ANNOUNCING!!!

Well Folks...It's Finally Time...No Angel is NOT Pregnant, but I know that all you girls thought it for half a second. (With the exception of Andi, cause she's here in Texas with us today)

I (Bradley Dean) am announcing my very own super-sized BLOG! It is dedicated to everyone who has ever had (or ever will have) a bad day. It will lift you up in a myriad of ways, with general funny observations about life and thoughts that stir up in my 5th grader mind... like how do they make Jello Wiggly and stuff?

So... Feel free to add my Blog to your list of Friendly Bloggers and enjoy... if you ever have a suggestion please let me know. Anything we can do to generate a smile.

-Bradley Dean-

www.bradleydean.blogspot.com

One of our greatest creations

So besides our daughters :) I think this is the best thing we have ever created. Ironic that its for them :) Anyway, this is the girl's new room. Complete with a ballet bar and mirrors, bunkbed with slide, and adorable decorations. Its pretty much the best room there is.

New Pics!

I finally loaded some of the new pics on here, I need to take some of our actual apartment and outside of our door and such, but here's the view and some other pics of Dallas:

There is one picture of the beautiful freeway we took on our way here on our 22 hour trip, and the other two I took right outside our apartment. There is a shopping complex across the street :)

I guess I'll stay active...

Funny subject line, huh? I thought so, its my tag line for the day. So I was having a pretty down day yesterday, I would probably say partly hormones, partly being overwhelmed by the last year all coming together to now and just ready to have consistency, but not sure I'm in love with this consistency, etc. As I'm writing this I'm listening to myself ramble on and I realize, yeah, its probably hormones, but anyway... that's besides the point.

So we went to our ward today, I was a little nervous but prayed a lot before we went that I would like the ward and find some people that I could relate with and feel like I could become friends with. Brad and I woke up right before church started because he fell asleep without setting the alarm, and we went to bed at 2:00 AM, so we got there late, but we walked in after Sacrament right at the back of the chapel by the door that every walks out and somehow got stuck there greeting everyone as they walked out. It was kinda like my wedding reception all over again, except I didn't know anyone and I met like 20 people, and can only remember about 3 names... hmm, make that 2. Anyway, so we went to Sunday School and Relief Society and I met some really fun people that I think I can relate to and become friends with and I was really relieved cause I've been hopping wards for about 9 months, almost avoiding making friends cause we weren't going to stay long, and i was just worried that I wouldn't find any friends, but I think I'll be okay. So as we went home from church, I told Brad that I met some really nice girls and I said, "So I guess I'll stay active now." ehehe, just as a joke of course, but I thought it was pretty funny.

Its all starting to sink in...

I was just looking at some pictures to put on my blog and started gettin a little sad. I'm happy that we're here and have so much opportunity and that life is going to get a lot better, but I'm sad that I won't be able to be so close to all of you, and its just a big change. I thought with all that we've been through in this last year, that this song was very suitable, and gave me some courage to start this new chapter. But in respects to the last move and changes and such, here are some pics to enjoy while you listen to the song from Meet the Robinsons, its a great one!

Saying Goodbye

Well, I haven't had a chance to post these up yet cause my computer was packed, but it is unpacked, so here we go. These were Tori and Abbie's preschool teachers. Tori's teacher was Mrs. Smart, and Abbie's teacher was Mrs. Cochran. Both amazing teachers who we dearly miss! These pics are from their last day of preschool.

Welcome to Texas... Jeni, you were right.

So first of all, rest easy, I'm alive. I don't know how many of you saw the news this morning, but there were TORNADOES!!!! I guess you can say my life is never boring, huh? So my sister in law, Jeni told me there were tornadoes in Dallas. I was terrified. So I asked people around here about it, and they all said No, no tornadoes. So I felt much better. We moved here last Saturday, and four days later, guess what happens, TORNADOES! Crazy! Luckily there weren't any tornadoes in our area exactly, but in Southern Dallas there was, and West of us there was. This is sure to be an interesting life here :) Lets just hope it is a long life, not a short one, right?