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!

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!!

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.

Quick note

I started a DeviantArt page go check it out!! it is at Stygiansatyrcarlyle.deviantart.com

Christmastime!

Tis' the season and it's time to write up some memories hehe. Uncle Dan came by to see his nephew before he left for Boston to have Christmas with Candace and her family. I'm hoping that she is upgraded to Aunt Candace sooner than later after this trip. I could tell that he would miss Alastor, we miss him too. We have those two over almost every night so it's been rather boring without those two around, but we've been managing.

Alastor has been getting better with his baths and seems to enjoy them more once he realizes what we are doing to him. He has been smiling and gurgling so much! Grandma and Grandpa Workman got him some really cute stuff for Christmas. He especially likes this little Glow worm-esque Seahorse thing that glows and plays music when he squeezes it. I wasn't sure if he would like it but he was smiling and kicking the whole time. We haven't made a name for this one yet, but he also really likes his little Octopus we named Otto.

Meghan got me a travel Etch-a-sketch for Christmas, i've always enjoyed those things and I wanted one for when I am stuck in church or something without paper to draw on. I got her this DVD of the movie The Christmas Toy. It's her favorite Christmas movie but she didn't ask for it so she wasn't expecting it at all. It was her favorite gift, she tackled me and everything.

We spent a little time in Springville with the family. Granda took out some old home movies and Dan and Me when I was about four years old. It was pretty intense to see footage that was almost twenty years old of me. We also saw my cousins who are all married and have kids now when they were little. Ryan was doing some bit about nudity and how we're all naked under our clothing, it was the funniest thing ever.

On December 19th Jason and Ellen had their little boy Gavin. He is so cute! Alastor has two little future playmates in the family. Beth is a few months older and now he has Gavin who is 2 months younger than him. It'll be fun when they all get older and play together. It was really fun having Alastor's first Christmas. We dressed him in the only holiday-ish onesie he had and some cute pants that he finally fits. He keeps getting heavier and longer, it's very exciting. I can't wait for him to fit in his overalls! Anywho, the holiday was wonderful and we all enjoyed it.

Long awaited update

Well it has been a long time since I wrote anything on here, and people have been very noisy about me not writing (Zack I'm looking in your direction). I have just been avoiding writing on this thing because there have been a few woes in the last few weeks. I did this on my mission journals too, I tried not to write anything too sad because I knew people would be reading them most likely. But not writing about something does not make it go away. Also I have been working in a ten page final paper that almost killed me, really really.

Thanksgiving was really fun. My folks came up around Wednesday before the holiday to visit. Brad was stuck at work, but it was nice to have most of the clan together. Dad and Ben got to see Alastor for the first time and it was really fun to see the both of them smile, which doesn't happen too often. Ben became very attached once he warmed up to the little guy. It was fun to have another gamer to talk to, what with Niels gone and all.

I'm not big on the traditional foods of Thanksgiving, other than stuffing oooh stuffing, but this year was pretty good, I had my fill. My folks took us out a few times, which I consider better than the big meal.

We've been looking for an apartment ever since we found out that we have been keeping our neighbors up at night with our constant walking. I was a little upset that they didn't tell us directly, but I'm over it. I figure if they don't tell us then I won't personally worry about it and we won't dive into a bad apartment just to get out. That said, I hope the tennants who move in after us are both very overweight and snore loud like a plan taking off.

Looking for an apartment has been hard though since work has been cutting back on hours and my checks have become very small like last winter. This was easier when Meghan could work, but it's different now. Some nice people gave us money in order to have a real Christmas this year and help on some of our more pressing bills. You know who you are, thank you so much.

Meghan's folks also joined us the weekend after Thanksgiving for Alastor's blessing. We did it in the Alleman home in Springville surrounded by family, rather than strangers in a ward we probably won't be in for much longer. It was a really good time.

I am currently working in a new department in Costco selling TVs, computers, cameras etc. It's been real nice to not have to push carts and come home exhausted. Now I can help out more with the baby. It's just a seasonal posistion but who knows it might stick.

Alastor seems to be getting bigger now and we hope he has been gaining weight. We'll find out today at our WIC meeting. He seems to eat a whole lot more than he used to and it looking rather chubby in the cheeks and legs, so hopefully we'll get some good news this time around when he's on the scale.

Otherwise, things have been getting better. We put in an application on a rather nice looking apartment so perhaps that will work out, but it's not too stressful. Work is going well. Meghan seems to be happy and so does Alastor. I figure i'd better load a few pictures before I end this since i've been so lax in writing.

Oh! and I start a Deviantart page. It is Stygiansatyrcarlyle.deviantart.com check it out and show it to anyone who is looking for an artist please please!!!

Alastor's fun time

Well life has become fun for Alastor. At least we think so. He eats a lot, poops a lot and gets to hang out with Mom a lot. Dad on the other hand has to go to school and work a lot. Not so exciting. School is almost over, just one more ten page paper and I'll be done at least until spring. The neighbors below complained about us being up and walking through all hours of the night, which was stressful because we thought we were going to have to move. But we figured that if you move into a downstairs apartment you need to understand that there will be noise, reguardless of anything. So we don't worry about that anymore, we'll move when we can.

We gave Alastor his first bath a few days ago, it was wild. He really liked being wrapped up in the towel and having warm water poured over his head, but as soon as he was exposed and in the water he was terrified! AAAAAAAAA! What are you doing!? But we hope that he will get used to them soon. he needs to be clean!

Meghan has been doing pretty good with Alastor and keeping up on sleep. We got into the WIC program so that should help while work is slow and I'm in school. My family is coming up next week for Thanksgiving and blessing the baby, that should be rather fun! Yay!