Monday, October 26, 2009

Alastor's First Birthday!


Well it happened, ALastor turned one! AAAA! It was a rather fun and exciting day for him. Mom and Dad Workman sent him a big tonka style CAT truck that plays sounds and that he can ride around in and have all sorts of fun. We took it out for a spin and Alastor's little friend from across the street, Von, saw him and came over with his Mom to see Alastor's new toy. They both had fun and we talked with his mom, Sarah for a bit.



Mom and Dad Bunn sent Alastor a little table full of buttons and lights and songs. He really enjoys it. I couldn't put the legs on fast enough for him, he was squealing and chasing me while I was attempting to put it together. We were very happy to have such nice presents from Grandparents.
Great Grandma and Grandpa Alleman sent a card with some money to buy and new toy for ALastor as well. We got him a bucket with holes in it to put different shaped blocks into, it's amazing how well he does at matching the shapes with the holes.
Dan and Candace came over as well as our friend Evan Jed. They gave Alastor new PJ's with a pirate dog on them and a toothbrush!

Next came the cake. We gave ALastor a piece of All American Chocolate cake from Costco. He immediately knew what to do and dug right in. It was very cute and we took plenty of pictures.
Also, as you might guess from the picture below, we are having another baby! New baby is due in May and we will be finding out the gender in December. My family insists that it will be a girl, so we will have to see. I bought ALastor an outfit that says "Big Brother" on it that he will hopefully fit into once May comes along.
All in all it was a good birthday and we had a good time. It was weird to think back one year and remember the whole process of him coming into this world. Mostly I remembered how fast it was and how there was no pushing. The nurse told us that when we got ready to have a second child that we had better get to the hospital quick! I hope number 2 goes as well as Alastor did, but we are excited about it anyways.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Fall!!!

Fall has fallen, and it is very cold. Work remains good, and this math class is working out rather well. I am pretty happy with my progress and I can see me passing this course, hooray! Future school is looking pretty good as well.




My co-workers Reed and Esther are looking into buying a home which has a basement apartment. They invited us to go over with them to check things out and see if we would be interested in living downstairs. WOw, it was amazing, it's more like a basement house! There would be three bedrooms, a storage room kitchen, bathroom, all that shabang. It was very impressive. They would be really good landlords and they told me that rent would be cheaper for us since they know us and wouldn't have to worry about walls being knocked over or anything like that.




It would be rather nice to live in a larger place to make room for more kids and more storage. I really liked it. They mean to do a bit of fixing up beforehand, so I'll keep an eye on it. We like our home here, but bigger is always better.

Alastor has been standing on his own more and more often and it is really exciting. I've never caught it on camera, but it really does happen! His babbling is sounding more purposeful and less experimentational. His grin is full of teeth and his hair is a bit shaggier (though not by much). He seems very happy to not be sick anymore and is probably excited for his birthday.We had Mom's birthday on the 30th, she got a lot of nice presents from her folks and mine, my presents were still in the mail on their way. Everything has since arrived and she is very pleased. Alastor loved opening the gifts and eating chocolate cake. Dan is in Pennsylvania doing work training, so we missed him. But Candace was able to come over to sing and eat cake.As for other news.....there is none. Oh well, more soon.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Repentance of the Blogger








Well here I am, repentant and ready to begin again. As of this post I am watching The Bucket List and it has inspired me to better myself when it comes to writing in this here blog. This might be the only way certain people receive updates on my little family. So heeeeere we go!




The last few months have been full of surprises, excitement, depression, disapointment and joy. I was afraid to lose my job, afraid to go to prison, I saw my son grow several teeth and learn to crawl. To put it shortly it has been life in general.


ALastor has been crawling all over the place lately, he can pull himself up onto chairs and is able to walk while holding my hand. He has taken several shaky steps but is nowhere near walking on his own. He grins almost as much as he cries (which is often) but his smiles always light up my day. He has finally been able to meet all of his Uncles on my side of the family. Uncle Chad has less than a year left on his mission in Beunos Aires. He is really looking forward to meeting Alastor. But if he keeps referring to him as "little Al" or "AL" i'm going to hide him away until he learns to call him by his proper name. Not a big deal but I don't want a habit formed.



Meghan has been doing great taking care of our little man. He has been getting into a good bit of trouble lately, so we have been baby-proofing out cabinets. She loves taking him out on walks and swinging in the front yard. She has gotten to know a large group of mothers in our culdesac, they are a very good source of parenting tips and babysitting.








Work has been good. I recently got a raise and have been working full-time for a few months now. It is hard work but I love being able to provide for my family. I have been drawing comics for our bi-monthly newsletter and they have been received pretty well.


