Logan, Karen, Grace, Libby, and Leah
Well - we've been off line for four months or so - and glad to be back. Here is a run down as to what we've been up to:
Moved from our rental house in Benson, AZ without anywhere permanent to move to! Crazy
We are thankful for lovely mothers and other family and friends to take us in in our time of need, truly!
Logan looked for and found us a house to buy in Sahuarita, AZ, which is where we are now, but between the end of September and the end of Dec, we were at the mercy of the winds!
Karen and the girls went first to Wyoming with Mom and Bob (her family) then to Mesa with Laurie and John (Logan's family).
While in Wyoming there were fun times in Grandmas garden, Halloween fun, smores in the backyard, trips to Laramie and Martin's Cove, painting with Marianne, wonderful visits with brothers and sisters, and a reminder of how much I love Wyoming and all that is associated with it! I especially loved being near my mom - how I love her!
Then the first part of November we overtook Laurie and John's house. They are super great sports! While there Grace learned how to play fun games on Grandma's phone, watched grandma's fun sewing machine, we caught up with friends in Mesa, enjoyed being close to the Mesa temple and the temple lights, had a quick visit with Joel and Sarah and Logan and Mary. It was great to see you and catch up. We visited our old ward - the Olive ward, there by the temple. What a super ward. Whenever we go there, we have the talk that if we EVER move back to Mesa, we're mmoving back to that ward :)
Lots of fun and good times we had these last four months. We are so happy to be in our own house and all together as a family. Soon, I will post some pictures of our house - nothing super exciting - a subdivision in AZ - a brown house in a sea of brown stucco houses :) be we are glad to be in it and that we will be here for a long time.
and back to Wyoming pics again...
Ahh... that is happiness!
Logan and I went on a date to the TV Sushi Bar in Gilbert, AZ. It was lovely, heavenly. We needed to get in a sushi fix while we could. There is the "No Sushi Rule" while pregnant, and it is such a treat that Logan forgoes it as well while I am expecting. Needless to say, we don't get to have it that often! What a great date!
The other night Grace was getting ready for bed - following her her bedtime routine. We went over all the things that needed to be done... potty, pajamas on, books to read, prayers, and then bed! Grace then said - "That's a lot of directions!" Kids are fun! Then I thought to myself - that is a lot of directions in your little world - but just wait - life has lots and lots directions in store for you!
So - let me start out by saying that we have "re-homed" our dogs. That sounds better than 'getting rid of' our dogs. We gave them to a nice rancher fellow that wanted some heeler type dogs. We are glad that they have a nice home to go to. They were just too jumpy around Grace and I got tired of telling them to quit barking at 5 am at rabbits. Makes sleep short, especially when you are getting up once or more times with kidlets.
Since we dropped the dogs off, we replaced them in our hearts with a nice brand new blue plastic pool :)! They were so delighted to play in the wading pool today - I couldn't get Grace to change out of her "swimming soup" as she calls it. Both Grace and Libby looked so cutie cute in their suits. Maybe - I'll actually get a tan on my legs this summer as we spend more time outside!
I will start out with saying that I have been a blogging fool lately!! It's amazing how months can go by without anything noteworthy happening, and then BAM! the floodgates open. Here is a Grace story today.
Here is a little background info. We have been teaching Grace how to say her prayers and to bless the food at meal times. She is pretty good, she repeats everything we ask her to, and when we get to the end, she immediately says "amen" after we instruct her to say "In the name of Jesus Christ" (so she never says In the name... - just 'amen' get it? Good!)
So, just before the Sacrament, I was explaining what was going to happen - that there was going to be a prayer and we needed to think about the Savior, and the young men were going to bring us bread and water and that it was to help us remember Jesus Christ... immediately, she said loudly and firmly "AMEN!." Give me a Holla! Hallelujah! Raise the Roof! I almost cracked up. Glad I didn't, I would have gotten a few odd looks from the nice couple in front of us.
Grace came running down the hall from the girls' bedroom saying urgently, "Mommy, Mommy, Libby's in the toy box!" I checked in and found this.
Libby is just so chill. Not really concerned, just kickin' back! Also note that we do not have a toy box, just a bunch of old diaper boxes to hold our crazy amount of small annoying toys. :)
How is it that when you look at your kids - you can fall in love with them all over again? Grace, Libby and Leah - thanks for being ours. Logan thanks for being mine, and such a great dad to the girls.
