Winry's first Crawl!

Hey everyone!  I hope you are all doing great!  It was a pretty exciting week last week with grandma out to visit, me in Texas doing radiation testing, and Winry decided to wait until dad left to start crawling.  What a stinker!!  As you can see, radiation testing is very rough, and takes a lot out of you.  Let it be known that I did not bring this cot, and I only laid there for what FELT like 30 seconds.

On Monday back at home it was supposed to snow, so Brooke insisted on putting on her snow pants first thing in the morning.  She basically wore them all day, and sadly, the snow didn't come.  It did rain later in the day, but Brooke was more than a little disappointed she didn't get to go play in the snow.

Meanwhile, literally the day after I left Winry decided it was OK to start scooting forward!  She's been getting up into a crawling position a lot lately, and we knew it would be soon.  She loves to scoot all over the house now, and she sure likes to get into trouble!  Brooke didn't really get into things, but Winry wants to get into EVERYTHING!

Meanwhile (again), in Texas it was pouring rain!  This rain storm didn't seem too bad because I was stopped/going slow for all of it.  But when we were leaving the airport we were on the freeway and drove into a storm and I couldn't see anything.  It didn't help that the car in front of me was silver and blended into the rain perfectly and refused to turn on their lights...  Anyway, I've never been in Texas for these storms before, and it's pretty crazy.  There's usually only a few minutes of really intense rain with a lot of light sprinkling on either end.

Coming back to Colorado, Winry wore this hat, because Halloween.  It's supposed to go on a pumpkin, but babies will do too.

In Texas this trip I got the day shift, which was great!  That means that I was awake and able to call home every day!  It was great to talk to the kids every day, and I even got to call in for Family Home Evening!  Also, for some calls Brooke got to hold the phone, and I typically got to see some astounding views, like this.

On Tuesday we started our first rotation in the beam.  Here's everything all set up!  The testing went well all throughout, and nobody got irradiated, so another successful trip!

I ran over to CVS with one of my coworkers one night to get him some medicine, and when we walked in I saw this right at the front door.  I guess it makes sense being across the street from campus, but still, scantrons in a pharmacy?  It's a little weird.

I came home on Saturday, and while driving to the airport a building on a truck pulled out in front of me!  I got stopped at a light, and it took the entire green light for him to get through the intersection... fun times.  Fortunately once we got over the bridge he was able to pull far toward the side of the road so that we could squeeze by in the other lane.  I ended up getting to the airport about 6 hours early, and tried to move my flight up, but I guess Southwest changed policy and won't move your flights any more, so I got to sit in the airport for 6 hours waiting for my plane...  Some good came of it as I ended up getting Brooke and Winry a stuffed armadillo, which they were both very happy about.  I haven't gotten a picture of them with it yet, hopefully for next week.

Meanwhile in Colorado on Saturday was Megan's baptism.  It's hard to believe she's 8 already!  She was just a little older than Brooke is now when we moved to Colorado.  Here's Brooke with Megan on Saturday at their house after the baptism.

On Sunday it was time to relax and recover from my trip.  Jelly jumped up on the couch next to me and burrowed under the pillow...

And, Saturday night and throughout Sunday it SNOWED!  This was great news for Brooke!  So after church we of course headed into the back yard.  We had a blast out there.  We made snow angels, and I pulled Brooke around and around in the sled.  Then, Brooke got an amazing idea, what if she pulled ME on the sled!...  It was definitely more tiring to be pulled than to pull Brooke, and I had to spend the rest of the day trying to convince her to let me pull her...  But at least we had a great time together!

I think that about wraps up this week.  Sorry for being late with this post, but at least I didn't just skip this week!  Have a wonderful week everyone!