It is official. We have landed a job with a pay raise - whoo hooo!!
And we are off to the "magical" place of ... Idaho.
He will be working at Crater of the Moon National Monument.
We leave here in one month. So now the packing begins (and the cheers die away)
So for those of you in Utah we won't be so far away now, but for everyone else - well what can I say, there's still the blog right.
Hi there, well, I think I have caught up today on all the major events of the past month. There a quite a few so have fun reading!!
We finally had spare time before church. Danica wanted curly hair for church today and she must have really wanted it because she stoood in front of the mirror for almost an hour while I curled her hair witha curling iron. At first I had told her that if she wanted curly hair she would need to tell me the night before, but she then proceed to tell me that she would let me curl it with the curling iron - which she is afraid of btw. It turned out really cute. OH, and about two weeks ago she cut her hair twice in one week and so I once again had to fix it, only this time it required getting bangs. But, she looks cute with them and fortunately she doesn't have her moms hair (like I thought), and her bangs are completely straight no matter if they are wet or not.
Back view
What cuties they are. And they even love each other - sometimes. :)
Then, as we were packing up the last few things in the bag danica comes out of the bed room and said "i'm a cute Mr. Potato Head" Yes you are Danica.
After we did the sessions we changed and ate some lunch. Here are some of our silly play times while we eat.
Pringles make the perfect duck bill.
So cute!!
What more can I say about this. What fun friends we have. So, make up your own story about what's going on.
And of course. You have to eat yogurt with your hands. It's just funner to lick it off your fingers than a spoon.
After lunch we got cleaned up and went to take picutres in front of the temple. It was kind of windy and cold (only about 50 degrees) but we enjoyed ourselves anyway. They were doing lawn work so we couldn't take the kids around to look at the grounds.
We were so excited to be in a big city!!! We went to the mall and went in all the fun stores we don't have around here. We let the girls play at the mall playground and then we went to Toys R Us and dreamed. Danica however picked out all her birthday toys and I suppose we are going to need a much better job because she picked out the whole store. Typical kid don't you think. After we were tired window shopping, we headed over to TGIFridays for dinner. Dave is such a good daddy. He kept Danica occupied the entire time we were waiting for our food.
Yes, she is coloring his fingernails with a crayon.
When I took the picutre she woke up so of course I had to take this one.
What better way to wake up then with a camera in your face. What our pour children put up with and yet they still love us.
Blowing out the candle with his wife.
Playing with their son on a trike
The two babies discovering each other. How cute these two are together!!
More friends enjoying the cake!! It was supper yummy.
Here is the recipe for this delicious cake. Waky cake turned into better than sex cake.
Monday morning Dave was playing with Danica and Whitney on our bed, when they decided to play "monster". After a few minutes of hearing "ROAR" and "AAHHH" Dave started laughing his head off because he was suddenly being frightened by Whitney who said "I the Holy Ghost" and Danica who said "I'm an Injan Turtle".
What fun things kids pretend to be. Needless, Dave did talk with Whitney and reassured her that the Holy Ghost is not a scarry thing. We truly love when Daddy is home to play!!
Some days are so fun at our house. Whitney thinks her sister is so funny. She couldn't even get cleaned up from lunch before they started goofing off.THis is what Whitney is laughing at. For those of you who haven't seen Enchanted, she is doing her impression of the troll at the beginning.
Dying the eggs with mom and dad (sorry no pics of mom I had the camera)
Having fun with
The finished product
Our egg hunt this morning. Too bad the easter bunny forgot to hide the empty eggs so we could have a quick lesson about the empty tomb. Oh well it happens.
Danica finding one of her hidden eggs
Finshed hunting eggs and very excited about their finds
Dave was asleep on the couch. Danica walk in and says, "Daddy are those spiderwebs in your nose?"
Daddy, "No dear, it's hair"
Danica, "Why do you have hair in your nose?"
I just started laughing when she asked if he had spiderwebs. I did ask Dave's permission if I could share this with you. Sorry there's not a picuter Dave moved before I could get a good shot.
Kids are great!!!!
1. Were you named after anyone? Not that I am aware of.
2. When was the last time you cried? After the cop left (see previous post)
3. Do you like your handwriting? yes, When I'm not in a hurry
4. What is your favorite lunch meat? I would have to say turkey
.5. Do you have kids? Yes, two energetic girls - Danica 4 1/2 and Whitney is 2
.6. If you were another person would you be friends with you? I think so.
7. Do you use sarcasm a lot? Depends on who I'm with.
8. Do you have your tonsils? Sure do
9. Would you bungee jump? My first thought would be no - I'm not a big fan of hights, but I do love a thrill so I could probably be persuaded to do it if I was with the right people.
11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Not usually.
