Busy Spring

Hello all! Spring sure has turned out to be a busy one for us. The snow finally left us alone and the sun came out - temporarily (it has been raining for weeks it seems). In early May my parents came out from Stayton, Oregon to visit. We arranged to have Cody’s baptism for while they were here. It was cool to have all of Brett’s family and my folks all there for that special day. Cody really loved having them there for that. A couple days after his baptism we had a birthday party with his friends from school. He wanted a “cool” cake so I whipped this one up for him. He has skateboarding aspirations - which I don’t know if I am too excited about.

We haven’t decided if we are going to get TV yet (no reception without cable) and so our evenings have been all about playing or working outside together. Here are some photos of Brett playing football with the kids. He and Greg against Sadie, Cody and Jackson. The photo below is of Greg running in for a touchdown. They have a lot of fun. I spent last week building our raised bed gardens and then we got them put in this past week. I am going to finish planting them today. We also got our cow last week. Brett’s brother Brandon got him for us before we moved and has had him at his place. They called him Donkey and our kids decided they like that name, so we have a cow named “Donkey”. Weird, I know. He is missing his herd though and will follow us around the pasture. It is pretty cute. Sadie will be getting her sheep for 4-H this week and we are all excited about that. None of us have ever been around sheep before. It should be fun. We are also going to be getting a bunch of chickens next week. You can call Brett “Old MacDonald”. Another thing that we have enjoyed has been bird watching out our back window. We have several feeders out there and even the kids have gotten into it. In fact the boys just got back from a bike ride and told me that they had seen a new bird, described it and then they found it in the bird book. They were so excited to have found it on their own. I have been trying to get everything ready for school in the fall. I went and got a bunch of vaccinations today and get to do CPR certification on Saturday. I also just got called to be the Sunbeam teacher in our new ward. It will be perfect for while I am in school because the 3-4 yr olds won’t know if I am prepared or not as long as I bring something to color. Well, hope all is well in your neck of the woods. We love where we are and feel so blessed to be here and have so many wonderful friends and family out there who care about us. Keep in touch.

PS - If you click on the photos they will come up full size so you can see them in better detail.

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".