Brightly Living

Friday, January 1, 2010

Thus Far

24 hours, even spread out over 3 days, is too long to be driving in a car. I am soo glad my parents helped us with the move to help with the driving and entertain us all.I am now over my head in boxes.
We have too much stuff. I blame teaching school. I gathered and collected too many cool learning tools. And I blame our food storage. We did not want to leave it all behind and start over.We were quite the parade driving along--2 moving trucks, 1 car trailor, and 1 toyota highlander.

Washington is sure wet, but not as cold as Utah. And no snow! We had a nice neighbor bring us fruit and offer coffee. We appreciate the friendliness.We're excited to meet the rest of the neighbors and hope there are some little boys around!

My dad woke up at 6 this morning and organized the boxes in our garage. He has been nonstop helpful in sorting and unpacking boxes. My dad is the most caring, giving man.

My mom has been so supportive of me during all the stresses of moving and decision making. She endured a tour of my kitchen shelves and cabinets after we miracously got everything put away.
She has been a lifesaver with my boys.

Everybody needs good parents like these guys.

The house we are renting should work out great. Besides the all white walls and the handle coming off into my hand when I opened the microwave door, I can't complain much. It has the biggest master bedroom and kitchen we have ever had. That is a lovely thing.

For the next little bit, my life will consist of unpacking boxes and going through all my teaching stuff.

Pictures thus far,

Visiting Luke and Megan in Oregon . . .

The sights of Seattle . . .


On a chilly day . . .






The stench of fish does not agree with Kacin's nose . . .




Monday, December 28, 2009

2Eric8

The most handsome man turned 28 today.
Since we were traveling along to Washington,
we celebrated a few days early.

On Christmas Eve, I surprised E with an early birthday present.
And surprised he was.
He was completely confused when Jacqui showed up at our house at 7am.
She took the kids, and I took E for breakfast and some golfing.
Due to frost and lack of time, we were only able to go to the driving range. Disappointing, but there will be another day.









The second day of the celebration of E was the night before the move.





And the celebration continued on the road while we were out to eat.


Happy 28, E!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

A 5-year Old

Right between Christmas and moving day was a very important celebration.
5 years!
Which meant all cars, all day.
We loaded up the moving truck and then partied!








What's a party without a few games . . .

Slide the Car
Are you noticing the crumbs on the floor?
Of course, we purposefully didn't sweep to add some friction and to have a more realistic road. 

Make your own steering wheel . . .
I do feel a little bad that it was all adults at this racing party, but the timing was just not on our side to invite any of Kacin's friends.

Anyways, I think we were able to entertain/frighten my grandparents better since we were basically all adults running around with our pretend cars and playing Red Light/Green Light.

Kacin's favorite game:
The Most Maniacal Way to Open Birthday Presents--
race around in a circle when Stef holds up the green Go sign and open a present when she holds the red Stop sign

The ultimate birthday adventure was riding the gocarts at Golfland.




We love you Mr. Kacin! Happy Birthday!!!

Friday, December 25, 2009

Love Christmas

Love the KFC we traditionally eat every Christmas Eve.



Love the cool stuff Santa brought.
Thank you, Santa!


Love the silly string Kyler bought for his dad and all the uncles.


Love what an adorable Polar Bear we have in the family.


Love sisters.


Love playing Clue.


Love chapstick.



Love cousins.


Love all of our family.



Lots of love on Christmas!