Milestones!

So Will made another great milestone today. He stood all by himself. We were at a friends house for a birthday party and Will was playing with the toys on the kitchen floor. I looked down and he was just standing there. It was so cool! When I noticed it I hurried to get Matt's attention so that he could take a picture with his phone. I am so glad to have gotten that on camera!

Now looking at this picture it makes me so sad to think that my little baby is getting so big! Now that he is standing I'm sure it will only be a matter of time before he switches from "cruising" to walking. I am both glad and sad for this. I am glad because maybe if he is higher off the floor he won't try to pick everything on the floor up! I am sad because I am sure he will get into a lot more things. LOL
Currently one of his favorite things is to play with the dishwasher while I am loading or unloading it. It can be so frustrating because he has decided that he likes to climb in it. So I am constantly having to get him out of the dishwasher while I am trying to do the dishes. LOL Today he decided that since I wouldn't let him sit on the open door he would stand on the edge of it. Little brat!
He is also starting to "talk" a ton. He loves to scream and make all kinds of noises. He also FINALLY cut his fourth tooth. I hope that now that he has the two front on both top and bottom then the rest won't bother him so much. I feel so bad for him.

In other news, Matt and I have had a lot of really hard and emotional days/decisions lately. Matt was told about 3 weeks ago that his company would be doing some lay offs. Shortly after that he was told that he was on the list to be laid off but they were going to try and find him another position. About two weeks later he was told that his last day would be 9/6/12. We were both happy and sad to have this happen right now. We were happy because we saw it as an opportunity to move back out west so that we could be closer to our family and friends. But it was hard because we didn't have the money to move back and didn't have a job for Matt. He has applied for a ton of jobs, and hopefully one will work out soon. So after making some decisions and getting help from family we decided that we were moving back to Utah until Matt got a job, hopefully we would stay in Utah but if not then we would be close. However, on Matt's last day his boss offered him a job that would keep him employed for 45 days. After that, who knows. So now we had to decide to keep the job and have the unknown looming over our heads or continue with our plans to move and take the lay off. This was an incredibly hard decision because we do want to get back out west very badly, however we did not like getting "donations" from our family in order to do it. However, we did have a lot of decisions made and had things in the works to move, that may not be available in 45 days. We didn't know what to do. We did, however, decide that staying here for another 45 days was the best financial decision. However, Matt is going to continue to apply for jobs and if something comes up before the 45 days then we will take it. Luckily this extra time will allow me to get the last bit of painting that we have to do, so that our house may rent/sale easier when the time comes.
All in all after a lot of emotions and hard decisions we are bound to make this extra time worthwhile so that we can feel better about moving when the time comes. Hopefully when that time does come we will be more prepared and be able to make the 3 day trek back with a one year old as smoothly as possible! :)