1 . 25 years old

This little guy is a whoppin' 15 months old today! I can't believe how much he's grown up since he turned one. Actually, I swear he's grown and changed so much just since we moved. I was accepting the fact that he took 30 minute naps. Last weekend, our full weekend moved in, his naps were just horrible, if he even got some, too. We thought it was just because Clay was home and he wanted to play with him.

Monday comes, and that morning nap turned into a hour nap. Afternoon nap stayed 30 minutes. Tuesday, hour morning nap, hour afternoon nap. Say What?!! Where did this come from? Wednesday, hour each nap. Thursday, the same. Friday, hour morning, hour and a half afternoon. Saturday (today), hour+ morning, 1.5+ afternoon. Where is this coming from?! Even during his other growth spurts, he never slept like this. Can someone please explain this to me? I know the doc said he would eventually get longer afternoon naps, but not this quick or this easy, of what I thought. But hey, I am NOT complaining. A lot of these naps, he's taking almost 30 minutes just to go to sleep, on top of his hour nap, so I get LOTS of extra self time. He talks to himself before falling asleep, and wakes up jibber jabbering. Oh, and his nighttime sleep? He's probably falling asleep around 7:30 and waking up right before 8:00 a.m. This is a huge change as well. I am loving every minute of it. I'm not used to this. I've heard of other babies doing so well and sleeping till 8 or 9 in the mornings, which is normal for them, etc., but this hasn't been normal for Kort.

One thing Clay and I have thought might be the cause for this, is having him sleep back on his crib mattress, and not that lame, thin, pack and play "mattress" that he has for the last 4 months. He has room to sleep and not be in weird positions. We made our own "crib" with a security gate. It's pretty awesome.

Anyway, I'm loving spending time with the babes. Granted, there's not much to do around here when Clay's got the car, but we do get outside and walk around
the parking lot or pool.

On a side note, we just sold our baby today :( Clay's Nissan Maxima, that we have had since getting married (he had it before), but it's been our first car together. Kind of a bitter sweet moment. Nice to get some money to build our emergency fund back up, but sad for the memories it's got with it, now given to a 16 year old girl who Clay's bummed that she's going to put zebra seat covers on. It already has Oklahoma license plates. Weird.

On another note, General Conference (of what we were awake for) was so fulfilling today! Can't wait for Sunday's session.

our new place to call home

After researching forever to find a decent place in Enid, we decided to go with Tuscana Apartments. They were the only place to have washer and dryer in the units, and after doing coin operated for 4 months, I HAD to have them in our own apartment.

This is our building. It feels so weird to be in an apartment complex. It's been 4 years since we've lived in one, our very first place together being married, and we only lived there for 3 months. I don't have any complaints, yet. Kort and I have already met a lady and her 2 1/2 year old son. He let Kort drive his power wheels truck which Kort loved! We have the golf course behind our building, which we've walked a couple times. Hopefully I'll get outside early enough soon to take a jog on it.

This is our "resort style pool", which is really kind of lame. It's great for Kort though, as its deepest is 4 feet I think. We'll probably spend lots of time here in the summer, if the water ever warms up.

Overall, we're adapting to Enid. I was afraid of tornadoes, but the owner said in all the 40 years he's been here, he's seen 1 and been in 1. Guess we'll see how that goes this year. Walmart is right down the road and everything is pretty close. I love that we're on the outskirts of town so we don't have to worry about noise and all that. It's pretty nice. Well, I'm sure you'll be hearing more from me soon :)

Oooooklahoma where the wind blows . . .

Move # 23499238 to the windy state of OK! We're headed off to another wind project that Clay will work on - with 140 turbines (it will produce up to 235 mw). We'll actually live in a place for more than 4 months! Woo hoo! I don't know if I'm more excited to get out of this hotel or to move to a new place. I'm pretty excited though. 

The city we'll live in is Enid, about 90 miles north of Oklahoma City. I've done a lot of research as to what there is in the city and I think it will be good enough for me :) Sadly though, there is no Target :( It has about 50,000 people. Lots of splash parks for the summer time. A Ross Store. Hobby Lobby (that could get me in trouble). I think the main grocery store people go to is the Walmart Supercenter, which is fine by me. Overall, there will be enough resources for what I need.

I think the biggest concern for me is that we'll be in tornado alley. Especially with what's been happening just east of the state with all the F4 tornadoes, it kind of makes me nervous as to what might happen while we're there. I think that will be one of the first questions I have when we move there and talk to our landlord - safety drills, etc. Ha ha

So, if any of you have ever had the desire to visit OK . . . here's your chance at it to come visit me :)