We moved to Idaho!!

We now live in Rexburg Idaho.  Chris and Holly have been in Idaho for a month and now we are all finally together.  It has been a long and stressful move with lots of trials, tribulations, and tears.  It was a difficult decision for us and we miss our friends and family in Oregon. However, we are excited about our new life in Rexburg and look forward to making a life here for ourselves.  Today I went to our new ward for the first time.  It is very crowded and I can't be late to church anymore or else you have to hang out in the foyer.  We got here on Monday Oct. 3rd in the afternoon. I have been working non-stop with unpacking, organizing, and cleaning.  We had some friends come and visit from Oregon already and that was nice to visit with them and take a break from unpacking.  Chris and I took the kids out for custard on Sat. night and a college kid in a red neon backed into my car in the parking lot.  Seriously-already!!! One more thing I have to deal with.  I know things will settle down here and become more like home for us.  Right now I still feel like I'm on vacation visiting my parents-but reality hasn't sunk in yet.  I look forward to enjoying the Fall season here-there are a lot of fun family things to do here.  I plan on finding a couple days of work and hopefully I can find something right in Rexburg. 
Thank you to all who helped with our move.  We love you all and want to keep in touch with all our friends and family in Oregon and everywhere.  Please keep in touch-best place to reach us is on facebook.  I know that this was the right move for our family even though it is hard.  Heavenly Father has a plan for all of us and I want to make sure I'm living my life the way he would want me too. 
Big Hugs from the Hickman Family
3135 S 1400 W
Rexburg, ID 83440
(541) 817-3318 my cell

Shelby's Birthday

On Saturday we had a Birthday party for Shelby.  Chris and Holly were here from Idaho and we had friends and family over.  I can't believe Shelby is already a year old.  She was having fun, but she doesn't just dive into things. She has to test it out first and see if this is ok.  At first she wouldn't eat her cupcake.  I would post videos if Blogger wasn't so slow and take forever to post.  So for now I just have pictures to post.   

 Shelby is testing it out first.  Look at that concentrating face.

"So I have frosting on my face-so what.  What are you going to do about it?"

So now she likes it-but doesn't want me to take a picture of her eating her cupcake!

Since today is her Birthday.  After dinner we played music and danced.  Shelby loves to dance.  It was really cute.  Then I took Carson and Shelby to the park and let Shelby swing again. She seemed to like that on Monday.  So-I thought I would go swing again.  Then it was bedtime.  She was worn out after all this fun!

Shelby swinging

I haven't really had a chance to take Shelby to a playground until yesterday. This was her first experience swinging. At first she kindof laughed/cried. Then she started laughing and liked it. She's so funny because she doesn't like to be tossed in the air or played with like that. She's still my serious girl.

Going cellular

So I just got a DROID and this is so cool that I can do everything through my phone. I'm writing a post on my phone. I love technology. I think I will be a lot better about email, my blog, facebook. I just had to try this out.

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.