I am currently taking a math course that should clear up all of my Math requirements for college in about eight weeks. Sounds too good to be true, but it has been good so far. Math and I are fickle friends but we'll have a temporary seize fire for the next six weeks. Once all of this hooflah is over with I will be taking (I hope) 3D design, History and perhaps Sculpting the Human Figure. And then Photography in the Spring. We'll see how things turn out, but I am excited to continue school!
Well well, this is turning out to be a lot easier than I thought. Good.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Ahhh finally an entry!

School was nuts! But now it is over. I took three classes, 2D Design. Intro to Creative Writing, and Computer Graphics Applications. All three of them were very fun, but also very time consuming, thus no entries on my little blog here. Hopefully my family will forgive me when they see all of my fun pictures!

Alastor is almost seven months old now. He can sit up on his own and he eats solids, he poops solids too Haha! He sure keeps Meghan on her toes a lot. She has been keeping our new apartment looking great. We are going to have a garden in the backyard behind the parking lot. We'll be growing pumpkins for Halloween and peppers and stuff for me to cook with.

My folks and Meghan's folks have been up to visit in the last few months, and we'll be seeing them all soon in July when we finally go down to California for a visit! The reason for all of that is because Dan and Candace are getting Married! Hoorah! They get married in July in the Draper, UT Temple.

I am taking a short break off from school to concentrate on my artwork. I got a new full-time position at work so the checks have been getting bigger. Meghan and I are having people coming over to model for our drawings pretty regularly, it has been a blast. I have a lot of fun co-workers that are eager to be drawn.

Anywho, i will leave it at that and post a bunch of pictures!

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Finally!!!

A bug in the system!!! I swear the last three times I have attempted to add something to this blog the site would crash, and not just for the day, it would be several days! Oh well so I will keep this brief so I don't have to risk this stupid site crashing again!!
Alastor has learned how to coo and giggle and squeel lately. He has also been quite the pain in the backside. But it's just him growing up. He has outgrown his current set of clothes so we went through the next bag. We found a cute hat inside that Mom likes to put on him quite a bit. I like it as well.
Moving has pretty much been completed, I don't think we have any more boxes to unload and the Baby's room has finally been cleared. It feels good to have everything done and have the place look complete. Soon we will be putting in a love seat that my Aunt Kris has been kind enough to donate. I think it will be perfect to have more seating in the front room so everyone can sit down when we have guests over.

January was an awful month money-wise. With rent, deposits, school, moving, never ending hospital bills and poor hours at work we saw out bank accounts slowly drop to the floor. Hours have gotten better at work lately, so as long as that continues to happen we should be able to survive having a family. It was pretty darn scary and depressing though.
On more positive news my little brother Dan is getting married! He and his fiance Candace will be getting married in July. We went out to celebrate at the China Deluxe Buffet, which is the same place where we took Dan and Candace on their first date. We love it there, lots of nice food. Meghan and I have been hoping that those two would end up together. Yay!


Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Moved!!!


Well this week was spent moving every object from our old apartment into our new one! We now live in Orem, hidden behind the BestBuy and Michaels. It has two bedrooms so now Alastor has his onw place too!

We spent the last two days unloading our goodies and getting things set up to look like a home again. The television was the first to be set up of course. But now the front room is beginning to look finished, which is rather nice since the kitchen used to be covered in boxes of my books!!

We purchased some rather nice shelves to put up my books and DVDs. We watched the Xmen Trilogy while putting them up, i'd have to say I am rather proud. Driving the boxes of the shelves over was an adventure. I had one coming throught the trunk of the car into the car, then Meghan and Baby go in and I slid the other box through the rear windows whit Meghan holding them down. She was very upset at my configuration. "I hate you!" she said over and over. It was rather funny to me.
It's rather nice for Alastor to have his own room and to have another closet as storage space. He seems to sleep good enough on his own and we can still hear him if he cries. So now we all have our own personal space.
Meghan''s favorite place is the kitchen. It has room for a table and chairs...not that we have any yet, but there is room for one. It's almost finished as well once we fuind a place for everything.
Otherwise things are going great! Being closer to school and work is really working out for me. It's fun being closer to all the stores I love too. And once the snow melts it'll get even better!!













Monday, January 5, 2009

A Little Newsy stuff

Well school begins soon for me this week. I am taking three classes, that's right three as compared to the hefty load of one from last semester. Computer Graphics Application, 2D Design, and Creative Writing. So it should be a rather fun time as long as the lunkheads who write my schedule at work keep me in class on time.


In other news, we are moving!! It's not a far move, but we are heading to Orem behind the BestBuy area. So it puts me right between school and work. It sounds like we'll actually have a few people helping us out so as long as it doesn't snow we should be all right. I've never driven a U-Haul before so I am a little scared about that.


I caught Alastor giggling on video so I thought I would share that with you guys. Meghan was playing with him and getting him to repeat noises she made.


Otherwise life goes on, once we move into our new place and I get the darn Internet hooked up i'll post a tour of the new digs.