Cute neighbors

Today as I was unpacking boxes (actually I was taking a break and playing on the computer) I heard a knock at the door. When I arrived at the door I saw a very tiny little old lady. My 93 year old neighbor came over to say hello and bring us cookies.. What a sweetie!! A few hours later when Brett was home from work there was another knock at the door. Another cute neighbor came over to say hello and bring us some cookies.. So cute!! Then while we were outside hanging the bug zapper (a necessity here) Madi saw the neighbor girls out jumping on the trampoline. She kept waving to them and yelling to them over the sound of the lawn mower. I thought that since they were all older girls they wouldn't want to hang out with Madi. Well, they all came over and wanted to have Madi come hang with them. It was really cute! The girls were eight and six years old. Madi had a great time jumping on the trampoline and being tickled by the girls.
Everyone that we have come in contact with have been so nice. I'm very excited to meet more people and learn more about Le Mars it's such a cute place.

Moving sucks rocks!

Ok moving sucks and I just always used to say that things sucked rocks so I had to title this post that.

Thank goodness for the company paid for packing and moving of all of our stuff. Too bad they don't come and put it all away for me when it gets here. Today I had a break down over where to put my mountains of beauty products.. Ahhhhh!!! I have promised Brett that I will buy one product use it up and then buy another one instead of buying one using a little putting it away and buying another one. This wasn't really an issue in our Buckeye house because I had tons of cabinet space. Well, here in this smaller house we have limited cabinet space so I'm going to have to either get clever about where to put things or maybe actually use the stuff that I buy.. How silly!

The day that all of our stuff was delivered I thought that I was going to get the house put away so quickly. I don't know why I'm being so crazy about this it's only been a few days I just want it done already.. I know boo hoo but it sucks..

A tiny break from unpacking with a few Madi quotes!

Hey! We finally got our internet hooked up today. I have so much to write about but not much time. I thought I would take a little second and write down a few of Madi's cute little quotes from the past few weeks. Enjoy!

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"Hair in your nose."

Madi, "Daddy, you have hair in your nose!"
Mommy, "So do you Madi."
Madi, "No I don't! I got boogers!"
Daddy, "Yes you do have hair in your nose."
Madi, "I don't have glass slippers in my nose but I have boogers in my nose."

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What do you want to eat for dinner?

Daddy, "Madi do you want a sandwich for dinner?"
Madi, "No."
Daddy, "Do you want mashed potatoes?"
Madi, "No that's yucky!"
Daddy (after trying a bunch of other things), "Do you want to eat rabbit?"
Madi, "No I don't want to eat rabbit!"
Mommy, "Do you want to eat a squirrel?"
Daddy, "Yeah do you want to eat a squirrel?"
Madi, "No, it has cooties."

The story behind squirrel's having cooties is this. Whenever we are at the park Madi runs afters the squirrel's trying to pet one. I always tell her that she doesn't want to pet the squirrel's because they have cooties.. I'm so glad that she remembers the things that I tell her.

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At breakfast the other morning Madi was being a little rambunctious. Brett was trying to talk her into calming down just a bit. She looked straight at him and said, "You're like a crazy woman." Brett laughed and said, "You should know."
She keeps us laughing!

House hunting...

Ok so the other day I mentioned that I had put a deposit down on a house to rent. Well, I changed my mind on that house (which was gigantic!) and went with a smaller cute house that I'm way comfortable with. The first house is a really old Victorian house with millions of stairs. I was just fearful of my little sure foot (Madi) falling down all of the time.
So, we are able to move into the house tomorrow. The movers aren't going to arrive until next Wednesday so until then we will be in an empty house with an airbed and the kids pack n play. It will be kind of like camping.. At least we wont be paying $80 a day for a hotel anymore. Thank goodness the company picked up the tab on the first six day we were in the hotel because can you imagine.. OUCH!!!
I left the address in our room so if you want it let me know and I'll send it to you. Well, since we will be without computer for a week I'll get you all up to speed when we are back up and running.. Until then don't give up on our blog I hope to have something fun to write about really soon including the stuff we did while visiting family in Utah.. Stay tuned!

Sleeping beauties

We are still holding up at the Holiday Inn Express here in Le Mars. We have put a deposit down on a house that we are going to rent and should be in by Monday. I'll keep you all posted on how the move and everything goes.

Check out our little sleepy heads. They have done so well this past week being stuck in a hotel. All I can say is thank goodness for box fans that make a lot of noise for sleeping. OH and thank goodness for pleasant weather so we could go to the park to run around. I'll post something about the parks next time, they are really so much fun.

We're Here!!

Well, we made it! We arrived in Le Mars, Iowa yesterday around 7:00PM. Right now we are staying in a hotel until we can get into our new place. So far it seems like a real fun place to live. Later today we are going to go to the ice cream museum which should be fun. Anyway! I'll post some photo's just as soon as we get our computer and all of our stuff. Wish us luck on finding a house really quick!!!
On another note... We still have our Arizona cell phones numbers.

Happy Birthday Kimberly!

Today is Brett's baby sister Kimberly's birthday. She would have been 27 years old. She will forever be a sweet baby girl. I know that Brett's parents will have the chance in heaven to raise Kimberly from a baby and she will be healthy and strong. She is loved dearly and missed completly. We love you Kimberly and can't wait to meet you again one day.

