One of my new sister in laws, Janae (Brandon's wife), has started designing jewelry and has set up an etsy shop. She is making some pretty cute things. Here is the site: http://www.janae5.etsy.com/

Primary

Today was Ethan's first day of primary. Our ward doesn't have a teacher for his class yet, so the sunbeams went with another class, and from what I could see it was all boys under the age of 4, about 8 all together with the two sunbeams. Ethan was very cute sitting on his little chair in line with all the other little boys. The other sunbeam was not happy about being in primary, once he realized it meant no more nursery he was quite miserable for the first little bit. Ethan handled the transition really well, mostly because the class was full of other little boys, and I never pointed out to him that there wouldn't be any more nursery. I think if I made that clear to him he might be upset. I came by to check on him at one point, the teacher was in the middle of talking about homes, and Ethan was counting to 20 (it's one of his favorite things to do right now), seemingly oblivious to everything that was going on in the class, BUT he was still sitting on his chair, which is a pretty impressive thing knowing how much energy he has. It's sad and sweet to see Ethan grow up. It's sad because it seems to be happening so quickly, but it's sweet because he's so happy and cute, and it's fun to see him getting smarter and learning new things.

Pictures from Christmas

Ethans new train set. This gift was the best idea ever, he spends most of his time playing with it.

Grandma Anderson got him a keyboard, which he also loves to play with. I told him to smile and this is what I got.....:)

Ethans beautiful hair last night after his bath.

we were playing around with the camera and taking funny photos, but I really liked how this one turned out.

My favorite two songs (along with some paintings I like). Merry Christmas

artist: Walter Rane

artist: Carl Bloch

I recommend sitting and listening to both songs all of the way through. It's worth it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkEeTJOY96g

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGjMT9xlyMw

Three year olds are hard work. There are days when I think Ethan is driving me to the brink of insanity, but then he will do something sweet that will make me feel guilty for being annoyed. Like when he poops on the carpet, and I'm so frustrated and trying to scrub it out and he brings me a wad of toilet paper in his attempt at helping. Or when he wakes up at 5am, wide awake, turning on all the lights. He ended up in bed with us, and he wouldn't stop wiggling. And then out of no where, he leans over and wraps his arms around me and gives me a kiss on the cheek. It's a good thing he's cute.

I hate potty training. seriously. why can't they be like cats, you stick them in the litter box a couple times and they get the hang of it. I never had problems potty training a cat.

We are moved into our new apartment now, sorry no pictures yet. I've been busy cleaning, unpacking and organizing. Sadly, Ryan was told that they've changed their minds and have decided that they can't afford to hire him. He had been hired, originally, for a farm manager position, but they had him doing hard labor farm work, with the promise that they would put him in as a manager come December. So now we are back on the job hunt. It's very frustrating, and being on our own again makes it harder, but I don't regret moving out of the in-laws and into our own apartment. It will be hard, but we will be okay. It's nice to be our own little family again.

Ethan is doing really well with talking and is trying to learn to read also. He's started saying his own prayers, and its fun to hear what he wants to pray about. I've started potty training him and it is going relatively well. It's not fun, but it hasn't been too horrible this time around. I've tried to potty train him a couple times before and he just wasn't ready. This time he seems to be getting the hang of it and I think it won't take him terribly long either, but who knows.

I've got several clients lined up for my portraits, and so I'm excited that my art is starting to bring in some income, even if it's only a little at first.

Thats about all I have to blog about. We don't have internet at our apartment yet, inernet is really expensive out in Rupert, but it looks like it will be something we will just have to give in and pay and arm and a leg for, since we need it for job hunting.