Burlington News

Hi Everyone!
It's been a while since I've done an update on the Storey family so, like a newspaper, I'll briefly fill you in on all the RANDOM happenings in our life.

Ashlynn-
11 Months old already! Where did the time go? I'm in the process of planning her 1st Birthday party so when I get more details figured out I'll let you all know. She's now walking everywhere! She really enjoys chasing Isis (our cat), playing "lets see who gets to Riley's water first," following the "big 2 year olds" at the park, and running away from mom and dad BUTT NAKED after bath time! She's a blast and we are enjoying every minute of it. She's also quite the chatter box! Vocab includes: mama, dada, thank you, good girl, kitty, Riley, uh-oh, Mo (more), Hi, baby, and the list goes on. She may not look a lot like me but she DOES have my personality! If I remember I'm going to include a video of her reading her book to Grandpa! :-)

House-
Over the past couple months we have spent many hours doing research and planning and searching for a house. We are closer than we have ever been to actually OWNING a home! :-) We "potentially" have a house here in Burlington, Honey Lake area to be exact. It's located in a town-in-the-county (if that makes sense.) It's a ranch style house with a nice deck, full basement (unfinished- for now) very open floor plan, and a great size for a first home. It's also set on almost an acre lot which is awesome. We can't wait to have a yard considering we have NOTHING for grass at our apartment. We have an accepted off, done our home inspection, done the well and septic inspection, and the loan is in the works. Everything is going smoothly! (knock on wood.) We are waiting for the bank appraisal and Rural Development inspection which we should hear about soon. Our closing date is set for June 26th! Cross your fingers!

Work-
I recently became the head of my department (cosmetics) at Walgreen's. It's not a huge step up or anything but it feels nice to have a little bit of power! We have been quite busy and my days usually go fast. Brian has been super busy at work! They have recently taken on many Government projects for the Highway Safety people and whatnot. (yeah it's complicated language to someone who knows nothing about crashing cars...well not on purpose anyway!) Anyway, they seem to always have a full load and he's still enjoying what he does. They have gotten in a lot of new or not-yet-released cars, like the 2010 Camaro (quit drooling Greg) and hybrids, that they load it with sensors and send it down the track 65mph to it's death. They have also done a lot of bus testing and crashing. It's interesting stuff. I don't do it justice when I try to explain his job, go to http://www.mgaresearch.com/ if you want to make sense of my chatter.

Expecting-
Yes! We are expecting again! I'm sure most of you have heard this thru the grapevine but if not SURPRISE! We are so excited. Pregnancy is going well, just as easy as it was with Ashlynn. Check-ups have been great, baby is growing wonderfully, and beginning to move quite a bit! Banana splits have been amazing and iced tea has been the best drink ever invented. ;-) We will be 20 weeks this Saturday! Our due date is set for October 31st. Yay! Today we had our ultrasound to determine gender. We found out we are having...
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That sums up this edition of Burlington News. Hope everyone is having a good Spring and lets cross our Fingers for some nicer weather!

Love-
Storey Family :-)