Pictures posted by Aunt Ellen

My sister-in-law has some great pictures and videos of Sarah posted on her blog, check it out!

Here we are in Washington

I will post pictures later, I promise! So a ton has happened since the last post. We are here in Washington, and I have to tell you that today was beautiful and Sarah and I sat outside for an hour just soaking in the sun! Today was Creed's official first day of work and the few times that I talked to him he sounded way excited about reading all the procedures on what his job would be all about. So here is how our move progressed.

I sat on the couch while the amazing Relief Society of the Kolob 12th ward packed my kitchen up on Friday, Creed had packed up most of the rest of the house during the rest of the week, so it worked out great. Then Saturday Creed had the truck and the Elders all showed up and so did my visiting teachers and the Larsen men, Shirl, Eric and Ben, and we packed up the rest of the house and loaded the truck 1/3 way full before realizing that we needed a bigger truck. So Creed picked up the bigger truck and reloaded everything into the truck. Yes I bawled like a baby once everyone left and we had to leave our house behind. And just writing about it is making me cry, so onto the next day!

While we packed our house up Sarah spent the day with the Larsen's at the huge Larsen Easter Egg Hunt. I was told that Sarah loved it and she loved spending time with Parker and Kinzley. Anyway, on Sunday we attended church, and I just love Easter, then we headed off to Boise. In Boise we spent the night and hung out with my parents for a bit. Monday we drove to our new house and picked up the keys, then headed to a hotel in Vancouver. Just so everyone knows, we only had to listen to "Buzz and Woody" a few times because I had packed a fun bag for Sarah that held all of the Safety Kids stories on CD! So instead of Woody's roundup we listened to how to be good workers, and to have courage and to tell the truth etc. Good series by Brite Music. Anyway, Tuesday morning arrived and Creed and Shirl (who drove the "BIG truck" the whole way, went to the house and were met by some moving men who unloaded our belongings into the house. Sarah and I stayed at the hotel and tried to figure out what to do about internet and cable, we decided that cable was going to be a need until I had the baby, and could get up and move around for more than an hour without contractions. (So now I am hooked on any CSI show that comes on and let me tell you there is always a CSI on with Comcast!) Then we all headed to the house and Sarah got to ride in the "BIG truck" while we returned it. (there was a huge fit when we left SLC and she didn't get to ride in the "BIG truck") Anywho, Shirl helped us decide how to set up our living room and move some of the big stuff. Sarah then took a nap and so did I while Creed took Shirl to the airport. And once again I cried like a baby. I seem to have done that every time I had to say good-bye to something, or someone I love and know I won't get to see till baby is here. Anyway, Creed spent all of last week unpacking, I only unpacked clothing and helped a little with the kitchen. (Soon I will be using all the time and I wanted to have a say in where things went.) In so doing we found that this house has just as much storage as our last house and it is 1,000 sq feet smaller (don't tell anyone who is looking at buying our house!) So everything is put in it's place except the guest room/scrapbooking room. We have way too many books, and yes we knew this before moving, for the two bookcases we have, and we don't feel like getting a bigger bookcase for a little while, we decided that an infant car seat might be a little more important!

Sorry for the long post, just wanted to document how the move went for future posterity and to let you all know that I am doing a bit better, like I said, I can now be up for an hour before the contractions start, instead of 10 minutes. Wahoo! And as we were leaving Ellen said I had to blog more. So here I am blogging! Soon I will be adding pictures, because let's be honest, everyone lives for the pictures!

Moms for Modesty blog

I can't figure out how to get the button and link it over to their new blog, but I wanted to let all the mom's out there have a chance to sign the petition and see if they can make it work! Anyway, here is the blog address: www.momsformodesty.blogspot.com

Hold the phone and funny Sarah stories

So i titled this post Hold the Phone because I know that last week I posted that we would be moving to Washington in June/July, well we are moving this weekend, so HOLD THE PHONE! Yep next week, if I have internet I will be blogging from rainy Washington. YIKES is all I have to say, life has been coming at me so fast, I just don't know what to do. But I thought that I would share some really fun stories of Sarah from this past week. Last Monday night we left and started the drive to Washington so we could find a place to live, all I have to say is we need to get out more of our children CD's for the drive this coming weekend because I can no longer handle Toy Story Two music, that is all Sarah would allow us to listen to on the 13 hour drive to and from and while driving around looking for a place to rent. Anyway, we stopped at one house on Tuesday that was older and when we got back into the car afterwards we asked Sarah what she thought of the house and she said, "That house is old." We then asked, did it smell good or bad, to which she replied, "It smelled bad, we need to find new house that smells pretty not stinky!" Needless to say we passed on the house.

Then Saturday I dropped Creed off at the priesthood session and then we drove to his Aunt and Uncle's house to have a girl party. Sarah was so mad that we were leaving and that she didn't get to listen to the Prophet and that Creed did. So I tried to explain why just Daddy got to go and I said, "Daddy gets to go because he holds the priesthood, and Grandpa gets to go and uncles and brothers and other daddys all get to go and hear the prophet talk just to them." She then said, "Daddy wasn't holding the priesthood." And I said, "Yes he was, you can't see the priesthood, the priesthood is the power of God on the Earth and Daddy holds it, that is why he can give us special prayers that we call blessings." She said, "Oh, but I want to hear the prophet!" I told her she could tomorrow.

Then today Creed came home for breakfast like usual and when he had to go to work Sarah started getting upset and Creed said, "I have to go to work and make the monies so we have monies to buy things with, like food." Sarah then said, "You can stay home and I will find monies!" Creed then said, "Where will you find monies?" She said, "At Grandma's house!" (when at Grandma's house she gets to play with a treasure box that holds the left over change from the week, apparently that will be enough monies for us!).

If I don't get to post before we move I am wishing everyone a Happy Easter and I just wanted to mention that Conference was amazing!