We're in, we're in...

Oh man what a task! We moved into our house officially, as of 9:30, last night. What a pain! My WONDERFUL MIL came down to help because Todd had to work for the 4 days before the move, and my mom couldn't take off work. If she wasn't here and we didn't have such great family and friend support the move would have been 10x's harder.

This whole thing has been a huge mix of emotions. A lot of frustration, some relief, some excited, some sad. I have been so frustrated because I HATE to move! I know I do it a ton, but this time is was totally NOT my idea! I didn't want to move my kids for the 2nd time in 8 months, I didn't want to have to make new friends when I was just getting to make some awesome ones, I didn't want to have to pack, load and unload a truck, and I didn't want to have to rent a moving truck for the 2nd time in 8 months. I didn't want to to any of this.

The Lord always knows what is best so I am trying to remember that He understands my needs and wants even more than I do, so I am trusting him. I am trusting Him to help TC find friends in a big new school, I am trusting him to help me find more great friends here, I am trusting Him that we are where will be in the best place to serve Him and those around us. What else do I do. As usual I complain about these hard times and look around to realize that I DO have a home, I DO have my kids, I DO have wonderful family and friends. I really am very blessed!

On a really good note, we love the house. It's a little bigger, a lot more open and a lot brighter. We are on a flat street so the boys are excited to ride their rip-sticks and maybe get a trampoline. I am hoping to get pictures up soon.

I need to catch up on a few events, like the last trip to UT, and the kids first day of school...all in good time...

An almost, not so much wanted, guest

So this morning it is RAINING!! LOVE IT! We've kind of seen it threaten a few times but this time it started last night and is still going. You know it's hot when 75 feel like you need a jacket. But we are grateful it's raining. With the drought we'll take anything we can get!

I opened the backdoor, and decided to let a little muggy fresh air in. Not for long, just while I did a few little things, went and got my clothes and put a batch of laundry in. I hear from the front room Max making a funny noise and it sounded like another funny noise but I couldn't tell what it was.

I walked into the front room and Max is at the back door, nose on the ground, looking very wary. I kind of shooed him back in carefully to make sure nothing was IN the house, pulled up the blinds, and saw this guy:

I've seen frogs/toads before. When I spent a summer in Illinois you could see them after it rained jumping through puddles. But I have never seen one this big and 6" from my back door! I tried to get something that you can see it's size, but the only thing close enough (I wasn't about to go closer and PUT something next to it!) was this rebound net of my boys. It's about as tall as I am.

You would think I would quit being such a wimp and get used to seeing new and big things around here, and getting so grossed out by bugs, frogs, snakes,....but I guess not, but as a mom of all boys you would think that would HAVE to change...but nope! I guess my back door is never safe left open *sigh*

My brain hurts...

I know it's only been a few days, but I feel like I drop into bed at night totally exhausted! My brain is so tired and sore from thinking so hard all day. (maybe it needs more practice :-) ) Anyway, we have looked at several houses, there is very little to choose from in our price range. I've been told that our price range and what we're looking for isn't a bad combo, it's just NOTHING is available.

We did find one in a little town called Anna. It's just like where we are now, but straight east. The commute would be about 10 mins longer for Todd, not that he minds all that much, but still. The plus side would be I do know a couple of very nice people over there and the house is bigger than the one we are in now. It would be almost a whole other bedroom worth of space.

I think Todd and I are just reluctant to want to move from a place we were REALLy trying to make our home. I know that it's not that far away, and not a whole lot will change, other than house, school, ward, friends, etc. But I think mentally we just weren't prepared for a move and now we HAVE to move.

Anyway. I know things will work out, I really do. I just get frustrated that I can't do more to make what I want happen! But I realize it's not always about what we want. I am sure the Lord needs us somewhere else and I'm sure over there the boys can make some more great friends and I can too...

Moving, but not by choice!

Todd and I took the boys up to UT on Tuesday. The boys were SO excited to fly on a plane again. Flights were packed and I needed and wanted to get up there for Heather's bridal shower. (which I will post about very soon!). We flew into Grand Junction CO. The flight was fun. We flew on EMB 145, a plane that Todd flys. The boys thought it was AWESOME!!!! They kept asking Todd if he could fit in the plane and that Uncle Justin is just too tall to fit :-) I guess they realized dad doesn't fly HUGE planes. lol My mom drove down to Grand Junction and picked us up. We drove the rest of the way to Provo.

I had some business, Pampered Chef, school supplies shopping, and other such stuff to do here so I came home on Friday. The boys stayed in Ut. They are really having a lot of fun! Wish I could say the same....

We came home to an eviction notice on our door because the house we rent is being foreclosed. CRAZY! Where has all my rent gone?! Anyway we call the broker on the card, attached to letter. She said is was foreclosed on Aug 2nd. and if we are out by Sept 8 we get an incentive. We said heck ya!

This is all a really big readers digest version of the whole thing. It's really hard to tell who's telling the truth, who do you give the keys to, how many people do I have to send a copy of my lease to etc....But facts are instead of a couple of relaxing days before I head back to Ut for a very exciting wedding I get to house hunt. blah.

Sad thing is we were really looking forward to making our home here, but I think this is turning out to be a HUGE blessing so we'll go with it. Wish us luck. I will keep everyone informed.