We Moved!

We finally got the go-ahead to move to our new house, yeah! It has been an exausting, but very exciting process! We started on Saturday and finally have everything here and almost everything put away. But we still have the dreaded task of cleaning and painting our old house, boo! Hopefully we can get some friends to help with that, but we'll see. Anyways, Ellie loves her new pink room and running around the house finding new spots to hide, and being able to open all the doors, (because they are the kind of handle that our safety handles don't work on)! Jaron, well, I would say that he loves his own green room, but really he just gets up and cries just as much as ever, but I love that I don't have to jump out of bed to get him so fast. We are enjoying the extra space and staying busy dreaming about and working on landscaping plans. Rich's brother Rob came up the other day and did TONS of work with the yard, moving dirt for drainage and landscaping. We are planning on building a deck and digging sprinkler lines and planting grass and...any volunteers. Ha! We hope you can all come and see it. But, for now, there are still some boxes to be unpacked, so I should call it a blog and get going.

Upside Down

Yeah, you'd think I would have more time to blog with no company in town, but it has been a crazy few weeks. Wildwood just finished their last week of camp and are now cleaning up camp. Rich is also getting things ready for the Joshua year to start again. We have been continuing to work on our new house, painting and space planning as well as chain sawing dead trees and clearing them away from the yard. We have put in some sweat equity for sure, and we haven't even started moving in yet. But no worries, it is coming soon I'm sure. It passsed inspection and they are just finishing up the last details before we get the go-ahead. Very exciting. So I have started packing, filled the Suburban and parked that and we now have a 1960's ambulance that Wildwood uses, so I can fill that up too. It's actually kind of nice having the extra time to just pack when I can, mostly during naps and Huckleberry times. But of course we would love to get all in before Joshua starts, so on that end we are kind of antsy. Well, since I last wrote, our little Jaron learned to sit up, turned 6 months and started eating vegetables. (and is still not sleeping through the night, boo) Well another reason I haven't been blogging too much is because I haven't been taking too many pictures because my batteries keep dying, so sad. But we are planning on getting some this week so hopefully I will be back in the updating mode soon! Love you all and hope you are all doing well.

More Visiters!

This past week Rich's family came up and stayed in a cabin. It was so nice to have them. We sat by the lake, did puzzles at the cabin and a lot of the time Grammy Moo took Ellie so I could start painting our new house that we're getting. So that was extra awesome! Rich took all the guys on a ten mile mountain bike ride, which they all survived. (some better than others) And we had a fun photo shoot at the end of the week. Only problem was, when we were rushing to get ready, the toilet overflowed and I didn't have time to do my hair. My hair ended up looking quite silly in all the pictures-sad day. But all in all it was a fantastic week!

Yeah For Visiters

Well this week was so fun! I just realized I think I start almost all blogs that way, oh well, it's true! Dad and Judy came and camped near Hume with the 5 middle grandkids, Shelby, Phoebe, Caleb, Abigail, and Josiah. Ellie loves visiting with her cousins. We had fun playing at their campground, and playing at Hume. Swimming, Samurai rides, riding bikes, watching the Hume bike jump and Pizzookie up at Wildwood! What a blast!

They are getting so Big!

So our little Jaron had his first solid food last night. Rice Cereal! Very exciting. They call it a solid, because it is, compared to what he has been having, but it really could be sucked easily through a straw if one wanted to. In any case, he loved it! Ellie thought it was pretty fun too, in fact a little while later she was sitting eating a fig newton, and was like, "this is my first food" all cute with this sneaky smile. She cracks me up. So it was pretty entertaining because every time I had the spoon over him, he would start kicking and bouncing and spill it everywhere. Silly boy. We were really hoping that this would help him sleep through the night, because he still isn't, but then he woke up at his usual midnight, but after a scream and a feeding he slept for 8 hours yeah! So I know I titled this one "They are getting so big" and that is because the other very exciting news is that Ellie is Potty Trained! Hurray! She has been in big girl panties for almost 2 weeks now and we are very proud of her! Well, we don't have any pictures of that but we do have a little video of the rice cereal extravaganza. Enjoy!

San Diego Trip

Well in May my brother became the proud daddy of twin boys, so naturally I had to set up a trip as soon as possible to see those kiddos! Well, I spent all last week in San Diego/Escondido visiting with family. I got to stay with my mom, see Jenson and Quincy and their big sister Ava and their parents, I got to see Dad and Judy and a fun treat that my nieces Bethany and Amber were out from Texas, I got to go to IKEA, the beach and Hume SD, it was fantastic! On the way down I also stayed the night with Rob and Katie in Kingsburg then stopped for lunch to see my sister and her new house near Magic Mountain. We had a blast in the pool at Granny's (my mom) and got to see Grandpa and Grammy Moo (Rich's parents) and run around in their backyard. Ellie got to fly around in a Superman cape that was Rich's when he was a little tike, she got to build sand castles with her big girl cousins and party it up with the Hume SD friends and lots of other cousins, including Tori and Minnie. (Rob and Katie's dogs) All to say, it was great to see everyone and flew by like crazy!

No Fireworks but tons of Fun!

Well today was the 4th of July. Here at Hume Lake there are no fireworks allowed, for obvious reasons, but there is a super high class parade! Everyone decks out their vehicle of choice with balloons, streamers, flags and the like and we have a parade through the camp. Vehicles include motorcycles, golf carts, strollers, firetrucks, trash trucks, go carts, whatever, it's hilarious. Lots of people throw candy for the on lookers, we handed out cookies that Ellie and I had made. This is the first year we were actually in it so it was quite fun, especially since Heidi is up this weekend and joined us on our trek through camp. We topped the night off with watching the Pizzookie performance at Wildwood and putting the kids to bed really late, so a Happy Fourth it was.