It's been a while...

Life has been too busy lately! Not much time for blogging, I'm doing much funner things like unpacking, cleaning, organizing, straining my brain to decorate a house, and setting up utilities. It's a blast. I shouldn't complain, I'm just happy to be moved in. We love it here. Love the neighborhood, ward, schools, family close by, mountains, sun, sun and more sun. I have been able to run outside every day this summer (in warm beautiful sunny weather I might add).

Here's what we've been up to...

Scott has been busy at work. He loves it. His schedule is rough at times, but it's been worse. His days off and weekends are great. We pack in all we can on those days.

Ireland just finished her last soccer game of the season. Timo (brother in law) was the coach and I was the assistant coach. We lost every game. Yes every game. We did score 2 goals though. I told the girls that if they scored I would give them $5. So the good news is that I only had to fork over $10. I remember clearly my first soccer season when I was 7 years old and my dad coached my sister and I and we lost every game. That same team my dad coached for several years and we went from the worst team in the league to the best team in the league in 2 years. We won tournament after tournament and were the state champs several years in a row. So...there's still hope...

Ethan on the other hand had a great soccer season. He scored in almost every game. He scored 4 goals in one game. He loves school especially since his cousin Cy is in his class. They would spend every minute together if they could.

Ryan is also in class with his cousin Micah. He has been learning a lot in preschool this year. In fact, he is learning to read. At the back to school night for his preschool, his teacher told us (the parents) that our kids may be more tired, have tantrums, etc... because they are really stretching their brains and teaching them a lot each day. We have seen signs of this...Ryan has nightmares several nights a week. One night he came running down the stairs to our room screaming. I asked him what was wrong and he said in a panicky voice, "I had a nightmare, the "C" was chasing me and it was saying "Ca, Ca, Ca"".

Caleb is fast becoming a little boy. No longer a baby. But he still won't give up his blanky or his bip (aka pacifier). He's a champ at throwing tantrums, especially in Target. He will lay on the floor and scream at the top of his lungs. It's a fun time.

That's about it. I will post pictures soon. Ethan's birthday was a couple weeks ago, and I've had some requests for pictures of the inside of the house, so I will get to it.

Moving Recap

We are finally in our house. Yeah! It was a rough road to homeownership...let's recap...
sold our house in February
moved into a rental for 3 months
moved to Utah--searched for house for months
the truck delivering our stuff was wrecked, damaging most of our belongings.
Scott's car broke down--was in the shop for 6 weeks, didn't arrive in Utah until 6 weeks after we did, then broke down again the day after it arrived (total cost to fix $10,500--but luckily under warranty)
Megan's car battery had to be replaced (only 2 years old)
tried not to overstay our welcome (which I'm sure we did)...
stayed with Scott's parents
stayed at Sara's house
stayed at Brit's house
stayed at my mom's house
retarded lender told us for 9 days straight that we would close "that day"
finally closed and moved in!!

We love our house and are vowing never to move ever again. I will get back on track to blogging and posting pictures soon. Just have a few more boxes to unpack.