First Day of School

School started on Monday! Hip, hip, hurray!! The nice things is that the girls are cheering as well. Jessica is very excited to have finally graduated into an all day schedule. She thinks that eating lunch at school is pretty cool- whatever makes her happy, right?!? Kelsi is just excited that she is in the 4th grade. As Kelsi puts it, "Mom, you know this means I'm growing up, right?" -Sigh- I guess she really is growing up. It's amazing to see them get older and feel a sense of accomplishment just by being their mom. They really are amazing little girls!
Taylor, on the other hand, is having a hard time adjusting to sissies being gone. He doesn't quite understand the whole school thing and asks all day long, "sissies?" This is accompanied with a shoulder shrug and a look around the house calling their names. After his house search he comes back and says, "I don't know!" It's pretty cute.

Moving (again)

In the last blog I said that I would blog this... so here goes. We're moving, yes, again! Gotta love being in Nursing School. We weren't really looking, well OK, looking but not seriously, when I found this great condo. The house we live in now is fairly run down and Ryan spends a lot of time fixing it up so that things work. The landlords are very interested in receiving the rent check and not much else. We feel like we sold our house so that we didn't have to fix it up... hence, the looking. So, I found a condo in Provo/Orem that is close to the hospital, close to Ryan's new job (next blog LOL), and allows the girls to go back to their old school, which they are very excited about. On top of all this, it will save us money, have less area to keep clean, has a pool and clubhouse, playground etc. and the new landlords are great! They're fixing it up and paying Ryan to do it. What more could we possibly ask for?!? We are also excited about the fact that it should be in a student family ward. Hopefully this will give us ward members that are a bit more understanding of our situation because they are in the same one. We're all pretty excited about it. It has given me a huge reason to clean out and downsize the things we don't need. We're already up to 4 trips to the DI. If you have not seen it or played with it in the last 6 months, it's gone! Anyone want to buy a beautiful kitchen table? All in all, we feel it really is a blessing and the best thing we can do for our family right now. So, yes, we're moving, again!
As requested, here's some pics of the table- we're selling it for $150 if you're interested...

Fun with Cousins

As you can tell by the new background, I am VERY excited for school to start again! The girls are ready too! They have one more week of complete boredom (as Kelsi puts it) until they get to go back. Hurray! I know it's been awhile since I posted- life is crazy... long story short we have been: getting ready for the new school year, doing a staycation, taking new family pics (see sidebar), still putting mom through Nursing school, getting ready to move (yes, again- I'll blog that later), and on and on. LOL- I cannot ever complain that my life is boring!
On to the blog for the day. Ryan's brother and his family were in town this weekend from Washington state. The kids had a great time spending time together. They hiked up to Timp cave, then we had a picnic up the canyon (where Taylor cracked his head open), and then went back to Grandma and Grandpa's to play on the water slide. I think that they all had a lot of fun. I included some pics for your viewing enjoyment.