Captain Moroni

Last fri & sat the youth in our ward had a Book of Mormon read-a-thon. They have been planning it for over a year now and it turned out really great. It included cameo appearances from many of the Book of Mormon heros. They asked Weston to be Captain Moroni and read the Title of Liberty. Just the night before he informed me that he needed to to be dressed up so....we were up late sewing his costume. Yea, I am pretty much the best wife ever. Although he wasn't supposed to be wearing his shorts and shirt underneath it. I warned him that I was going to put this on the blog because I can never get him to dress up for Halloween anymore and I was so excited he was playing along so well and he did a great job.

Notice Warren's giggle and comentary in the beginning of the video as they reveal Captain Moroni on stage. He thought it was pretty silly that daddy was dressed up like him. I edited it so its not too long but I got some close ups toward the end of the video if you want to fast forward to the end. (PS I really am not a retarded videographer...I was trying to take still shots and video at the same time so at times his head gets cut out of the video.)

Hall Family Vacation

While pretty much all of my friends are off on fabulous vacations, I on the other hand kicked off our vacation with a fabulous back packing adventure to the baby's room. I was lookin good sporting the 8 1/2 month pregnant belly, swollen feet and ankles (well, at least by 4 o'clock every day they are) and crickety hips.

So.... the weekend before last I started out doing great with packing. I packed the entire baby's room and some of Warren's toys (although, this week he started un-packing a box or two searching for his missing treasures). I guess all the bending and lifting got to me and I had a couple of intense contractions, so I called it a day....or should I say week....
The next week, we made it to the pool a few times with our friends (Janelle & Caryn) and REALLY.....I thought about packing everyday......
Warren drying off right before we were going to go home and pack.............
....(drumroll please).......packing progress last week.......(yes we have officially become alchoholics).....
My goal this week is to have these boxes filled.....or perhaps we'll just go to the pool. It is Texas in July and I am 8.5 months pregnant. Our closing date is the 29th and we are supposed to be ready to move on the 2nd.....do ya think we are gonna make it? Stay tuned.

Mi casa es su casa...

Well, I haven't been very good at keeping the updates about our house drama's BUT..... it all started last October when we decided and announced that we were building a house and we have been/were. Well, to make a LONG story short, the builders were lame and took FOREVER to even start construction on our house. They originally told us it would be done March or April '08. Well, they didn't even break ground until April. Our lease on our house we are renting was up in June and our landlord was expecting another year lease to be signed, etc. There is a whole saga in between but we have been really prayerful about it and we decided earlier last month that we would start looking at existing homes and we did. Shortly thereafter, we found this house and we put our first offer in a few weeks ago. It is owned by an oil company and is currently empty, due to an employee relocate.We put in the initial offer a few weeks ago and after much patience with corporate we finally came to an agreement and received a signed contract last Thursday! The process has been painstakingly slow and stressful. The initial offer and counter offers had to be reviewed by at least five (picky) people, etc. (deep sigh...) We are very excited to FINALLY be able to have a place of our own. We are supposed close and move the end of this month. Just a few weeks before the baby will be born! That will be a little tricky to pull off with this belly and Weston's work/travel schedule but I'm sure it will all come together in the next 3 weeks right!? Here are some pictures.
We will have a mighty comfy guest bedroom. All friends and (most) family welcome!! ;) I was trying to get a shot of some of the trees in our yard. We have a ton of huge pine & oak in the front and 6-7 huge oak in the back. Our entire backyard is shaded at all times.
Its barely in the picture but the garage is to the right, detached with a covered breezeway from the back door.
The Front entryway.

4D Baby Benjamin

I had another ultrasound yesterday and this time I got these really cool 4D pictures of our little man! The discolorations and distortions you see are normal (amniotic fluid, etc) and they are not any kind of problem with him. It is so cool to be able to see what he (sort of) looks like. He was tucked into my side pretty good so she had a bit of a hard time getting a full face shot but the sum of all photos give you a decent idea. I love the one where you can see his little hands rested up on his cheeks. And yes, the little stinker is still breech. Humph.I am getting so anxious to finally meet him! (If the pictures are too small for you to see, just click on the photo and it should enlarge it in another window).