Eastons in the Mid-West

I made it to 30 posts in 30 days! I'm actually surprised that I did it. I was sure I was going to run out of things to blog about. Good ...

Dallin has been doing well with getting around. He has a little scoot/crawl that he does. He takes a few crawling "steps' on his ha...

Dallin has been doing this new thing with his tongue. It's really cute. He started doing it a few days ago, and now he keeps doing becau...

The front part of our apartment has been put together and settled for a while, but it's taking time to get to the back bedrooms. They st...

We went to church today. We've been having trouble getting there on time, especially since it's 20 minutes away, but today we made i...

Our stake had a Relief Society Conference today. I went to the conference while Dallin stayed home to play with daddy. While I was gone, Dal...

Evening is Dallin's crankiest time. It's also the time when we are exhausted and just want to relax, but Dallin doesn't like tha...

In our Provo apartment, I always felt very self conscious playing our piano. It was very easy to hear our neighbors through the walls and, t...

Dallin really likes to drink water out of a cup. He prefers water. If you try to give him something else in a cup, he can smell it and he kn...

While I was unpacking, I found this picture frame. It was given to me when I was a teenager. At the time I thought it was pretty cute. Since...

Dallin was crawling/scooting all over the floor tonight before bed. He made his way all the way over to the kitchen table and went under it....

I love Dallin's bumbo. It's the best invention ever. He can sit right next to me when I eat breakfast or when we eat dinner. Sometim...

We love Mexican food. But there are only so many ways you can combine the basic ingredients (beans, cheese, meat, tortillas, etc.) into some...

I'm really good at falling asleep during movies. I think I get it from my mom. She's good at it too. It doesn't even matter if i...

Dallin has always had a fascination with tooth brushes. Remember this picture from about a year ago? Dallin would just stare at me the whole...

Judging by the comments from my last post, few if any of you know what a BHAG is. For those of you who are dying to know but haven't loo...

Our blog title used to be "Eastons in the West." Since we're no longer living in the west, it doesn't really make sense. ...

For dinner tonight, I made homemade chicken nuggets. I never really thought of chicken nuggets as something that could be made from scratch ...

When we move into a new ward, it usually doesn't take long before people find out that I can play the piano and organ. I really enjoy pl...

Today we went to the Chicago temple. It's about 2 1/2 hours from us, so our ward rented a big bus for the trip. Dallin loved the ride. ...