It's Ours!

The title company called and said that they were able to record title at 11:00am, so the home is now officially ours! I had a few requests for more pictures. I'm sure more will follow as we get moved in.
This is the fireplace from the family room.
We are going to be the warmest family in AZ! This is the fireplace in the master bedroom.
One of the main selling points for us. This pantry/mudroom is even bigger than it looks in the picture. We are so excited about food storage, now!
The outside has been neglected for a little while, but is landscaped, and won't need too much work at this point.


We are excited, but still quite stressed as we prepare to move on Sat. and square things away with our renter. (Then travel to Utah!) Anybody want to come and pack a box, or borrow my children for a while??? :-)

Garden Girl

Kira had a great time helping outside at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Here she is making new friends, and learning how to go eat worms.

(btw, I have been experimenting with some of the photo and filter effects with my photo software. At first I was really excited about what I had done with the first two photos, but now that I look at them again, Kira looks a little green. What do you think?)

Little garden girl

I was trying to get a picture of Tessa in the beautiful irises at Grandma's house. Of course, she had to pick the dead one to latch on to.

Memorable Memorial Day

We spent Memorial Day weekend in Prescott, helping Barry's family put in a new parking area. It honestly felt like we were there for Christmas. Notice the ominous skies?

Trentonisms--Sabbath Edition

This could become a weekly column, since every Sunday, the leaders in primary come to me with a new Trenton story, or we personally hear or witness them. Let's see if I can remember them all...

• The time he said the opening prayer in primary and in the middle of the prayer cried out, "I don't want to die."
• The time he told them his favorite scripture story was Adam and E...gypt.
• Of course, the best was when they were talking about family home even and how sometimes you can sing with out the piano for FHE, because not every family has pianists (can you see where this is going?). Trenton piped up, "boys have penises!"
• We may need to work on his secular vs. religious education. When they were talking about having agency, he started talking about evil A.C.M.E. agents from the Carmen Sandiego game.
• And just last week, the Bishop was in talking about the story of David and Goliath. And when he asked what the giants name was, Trenton shouted "The Pickle!" (I guess he is more familiar with the Veggietales version than the actual scriptural account).
• You know the kid has a reputation, when they make him wait to give his talk in primary, until the microphone is working, because the adults can't wait to hear what will happen. Well, he gave his talk (pretty long one, for a 3-year-old), and it was all going a little too well, until he finished and immediately announced loudly from the pulpit, "I gotta go pee-pee!" The older primary boys thought that was hilarious and all suddenly had to go "pee-pee," too.

Am I forgetting any, those of you who are in primary?

And here are a couple related to parenting:

• We have discussed the importance of giving children choices in our parenting. Barry's version of this, is usually asking the children if they want to do things the easy way or the hard way. Trenton had been getting in a lot of trouble, and was pleased that Barry was posing the "easy way or hard way" question to his sister, instead, this time. Before she had a chance to say anything, he piped up with "Hard way for Kira, Hard way for Kira!"
• And just this morning, to his dad, he said "I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at your BEHAVIOR!"

The difference between Barry and me

The other day Kira was concerned and was asking us if we had saved money for her to go to college (I know, I know...but that's Kira. I think she listens a little too closely whenever we discuss finances). I told her that we had some saved and not to worry because there is a long time to save before she goes to college and that she will probably get a great scholarship or something that will pay for the whole thing!

Barry chimed in and also told her not to worry...because the world will probably end before she gets to college.