Moving, allergies and teething

So far our trip to Utah on our way to Iowa has been a lot of fun. We have been able to do some fun things with our families. We have been having a few issues with sleep. The first few nights we didn't get much sleep so Brett slept in the den with Madi and I slept in the spare bedroom with Kimber. It really seemed to work out except we weren't able to sleep because the girls kept on waking up. Madi was waking up because she couldn't find her silky and she freaks out. We think that Kimber is teething so she was waking up screaming every hour. It was a lot of fun! (notice the sarcasm)

Then on Saturday we noticed that Madi had a really goopy eye. It didn't look like pink eye so we weren't too concerned. Then Kimber started having a goopy eye. Both of the girls were stuffed up so we started giving them both eye drops and benadryl. Then last night Brett said that he wasn't feeling very well. His hands and feet were all clammy. He said that he was freezing and that he needed to sleep under all of the blankets. He never ever sleeps under the blankets because he is always too hot so I knew right away he wasn't feeling very well. Thankfully Brett feels better today so we figured that it was an allergy thing. The girls eyes were starting to look a little better but I wanted to get them in to see the doctor before we headed into the unknown.

We were able to go see the same doctor that delivered Madi and that our sister in law Megan works for. He ended up giving the girls a prescription for eye drops and said that they looked good other than that. I guess there are a lot of these allergy cases this time of year. It's really no fun having sick kids any time but it's really a big huge bummer when you are traveling. I just hope that they are a lot better by the time we head out on Wednesday. On the other hand it was a lot of fun to see Megan at work and to see Dr. Anderson again so I guess the girls with their allergies wasn't all that bad.

"I want to go home."

This move has been harder on me than any other. I think it's because Madi is old enough to kind of understand what's going on and it's hard to take her away from her cute friends.

Just before we drove away from out house in Buckeye some of our great friends came over for a visit. Brinna looked around our empty house and said, "Heather, where did you move your couches?" Then a little later she asked me where all of Madi's toys were. I was already a little emotional about leaving and so when I started to tell this sweet little three year old that we were moving far away I just started crying.

Just a short while later our good friends the Wright's showed up and the kids all started running around having great fun. The three little girls were in the den running around on the bare hardwood floors. Then Kutter (the only boy) would run in and all of the girls would scream. It was great fun.

After awhile it was time to get on the road. That first night we drove to Flagstaff and stayed the night. The next morning we got on the road around 8:00AM. After being stuck in the car for hours Madi started getting a little restless. She started to get a little fussy and cried, "I want to go home!" I was driving the car when she said that and the tears just started to roll. Brett was very quick and told Madi that we were going to Nana and Papa's house and that made her really happy. Madi is just happy to be with family and friends so I'm sure she doesn't think anything about our old house. Although she has been talking about Brinna and Payton so it's probably not far away that she will be begging to go play with her friends. It's going to be interesting trying to explain that we can't just walk over to Brinna's or drive over to Payton's. I know she'll make new friends soon but I hope that she remembers her Buckeye friends.

She speaks her mind

Just a quick post before I forget.

On our trip to Vernal from Arizona we needed to stop for a potty break but we hadn't seen a gas station for awhile. We finally came to this little diner and decided to stop. The bathroom in the diner wasn't really for the public to use but little old lady behind the counter offered to take Madi to use her private bathroom. When they arrived at the bathroom Madi said, "I don't want to use the potty it's dirty!" I've said it before and I'll say it again.. She is such a girl and I love it.

Move from Arizona to Iowa (continuation)

So we left Buckeye a day earlier than we had originally planned. Since the movers were finished we decided that we should just get on the road. We said our tearful goodbyes and set out on the road. Our car was packed to the brim and then some. We had the rooftop carrier full of stuff and the floor under the girls full of stuff the back of the car over flowing with stuff it was a lot of stuff we had with us.

My emotions were very close to the surface because things were a bit uncertain in our future. We had left our house to move to a new state that I had never even visited and we didn't even have somewhere to move to yet. I wasn't very nervous about finding somewhere to live I thought that was coming together it just wasn't set yet. We had done something similar to this before but we didn't have kids back then. When we moved from Colorado back to Vernal we sold our house so quickly that we just packed up and headed out and didn't have anything set of where we were going to live. That time we just put all of our belongings in three different garages and stayed with Brett's parents. We ended up buying Brett's brother's house (which is the childhood house that Brett grew up in). Anyway, back to the move from Arizona. That night we drove for a few hours until we reached Flagstaff where we stayed the night.

The next day as I was driving Madi says, "I want to go home." She was sick of being in the car. I just started crying. I didn't know where home was yet and we had just left the home that she knew. I tried to keep a brave face and told her that we were going to Grandma's house because I knew that she would be happy about that.

We lived in Arizona for two years and only made the drive back to Utah this one time and it was when we were moving away. It's such a long drive for kids so we packed a bunch of movies and books and toys and treats to keep the girls happy for as long as possible. We also made the best investment ever and purchased a portable DVD player. That thing was a life saver for Madi. Poor little Kimber was a trooper as best she could at six months old. She was happiest if she had a blanket to cuddle with.We reached Vernal at about 8:30PM on the second day of our travels. I think we kind of took the longest road to get there but we got there and all in one piece. We were so happy to be in a familiar place. It was also very exciting because only Brett's Mom had met Kimber so Kimber had a lot of people to meet.