hey everyone,

It's been a very busy month for us. Summer has gone by really fast for us. Dorie spent a lot of time babysitting as usual for friends who need to have their kids watched. We tried to spend a lot of time at the gym working out. Dorie is really determined to lose more weight before she gets pregnant. We're still trying to get pregnant. She's had her period twice now in the last month. We're taking that as a good sign that her hormones are returning to normal. Hopefully it won't be too long now. We're still working at the temple friday nights. Dorie's making plans to redecorate our apartment. Her family in New York will be sending money to help us get curtains, pictures, and a few other things. I started school last wednesday. I bought a UTA bus pass for 20 bucks at the school and now I'll be riding that bus to school this semester. We've been a little while for my loan check to get here. I couldn't buy my school books till I got the rest of my loan money. I finally got it last friday. We used some of the money to buy 4 all new tires for our car to get it ready for the winter. We're also getting ready for dories birthday this next weekend. We're doing a birthday party for her this friday. I've been looking at a couple of different jobs to that I got referred to by friends in our ward. No luck finding a new job yet though. We just think it will be better for our family once we start having kids. Other than that, not a whole lot has been going on. Well, that's all I have this week.

hi everyone,

A lot has happened since the last time I wrote. No new news as to our trying to start a family. Dorie still isn't pregnant. There's been a few days when Dories been sick but still no pregnancy. I can't remember if I've already said this but we're now the nursery leaders in our ward. We now have 3 new workers to which has helped out a lot. Since we already have a little over 20 kids with more to come in the nursery. 2 sundays ago we split the nursery up finally. That worked out a ton better. I feel a little bit bad that we didn't get to go see the Oquirrh Mountain temple open house. Oh well! At least we'll get to go to the dedication. Dorie got to watch 2 girls for a friend of a lady in our complex every day from 8 to 4 for a week. The 2 girls were being beat up in the current day care they were in and it was still going to be another week before their mom could get them into another day care. It was a lot of fun even though it did ware Dorie out. Dorie will also be watching another new born to next semester while one of her best friends goes to school. So we bought a pack and play along with a baby monitor to help out with all the kids dorie has been watching as of late. I made the comment to Dorie that our spare bedroom is looking more like a nursery now. We have the pack and play in there and it looks just like a crib. It hurts me sometimes to see how much Dorie loves holding other peoples babies and wishes she had her own. I do believe it will happen its meant to happen though. It really helps to when we get to feel our childrens presence in the temple to. Somehow, I have the feeling that it will happen sometime this year though. I hope I'm right. Well, that's i have this week.