Our new little home!

Ok, so this is our new LITTLE house. It is no mansion by any means but it is good enough for us right now and we love it. It will be even better when we have the back yard done and some grass for the kids to play on. The house is out in Safford by the mountain turn off and it is really quiet and peacefull (except the prision in our backyard of course). We are just excited to actually have a job and a house and we are all very happy and couldn't ask for anything more!

A few things happened in the last few months.

Tessa, Brylee, Carter, Gabby and Macie making their silly faces. We will miss these girls!!

Brylee turned 2! Oh how time flies when you are busy with school and life and having fun! We love you Brylee!

Randy finally grauduated from NAU and is officially a dental hygienist and working in the real world! Yes there are only 2 guys in the whole class. (Program actually)

Randy and Robert reflecting back on their last 3 years and glad to be done with it all!

Where are we and what are we doing?

So it has been a while again. I am so not good at this updating thing. A lot has happened since I last blogged. Randy finally graduated from NAU passed all his boards and got a job!!! That's right we have moved!!! It wasn't Randy's first choices of places to live but we are now residents of Safford, AZ. A bit of a change from nice cool Flagstaff to sunny and very warm Safford.

Randy got an offer from a dentist here in Safford that he couldn't pass up so we packed most of the house in about a day and a half and took Tessa out of school 2 weeks early and left Flagstaff to buy a house in Safford. We found a house that is somewhat small but will be perfect for us for a little while so we can save up some money! We just have to figure out how to landscape and make it look like a home. As soon as I find the box with my camera in it I will post some pics.

Life is awesome and we are happy and a little nervous for things to be different but all is well! Summer time will be busy but should be fun. Cathy is getting married in a few weeks then we go on our cruise and then a bunch of reunions. Should be crazy but fun!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!

The girls having fun with Grandma as usual. They love when she comes to visit cause she always has something fun to do with them even if it involves painting faces.

Happy Mother's Day to me!! No, actually I just wanted to wish a happy Mother's Day to my wonderful mom and all the amazing women in my life that have had such an influence in my life and made me who I am today.

We had some friends come visit this weekend for Randy's graduation banquet. It was so fun. OUr wonderful husbands were nice enough to watch the kids while my friends Holly, Juliet and I went and had a night out on the town of Saturday. We had a lot of fun going to eat at Oregano's (yummy) then we went to some shops downtown and looked around then went to Target. We are such party animals that we ran out of things to do about 9:30 so we went home and sat in the car and talked until Robert (Holly's husband) came outside to throw a diaper away and discovered us. We still had a lot of fun and appreciate the wonderful husbands for watching the kids while we had a little break.

Back to my mom. I have the most amazing mom in the whole world! I couldn't have asked for a better one. She has always been such a good example of the person I want to be when I finally grow up! She has always worked hard at being there when we needed her. I don't ever remember a morning waking up without a yummy (most of the time) breakfast on the table and always making sure we had everything we needed. I love her so much and I know my siblings feel the same way! Love you mom!

EASTER WEEKEND

We had a really fun Easter weekend. We thought we were going to get to stay home but we ended up going to Thatcher instead so Randy could talk to a dentist down there about a possible job. Saturday we went to Pomerene and had an inside picnic and my Aunt Janie and Uncle Mike's house due to bad weather. It was fun to spend time with family and go fishing for a little bit even though it was pretty cold. We got to go see grandma Barney who we haven't seen since she had her surgery. Thanks to Marisa for taking the pictures for me since I couldn't find my camera!

All the cousins after a successful and crazy egg hunt. They were all bouncing off the walls after eating all the candy in about 2 minutes!

Randy ended up being one of the hiding spots for a very colorful egg! Grandma Barney and Aunt Ellie just trying not to get ran over by the mad rush of egg hunters!

Dad, Nathan and myself trying to find enough places to hide the eggs. There are only so many places you can hide eggs inside!

Brylee and Tessa with their baskets full of eggs after the egg hunt at my Aunt Janie's house. It was raining outside so the kids had to settle for an indoor hunt. Macie was in trouble and throwing a fit in the other room so she isn't in any of the pictures. Surprise, surprise!

SPRING BREAK!!

We started out our spring break by having Crystal and her boys and Shannon and her kids and Cherilyn and her little John Michael all at my house Saturday night. It was chaotic but lots of fun.

Monday we went to Heber so Tiff could meet little John Michael. We always have fun in Heber. Brylee loves her Uncle Brandon!!

Girls night out

Wednesday was an awesome day. Randy (who we left home to study for his boards that he had the Tues. after spring break) decided to come to Thatcher to suprise us. It was awesome cause we missed him for a few days there.

We had all my sisters and an "adopted" sister Shannon down so of course we had to have a girls night out. We had lots of fun. We went to dinner and then walked around Wal-Mart picking out colors and getting ideas for Cathy's wedding stuff.

Easter Eggs

Since we weren't going to see grandma before Easter we had to color eggs while we were there!

Camping!!

Macie and Daddy

Alicia and Crystal

Mom beating dad

Macie and her s'more

Scary! no make up

Tessa and her s'mores

Dad and his s'more dance

Randy and his mouth full of something?

Cathy and her new beau Jerryd

Tessa still enjoying her s'mores

Brylee getting cozy

Brylee and Taylor hanging out.

Macie and her cute smile

Johnathan and his potty

We went to Cedar Springs to camp on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and had a lot of fun. We had a lot of people and craziness but we had fun while we were there. The kids had a lot of fun playing in the dirt and building forts in the trees. We went shooting and I of course was the winner of the skeet shooting contest between Dad, Johnathan, Randy, Cathy and I. I know I am the best!

We had fun roasting mallows for s'mores. We only had one incident with Brylee while we were there. She was walking next to the fire and tripped on a rock and fell in the fire pit. She definately had her guardian angels with her because she didn't get burned at all. We had to take my mom to the hospital for the heart attack she had (not really) but everyone turned out ok.

When we got home on Saturday everyone started puking. That was really awesome. We thought it was food poisoning at first but we figured out that we had all caught the flu bug going around. Out of the 30 or so of us that were there about half of us ended up sick. It was really fun having to pull over 3 times to clean up Tessa's puke on our 5 hour ride home from Thatcher.

Where have we been?

It has been way too long since I updated. I am not very good at this stuff. Well there has been a few things happen since last time I posted. The weather for one is a lot nicer. It is still pretty cold but no more snow-- yeah!!

Randy took his written board last Tuesday. It was an 8 hour fun filled day of questions and case studies. He thinks he did pretty good but he has to live in agony for 6-8 weeks until his results are in. I'm sure he did just fine though. He will be doing his clinical board on the first Monday in May and then will be done--yeah, yeah!

I will have pictures from our trip to Thatcher and Cedar Springs for spring break soon!