Moving Out, Moving In & Tons of Family Fun in Utah

Our last dinner in our apartment in Texas. We had sold our table and all of our big furniture was out so chicken nuggets on a cardboard box on the balcony was the dinner setting. The kids loved their "picnic" :)

Our move helpers! I was in the young women presidency before we moved so for the youths Wednesday night activity they came over to our place and helped us move all of our stuff out. They were amazing help and it was the fastest move-out we have ever experienced! (and we have experienced it a lot)

 

 

My Girls! They were such an awesome group of young women and I miss them a lot.

This was the awesome YW presidency that I got to work with: Debbie, Cristie, & Leslie. I love these amazing women!

Our new place! Packing up and moving reminded me how exhausting, time-consuming, seemingly never-ending and draining moving can be. I hope we don't have to move too many more times before we can settle down for a while. One upside to moving is the chance to de-junk and reorganize.With moving in I love it when it gets to the point where you feel like you are settled in and everything is newly organized and lovely :)

Yes I do love the color red :) And I do need to give a shout out to my parents for all of their help in moving us out and in. They flew to Texas and then helped us drive to Utah. My dad drove the big truck and that was so nice because we certainly did not want to have to drive that monstrous thing. They helped us get moved in as well. They are always so kind and generous and I love them so much!

The kids room. We have a 3 bedroom apartment (and it's townhouse style which has been such a nice change after living on a third floor. Jake got me Just Dance as a move-in present because now we can jump and dance and run around to our hearts content without worrying about people below us. yay!) We decided to have the kids share a room and make the downstairs bedroom a toy room. It was a great decision because now the kids have more fun playing together than ever before in the "toy room". It isn't "my room" it's the room to play in and have fun in.

The toy room

They have a lot of fun playing with Dal's legos and Star Wars toys and some of Braelyn's Dora toys as well

Mckayla & Braelyn. One of the best things about moving here is that we have super fun family to play with. And we have played hard these last couple of weeks :) We have played with my brother Collin & Tiffany and their family a lot (they live less than 20 minutes from us) yay!, and my brother Chase that lives in Provo,we have played with my cousin Juli & her little family and her extended family-the Hill's. They were our most favorite cousin family growing up and we became really close with them and made lots of fun memories with them. We live about 5 minutes from their house now and have played with them a few times already too. Dal & Braelyn have been introduced to a whole bunch of new Hill cousins and have had a blast playing with them. We have also played with my cousin Jenny & her little family (she grew up in New York so we didn't get to see them as often growing up, but we had a blast every time we got to see them, and then we got to reconnect at BYU and were in the same major and even took some classes together, which was awesome :) Now we get to reconnect here. That's the thing I love about having awesome friends that are also family- you will always reconnect!  We've also played a couple times with Jake's sisters Gabby & Sara that live in Provo (they came and stayed the night at our house one night and we stayed up way too late and had a lot of fun!) Also Jake's sister Catherine and her family (that live in Colorado) came and stayed a couple nights with us, which was really fun. I'm not done yet..... We also went up to Bountiful and got together with Jake's aunt & cousins and their families that live up there. It was really fun to reconnect with all of them. And our next weeks schedule is pretty booked with playing with family almost every day until we head to Arizona for our family reunion. Then more playing! It's a good thing that we have had a little time before I start school because we have needed to catch up on playing with family time:)

Nana's Play Day to Antelope Island. My Aunt Fern plans lots of fun summer outings for her grand-kids (and their moms or whoever can come along) and so they have invited us to be a part of it all. We got to see some cool buffalo/bison. They are huge!

The kids enjoyed playing in the sand

Here is Braelyn with some of the Hill's. We ventured out to take a little wade in the Great Salt Lake.

It's crazy to see this road built right up through the lake so that you can drive to the island

The kids started soccer this week. They are pretty funny to watch.  Dal is really into it and excited about it but at times it seemed he was in his own little world, but he has a great time being part of the team and running around. He is very vocal and animated on the field which is funny.

Dal was super excited about being goalie. Before they started he was doing his own little goalie warm-up moves which were really cute.

He made a lot of nice stops & is a great goalie! He also has no problem diving for balls. In fact, we are pretty sure he prefers it!

Braelyn also plays. She is pretty funny. Most of the time I don't think she knows where the ball is because there is always a herd of bigger boys swarming around it, so she just kind of runs around the field and smiles and waves to us.

The only time she really gets to touch the ball is when the ref lets her do the kick-off and she likes that a lot. She is also super cute out there on the field so at least she has that going for her :)