Updated pictures

These pictures turned out really cute.  Soozee and Amy took all the kids to Sears to have portraits done. 

Holly's 1st day of 2nd grade

This is the picture that Chris took of Holly on her first day of 2nd grade at her new school.  Holly is living with Chris over in Rexburg so she could start school there on Wed. Aug. 24th. I showed her the new school and she wanted to be in the class she's in.  I'm glad she got the class she wanted.  I was so sad that I couldn't be there on the 1st day of school for her.  She is managing just fine without her mom-which is kindof hard for me.  Holly goes to South Fork Elementary and her teacher is Mrs. Dennis.  She really likes her new school and her teacher.  Holly said she made some new friends already too.  On the bus ride home the bus driver forgot to stop at the house for Holly.  Holly said she had to go up to the bus driver and tell him to turn around because he missed her stop.  Thank goodness she has a friend that rides the bus with her to help her.  She is adjusting well to her new school and making friends easy.  That's something that I worried about.  I know this move has been hard for her.  I'm very proud of my big girl!! 

Shelby crawling

This was before the whole moving trip.  I love how Shelby crawls-she is so dainty.

Sealing day!!

The Saturday before we left for Rexburg (Aug. 13th) we took a break from loading and packing and went down to the Medford Temple.  Amy and Rusty were finally able to adopt Thomas.  The paperwork was final a few weeks ago.  Since Chris was going to be back home in Oregon and Amy didn't want to postpone this anymore we went down to the Temple and were able to be apart of the sealing session where Thomas is now sealed to Amy and Rusty.  It was a wonderful experience.  Then Holly asked me "Mommy, are we sealed?  Do we have to go be sealed too like Thomas?"  It was a great teaching experience for me to be able to tell Holly what it means and that she is already sealed to us.  I'm so happy for Amy and Rusty and Thomas.  I'm grateful for such wonderful sacred ordinances that we are able to be apart of and we can be families forever!

Having one day of fun in Rexburg!

So we did have some fun in Rexburg.  It wasn't all work.  We had Thursday to play.  We finished up a few things in the morning and then met Chris for lunch at work and had a tour.  Then we took the kids to the waterpark.  We ate frozen custard-which I've been wanting to try for a while- and it was so good!! We ate dinner and then Chris took his Duster out to the Thurs. night cruise at Artic Circle.  Then Friday we went home.  I wish we had more time to play this trip-oh well. 

 Having some fun with Holly's dress-up.  Once we put Holly's room together the girls were very excited to see what toys and stuff Holly had.  They are going to have so much fun together.

At Chris's office at BYU-Idaho

Chris drives his Duster to work!

We took a little tour of the school.  After the tour of the campus we took the kids to the water park.

 We went out to eat that night at Costa Vida.

 Here we are on our drive home to Oregon.  We stopped at Donnie Macs Trailerpark Cuisine in Boise.  Good food-but we had horrible service!

I think Shelby was done!  We all were tired on the trip home.  This about sums up how everyone felt!

Now I'm back in Oregon until the end of Sept. and Chris and Holly are in Rexburg.  This is very difficult for us.  I haven't been away from my kids for this long-or Chris for that long.  It will be over soon enough and we will all be together again in Rexburg. 

Thank you to all of you for your support and help with this move. Please come visit us and KIT- for those of you in Oregon we are leaving!!

Moving!!

 Our somewhat empty house.

 On the road and had to stop because the straps came loose on the truck!

 Chris drew this at Roosters restraunt in Pendleton Sun. night-on our way to Rexburg-Our Caravan!

So I don't know if I've told you yet-but we are moving!  That's why I haven't posted anything in a while because I've been kindof busy with packing.  Chris got a job working at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg.  We are very excited about it and feel that this is the right thing for our family, but the moving part really sucks.  Chris really likes his job.  He started on July 26th and has been gone while I am still in Oregon packing.  This last week we loaded up 1/2 of the house and shop and drove to Rexburg.  It took us 24 hours to drive there.  Then we unloaded and organized for 2 days at my parents.  We will be living with my parents in their basement.  It's actually pretty nice and probably bigger than my house now.  I got Holly registered for school and she starts school on Wed. Aug. 24th.  This is a very difficult move for us and I have been a complete wreck for the last month- just overwhelmed with having to do so much.  I'm grateful for the help that I had from friends and family. 

Shelby sweetie

I put Shelby in this outfit and the hat lasted about a second-where I could get a couple pictures and then she took it off.  She is crawling, pulling herself up on things, eating everything off the floor.  She is getting so big.  She is almost a year and has grown so much lately.