Milestones

The past month, we have met several milestones in our family.

• Craig and I celebrated our 3Year Anniversary!  
• Calder is 91/2 months!  At his nine month appointment, he measured 30 in. long (93rd percentile), and weighed 19 lbs, 4 oz (30th percentile)

• Calder has now been crawling on his hands and knees for a while now.  He is a little explorer!  He has found out that the kitchen cupboards and drawers open, and loves to play in the one drawer that I let him. He can pull himself up to standing on almost anything, and is getting really sturdy.  It is amazing how mobile he is becoming.  

• Calder got his first two teeth.
• Calder learned how to drink through a straw.  What he likes even more than drinking through the straw is blowing bubbles.

In other news, I got a haircut!  It is quite a bit shorter than it used to be (now it's above my shoulders), and I really like it!

Oh, and I am almost done with my Christmas shopping. Just thought I would throw that in there, I think this year is the most prepared I have been for Christmas this early in the ball game.  It is such a great feeling! Calder helped me get it all done, including the decorating.

Hurricane

Ok, so we didn't really have a hurricane, for obvious reasons.

But wind speeds last Thursday morning were clocked at 100 mph, which is technically hurricane speed winds.  It was kind of crazy/cool/scary all at the same time.  It is times like these that I am grateful we are renters; the repairs are not on our bill.  This is some of the damage in our apartment complex.

Shingles were everywhere!  Fences had fallen down, and tons of trees had either broken limbs or the whole tree had come down.

We ended up spending a couple days and nights at my parents' house because our power was out.

The weather forecast showed another wind storm coming on Sunday night, and with tons of debris that hadn't been cleaned up, the Governor was concerned.  He encouraged citizens to do what they could to get things anchored down before the next storm so that more things wouldn't get damaged.  Long story short, the Area Authorities got in touch with the Stake Presidents in the area, and our stake decided that church would be cancelled.  So we spent all day Sunday doing a ward clean-up.  It was kind of fun to see the whole neighborhood band together to get things ready.

The storm on Sunday didn't end up being nearly as strong, and we got everything cleaned up before it hit, so there was no more damage in our area.