We have arrived in Rigby Idaho!

Well, I am sorry it took me a month after moving to get this posted but moving is a busy event! We left Nampa on April 4th and stayed with Brett's brother Troy and his family for about 3 weeks while we waited for the purchase of our home to go through.(We are so grateful to them) We have been in our new place now for a week and we are loving it. The house is older, and the same size as our old place, but it sits on 2.27 acres that are beautiful! There are cottonwood trees all over and we are very secluded. It is on a road that pretty much dead ends so it is wonderfully quiet. Well, I should say that it was a nice and peaceful road until our family moved here. Now our kids ride there bikes all over and make all the noise that kids do. Oh well. So far Rigby has been very welcoming and we are loving it here. The kids have made some good friends all ready and their new teachers are great. Cody turned 8 yesterday and we will be having his baptism later this month. I will post photos for sure! We know that we are truly blessed to have had everything fall so perfectly into place like it has. Here are some photos of some of our property that I took this morning. Yes, we woke up to this on May 1st. That is crazy! Definitely not typical weather, but as people say here, "if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes, it will change". Well, I put our contact info on the e-mail I sent out. I didn't really want it posted here for the world to get a hold of. Keep in touch!

GOOD NEWS!!!

Sorry, no photo to accompany this post but I have great news! I found out today that I have been accepted into the dental hygiene program at Idaho State University!!! Only 26 people get accepted every year and hundreds apply. I will be starting school in the fall and it is a 4 semester (2yr) program. Sadie has all ready told me that she needs to learn how to cook better so she can help out more when I am in school. I am so excited I don't have words to express it! Brett has all ready started calling me his "sugar momma". Anyway, I promised that I would let you all know. Also we will be leaving Nampa forever as of April 4th. We don't know for sure where we are going as of today but we will let everyone know our new contact info as soon as we have it. Our love to you all!

Greg has lost his first tooth!

Just a quick post to let Greg show off his new smile! Of course it doesn't really look like he's smiling does it? Well, every time he smiled for a picture his lip covered up his new hole! So he kind of ended up grimacing at me while I took the photo. He was really excited about loosing it, but when the tooth fairy left him a half dollar coin he thought it was just a quarter and was quite disappointed. I explained to him that it was a really cool coin worth 2 quarters or 50 cents and he cheered up immensely! Well, still no offers on the house. We will keep you "posted".

House For Sale Nampa Idaho

After working my tail off (not literally, of course that would be nice- I could do with a little less tail LOL) to get our house ready to sell, it is finally on the market. With new tile in the bathrooms and laundry/storage (which we did ourselves), new paint throughout and cleaner than we have had it since we moved in. The trouble is that there are like 200+ homes on the market that are comparable in price and size to ours, so it will be hard to get people to come look at it. Anyway, we are not giving up faith. Meanwhile Brett is working in Idaho Falls already and coming home on the weekends. My thanks to all you family members who have had him in your home. I know he really appreciates it, and me too. If you all could keep us in your prayers as to our home selling quickly, we would sure appreciate it. Being apart is something that we have done a lot of in our marriage, but it never gets easy or enjoyable.
The kids are all keeping busy with school. Sadie is doing basketball again with her school team. Cody has decided that he wants to be a vet/animal rescuer when he grows up and has been spending a lot of time studying animal books. Jackson is still a mini version of Brett and can't wait until he is old enough to go on the winter campout. Gregory is my little collector. It is almost impossible to keep his bed cleaned off, he constantly has a shoe box of some kind of collection going on.
If you are interested the MLS # for our house listing is: 98345813. Hope all is going well in your lives. I will post more news as it comes.