August Happenings

We live at my inlaws house now for a short while until we get the keys to our house.  The kids love playing outside in the water of course. 

Ha ha!!!  Josiah and Landen have the exact same swim shorts so Landen and put his shorts on JT by accident.  So now he is walking around with a plumbers crack.  LOL!!!!

 Poor dog isn't used to this heat!  He is going to have a hard time next summer when it is hotter.

 Colter baby!  

 Sydney loves her baby brother to death!!   She went and layed down next to him on the couch and ended up falling asleep next to him.  So very sweet!  Colter loved the extra snuggles.

 Now that Sydney is awake, she can hold a sleeping Colter.  They switched places. LOL!

 What a happy baby boy!  I can't get enough of his smiles and happiness.  I love it!

This picture was taken on our 8th wedding anniversary.  We only went to dinner and Dairy Queen afterwards since Colter is still so young to be left for very long without his mamma!   I love you sweetheart.  You are the world to me through happiness and sorrow.  We have gone through a lot together and I know our love is stronger for it.  My love grows more and more for you every day.  I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!  I can't wait to spend many more wonderful years together with you.

1st day of KINDERGARTEN

Swimming with my family (need to finish typing kindergarten)

Landen's 6th birthday party!!!!

For Landen's birthday party this year I let him invited friends.  So we invited friends from church and cousins.  He wanted a spiderman theme, so when I was in Mesa two weeks ago, I bought a bunch of spider man stuff. 

                                     

My cheap version of decorations. Ha Ha.

 Ok so don't laugh.  I am very far away from being an artist, but this is supposed to be a spider web for our game, "Pin the spider on the web."

                                                      Landen goes first, does pretty good.

                                                    Bayden you are pretty far away!

                                                           Playing sport bingo!

                                                           Dougie, Tate, and Bayden

                                                               Sydney and Hinkley

                                                       Cohwen, Landen and Evan

                                                                      Colter

                                                                  Presents time!!!

                Colter exploded all over my poor friend Mindy.  Naughty baby Colter!

                I sure hope her shirt comes clean!  GROSS!!!  I sure did feel bad about this though.

Grandma couldn't make it, so he is opening his present at her house.

Josiah thinks he is riding a horse.  LOL!!!!

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!!! :) :) :)

Shortly, before I moved down to Glendale, I signed a whole bunch of papers bidding on a house.  Im hoping the buyers will accept our offer.  After all, we offered full asking price.  It's in Pecan Creek, just about a mile further south than where we used to live in Taylor Ranch about two years ago.
I packed up all the clothes that we might need and a dresser and a few other things and headed down to the valley.  Before I left, my mom and sister came over to say good bye and help me load up a few things. Of course, my mom started crying so that got me started crying.  This is a very difficult move for me and my family.  We thought we had finally made it to Show Low for good, but sadly we were only here about a year. Byron got a promotion with his job. He is now one of the branch managers at Diebold.  He will be home more and in the evenings too.  So overall, it will be a better situation for our family.  We feel moving back to the valley is the right choice for us right now. 

We just heard back and the sellers accepted our offer. YEAH!!!!  We get to move into our new home in 30 days.  So very exciting.  If all goes well we can move in over the weekend before Labor Day weekend.  On my way to the valley, I stopped at our new house.  The relator met us there so I could see the house.  It is so nice and big compared to what I'm used to. The only thing I don't like about it, is the living room.  It is a long rectangle.  Tthat is going to make it difficult to decorate.  And the walls are a light blue, kinda grey hue to it.  There is a huge storage room right as you walk into the house with wall to wall shelves.  That is going to be a great room for all my food storage. And then a pantry in the kitchen that goes under the stairs, with wall to wall shelves.  So fantastic!!! I'm so excited!  Sydney saw her room, which is already painted pink. Of course, it will need touch ups and the walls need washed. It's so cute.  She is very excited!  There is a very light blue room, but its on the other side of the hallway and we wanted the kids' bedrooms to be right next to each other. So for now, that will just be the guest room and my sewing/craft room.  The kids bath is awesome.  Double sinks, with toilet and shower seperate, with a door.  There is a huge loft (that is going to be the play room. No more toys in the bedrooms.) The master bath and bedroom are so big.  It's going to be great.  And the walk in closet is wonderful.  We don't have very many clothes, so there will be plenty of space in the closet. The back yard is already landscaped with grass, and a grapefruit tree and an orange tree.  Our house backs up to the wash, so the back fence is open.  Makes it looks bigger.  There is a two car garage with a tandem. That is great cause then hopefully we can park our huge truck in the garage now.  (course that is going to be forever away since I'll have to unpack and get everything organized.)  With such a large house, I should be able to put things in an orderly fashion and have a place for everything. Hopefully, I can be really organized soon. (I doubt it will be anytime soon though.  lol!)  After looking at the house, we drove back to Byron's parents house and unloaded the truck. I spent all that evening and the next day trying to organize our things.  We are all sleeping in the garage that has been turned into a big room.  I feel bad my in laws had to move around so many things to make room for all of us. And they thought it would be for a long time (at least a couple of months.  We had talked about staying all school year).  But we get to totally move in at the end of August.  CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!