Monday, July 12, 2010

We're Loving It!!

We are loving life here.

Just a few glimpses of the past week.
The 3 monkeys

Ice Cream and laughter w/ Cousins
(We have seen ALL of our cousins in the past week!! I only got a few of them on camera)



Now this means I'm home.
Just a random afternoon in the backyard, with my sisters
It felt wonderful

All in all....
we're loving it!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

We're Here!


My mom and grandma flew into Cali last Monday and worked to the BONE packing, cleaning, babysitting until they dropped. Like true angels they saved us!


Even after we got to Utah, Grandma came and unpacked and organized! Like I said, angelic!

We got everything done in less than 2 days. Drove 12 hours and by Friday morning we were mostly moved in.

Thank you to everyone who got us boxes, carpet cleaners. Thanks for those of you who helped keep our kiddos happy and entertained so we could actually get something, anything done. Thanks to those of you who came and cleaned and painted and did dirty jobs. Thanks to everyone who helped get our stuff into yet another moving truck! Thanks to those of you who were there to unpack the truck and unpack our boxes.

Thanks to everyone for making our time in California such an incredible journey. You are part of us. And you are with us here...even so many miles away.

Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Ella Marie

She is here!

Welcoming Ella Marie

April 26, 2010

8.1 lbs 20 inches





Loved... so very very loved.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Dancing Days

Goodbye Dance Classes

So I teach dance, to lovely little girls and boys, in the sunshine every week and this week was my first week in a long time that I didn't. Classes ended last week (as I am 9 months pregnant) and I will miss these days and my little kids.

At least I get to take 2 of them home with me.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Pinkalicious!!

Just a few shots from our 2nd annual
Pinkalicious Party

Pink! Pink!! Pink!!!









Thursday, February 4, 2010

So, it's been over 3 months since I have surfaced in the blogging world and for good reason. But here I am, about to pour my heart out to a web page that I'm not sure anyone really visits anymore. But to those of you listening, wondering why the disappearance, here I go.

For three months we've waited for the news about a possible job in Utah. The idea of moving home was startling at first, something we've wondered about since we came here almost 5 years ago. (Something I've day dreamed of during those tender months after the birth of my babies, or during a million other tender times.) The interview went well and we were told we would have answer in a week...which turned into a few weeks...which turned into 3 months.

3 MONTHS of thinking that your whole life is about to change any day.

Finally at the beginning of January we got the call we had been waiting for. We got the job. Salary and moving expenses were all negotiated. They told us the official offer letter would be coming in the morning. And so we celebrated. We were going home.

But the letter didn't come the next day, or the next week. And after 2 more weeks of waiting the phone call we had not been waiting for came. They gave the job away to someone else.

Crushed. Shocked. Confused. So very sad.

We went to the Lord, pled for understanding. Instead we got peace. Pled for help in surviving the fact that nothing was changing, no one was going home.


It has been a personal purifying journey. I don't think it's over. I don't feel like this story has resolution, or an ending, or that it even makes any sense to my heart. But I know a couple of things. And this is why I came out of my cave today to blog.


I know... that Heaven speaks to us. That there can be communication as real as anything tangible. That He speaks to me and doesn't lie.

I know... that there is only 1 way out of pain, and that is not anger, it is trust.

I also know... that if and when I fall, the Lord sends angels to catch me, always.