Yee-Haw!

As our family tends to move every year or two, we figured it was high time to do it again! Well, honestly, this wasn't something we consciously decided... sort of. The story is, the office Brent was working for wasn't busy enough for two dentists. So, it is "adios" to Brent time.

We want to be somewhere that Brent doesn't have to work twelve hours a day to be successful. This means that we need to move somewhere there is a need for dentists. Idaho is pretty overpopulated, and so is most of the northwest for that matter.

Luckily, there ARE places that need dentists. For example, San Antonio Texas. Brent has accepted a job to work on Fort Sam Houston (for the military - a contractor for a company that contracts with the military - though not IN the military).

Hooray! And, away we go! Wish us luck!

Elizabeth Rose Goldthorpe

Our littlest love was born on Friday November 14, 2008 at 1:49 p.m. She was eight pounds, one ounce and twenty-one inches long.

Both mother and baby are doing very well.

Oh, did I mention that we'll be moving? Sometime before Christmas. Not sure where yet - anywhere in the U.S... job being the determining factor.

Halloween... albeit late, very cute!

(I didn't put up pictures of the birthday party until much later than anticipated because our camera DIED - really, really died. So, one of my fantastic sisters-in-law took pictures and I haven't seen her since the party, but another fantastic sister-in-law brought the CD of pictures to me and that's when you got the post about the party.)

Now, I've waited a couple of days for that to sink in and I'll share Halloween. :o)

Let's just say that Ben isn't into dressing up. He has never let his sisters dress him up and I'm sure he doesn't think there's much difference between them doing the ordering and me doing the ordering. For the late afternoon trick-or-treats (to Grandma and Grandpa Goldthorpe's house), I wrestled him into the monkey suit - in all ways literal. But, it was getting pretty hot so after dinner I took pity on the kid and let him wear the pirate outfit. Why, you ask, did I have two costumes for him? The monkey suit was Hailie's from last year - I already bought the pirate costume (for $3 at D.I.) when I re-discovered the monkey in our Halloween box. Thus, the two options.

Hailie was a great witch. At first, we couldn't find her hat. She was most upset about this. She said, "Without my hat, I'm just a pretty girl in a black dress!" Yes, Hailie, that's true. :o)

Wendi was in LOVE with this dress from the moment I opened the package from my amazingly talented and giving friend Kristen. She decided she was Little Red Riding Hood. How many safety pins did it take to make it "just right"? Exactly thirty-seven. Why did I not just alter the dress? Because Hailie has reserved it for NEXT Halloween. :o)

TOO much candy, loads of fun, and good exercise walking around most of the subdivision.

6th Birthday Party

(Yes, I'm still pregnant)

The Birthday Beach Bash was a lot of fun (almost two weeks ago)! We (Wendi, Hailie, and I) have been working on this - so it would live up to most of their expectations - for quite a while. One of the big rules was "girls only", so Brent and Ben had to scram and therefore there are no pictures of them in this post.

Let me give you a run-down of the events:

We made grass skirts; decorated palm tree, shell, and pineapple-shaped sugar cookies;

did the limbo; had a congo line; and a bunch of other things I'll not bore you with.
However, there was food

and much fun was had by all.

Was I tired? Of course! Was it fun? Of course! Would I do it again? Maybe next year. :o)

Suggestions?

We're trying to think of names for our baby girl who is soon to come... I've got nuthin'. Usually (well, you know, the past two times I've been pregnant), I have a "short list" of names well before now.

Yeah. No-thing.

PLEASE make suggestions. Someone? ANYone?

Celebration of TWINS!

Sometimes I feel bad for Benjamin that he doesn't have a twin. Then again, he's sort of a spotlight stealer. Therefore, I will put TWINS at the forefront today!

Wendi and Hailie have a friend their age to play with any time. They laugh and play together every day; they have this sort of understood give-and-take that no other sibling or friend relationship can ever compare to. For example, there is none of the big sister-little sister tension.

Hailie and Wendi are constantly re-equating as far as leading the way goes. One crawled first, the other walked first; one spoke first, the other fed herself first... I could go on forever.

Some days, they can't stand each other and others they can't be together enough. This is from one of their "need each other" days.


Often the question is posed to me, "Would you have twins again?" The undeniable answer is "YES!". I would have loved for Ben to be twins (although two Ben-similar boys running around may have done me in by now...) and I would love to be having twins right now. There is something special about two babies and their unspoken bond that I don't think I'll fully understand because I don't have a twin!

(We are grateful that a grandpa has an identical twin brother and so he understands pretty well. And, there are three aunts and an uncle that are twins -- doing the math, that's a set of girl twins and a girl-boy set of twins -- and our twins recognize and appreciate these family members quite a lot!)

I tend to discourage them being overly dependent on each other - for heaven's sakes, they are going to grow up and have friends that don't even know they have a twin! There has got to be some individual identity, right? (Both girls wholeheartedly embrace this idea, too.)

Sometimes, though, all you need is the person who understands you better than all others, and for these crazy girls, that person is never too far away.

Upcoming Event

No, no, not the birth of our new baby or the birthday party for the twins or the fancy dinner I get to go to tonight (which I don't have to pay for - score!).

I'm talking about The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network's Walk for Food Allergy: Moving Toward A Cure. It is a one and a half mile WALK at Veteran's Park in Boise... a fundraiser for the network.

I got such a huge reply back in the blog when I mentioned the twins' allergy to eggs that I thought you might be interested in this. You can find out if there are any events in your area. I'm pretty surprised how few there are and that there is a walk in Idaho but none in other places - maybe you and your friends could be the ones to get things going where you live.

To be completely honest, I'm not interested in forcing everyone to donate to our team (as our fundraising goal is $0 - we've reached our goal! Hooray! Thanks for all you who have participated!). I just think this is a really fun way to get kids moving and teach them about good causes. It's free to participate - for anyone. Any kid who participates gets a free t-shirt, too.


I know, I'm being much more informational than usual. Be amazed, but don't get used to it.

Note: I am large, pregnant, and uncomfortable right now. I will not be walking. Brent will be taking Hailie and Wendi. Granted, I COULD... but Brent volunteered to take them, what do YOU think my reply should be?