We are off and we made it...

We fit everything in this huge truck and all I kept thinking was wow, I can't believe we had most of that in our tiny 700 sq ft apartment.

Here are the girls after our first day of driving. We stopped in Omaha to sleep and boy was it nice. Both girls had a lot of fun running around in our HUGE hotel room and jumping on the beds after we ate Claire decided she would find a better place to play...

It took some pulling to get this little on out of here. She is so funny. We made it around 6 pm on Tuesday and was pleasantly surprised that Jon and Spencer had already unloaded the truck. I am really sad to say that I don't have any pictures of our visitors... mom you need to send me some of yours. We were sure lucky to have Spencer, my mom and dad and Nathan. Thank you so much for helping us unpack, and kept the girls entertained etc. You guys are the best!!

On Thursday we took a break from unpacking and went to the first cool place we could find. (I am hoping I continue to find cool places to go here... but I am keeping my expectations low as to not disappoint myself and keep wishing we were back in Utah.) We went to the Zoo. The best part about it is that it is FREE. It isn't very big, but it was really fun to walk around and see some of the animals. Here is Claire chilling with the goats.

You can crawl through a tunnel to see the sea lion swimming around.

Pretend you are a gopher

See if you are as big as an Eagle,

Walk with the Kangaroos,

and even see a baby one. It is in it's mother's pouch.

They even had water you could play in which was amazing considering you felt like you were in an indoor pool, but there was no place to swim. We are slowly getting used to the humidity and I am enjoying the rain storms we have been having.

I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday. Love you all and miss you like crazy!!

Post 6: Our House

I know I am jumping the gun and we didn't really get our house until June 18th, on our 8th anniversary, I have just been thinking about it a lot and how excited I am about it so I thought I would post some pictures. I hate it when I thought I took a ton of pictures and then I realize I hardly took any. So here is my new house. I can't wait to start decorating it etc. I hope you all enjoy!

The best part is there is a gate that opens up in the back to go out to the park. This part was one of the biggest factors when we were looking for a house. It had to have a fence and a yard and now we got the bonus park in back.

When you walk in you come right into the Living room or you can head upstairs. I am excited to see what everything looks like without someone else's stuff in it, but oh well just imagine the possibilities.

When you walk through the living room you come into the dining/kitchen/
another family room.

Kitchen (in case you were wondering. he he)

Downstairs bathroom. It is off the kitchen.

Then the garage. This is one thing I am so so excited for.

Then we head upstairs. To your right there is a

Bathroom and
Three Bedrooms imagine, a craft/sewing room, the girls room and a play/guest room. I am seriously loving it.

If you head to the left you will have your laundry room and then the Master Bedroom.


I think this place is going to look a little empty considering we really won't have that much stuff to fill up all the rooms, but I am excited for the change. I can't wait until I can look around and think wow everything I own has a place and I don't have to have some of my stuff at Three different houses. it is going to be heaven!

Post 5: One Day Vacation

Jon and I LOVE Salt Lake City. I know it is an almost unreachable dream, but I would love to move back and live here someday. We took a day off and went to explore Temple Square.

Claire couldn't have been Happier. She could go almost wherever she wanted and she enjoyed every minute of it.

Well until something like this would happen. She would get so mad when Marcella tried to make her go where she wanted, but .....

Claire would have none of that. When she saw her chance she would take it...

And run her little heart out.

We decided to take a tour of the Conference Center first. It is beautiful and amazing.

Both girls liked the top the best. I think they liked it mainly because they could just run around and climb up on things. I loved the view. All the wildflowers were in bloom. It smelt like heaven up there.

Then we headed over to have lunch at the Lion House. It was the perfect place to eat. We sat outside and when the girls were done eating they just played on the steps and the grass while Jon and I got to enjoy our meal. It was fabulous.

Next stop: Temple Square. Marcella loved this fountain.

and this one...

mainly because she was splashing her Daddy.

She loved this one too.

Claire was still in her "running around mode" so I couldn't get her to hold still by Marcella next to the Christus. I love being able to go and see this statue. It is so calming to just sit and look at it.

Next stop was Gateway to let the girls play in the water. I will let you decide who had more fun.

This will go down as one of my favorite days. It was so nice to spend time together and for the most part it was all free. I can't wait until we can do it again.