Moving, Moving, Moving

The last few weeks have been crazy.  We put our house up for sale back in November.  We finally received a good offer on our condo and are under contract to sell it August 23rd.  When we decided to move, we said we wouldn't look at homes until we were under contract so that we wouldn't fall in love with a house and not be able to pay for it.  There is no way we wanted to deal with two mortgages.  Once under contract we starting looking like crazy.  It was lots of fun looking at other people's houses and not have to worry about my house being clean enough for someone else to look at it.    We found a house in Lehi that we liked, but then things just weren't right.  So we kept looking.  We found a great house in Cedar Hills.  We love it.  We made an offer on it.  And now if all goes well we will be the owners of a cute little house on September 2nd. 
So if I don't blog for the next several weeks it is because I am packing up our condo, moving in with my mom, and then moving out again all within a month. 
Crazy!  Exciting!
(Yes, that is a picture of the house.)

Winnie the Pooh

We got some cute video of Anna singing Winnie the Pooh today.  Not sure what the arm flapping was in the middle of the song, but she sure looked like she was having fun.

Choices

We had a little performer today!

I Will Always Love Harold!!!

I LOVED this!!!  I will always love Harold.  I have so many fun memories of the library. 

It's a...

BOY!!!!!!

We will post pictures and more details later.

Yeah for a boy!!!!

Nicholas Olsen Baldwin is officially on his way.

Freedom Run 2010

To top off all of our 4th of July festivities, we all ran the Freedom Run Monday morning. Yes, I'm a nerd, I signed Anna up for the 1 mile fun run. She looked so cute with her little bib on.

She even got to wear a timing chip on her shoe. I feel bad I didn't take a picture of it. If you look really close in the picture you can see it.
Anna and I ran the 1 mile race, Devin and Peter ran the 5k. I was so proud of Peter for running the race!

Anna did pretty good. I think all of the people made her nervous. We had a good time walking the mile while the boys ran. It was fun walking the last stretch with her. So many people were commenting on how cute she is and were cheering her on.

We had a great time! We all got finisher medals. Anna got 5th place in her age division. And I must add the fact that she was the first 1-year-old to cross the finish line. Her age division was 1-3. The 4 kids that came in before her were all 3-years-old. We didn't cheat either, no stroller for this girl!
Anna's favorite part was watching the balloons. I'm not one for getting up early just to watch the balloons. I like running a race AND watching balloons at the same time. Anna loved the Smokey the Bear balloon. She would reach up as high as she could trying to touch him. She finally figured out that she would never be able to touch him and would say over and over, "Reach! Too far away!"

It was the perfect ending to our 4th of July festivities. Believe me, we'll all be running again next year.

4th of July 2010

Since the 4th of July was on Sunday, the festivities lasted 4 days. Friday night my family camped out in my mom's backyard. Spencer was the best! I think he helped everyone set up their tents.

After the tents were set up there was plenty of time for...
wagon rides,

more wagon rides,

swinging in the tire,

counting pops or snaps,

playing in the sandbox,

kicking a ball around,

playing volleyball,

and going on more wagon rides.

It was such a nice day. I don't think anyone had any desire to go to bed at a normal hour. We enjoyed homemade ice cream and then experienced the wonder of "Driveway of Fire!" Anna did great. I was surprised that the ones that really scream didn't scare her at all. The ones that snapped and popped made her snuggle more, but she never cried. She wasn't too interested in holding the sparklers, but she did liked looking at them. Devin was so busy lighting fireworks and I was busy holding Anna so we didn't get any firework pictures.
On Saturday we had a really yummy breakfast (thanks everyone!!!). Then we just hung out until we went up to my uncle Jim's house for the Henderson BBQ.

The kids had a great time swimming in the pool. For Anna and Sadie swimming means sitting on the steps of the pool watching everyone swim.
After swimming and dinner the kids had tons of fun jumping on the tramp. The little kids had a great time.

Then Devin and Peter, the two biggest kids, had to join in the fun.

I'm not surprised that Tommy's glasses got a little bent.

The cousins had a great time playing together. Anna is really starting to play. I loved watching her play with Sadie, Liz, Tommy, and all the cousins. We are so lucky to have such a fun family.