Archive for March, 2010

Almost Crawling!

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Well I just got home from ICASSP 10 in Dallas Texas (A Electrical Engineering Conference). It was a great trip and I was able to renew a lot of friendships both personal and work related. Since I served my mission in Fort Worth over 6 years ago I knew quite a few people in the area and a few that are close to my heart. I was able to take a few lunches with former companions, converts, and members from the area. It was great to see how much has changed and how much the church has grown in the area, especially seeing the Fort Worth Stake being split and how much the church has grown in the Weatherford area. I spent 12months in Weatherford and 6 Months in Fort Worth so I really love the people of the two stakes. Below is a picture of James Gates whom I baptized while on my mission.

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While I was gone Nichole and Heidi held down the fort with the horses and did really well especially since I will be doing the trip thing all over again soon. But I came home to a wonderful surprise of Heidi starting to scoot around. She is not quite crawling, but almost there and Nichole was able to catch it on video this morning which I have posted below for everyone’s enjoyment.

http://www.tetonedge.net/videos/Heidi Scooting.flv

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the signs of spring, we are finally getting back to normal temperatures here, but the Gulf is still cold.

Derek, Nichole, and Heidi

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Quick Updates

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

We have added new pictures of Heidi to the blog and I have posted a couple below, also we are moving forward on the house with most of the inspections done and coming back good, so hopefully we will be able to close in the next couple of weeks. Also it has finally warmed up into the 60′s here which is great so we will be riding the horses more. The rest of the pictures are in the gallery.

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Derek, Nichole, and Heidi

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Cold February in Florida

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Well it has a been a cold month down here in Florida, or what they call “cold” down here. However, the weather has killed most of the tropical plants around the house and the barn. Nichole, Heidi, and I have had a pretty normal month just going through life with work and playing with Heidi and the horses. We finally have dried out as well from all the rain, but it looks like we are going to get 2 more inches tonight, so I guess that was short lived. We also have been dealing with trying to get a house, we found a perfect little property north of town for horses, but have ran into hurdles with banks wanting to finance the property and a low appraisal. We should however, know today if we are going to get it and we are hopeful.

Heidi is getting bigger everyday and becoming more and more talkative. She has started to sit up on her own for longer periods of time and starting the beginning stages of crawling as she tries to get up on her hands and knees. She has also started to enjoy the jumper that her grandparents got her for Christmas and Nichole was able to catch her have fun on video which we have posted below. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the winter.

http://www.tetonedge.net/videos/Heidi Jumper.flv

Derek, Nichole, and Heidi

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