12. Do you think you are strong? Most days yes, some days not so much.
13. What is your favorite ice cream? Right now it's Apple Fried Ice Cream. But it changes all the time.
14. What is the first thing you notice about people? I have never really thought about that. I think if they are smiling or not and their facial expressions.
15. Red or Pink? It depends on the shade of the red or pink. I'm not a big fan of either, but I do own a lot of maroon so I guess that would be red.
16. What is the least favorite thing you like about yourself? The way my temper runs away from me without notice.
17. Who do you miss the most? Right now - my husband he's been taking a class the last three weeks and has been gone from 7 am to 10:30pm every night except sunday. If we are speaking of those who are no longer in this world that's a good question. I have been extremely lucky and still have almost all of my close relatives around, but my Grandpa Hatch is one that I wish would have stayed around longer, I miss riding the tracktor and horses with him.
18. What color pants and shoes are you wearing? Black workout pants and nothing on my feet.
19. What was the last thing that you eat? That yummy fried ice cream.
20. What are you listening to right now? The sound of the clock ticking, The kids are in bed and well, Dave isn't home yet.
21. If you were a crayon what color would you be? Green or Purple it's a toss up.
22. Favorite smell? so many to choose from, I love the smell of the sidewalk on a hot day when it gets wet, I love the smell of roses (although they are not my favorite flower), and I love the way clothes smell fresh out of the dryer. Ya I'm weird.
23. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? My dad.
24. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes, she is so fun to be around I miss her.
25. Favorite sport to watch? Tie between football and gymnastics (like you couldn't guess that one)
26. Hair color? Red
27. Eye color? Blue
28. Do you wear contacts? Unfortunately yes - thanks mom and dad
29. Favorite Food? Berries, ice cream, chicken enchiladas, I could keep going.
30. Scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings.
31. Last movie you watched? Sleeping Beauty with the girls after Whitney took a dive off the bunk bed. (in the theater it was enchanted)
32. What color shirt are you wearing? White
33. Summer or Winter? SUMMER! I love to be outside and warm
34. Hugs or Kisses? I actually like hugs more. Don't get me wrong kisses are a close second when they come from the right people.
35. Favorite Desserts? Strawberry shortcake, smoothies, brownies made from scratch, turtle cheesecake
36. What book are you reading? Book of Mormon, Nancy Clark's Sports Nutriton Guidebook, The Little house on the Prarie books (farmer boy) and the Jackrabit factor (wow, am I really reading all those at once? Yikes)
37. What is on your mouse pad? No mousepad, sorry. I used to have a Got Milk with me and Kermit the Frog and our milk mustaches, but my kids ripped it up.
38. What did you watch on T.V. last night? TV?? What's TV??
39. Favorite sound? Giggles from little girls playing nicely together, adn waterfalls
.40. Rolling Stones or Beatles? I am not sure
.41. What is the furthest you have been from home? Hawaii
42. Do you have a special talent? I don't know - anyone have any ideas? Possilby scrapbooking, but I don't think so, but I get told it a lot.
43. Favorite Pastime? Playing outdoors with my family
44. Where were you born? Provo, UT
45. Who do I tag? Bridgette Clauser, Elise Neville, Krystal Ricks, Dani Jensen, Shelly Mortenson
I can't believe this. Dave missed his bus this morning and I need the car so we packed the girls (sleeping) into the car and headed down to the cave. There was a cop in front of me and then he pulled into a turn only lane put on his brakes until I had passed and then sped up until he was right on my tail - HELLO ???!!
I had my cruise on at 55 which was the speed limit and I was not aware of any rules I had broken. I try to be a good driver. Well, he stays on my tail for a few miles and then turns his lights on. Dave and I are thinking what in the world is going on - again. (for those of you who don't know, Dave and I got pulled over about 4 times in the first two months we were here for having out of state plates and a headlight that was out - twice in one day once)
I pull over and he comes over and procedes to tell me that my plates are tagged and that every cop from here to timbucktoo is going to pull me over until I get insurance. well hello - we have insurance. So we tell him we have insurance here in New mexico and give him our agents name, but because our glove box is insanely messy we aren't able to find that little piece of paper that states we do infact have insurance. Well, he keeps talking but my mind is going a million miles a minute about stupid insurance companies and this that and the other. So yeah for us we are marked by the police.
Well, we call both our previous agent and our current agent and leave messages because it is too early for them to be in the office. Our previous agent calls us back and tell us that her computer shows that we have active insurance in the state of New Mexico and it is inforce. What is going on here???
Insurance companies - argghhhhhh
W
hat crazy weather we are having. Sunday was a beautiful 80 degrees and we got excited for daddy's day off. Then we woke up MOnday morning to some snow on the ground. We didn't let it get us down though and the girls completely forg
ot about eating breakfast. They had their snow things on before daddy even got out of his room. So they waited patiently by the door until we were ready to take them out. I love how Whitney even had to put on sun glasses.
