Never ending sunshine!!

I don't mean to boast or brag but well, I'm going to! We are LOVING the weather here in Idaho. It is 1 day away from October 1st and it was 85 degrees and sunny today. Lainey is still wearing her sundresses and we are all in shorts. We are soaking in the vitamin D for sure! The only thing stopping us from playing out side is the sun going down!

Here's the forecast for the next 5 days in Star! Love it!

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday
88° F | 50° F	90° F | 47° F	88° F | 49° F	83° F | 45° F	70° F | 40° F
Clear	Clear	Partly Cloudy	Partly Cloudy	Clear

What goes around comes around!

Wyatt's been into trying to scare everyone in the family lately. He walks around the house all quiet hoping to surprise someone and yells, "Ahhh" as he jumps out from behind a corner. He thinks he's so funny but not everyone in the house likes it, namely Shane. So Jeff thought he'd give Wyatt a taste of his own medicine this morning. Wyatt was downstairs brushing his teeth and Jeff snuck down the stairs stealth like and jumped out, yelled "Ahhh" and scared the pants off of Wyatt! Jeff scared him so bad that he was shaking and screaming and crying. Judge us if you like but Jeff and I thought it was so funny! We couldn't stop laughing and after a few minutes when Wyatt finally calmed down he was laughing about it too! I wish so badly that we had gotten his reaction on camera but I would venture to say that we will have another opportunity since Wyatt hasn't seemed to learn his lesson. This afternoon I heard him several times jumping out and yelling "Ahhh" at some unsuspecting family member somewhere in the house. I think he's getting our whole family in the spooky spirit of Halloween!

Boys and their toys!

Jeff's been talking about getting the kids started on riding dirt bikes for a while now. So...here we go! We sure are having fun on this new little XR50.

It's amazing how quickly the kids pick up riding something new. Way to go Abby and Wyatt!

Goofballs!

And, so that the kids don't have to ride their dirt bike alone...here's Jeff's new toy.

Tractor Time

Our home here in Star was vacant for about a year and the back part of the property hadn't been mowed in a long time. The weeds and grass were so tall and the tumble weeds were out of control! Can you say fire hazard!! :) So last week we had someone come in and mow it down. Shane and Lainey LOVED watching the tractor mow the "field", as we call it.





Now the kids have the whole field to ride their quads on and plans are in the works for a wicked fun quad track! :)

First day of school

I took some pictures of the kids on their first day of school here in Idaho. I am so proud of them and they way they are handling all this change. They are so brave and upbeat. They are my hero's and I love them so much!!

Wyatt and Abby in our backyard on the first day of school

Abby and Wyatt out in front of their new school, Mill Creek Elementary

Big Boy!

Look at me!!! I finally decided it was time to join the club of civilized little boys and I am so proud of myself! My mom and dad couldn't be happier!

More new house pics and the move

Ok. As promised here are some more pictures of our new house. We are still trying to decorate and figure out where we want everything. It's a work in progress and I'm not very good at decorating so this may take me a while! :) We want everyone to come and see our new home in person, not just through these pics. We hope you'll come see us!!

Enjoy

Jeff's office

The play room - a mess already!

The kids downstairs bathroom

Wyatt and Shane's room

Abby's room

Laine's room

Upstairs guest bathroom

My temporary office/upstairs laundry room - for those of you who think I'm never messy or disorganized just take a look at that counter top!

Master

Kitchen and my Pike's Place painting :)

Kitchen

Living room - still needs furniture

This is the walkway between the garage and the kitchen and master bedroom. My black bench fits great here and I love it.

I forgot to post earlier about the actual move it's self. It went so smoothly and we had so much help. The Moulton's came down with us and made the day drive, helping us get our many vehicles down here to Star. Aaron drove our suburban with the quads behind it. Kira drove her car with her kiddos in it. Ron, Jeff's dad, came up to help. He drove one of our 2 moving trucks down to ID. Then Jeff drove the other moving truck. I drove the ESV with the boat behind it and Mary, Jeff's mom, hoped in the car with me to help me with the kids for the drive. We looked like quite the circus pulling out of town but the drive went great and we didn't have any problems or delays. I can only imagine what our neighbors thought as we drove into town that day at our new home with all these many vehicles!! :) The help didn't stop there. The Moulton's stayed the weekend and helped us unload and unpack. Mary and Ron stayed and helped out too. Then my family came into town to see our new home and help us get settled. They stayed the week with us and were so much help. Our new ward was also here and welcomed us and helped us unload trucks. We definitely didn't do this on our own and we are so grateful to all those that helped us make this transition. Here are a few pics from the weekend we moved. I wish I had more from that weekend but we were all to busy working to stop and take pics. :)