We'll be staying and working here in Missoula over the summer and trying to make ends meet until we start the semester in September and get our next loan installment. We trying our best to minimize the loans we're taking out, and it'll be tough, but we think we can do it.

The weather in Missoula has just recently made a turn for the better. It's been beautiful days. Joseph's inner Montanan is coming out. He just loves to be outdoors. It's given Julie some time to weed out the planter that is downstairs. It might technically belong to the people who live below us, but they pretty much don't want it, so it's given Julie something to do while Joseph wanders around. He's gotten quite good at staying where she can see him, or coming the minute she calls for him to come back. She'll be planting some flowers pretty soon. If they grow and bloom, we'll take a picture.

Well, Julie will try and do smaller updates every now and then, if there's anything to update. Life is pretty simple and non-exciting here. For more exciting lives, check out the other blogs on the right. Just kidding. We miss and love you all!

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Best February Ever!

This past month earned the "Best February Ever" Award because Julie had the best 6th birthday a girl could ask for! A huge thank you for all of the emails, phone calls, cards and myspace messages. She felt special the whole day and who doesn't want that on your birthday?

As for the rest of the month, we have a few updates. First off is the newest addition to Julie's family. Stacie and her husband Jim welcomed Nicholas Taylor Simpson to their family on February 28th at 9 p.m. Just 3 hours shy of being a leap day baby. He was 7lbs. 13 ozs. and 20 3/4 inches. He's healthy and Stacie and baby are doing great. We're so happy for them!

Along with our tradition of having happy baby news, Julie's sister Heidi is unexpectedly expecting number 3! She is due the end of September. If you check our her blog, you can find updates on her pregnancy.

As for our little family, we are doing really well. Aaron is chugging away at school and doing really well. Julie is also plowing through her classes. She is very proud that she only has 1 1/2 lessons left, 2 tests, and she will have finished her first class! Expect a new post when that happens, because we will be celebrating!

Joseph is great as always. He's currently feeling a little down, and actually lost his voice today. It makes his cry the saddest thing you ever heard. But we're pretty sure it's just a respiratory virus that's going around and we expect him to be back at it in a few days. He's such a trooper! At his last doctor's appointment he was 34 inches and 33 1/2 pounds. What a chunk! He is growing too fast for us to keep up with, but we love every minute of it.

We've uploaded some new videos to our video page, so check them out. We hope you are all well, and send our best wishes to all of the sweet new babies and recovering moms (and dads) in Julie's family. We can't wait til we can visit all of you!