Moving Day!

So it has finally come......and gone. We have officially moved. Thank goodness for good friends and fabulous family. I seriously couldn't have handled another move without their help. We had friends and family travel over 90 miles to help us move, some more than once or twice. Thanks for the sacrifices! I would love to post pictures of this wonderful event, but of course, in the midst of it all I forgot to take pictures. I can post some pics of our garage full of boxes, and rooms full of "things" yet left to unpack, but I'm sure you can imagine that.

I am still sane, and starting to get settled. The kids seem to be getting there. P loves the new house and has no qualms about anything but her room, at night. She has come into our room to sleep in our bed every night since the move. I honestly am too exhausted to argue with her at 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. B however, loves sleeping in his bed and wakes up happy, but during the day continues to tell me how he hates the new house and really, really liked the old one. He has trouble with the adjustment. He did the same thing the last time we moved. At least he still goes to the same school and has some consistency with that and his friends. Hopefully his adjustment won't take long.

Because of the move, I can't think past tomorrow. Sometimes not past 10 minutes from now. We were scheduled to go to Mexico for Spring Break next week, but due to the issues with Mexico, we have cancelled our trip. I was so looking forward to a much needed vacation with our friends. I could use a lot of pool and beach time and just relaxing, I don't care where it is, anywhere would be fine.

So, I guess I get more time to unpack the house. :( yeah....
Hopefully we will have some visitors this next week to help us "break in" the new house.

Snow Day???

Tuesday night the forecast mentioned snow, we have had snow before, but no accumulation. I went to bed at about 10:45pm and looked out on the deck to find a good coating of snow. I thought oh well, it will melt quickly in the morning, but apparently it kept snowing most of the night. I woke up to snow covering everything. I had to scramble to find a note that was sent home over a month ago from B's preschool saying, "In case of snow we will follow the local school district policy for a SNOW DAY." After listening to the radio I found that all schools in this area were cancelled for the day. Now, I grew up in Utah and my husband in Montana. In my lifetime, school was NEVER cancelled. It didn't matter if we got 2 feet of snow, we still had to be at school, on time. R says he remembers school being cancelled once because it was like 30 degrees below zero and the electricity wasn't working at the school, however he also remembers that he walked to school found it was cancelled and then had to walk home.

Needless to say, we were surprised that about an inch or two of snow, in our area caused school to be cancelled. But we took advantage of it and had a great time in the snow while it was here.

As usual P wouldn't let me take any pics of her.

What a busy weekend...

So last week we had quite a good time. On Friday, we were able to go up into the mountains of Prescott and see all of our old friends from the Phoenix Baptist Family Medicine Residency. It was so great to see them. We got to meet the new and catch up with the old and some new additions to the families. It was a great time. Then we went to our friends house for dinner and a rousing game of "Ticket to Ride." Our new favorite board game. Even Ryan loves it, and he hates board games. It is a fun strategy game, that doesn't take days to play.

We then spent our Saturday getting ready for the Superbowl Party we were going to have. It started out with just 9 of us but by Saturday night we were expecting 25 people. It was so much fun. Our great friends from Mesa even came up and joined us for the day. It was just so fun to have them here. We ended up with 26 people and tons of food. Ryan told me on Saturday to make sure to remember to take pictures of the party, but I totally forgot. I was busy keeping up the food, and then the game was awesome, so of course pictures weren't the first thing on my mind. Too bad the Cardinals lost, but what a game. We are proud of them and how they played. Seriously, that was the best Superbowl I have seen in quite some time. Usually the only reason I even keep watching the game after the 3rd quarter is for the commercials, because often times it is a complete blowout.

For those of you who don't know, we are still looking for a new place up here in the Prescott area. I have spent many hours with my wonderful realtor looking at numerous houses. I would say I never get sick of looking at houses, but I'm almost to that point. Hopefully we find the right house soon, if I haven't already seen it. We would really like this to be our last move for at least 3 years. Keep us in your prayers. We can use all the help we can get.

Brennan is still loving preschool and I actually filled out the paperwork for him and Peyton to attend next year. I can't believe Peyton will now be going too. Too bad for me they will go on different days at different times. I am glad that she will get to go. She loves going to pick up Brennan and seeing all the fun stuff to do in his classroom and heaven only knows that she needs something to challenge her, I am amazed every day at how smart she is. We were driving last week to take Brennan to school and she kept saying, "look mom, there's a new one." I said, "a new what, Peyton?" She said kept pointing up and out of the window, I couldn't tell what she was pointing at so I said what is it? She said its a new one, pointing at a billboard. I said, are you sure? I had no idea what the billboard had looked like before, so I asked her, she said," the old one had a monies and a boy." So I asked Brennan, what did that billboard used to have on it, he said, "it had some cash and a man."

Brennan on the other hand has found his natural performing side to him. Lately, he has found things that make us or others laugh and he keeps doing them. When you tell him to stop, he says, "but it makes you laugh." He is quite a card! (no idea where he gets that from). He is a funny little guy with a great sense of humor.

25 Random Things, facts, habits, or goals about me

So, I was tagged on Facebook to do this, so I thought I would post it here too.

Rules:Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOU.


1. I have a wonderful husband, Ryan and two kids, Brennan (4) and Peyton (2) whom I love very very much.
2. I love to sing in the car, but for some reason won't sing when my husband is with me.
3. Thinks cruising is the ideal vacation. No cooking , cleaning or activity planning.
4. Would love to learn sign language
5. Love spending time with my parents, from whom I am starting to learn that they were right and they make me laugh.
6. Have 8 nieces and nephews whom I love almost as much as my own children and would do anything for.
7. I love to play games, card, board or any other kind.
8. Love to spend time with my extended family. They are amazing people and extremely entertaining, we are never short on laughter when we are together.
9. I used to play the violin and actually liked it. I would love to play again someday.
10. Would love to take singing lessons.
11. Am very mechanical. I love to put things together, hook stuff up, or just fix stuff.
12. I am brilliant at creating run on sentences and creating grammatical errors, even though I always got A's in English.
13. Have a big brother, Devon, and a big sister, Chelsea whom I love very much.
14. Am wondering if people who are tagged for this are doing it because they think it is like a chain letter, if you don't forward it, bad luck will loom.
15. Would like to visit Paisley, Scotland sometime very soon.
16. Love to be surprised.
17. Love that my best friend in the whole world, besides my husband, is my cousin Lindsay. No matter how long it has been since we have been together, when we do see each other it is like we were never apart. I also love that if we tick each other off, we're related and there's not much we can do about that! :)
18. I love cars. I love to research them, look at them, buy them, drive them. I also can tell you what make of car is coming at me at night in the dark just from looking at the headlights. (It's something I have been able to do since I was little) weird huh?
19. I hate folding laundry.
20. I love to wake up to a clean kitchen.
21. Love my dad's philosophy for family vacations. "Anybody can do anything they want to do." This means that you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. It makes for GREAT family vacations. I seriously suggest it.
22. I am amazed the lengths I will go to find a good deal. I hate paying full price for anything. That was ingrained in me by my dad, the "king of a good deal."
23. Would like to re-certify my EMT license and use it once again.
24. Love music of all kinds. Music is such a powerful medium, it has the power to heal, sooth, take you back to a specific time and place, trigger memory, make you smile, music really does kill pain, reduce stress, better our brains and basically change how we experience life. (really, it's proven science)
25. I am terrible at gauging time.